And again the award goes to...
Well, the Oscar nominations are in...finally. Let's see how well we do this year!
The only nominated movies that I saw were APOCALYPTO, STUPORMAN RETURNS, CARS and MONSTER HOUSE. My in-theater cinema experience is heavily skewed towards kid movies these days and my in-home viewing of Asian exploitation cinema, B-movies, spoofs of B-movies, and kung-fu flicks didn't seem to be the kind of cinema fare that the Academy usually rewards. Hopefully GRINDHOUSE will change their minds!
So, folks...vote early and vote often! And, damn the Academy for not giving SNAKES ON A PLANE an Oscar nod. I'd much rather see the visual effects in that flick than have to suffer through STUPORMAN RETURNS ever again! SNAKES was what it was and didn't pretend to be anything more. STUPORMAN aspired to be something great and didn't deliver. The best thing about STUPORMAN was the SPIDERMAN 3 trailer that ran before it! It was all downhill from there.
The only nominated movies that I saw were APOCALYPTO, STUPORMAN RETURNS, CARS and MONSTER HOUSE. My in-theater cinema experience is heavily skewed towards kid movies these days and my in-home viewing of Asian exploitation cinema, B-movies, spoofs of B-movies, and kung-fu flicks didn't seem to be the kind of cinema fare that the Academy usually rewards. Hopefully GRINDHOUSE will change their minds!
So, folks...vote early and vote often! And, damn the Academy for not giving SNAKES ON A PLANE an Oscar nod. I'd much rather see the visual effects in that flick than have to suffer through STUPORMAN RETURNS ever again! SNAKES was what it was and didn't pretend to be anything more. STUPORMAN aspired to be something great and didn't deliver. The best thing about STUPORMAN was the SPIDERMAN 3 trailer that ran before it! It was all downhill from there.
posted by BMo2xl at 10:11 PM
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I'm still pissed that Scorsese didn't win for GANGS OF NEW YORK! Paul, remember when we went to see it? As the credits rolled we turned to each other and said something along the lines of, "Damn...that was good!" I thought right then that it was going to get the Oscar for best pic and best director.
I saw APOCALYPTO a couple of weeks before it opened and thought it was a great film. Some of the reviews I read seemed to be by reviewers who felt that the had to skewer Gibson instead of dealing with the content ot the film. One review even accused the film of being homophobic and spreading the idea that colonization was a good thing because it saved the Native Americans from themselves. By the end of that review I was wondering if I had fallen asleep and missed something!
This weekend I plan to watch Chan-wook Park's OLDBOY. It's supposed to pretty good. I'll post a review and let you know.
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