2007's Oscar Nominees

who will rep for Juno? anyone?

not me, voted for No Country for Old Men (There Will Be Blood a very close 2nd).

i love juno, maybe i'll vote for it if no one else will

important poll imo
Is "I drink your milkshake!" the new "Dingo ate my baby!" and which one is better?

michael clayton

Clayton, I guess. Something about it doesn't feel like The Best Picture, but it's the best choice here.

twbb or no country for me... i haven't watched michael clayton since but i get the feeling the stuff that grated about it will seem even worse now

i'm pretty sure all these movies would seem worse with repeated viewings

what milo said

i'm pretty sure all these movies would seem worse with repeated viewings

― da croupier, Friday, September 11, 2009 12:31 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm pretty sure everything will eventually suck if u watch it too much

only 1 i've seen more than once was clayton and i dug it

LOL. Unless I'm still asleep, someone hacked Wiki's Best Picture Oscar page with some hilarious results for this decade:

* 2000 Best in Show - DreamWorks & Universal - Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig
* 2001 Heist - Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
* 2002 Signs - Miramax - Martin Richards
* 2003 Anger Management - New Line Cinema - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh
* 2004 Man on Fire - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg
* 2005 The Weather Man - Lions Gate Entertainment - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman
* 2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - Warner Bros. - Graham King
* 2007 Zodiac - Miramax & Paramount Vantage - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
* 2008 Pineapple Express - Fox Searchlight & Warner Bros. - Christian Colson

good year all worth seeing.

people hate this recaps but i like 'em so.

Atonement: one brilliant scene on the beach
Juno: overrated, but mildly amusing
Michael Clayton: starts absolutely awesome, a bit like the Long Hereafter, but didn't really deliver
No Country: suberb first hour, great bad guy etc.
There Will Be Blood: only seen this once, doesn't count right?

voting for No Country

Structurally and even as a genre piece, There Will be Blood has it all over No Country for Old Men which I still despise after a second viewing. Next best is Michael Clayton. The rest Oscar can keep. Wouldn't even know how to rank them. Maybe an eternity in hell will allow me to conclude that No Country for Old Men is indeed better than Juno. Until then, I'll take Southland Tales and Tearoom, my two fave film of 2007.

I used to make it a (very silly) point to watch all five nominees but I guess I won't be doing that this (very silly) year now that the noms are up to ten (groans).

went atonement to fuck shit up.

clayton is ok but tilda swinton is a dick so.

close between NCFOM and TWBB.

Probably NCFOM, with Michael Clayton behind. Ugh.

There Will Be Blood, no contest. still haven't seen Atonement but not sure i could take it

After The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, it's the worst book adaptation released in recent years.

we really have run out of things to poll at this point, huh.

seemingly.

The winner is the winner. I haven't seen Juno or Michael Clayton, but why would I?

Michael Clayton has pretty good writing and a sharp supporting cast. Dat's dat. So, yeah, watch it.

Still haven't seen Michael Clayton. Recently saw Atonement and liked it much more than I expected I would. The costumes were great and I the sex scene in the library was actually pretty hot. The beach scene, as noted above, was fantastic.

Voting for There Will Be Blood though.

I probably will eventually, Juno, no.

xp

I used to make it a (very silly) point to watch all five nominees but I guess I won't be doing that this (very silly) year now that the noms are up to ten (groans).

Yeah, I know we've still got four months left, but they really picked the wrong year (or era) to expand.

Atonement is mostly underwhelming and aimless, but it does nail the final scene. Vanessa Redgrave wuz robbed.

They did used to acknowlege the existence of foreign films now and then in a thin US year... but of course, if that happens, it will be sludge like The Lives of Others or Benigni's Deathcamp.

I've been meaning to check out the Atonement DVD re Ed G's claim that some of the deleted scenes are better than anything in the theatrical cut.

I bet that's true. It seems like the type of movie that wanted to be more interesting but somewhere suits intervened.

well, the twist is such a literary conceit it seemed bound to fail on film.

The Academy's added five more films to the lineup yet won't consider a Best Cameo category (in which case Redgrave in "Atonment" would have been a perfect nominee).

xpost Seemed bound to fail; so nice that it didn't.

wait they're going to have 10 best picture nominees now?

Yep, basically so that people will stop whining about Pixar movies never getting nominated.

I think it's so they can have the ceremony last 6 hours.

what a dumb idea. not doing this for the other categories right?

That and so the new "one of us, one of us" induction ceremony is infinitely more creepy with 10 past winners for 2011.

Are they going to get Jeff Probst to host and eliminate contenders one by one as the show goes on?

oh, I really have mixed feelings about that Grand Council of Krypton shit. I wonder if Adrien Brody will say he googled Jeremy Renner this year.

Yep, basically so that people will stop whining about Pixar movies never getting nominated.

I thought it was because that masterpiece The DORK Knight didn't get a nom.

I think it's so they can have the ceremony last 6 hours.

I think I'm the only person on earth who thinks Oscar telecasts are always too short. They SHOULD be 6 hours long. You think otherwise? Then go watch the Super Bowl.

Groan.

Groan.

That post deserved two.

yes, at least 4 hours, plz.

"You think otherwise? Then go watch the Super Bowl."

Can I watch 3 movies instead?

Yes that's totally acceptable. That's the jon boy option too.

NOTHING is worth watching six hours; that's why my best friend, who can watch a double-header without interruption, is mad.

depends who's playing

Since that six hours will have four hours of commercials it's doubly mad.

not if you're in the park, and since Alfred is in Miami that's easily done.

I never mind long Oscar ceremonies, since I look forward to the event every year. People who complain about the ceremony's length act like they're under some obligation to watch it.

xp I thought we were talking about the Oscars. I've never watched a double-header at the park. I think it would exhaust me.

I don't watch the Oscars, but I am guessing that people just want the Oscars to be ya know better. Or if they are going to suck then at least be shorter. I think that's a legit complaint.

NOTHING is worth watching six hours

So untrue. Shoah and Satantango immediately come to mind and both have a six-hour Oscar telecast beat by 2, 3 hours. I'm sure there are others.

newsflash--no country sucks

But it sucks less than the other four.

I'd rank them:

No Country
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
Juno

^^ agreed.

NCFOM doesn't have a guy screaming about malteds after imitating John Huston for 3 hours, THAT'S true

atonement should have gotten negative votes. NCFOM should have won this tho, even though i liked TWBB. contrarian sons of bitches.

TWBB won because it's so fuckin WEEEEEEIRDD! and almost as BAD/FUN as Tarantino!!!

newsflash--no country sucks

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this breaks my heart

TWBB is so Big and Weird that I understand why anyone might think it's a great movie -- it's a spectacle, you think you've Seen Something. So much of it is just awful, the kind of disaster only a non-hack writer-director can make.

(xpost)

HA!

no country is my third fav movie of the decade after kill bill & the departed

i agree that TWBB was mostly nothing special at all. i think alfred's xpost is otm about being tricked into thinking you are seeing something grand even though it's largely boring

have not seen juno but it can not possibly be worse than atonement (sorry 2 of u)

xpostsss no disrespect to peeps who voted for it, but a vote for TWBB is basically a delayed vote for gangs of new york imo

gangs of new york is the shit

Atonement is your usual prestigious, horribly botched literary adaptation.

newsflash--no country sucks

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this breaks my heart

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:56 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

ha, me too! i love that film

atonement was shitty

michael clayton was good but kind of boring imo

the thing is TWBB isn't even that "weird" ... it had the potential to be Something, but it was riddled with whatshisname's gratuitous quirkiness and blatant attempts to create quotable catchphrases, amongst other problems.

i voted for juno just cos it was funny enough and stuff like NCFOM just bores the shit out of me.

michael clayton was good but kind of boring imo

― mark cl, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i really liked this and i bought it with the intention of watching it again but i haven't been able to muster the motivation

first 20-30 minutes of TWBB was fucken impeccable, all that shit w/ the silver mining & the score and all that

srsly my positive reaction to that movie is 80% admiration for DDL shamelessly chewing the scenery 10% preacher kid and 10% the sparse sparse soundtrack

and it still comes in at second place for me!

man i thought paul dano was fucking embarrassing - ruined it more than anything for me

Loved No Country, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood. Just saw Juno and it wasn't that bad! After reading Atonement, years ago, you couldn't pay me to watch that crap.

just watched No Country again last week--awesome movie

and it's funny i don't see TWBB trying to do catch phrases at all--think it's 100% hilarious he pulled the milkshake line from a Congressional Hearing.

i think paul dano did a decent job of placing the batshit crazy right behind the eyes tho j0rdan

i thought he like... did the over the top too over the top if that is even possible. i mean, i think it's telling that he wasn't actually cast for that part. i really don't think he was right for it.

he was cast for the part tho--he played the preacher kid

i can't imagine anyone else playing that role!

Day-Lewis will play him in the sequel: he'll dye his hair, flatten his nose, and walk on his knees. Third Oscar!

he was actually cast to play DDL's son but the preacher actor quit the film so paul dano took over (afaik)

lemme find a source for that

yeah i think i read about that too--just saying. think how bad the guy he replaced must have been!

man i thought paul dano was fucking embarrassing - ruined it more than anything for me

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

same here -- that and the score was overbearing and seemingly divorced from the tone of the scene for almost the entire movie, one of the worst scores ever imo

gangs of new york is the shit

fixed

newsflash--no country sucks

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this breaks my heart

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:56 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

ha, me too! i love that film

― mark cl, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

hahah i just saw this! sry guys--my taste in movies can be weird and contrary