Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Last night I saw The Incredibles, and that closes the book on 2004 for me. As for The Incredibles: Geez, I anticipated it being a Goddamn Cartoon, but I never contemplated it to be completely witless and dull. From the reviews, I was expecting a satire on the nuclear family -- the kind of thing tha...

Back on topic: Am I the only one who has no desire to see anything playing in theaters right now? Unless there's something I've overlooked I can't think of a single film in my town that I feel like making the drive to go see. As for Hollywood films, the only 2005 release I've seen is the estimable ...

It's also worth pointing out that Mr. O'Neill compared people who disagreed with him to Nazis (you think I'm kidding. I'm not.). Damien, remember the Walter Brennan arguement he had with Hedgy. That the height of rationalism compared to the incident of the past few days. I see he has also compared ...

Tom somehow took that as a call for censorship, and since some of these people who felt that way were friends, he took this as a "gang" bullying him around. Then they decided to fight fire with fire and put up some trashy signatures, and Tom just flipped and banned them. Then over the nex...

And, yes, O'Neill has flipped. His bizarre posts are matched, if not topped, by the the junk mail he lends his name to. Anybody else get an add for penis enlargement pills endoresed by Tom? Maybe that's his problem, they're expanding his ego instead of what they were intended to. LOL, Magilla. Gee ...

And yes, Tom O'Neil has definitely flipped out, having now probably banned half of the active posters (myself included), including three moderators. Funny that what started out as his ploy to make the site become more "hip" and "popular" is what will end up running it into the g...

Okri, I think McAdams was much better playing a nasty character in Mean Girls than she was at sweetness in The Notebook. Still, I don't think she was anything special in this stock kind of role -- Mandy Moore in Saved, for instance, had a lot more nuance, and it was Amanda Seyfried -- the ditzy gir...

Peter Finch's death back stage at the Today Show while campaigning for an Oscar nomination made him the instant sentimental favorite for best actor. I Magilla, I know it's nit-picking but since we were all rolling our eyes over Tom O'Neil's ineptitude in film history with Walter Brennan, it was bac...

For those who were around at the time: What were Piper Laurie's chances, roughly? Was she considered a distinct possibility or an easy fifth-wheel in the category? Except for Lee Grant, who had won the year before and now gave a lousy performance in a lousy now-forgotten film (the non-nominated Kat...

This is one of those films (along with Spielberg's "A.I.") that causes a lot of dissent when it's brought up. Half of the people I know who've seen it swear that it's one of the best films ever made. The other half call it a turd, and not even a fresh one. I've been a part of that first g...

I saw Network the day it opened in 1976 (at the late great Sutton theatre) and I have never waivered in my belief that it's one of the worst movies ever made. Chayefsky's scattershot script is really notthing more than menopausal rantings against societal changes he can't comprehend (he's like Stev...

Damien, did you see Mean Girls? I hate to disagree with you again on an actress, but I was totally taken with Rachel McAdams in both Mean Girls (playing the rich bitch for laughs) and The Notebook (playing the rich bitch for pathos, and benefiting from nice chemistry with Ryan Gosling--the four per...

I had been considering Gena Rowlands for the fifth supporting actress slot until I finally saw The Notebook. Had her role been slightly bigger or slightly less whiney toward the end, she might have made it, but I wasn't really impressed with either her or Rachel McAdams who played the younger Allie...