this is what i think's gonna happen with Charlie Wilson's War: While I don't think it'll get major Oscar nominations, that DOESNT mean I think it'll be a bad movie. I see it getting a 70% or so RT, with something like a 6.8/6.9 avg. I think people will like it, but nobody will really love it. It won't be a disappointment, but it won't win big Oscars.

I kinda wonder why The Namesake (Mire Nair) has gotten absolutely no awards attention.

Among first half of the year contender it was one of the bigger success stories at the box office...

I didn't think The Namesake was too strong of a film. I enjoyed it but it was quite uneven for me. I think it tried to do too much. I would have liked to seen alot of the characters and plotlines expanded and dug deeper... something like a miniseries.

Did the release date for The Savages change or something?

It's listed as Nov 30 (limited) on Rotten Tomatoes. That's really good, it stood almost no chance in late December.

Yeah. Actually I thought the LA Times said it's gonna start this upcoming wednesday.

Gone Baby Gone was good enough to deserve a nom, but with the similarly-located The Departed winning just a year ago, the very similarly-themed Mystic River getting nominated a few years earlier, and with similarly-charactered American Gangster making more in three days than this film's gonna make in its entire run, even with slightly weaker reviews, I can understand why this likely will miss out on a BP nom. Hopefully both of the Afflecks and Amy Ryan [or at least a variation of the three] can pick up nominations.

Enchanted possible nomincations:

1. Best Actress Amy Adams
2. Best Original Song x3
3. Best Costumes

I don't know if this was ever posted, but Youth Without Youth bombed with Variety and Hollywood Reporter and is 2 fresh 4 rotten overall on RT. It was a longshot for a while anyways.

Coppola hadn't made a film in ten years. He's old. he may be a terrific director, at least historically speaking, but not everyone can crank out their best movies at the age Eastwood's been doing it at.

have you seen any Eastwood Westerns? I wouldn't recommend that

Only 10 days or so till NBR

Me excited

This year/lead-up season felt like it went by fast.

Diving Bell and the Butterfly is making a run for the most number of 100s at MC this year: 5 100s out of 11 reviews. Unlikely to catch Ratatourille and NCFOM, but one of the best reviewed films of the year for sure.

I'm not surprised - from everything I've seen and heard it sounds divine.

Roger Friedman spooged over it too. So did David Poland. Kris Tapley seems to have not cared for it very much. None of this was unexpected.

The verdict? None. Need more reviews!

And Jeff Wells is really, really, really, really onboard the Sweeney train.

Awesome! This was unexpected. He'd been looking forward to panning it for a year now.



Makes your heart sing, don't it?

I'll believe it when I see it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got good reviews, too.

From who? I need names, addresses, and all known food allergies!

Here. As a fan of the film, I gotta admit even I am surprised b the four 100s it received. Also, I believe Jonathan Rosembaum placed it in his Top 10 of 2005.

As for the actual race, Diving Bell is now seven for sixteen in 100s, upping its average to 92. Could this really become a last-minute Best Picture contender?

Yeah, CatCF was definitely a mixed bag when it came to reviews; yeah, I saw some good ones, but for every good one, there was a bad one.

My anticipation for Sweeney has doubled now, especially with Tom O'Neil's review. In the past, he's been quite disparaging toward Johnny Depp, but he seems to have done a 180 because of Sweeney Todd.

Joy

Rotten Tomatoes says otherwise.

8 out of 18 now. BP is still a long long shot, but Julian Schnabel is certainly creeping up on my BD list. He had Before Night Falls, so not a totally unknown.

Diving Bell seems much more likely to top makeshift's list than make headway at the Academy. But xia's right, the director, acting, technicals are strong possibilities.

pffft you know you loved the Ape's remake in your soul!!

And with another 100 it goes up to 93. Nice.