2012 Oscars

[Moniker]

Nominations are out. Haven't seen many of the Best Picture candidates.

"The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
"The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
"The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
"Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
"Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
"Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
"The Tree of Life" Nominees to be determined
"War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Saw "Midnight in Paris" and "Moneyball," neither of which really deserves nomination, let alone a win. I like Woody Allen and his movie, but it's nothing really amazing.

Any of these particularly worth seeing?

[Skykid]

Fuck the Oscars, it's just a racket where they give Clint Eastwood pats on the back for making subpar melodrama.

[Moniker]

Fuck the Oscars, it's just a racket where they give Clint Eastwood pats on the back for making subpar melodrama.

C'mon, you can do better than that. Tear apart some nominees or something.

[Skykid]

Fuck the Oscars, it's just a racket where they give Clint Eastwood pats on the back for making subpar melodrama.

C'mon, you can do better than that. Tear apart some nominees or something.

Who's up?

[CMoon]

Can't the Oscars take a pass this year?

[Skykid]

Can't the Oscars take a pass this year?

Overacting overrated Meryl Streep says no.

[CMoon]

I mean, seriously, 2011 might be the worst year for movies in my lifetime. Maybe they can nominate movies from other years?

[Skykid]

I mean, seriously, 2011 might be the worst year for movies in my lifetime. Maybe they can nominate movies from other years?

Maybe they should start including real films in the runnings, but den eberyone wud haf 2 reed subtytles.

[GaijinPunch]

Everyone is raving about The Descendants, but my 2 years in Hawaii is 2 years I want to erase from my life... and I'm from Texas for fucks sake!

[Jon]

I haven't seen it, but Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close looks like an overwrought, manipulative piece of shit.

[Acid King]

On the plus side, Bret McKenzie got a nomination for "Man or Muppet".

[DEL]

Moniker wrote;

"The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
"The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
"The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
"Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
"Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
"Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
"The Tree of Life" Nominees to be determined
"War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Must indeed be an extremely poor year, because I haven't even heard of the first four.

There was a guy on the Movies thread who made a good point, saying that movies have slipped so far in quality that even mediocre releases get rave reviews.
We should take Skykid's lead and read dem subtitled movies

[Moniker]

Well damn. The only movies I've liked this year were Drive and to a lesser extent Tinker Tailor and Midnight in Paris. Was hoping I just missed out on some gems. Guess not. Suppose I'll check out The Descendants and Hugo just for shits. Clooney makes a decent movie every once in a while.

[RGC]

Drive and Limitless were my favourites for 2011. They were...pretty good. Oh, and Melancholia (but only because I had a dream like that as a kid, which stuck with me, and which I would have loved to make into a movie myself, if only I had any money, talent, or err..interest).

[PC Engine Fan X!]

It's always cool to see whom will be walking down the red carpet on Oscar night. Not to mention some expensive swag bags after the Oscars show to be given out to important guests/artists in the film industry. It's a given alrighty.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Herr Schatten]

I went to see The Descendants yesterday. It was quite alright, but certainly not a movie I will remember in ten years from now or, in fact, will likely re-watch ever. I also liked Midnight in Paris, even though it's far from Allen's best work and thus has no real business near any award nomination. I haven't seen any of the other nominees. I must say, though, that the Muppet movie trumps both The Descendants and Midnight in Paris in any imaginable way, including believability of the characters, even though it too is a far cry from the fantastic madness of the show it's based on.

Untouchable is actually the only movie I've seen in 2011 that would really deserve a nomination for an academy award as best movie, but since it's a french film we'll probably have to wait for the watered-down US remake for that to happen.

Well, the Academy Awards have lost all credibilty in 2003/2004 anyway, when both Bill Murray (for Lost in Translation) and Johnny Depp (for Pirates of the Caribbean) were nominated for best actor and neither of them won.

[Skykid]

Well, the Academy Awards have lost all credibilty in 2003/2004 anyway, when both Bill Murray (for Lost in Translation) and Johnny Depp (for Pirates of the Caribbean) were nominated for best actor and neither of them won.

Agreed, I turned my back on it at that exact point, Murray vs. Penn. Scandalous. Another triumph for the Eastwood melodrama camp. Mystic River was all kinds of baloney too.

Depp was the best thing about POTC, but I can only imagine he didn't get the oscar because it would be a blight on his resume. He does so many good films, if they give him an Oscar for the one that's totally wank it would be kind of unfair.

[moozooh]

I saw The Tree of Life, and was, one one hand, pleasantly surprised by vivid, realistic representation of childhood memories, and at the same time stupefied by how pretentious it was at the same time. The 20 minute CGI scene in the middle of the movie—what was that for?!

[evil_ash_xero]

I have no idea why, when film quality is on the decline, they want to have MORE nominees. It's kind of silly. "Look at all our shit! This is the best we got, folks!". At least with fewer nominees, they can give the impression that Hollywood makes better stuff.