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NINE Best Films (in alphabetical order)
“An Education”
“(500) Days Of Summer”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Invictus”
“The Messenger”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Where the Wild Things Are”

There, I fixed it for them.

Why do Indie films always have such short titles?

Is it because "tortured", "radical" artists like indie filmmakers are no better than the useless bag of monkey dicks that is the starving artist? The guy who will scult a woman climbing a ladder with a baby in her arms, as the baby's diaper is falling off and the baby takes a shit, only to have the impending turd dangling right over the mouth of some dude laying on the ground right underneath the ladder? But instead of just making it a bronze sculpture, the have to sculpt it out of thickened whale sperm and gum wrappers, and then splash it with 25 different random colors of oil paint.

I fucking hate "indie" artists. Gimme Thomas Kinkade and a color-by-numbers any day. ;)

I did something on the award season for my blog. The Grammys recently announced the nominees, but I warn you, don't click my link if you have a heart condition, as people have been known to get heart attacks upon the realization that The Black Eyed Peas are up for major awards.

Posted by: admin at December 4, 2009 9:11 AM

I disagree, Inglorious Basterds was an excellent movie, and I maintain that it'll age better than any Tarintino film since Pulp Fiction. Don't listen to Dan's review, the film was excellent.

Don't listen to Dan's review, the film was excellent.

Or perhaps I saw it for myself and concocted my very own opinion?

It would be nice if they could fucking wait two minutes until some of us in the hinterlands have had a chance to see a few of these movies before they start handing them awards. It's like back in the day when a brand-new record would come out and have a sticker on it that read "Contains the hit ..." I mean, it's been on the shelf for 30 seconds, how can it have a fucking "hit" on it already?

Anyway, aren't there still a few movies left to hit the screens this year? What if one of THEM is the best movie? Yeah, your analogy is pretty apt: It's like taking the New Hampshire result and declaring the winner the nominee. We see how well early returns can be trusted, don't we, Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton?

I know nothing about "Goodbye Solo" but for some reason I heard it in Jabba the Hutt's voice, followed by that deep laugh. (Possibly echoed by Salacious Crumb's snickering)
I know this doesn't make sense. I know Jabba doesn't speak Basic, only Huttese.

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Woody Harrelson is coming out of nowhere with Supporting Actor nominations. That is something exciting. It almost feels like the success of Zombieland (sequel coming in 3D, allegedly) is boosting his profile in Hollywood again.

The other big shake-up is that Precious isn't consistently hitting Best Of lists, but is being lumped into Breakthrough Director/Actress/Writing categories instead. Mo'Nique is still strong, but the rest is wilting quickly.

Nine is only not being included because the Weinsteins put a gag order out on film critics talking about Nine until after these early award nominations were due. So switch out Where the Wild Things Are for Nine and slip in Precious for Star Trek and it's looking closer to a potential Oscar line-up. I doubt (500) Days of Summer is getting in there, but the Academy has surprised me in the past.

I'm really surprised Precious didn't appear more. But then, I didn't see it. I just recognize a hype monster when I hear one.

I'm hoping that the academy will find more of the interesting and unique films to nominate for best picture and other awards this year. Usually it's where the truly best film of the year is not even nominated or shortlisted, because it's that obscure Romanian film without any big name actors (Can you say 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days?)
Frankly, this shit needs to stop, academy. I'm sick of your complaining that viewership is down when you keep to nominating the same damn cookie cutter movies that are edgy, but Hollywood edgy in that mass audiences can still stomach them. Until then, I guess I'll be rooting for a lot of underdogs this season.

I saw the movie at the Toronto film festival. The movie was overall very good. Good script, direction etc. However, both of the woman actors, acted circles around Clooney. He was not the best part of the film. Clooney was well - being George Clooney. A man without responsibilities wanting to be out on his own. He was just playing himself. To me that is not acting, that is walking through a picture. If they give Oscars for someone being themselves, sure I guess he would win, but he didn’t need to act.
I agree with Matt Goldberg. Someone else would have done a better job in the part. George Clooney is too good-looking to not be confident, or cocky. He can handle any situation. Giamatti is going a little to deep though. Maybe someone more like a Matt Damon or a Ben Affleck. Not overly good-looking nor too confident looking or cocky looking. Someone not to self assured. George Clooney even walks with self-confidence. He was just to much for the role. You don’t believe he is a man losing his quest toward flyers miles etc. That his job is being phased out, etc. Damn, George is someone that can just find another job. He is just that fine. George made the film unbelieveable - he was playing himself. You were nicer than I MATT! I would give it a B- at best.

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