Out there who wants to talk about the awards without being bitter assholes about it?

Can you be banned for attacking a whole forum?

LOL Thing is, the bitterness is everywhere. I've checked out AD, BOM, Madonna forums, everywhere - bitterness abounds.

I could almost understand the bitterness if this was anything other than an awards show which has no impact on any of your lives.

Why just hold award fans accountable? Why not sport fans, fans of politics, beauty pageant mums, automotive aficionados?

You act like this is new Roo, don't be daft.

Just get the fuck out the forum for a few months, come back in June when its DOA and you can have the whole place to yourself, sans the so-called bitter assholes.

Ooh, ooh, I'm not bitter! I'm amused and casual!

These are the people who nominate steaming piles like The Hours and Ray and such year after year. Oh, AMPAS. The fickleness and predictability is why we love them.

Ah, roo.


Btw, TDK is not nominated for best picture. I'm happy.

This Reader business makes me feel guilty for liking The Hours.

Anyways, roo, is there a forum where you can go grow up? It's the internet. People complain. OMG!

The Hours should make you guilty for liking The Hours.

I can't imagine a scenario in which The Reader is worse. I don't want to imagine it. It wouldn't be healthy.

The only reason to watch The Reader is for naked Kate goodness. Problem is that Daldry makes her so extremely unattractive, you feel really guilty as your masturbate.

That's fine. I was raised Catholic. I always feel guilty when I masturbate.

Oh honey, get over it. It's a Holocaust film, so of course it was bound to be nominated. This bodes well for future Holocaust-related films. Maybe we can get one about Nazi incest, Nazi/Jewish romance ending with Nazi guard giving up his life to save Jewish girl (played by Natalie Portman, who is Jewish), Jewish/Gypsy cooperation (possible buddy flick?), Jewish-German post-war reconciliation and mutual anti-Iran fight film, and so many more. If anything, The Reader has opened up so many opportunities for future films.

Although I am happy to know that you will end up in hell, I'm rather scared that we might end up in the same circle.

Defiance didn't get nominated, but I guess Jews-with-guns isn't as baity.

Daniel Craig was not Jewish enough.

I do wonder how the hell he's played in Munich and Defiance at this point. If he was a few inches taller he'd be the ideal physical Aryan. It's like how the Paramount executives wanted Robert Redford for the Godfather instead of "that midget Pacino".

I hate the Benjamin Button noms more than the TDK thing, which I find amusing

I mean BB is 50/51 on my yearly list and is the only film all year I wanted to walk out of halfway through. Not even the great Babel sunk that low

Hollywood Hero = Aryan Nazi God. Hollywood has been, since before WW2, the biggest propagator of fascist imagery.

Maybe X:Men Origins Magneto will get nominated, since it'll show Max Eisenhardt's time in concentration camps via flashbacks.

No, Captain America, if they do it 'right'. American Hero fights Nazis. Same shit as Saving Private Ryan, plus comic book hero stuff.

Oscar nominee Joe Johnston

That made me laugh.

you're sweet.

For the record, even though I'm not the biggest The Dark Knight fan, I expected it to be nominated and was surprised when it didn't and would have been happy with Wall-E's nomination (even over The Dark Knight to be honest).

I understand that the balance sheet of this years Oscars doesn't really represent what's going on in Cinema (it sometimes, but very rarely does). I get it. I get the surprise.

But I'm not going to sit by, when I have experience and regret acting like a retard (see: Crash) and let this place turn into a forum full of bitter assholes.

Harvey Weinstein is a salesman and a businessman. His film made $8 million at the Box Office. He saw an opportunity to make more money by pimping the shit out of his film, and he did so. I would have done the *exact* same thing.

The Oscars are a business, but they are much more distributed than a board room who would sit down and say "Wall-E and The Dark Knight would give us higher ratings". The smart inside-Hollywood marketers get this. They get that the English like certain films. They GET that actors like certain films, etc. and they push them as such. They know that they have to get their film on that list and if they can get a film like The Reader listed in the #2 spot, even if #3 is Wall-E or The Dark Knight, then that's what they do.