Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I've been meaning to post a review of this surprisingly enjoyable film (surprising to me because I wasn't all that wild about Capote and was even less excited about sitting through another film on the same subject). But I concur 100% with Damien, and so there is no need to reiterate his comments, b...

VanHelsing wrote:To those who have seen Babel, does Kikuchi expose her vagina in the film?

Yes, several times.

I'm (mostly) with Okri. Shrek and Wallace & Gromit are MUCH better than the films that won Best Pic those years. And the other three Animated winners are as good as the films that won Best Pic in their years. My problem with this category has less to do with lousy winners and more to do with lo...

Well, you seem to have thought this out a lot more than I have at this point, but I have two hunches. The first is that, to me, The Queen is a pretty good bet for a Best Picture nomination. I know Frears has been the odd-man-out before, but he really doesn't fit its characteristics too well. His di...

My god, you are such a self-loather. If you enjoy sitting at the back of the bus, that's fine. But I've never seen anyone rain on their own parade like you do. I try to avoid responding to most of your statements, and perhaps I'll regret this post big time, but there was something genuinely sad abo...

A couple of thoughts: 1. I have been stunned by the number of articles (excluding our comments, this is, after all, the ACADEMY AWARDS Discussion Board) that don't just mention, but bathe in the 'O' word. This is EXACTLY the kind of Peeve of the Season that Mister Tee addressed. It's bad enough tha...

Yikes, there is no reason to have five nominees with all these, ahem, worthwhile, contenders. To update my post below, I did catch Renaissance, and it is certainly not a renaissance of any kind. The plot was an incoherent snoozefest, and I'll even take some issue with the film's widely-praised look...

The Prestige. Both have unsatisfying endings that rely WAAAAAAAY too much on Big Twists that ultimately undermine much of their films. I'm so glad these films have given me a great metaphor for why I tend to dislike twist endings. Watching films like this is like watching a magic trick, in which yo...

Well, I haven't read much lately about Louis XVI, so you may be right. However, I certainly didn't envision him with an American accent. I know we've come to accept the stereotype of British accents in lieu of French ones, so I hate to get picky like this . . . but in my book, if you're wearing tho...

I'm with Sabin on this one. As a fan of Eastwood's work, I have to say that I was very disappointed, and also flabbergasted at some of the raves this film has received. I thought Flags was A) BOOOOOOOOOORING and B) completely redundant. The film has such a one-stop political agenda it starts to get...

Ugh. I didn't like it. I thought it was dull, ramblingly plotless, shallow, and full of too many WTF? questions for me. For example . . . WTF are Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman speaking in American accents? Really, could they have at least TRIED to pull off something that sounded remotely Euro...

There are FYI ads for Little Miss Sunshine on the Variety web site. I think it's a strong possibility for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay -- a small movie that does this well with audiences is always an Oscar threat. I would hope that in a year with movies by real filmmakers like Almodóvar, Cond...

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cam wrote:Taking joy in others' failures is called schadenfreude by the resourceful Germans.

Like watching a vegetarian being told she just ate chicken or watching a frat boy realize just what he put his dick in?

Hahaha. I love you guys.

I liked The Queen as well, although I agree with Mister Tee: this is not a great film. It's small and simple, visually competent but not an exceptional piece of filmmaking. But I admired several things about it in particular. The first is that I think The Queen's premise is, quite simply, very inte...