OT: Oscar Nominations

Moneyball earns three nominations including "Best Picture."

2011 Oscar winner "The King's Speech" wasn't even nominated this year, so how could it really have been the best picture of 2011?

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I hate the Oscars, yet feel obligated to pay attention

I’ve seen five of the best picture nominees, and three I can’t possibly imagine liking. Hugo, maybe, but Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, and War Horse don’t look view-able to anyone older than 14. Usually there’s one film I want to win, I’m not sure that’s the case this year. I liked Descendants and Tree of Life, I guess.

by 9il on Jan 24, 2012 11:19 AM EST reply actions

I still can't believe Dolphin Tale didn't get nominated

If you didn’t cry, you don’t have a soul. Its a freakin dolphin without a tail people.

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by RoyalsRetro on Jan 24, 2012 11:31 AM EST up reply actions

Ugh. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...

I imagine 14 year old me would get bored faster than current me. Then again, neither of us would have liked the movie. strong plot crescendo > emotional sucker punches throughout

Then again, I thought The Help was vaguely decent—not Oscar quality. I was really entertained when Octavia Spencer won a Golden Globe since the only thing I knew her from was Comedy Central’s “Halfway Home.”

by dejezeus on Jan 24, 2012 3:01 PM EST up reply actions

I was really disappointed in War Horse

and really I didn’t have that high of expectations to begin with.

by Gross(est) on Jan 24, 2012 5:22 PM EST up reply actions

I've only seen two of the Best Picture nominees

Can’t say I was a fan of either movie. “Moneyball” was meh. “Tree of Life” was pretty hard to take. “Drive” wins my Oscar.

by BeauJackson on Jan 24, 2012 11:27 AM EST reply actions

Is cars 2 the first Pixar movie

Not to be nominated for best animated mmovie? Was that this year?

by billexgordler on Jan 24, 2012 12:10 PM EST via mobile reply actions

since that category began, yes

I think the first two Toy Story movies and Bugs Life were made before the animated feature category was created.

by Gopherballs on Jan 24, 2012 12:16 PM EST up reply actions

I quite liked Descendants

but I am not sure it is any sort of all-time classic. Moneyball was well done but I cannot excuse the mistake in casting for Raul Ibanez. I was busy making toast or something when Tree of Life was in theaters, but will probably watch it on cable. I have no real interest in seeing any of the other ones — maybe War Horse just for the technical aspects.

by Gopherballs on Jan 24, 2012 12:12 PM EST reply actions

Every Royal was cast terribly

Raul Ibanez was the worst, but Mike Sweeney was terrible, too. And they needed a bigger douche to play Grimsley.

by dejezeus on Jan 24, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions

I want

Joe Pesci back making movies where he belongs.

by Kansas City Keith on Jan 24, 2012 12:22 PM EST reply actions

Gone Fishin' 2: Electric Eel-a-loo

by Gopherballs on Jan 24, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions

These nominations were fucking awful.

They took such a huge step back this year. Such a sad, regressive pool of nominees. Take Shelter? Absent. Martha Marcy May Marlene? Absent. Beginners should have gotten a Best Picture nomination. I can understand not giving a nomination to Drive, but it was better than nearly all of this horseshit. The only three deserving films that I saw in the Best Picture category were The Tree of Life, The Descendants, and Midnight in Paris. I will see The Artist at some point, but the cacophony of horseshit filling out the rest of the field is offensive.

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by Old Man Duggan on Jan 24, 2012 12:58 PM EST reply actions

I still haven't seen it, but how did "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" not get nominated?

It seems like the kinda of movie Oscar loves – based on a popular book, great acting performance from a breakthrough star, clever autuer director, fairly popular, but not a blockbuster, and by most accounts that I heard, a good movie. Seems like it could have made a top ten list.

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by RoyalsRetro on Jan 24, 2012 1:10 PM EST up reply actions

It was pretty good, I guess.

Certainly better than the Swedish version. It’s still a horribly unbalanced film, with any concern you might have for the protagonist’s salvation having dissipated as his story goes on the back-burner for nearly two hours before they return to it. Perhaps in context with the rest of the trilogy it doesn’t mean as much, but as a stand-alone film this is problematic. Having seen it, I can’t say I’m upset that it wasn’t nominated.

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by Old Man Duggan on Jan 24, 2012 1:23 PM EST up reply actions

it was a little unbalanced, it wound down awkwardly

but it has to be hard when you’re pretty much forced to include all of the information in the film.

I love Three Amigos, so when I saw there were deleted scenes available in the 25th anniversary blu-ray and it was cheap, I bought it. The scenes give you some extra perspective, but cutting them out was (with the exception of a couple 5 second clips) clearly the right move.

by 9il on Jan 24, 2012 5:07 PM EST up reply actions

There's a solution, though,

and it’s to have Lisbeth working on the Wennerstrom Affair just a bit more during the film. The way the book, the Swedish film, and this one approached it is to completely put it off to the side and by the time the Wennerstrom bullshit is wrapped up you’ve gone well past the emotional climax of the book/film.

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by Old Man Duggan on Jan 24, 2012 10:27 PM EST up reply actions

Really? I thought the Swedish version of the first book was great.

The two follow-ups were disappointing to me, though.

by Gross(est) on Jan 24, 2012 5:24 PM EST up reply actions

Turns out David Fincher is not nearly as good as everyone says he is.

by NotAHippie on Jan 24, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions

They don't nominate thrillers and/or action movies very often

and I have a feeling that many see that pook as popular fiction, rather than serious literature, which might be relevant.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 24, 2012 4:27 PM EST up reply actions

I saw beginners two nights ago. It was terrific, and I might be forced to leave my wife for Melanie Laurent. Though Ewan McGregor without an accent took a solid hour to get used to for me.

Let's just trust the process.

by trusttheprocess on Jan 24, 2012 1:54 PM EST up reply actions

I love Melanie Laurent

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by RoyalsRetro on Jan 24, 2012 2:09 PM EST up reply actions

I loved her in Beginners.

She was perfectly adequate in Inglourious Basterds, which was a perfectly adequate film (a step in the right direction for Tarantino after the godawful Death Proof).

I’m quite upset that I didn’t see Beginners in the theater. It was outstanding. Christopher Plummer is a shoe-in for the Oscar. Phenomenal.

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by Old Man Duggan on Jan 24, 2012 2:24 PM EST up reply actions

Never count out Nick Nolte.

by BeauJackson on Jan 24, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions

I loved Warrior.

Don’t think he’s got it over Plummer, who will deserve it anyway but get it on Career Achievement.

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by Old Man Duggan on Jan 24, 2012 10:28 PM EST up reply actions

And his role is perfect Oscar bait

by BeauJackson on Jan 25, 2012 1:26 PM EST up reply actions

You mean Ewan McGregor with an accent

You have to remember that an American accent, to him, is something he has to consciously do. That’s why I find actors who can switch perfect accents on an off very impressive.

by Yodazilla on Jan 25, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions

The Artist deserved it.

by dejezeus on Jan 24, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions

Last minute nomination:

Best Actor, Scott Boras, “The Prince Fielder Contract”

by Sweep_the_Leg on Jan 24, 2012 3:45 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Jonah Hill?

I thought “Moneyball” was ok. I think I’m a little too close to those issues to love the movie as much as many people did (mostly casual bb fans and non-fans, I think). And I’m a Jonah Hill fan. But does anyone think that Hill actually had a particularly good performance in the movie? I think it was fine, but there really wasn’t much to that role. It was kind of a blah role with not much written into it. But that was one of the best supporting acting performance of the year? I don’t see it.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 24, 2012 5:20 PM EST reply actions