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Conan The Westy 
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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 Posted - 03/01/2007 : 20:40:56
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Saw it last night and really enjoyed it. The quirkiness was all I'd hoped for... Olive's final performance had me alternating between squirming and laughing.
I was especially impressed with Steve Carell - he brought a great vulnerability and intelligence to his role. However while enjoying Alan Arkin I feel his winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor is on a par with Judy Dench picking up one for Shakespeare in Love.
Am I the only one who thinks the Emperor is wearing no clothes?
PS I haven't seen Dreamgirls yet so I'm not pushing an Eddie wuz robbed argument here. |
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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 22:38:12
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I'm inclined to agree about Alan Arkin, even though I loved every minute of his performance. If a single actor was to be singled out for an Oscar, it should have been Steve Carrell, and I suspect he wasn't simply because he's still seen by many people as a funny guy in a TV show. It's "too soon", therefore, for him to get an Oscar.
As for Arkin, he should have got one for Catch 22, and he wasn't even nominated then!
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Stalean 
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 03/02/2007 : 02:54:21
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Well, I have seen both, and I think Alan Arkin was a good second pick. Eddie wuz robbed!   |
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MisterBadIdea
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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Posted - 03/02/2007 : 03:41:07
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I think Little Miss Sunshine is a highly overrated and simple-minded movie, and at the same time it's a very hard film not to like. Arkin's was actually the weakest performance in the movie, I thought. If I had my way, Abigail Breslin's wonderful performance (she really is a little ray of sunshine) would have beaten Jennifer Hudson's incredibly unimpressive role in the Oscars, and Eddie Murphy's revelatory performance would have gotten the Oscar over Arkin (the weak link of the LMS cast).
The scene that bothered me the most is the corpse-stealing scene. That's not cute and funny. That's gross. Not only does it blatantly violate credibility, the movie's aggressively light tone makes it even more unpleasant than it would be normally.
I mean, it's a crowdpleaser fer sure, and every performance (even Arkin's) is good. But I watched people praise this as "groundbreaking" and even "a violation of the status quo" -- you'd think people had never seen an episode of "The Simpsons," "Roseanne," or "Married... With Children." |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/02/2007 : 14:08:51
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| I loved this film but I similarly never thought that Arkin should get the Oscar. I was very surprised by that result. I agree that Carrell's is the more impressive performance (though the role allowed for this). |
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