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Post by King Shocker the Monumentous on Feb 27, 2011 23:42:38 GMT -5
...and now I'm ferklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic.
James Franco: Great Oscars host, or the Greatest Oscars host?
Discuss.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Feb 27, 2011 23:43:13 GMT -5
Can we just cap the number of awards each dull British monarchy movie is allowed to win? Such an anticlimactic and predictable show.
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Post by Quanthor on Feb 27, 2011 23:44:00 GMT -5
Roeper's comments.
So true.
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Post by MuffFuzz on Feb 27, 2011 23:44:28 GMT -5
I was real pleased tonight. Not just cause my boy(Bale) won, but the hosts had a real chance to shine.
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Post by J12 on Feb 27, 2011 23:44:41 GMT -5
It's truly disappointing that The King's Speech won. Don't get me wrong, it was a great film, but there is no way that it was the best film of the year.
They went with the safe Oscar bait, despite wanting to promote a more youthful movement.
The Social Network should have won best picture, and Fincher should have won best director, hands down. I look at it in the same vain as if anyone other than Portman had won Best Actress. It was so clearly a better film than The King's Speech it's ridiculous.
The Social Network was so in tune with today's culture, it could have represented an incredible transitional moment for the Oscars.
I expect this year to go down as one much like many years past, where in the coming weeks it will be widely accepted that the best film simply did not win.
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Post by King Shocker the Monumentous on Feb 27, 2011 23:51:08 GMT -5
On a side note, I was surprised to see Randy Newman win for a song he actually sang.
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Post by ToastMaster General on Feb 27, 2011 23:51:20 GMT -5
This is the status I've posted on Facebook right now, it's pretty pissy and may come off as another angry movie fan living in a basement, but it. the Oscars, always picking the film no one gives a crapabout! Really, the King's Speech? Inception/The Social Network got robbed...of course. Now they join Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raging Bull, Jaws, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and E.T. in the most bullcraplosses in Oscar history
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Post by chumped on Feb 27, 2011 23:51:21 GMT -5
Roeper's comments. So true. So, so true.
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Post by moocow on Feb 27, 2011 23:51:44 GMT -5
...and now I'm ferklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. James Franco: Great Oscars host, or the Greatest Oscars host? Discuss. I don't know about greatest, but maybe highest.
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Post by chumped on Feb 27, 2011 23:54:12 GMT -5
I don't care about Best Picture, the fact that Hooper beat Fincher for Director is absolutely ridiculous and unfathomable. The fact that he beat anyone that he was up against and that Nolan wasn't even nominated is unfathomable as well.
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Post by JTG on Feb 27, 2011 23:57:00 GMT -5
I enjoyed the event for the most part. I quite enjoyed The King's Speech so I'm not upset that it won best picture, in fact I saw that coming a mile away. What I was most irritated (for lack of a better word) by was the fact that Chris Nolan didn't win Best Original Screenplay and that Hans Zimmer didn't win Best Original Score. The Social Network's score was decent, but Zimmer's score for Inception was so incredibly powerful. Possibly the most powerful score I've ever heard.
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Post by ToastMaster General on Feb 27, 2011 23:57:36 GMT -5
I don't care about Best Picture, the fact that Hooper beat Fincher for Director is absolutely ridiculous and unfathomable. The fact that he beat anyone that he was up against and that Nolan wasn't even nominated is unfathomable as well. 100% agree with you on your directors point. Nolan was the true winner not to be nominated.
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Post by chumped on Feb 27, 2011 23:57:39 GMT -5
Shawn Ryan (The Shield), tweeted:
AMBER ALERT reported in LA. Little boy named Oscar taken from rightful owner David Fincher. Culprit believed to be foreigner.
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Post by MacReady on Feb 28, 2011 0:05:39 GMT -5
Wow.
I'm pretty surprised that Kings Speech beat out Social Network in both picture and direction. Fincher did an AMAZING job, creating a movie that will go down in history as one of the greatest EVER. It literally captured my entire generation, as I'm sure it did with many others here.
Not to take anything away from Kings Speech, I haven't seen it so I can't judge it's quality, but it really seemed like with this whole "younger demographic" they were poking fun about aiming at tonight; it would've been a great "passing of the torch" moment so to speak, having a movie about younger culture win.
In my eyes, Social Network was THE movie of 2010. Hands down it got robbed tonight. No two ways about it. Such a shame, really.
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Post by slappy on Feb 28, 2011 0:08:31 GMT -5
Are people saying the Social Network should have won because of the young cast?
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Post by King Shocker the Monumentous on Feb 28, 2011 0:08:59 GMT -5
I have an easier time saying "Academy Awrd Winner Trent Reznor" than "Academy Award Winner Eminem."
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Post by ToastMaster General on Feb 28, 2011 0:11:16 GMT -5
Are people saying the Social Network should have won because of the young cast? No, we're saying it should've won because it was an incredible film that'll be remembered fondly in over 20 years just like Raging Bull or Raiders of the Lost Ark are after their respective losses.
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Post by J12 on Feb 28, 2011 0:13:47 GMT -5
Are people saying the Social Network should have won because of the young cast? I can't speak for everyone, but from my point of view, certainly not. I think The Social Network should have won because it was a vastly superior film in every fashion. The point a lot of people are trying to make is that The Oscar's went for a "youthful" feel this year. In doing so, they could have chosen to honor a film that defines our generation and will likely go down as one of the greatest films of the decade. Like I said, I saw The King's Speech, and it was good. Colin Firth was absolutely deserving of Best Actor, there is no question. Hooper winning, however, and the film itself winning best picture, is hugely disappointing and shows how greatly out of touch the Academy is with our culture.
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Post by MacReady on Feb 28, 2011 0:15:23 GMT -5
Are people saying the Social Network should have won because of the young cast? No, no, at least that's not what I'M saying. I mean sure, the young cast was great, my thing with them though, was: Having Hathaway and Franco host, they had appeal to a younger demographic; and if that is indeed what they were trying to do, then the Academy should've capitalized on that opportunity and voted for The Social Network. That movie 100% captures the demographic they may or may not have been potentially aiming at by having the younger, hipper, hosts.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Feb 28, 2011 0:16:41 GMT -5
Social Network can suck it. People need to get over this movie because they are obsessed with facebook. I wish facebook and text messaging had never been invented and maybe most of today's youth wouldn't be anti-social and awkward and they MIGHT be able to carry on a conversation in PERSON with words instead of abbreviations.
And Toy Story 3 was the REAL best movie.
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