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Post by kidglov3s on Jan 15, 2015 16:56:08 GMT -5
How do you win for film editing? NOT screw up a cut scene? Editing is as much an art as anything else. There are like a billion decisions that must be made with editing, especially with modern day digital editing. |
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jan 15, 2015 17:02:40 GMT -5
The lego movie, talk about flubs and snubs am I right? Maybe its just me but for me I find it to be the major flub and snub of the season, you know?
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jan 15, 2015 18:32:52 GMT -5
The lego movie, talk about flubs and snubs am I right? Maybe its just me but for me I find it to be the major flub and snub of the season, you know? Is it time for another episode of "I Love Films"? |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 15, 2015 18:57:33 GMT -5
How do you win for film editing? NOT screw up a cut scene? A good editor can take a good movie and make it great. A great editor can take that same good movie and make it a masterpiece. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 19:14:14 GMT -5
If Guardians win anything I want them to do their usual speech and at the end Big Dave takes the mic and says "Deal with it!".
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Jan 15, 2015 19:36:34 GMT -5
While I think Brokeback was the better movie, I would happily sit down and watch either that or Crash again if you put them in front of me. They were both entertaining.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jan 15, 2015 19:40:03 GMT -5
Denise Richards was a Bond girl. She also won an Oscar. Several actually. More than Meryl Streep. Can we count Kim Basinger as a Bond girl? |
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Post by Crimson on Jan 15, 2015 20:28:15 GMT -5
I really hope it's not some small BS rule that prevented The Lego Movie getting that Best Animated nomination. BS rules have prevented great films and roles from getting noms. For Best Animated there's apparently a policy where "75% of the film must be animated." Considering the big twist of the third act, I'm guessing it was snubbed on a technicality. Similarly, the Academy Awards refuses to nominate Motion Capture movies, which is why Adventures of Tintin got zero recognition the year it came out. I'm rooting for Birdman. If even Keaton could win, I'd be fine with the other results. I predict Selma to win. The fact that Selma got shut out in every other important category (Leading Actor, Director, Screenplay) leads me to believe that it's Best Picture nod was just a token gesture. I'm pretty sure Boyhood is taking it for both Best Picture and Director, and Keaton is going to win for Acting. |
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Post by lemonyellowson on Jan 15, 2015 20:46:09 GMT -5
ha, my mate produced boogaloo and graham (one of the short film live action ones) near shit myself when it got announced today - made up for him.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Jan 15, 2015 20:51:42 GMT -5
I really hope it's not some small BS rule that prevented The Lego Movie getting that Best Animated nomination. BS rules have prevented great films and roles from getting noms. For Best Animated there's apparently a policy where "75% of the film must be animated." Considering the big twist of the third act, I'm guessing it was snubbed on a technicality. Similarly, the Academy Awards refuses to nominate Motion Capture movies, which is why Adventures of Tintin got zero recognition the year it came out. I'm rooting for Birdman. If even Keaton could win, I'd be fine with the other results. I predict Selma to win. The fact that Selma got shut out in every other important category (Leading Actor, Director, Screenplay) leads me to believe that it's Best Picture nod was just a token gesture. I'm pretty sure Boyhood is taking it for both Best Picture and Director, and Keaton is going to win for Acting. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Blindside and A Serious Man also got into BP with only 1 other nomination but no one seems to be saying those films got in as just a token gesture. |
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Jan 15, 2015 22:47:36 GMT -5
I've seen every feature-length film on the list except Song of the Sea, The Boxtrolls, Inherent Vice (seeing it this weekend), Two Days/One Night (which was number two in the cue before noms came out), Unbroken (which, frankly, outside of Roger Deakins amazing camerawork, looks like complete and utter shult in all other regards), and two of the Foreign Film nominees.
And for me, it's a freaking "finnnnnnalllly" sort of year where the Academy is recognizing some merit instead of films with big check-signers who do nothing to progress the film medium in lieu of getting the
reaction out of people who they NEED to tune in.
So, that being said, it's safe to say I disagree with 90 percent of what I've read thus far in the thread.
Noteworthy and disappointing to me in the list was not seeing Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler, not getting Force Majeure in the Best Foreign Film category (since it was one of the Top Ten films of the year, or if not, definitely worthy of consideration for that honor), and not getting Birdman in Best Editing. Perhaps that last mention perturbed me the most. Apparently, the editors on the committee must think that film really was all one shot. Ahem, the fact that it WASNT is the brilliance of the editing. Boyhood and Birdman are two of the best edited films of the decade, and for Birdman to be missing ... that's hard for me to believe.
Overall though, I'm relieved by a lot more on the nomination list than I am angry. So, thanks Academy, for not folding simply to films that the average American has seen, and instead challenging us like so many films do each year that no one ever takes the initiative to see. Probably the most interesting set of nominees (indie-wise) since the year of The English Patient's win.
I care about the Cinematography award a great deal, and it's consistently one that has good nominees, and I was NOT disappointed a bit with who they selected this year. Shout out to Ida who was my "little engine that could" in terms of cinematography this year.
So darn relieved to see crap like Into the Woods and Foxcatcher missing Best Picture noms. I clenched my teeth through both, just knowing they are the types of films the Academy drools over so they can "educate" average America and show they "discovered" a great performance. On that note, Carrell made it (which I figured) but he and his makeup nomination are this year's Nicole Kidman Virginia Woolf in The Hours. *Blech.
EDIT: I don't want to sound too brash in those observations. It's just pent up stuff that I finally get to gush about in a year of movies that please me. And five pages prior to try to respond to in one fell swoop.
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 15, 2015 23:01:23 GMT -5
Into the Woods is a better movie than either of the bullshit cookie cutter British biopics. At least it told the story it meant to tell, as opposed to a watered down version that didn't capture the essence at all.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Jan 15, 2015 23:05:38 GMT -5
Into the Woods is a better movie than either of the bullshit cookie cutter British biopics. At least it told the story it meant to tell, as opposed to a watered down version that didn't capture the essence at all. I called Theory of Everything and Imitation Game as the probable Oscar frontrunners when I saw them earlier this year. For that very reason. It's the Oscar formula that paid-off critics and General audiences swoon over. I'm relieved that it doesn't seem as if either will win top prize. (Admired things about both, don't get me wrong, but yeah, such bait.) EDIT: I was betting on Imitation Game to Win, Boyhood to Place, and Foxcatcher to Show when I first saw them. So so so freaking relieved we don't have to go through the same ol Oscar cycle of predictability this year. |
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jan 15, 2015 23:13:19 GMT -5
I am glad Foxcatcher didn't get nominated. I am fine with The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game getting nominated. They were really good. I don't think Into the Woods should have been nominated. I enjoyed it, particularly the first act or so of the story. However, I think it loses its way a bit around the end of act 2. I just don't think it was worthy of being nominated for Best Picture. The film I would have most liked to have seen nominated is Gone Girl. It was so well made with great performances. I much prefer it to the British biopics. I assume some of the voters didn't think it had the same 'prestige' as the other nominees. It's sort of a popcorn thriller. They might see it as somewhat trashy or like a glorified Lifetime movie. I may be wrong.
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 15, 2015 23:17:04 GMT -5
Why exactly are you two hating on Foxcatcher so hard? I'm seeing it tomorrow, and I find it really hard to fathom that it's worse than the less truthful/interesting book in the Hawkings saga.
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Post by Crimson on Jan 15, 2015 23:17:58 GMT -5
For Best Animated there's apparently a policy where "75% of the film must be animated." Considering the big twist of the third act, I'm guessing it was snubbed on a technicality. Similarly, the Academy Awards refuses to nominate Motion Capture movies, which is why Adventures of Tintin got zero recognition the year it came out. The fact that Selma got shut out in every other important category (Leading Actor, Director, Screenplay) leads me to believe that it's Best Picture nod was just a token gesture. I'm pretty sure Boyhood is taking it for both Best Picture and Director, and Keaton is going to win for Acting. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Blindside and A Serious Man also got into BP with only 1 other nomination but no one seems to be saying those films got in as just a token gesture. The Blindside was absolutely a token gesture and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was undeserving. When I say Token Gesture I'm not saying it doesn't deserve to win. I'm saying Selma's chances of winning are slim to none. |
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Jan 15, 2015 23:20:45 GMT -5
I am glad Foxcatcher didn't get nominated. I am fine with The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game getting nominated. They were really good. I don't think Into the Woods should have been nominated. I enjoyed it, particularly the first act or so of the story. However, I think it loses its way a bit around the end of act 2. I just don't think it was worthy of being nominated for Best Picture. The film I would have most liked to have seen nominated is Gone Girl. It was so well made with great performances. I much prefer it to the British biopics. I assume some of the voters didn't think it had the same 'prestige' as the other nominees. It's sort of a popcorn thriller. They might see it as somewhat trashy or like a glorified Lifetime movie. I may be wrong. *raises a glass to this* ------------------------------------------------------------------ Why exactly are you two hating on Foxcatcher so hard? I'm seeing it tomorrow, and I find it really hard to fathom that it's worse than the less truthful/interesting book in the Hawkings saga. Well, Mark Ruffalo was awesome. That was the performance I was raving about from that movie. That was acting. Not impersonating/sketch acting. (Oh haiii, Jamie Foxx, et al.) |
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 15, 2015 23:25:04 GMT -5
Mark Ruffalo being great comes with the territory. But man, Carell seems to be extremely love/hate in Foxcatcher.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 23:36:16 GMT -5
I found the movie to be great. I hated the awkward time jump and some weird ass wrong time goofs like watching UFC/MMA in 1988 and Channing Tatum having spikey frosted mid late 90's hair in the 80's. Honestly I found Channing Tatum actually stole the show in the movie. Also the scene you may saw in the trailer where Tatum bashes his head in the mirror, that was improvised and an actual real mirror.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jan 15, 2015 23:38:55 GMT -5
I found the movie to be great. I hated the awkward time jump and some weird ass wrong time goofs like watching UFC/MMA in 1988 and Channing Tatum having spikey frosted mid late 90's hair in the 80's. Honestly I found Channing Tatum actually stole the show in the movie. Also the scene you may saw in the trailer where Tatum bashes his head in the mirror, that was improvised and an actual real mirror. Yes! The detail freak in me was bothered by that. I was thinking, "There was nothing like UFC that they could have watched on American TV in 1988!" And later they don't really spell out how much time has passed from the 1988 Olympics when they transition to the big event at the end of the movie. I was familiar with the real story, so I knew it was around 1996, but unless I missed it, they make it seem like it happens right after they come home from the 1988 Olympics. |
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