2007's Oscar Nominees

morbs are you a sexual sadist?

Let's smoke out the Juno voters and force them to watch Atonement.

Juno voters and Atonement voters should be forced to watch better movies.

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