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David
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 Re: Happy with the noms? The Reader deserves every nomination it received. I just wish the love had been extended to David Kross, who is wonderful in the film.
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Mister Ecks
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Re: Happy with the noms? Gunslinger wrote: The Reader deserves every nomination it received. I just wish the love had been extended to David Kross, who is wonderful in the film. 
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Tyler
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Re: Happy with the noms? Kross made me feel insecure in my teenage dick size. He and Kate were fine, though.
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Raffiki
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Re: Happy with the noms? Summer blockbuster films amassed a total of 18 nominations.
Pretty impressive actually. Only 2 of them in any of the big 8 though... Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay
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snack
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Re: Happy with the noms? Anton Chigurh wrote: Kross made me feel insecure in my teenage dick size.. hear hear! this was also brought out further by his prepubescent face. fucking five year old with a donkey dick.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Happy with the noms? snack wrote: Anton Chigurh wrote: Kross made me feel insecure in my teenage dick size.. hear hear! this was also brought out further by his prepubescent face. fucking five year old with a donkey dick. Post of the Day  _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Loyal
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Re: Happy with the noms? Gunslinger wrote: The Reader deserves every nomination it received. I still think you're putting us on. But then you also love Ed Zwick and Frost/Nixon. It's all so disturbing. 
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Re: Happy with the noms? A bit. Glad it wasn't totally predictable. Almost every damn person was predicting the same films in almost every category.
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The Scottie
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Re: Happy with the noms? Corpse wrote: A bit. Glad it wasn't totally predictable. Almost every damn person was predicting the same films in almost every category. That's what I pretty much said. _________________Visit My Youtube Account and here is what you will see.    and many more.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Happy with the noms? Groucho wrote: The top two best reviewed films of the year were Wall E and The Dark Knight, but because they're animated and "comic book" movies, they can't be considered as Best Picture. By what standard are they "the top two best reviewed films of the year"? WALL-E was indeed #2 on the Metacritic Best-Reviewed Movies of 2008, but The Dark Knight didn't even make the top twenty... And on the Best of Rotten Tomatoes 2008, WALL-E only came in 15th, and once again TDK failed to crack the top twenty...
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Tyler
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Re: Happy with the noms? 8.5/10...
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Jonathan
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Re: Happy with the noms? Even though I stopped predicting TDK back in December, I still knew that it was clear #5 by most standards, so once NOLAN was snubbed for DALDRY I knew it was all over, so that stung. And I was predicting WALL-E to make it in instead, so that they snubbed both blockbusters was pretty sucky. But I got over it mostly. I just hope that those that refuse to get over it don't bitch too much for the next month.
As for Slumdog being conventional, I'd say TDK being a Superhero film pretty much automatically makes it less conventional in Oscar terms, though Slumdog is still a starless foreign film with apparently stretches of nothing but subtitles. It'd be one of the least conventional winners the Academy has had, and the least conventional of our current batch of nominees.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Happy with the noms? Jon wrote: Even though I stopped predicting TDK back in December, I still knew that it was clear #5 by most standards, so once NOLAN was snubbed for DALDRY I knew it was all over, so that stung. And I was predicting WALL-E to make it in instead, so that they snubbed both blockbusters was pretty sucky. But I got over it mostly. I just hope that those that refuse to get over it don't bitch too much for the next month.
As for Slumdog being conventional, I'd say TDK being a Superhero film pretty much automatically makes it less conventional in Oscar terms, though Slumdog is still a starless foreign film with apparently stretches of nothing but subtitles. It'd be one of the least conventional winners the Academy has had, and the least conventional of our current batch of nominees. A film about a dude aging backwards is less conventional than an underdog story, even starless and from India... _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Groucho
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Re: Happy with the noms? Bradley Witherberry wrote: Groucho wrote: The top two best reviewed films of the year were Wall E and The Dark Knight, but because they're animated and "comic book" movies, they can't be considered as Best Picture. By what standard are they "the top two best reviewed films of the year"? WALL-E was indeed #2 on the Metacritic Best-Reviewed Movies of 2008, but The Dark Knight didn't even make the top twenty... And on the Best of Rotten Tomatoes 2008, WALL-E only came in 15th, and once again TDK failed to crack the top twenty... You're correct; I was basing my comment on the earlier version of this list before some of the other films came out. Still, many of those in the top are documentaries, so if you take those out you get: 1. The Wrestler (98%) 2. 4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 days (97%) 3. Let the Right one In (97%) 4. Wall E (96%) 5. The Black Balloon (96%) 6. Slumdog Millionaire (95%) 7. The Dark Knight (94%) 8. Waltz with bashir (94%) 9. Alexandra (94%) 10. Jar City (94%) My point still is that of the films nominated, they tended to ignore some of the better reviewed ones for the "Oscar" type of film they always love. Benjamin Button, for instance, isn't even on the Top 100 list for 2008. (Unless I made a mistake and missed a film that wasn't a documentary) _________________Buy my books! http://michaelaventrella.com
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Happy with the noms? Waltz with Bashir is actually a documentary too. Kind of.
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Re: Happy with the noms? Remember, tomato-scores don't equate to average ratings, in which WALL-E and TDK still lead. Especially Wall-E with top critics.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Happy with the noms? Dr. Lecter wrote: Waltz with Bashir is actually a documentary too. Kind of. And My Winnipeg isn't actually a documentary. Kind of...
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Happy with the noms? Bradley Witherberry wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: Waltz with Bashir is actually a documentary too. Kind of. And My Winnipeg isn't actually a documentary. Kind of... Its DGA nom is for Best Documentary Satelitte Awards nom is for Documentary as well WGA nom is for Documentary _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Shack
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Re: Happy with the noms? I wouldn't rank My Winnipeg as a documentary, or at least not anymore than Spinal Tap/Waiting for Guffman, or other movies that use the doc structure but are scripted fiction and all. Frost/Nixon even can fit in there, though not to the level of those three.
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Steve
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Re: Happy with the noms? Deeply, deeply disappointed... which is nothing new at all. What I wonder: why do I let myself get caught up in the Oscar frenzy, year after year, when not once (at least since 2001 or so) have any of my favorite films been adequately honored? Once again, I'm a fool for buying into the hype of the 'significance' of the Academy Awards.
Moving on....
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Jmart
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Re: Happy with the noms? Indifferent
Same old same old for the most part.
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Mr. Reynolds
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Re: Happy with the noms? I don't know about The Reader getting in yet, but damn! Revolution Road should have been all over the Oscar noms today. Amazing movie!
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Jonathan
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Re: Happy with the noms? Dr. Lecter wrote: Jon wrote: Even though I stopped predicting TDK back in December, I still knew that it was clear #5 by most standards, so once NOLAN was snubbed for DALDRY I knew it was all over, so that stung. And I was predicting WALL-E to make it in instead, so that they snubbed both blockbusters was pretty sucky. But I got over it mostly. I just hope that those that refuse to get over it don't bitch too much for the next month.
As for Slumdog being conventional, I'd say TDK being a Superhero film pretty much automatically makes it less conventional in Oscar terms, though Slumdog is still a starless foreign film with apparently stretches of nothing but subtitles. It'd be one of the least conventional winners the Academy has had, and the least conventional of our current batch of nominees. is less conventional than an underdog story, even starless and from India... That also happens to be a decades-spanning epic with a major star, a massive budget and past winners, and a film that almost everyone has been predicting to be nominated for the last year. It's easily more conventional than Slumdog.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Happy with the noms? But it's a film about a DUDE AGING BACKWARDS, heh.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Happy with the noms? Dr. Lecter wrote: Bradley Witherberry wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: Waltz with Bashir is actually a documentary too. Kind of. And My Winnipeg isn't actually a documentary. Kind of... Its DGA nom is for Best Documentary Satelitte Awards nom is for Documentary as well WGA nom is for Documentary So you believe My Winnipeg is a documentary, Dr. Lecter?
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