StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Rickman should have won for Hans Gruber. Snape was hardly worth mentioning.

Mugato: petuniapup: (Roger Ebert compared Kristin Wiig to Lucille Ball, right? I didn't quite see the comparison, but... *shrug*)

Ebert's always been kind of a psycho, I don't care how many Pulitzers he's won.


Rob Schneider's handle?
I kid, I kid...

GungFu: brigid_fitch: Mugato: KatjaMouse: Mission: Impossible 4. Robbed of effects or editing nominations? Best writing?

I don't know about writing but it was the best straight up action movie I've seen in a while. Say what you want about Cruise's various psychoses but he never phones it in.

A friend made the observation that Cruise HAS to be a phenomenal actor. In real life, he's batshiat insane but dammit, can he perform on-screen. And a wide array of characters (from Fourth of July to Tropic Thunder to whatever action movie he's doing).

Er, isn't the underlying factor in all of Cruise's performances that he does it with a panicked intensity? It's the same shiat he does ALL the time? Cruise plays Cruise. The characters are interchangeable. Not phoning it in? That's because he doesn't have another number to phone in with.

Cruise was not good in Days of Thunder. He was awesome in A Few Good Men. There's more than intensity to a character, despite the fact he does bring it often

StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Oh come on. The Harry Potter films were popular, sold many tickets, and that's about all it has in common with the LOTR films.

At Least LOTR had strong acting performances, and mind-blowingly beautiful locations, not to mention devotion to film making, and huge scale staging.

The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

Hebalo: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Oh come on. The Harry Potter films were popular, sold many tickets, and that's about all it has in common with the LOTR films.

At Least LOTR had strong acting performances, and mind-blowingly beautiful locations, not to mention devotion to film making, and huge scale staging.

The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

To be fair, HP had some of the best names in the British/UK acting scene. The cast is basically missing Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen for the who's who of ridiculously good British/UK character and stage actors.

I guess this will make up for the snub Jonah Hill got for his performance in Strange Wilderness.......

Hebalo: The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

The Potter films had Gary Oldman, Richard Harris, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Warwick Davis and Robbie Coltrane. And directed by Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cauron, Mike Newell, and David Yates.

Boy, what group of non-talent losers, huh? They can't compare to Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler!

FuryOfFirestorm: Hebalo: The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

The Potter films had Gary Oldman, Richard Harris, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Warwick Davis and Robbie Coltrane. And directed by Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cauron, Mike Newell, and David Yates.

Boy, what group of non-talent losers, huh? They can't compare to Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler!

Not one of them put in an Oscar worthy performance in those films, is my point.

Rent Party: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Rickman should have won for Hans Gruber. Snape was hardly worth mentioning.

He should have been nominated, but winning it over Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda? I dunno. That's a tough call.

bhcompy: Hebalo: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Oh come on. The Harry Potter films were popular, sold many tickets, and that's about all it has in common with the LOTR films.

At Least LOTR had strong acting performances, and mind-blowingly beautiful locations, not to mention devotion to film making, and huge scale staging.

The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

To be fair, HP had some of the best names in the British/UK acting scene. The cast is basically missing Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen for the who's who of ridiculously good British/UK character and stage actors.

someonelse: It was a good movie and he was good in it. I'm not familiar with the entire Jonah Hill oeuvre, but I can't see anything hateworthy in this performance.

He FINALLY played a character that wasn't Jonah Hill and for this he gets an Oscar nomination?

"It's called ACTING, Dustin ... you should try it sometime."

bigmattress: bhcompy: Hebalo: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Oh come on. The Harry Potter films were popular, sold many tickets, and that's about all it has in common with the LOTR films.

At Least LOTR had strong acting performances, and mind-blowingly beautiful locations, not to mention devotion to film making, and huge scale staging.

The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

To be fair, HP had some of the best names in the British/UK acting scene. The cast is basically missing Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen for the who's who of ridiculously good British/UK character and stage actors.

Yea, missed that. My bad(never saw that particular film). Point stands.

gunga galunga: Rent Party: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Rickman should have won for Hans Gruber. Snape was hardly worth mentioning.

He should have been nominated, but winning it over Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda? I dunno. That's a tough call.

Yeah, that is one that should be haggled out over a whole lot of beer.

/ It's K-k-k-k-k-en! C-c-c-c-c-oming to k-k-k-k-kill me!

Rent Party: gunga galunga: Rent Party: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Rickman should have won for Hans Gruber. Snape was hardly worth mentioning.

He should have been nominated, but winning it over Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda? I dunno. That's a tough call.

Yeah, that is one that should be haggled out over a whole lot of beer.

/ It's K-k-k-k-k-en! C-c-c-c-c-oming to k-k-k-k-kill me!

Mugato: This is the worst Oscar list in years. I'm not surprised EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE was nominated though. It is the most shameless Oscar bait I've even heard about. It's something right out of Tropic Thunder. Apparently it stars Tom Hanks (DING!), who befriends a kid with autism (DING!), whose father died (DING!)...in 9/11 (DING!) and his grandparents were in the Holocaust (DING! DING! DING!). It looks like the perfect storm of pandering.



If it had Cuba Gooding Jr. as a retarded guy in a wheelchair - Oscar sweep baby!

TexanBoy: DRIVE was nominated fools. For Sound Editing. Don't act like it doesn't matter, sound editing is hella important!



What?

robot_in_disguise: Yay Melissa McCarthy!! I don't think the film was Oscar worthy, but she was fun to watch. I really like her, I hope this opens some doors for her.

My bedroom door is open for her

//If you know what I mean....

KatjaMouse: On the one plus side, and I know I'll get no love for this, but I'm glad that Bridesmaids got nominated for writing and Melissa McCarthy for best supporting actress.

I'm glad they're nominating people for playing toilet humor well.

LOOK HOW FAT AND DISGUSTING SHE IS

GIVE HER AN OSCAR! SO EDGY

Oh, and Drive, Take Shelter, and Coriolanus not getting any nominations is farking bullshiat.

KatjaMouse: kroonermanblack: Ok, this is the thread where I admit my viewing last year was limited to tron and captain america.

And that I liked crash.

What was good in 2011? I'm not a huge film person if you can't tell. Oscar bait can fark off I'm not watching it. No warhorse either.

So drive? Melancholia? What about others that came out? I literally saw no movies last year.

If you're interested in movie history at all I would recommend Hugo. I loved that movie and had a lot of fun watching it.

If you like light comedy I would recommend Midnight in Paris, but it would help if you were familiar with 20th century literary/artistic figures.

Action: Drive and Hanna. One is a "Man with no name" concept about a stunt/get-away driver and was pretty exciting. Hanna is an action film told as if it were a post-cold war fairy tale.

Attack the Block is my "OMFG SO GOOD" pick of the year though. British kids v. Aliens. Way more entertaining than cowboys in the same situation.

Agreed.

I also wholeheartedly recommend:
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Take Shelter
A Separation

Tree of Life is great too, but it's not for everyone.

I've also heard great things about Meek's Cutoff and The Interrupters.

Overall it's been a pretty good year for independent film, a fantastic year for documentaries, and a godawful year for blockbusters

It looks like Hollywood has been stocking up for this year: Prometheus, The Hobbit, Dark Knight Rises, Avengers, John Carter, Star Trek 2, Amazing Spiderman, Django Unchained....

The only reason Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen didn't make it into Harry Potter is because they're a little TOO famous.

Also, question: Is it important that Tom Hank's character in Extremely Loud died on 9/11 at all or could he have died in a car accident or something and the story would be the same?

FlashHarry: Mugato: This is the worst Oscar list in years. I'm not surprised EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE was nominated though. It is the most shameless Oscar bait I've even heard about. It's something right out of Tropic Thunder. Apparently it stars Tom Hanks (DING!), who befriends a kid with autism (DING!), whose father died (DING!)...in 9/11 (DING!) and his grandparents were in the Holocaust (DING! DING! DING!). It looks like the perfect storm of pandering.

sadly, THIS.

Even more sadly, the book (and its equally craven predecessor, Everything is Illuminated) made its author a 28-year-old millionaire.

Mike Chewbacca: Hebalo: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Oh come on. The Harry Potter films were popular, sold many tickets, and that's about all it has in common with the LOTR films.

At Least LOTR had strong acting performances, and mind-blowingly beautiful locations, not to mention devotion to film making, and huge scale staging.

The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

I'll take Deathly Hallows Part II over Return of the King any day of the week. I love ROTK, but DHII just blows it away. I will agree with you that the acting in the first three HP movies are "meh" at best, but there have been some amazing scenes in the more recent films. Kudos to Tom Felton, who kind of phone in Malfoy until Half-Blood Prince, and then he totally steals the entire movie.

No way. The Rohirrim slomo as they get rolling to attack the forces of Mordor, and then the two armies colliding is one of the greatest scenes in all of cinematic history. DHII was good, but it isn't even in the same class of film as ROTK.

Hebalo: Not one of them put in an Oscar worthy performance in those films, is my point.

To be fair, the series didn't move beyond "kiddie fare" until Prisoner of Azkaban, when Cuaron took over for Columbus and Gary Oldman showed everyone how it's done. Even the kids stop phoning it and put some heft into their performances.

Rickman, however, kicked ass since Sorcerer's Stone and hit a home run in Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows.

Ahhh_Ennui: Kind of expected some love for Blue Valentine. That movie destroyed me - Gosling and Williams were excellent.

You most likely didn't see Blue Valentine until early 2011 but for the purposes of Oscar consideration that movie came out in late 2010. Michelle Williams was nominated for Best Actress and lost to Natalie Portman.

Tsar_Bomba1: Mugato: This is the worst Oscar list in years. I'm not surprised EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE was nominated though. It is the most shameless Oscar bait I've even heard about. It's something right out of Tropic Thunder. Apparently it stars Tom Hanks (DING!), who befriends a kid with autism (DING!), whose father died (DING!)...in 9/11 (DING!) and his grandparents were in the Holocaust (DING! DING! DING!). It looks like the perfect storm of pandering.



If it had Cuba Gooding Jr. as a retarded guy in a wheelchair - Oscar sweep baby!

Being adopted by Sandra Bullock!!!!
/DINGER explodes

r1chard3: Tsar_Bomba1: Mugato: This is the worst Oscar list in years. I'm not surprised EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE was nominated though. It is the most shameless Oscar bait I've even heard about. It's something right out of Tropic Thunder. Apparently it stars Tom Hanks (DING!), who befriends a kid with autism (DING!), whose father died (DING!)...in 9/11 (DING!) and his grandparents were in the Holocaust (DING! DING! DING!). It looks like the perfect storm of pandering.

If it had Cuba Gooding Jr. as a retarded guy in a wheelchair - Oscar sweep baby!

Being adopted by Sandra Bullock who is gay, dying of cancer, and taking on the coal mining industry!!!!

FTFMore Oscar consideration. Elton John also needs to do an original song for it.

Ahhh_Ennui: Kind of expected some love for Blue Valentine. That movie destroyed me - Gosling and Williams were excellent.

Oh God that movie got me too. And I watched Rabbit Hole right after it. Surprising I didn't jump off a bridge after that combo.

/Williams deserved that Oscar

InmanRoshi: velvet_fog: The Help for Best Picture??? Are you kidding me? I thought that shiat Sandra Bullock football movie a couple years ago was bad enough.

And that's not even the worst horrifically trite, Oscar pandering Sandra Bullock movie ....
















/"Crash" = worse than the biggest dump I have ever taken.

//Cheers!

Otto's_Jacket: angrymacface:
What a farking hack Julia is.

She looks AWFUL as the evil queen in the trailers for that new fairy-tale movie. She has no comic timing.

FuryOfFirestorm: Hebalo: Not one of them put in an Oscar worthy performance in those films, is my point.

To be fair, the series didn't move beyond "kiddie fare" until Prisoner of Azkaban, when Cuaron took over for Columbus and Gary Oldman showed everyone how it's done. Even the kids stop phoning it and put some heft into their performances.

Rickman, however, kicked ass since Sorcerer's Stone and hit a home run in Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows.

He's always good, however Snape is pretty one-note throughout the whole series. Heck, in one movie he only has something like two lines. The last movie gives the character some backstory but the parts that are meaty are played by another actor.

robsul82: @PattonOswalt
Join me for a drink at The Drawing Room, @AlbertBrooks? Me and Serkis have been here since 6am.
5 hours ago

@AlbertBrooks See you later tonight. Might be out of booze -- Serkis has Pogues on the jukebox & Fassbender just showed up in a pirate hat.
4 hours ago

@AlbertBrooks Oh shiat -- we're DEFINITELY going to run out of booze. Charlize & Tilda just pulled up in a stolen police car.
4 hours ago

@AlbertBrooks Dude, GET DOWN HERE. Gosling is doing keg stands and Olsen & Dunst LITERALLY just emerged from a shower of rose petals.
4 hours ago

r1chard3: Tsar_Bomba1: Mugato: This is the worst Oscar list in years. I'm not surprised EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE was nominated though. It is the most shameless Oscar bait I've even heard about. It's something right out of Tropic Thunder. Apparently it stars Tom Hanks (DING!), who befriends a kid with autism (DING!), whose father died (DING!)...in 9/11 (DING!) and his grandparents were in the Holocaust (DING! DING! DING!). It looks like the perfect storm of pandering.



If it had Cuba Gooding Jr. as a retarded guy in a wheelchair - Oscar sweep baby!

Being adopted by Sandra Bullock!!!!
/DINGER explodes


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Rent Party: Mike Chewbacca: Hebalo: StewMcG: Sucks that the Academy didn't show any love to the Harry Potter series, like they did to the LOTR trilogy.

/Alan Rickman was robbed
//Oscar-nominated Jonah Hill? *shudder*

Oh come on. The Harry Potter films were popular, sold many tickets, and that's about all it has in common with the LOTR films.

At Least LOTR had strong acting performances, and mind-blowingly beautiful locations, not to mention devotion to film making, and huge scale staging.

The Harry Potter films...well.....sold some tickets. Oh wait, I did think the first one had some great imagery in the dining hall. But that's pretty much it.

I'll take Deathly Hallows Part II over Return of the King any day of the week. I love ROTK, but DHII just blows it away. I will agree with you that the acting in the first three HP movies are "meh" at best, but there have been some amazing scenes in the more recent films. Kudos to Tom Felton, who kind of phone in Malfoy until Half-Blood Prince, and then he totally steals the entire movie.

No way. The Rohirrim slomo as they get rolling to attack the forces of Mordor, and then the two armies colliding is one of the greatest scenes in all of cinematic history. DHII was good, but it isn't even in the same class of film as ROTK.

I didn't see ROTK in the theater, so I saw the Directors Cut or whatever. It was a good movie that had about 3 endings too many. Don't know if the theater cut suffered from being dragged out far too long, but DHII was much more watchable, IMO.