Unseen 2010 Oscar Nominated Films

[Greg]

Because this somehow seems sort of the most appropriate thread to do so, ranking the shorts:

How did you get to see those?

[Eric]

Because this somehow seems sort of the most appropriate thread to do so, ranking the shorts:

Madagascar
Day & Night
The Lost Thing
Let's Pollute
The Gruffalo

God of Love
Wish 143
Na Wewe
The Confession
The Crush

Poster Girl
Killing in the Name
Sun Come Up
Strangers No More
The Warriors of Qiugang

[Sabin]

Won't See:
Country Strong
Salt
The Wolfman

Might See:
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt 1
I Am Love
Incendies
Outside the Law
The Tempest
Unstoppable
The Way Back

Will See:
Biutiful
GasLand
Hereafter
The Illusionist
In a Better World
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land


...and borrowing a cue from Rain Bard

Remarkable:
Another Year
Dogtooth
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Social Network
Winter's Bone

Recommendable:
Black Swan
How to Train Your Dragon
Rabbit Hole
Tangled
Toy Story 3

Re-watchable:
Animal Kingdom
The Fighter
The Kids Are All Right
The Town
True Grit

Regrettable:
Barney's Version
Blue Valentine
Inception
Iron Man 2
The King's Speech
TRON: Legacy


Reprehensible:
Huh. None thus far. Pretty cool.



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[Hustler]

Have seen:

True Grit
Winter´s Bone
The Social Network
Inception
The King´s Speech
The Kids are All Right
127 Hours
Toy Story 3
Alice in Wonderland
The Illusionist
Hereafter
Unstoppable
Tron: Legacy
Salt
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I

I am Planning to see next week

The Fighter
Black Swan
Biutiful

[rain Bard]

I have seen, in approximate order of how I liked them:

Remarkable:

Tangled
Dogtooth
Another Year

Recommendable:

Exit Through the Gift Shop
the Social Network
Toy Story 3
Inside Job

Re-watchable:

the Kids Are Alright
I Am Love
the Illusionist
True Grit
the King's Speech
Black Swan
Inception

Regrettable:

How to Train Your Dragon
Tron: Legacy
Iron Man 2

Reprehensible:

Alice in Wonderland

I have not seen, in approximate order of current curiosity:

Might pay to see:

Incendies
Winter's Bone
Animal Kingdom
In A Better World
Restrepo
Waste Land
Blue Valentine

Better be free:

Barney's Version
The Fighter
Rabbit Hole
Outside the Law
The Way Back
Gasland
The Tempest
Hereafter
The Town
Country Strong
Salt
Harry Potter #7.0

they'll have to pay me:

127 Hours
Biutiful
the Wolfman
Unstoppable

Of the shorts, I've only seen Day & Night. It was better than the average Pixar short. (not a vary high bar, admittedly)

[anonymous1980]

I paid $18 for Inception (unbeknownst to me when we got to the theatre it was IMAX), and it's the worst movie of 2010.

No, it's not, Damien. :p I probably wouldn't pay $18 to see it. To own on Blu-Ray, sure.

[Greg]

I went to the Sunday matinee for Black Swan and paid $5.50.

[Damien]

I paid $18 for Inception (unbeknownst to me when we got to the theatre it was IMAX), and it's the worst movie of 2010.

[Big Magilla]

Even though I qualify for senior discounts, I mostly catch bargain matinees where the "bargain" price is now around $6.50.

[The Original BJ]

King's is playing at a Sony theatre where I can use already paid-for Costco tickets, rather than putting out $12-13 for Another Year;

12-13 dollars?! In Italy the price of a ticket goes from 5 euros (weekdays) to 7.5 euros (weekends), and people complain because it's too expensive...

In LA, I've paid $16 -- and that's not for 3D or IMAX.

[ITALIANO]

King's is playing at a Sony theatre where I can use already paid-for Costco tickets, rather than putting out $12-13 for Another Year;

12-13 dollars?! In Italy the price of a ticket goes from 5 euros (weekdays) to 7.5 euros (weekends), and people complain because it's too expensive...

[Uri]

I must admit I wasn't recommending it to you, Tee, based on your past reaction to Leigh – as you've said, it's not as conspicuous as Damien's – but based on, well, demographic reasoning. AY is such a mature, compassionate and perceptive view of life which has already been lived for at least a while. It's an adult film. And it offers an extremely captivating portrayal of marital bliss on the way.

As for Mike Leigh's opus – I've said it before, I love his films when they are not "a Mike Leigh movie". I have problems with his hard core social conscious ones – Life is Sweat, Naked, Career Girls, All or Nothing all have the kind of over awareness, they seem to immerge out of a preconceived agenda rather than an organic narration. The results in these cases might be conceived as unpleasantly acid and condescending I'm afraid. But when his films seem to be driven by another motivation, or at least by a more complex one – his social awareness is always present – the results are richer and much more satisfying. The melodramatic seed of Secrets and Lies, the artistic process in Topsy-Turvy, the reincarnation of time, place and human milieu in Vera Drake, the original character study that Happy-Goes-Lucky is – each one of these films becomes a unique and intriguing piece.

AY is in many ways the freest film Leigh has ever made. No, it's not a narrative driven movie, certainly not in a boy-stammers-boy-meets-therapist-boy-becomes-king-boy-and-therapist-bit-the-Nazies kind of way. But in its particular way, AY does have a very formalistic structure. It's like a musical piece, comprised of repetitions and variations, harmony and dissonance. And it offers such a wide array of human dramas, tragedies and joys by simply observing the most deceptively banal, every day actions and rituals as made by a bunch of human beings. Nothing more, nothing less.



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[Okri]

Top tier: Naked, Life is Sweet, Happy-Go-Lucky (I just heard you cringe, Mister Tee)

Second: Topsy-Turvy, High Hopes, Bleak Moments, Another Year

Third: All or Nothing, Vera Drake

Worse: Career Girls.

Okay, so Vera Drake is not my least favourite.

[Mister Tee]

I love the fact that the one you loved is probably my least favourite Leigh film.

Really? What's your rough pecking order? And how enthuasiastic or un- are you at either end?

[Okri]

I love the fact that the one you loved is probably my least favourite Leigh film.