Oscars

Yeah Moon was horribly snubbed :(

I think the following will win:

Film: Avatar (but The Hurt Locker should)
Director: James Cameron (see above)
Actor: Jeff Bridges
Actress: Sandra Bullock (a travesty if she does, The Blind Side looks truly awful)
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique
Animated Film: Up

It doesn't deserve to win, but I won't exactly kill myself if Avatar wins anyway (and it probably will, The Hurt Locker just hasn't been seen enough, and Avatar is Titanic all over again), there'll have been far worse Oscar winners in the past (Driving Miss Daisy, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind and Crash in the last 20 years or so alone). Would be funny if Tarantino stole in to sneak the big prizes, but I can't see that happening.

Best Actress looks very weak this year, but the other categories look decent.

The ten nominees thing for Best Picture is a daft gimmick in my opinion, the Oscars desperate to show they can recognise commercial/genre/animated films. It shouldn't have to take an expansion to ten films for them to acknowledge a film like Up rather than yet another worthy drama about the Holocaust or someone with an illness of some kind. But then that is the Oscars through and through I guess. They're daft and flawed but I enjoy bitching about the winners and losers.
 
Jack's Smirking Revenge said:
Personally, I think Avatar is getting too much credit - the only one it deserves is for graphics/CGI.
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Very very true. Really overrated. It looked nice, but the rest was just decent, not great.

I see Inglorious Basterds is nominated a few times. I hope it wins some, it was the best movie I've seen in the theaters last year.
 
niesl2 said:
I see Inglorious Basterds is nominated a few times. I hope it wins some, it was the best movie I've seen in the theaters last year.
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I thought it was decidely average. Wasn't particularly funny, and the revenge part wasn't good either. Though I thought Christoph Waltz was very good.

The movies nominated for best picture aren't as good as the last couple of years. I'd have liked to have seen Antichrist nominated rather than something like up in the air.
 
Xenu said:
I thought it was decidely average. Wasn't particularly funny, and the revenge part wasn't good either. Though I thought Christoph Waltz was very good.
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For me, the movie wasn't about the humor or the action. The dialogues were excellent and almost all characters were interesting. I found Lt. Aldo Raine to be a very entertaining figure, adding enough laughs to the movie. (But I can understand why some people don't like it's character.) It had some well thought out scenes, the Bear Jew entrance was brilliant.

But I had quite some beers in the theater, maybe those have clouded my judgement :D
 
Xenu said:
I thought it was decidely average. Wasn't particularly funny, and the revenge part wasn't good either. Though I thought Christoph Waltz was very good.

The movies nominated for best picture aren't as good as the last couple of years. I'd have liked to have seen Antichrist nominated rather than something like up in the air.
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Antichrist being nominated for an Oscar, though a hilarious idea, was never plausible. The Oscars dislike even mild controversy in films. Antichrist-level controversy, oh dear XD
 
niesl2 said:
For me, the movie wasn't about the humor or the action. The dialogues were excellent and almost all characters were interesting. I found Lt. Aldo Raine to be a very entertaining figure, adding enough laughs to the movie. (But I can understand why some people don't like it's character.) It had some well thought out scenes, the Bear Jew entrance was brilliant.

But I had quite some beers in the theater, maybe those have clouded my judgement :D
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I don't see how it could have been about the dialogue. Films centred upon dialogue usually have some sort of point/moral. It just didn't do anything for me.

Glad to see that good triumphed over evil though, Avatar's $ 2 Billion wasn't enough for it to win. Hurt Locker deserved to win and so did Kathryn Bigelow. I also though Christoph Waltz deserved to win as well.
 
The Hurt Locker (global box office $16 million) beating Avatar (global box office over $2 billion) - it's Bigelow's revenge on Cameron! And it's deserved.

Acting awards predictable (Bullock wins a Golden Raspberry and an Oscar), though by all accounts Christoph Waltz's one is richly deserved.

Precious beating Up in the Air to Best Adapted Screenplay. The Oscars preferring melodrama over sharp, funny dialogue. Nice one.

Up wins Best Animated Film of course. Wallace and Gromit don't win Best Animated Short :(

As usual when two big guns go head to head for Best Foreign Film (The White Ribbon and A Prophet this year) the Oscars ignore both.
 
Im glad Jeff Bridges FINALLY got an Oscar. I truly do love that man and he has moved me to tears of sadness and joy with his performances. Plus I found it funny Sandra Bullock got Best Actress as well as worst at another awards ceremony! Lolx, but I guess she is good. I like Meryl Streep to be honest. Glad Avatar got sod all, hate that movie. I think Up deserved it as its one of the best films Pixar have dished out IMO.
 
SapphireStar said:
Im glad Jeff Bridges FINALLY got an Oscar. I truly do love that man and he has moved me to tears of sadness and joy with his performances. Plus I found it funny Sandra Bullock got Best Actress as well as worst at another awards ceremony! Lolx, but I guess she is good. I like Meryl Streep to be honest. Glad Avatar got sod all, hate that movie. I think Up deserved it as its one of the best films Pixar have dished out IMO.
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Agreed 100%, though I don't hate Avatar. I enjoyed the film but I was really, REALLY happy for Kathryn Bigelow and me and all my girlfriends cheered when she won while our guy friends were like, "Aw, c'mon!" cuz Cameron didn't get it lol! Great to see a talented female director win, and it wasn't just given to her cuz "it was time" but because she earned it.

I love Jeff Bridges too and how cool is it that Tron Legacy can now say they have the "Academy Award winning Jeff Bridges" in it? :D

Also, on a side note, and I know this sounds mean but I can't help it... anyone else look at Cameron's current wife, and then at his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, and think to themselves "Omg James, you REALLY let a hottie go there, didn't you?" His current wife looks scarier than Ben Stiller dressed as a Na'Vi! LOL
 
Yep, best movie that nobody saw. Pretty much sums up "Hurt Locker."

Even "Crash" and "The Pianist" had more ticket sales when they won their respective awards.

And "Avatar," beyond overrated. I haven't seen it, I'm not going to see it, and James Cameron is crazy. Or something.

3-D is NOT the future when you need glasses to see it.
 
I expected Avatar to win a lot more awards than it did, since everyone has been swooning over it since before it even hit theaters. I'm so glad it didn't.

Before I had gone to see it, an acquaintance of mine once told me that seeing it in 3D made him feel like what people probably felt like back when color was introduced to movies. It blew him away, and he had to see it again.

Then I went to see it, more or less because I was dragged there by other people who had actually wanted to go. The 3D is a cool feature, and I look forward to its implementation in future films, but from all the hype I was actually pretty disappointed. There were too many scenes where the 3D didn't make much difference at all. And some applications of too much 3D--there is a part in the movie where it shows a photograph on the inside of a locker. The image on the photograph is in 3D. At this point, I laughed and asked out loud "Why is the picture in 3D?"

Anyway, I can understand why people like it. But it doesn't deserve nearly as much praise as it gets.

But yeah, I never saw the Hurt Locker. Then again, it seems to be the trend that movies that win Oscars are never movies I'm particularly interested in seeing anyway.
 
GBJoker said:
Yep, best movie that nobody saw. Pretty much sums up "Hurt Locker."

Even "Crash" and "The Pianist" had more ticket sales when they won their respective awards.
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So what? Box office gross is no indicator of quality, and if people missed out on a great film like The Hurt Locker that's their loss. Plus it's selling pretty well on DVD now thanks to all the critical and awards buzz it got.
 
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