February 2011
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New "X-Men: First Class" Posters
Boring! Extremely boring I must say
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Directors Who Were Far More Worthy Winners
Last night Tom Hooper won the Oscar for Best Director or as I now call it the “Rich People’s Choice Award For Favourite Director”. No disrespect to Hooper but he didn’t deserve it one bit because nothing was innovative or spectacular about his work in “The King’s Speech”. Here’s a list of directors who were more impressive last year, some who were...
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Oscars: Highs and Lows
Highs:
Christian Bale: the press hate him, his colleagues respect him. You don’t need love in this industry. He delivered a very touching and humble speech and even mde fun of the infamous “Terminator Incident”.
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross winning Best Score for “The Social Network”: the Academy rewarded a modern electronic score over classical music, thought...
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"True Grit" won nothing. And "Alice in Wonderland"...
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“The best way to deal with some of the choices of the Oscars is to substitute the...”
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“I really like The King’s Speech, but giving it prizes for screenplay and...”
– Simon Brew- Den of Geek
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Academy Awards: Results
Here are the results for the last ever Academy Awards Ceremony I’ll watch. My predictions weren’t that terrible, I got 15 out of 24.
THE WINNERS
Best Picture: The King’s Speech Best Director: Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Actor: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, The Fighter Best Supporting Actor:...
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“In a moment, one of these ten movies will join a list that includes On The...”
– STEVEN SPIELBERG, introducing the nominees for the Best Picture Oscar, and reminding us it ain’t such a bad thing to lose. (via inothernews)
The man speaks of what he knows. There is wisdom here.
(via salesonfilm)
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The Best Picture Oscar goes to... the film from...
inspiringly written.: I LOVE this fandom and I... →
charlotte-charles:
I LOVE this fandom and I love this movie and I’ve been stanning it for FIVE MONTHS. That’s why this sucks. That and the fact this, ESPECIALLY director, was a bunch of Weinstein politics. I want to be happy and I’m sorry for being butthurt. I just feel so worthless for having loved this movie so…
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gwenstasty:
Brokeback Mountain didn’t win. The Pianist didn’t win. Saving Private Ryan didn’t win. Pulp Fiction didn’t win. The Graduate didn’t win. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? didn’t win. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof didn’t win. 12 Angry Men didn’t win. A Streetcar Named Desire didn’t win. Citizen Kane didn’t win.
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“Three years after the financial crisis began, not a single financial executive...”
– Charles H. Ferguson
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Four words you probably never thought you'd see...
lalzzjoiedevivre asked: I love your blog the commentary and criticism on movies is fantastic!
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It's "their time" too
Colin Firth is going to win Best Actor on Sunday because he is amazing in “The King’s Speech” and also because everyone feels it’s about time an actor who has delivered solid work for about 2 decades should finally be awarded with acting’s top honor. Same for Annette Bening, although Natalie Portman remains the favorite there are murmurs that she may take top prize...
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Morning Glory
The past few days I’ve been scrambling to watch all the Oscar nominated movies so it was quite refreshing to get that over with and watch a fun comedy. I needed that especially after “Blue Valentine”.
“Morning Glory” is a good film and it makes me wonder what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were thinking when they nominated Angelina Jolie for Best Actress...
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs(Apple founder) just...
miss-pipedream:
greenlantan:
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Looking at it from a different angle
Most “Social Network” haters point out that the reason it shouldn’t win Best Picture on Sunday is that is it isn’t a happy crowd pleaser. Supporters of “The King’s Speech” feel that’s what makes it a superior film. Sorry but that doesn’t make any sense, a good film is a good film. I don’t recall “Midnight Cowboy”, “The...
Watch“Game of Thrones” looks so good. I can’t wait for it to start
kellyoxford:
Whenever you feel inferior to Paltrow or Pitt. Remember they used to be fuck partners with matching hair.
And that was their most stylish moment together. (before jeans cost $200- THE 1900’s!!!)
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Oscar Predictions For All 24 Categories
Okay let’s just get to it and see how I do on that day
Best Picture: The King’s Speech
Actress: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Actor: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Director: David Fincher (The Social Network)
Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Original...
“I went to school with those guys. I know the Winklevoss twins. I partied with...”
– Natalie Portman knows the Winkelvii personally.
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Oscar Predictions for Major Categories
I think the Guilds & BAFTA results have made it pretty clear who’ll come out tops come Oscar night. I’m putting them in 2 categories. Would win: person who the Academy would reward & should win: the person who’s better and more deserving in my opinion.
Best Picture Would Win: The King’s Speech: classy crowd pleasing period drama is a really good film but by no...
Slept On Movies Of 2010
These are in no particular order 10 films I really like but for some reason didn’t do well at the box office or didn’t get that much critical recognition and weren’t nominated for any Oscars. By no means are these my best films of 2010 but they are some pretty good films that you might not have seen or even heard of but should check out
Catfish.
The other Facebook movie last...
“I love that weirdo Jesse Eisenberg. I love the crazy pensive, pucker, squinty...”
– Kathy Griffin
The reason you haven’t felt it is because it...
siaamor:
-Don Draper
Slept On Albums Of 2010
Some records that didn’t achieve much mainstream success and in some cases critical acclaim but deserve to be checked out:
Bud, Sweat and Beers- Devlin
While Tinie Tempah was deservedly the breakout British rapper last year 21 year old rapper Devlin delivered a great album beyond his years commenting on growing up in London, love, general problems and current affairs. His storytelling...
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“The Social Network” has something the exceedingly well-made but ultimately...”
– Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune
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Best Documentary Feature: A "Minor" Category That...
The Academy Award for Best Documentary feature is a category that guarantees quality nominees and winners, in some cases even better than the Best Picture category. This year the two leading contenders are “Inside Job” which is about the global financial crisis and the men who were responsible for it & “Exit Through The Gift Shop” a film by Banksy about the emergence...
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Rooney Mara
I saw The Social Network for the fourth time yesterday and the film just gets better and better. I’ve already accepted that it won’t win Best Picture at the Oscars but it still hurts that the daft shallow members of The Academy would reward The King’s Speech. Anyway enough of that, I wanna talk about the impact and performance of Rooney Mara in the film. Although she featured in...
