I can hear the sound of Damien loading and taking aim.ITALIANO wrote:Bill Condon winning Best Director? Ok, we had Norman Taurog and Delbert Mann... but it's very, very unlikely.
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Mister Tee wrote:flipp525, I'll be interested in your checking back after you've finished the book. I liked reading it, but found the latter portions not particularly effective in wrapping it up into a dramatic whole; it seemed to me to sort of dribble away -- and I'm not sure how that'll play on screen.
I also question the web-focus on Connelly as potential supporting nominee, as her character seemed fairly uncompelling to me.
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Tee, I agree that the ending of Little Children felt a little bit rushed (I could easily have spent 100+ more pages with these characters) but the plot's resolution was unexpected (which I liked) and made sense to me. That scene of Todd's final football game is a golden moment.
The preview looks fantastic, certainly one of the best of the season. Jennifer Connelly's character (Kathy), while insignificant and virutally absent in the first half of the book, has that killer dinner scene towards the end. Judging from the preview, she nails it (and I'm psyched that they included the part where she 'drops her fork'). Never underestimate the Academy's penchant for nominating the 'scorned wife' in the Best Supporting Actress category.
I'm glad that they've followed the book and made Kate Winslet's character slightly frazzled and unattractive (at least in the beginning). I was afraid they were going to Hollywood-ify and just forget that aspect of her character altogether.
I'm very excited about this film.
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Sabin, it is nearly the end of August. That's 8 out of 12 months. I'd say the year has definitely begun and I haven't seen one film I'd like to put on a top ten list. (The Child is waiting in my DVD queue, though.)
Yes, higher quality films will come out in the fall and winter . . . but by this time last year I had seen The Best of Youth, Junebug, Grizzly Man, Mysterious Skin, and Murderball—half of my top 10 list. Usually there's at least a couple great titles from the first 3/4 of the year, but of what I've seen in 2006 . . . nada.
So far this year, I've wanted to see little, and I've been disappointed by everything I have seen. Wake me up when something remotely interesting comes along.
P.S. And it's not Half Nelson. Yikes, the acclaim for this one is even more baffling. What an incredibly thin, dull little film.
Yes, higher quality films will come out in the fall and winter . . . but by this time last year I had seen The Best of Youth, Junebug, Grizzly Man, Mysterious Skin, and Murderball—half of my top 10 list. Usually there's at least a couple great titles from the first 3/4 of the year, but of what I've seen in 2006 . . . nada.
So far this year, I've wanted to see little, and I've been disappointed by everything I have seen. Wake me up when something remotely interesting comes along.
P.S. And it's not Half Nelson. Yikes, the acclaim for this one is even more baffling. What an incredibly thin, dull little film.
I half expected Wes to walk out Marshall McLuhan-style. "You know nothing of my work. How you won anything at Sundance is beyond me!"
That's the kicker. 'Little Miss Sunshine' wins what? The Audience Award? And 'Bottle Rocket' isn't even allowed in? Bull$hit.
I just read this online. THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THAT SIMPLETON JOEL SIEGEL: "Orson Welles would have to come back to life for this not to make my year-end Top 10 list."
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That's the kicker. 'Little Miss Sunshine' wins what? The Audience Award? And 'Bottle Rocket' isn't even allowed in? Bull$hit.
I just read this online. THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THAT SIMPLETON JOEL SIEGEL: "Orson Welles would have to come back to life for this not to make my year-end Top 10 list."
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Oh god. I really hope Little Miss Sunshine isn't the film I officially hate this awards season . . . but it might be.
If that film gets even an Original Screenplay nomination it will be the worst script to do so since who knows when. Worse than Crash. Worse than Gladiator. Worse than friggin' My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
I'd like to grin and bare it and say that we've had worse films nominated for top awards over recent years. But, in my opinion, we really haven't.
2006 is shaping up to be one snooze-a-thon of a movie year.
If that film gets even an Original Screenplay nomination it will be the worst script to do so since who knows when. Worse than Crash. Worse than Gladiator. Worse than friggin' My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
I'd like to grin and bare it and say that we've had worse films nominated for top awards over recent years. But, in my opinion, we really haven't.
2006 is shaping up to be one snooze-a-thon of a movie year.
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LMS is a crowd-pleaser. I enjoyed it and my friends, who typically don't like films that are film snobbish, loved it, so I think Little Miss Sunshine could prove dangerous this year. Perhaps even Toni Collette can get some overdue recognition.
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No. We don't know a thing. But it's Miramax, Lasse Hallstrom, and hopefully 'Chicago'-snub still in memory. Seems like a decent bet. Also slight. Seems very slight. At this point, it looks to me like the safest bet for Best Actor is Forest Whitaker.
(It's also our old buddy Editman choppin' it up. Oscar-nominee Andrew Mondshein, whom we drove away after the grand 'Chocolat'-bash of '01 -- God, I feel old. No, just not smart)
Wouldn't it seem somewhere along the lines of a foregone conclusion that 'Goya's Ghosts' would be nominated? It's not picked up yet, so I understand the hesitation, but it's Natalie Portman & Milos Forman (the Academy loves both, the former inexplicably), not to mention Javier Bardem & Jean-Claude Carriere.
(It's also our old buddy Editman choppin' it up. Oscar-nominee Andrew Mondshein, whom we drove away after the grand 'Chocolat'-bash of '01 -- God, I feel old. No, just not smart)
Wouldn't it seem somewhere along the lines of a foregone conclusion that 'Goya's Ghosts' would be nominated? It's not picked up yet, so I understand the hesitation, but it's Natalie Portman & Milos Forman (the Academy loves both, the former inexplicably), not to mention Javier Bardem & Jean-Claude Carriere.
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The official website with trailer is up for Little Children; this is a very effective trailer, and looks like Todd Field may have improved considerably since In the Bedroom. Obviously, we´ll know more once it premieres at Toronto.
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