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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 7, 2010 5:42:54 GMT -5
By the time you read this, the Oscars have probably already happened. What did you think of the ceremony? Were there any surprises for you? Disappointments?
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Post by mzaragoza on Mar 7, 2010 21:25:06 GMT -5
Inglourious Basterds should have won best screenplay. I call shenanigans.
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 7, 2010 21:31:11 GMT -5
I had my money on "Inglourious Basterds," I have to admit. I was a little surprised that it didn't win.
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Post by Dr Handsome on Mar 7, 2010 23:47:39 GMT -5
Battleship Pretension forums! I promise to post more exclamation points when I'm not posting from my iPod Touch during the final stretch of the Oscars!
I was also kind of expecting Basterds to take home 'original screenplay' but I'm not going to say The Hurt Locker doesn't deserve to be recognized in the category.
Now off to watch the end!
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 8, 2010 4:29:53 GMT -5
The "Basterds" screenplay was just so full of life and vitality. It's Tarantino at his best. There is no better dialogue in a film this year than in that movie. It is such a joy to listen to.
Of course, as mentioned, "The Hurt Locker" has a solid script, but I really don't think it can compare to what Tarantino did, and I am by no means a Tarantino apologist. I didn't like "Death Proof" and didn't really respond to the "Kill Bill" films, but the quality of "Basterds" is virtually undeniable.
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Post by joeviturbo on Mar 8, 2010 14:46:00 GMT -5
I got 13/24 winners right although, to be fair I read a lot of articles about who was going to win so I was well informed.
I like the live performances of the songs from years past and am disappointed that they did away with that part of the show. Particularly since they didn't replace it with anything good and the show still lasted FOREVER.
I also hated the Lead Actor part where they droned on and on about every person who had been nominated. Deserving Academy Awards winners get their acceptance speeches cut off but we gotta spend 5 min. on every person who got nominated in the Lead Actor category.
whew, I feel better now.
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 8, 2010 19:50:57 GMT -5
As I mentioned on the episode, I'm okay with the lengthy intros for the nominees, provided that they stick to WHY the person was nominated, not the TYPE of person they are.
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Post by joeviturbo on Mar 8, 2010 20:55:45 GMT -5
While I agree with you that the intros should focus on why the person was nominated rather than who they are, I gotta say it ground the already glacially slow pace of the Oscars to a halt. When it's already 11:30 on the East Coast that's the last thing they should be doing. It was the first, and only, time I changed the channel the entire night.
Also, whoever put together the Horror montage was clearly misguided. It was as if they didn't bother to actually figure out what horror was. They should have taken the time to actually ask some people what their favorite horror movie was. While I can't remember all of the clips in the montage there were clearly several that didn't qualify as horror. Of the movies that would actually qualify as horror, there were a fair amount that were just plain bad movies
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 8, 2010 21:00:15 GMT -5
Yeah. The Horror montage could have easily been called, "A collection of vaguely weird images from movies of all genres."
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Post by vulpix on Mar 8, 2010 22:04:36 GMT -5
I had my money on "Inglourious Basterds," I have to admit. I was a little surprised that it didn't win. You're not alone on that one. I didn't bet money, but I had entered a couple of "predict the Oscars" contests, and this category was my first wrong prediction. Looking at it now, the Hurt Locker win makes perfect sense, especially after hearing Kathryn Bigelow praise Mark Boal for "risking his life" for the screenplay. |
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 8, 2010 22:10:08 GMT -5
"The Hurt Locker" winning Best Original Screenplay was the first confirmation of my feeling that it was going to get Best Picture. I knew that it was between that and "Avatar," with "Avatar" considered by some to be the favorite. Once "Hurt Locker" won the two Sound awards, I started to think that the Academy had turned on "Avatar" and I was shown to be largely correct.
I guess money can't buy everything.
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Post by Dr Handsome on Mar 8, 2010 23:57:17 GMT -5
I remember reading that Mark Boal spent spent months in Iraq with actual bomb squads and while that alone doesn't make the screenplay award worthy I think it says a lot about what makes it so great. Still, I agree that Inglourious Basterds deserved the award.
My final score was 16 out of 24.
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Post by vulpix on Mar 9, 2010 23:58:59 GMT -5
I remember reading that Mark Boal spent spent months in Iraq with actual bomb squads and while that alone doesn't make the screenplay award worthy I think it says a lot about what makes it so great. Still, I agree that Inglourious Basterds deserved the award. If I had been voting, I probably would have voted for Inglourious Basterds, but both films were certainly worthy of winning the award. My final score was 16 out of 24. Mine was 18 out of 24. I thought I did poorly with that score, but after after reading other people's numbers, it seems I actually did quite well. (The highest I saw was 20/24.) Who knows--maybe I'll win something next year. |
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 10, 2010 5:26:06 GMT -5
I got 15 out of 24, thanks to being wrong on every single short category, both screenplay categories, the two sound categories, and costume design.
I've done much better in previous years.
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Post by Dr Handsome on Mar 10, 2010 14:00:57 GMT -5
Strangely enough the screenplay and sound categories were my two weaknesses as well. I expected the academy to make some creative screenplay choices (Up in the Air and Inglourious Basterds) and some not so creative sound choices (Avatar and... Avatar). Turns out I was wrong on both counts.
The short film and foreign film categories were pure guess work for me and I didn't get a single one right.
Question: should I just give in and teach my spell check to recognize the misspellings of "Inglorious" and "Bastards"?
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Post by Tyler Smith on Mar 10, 2010 14:15:35 GMT -5
Odd that you would bring such a question up. A couple of days ago, a friend was showing me a list of movies he loves and had written "Inglorious Bastards." I mentioned that he spelled it wrong then got mad at myself for chastising somebody for doing something the way it SHOULD be done. Damn you, Tarantino. Why can't anything be easy with you?
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Post by Dr Handsome on Mar 10, 2010 14:38:19 GMT -5
Ha! Suddenly the correct spellings look weird. I guess I don't really type inglorious or bastards all that much apart from this movie.
I challenge everyone to use the word "inglorious" in an actual non-movie related context sometime throughout the week.
Also: I like to imagine there's someone out there who gets legitimately angry when people don't spell Airplane! without the exclamation point.
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Post by bouncingbrick on Mar 10, 2010 19:15:05 GMT -5
I remember reading that Mark Boal spent spent months in Iraq with actual bomb squads and while that alone doesn't make the screenplay award worthy I think it says a lot about what makes it so great. Still, I agree that Inglourious Basterds deserved the award. . The weird thing about this is there are military members saying it's not an acurate potrayal of the military experience over there. I assume they are picking and choosing what parts they think aren't accurate. I can see them not liking the negative aspects to Jeremy Renner's character, but I can't see that the film is that far off the mark. I served in the military during peace years (thanks, Clinton!) and I did a job that wasn't at all dangerous, but I knew people like all three of the main characters, though none as addicted to adrenaline the way Renner was. Well, they didn't diffuse bombs to get their fix, they just did it with hookers in Thailand...  |
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Post by Dr Handsome on Mar 11, 2010 12:07:54 GMT -5
I'm not sure if you were all using the official printable ballot that has the categories set up in a grid. I got double bingo on column one and row three. If I were watching the awards with a different set of people I would have probably shouted out "that's a bingo!"
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Post by stephsmith on Mar 18, 2010 9:52:44 GMT -5
This year I was ok with the winners. I guess I don't put much stock into the Oscars anymore. But as far as the ceremony goes, it was atrocious. The cast of Precious was sitting in the dark like it was 1956. The hosts were not funny. As much as I love Neil Patrick Harris, he was an obvious last minute addition. The dancing! I'm the biggest So You Think You Can Dance fan on the planet but that didn't work at all. Adam Shankman should not produce shows. If it weren't for Twitter, I wouldn't have been able to watch at all.
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