academy award nominations

[ChampionshipVinyl]

Any bold predictions? Anything that should really be seen?Academy Awards Nominee List

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Baltimore:
  Any bold predictions? Anything that should really be seen?Academy Awards Nominee List

I liked the movie Whale Rider a lot.
 
   i dont watch many movies though.  not in theatres anyway.  Mystic River was good too.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I predict Johnny Depp will come dressed as a dirtbag just like the did for the Golden Globes.

[grotty]

I read Mystic River & didn't care much for it. I've been resistant to seeing the movie but I guess I'm gonna have to give it a go.
 
 If you're in need of a pick-me-up, check out 21 Grams.       Maybe the darkest movie I have ever seen. Naomi Watts in definitely one of the years best acting performances. Strangely though, most of the pub has been for Penn & Del Toro.

[walkman]

Mystic River and Lost in Translation are my favorite of the pack, but I thought City of God and 21 Grams were both better films.  at least they were both nominated elsewhere...
 
 that being said, Sweet Sixteen is the best film of the year, in my opinion.  Shame it didn't get a single nod...

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'm glad Cold Mountain took it on the chin. Hate Nicole Kidman and Jude Law. Can't they find Americans to play American roles?
 
    Samantha Morton and that black dude (Diamond Houston, or something like that) were good in "In America" Nice to see that movie get some attention.
 
    Didn't like Lost in Translation at all.
 
    Didn't see any of the other nominees, though i have a feeling I'll be seeing City of God soon.

[flawd101]

LOTR should win all except best actor which should be depp......but only if he comes dressed as the pirate....

[thirsty moore]

Nicole Kidman is the one Hollywood crush I allow myself to have.  Personally, I think she's gorgeous.
 
 As for City of God... by all means see that.  It's one hell of a movie.  They had it at Landmark Bethesda about a year ago.  
 
 

Originally posted by Mr. Unctuous:
 Hate Nicole Kidman.    
 
 Didn't see any of the other nominees, though i have a feeling I'll be seeing City of God soon.

[Random Citizen]

Actually, like Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman is an American. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in the DC area for a few years before her family moved to Australia.
 
 

Originally posted by Mr. Unctuous:
  I'm glad Cold Mountain took it on the chin. Hate Nicole Kidman and Jude Law. Can't they find Americans to play American roles?
 

[paige]

Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
 
 
 that being said, Sweet Sixteen is the best film of the year, in my opinion.  Shame it didn't get a single nod...

ahh that movie was fantastic!!! so sad, but utterly awesome. it's such a shame that great movies get overlooked.
 
 what really irks me though, is that a movie like LOTR (i'm really not a huge fan of all of them) gets nominated for best picture but didn't pick up ANY acting nominations.. what does that say? they need a special category for hobbit movies. it really ruins the fun.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
  a movie like LOTR (i'm really not a huge fan of all of them) gets nominated for best picture but didn't pick up ANY acting nominations.. what does that say?

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[palahniukkubrick]

I thought City of God counted for last year, because I saw that before I saw Talk to Her and Talk to Her got the screenplay award at last years.    :mad:

[ChampionshipVinyl]

City of God gets to count for both.  Foreign last year, domestic this year

[grotty]

I just saw a movie tonight that undoubtedly will sweep all the awards next year:        
 Bubba Ho-Tep
 
 It stars Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame. He plays Elvis still living in an East Texas nursing home. He befriends a now black JFK (part of the conspiracy coverup) who also lives there.
 They join forces to conquer a soul sucking mummy that is killing the other residents.
 
 Even Ebert liked it:
  Chicago Sun-Times review
 
 "It has the damnedest ingratiating way of making us sit there and grin at its harebrained audacity, laugh at its outhouse humor, and be somewhat moved (not deeply, but somewhat) at the poignancy of these two old men and their situation."  
 
 Another 5/5:
  FilmThreat
 
 "I loved this film; from the opening �??Ben-Hur�?� nod to the hieroglyph subtitles, it�??s simultaneously hilarious and poignant, with great performances. However leaving the theater I couldn�??t help but be a little discouraged, because unless some studio decides to take a chance on �??BH-T�?� I�??m never going to see it again. During the screening, Campbell mentioned that �??Bubba Ho-Tep�?� was the weirdest script he�??d ever read, but that was a GOOD THING because it�??s *not* your cookie cutter Hollywood formula picture. So step up to the plate Paramount, or Universal, or Sony. If you can force another fucking Charlie�??s Angels or �??Bad Boys�?� movie on us, you can blow one day of their catering budget to distribute something original. Yeah, I didn�??t think so"

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

BUBBA HO-TEP (R, 92 minutes) -- The idea sounds good on paper: An aging Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell), who it turns out didn't die after all, teams up with up with fellow nursing-home resident Ossie Davis, playing a man who thinks he's JFK, to do battle with a murderous Egyptian mummy in a Stevie Ray Vaughan hat. On second thought, it doesn't sound that good after all. Campbell does give a touching, funny and grotesque performance as the King (though I could have done with a lot less dialogue about "little Elvis" and sexual dysfunction), though, in the end, this horror-comedy hybrid is neither particularly scary nor funny.
 
 Contains obscenity, partial nudity, brief violence, sexual discussion and gross bugs. Landmark's E Street Cinema.
 
 -- Michael O'Sullivan