The Queen Thread (6 nominations)
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Dr. Lecter
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 Mood-Swing Jon wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: Mood-Swing Jon wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: xiayun wrote: With FOOF stumbling out of gate, it needs Dreamgirls to do the same. It also needs to continue its terrific box office run as it expands. If it comes down to it, United 93, Babel, Volver, and Good German, then it can win. But then there is The Departed which has the box-office, the pedigree and the reviews... ...and Martin Scorsese at the helm. Not to mention the reviews are great in the "This movie is the most insanely entertaining movie in a while" way, not in a "This movie is the most insanely deep movie in a while" way. For a film with the former acclaim to win, it needs to make way more than $120M. This is why I'm forever skeptical of a nomnation, let alone a win. Oh yeah, I forgot how "deep" Gladiator was. Considering Gladiator's reviews were about half as good as The Departed's and the director wasn't nearly as overdue for a win. Also, the box-office argument is certainly working in The Departed's favor right now. It's a lock for $100 million and should approach $120 million as well. Gladiator was a revival (With a new spin) of the classic Sword-and-Sandals epic that hadn't been popular in ages, with the support of the techs. While it was violent, it was in the name of "historical accuracy." Also, it had a whole tragic, "emotional" story about the vengence of a general betrayed by his brother, very old-fashion. While I haven't seen The Departed (I really want to), the violence sounds a lot more in-your-face-asshole than most BP nominees. The only previous nominee I can think of that was like that was Pulp Fiction, which was the most talked about movie in years. And Scorsese has had two chances in the last five years to win, when his overdue-ness was very prominent, yet he still lost, once to a previous winner. However, I do think Scorsese has a good shot at being the lone director nominee. Blah blah blah
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Jonathan
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Okay, whatevah. More bragging rights for me, I guess. And if I'm wrong, at least I know I made people laugh, and that's always a good thing.  But I won't be wrong. . .
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A. G.
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This is the academy's probably last chance to reward Scorcese for making a Scorcese film, as opposed to those weak attempts at academy sucking up he churns out periodocally, like Aviator and his next project about TR. I think the academy realizes that.
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xiayun
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The third negative brought it down to 97% at RT, 108 out of 111, and the average is back to 8.4. MC score also dropped one point to 91.
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xiayun
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141 reviews in now, and still only 3 negatives. Pan's Labyrinth just received its first negative to allow The Queen move up to No. 2 on RT's yearly list; Deliver Us From Evil is still perfect with 60 reviews.
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xiayun
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OK, I'm going to bump up this thread to continue The Queen's discussion. I may even think about starting a "The Queen is winning Best Picture" club for fun, since we have one for each of the others.
Nominations:
Best Costume Design - no chance at winning, but showing up here is a positive sign;
Best Score - good chance at winning; with Desplat not getting double-nominated for The Painted Veil, his supporters will be behind The Queen instead;
Best Original Screenplay - co-frontrunner;
Best Actress - a lock;
Best Director - zero chance;
Best Picture - the sleeper; if it wins Score and Original Screenplay, I think we'll be looking at a win.
The film has just been flying under the radar so smoothly, and it may end up having the second best box office gross among the BP nominees, which has a good correlation with the winner.  _________________Recent watched movies: American Hustle - B+ Inside Llewyn Davis - B Before Midnight - A 12 Years a Slave - A- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - A- My thoughts on box office
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