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Inception, The Social Network, TS3 Get Oscar Noms
Among the Best Picture nominations this year are Inception, The Social Network and Toy Story 3. In addition to TS3, the Animation category has How to Train Your Dragon and The Illusionist. Also getting a nod in documentary was Exit Through the Gift Shop, which is worth your time if you are into that sort of thing. You'll have to wait a month to find out who the winners are... and to find out what the stars will wear on the red carpet. Or to play the Oscar speech drinking game.
the King's Speech. I think most people here will relate to it.
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Not that the other contenders weren't good, but Inception really was quite the unique story with a very interesting twist. It was the talk of the town for the first 4 months+ of 2010.
I'm not a big DeCaprio fan at all, but his role was well done along with the others within the movie.
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If it's as political as last year it'll be The Social Network that gets it. Think about it. American Dream, baby! What better way to appease the masses than by reminding them that they shouldn't mind all the injustice and hardship because they too can be the next winner of the American Lotte^H^H^H^H^HDream.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I haven't been very interested in most of the Oscar films in years. Every now and then I'll see a movie that really impresses me, but they almost never get Oscar nom's (occasionally they'll get Independent Spirit nominations). But some of my favorite movies/TV shows of the last decade never got any attention at all from any of these awards shows. Session 9 was the best horror film of the decade and never got any attention from any award show. Did Firefly or Battlestar Galactica ever win an Emmy? Nope.
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As a fan of animation and kid's movies, I think How to Train Your Dragon was hugely underrated. It is one of those movies that even a 2 year old can sit through and comprehend, which is a rarity for a full-length movie. But the subtlety of the characters is great and the emotions were well acted and realistic. The main character also appeals to the inner geek. There is certainly nothing mind-blowing in it, and the CG is average. But if you like this style of movie and have never seen it I highly recommend it.
Tron was not awesome. It was visually appealing for a daft punk music video.
If ther eis only one post, and it was closed, how was the pager paged?
WHy was the son of the previos movie bad guy specifically pointed out, and then ignored?
What was with all the 'big luboski' talk?
When talking about his zen bullshit his son should have called him out for what it was "Fear to make a decsion".
And what was with Tron?
And why talk about the special light cycle and then do NOTHING with it?
And did they even bother to consulting any computer scientists??
A drunken hobo? WTF? At least they could have made it a 'Zombie' process.
I can overlook a lot of things in TRON. It's a custom computer, with a custom OS. But within that context, it was still week.
But there where so many more things they could have done. When in the plane, Flynn should have been fixing it on the fly. That would have been cool.
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Maybe not as nerd (I hear you live with one), but looking at the Best Picture nominees:
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right ”
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”
A moving story about the British Monarchy, a dark-art psychological thriller, the only movie ever to try to portray a gay family as normal, an animated children's film, a dude who cuts his arm off... and that's only half of them. That's plenty of variety - far better than last year, of which half relied in part on something as pedestrian a topic as guns.
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... to find out the winners.
But only a week for the screeners to hit Usenet!!! Yay!!!
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I saw this recently and was astounded by 2 things: 1) How a weird guy (Thiery) could convince a bunch of people to basically give him a boatload of money for questionable "art" - he seemed to out-Warhol Warhol! and 2) Seeing Banksy hanging his work in the Tate and nobody realizing that they had an extra image or two on their walls!
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But I heavily doubt that anyone could state TS3 worthy of an Oscar were it not for the drought of good "mainstream" cinema. The rest of the nominees are mostly above average, I'd say, but in no way is TS3 deserving of an Oscar. This is, though, an undeniable step up from last year's glut of cheap action movies and thrillers.
For any North-American recipients, drink a shot when they do NOT rattle off a whole list of names they want to "thank"
For any European recipient, drink a shot when they do NOT have some witty story/interesting anecdote to tell
Wow, I haven't even heard of half of those films.
I sometimes think I'm the only person on earth who hasn't seen Inception. However, I also feel like there is absolutely no reason to see it. I've heard enough comments that I can probably recite the plot and be 80% accurate just from my fifth hand osmosis.
For a brief second, I thought that TeamSpeak3 got an oscar Nomination. :P
I was (not so) shocked to see ventrilo was left out of the running.
Key word is "try". Having to wait until 18 to find your sperm-donor dad is not a good thing, no matter the reason. Neither is infidelity, even when it's apparently a PURELY IMPOSSIBLE affair by a "lesbian" with said sperm donor. I guess this is why it's Hollywood.
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How is this news for Geeks? I don't get it.
The movie was good, but John Powell's score to How to Train Your Dragon was phenomenal. Almost year later and it still gives me goosebumps to hear it. I don't expect it to win Best Score (Inception and The Social Network are just too popular), but it certainly deserves it.
Sitting around and giving answers to minor questions isn't entertaining. Half of my friends complained there was too much plot and not enough action, and the other half complained it was mindless action with not enough plot. Trying to strike a good balance is always tricky.
They didn't explain how the pager was reached. We're assuming the computer powering the grid had ZERO connection to any other computer, phone line or data line. Yet this is the most important project in Flynn's life. You're saying he didn't replicate data or do backups somehwere? There was probably one connection to the outside world that they weren't aware of most of the time. And it took them ages to find that connection, or figure out how to do anything with it. We're talking about an ancient computer on a custom OS interacting with the rest of the world. This is a minute detail. Does this destroy the viewing experience of the movie?
Why was the son pointed out? Because they're planning sequels.
What was the Big Lebowski talk? What specifically are you talking about? Are you asking why Flynn was a bit of a hippy, then you missed the overall message of the movie.
The first movie was akin to Star Wars, rebels fighting against this evil empire of sorts. That wasn't the case here. This was Flynn struggling to come to terms with his own creation, and why the pursuit of perfection isn't always a good idea. Obsession with the big picture means losing sight of everything else.
Flynn was afraid to do anything initially, and really he was right. He could accept that he and his son was trapped, or he could risk releasing an army on the real world. In the big picture, not taking that risk is the way to go. But it makes for a boring movie, so we have the brash son to push the story along.
The fact that it was a special lightcycle is the reason that people identified Flynn Jr.
As for consulting any computer scientists, the movie is consistent with its own universe. Programs in the grid have personalities, despite being programs. They represent the people who programmed them. Tron is a representative of Alan for instance. This isn't realistic, but reality is boring.
Who says the drunken hobo wasn't a zombie process? He lost his parent thread (job) and is unemployed, siphoning away resources while sitting there and doing nothing.
Who says the nightclub wasn't a repreesntation of Flynn's playlist?
If Flynn can fix anything immediately, then he is God. He is never in danger and there is no dramatic tension. They establish when he fixes Qora, that it is difficult for him to do so, and that it takes time.
Learn how to spell Lebowski and weak, then come back with your next round of pointless criticisms that have little to nothing to do with whether or not the film was entertaining or meaningful.
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I honestly don't understand the hype surrounding The Social Network. It's an OK movie at best. Not bad, but nothing memorable either. Inception should beat it in every category, yet everybody is talking about TSN. WTF?
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>> There were some big ones that were awesome (Tron, Inception)
Really? Inception was still okay (not the story, the special effects). But Tron??? Awesome???
Hey even 127 hours got 6 nominations i guess...
Yes, both as a continuation of the first film and as a film by itself. It was really entertaining, it did a good job of putting the audience in the character's heads, it maintained consistency with the real-world representation in the computer world, and naturally it looked awesome. Basically, it was good for the same reasons the first one was good.
People seem to forget how slow-paced and badly-written/acted the original was.
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Is a Serbian Film up for best picture ?
If you watched the movie, you might have noticed in the snow scenes, there's a vehicle that has 4 triangular tank tread kinda things, instead of normal, round tyres. What are they called, and are they commercially available?
Why not just watch it? It's a good film, you'd probably enjoy it.
Seen all three movies, thankfuly didn't pay for them:
- Inception: interesting premise (has been done before however) but absolute crap execution. Expected a deeply philosophical movie, ended up with an Matrix-ish action flick. A wasted opportunity.
- Toy Story 3: ok, deja vu, but ok entertainment, nothing exceptional.
- The Social Network: absolutely boring all the way thru, wasn't entertained for even a second. this has to be one of the most overhyped movies of all time. a very bad movie, even if it wasn't about
one of the worse assholes on the planet (Zuckerberg) it would still be a bad movie. A boring movie about the life of an asshole... wonderful...
First I read it as "Inception: The Social Network", and I was wondering if this is the next generation social network, to which you will connect in your dreams.
That would've put Facebook to shame.
Lets be totally honest, if you made the exact same movie in an alternate universe where no one cared about facebook, the movie would have bombed. The /only/ reason that TSN did as well as it did wasn't because it was a great movie, but because every idiot facebook user went "lololololol lets go see that facebook movie"
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
I went to see Tron Legacy with the missus and had occasional geek-out moments but overall I thought the movie was just okay. I'm old enough to have seen the original in the theaters and to me, the experiences just didn't compare. Not that I ever expected them to. Tron Legacy may have been the superior movie -- maybe -- but there's really a lot to be said for seeing a fantastical movie at the right age. I saw the original Tron when I was something like 10 years old, and it blew me away. Similarly, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders might not be the best movie I've ever seen (although it's still very high up on my list) but no movie-watching experience will ever match seeing it on the big screen at 10 years old.
As for the movies this year, I didn't get out to see very many of them, but I did catch Inception and really enjoyed it. Between Dark Knight and Inception, Nolan has quickly put himself on my "go see whatever he makes" list.
I think the acceptance speech should simply be the horn that played throughout the trailer.
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That's plenty of variety - far better than last year, of which half relied in part on something as pedestrian a topic as guns.
Although last year also had the expanded nominations, I'm sure we all know that the extra 5 (and maybe 6, since usually one of the 5 in the past was this way, too) are merely filler that can't possibly win, but it makes the Academy look like they actually pay attention to movies released before December.
Inception may have a shot because it was so critically acclaimed, but it's probably the only "popular" movie on the list that does have a chance.
"What was with all the 'big luboski' talk?
When talking about his zen..."
In the 80's Japan was going to take over the world. Flynn was in the real world during the 80's. Flynn being influenced by Eastern thought is very 80's.
I liked Tron Legacy quite a bit, and I thought it was frankly better than Inception, more fun to watch, great visuals and sound track, the characters were a lot more fun while just about everyone in Inception blended together.
But I wouldn't call either of the "Awesome" other than perhaps the impressiveness of the special effects. I suppose I could call them good movies but awesome takes a bit more than that.
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Inception was exception for the lack of modern effects.
It looked real and impressed you because it was real.
The fortress was not CGI and it was not a small scale model.
The hotel corridor battle had no CGI at all.
The hotel restaurant had no CGI except the view out windows
The floating elevator scenes (and others) were not CGI.
In your gut, you knew they were real and in your head, you knew they were impossible.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
A man (Decaprio) gets on a plane, first class to america.
The movie starts with his really vivid dream about the other people in 1st class.
He wakes up, gets off the plane and goes home to his children.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
There is just no other way to put it.
Perfect voice acting, perfect writing, perfect plot.
It was truly the third act and just incredibly well done.
I think I will watch it again several more times in my life.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Yes, he stole the special light cycle that his Dad built that's faster than every other light cycle in the grid, used it for a boring commute into town, then gave it away to a digital hobo. He could have used his Dad's old beater (if he had one, of course) with the same result. Granted, they avoided the standard movie trope of introducing something special so that it can be used at a crucial point, but they basically forgot about it 5 minutes later. Hell, they could at least have added a throw-away scene like the hobo going on to win some race (or selling it) and getting his life back, but they didn't even do that.
At least it was not a bad year for animated features. Most notably Toy Story 3 lived up to the previous installments (hard feat) and I was very pleasantly surprised by "How to train your dragon".
Speaking of Tron though, I don't understand how it is only nominated for Sound Editing. Visually it was an amazing experience (and hybrid 2D/3D depending on which world you were helped), but where it excelled was the soundtrack which was a masterful mixture of classical with electronic sound and was in complete harmony with what was going on in the picture. In fact, my wife who is quite the opposite of a computer geek (classical philologist) considered Tron the most entertaining movie of the year.
Back to the soundtrack, it is one of the few which when I listen to I immediately "see" the scene that went with each track. And I am a big fan of Hans Zimmer, but the best moments of the Inception score are similar to just a small part of the Tron soundtrack, which builds much much more. Note that I am not accusing Daft Punk or Hans Zimmer for copying (Inception came out earlier, but Daft Punk had been working 2 years before on the Tron score so who knows if either heard the other), I am just saying that the Tron soundtrack was similar style but so much more, so I can't understand why Inception was nominated for original score instead of it.
Well, ok, I do understand why, Daft Punk is not exactly "mainstream", so it was rather rhetorical... but it is still not fair.
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I loved Inception and appreciated it as a commentary on the movie making and movie watching experiences. But I had never considered it from an allegorical perspective, probably because I am not religious myself. Thanks for your great comment.
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Huh, I didn't realize that so little CGI was used, but I'm sure you're right about that helping it be so visually interesting and consistent.
I had the first Transformers film on TV in the background the other day, and was noticing the same thing. Say what you will about Michael Bay and the totality of that movie, but I certainly support his commitment to using real sets and locations, with real actors, and things actually blowing up. Sure there were giant CGI machines kicking each other's asses, but even those felt more 'real' when the ass kicking was taking place within the confines of a real place, shot on film, and the human actors were seeing actual fireballs.
I am of the same mind. I think he exemplifies the ability to use special effects to compliment the story - it is a refreshing change that has been long overdue from typical Hollywood.
If you haven't already, you should check out some of Nolan other works. Memento was particularly unique and interesting.
If you look really close in the elevator scene you can see two teeny straps or zippers hanging at a 90 degree angle to what they should Everything else- even the 'greased down hair and the 'bun hair' on the girl' was fastened down.
I find CGI for "the big impressive scenes" to be pathetic. It's still not good enough. You can see the knife barely missing the neck isn't real. The huge drop isn't real. they do pull it off from time to time. The cliffhanger opening scene with stallone climbing was a shot that worked-- real cliff, he's really climbing. but he's climbing on a 20' high cliff that's mapped into the 1000' high cliff well enough to hide the seams.
I hadn't read the christianity parallel before (elsewhere in this thread). That was really interesting.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
if one of this year's picks ends up as "the greatest movie ever"
I don't know what kind of crack you're smoking to come up with the possibility of that alternate reality.
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Why the hell would they? It's a fantasy movie that just happens to be set in a computer. Hint: Computer Scientist would point out that you can't actually put yourself in a computer. .
For the same reason the movie "The Core" had a science advisor.
Note that I have no idea what that reason is, only that it would be the same one.
I hope she wins. Animal Kingdom projects an amazing image of aspects of Australian crime.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
That film is nominated in the foreign film category and I would like to advise anyone who is even remotely interested in cinema to see it. Powerful stuff, to say the least. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/
a PURELY IMPOSSIBLE affair
Those Hollywood cheats figure anyone can cheat on anything?
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
I am sorry what your guys opinions are, but Social Network doesn't deserve to win any of the awards, the movie is not that good of a movie, movie wise. I could give a care less about how facebook started. I like movies that actually are awesome like inception.
You may not feel that way if you'd seen his last few films. Leo was a no-no for me until the trailer for Shutter Island caught our eye, so we went to see that and my opinion of Leo certainly changed. Him being in Inception didn't spoil it at all for me. Don't get me wrong, I still can't say I like him much, but he doesn't spoil a film for me anymore.