Sad year for film
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- kezza_20
I dunno, Slum Dog was great, Nixon was better on the stage, but the films pretty decent.
I thought Waltz with Bashir was the best film this year, and In Bruges was good too, but they are all in there somewhere
- linearch0
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- jfletcher0
I guess Slumdog was supposed to be good... it just looks boring to me.
- Have you seen it? Not boring at all .. I thought.Ramanisky2
- Gucci0
How about best line... can we give that award away?
'cause in Button, there's a part at the beginning when the blind dude says "I hope you enjoy my cock".I nearly pissed myself. The movie was pretty much ruined for me after that.
- Ramanisky20
I thought Rock-n-Rolla was incredibly entertaining but sadly no Oscar nods.. :(
- BWAHHAHAHAHHAHah..ha...
he he...ahem. You're joking right?Wolfboy
- BWAHHAHAHAHHAHah..ha...
- NotByHand0
"Milk" was the only one on the list I saw, and I found it decently entertaining.
But then again, I also shed a tear watching "Maid In New York", so I'm probably not the most qualified to share my opinion in this thread.
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(I've never handed out dutch milkshakes to skanky script supervisors or craft services chicks either, so I may have been disqualified right from the start).
- ukit0
Maybe we should focus on this instead:
- BRNK0
Milk wasn't mind blowing, but the best offering this year by far. I can not believe Button got nominated for so much... that film is a "meh" film through and through. How can Pitt get the nod when his fucking New Orleans accent wavers in and out the whole time?
I'm glad all of Doubt's main actors got nods, it was the best acted film of the year. Also, Synedoche NY needed to get a nod for writing, wtf?
- kgvs720
I thought Benjamin Butts was good.
- tank020
Dark Knight could be in best film.
Its a arrogant smugness of high brow film lover that looks down on the action film genre. But in a lot of ways Dark Knight is much stronger than all those 'introvert character studies'.
- ukit0
slumdog was good. i thought.
- erikjonsson0
the dark night was crap
- uberdesigner0
I've been seeing movies on cable that I thought were made in 08 but turned out to be 07. I'm that out of touch.
- skt0
for someone that didn't care about his shoot, it's odd that i wasn't allowed to crop, adjust, colour, or in any way tamper with any of the unit photography. my impression was that fincher invested a lot of himself in that film and the end result, visually at least, was exactly what he was looking to acheive.
but again, i'm not a film maker, so probably don't understand.
- pr2-2
quamb, don't be naive, no one starts a project thinking i'm not feeling it, or i'm not inspired, or i'm not understanding the material. You always come in with 110% of energy but at some point you have to step back and face the reality and be "oh, fuck me, i screwed up." That shit doesn't happen way into production, or even post-production. ...Or ever as is the case with the recent Star Wars films.
- I'm not being naive... And yes, I've been in the same situation before. Though just don't see it with Button.quamb
- quamb0
sounds like another disgruntled bitter filmmaker to me.
maybe a sub-par year for a-list films, though none on that list "sucked"
also, you can read up on why Fincher did what he did - he wasn't any less passionate.
- Milan0
are there any movies you liked in the last 20 years?
- Horp0
"I get what you are saying ... but I feel like you are being waaaaaaaay to picky"
I think its the perogative of someone who works in the field to be picky. Its about standards. It doesn't mean it should impinge on a layman's opinions, but really, a professional who is not picky might as well quit.
- That said though, I haven't even read the thread much less watched any of the films you are probably discussing.Horp
- Jaline0
I hope anyone saying "they all suck" (not you specifically, sputnik) has actually watched the films.