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Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong

Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong

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Mr Roxy
#1Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 8:33pm

It appears this years crop of Best Picture nominees is, compared to other years. quite a weak one

Anyone else agree or who disagrees


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Raviolisun
#2re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 8:43pm

I wouldn't say they're weak, they're just kind of all on the same level.


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best12bars
#2re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 8:45pm

I agree, they're weak.

Everything has qualifiers.

"It's good, BUT..."


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StageManager2
#3re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 8:55pm

Now that DREAMGIRLS is out of the race, there really isn't a favorite frontrunner.

MY TWO CENTS:
I've only seen two of the five nominated films(THE QUEEN and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE), thus I'm not really qualified to offer my opinion here. That said, I didn't care for THE QUEEN, so that should tell you how I feel about its nomination. However, I enjoyed LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, but it's hardly Best Picture material, in my humble opinion.


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neddyfrank2
#4re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 9:10pm

I would say they are pretty Weak. I think that if these films came out in past years there would be a chance they would not get a nomination for Best Picture.

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TheHumanTorch
#5re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 9:31pm

i've only seen The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine... I thought The Departed was fantastic, but Little Miss Sunshine wasn't all that... so i guess the whole crop is kind of middling but i wouldn't know

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jrb_actor
#6re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 9:37pm

I think it's weak. I don't even have a favorite.


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Mr Roxy
#7re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:23pm

So far only saw The Queen,The Departed & Sunshine

Of the 3, I like The Departed best. I am still trying to get over the fact that Sunshine was nominated. It was Fluff & predictable Fluff @ that

I hope to see the other 2 before the awards


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broadway86
#8re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:34pm

It's a solid line-up. All are four-star movies in my book.

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Mr Roxy
#9re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:35pm

The best thing about Sunshine was the little girl

Arkin was playing himself & cannot believe he was nominated


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FindingNamo
#10re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:38pm

"It was Fluff & predictable Fluff @ that"

Huh!


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munkustrap178
#11re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:38pm

I think it's a good lineup, but they're all films that have a "but."

E.g., "Yes, I loved it. I thought it was brilliant, but..."

That's all of them. Last year, other than CRASH, I can't really say that I felt that way about any of them.

I don't think that any of the films are WEAK, but I do think that this was a rather weak year for film.

I don't have a favorite of the 5 films either. At this point, I don't know which one I would even vote for.

THE DEPARTED is entertaining, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is fun, you respect THE QUEEN and IWO JIMA and admire BABEL. But is there any film you want to wrap your arms around and watch again and again?

Not really...and if there were...if would probably be LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE by a hair. That's why I think SUNSHINE will win the Oscar.


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StageManager2
#12re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:40pm

*to Namo*
HE SAID IT WAS FLUFF AND PREDICTABLE STUFF, AT THAT!!!


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Mr Roxy
#13re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:48pm


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iHeartMyGeek
#14re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:49pm

Thanks so much, Mr. Roxy. Hadn't seen the movie yet, and I was really looking forward to it


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munkustrap178
#15re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:50pm

*spoiler*

I had a hunch that he would die, but I didn't think they would take the body.

I saw it when it first came out, so I hadn't heard any chatter about it, so maybe that's it.

But I didn't find it predictable at all. I thought the ending was perfect and surprising.


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Updated On: 1/24/07 at 10:50 PM

FindingNamo
#16re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:51pm

Oh, so you found TWO of the myriad elements of the movie predictable. Fine. I'd be happy to put a list of things there's no way in hell you knew were going to happen but I am constitutionally incapable of putting spoilers up.

I wish all "fluff" had that much heart.


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iHeartMyGeek
#17re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:51pm

Honestly, do you think we could use some spoiler warnings? I've been waiting to see this movie for months and you guys just ruined it for me.


"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

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Rathnait62
#18re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:53pm

Good God, Roxy. Nice job - those of us who haven't seen Sunshine yet thank you so very much.


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Mr Roxy
#19re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:56pm

Sorry I apologize profusely
I have edited it out


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StickToPriest
#20re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:56pm

There are actually people on the planet who haven't seen LMS yet??

Who knew?


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FindingNamo
#21re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:56pm

That's what I was trying to say. There's an enormous list of things that happen in that movie that are ten times more clever than Mr. Roxy, but I wasn't going to list em.


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wonderwaiter
#22re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 11:05pm

There are actually people on the planet who haven't seen LMS yet??

Who knew?


I actually only saw LMS this past Monday, and that was only through the grace of the Columbus Film Society. I missed it in its original run, but I had heard through this board that it was a movie that really benefited from being seen with an audience so I put off renting it as well. After having seen it, I wholeheartedly agree and I would love to see it again and again, but I don't know that I would get as much out of it seeing it alone. After months of avoiding LMS threads, I'm just glad I got to see it before opening this one.


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FindingNamo
#23re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 11:31pm

I was the one who argued strongly for seeing it in a crowded audience to share in the communal delight and connection a roomful of mostly strangers can share through laughter. At their best, that is what the cinematic experience can offer us, although it's only rarely nowadays since the country has been convinced to construct "home theaters" in its living rooms.

Because LMS struck me as the best of what movieGOING can be, there's no way I can consider any list of a specific year's good films that includes it to be "weak."

I too was glad I saw it when I did, since even the second round of commercials from later in the run gave away things I didn't know were going to happen and I was surprised by in the theater.


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#24re: Best Pictor Nominees - Weak Or Strong
Posted: 1/24/07 at 11:41pm

What was even better about the experience was the people I saw it with! I'm sure it would have been great if I'd seen it in the theater originally with a group of strangers, but by seeing it with the Film Society I got to see the movie with an established group of people who were aware of viewing etiquette but were familiar enough with each other to let their guard down and fully enjoy the movie. Moments I might have missed otherwise were brought out in that environment, and I'm grateful for it.


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