King Kong Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture
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Bradley Witherberry
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lol -- I know this thread can't have been intended seriously, but it is pretty funny to trying to imagine this bloated POS as best picture...
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| Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:44 pm |
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MikeQ.
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bradley witherberry wrote: lol -- I know this thread can't have been intended seriously, but it is pretty funny to trying to imagine this bloated POS as best picture... It would have been a better win than the craptacular Crash. 
Peace,
Mike.
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| Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:31 pm |
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neo_wolf
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baumer72 wrote: If Kong desevre a best picture nomination, then so did Predator in 1987. Predator was the best film of 1987 IMO.
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makeshift
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 Re: King Kong Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture Little Mister Sunshine wrote:
It looked great, had a pedigree, epic scope.
That's kind of a scary way to judge a film's Best Picture merit.
Using that criteria, something like Alexander could have a case made for it.
I understand that that is often what the AMPAS look for in their Best Picture candidates, but that doesn't mean we should encourage it.
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David
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If a recent special effects-driven epic deserved a Best Pic nomination, it's Bryan Singer's underrated, beautiful Superman Returns, not the entertaining-but-bloated King Kong.
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snack
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Gunslinger wrote: If a recent special effects-driven epic deserved a Best Pic nomination, it's Bryan Singer's underrated, beautiful Superman Returns, not the entertaining-but-bloated King Kong. 
Kong's mammoth turds would win before that piece of crap.
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makeshift
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Re: King Kong Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture Little Mister Sunshine wrote: makeshift wrote: Little Mister Sunshine wrote:
It looked great, had a pedigree, epic scope.
That's kind of a scary way to judge a film's Best Picture merit. Using that criteria, something like Alexander could have a case made for it. I understand that that is often what the AMPAS look for in their Best Picture candidates, but that doesn't mean we should encourage it. That wasn't the end all, be all, of judgement. It also had some stellar reviews, solid box office, prime release date. I don't think anyone can argue without smiling that Good Luck and Capote deserved a nom over King Kong. Well, if you're just talking about actual quality of film, I'd take Good Luck over Kong, and be about even on Kong and Capote. They were both average.
Again, I get that a nod from the AMPAS is more due to a conglomeration of aspects that have nothing to do with the actual quality of the film, and in that case I could see why Kong might have deserved a nomination, but I don't think it's behavior we as film fans should embrace or justify in any manner.
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| Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:40 am |
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Libs
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We all know 2005's nominees should have been King Kong, Crash, Brokeback Mountain, In Her Shoes (which is still so underrated) and Walk the Line. 
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David
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If I had it my way, 2005's nominees would've been...
Brokeback Mountain
Match Point
Munich
The New World
The Weather Man (Extremely, extremely, extremely underrated film! 2005's best!)
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