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Harry's Live Commentary For The 2008 Academy Awards - Enter At Your Own Risk
Hey folks, Harry here - It's 5pm Central - For the last several hours - Yoko and I have been readying our Oscar throwdown decadent liberal party... We've got silver trays of blow, ladies of the night covered in gold paint and 100% dolphin tuna salad. Actually - I keed. Right now I'm in my Armani shirt with my Godzilla button covers and Tux pants with my Godzilla shoes. I'm not sure what it is about Godzilla that says Oscars - but ya know - when you can customize the dress for the evening to be your own MAN IN SUIT - I say go for it, dare it, be it.
Right now - we have around 15 bottles of Champagne Iced Down - and one bottle in a cryo-tank to scientifically regulate its temperature. It was a wedding present and we're letting its eerie blue glow glow.
From the ever-present coverage of E! - it seems it is drip dripping upon the Oscar world. So will everyone be wearing the SINGING IN THE RAIN garb? Somehow... I think not. Any time now the first celebs will be arriving so I can begin fawning or bitching about them... more likely I'll be bitching about the E! coverage - and go from there. I'll be back... as soon as anything vaguely comment-able will appear...
While nothing is going on - I'll go ahead and state my biases in this popularity contest. I'm rooting for Daniel Day Lewis, Casey Affleck, Ellen Page and Cate Blanchett in the Acting Categories. I'll be ecstatic if Persepolis wins - but will be happy for Brad Bird and the Pixar crew if Ratatouille wins. For Art Direction I'd like There WIll Be Blood or Sweeney Todd win. For Cinematography I'm pulling for Roger Deakins' brilliant work on The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. For Costumes, I'll go for Across the Universe, but I feel that Sweeney will get it. For Direction I'm pulling for Paul Thomas Anderson, while feeling that the Coens will pick it up for No Country. For best Documentary - I love SICKO, but frankly I'm not very happy with the Academy's picks this year. For Film Editing - I'd have to go with No Country. On Foreign Language Film - I'm 100% behind Mongol. For Makeup - I will kill a puppy if Norbit wins. For best score, I can't believe I'm rooting for Marco Beltrami's 3:10 TO YUMA - but I know that Dario Marianelli will win for Atonement. For best song - I am pulling for the Happy Working Song. Best picture will go to No Country - though I'd love There Will Be Blood to win... I just can't be that in tune with Hollywood. I want the Russian animated Peter & The Wolf to win. For Live Action short - The Substitute. For Sound Editing - I'm rooting for Ratatouille and for Sound Mixing - I'll go to No Country. For visual effects - I can not deny giant fucking robots. For adapted screenplay I vote for There Will Be Blood. For Original - I vote for Juno. Amazing script there.
The "Bardem" gag on E! - according to my Dad was written prior to the end of the strike. Juno's best friend looks amazing dressed up - and Anne Hathaway is a bit lost. The most lost though seems to be the E! hosts. Be back in a bit...
Wow - Travolta has the worst hairdo ever.... Ruby Dee is a character. Saoirse Ronan is so cute... and her voice is a killer. James McAvoy is the spawn of satan - he eats children. Why is the ROCK at the Oscars? George looks like he owns everybody else and his girlfriend is awesome! Daniel Day Lewis has Pirate Earrings!!! Oh My God! That's awesome!!! Travolta's hair is like black ch ch chia. In fact - it looks like that flocked G. I. Joe hair. That's amazing.
Steve Carrell should be talking to his shoe right now. My God - Ryan is talking to Patrick Dempsey... Amazingly significant red carpet interview. Amy Adams' dress doesn't look good. Laura Linney is looking great. Miley Cyrus has great chandelier rings. Tommy Lee Jones looks aggravated. ROCK is getting E! time - and he's presenting an award... which one... Best Actress? His role model was Clint Eastwood. James McAvoy eats children. Jessica Alba has purple boa all over her breasts. Seth Rogen has weird hair stuff going on.
I'm kinda beginning to go numb. Why do I write this stuff. Oh god - Daniel Day Lewis is the most awesome genius freak of an actor ever.
Ryan Secrest was verbally assaulted by the Gary Busey - Ryan is speaking with Jennier Garner and Laura Linney - and now Busey is hugging and kissing everyone - and Garner is nervous and afraid of the Busey - this is hilarious. Ryan is so scared of Gary. Fucking Awesome. Jonah Hill and Seth Rogan are some how infinitely less funny than the sexually assaultive joy that was Gary Busey.
Ok - nothing will top the Busey - so now I'm on the WaWas special where Ellen Page is on singing her Juno song.
Now she's interviewing Harrison Ford - American Graffitti - BEER. Star Wars films - ENGLAND. Blade Runner - RIDLEY. Witness - ONE OF THE BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE. The Fugitive - NEVER THOUGHT IT'D TURN OUT SO WELL. 4 Indy movies - STEVEN SPIELBERG... and George of course.
"Easily the most anticipated movie of the 21st Century" - Barbara Walters about the 4th Indiana Jones movie. He says Indiana Jones is now 20 years older. Harrison wants to be remembered as a good collaborator. And the go out with one of those Disney singer people. Ok now for the official red carpet...
Oh god - Regis... That's insane.
Harrison walking by behind him. Now George Clooney is talking with Regis... George feels he was better in BATMAN & ROBIN than in MICHAEL CLAYTON. Marion Cotillard's alabaster mermaid dress is exquisite... and she's lovely beyond words. Travolta's hair in HD is... very evil to his hair piece. Now Linney is subjected to the Regis. Can't wait to see Bardem at the Oscars... Oh - he looks rugged, yet dapper. I hate Miley Cyrus - "Just when you thought Billy Ray Cyrus was gone forever" - Kentuckian - Gordon Jones...
MICKEY ROONEY!!!! I have to say - watching Mickey Rooney on the red carpet - even for a flash - I'm just ecstatic.
Ok - sorry - made a bathroom run - now it's time to begin the big show... I noticed that Javier Bardem is sitting next to Jack Nicholson... how genius is that seating? I mean - they're going to kill people together. And ya know... you could cast Javier Bardem as Nicholson's son in a film of significant violence.
Oh this opening is kinda super cool... I can't even breakdown everything that's going on. He was delivered to the stage by pnuematic tubes... He is... Jon Stewart. Lol - Vanity Fair Oscar Party invite writers. Psychopathic killers - does Hollywood need a hug? Thank god for Teen Pregnancy.... I love Stewart. Hannibal Lector meets Dorothy Hammil's wedge cut. See where the Jews are in the audience... lol... Too Often The Academy Ignores Movies That Aren't Good. GENIUS!!! Oscar is now 80, which makes him the front runner for the Republican nomination. Usually when you see a black man or a woman president - an asteroid is about to hit the statue of liberty! - Great opening monologue!
First presenter - Jennifer Garner - to present Best Costume Design.
Achievement in costume design
"Across the Universe" Albert Wolsky
Great work.
"Atonement" Jacqueline Durran
No.
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" Alexandra Byrne
Beautiful work.
"La Vie en Rose" Marit Allen
Nice.
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Colleen Atwood
Gorgeous.
The oscar goes to ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE - Alexandra Byrne!!! Fantastic work in that movie. Nice short acceptance.
George Clooney comes out - to present - 80 years of Oscars.... to the music of ET... weird... I actually really like the Jerry Lewis moment... OH FUCK - BENINGNI... I HATE THAT GUY He Fucked Ian McKellen out of his Oscar. "and the other life I might have had" - god I love that Chaplin moment.
Oh those are camels - iPhone movie downloads - redic
Steve Carrell and Ann Hathaway - to present - Animated Movies - I think he just said SHIT... I am pretty sure.
PERSEPOLIS - please win
RATATOUILLE - You can win.
SURF'S UP - DO NOT WIN.
Oscar goes to RATATOUILLE - Brad Bird! The second academy award for THE MAN! Should have won for IRON GIANT. Great acceptance speech - His Guidance Counseler trying to talk him out of movie making. Hilarious.
Katherine Hiegl - Damn she's fucking hot tonight... as opposed to usual. Presenting Best MAKE UP...
LA VIE EN ROSE - lovely work. WIN!
NORBIT - please not more fat movie make up.
POTC:AWE - No.
Winner is LA VIE EN ROSE!!! - Didier - Thank you, very much... but the way he said it... AWESOME. Great voice.
Amy Adams - HAPPY WORKING SONG - I love this song - and this is weird - no production number - just Amy on the stage - She's so cute... I love this song and really hope and pray this wins.
Not a real fan of these little Oscar moments from the past.
Missed Jon's first joke cuz of Massawyrm talking rudely...
The ROCK is presenting the award for BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - apparently he was scared by face melting...
THE GOLDEN COMPASS - nice
POTC: AWE - nice
TRANSFORMERS - incredible - better win.
Oscar goes to THE GOLDEN COMPASS - no way! Fuckin' hell - TRANSFORMERS -
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Cate Blanchett - Best ART DIRECTION...
AMERICAN GANGSTER - not really.
ATONEMENT - very nice work.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS - pretty.
SWEENEY TODD - gorgeous.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD - genius -
Oscar goes to SWEENEY TODD! I love people with Italian Accents - they sound so sincere when being greatful.
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Supporting actor montage... Joel Grey is awesome... ROCK ON...
Jennifer Hudson presents best Supporting Actor noms...
Casey Affleck - AOJJBTCRF... Please fucking win.
Javier Bardem - NCFOM - he'll win - and I can't argue, accept I fucking love Casey's performance.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - CWW - so fucking good. Great performance.
Hal Holbrook - INTO THE WILD - really good role.
Tom Wilkinson - absolutely great. this is the single hardest category.
And the winner is... JAVIER BARDEM - Oh I love that role. I wanted Casey to win to just bring more attention to that fucking great movie. Oh well.
AT THIS POINT I ACCIDENTLY DELETED SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS
PETER AND THE WOLF won SHORT ANIMATED FILM.
LES MOZART DES PICKPOCKETS won SHORT FILM --- DAMN MY STUBBY INTOXICATED FINGERS...
Alan Arkin presents for Best Supporting Actress...
Cate Blanchett - I'M NOT THERE... brilliant.
RUBY DEE - American Gangster - not as great at Cate
Saorise Ronan - Atonement - good work
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone - great work - but boy did I hate the character.
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton - I didn't like her much in that film.
And the oscar goes to... TILDA SWINTON - wow - I love her in a ton of her work - but I'm just not in love with this role. Best acceptance speech of the night. Do you really think she'll give the oscar to her agent?
And Jack is here…
Josh Brolin and James McAvoy – come out to present – BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY…
ATONEMENT
AWAY FROM HER
DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD…
And the winner is The Coen Brothers – NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN… - first heads up on TWBB – this looks like their night, I’m thinking… HOMER and CORMAC MCCARTHY…
‘ow they count ballots – was AMAZING.
Miley Cyrus – ugh…. THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW song from ENCHANTED… That number was less cool than the first one, mainly because it isn’t being sung by Amy Adams – who is fantastic singing the numbers. Shame she didn’t do that one.
You might be wondering why I disappeared there for a while – well the site had a malfunction… my clumsy fingers deleted about 300 words… and well – these are the problems of blogging live without a net. And the sheer numbers of hits on this article have been gigantic – and tech issues are a continual issue with it.
Dame Judi Dench and Halle Berry follow up a silly Baby gag. Instead it’s Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill. – SOUND EDITING…
BOURNE ULTIMATUM
RATATOUILLE
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
TRANSFORMERS
And the winner is – THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM… Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallburg – they seem to be - funny sound editor knew when the music would come in.
Jonah and Seth do SOUND MIXING…
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
RATATOUILLE
3:10 TO YUMA
TRANSFORMERS
And the Oscar goes to:…. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM…
“Would it be ok to kiss Halle Berry now?” Fucking hilarious…
Forrest Whittacker presents Best Actress…
Cate Blanchett – ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE - wonderful
Julie Christie – AWAY FROM HER – lovely work
Marion Cotillard – LE VIE EN ROSE – genius…
Laura Linney – THE SAVAGES – great work.
Ellen Page – JUNO – please please please win…
And the Oscar for Best Actress goes to… MARION COTTILARD – “It is true there are angels in this city!” Awesome! This was a great category… Amazing…
The ONCE musical number – missed the start of… but damn this is a real great song… it’s only because I’m retardedly in love with HAPPY WORKING SONG…
JACK NICHOLSON is coming out… because he’s a badass… and he has Devil ears – fucking look at those Devil Ears… - he’s introducing 80 years of Best Pictures… IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT!!! I have that GREAT ZIEGFELD one sheet… Gene Kelly… ON THE WATERFRONT… MADNESS… THE APARTMENT… I want some More. PATTON… FRENCH… GODFATHer. THE STING, Part 2… Cuckoo… Rocky, Annie Hall beat Star Wars…. – Fuck Chariots of fire…. AMADEUS!!! It’s weird to see the modern films in context to the older ones… they feel less outstanding… - Like CRASH and MILLION DOLLAR BABY – really? Not so much…
Rene Zellweger… - her dress kinda looks like a platinum Wonder Woman costume…. FILM EDITING…
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
INTO THE WILD
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
And the winner is THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Now
Nicole Kidman comes out – and she’s looking gorgeous as usual… and damn – are those diamonds? That’s CRAZY… Ah Production design… Robert Boyle’s work… He’s done so many brilliant films – so much of Hitchcock’s work… Amazing.
Penelope Cruz with a chestful of crows… - Best Foreign Film
BEAUFORT
THE COUNTERFEITERS
KATYN
MONGOL
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Come on MONGOL….
And the winner is… THE COUNTERFEITERS –
And now Patrick Dempsey comes out to announce the third song… Here we go with SO CLOSE… One attendee at the party is enjoying the cloth sphincters in the background.
And now we have JOHN TRAVOLTA who comes dancing out of the dancers… to groans in my room
BEST SONG
Once – Falling Slowly
ENCHANTED – HAPPY WORKING SONG
August Rush – Raise it up
ENCHANTED – So Close
ENCHANTED – That’s How You know
And the oscar goes to… ONCE wins! And that song so deserves it as the entire film is about making that song!… Best acceptance moment… Glen Hansard was the face of amazement and that cocksucker Bill Conti not letting Marketa Irglova speak… Cock Sucker!!!
Jon Stewart is not a CockSucker – YES! FUCKING A!!! I love Jon Stewart. Brilliant
Cameron Diaz – does BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – and had a dickens of the time saying Cinematography…
Roger Deakins – Jesse – please…
Seamus McGarvey
Janusz Kaminski
Roger Deakins –
Robert Elswit…
-- The oscar goes to THERE WILL BE BLOOD. That and ASSASSINATION were genius… There was a lot of brilliant work in this category.
Hillary Swank to do the Death Montage… Here we go, I’m about to cry…
Roscoe Browne, Barry Nelson, Kitty Hart, Betty Hutton, Calvin Lockhart, Janee wyman, Melville Shavelson, Curtis Harrington, Jack Valenti, Michael Kidd, Antonioni, Delbert Mann, Monty Westmore, Peter Handford, Bud Ekins, Bernard Gordon, Dabs Greer,, Harold , Laraine Day, Cassell, Lois Maxwell, Laszlo Kovacs, Robert Clark, George , Jonny Grant, Frank Rosenfelt, Martin, Donfeld, Sembene , Freddy Fields, Robert Lantz, Ray Kur, Miyoshi, Suzanne Plesshette, Deborah kerr, Peter, Peter Zinner, Freddi Francis, Ingmar Bergman, Ray Evans, William Tuttle, Heath Ledger -- however they left out Brad Renfro… but I didn’t.
Amy Adams comes out to do Best Score…
Atonement – Dario
Kite Runner –
Michael Clayton –
Ratatouille
3:10 TO YUMA
The Oscar goes to Dario Marianelli for ATONEMENT – which was an amazing score – but personally – I love 3:10 TO YUMA.
The next presenter is Tom Hanks –
And some soldiers from Iraq – present for Documentary Short Subjects –
Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
And the winner goes to FREEHELD – which I haven’t seen. But is apparently coming up on Cinemax later this year.
Next is Hanks presenting Documentary Features…
NO END IN SIGHT
OPERATION HOMECOMING
SICKO
TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE
WARDANCE
This category has a lot of missing quality docs – but the winner is TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE – personally my pick for best doc would be between TERROR’S ADVOCATE and THE KING OF KONG… but Documentary.
Now Harrison Ford – auto dealership owner… to do Best Original Screenplay –
JUNO
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
MICHAEL CLAYTON
RATATOUILLE
THE SAVAGES
And the oscar goes to… Diablo Cody – JUNO… wow – I liked that a lot. I wish Ellen would’ve won too. But if JUNO had to win just one award – this was the Award and the person to win.
The Best Actor montage is all sorts of cool… Helen Mirren – “cajones” spoken by Helen Mirren is genius…
George Clooney
Daniel Day Lewis – best performance I feel I’ve ever seen…
Johnny Depp – great role
Tommy Lee Jones – very nice performance – understated and done in nano-moments.
Viggo Mortensen – can’t believe he got the nom – but I’m so happy its here.
And the oscar goes to DANIEL DAY LEWIS – fucking awesome – “Whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town” The rightest award ever bestowed.
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau doing the Best Director intro….to the montage…
Martin Scorsese - presents Best Director…
Julian Schnabel
Jason Reitman
Tony Gilroy
Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson…
And the oscar goes to THE COEN BROTHERS!!!
Personally – this year has been the biggest split – cuz we have two truly brilliant films… and the COENS have been the greatest and most consistently brilliant directors in history…
Denzel Washington looking EVIL presents best picture
ATONEMENT
JUNO
MICHAEL CLAYTON
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
And the oscar goes to
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Scott Rudin is accepting – This is absolutely a brilliant film and the choice between this and THERE WILL BE BLOOD is just a flip of the coin. That said – this was the COEN’s year – and why the hell not!
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Bring on the liberal decadence.
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Always love some live commentary
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Better dominate. It won't, but I really want to see it sweep its 8 nominations.
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I will never watch the academy awards again
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You know you want it.
I really do hope it sweeps the bigger categories.
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But she's not gonna win.
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wat?
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Hello?
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i really can't be bothered to watch a eighty-six hour fuckin ceremony that could be wrapped up in 90 minutes. that said, i do enjoy finding out the results the next day. there were lots of great movies this year, and i've seen many of the nominees... I doubt Juno will win best picture, but not because of its quality (great fucking movie), but because it's got some pretty stiff competition. ellen page does deserve some love though... recently caught up with gone baby gone and michael clayton on dvd, enjoyed them very much. pretty, pretty good. i was surprised amy ryan was nominated; shes fantastic but was literally only in that movie for like seventeen minutes.
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there's nothing to stream. Harry just updates the page every few minutes with a commentary on what's happening, if you want to read it just refresh the page every now and then.
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Back then, Pimpin' was much Easier and people really didn't complain about it.
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on a silver plate!
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Cementing its position at the epicenter of the film industry.
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literally and she has a better chance of winning than Amy Ryan. I can't even get myself to watch Gone Baby Gone yet.
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It won't win but should...
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..even though it's not nominated.
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Then watch the Oscars.
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wins more than Best Actor. It's just as good, if not better than No Country, and I'd love to se it get writing, directing, or Best Picture. Yeah, Juno bettr not win Best Picture, and even Best Screenplay will piss me off. Ellen Page winning would be fine, because she's a good actress, but the character Juno is just terrible, and not complex at all. She did a btter job in Hard Candy.
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...OUT!
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I wouldn't be watching the Oscars.
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with my bottle of merlot. Bring on the the Strike giggles, Stewart!
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Live commentary. Get a live.
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on the Canadian CTV coverage. It's been said again, but having him announce it on national TV helps.
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Feb 24, 2008 5:40:30 PM CST
Over/under Odds that Ellen Page will look stoned in every shot
by tallboy66
BET THE OVER!!! Also, how many times Harry will cry during the show, BET THE WAYYYY OVER!!
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Get a dictionary.
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thanks for thinkin of us, though, porman
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Chrth gets use of it on nights and weekends
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should win Best Film...but won't. It didn't fall apart in the last half hour, unlike another Best Film nominee I could mention...
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You can have while I'm at work
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Chill out baby. Life is short.
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To me it's head and shoulders above There Will Be Blood. Even if people have a problem with that ending, they have to admire how good that film was up until that moment.There will be blood was an excellently made film with a sure fire Oscar winner in the leading role but the story for me was quite boring. I was waiting for it to erupt but instead it made a little squirt. Would prefer it to win if No Country doesn't though.
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curse it I say...
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I loved that movie.
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than the actual show. Come on, you know you want to see MAN IN SUIT watching E! while clutching his stuffed Ewok and Yoko doing a Leia in Jabba's palace impersonation.
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This is really the only preview you need, and includes the most awkward Keira Knightley moment ever, at least out of context:
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What a meandering piece of melodrama. Casey Affleck as the little detective that could was horrible. What is wrong with you, Harry? Oh wait, you also propped up Cabin Fever to us...
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Country was awesome up until the ending. That's what made the ending even more frustrating.
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I'm only watching this for the Mighty Jew...I wonder how he's going to play it this time around?
With only minimum time for the writers to get their act together, I reckon it's going to be more off the cuff than ever before...but I'm not sure how well it'll go down with the industry types who've just screwed the writers (again) if he goes over the top on the writers side - which I'm almost certain he will.
I reckon he'll struggle this time - but I really hope he pulls it off. JS is the best thing to happen to US cable in ages...as a Brit, anything that gets the US rank and file (not you fine people - I love youse guys) thinking and talking about world and local politics is a good thing.
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Feb 24, 2008 5:51:45 PM CST
There are actually GOOD movies running for Best One this year
by aethyrr
Which is actually.. strange!
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It's just internal. You see Daniel Plainview got through so fucking much and just watching his performance for three hours makes me think I know how that character would litrally act in every situation. The ending itself is fantastic for watching two characters that have ended up there that aen't even that different (Notice how his cross he wears grows bigger throughout the film). The symbolism of the room itself is also fantastic and the last line sums everything up perfectly. TWBB has a huge explosion at the end, and the best part is that you can see the entire thing being lead up throughout the whole film. You're welcome to prefer NCFOM obviously, but don't saw TWBB has no eruption.
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He was on AOTS and basicly said No Country for Old Men would win for Best Picture. But a year, 2 years, 5 years from now people will still remember There Will Be Blood. That There Will Be Blood is the best film to come out this year, but No Country is just on a roll and it's the Coen's year.
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Presenters talking to Carell, comparing his Little Miss Sunshine from last year to Juno this year, and they describe it as "A nice little Canadian movie..." The lead, and the direction may be Canadian, but that is by no means a Canadian movie.
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In Dracula 2008!
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Oh, wait, the strike is over.Can't help but wonder if tonight will spell more of a dearth than next year...
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I can't wait for that!
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So, the Maitlands.
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I'll be dancing the night away in Saugus instead of watching this senseless hollywood pat me on the back drivel
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and make jokes about Huckabee.
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Harry I might eat my words in a few hours, but 'Norbit' deserves the make-up award. Eddie Murphy is this generations 'Peter Sellers'. Althought he may not get respect for another 10 years. 'Norbit' was not a bad film.
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For Screenplay, with Magnolia. And Boogie Nights at least got nominated for Burt Reynolds. Honestly, Boogie Night has held up incredibly wells and is so gorgeous. It's one my all time favorite films.
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was fucking pissed when he didn't win for Screenplay. He's a sore loser, and I guess it's justifiable when you make great movies in the same year as another great movie, and you feel kind of cheated. He's going to be pissed I'm sure if he loses out on the major TWBB awards. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, he just really wants to win, which I think is fair.
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Dracula was so 1930
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TWBB is great except for Dano overacting just a wee bit. I'm watching Michael Clayton tomorrow. Heard it is right up there.
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Zodiac. I would have been completely fine if won Best Picture/Director/Screenplay.
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... BECAUSE HE IS THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPION. THE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF THE ROCK'S FANS CRIED OUT FOR THE ROCK TO BE AT THE OSCARS! SO THE ACADEMY CALLED THE GREAT ONE TO BE A PRESENTER! THAT'S WHY THE ROCK IS AT THE OSCARS! SO HARRY, PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT YOU JABRONI! AND IF YOU HAVE PROBLEM WITH THAT, THEN THE ROCK IS GONNA TAKE THAT OSCAR, SHINE IT UP REAL GOOD, TURN THAT SUMBITCH SIDEWAYS, AND SHOVE IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR CANDYASS! IF YOU SMELLL-LA-LA-LA-LA..... WHAT THE ROCK.... IS COOKIN!
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Owns your face!
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URINE
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Its True! Its True!
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It was atrocious. It won a bunch of Razzies, has a 3.6 IMDB rating and was one of the worst rated films by RottenTomatoes.com. Who are you kidding?
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It's the most wonderful time of the year! I'll be here refreshing for the next 5 hours.
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Juno was nominated for Best Picture yet Zodiac wasn't? WTF?
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TIA.
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better get some respect.
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People forgot about it as it came out last March. The same screwjob happened to a more deserving film a few years ago. Oh, that film was Cinderella Man.
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Best Picture!
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Hassling Seacrest...what a legend. Utah, get me two!!!
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...was weak. that is all.
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= John Huston impersonation. Should've won for 'Gangs,' but they'll give it to him this year. There Will Be Blood is massively overrated and DOES fall apart at the end (although it wasn't held together too well up until then). That is all.
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It's a matter of personal taste. The ending didn't mach up what was brewing for me. The film is very well made and oozed the word Epic, some of the shots were out of this world. I did get the ending and how Plainview and Eli were not much different. Both conning the townsfolk with seperate different reasons. NCFOM just blew me away especially every time Bardem was on screen. The tension for me during the film was on par with anything I've even seen. Then as kwisatzhaderach mentioned, comes that final part and the audience become seperated into the love it or hate it groups.If it goes to Atonement or Juno then it's a mockery.
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Big sloppy kiss.
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It is the 10th anniversary of Titanic winning - the Academy loves a mockery! :)
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I can't spell. Sorry.
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will drink all your milkshakes bitches
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Feb 24, 2008 6:24:14 PM CST
Atonement's momentum dropped like the sub-prime housing market
by pennsy
I really think the writers' strike damaged their chances as they were poised to sweep the Golden Globes, then everything went to hell with the show being canceled. They were an afterthought the day Knightley got jobbed out of a lead actress nomination.
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Feb 24, 2008 6:24:28 PM CST
"You've set such an amazing brand,with Hannah Montana..."
by danielkurland
Why the fuck is Seacrest talking about this?
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At considerable risk, the Academy got it right in 1997. At least when it came to everything but best actress. Winslet should have won, but the voters were nationalistic that year and didn't want the award to go to a Brit, as Helen Hunt was the only U.S. nominee of the 5.
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Co Starring Gary Busey.
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Seacrest and her, OUTTA HERE. Poseurs.
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Feb 24, 2008 6:28:44 PM CST
Oh, and Microsoft is pulling the plug on selling HD-DVD players
by pennsy
for the Xbox 360. Temp detour into offtopic-ville.
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ALMOST makes me miss Joan Rivers.almost...
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That's funny. I LOVE when people go off topic :)
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Juno is up there for a reason. Many better films have come out than Juno this year, so it has a lot of votes.
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CORRUPT HER!!
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Not fucking Juno ----- honest to blog (who writes that shit - oh wait an ex crack whore does) If that pile of shit wins I will personally get on a plane and hunt down the academy with a sharpened soup spoon
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and pay Busey to drag Seacrust outta there by his ankles? I'll put in a fiver
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Feb 24, 2008 6:33:44 PM CST
Honestly, all the best pictures nominees kinda sucked.
by skywalkerfamily
Didn't see one of them.
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Can you explain why you are asking such stupid questions, how does it feel? Really?
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Oscars in the past 20 years (55.2 million viewers. Don't think it'll even come close to that, as there is a serious disconnect between the Oscar voters and the public, popularity-wise this time around.
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Nobody likes him.
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Then drink it up?
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Anyone know how I can watch the telecast online if I'm not in the US?
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Feb 24, 2008 6:36:07 PM CST
Skywalker you've shown yourself to have the shittiest taste
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Countless times on this site.
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Oops, it's just Jennifer Hudson.
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"What's the bitch talkin' about?"Someone please shoot Seacrest
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And all the SAW movies!!!
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just took the piss out of Cotillard's French accent. What an asshole.
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Literally. He's riding her bareback and she's moaning like a banshee and passionately yelling obscenities in Yiddish while he pounds her overhanging vage back into place.
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Ya think the curtains match the drapes?
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At least Miley Cyrus looked a little excited to be there. Too many of these celebs look like it's a big pain in the ass to get fawned over for a few hours.
And, btw, that whole "I'm just a nerd" schtick that Diablo Cody likes to peddle needs to stop. She's a good looking girl (most nerdy girls aren't that pretty) who sure isn't adverse to the attention. HONEST TO BLOG! -
no need to invent a new epithet for him, though: "Seacrest" will go down as the most foul thing one person can call another... "you effin seacrester!"see, it works
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not like awards really matter, but bsides NCFOM it was far away the greatest film this year. DDL owns the method. Again, where u at Tarantino? PTA showed your ass up, so get behind a camera and do something NEW!
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I really didn't need to read that... I think I need therapy now...
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If No Country and Blood cancel each other out Juno could get it. Remember this is the organisation that gave Chicago the Oscar.
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to Jessica Alba- "So will you be breastfeeding your baby?"
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james mcavoy and eating children?
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Ah Juno.
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Feb 24, 2008 6:46:05 PM CST
Second the motion that INGMAR BERGMAN better get some love.
by wilsonfisk89
One of the greatest film artists to ever live. A pompous awards show like the Oscars is like the antithesis of his work however, Bergman owns the art of Cinema.
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Seacrest is terrible and classless. At least this keeps Alba out of theaters for a while.
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for shit like Blade Runner.
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last last scene with Lewis and the Preacher guy was just fucking goofy. terrible overacting, and this coming from a fan of Lewis.
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Amen brother.
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It's a crazy world...
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and he pretends he doesn't know what it's about.
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Feb 24, 2008 6:53:23 PM CST
If Juno wins, will the explosion of emotion equal this Oscar TB?
by pennsy
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/22638 ;)
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She must, 'cause it's all over her face.
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What a terrible, terrible movie. I mean really terrible.
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Feb 24, 2008 7:02:36 PM CST
Its funny how/when these silly media outlets talk about TWBB
by wilsonfisk89
a film so over their stupid collective heads, deeply atypical hollywood fare that makes them nervous
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wasn't so much terrible as... blah. Lots of blah.
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in the puppy killing should there be a Norbit victory.
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I'm happy now. Oh Clooney - nice Batman and Robin comment.
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His speech was awesome! Made me laugh. I'm just practicing for when he does win. It's a shoe in.
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BTW, what's Travolta doing there? Only nominees should get mic time.
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Anybody else watching the coverage on Sky Movies? Four airheads talking absolute shit.
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Clooney said that was a great performance! Gotta love it!
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Travolta was sporting his new Harry Osborn hair!
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but it was nominated for a reason. The question is will the people that vote against it because of how bad the film was vs. the amazing make-up.
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Not one. First time ever. And frankly, my life still feels complete. I haven't felt emotionally invested in an Oscars broadcast since Return of the King kicked ass down the red carpet.
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Feb 24, 2008 7:08:19 PM CST
Regis-Clueless. All these twits are. NCFOM and TWBB shits on th
by wilsonfisk89
Silly ass questions.
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are reminding me how truly awesome that film was. I hope it cleans up tonight.
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the death montage. I love that.
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carrying around the Canadian flag ranting about closing Gitmo...lol.
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I cant see the telecast unless I pay for it - fuck that
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If Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't win, I may throw my TV out of the window. I truly felt transported to the early 1900s watching him...it was the most convincing and haunting performance I think i've ever seen.
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Yeah Jeniffer Gardner!!!
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on DVD. Just haven't watched them yet. Picked them up this week but drank too much wine on Friday and fell asleep before I could watch it. I'm sure I'll like it but truth be told, I hate watching "lawyer" movies ... Hard to watch what you do for a living for "entertainment".
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Eat dulce and attract a douchebag. Seriously. That douche made me angry just looking at him. Anyway, back to Jeniffer Garner's cute sincerity. And tight black dress.
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In a few more years, he's gonna be a float in the Macy's parade.
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Mark it down.
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Well the red carpet I mean. Regis looks even older
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Just never got around to seeing it, but I still want it to win. I've kinda given up hope that TWBB would win, but who knows...
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Just stop trying....we know your bald
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will probably just get a second during the death montage and that idiot who ODd on Tylenol will probably get a tribute.
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I watched Gangs of New York for the first time about two years ago on a Saturday afternoon and was just enthralled. The guy is astounding. And I like the fact he's a total recluse that just basically wants to hang out in rural Ireland and drink pints at the local pub rather than hang out in Hollywood and rub dicks with all the doucheburgers there.
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was good but not the best picture. But that ending scene was SO damn slick.
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gone is that beautiful golden face she had in the mask
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Rural pubs 4 life!
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without the benefit of knowledge. It's his trademark.
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is the most annoying dude ever....
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By the end of the night, I will be very disappointed. VERY DISAPPOINTED, JAMES!
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haha Go JAMES!
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It didn't look like her for a minute. So used to seeing her with longer hair.
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Wowza
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SILENCIO OLD MAN!
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Uh, Elktra anyone?
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Looks like the lesbian rumor is true.
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Harry's Oscar play by play while Yoko starts flipping channels on him... "There's Ellen Page looking lovely and demure while the CSI crew are working on solving the mystery of the dead hooker. And it looks like the Lakers are making a full court press against Regis and his interview with some nobodies who stood in line since before the writer's strike..."
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"When you make a MOOVEEEE, ..." What an annoying asshole
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I'm stuck at work. Anyone know where I can watch the show online? Can't seem to find anything
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soooo money!
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Almost there.
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Honest to blog.
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No Ben Affleck, though?
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Hoping to rub this in your face...in a good natured, kidding sort of way of course. Go Joel and Ethan!!
Best Picture?!?!
by tailhook Nov 23rd, 2007
11:19:03 PM
Wow.. lay it on reaaaaaaal thick. Why not go whole hog and claim it should be on the top 10 AFI 100 movies list? Sheesh. The only shot at an academy award this movie has is for Javiar Bardem for best supporting. As per it 'matching' the ending of the (bestselling)book.. books are books, movies are movies. Something which may work in the written medium simply doesn't translate well at all in the visual. This is one of those times and any competant director would have known that and the Coens damn well should have. Lets do The Coen Idiocy with other movies shall we? Reservoir Dogs.. cut the ending and a couple beat cops show up and discover three guys dead.. add 5 minutes of reminisicing about how bad their life is and then cut to black. Unforgiven... no bar scene.. simply show the perspective of a townsfolk who looks over.. hears a shotgun blast, and sees Clint bailing out of the bar at the end screaming to give Ned a proper burial. We don't need to see none of that bar stuff... we can figure out what happened. Kill Bill... cut The House of the Blue Leaves scene.. have the last of the eighty-eight who had accidentally been in the bathroom at the time come out and discover the carnage. We don't need to show that... we can interpolate and figure out Bad Shit Happened. Oh.. and the guy took off his mask so can't you UNDERSTAND THE SCENE just by looking at his shocked face? OMG IS IT NOT ARTSY-FARTSY ENOUGH NOW? Liberal Pot Head Media Arts professors will assign this shit for unexpecting students to watch and 'analyze' every year! Doesn't that make it the bestest movie ever? ALL SETUP. NO CLIMAX. BLUE BALLS IS THE NEW ART. THE PURPLER THE BETTER. At least I have solace in the fact that it will only be about a month until There Will Be Blood comes out.
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Bill Conti ^^
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The Oscars' answer to Ellen Burstyn being nominated for an Emmy in a miniseries which she appeared for 14 seconds in.
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WTF REGIS!
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Glad he showed up
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There will be drinks!
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Ha. Nicholson is also fucking loaded.
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That's EVEN scarrier
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Regis is trying to get killed.
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He's there every year.
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wider than usual tonight....for Viggo's BAAAAALLLLLLLS!!!
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Yo Bugs, file those things down for once.
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He really said that??? ROFL
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I see him call him Xavier, i come here to post it and like 6 people already did it for me.
I love the Oscars. -
for the second time on Thursday. I was high on life, by my self, doing the Planview voice to myself, "Ladies and Gentlemen...This is my son and my partner, HW...I DRINK..." Next thing i know, im merging onto the highway, and smack, i hit a fucking car and avoided getting maimed by a Dodge Ram by centimeters. crazy fucking shit.
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Why does Clooney always have to bring up Batman and Robin?!?! Yes we get it, it suked, for god sake, we had to sit through it, now please just let it die.
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this shit looks terrible...spend some money ABC
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Clever opening, but Godzilla!?!? Wtf
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Woooooooo! Ric Falir style!
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great
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There's a prequel I'd like to see.
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KONG!!
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cheesy set
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cause its the 80th anniv?
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Oh, it's just Jon Stewart.
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Hilarious sponsors, go hybrid!
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Oh, it's just Jon Stewart.
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when it came out all you fucks were creaming your jeans for it, now that it's nominated, everyone's sayin shit like "nipples on batman" and it's kinda pissing me off. the movie is great, i agree it probably won't or shouldn't win best picture, but it certainly deserved the love it's gotten.
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Feb 24, 2008 7:34:42 PM CST
wilsonfisk89 so I'm not the only one who gets high off TWBB
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
That's good to know. What a fucking movie.
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Love me some Jon Stewart
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I thought the opening intro was pretty badass
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Does not like Jon Stewart...
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This show is straight out of the 80s...
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Half the reason I'm watching this. Other half because of No Country, etc.
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Are those real?
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haha like 4 people clapped for Norbit
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It's good to be the King and I...
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Is hot. THat is all.
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Mine's Buster Hollandale
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Nice.
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Zzzz
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PUSH UP BRA
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smack
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nice one
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They are going to the champagne room of the Pimp Club later.
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Feb 24, 2008 7:41:21 PM CST
Thanks for making dumbshits think Barack is a Muslim. Shit.
by canada's king
As if that joke hadn't run it's course a year ago.
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*so* many good ideas... doomed by the mustache.
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Awesome. But yeah, monologue coulda been slightly better.
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I'm betting Jon wishes he didn't go with the Titler joke.
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laughs too much at his own jokes. but he was pretty funny.
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apparently the oscar writers are still on strike
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so fuck you haters
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writing all the terrible dialogue presenters have to say.
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we got a lingerie shop where i live called that. btw, garner looks effin good
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Her powers were more awesome and yet somehow more believable in the restart.
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arrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhh
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Zzzzzz
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Be afraid.
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And don't they always do Supporting Actor first?
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fuck him in his leathery waxwork ear
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Where's Chapelle?
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But I'm a Stewart mark, so what do I know?
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yeah, i thought supporting actor was usually first. OMG COSTUMES! yeah!
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Eckhart will own Jones' Two-Face.
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Who wrote that awful monologue? Shit.
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"To often the Academy ignores movies that aren't good." made me laugh very very loud. :)
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That chick came down from the cheap seats man
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Curious what the total will be by the time they announce Best Pic
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freaky
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starring John McCain.. The joke must be made!
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BITCHES!!
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And a montage? Yeah...this thing is going past midnight..
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Feb 24, 2008 7:48:57 PM CST
Harrison Ford and Sarek the Vulcan = separated at birth
by fluffyunbound
Someone really needs to get Ford into a Star Fleet ambassador's uniform ASAP.
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The writer obviously decided to start a crack habit during his strike time or they wrote Norbit. Which would mean he was already on crack.
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that had a hell of a lot more talent.
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they shouldnt have shown that clip
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go away Celine Deon or however you spell it
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Kermit!
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Feb 24, 2008 7:51:06 PM CST
i thought that song was dead and buried twelve years ago
by charlie murphy
excude me while i dab the blood out of my ears. fuck
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i love these things. so awesome
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"To really appreciate it, you have to see it in the wide screen." Awesome!
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Movies on iPod-sized things = Epic Fail
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oscar writers are still on strike. lame
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gotta see it in widescreen
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And hatred of our troops.
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Wow, sweet.
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CARRELL!
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at the Kennedy Center Awards for Scorsese. Still funny though, I guess.
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Hilarious
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Tubes going up and down over shafts. What's the intended concept there?
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I love the Oscars still. One of the things they haven't totally ruined yet.
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Surf's Up?
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THE RAT BITCHES!
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Incredibles 2 NOW, DAMMIT!!!
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good for him....make iron giant 2
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Here's a look at some of the looks back over the years....
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Nice Combover, and stop talking
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he even did it before speaking a word in his intro to the montage. Must be an acting tic or something
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Not like there was any competition. Wow you beat Surfs up and some weird black and white thing. Big deal.
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Well deserved, best soundtrack best film
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all wingnuts must die...
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I'm suddenly reminded of the Dave Chappelle wrap-it-up sketch.
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Maybe you can win an oscar for a well made animated film someday.
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...look at his bagged eyes. Got punch-drunked and crashed into the love sofa last night?
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Damn Heigl is nervous
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I've seen high school freshmen with better public speaking skills.
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heigl's shakey voice? was that for real? why get her to do it if she's uncomfortable? also "is this being shown in belgium?" was kinda funny
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The fact that Norbit was nominated or Katherine Heigl existing on that stage under her makeup?
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because she's probably gone 5 minutes without a cigarette.
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He bobbles his head and does that stupid smirk all the time. Bitches apparently eat it up. Me, I see right through his transparent personality.
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All nervousness on the stage is instantly forgiven.
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Just saying...
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As a year or two ago. If only she would realize if she let 'em out a little more no one would care what she said. Just sayin'.
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exactly like Depp with dreads and a goatee. not exactly a *spectacular* transformation.
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I am so there
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His bobble so funny in B&R
"Hi Freeze, I'm Batman." -
Feb 24, 2008 7:59:21 PM CST
Yes, LA VIE EN ROSE won the deserved makeup Oscar...
by badwaldo s revenge
...it means that French actress is sure to WIN! Congratulations! Least Academy award members paid attention to a subtitled foreign film.
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If she wins Best Actress, prepare for waterworks that will drown everyone in the first 5 rows.
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The eye shadow is key for today's glam pirate
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Only a half hour in and we're already being subjected to the songs? Fuck me..
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No one else is going to do this?
It'll be fun.
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day Lewis (shoe in)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem
ACTRESS
Ellen Page - the biggest breakthrough. Cate's already won and Luara Linney's cursed.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Saoirse Ronan
DIRECTOR
The Coens
BEST PICTURE
There Will Be Blood - Tough call but its my gut feeling
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im getting a sugar overdose...and we already know that menken is gonna win this award...just give it to him already
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im getting a sugar overdose...and we already know that menken is gonna win this award...just give it to him already
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Amy Adams is amazing
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Amy Adams seems so lonely up there.
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GOT ROBBED!
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God damn her veins on her arms are bad
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Housecleaning. It has to be done at least once a year. Actually if that song was playing I would kill myself.
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She should be more animated up there.
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Star Trek: Voyager wouldn't lie to me, would they?
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Wow Douglas you are a creep
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im waiting for the rip part...i love watching dead people
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will you sleep with me?
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and rub it all over her body Ghandi style.
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Picture- No Country (even though i'd rather have TWBB win, I just don't think it's happening)
Actor- Daniel Day-Lewis...if he doesn't it'll be a bigger outrage than Shakespeare In Love beating Saving Private Ryan.
Actress- Didn't really see any of them, but I like Laura Linney
Supporting Actor- Still didn't see NCFOM but Bardem rules..
Supporting Actress- Blanchett
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Come on!
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But how often is an Academy performance sung without a false note! NOT OFTEN INDEED.
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Go Once or this whole category is a sham.
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So, why was that nominated? I mean the movie was decent, but I think it had the Dempsy-factor going for it. Oh, and cash from Disney.
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wow, she wasn't bad.
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God I wish he woulda slapped the shit outta Seacrest.
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when his bit comes on. I bet he's last on the departed reel.
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"The best thing about Stewart’s monologue is that Marion Cotillard understands none of it."
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it's a great "kill other people" song.
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Loses to any of the other nominated songs, I'll puke
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She can quit her day job.
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Jett, you are going to get your clock cleaned for that one.
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I've been wondering how they'll handle it. Like you know he'll be bigger than Brad Renfro for instance but you have to give him more props...
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That award belongs to Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
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YEAAAA
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What that fool is cookin'
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..Best Achievement in Eyebrows.
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wooden while reading?
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FOR VISUAL EFFECTS!!!!
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Oh thank god Gay-formers didnt win.
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I even liked the movie.
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DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY!!!
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First robbery of the night.
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Wtf? lol and why do they only nominate 3 films for best SFX? Doesn't make any sense.
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There were no giant robots or squid faced pirates in that movie! (Or were there, I dunno. I never watched it.)
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You have got to be kidding...
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Even the Academy hates Michael Bay.
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DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY!
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Transformers had the most technically complicated digital creations of all time and At World's End used its $300M budget.
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for ANYTHING. that movie was a gosh darn snoozefest
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I haven't seen that in like 15 years
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Half the fuckin transforming was so out of focus and off screen. Thus, gayformers. But at least there was robot peeing and explosions.
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Feb 24, 2008 8:10:50 PM CST
Calista Flockhart and Elizabeth Mitchell: Separated at birth.
by christopher3
And by 100 lbs.
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I mean... I thought Transformers SUCKED but it absoposalutely should have won that.
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Yeah, we know how fossils form. How about dissecting the dino corpse, hmm?
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Transformers fx work was WAY better than Golden Compass.
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That was surprising considering Bay was at the helm. Pull the camera back when shooting giant robots buddy.
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Albeit, very bloody gloomy direction.
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Seriously... most of the robots were random, unorganic visual noise. That's not all that hard to pull off, and is so far behind the kind of thing Weta did with Gollum or King Kong. I have no idea how deserving the Golden Compass was, but Transformers wasn't half as impressive as people make it out to be.
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FUCK THE HATERS!
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Yay, Sweeney! Go CG Gandalf-Bears!
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and the puppies are safe! No award for Norbit!
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I'm so confused.
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Taking out a large portion of the liberal brain-washing community in the process.
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Now that's deserved!
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I loved the style of that movie. Hope it wins Cinematography.
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who gave the voters bjs for votes...cuz that was a bit of a joke
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what's she doing there?
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the award-winners!
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But not as Dylan....just sayin
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I hated the Golden Compass, I wanted to claw my eyes out. It was every single bad fantasy cliche in every movie ever thrown into a blender and thrown up on screen. Giant Fucking Robots vs. Talking Bears.
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Anyone who didn't watch the show wouldn't have gotten it (and it seemed totally random in the context of the movie), but for those of old school fans, it was awesome.
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It seems to be averaging 1 retrospective montage for every 1.5 actual awards.
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I'm really digging these moments from the past.
Robin Williams, "This might be the one time I'm speechless." -
I always liked that.
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what happened? so much promise. so much potential...
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got milk?
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Not the man to piss off.
"Call it, friendo" -
Mikey Bay is NOT up for best director? The Oscars are dead.....I mean, there will never be another show. Is he even there? Maybe if there were some pyros, he's own the oscars...just the show, not an actual oscar.
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How's MJ's jock tasting these days
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that was horrible
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"You fail me once again Starscream" Old School Goodness!
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He's way better than Ben Affleck
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Not a Catholic myself ... but two movies win that go out of their way to bash the Catholics (Elizabeth & Golden Compass. Hollywood and Harry = bigots. Such simple-minded folk.
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Once's falling slowly. Come on man
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Please win. Javier owned
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go Xavier!
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You 'da MAN!!!
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Nah, I wanted Affleck to win. The guy was the cornerstone of JESSE JAMES, which was the best film of the year.
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It would be a shame to seem him have a stroke right there in the middle of the cerimony.
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Probably the only good dialouge was Megatron n Starscream
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BARDEMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Friendo
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Way to go Javier.
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see, they still do something right
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He fuckin ruled that movie.
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Bardem should be the next terminator.
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Bardem should be the next terminator.
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Hell yes!
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Thank god for that.
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Is too busy fixing his watch to look at the stage. Awesome!
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Now we'll never have to see Jennifer Hudson ever ever again.
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English should be the national language of awards shows.
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One of the best performances I've ever seen, and easily the most timeless of all the performances tonight, save for Lewis's.
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Viva España!
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oops
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no one but your mother understood it, of course, but well said!
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Should have been Casey Affleck's though.
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Cause I would pay more $$$ to see that than I shelled out for gayformers.
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YESS!!! My mom's asking who is he? lol.
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Translation: This is for Spain and screw all the rest!
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of the night.
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"Congratulations, Excalibur Bum Bum."
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Ooooh, they're using technology to figure out how the body was preserved. WHO CARES! CUT UP THE DAMN CORPSE!
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affleck was very good...but barden was memorable...that character will remain with moviegoers for years...right up there with brando's godfather
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Javier Bardem was awesome, he said, this is for you mom, for your grandparents and parents, rafael and martina, for the great actors and comics of spain, who like you have brought respect and dignity to our country. This is for all of spain, this is for all of you (Spaniards) thank you
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As a terminator. He's probably be so bad he would take himself out. That's how conner really wins the war against the machines.
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But I think Casey Affleck was just as good.
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Pretty hoy for an old flamenco dancer.
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I keep hitting s instead of "D"
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seeing Harry's award after award rooting for the underdog, just to do so? It's sick. Dude, that award was JAVIER'S all the way
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I must be drunk because this thing is funny to me.
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Jon Stewart can be an asshole sometimes...that was a low blow
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Fuckin stalkers who look thru windows
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Surreal moments, man...
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Kid on bike: Mister? You got a bone stickin' out yer arm.
Anton Chigurh: Let me just sit here a minute...
Kid: Take a look at that fuckin' bone.
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WHOS MY MUTHAFUCKER?????
I love NCFOM -
Casey Affleck was amazing in that film.
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thanks for the translation, Spanish so fast was so overwhelming.
So where did he say the library was? -
fantastic
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He *rocks*
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I agree, ILM has been shunned for several years now.
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Including Best Screenplay
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snack break
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Yeah, we get it, the corpse got covered by muddy water. CUT IT OPEN!
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when was the last good song to be nominated for an Oscar?
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this a damn musical tonight?
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Kid got 100 bucks tho. He needs to be the next terminator. Spanyard model.
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Just play Falling Slowly.
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Was the Annie Lennox one nominated?
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Now where is that BBQ chicken?
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Which movie is this from??
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To this crap?
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...is awful
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Why is the sound so crappy? this song is sounding really weird, plus I KEEP HEARING PHOnes in the background. could be the pot I smoked earlier
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Than this bombastic "Fame" retread.
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Benjamin Linus owns Locke and Sayid.
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They've always sung all nominations during the broadcast. Doesn't anyone remember Robin Williams singing Blame Canada?
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Are you forgetting 'Hard out there on a pimp'? You may the one who can be many places at once but still...
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pass over the pot man, it might make this more bearable
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Oh, what? Oh, Raise...I get it!
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'cause it is in UK. Fuck you Sky tv
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And to be honest, he was mis-nominated - he was the lead of JESSE JAMES and should have been in the Best Actor category . . . where he would be obliterated by DDL.
I think Bardem got the short end of he stick with Chigurh, really - in the book, he gets a lot more to do/say and is a better, well-rounded character. In the film, he's just Terminator 2007. Which apparently worked for many people in the audience. -
Fuck man, "you got served" died before I was born. Thanks writers....
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That's gonna win the best song award then, no?
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Have to disagree. The best thing about it is the cinematography - which is inspired. But the movie is seriously let down by the presence of Brad Pitt in one of the leading roles. He's just got too much baggage as a movie star. Takes you right out of the film. The other problem is that Robert Forde - although well acted by Casey Affleck - is an extremely dull and uninteresting character. He is just a nerdy fanboy who never emerges from his mother's basement.
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...might have to be a late entry for the obituary montage.
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Yo, did he just wake up or take a hit?
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Everyone apparently forgot that Owen tried to KILL HIMSELF not but a few months ago?
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Hey, he's still alive!
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The International film festival.
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Outside of the Disney movie songs, probably Bruce winning for Streets of Philadelphia is the best win in the last 20 years. Before that, some good songs won: Time of my Life, Take my Breath Away, Say You Say Me, etc
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The Live Action Short film has been presented. Now I can go to bed. Congrats Mr.Pickpocket
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But I guess the academy wanted to wheel him out to show that he's a stable, productive, bankable member of Hollywood.
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Looks like the Big Shows
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Please God!
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Do it!
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Fuck France too
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I can understand why they do it. It HAS been funny zero times in the past.
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Go away jerry, please
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Yup, HUGE Lucas backlash since Phantom Menace.
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give it a rest. no one gives a fuck.
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No nomination for Bee Movie.
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He was getting on in Creepshow and he's still truckin. Respect!
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in the bees montage. Oh well. NOT THE BEES! MY EYES!!! AARRRGGHHHH!!!!
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But I wont do this during LOST.
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Never heard of it.
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I need to check those out somehow.
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Goo goo ga joob.
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though I haven't seen Golden Compass.
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Feb 24, 2008 8:33:01 PM CST
I have to speak on this but ..Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Oscar is the 2n
by jgmamma0
It makes me want to puke to see the shuffling/jiving/dancing-for the white man bullshit of when Cuba won that Oscar. Especially when William H. Macy gave one of the landmark performances of all time as Mr. Lundergard. Who remembers a 12 year old dumbass catch phrase and an overrated performance? You know, Spike Lee gets a lot of shit but he called it out in "Bamboozled" about Cuba.
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Try again
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What a bunch of fucking inbred neanderthals! The Golden Compass was fucking retarted, a coca cola bear in plate armor talking better english Prince Phillip. What a fucking retarded concept, who cares TF2 will own the theaters in 09.
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The show was starting to smell of onions.
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Everything stupid about Dreamworks Animation and WHAT EXACTLY WAS IT TRYING TO SAY? That if you work your ass off, you deserve to get nothing because if you do, it screws with everyone else? Or that you should work your ass off for little reward, yet it's not the best thing...GAH, it was SO frustrating. At least Happy Feet at DANCING!
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Glad it didn't win. Was just fine 9 10ths of the way but then tacked on an ending that was the exact opposite outcome of what Elmore Leonard wrote.
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At the first one the Best Actress gave a 1hr acceptance speech. For real.
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It's a montage-fuck. Holy crap, enough already.
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Blade Runner fans rejoice.
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This TB, once more, will be better than the actual show.
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I just wanted to yell at the screen "I get it you're a fucking bee!" the entire time.
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like thought u were rid of me or some stupid scripted shit like that
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How they name these movies is fuckin genious. I don't know the passion and drive that the writers put into a tital like that. A pure insperation.
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*title
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She was fucking great in that! she could indeed have played the bulldog
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either him or jack...way to age gracefully
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Bang as many broads as you can. Truer words were only spoken by Tom Leykias...or however you spell it.
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nuff said
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You're an actress, Ruby. Thats you up there.
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the only category where i dont care who wins, they were all great, hope ruby wins, just cos shes old. the dirty whore mom and the lying brat were great also
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GONE BABY GONE! THE WIRE!!! FUCK YEAH!!
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Please...
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Got the Art Direction Oscar? Really? It was an awesome movie, but compared to all of Tim's recent shit Art Direction was the one category it did not excel at.
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I would have never remembered she was even *in* AMERICAN GANGSTER had I not seem the trailer before about 20 films this Fall. Yet another lifetime achievement award disguised among the regular awards.
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look at her face
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Good for her!
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Didn't see that coming. She's great, even if I'm 1 and 1 now.
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michael clayton sucked
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Yikes, like freddy in HD....woah. Bad dress too
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Can you say upset
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Than Gone Baby Gone did in its entire run. ;) Now give that supporting actress award to Jennifer Garner so she can clock Gary Busey with it.
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the Glad garbage bags for making my dress
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erm, i mean Swinton. whatever.
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as the poor single mom. Perfect.
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However, this could spill that Clayton, as Hollywood-associated as it is, could win more than we're figuring.
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Oh, it's a lovely number made by Glad
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Feb 24, 2008 8:39:48 PM CST
I just realized why this talkback isn't as fun as previous years
by chrth
Polanski wasn't nominated
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That's sweet. She probably wont really give it to him.
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seriously
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NIPPLES!
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Her eyes match dude
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Man, I did not see that coming at all. At. All.
But I like that she ragged on Clooney for his Batman nipples. Awesome. -
cool speech
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Tilda would make a great Desire, she looks very Bowieesque
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They go 0-2. Tilda needs to thank Time-Warner.She thanked Clooney, close enough!
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You know it, too.
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Clooney is going to get shit for Batman and Robin till the day he dies...and even after that.
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Even though she looks weird
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MISTER MOTHERFUCKING Tibbs!!!! I could so see Sam Jackson doing his life story. And then cleaning brains out the back seat of a car.
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Consider my eyes glued..
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Though it'd be in vain since Jon can't bring up the shear significance of the word CUNT in Atonement.
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He was pure class.
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Amen to that
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Best acceptance speech...
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This doesn't mean Michael Clayton is now going to be inexplicably smothered in awards. Just this one for Tilda plz. That's enough. Really.
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will never live down the rubber nipples & the bat suit. tilda swinton rocks!
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Yes. Yes, she is scary. Picture waking up in the middle of the night and seeing Tilda Swinton standing in the corner of your room staring at you in the dark. Frightening.
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He publically said that Tilda Swinton was the only hope that Michael Clayton had of winning an Academy Award.
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Great catch. She would rock as Desire!!! That's a movie to made, or er, fucked or ready to rape someone's childhood.
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Feb 24, 2008 8:43:29 PM CST
Did anyone see Ryan Seacrest ask Alba if she was gonna breast-fe
by memento108
It's gold, Jerry, it's gold!
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You're not send me to da coola. Ice! Cold. Chill!! Cool Pawty!
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Sal: Now get some sleep, I may wish to have sex again before we eat breakfast.
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All acting privilages should have been revoked after that.
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Dude, sadly I was watcing the E! red carpet. When I saw that chick...wait...Alba.
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She was just 'ok' last night in bed.
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Harry forgets that he's supposed to be keeping up with the Oscars. Now, he'll come back and say he's thrilled that whoever won, won.
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Woot.
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Where you at? I wanna read your reaction on Tilda's win
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Looks like Clay Aikin in a dress
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Why did any of the other supporting noms bother even showing up?
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or is she still preggers
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Dude, I thought she was gonna spit in his face.
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Made this all worthwhile.
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Had to be said.
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Some guy from a band?
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Why did any of the other supporting noms bother even showing up? I mean good ole Javier was not surprised.
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MY GIRL. macaulay culkin's glasses falling to the ground. comedy gold.
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What I was trying to put down in my title of my talkback was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Oscar was the 2nd worst Oscar winner (in any category) next to Roberto Benigni's Best Actor Oscar. And, this is from someone who loves "Life is Beautiful" and thought it deserved the Best Picture nod & Best Foreign Film Oscar. But when you look at the other Best Actor nominees that year with Norton ("American History X"), Ian McKellen ("Gods and Monsters"), Tom Hanks ("Saving Private Ryan"), and really the in my opinion the best performance/one of the psychologically scariest lead performances with Nick Nolte ("Affliction").
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Glad she won, she ruled.
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use protection dude
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wahahahahahaha
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ZZZZ
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lol.
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Yet I've never seen her in the nude. But now that she's won, hopefully that'll happen.
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what?
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If stuck in the uk with no sky movies, watch it on raptorsnation.net. I want to do things to Jessica Alba. Even though she's grossly knocked up.
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I love how Jack (on a first name basis like a know him) always looks drunk, like he doesnt give a shit
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or did Josh Brolin actually just basically call him a panzy for doing a bad Nicholson?
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Otherwise she would simply be eating donuts.
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X2 mofos!!!!
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No Country wins. Wow.
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He kinda reminds me of a young Kurt Russell..
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The best filmakers alive today.
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loved No Country
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no country....great adaptation...read the book
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but unfortunately we will never again see the body from Sin City. A sad, sad day.
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I really do. But Coens own this.
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Were surprisingly fun together weren't they?
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There Will Be Blood better get directing now. Make no mistake, I loved NCFOM, I'd just like to see There Will Be Blood getting more.
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is..doing the voiceover for...the Oscars...OH YEAH!
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Is knee-deep in some spinach dip right about now..
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The book and move were awesome, but was hoping for schnabel to win, TDBATB was great and made me cry like a little girl. of course I'm gay so it doesn't take much
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how cool
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Nice to see a writer getting props. They usually wander around the parking lot.
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crap
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Cormac McCarthy's book reads like a screenplay, and it's a HELL of a lot better than what happened with the film. They should have just adapted it word for word rather than make the cuts they did.
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are wacky kids
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Tell me that's not perfect casting.
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cuz they need free commercial time....this is such bullshit
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in his pockets
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...don't look alike. One is tall, confident and has a full head of hair and is better looking, while the other is short and skiddish. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which is the writer. My money is on shorty.
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I know he's doing Dancing with the stars, but he's a fucking sit filler
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Christian Bale for Liquid!
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No Country for Old Hobbits, the sequel to Clockwork Hobbit.
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those ass holes: Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood, didn't thank the Coca Cola commercials for making there job a lot easier.
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Fingers crossed!
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Feb 24, 2008 8:51:42 PM CST
1st Miramax Kidnaps Members and Forces Them To Watch 'Chocolate'
by skoobyx
was that Michael Bey?
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But I can't imagine Snake without Hayter's voice...
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2 for 2 ... what are the odds on it going away with all 8 it's nominated for?
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dickhead shouldn't get to vote
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Feb 24, 2008 8:52:09 PM CST
Why do they give out Oscars? Because ABC tells 'em if they don'
by pennsy
We'll just have a three-hour Best of Dancing with the C-List Has Beens instead.
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Feb 24, 2008 8:52:24 PM CST
I always thought nominations were done like that one game...
by zephyr1988
You know, the one where you have to angle a cow so that it can crap in the middle of a bullseye. The closer the turd, then the most likely to get nominated.
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ANOTHER!!
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Finally have a reason to post it. He's an Academy Member???
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No country for directing, PTA for film or vice versa...
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You voted for Crash didn't you?!
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What happened to his head?
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He's on fucking fire
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Maybe the winners could actually finish a though & their acceptance speeches if they weren't wasting half the show with these worthless montages.
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WHAHA
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She's a fucking nobody!
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Seriously. Someone poke him.
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millions of tweeners have no fucking taste
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Thanks for setting that straight.
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I'm guessing Harry is taking a wicked dump right now... I figured he would've taken his laptop in with him.
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LORD
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For the wonderful CHENO tits
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Not another piece of crap song
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we jaammmin
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I'm sorry, I know its wrong. But I'd leave everything for her. Family, kids, house, whatever. Everything.
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I was thinking Hal could've had... One way or another, SOMEONE is going to need an ambulance tonight. I can feel it.
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But this is the ONE SONG she needed to do!
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Or is she?
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Dreads tapped that.
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of all the nominated short films live /animated ever. Because who ever sees that shit? I mean if I can get fucking Snorks on DVD....
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please tell me its the dress and not a boob reduction
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do you really expect talent?
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Miley Cyrus reads better than jennifer Hudson and has more poise than katherine Heigl.
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Can we lock Bay in a room and play them over and over? Or I'd opt for the falling Looney toons Anvil. 3rd? Bay in the hatch alone with Sayid. I go for 3.
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during these songs?
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this is gayer than i expected
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What's this nonsense???
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That worthless fuck Michael Bay is an Academy voter for directors? That ass???
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you perv....and god, the girl is fugly
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She's like 15 dude. You better hope NSA doesn't monitor this TB. I can see your point though...
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U know it dude!!!
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Avoid Enchanted at all costs
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loved the way brad bird votes,
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It's time to change the channel
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Best pic and best Director , PTA needs to get one tonight!
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Short films were a warm up for best non american film. Where any of them from W. great country?
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That would so rule.
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are the man (or men)
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He demands things...to be Awesome.
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PLEASE??
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It was a weak year for songs and film....god that was dreadful.
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Terrible timing, terrible terrible. Bay probably staged it.
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Is seeing Heidi Klum's hotness on every commercial break promoting Germany's next top model
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Oooh, we'll just scan it for months and hope we get something we can use. Tools. Very disappointing special.
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Him, Seacrest and Sayid in a triple threat. Wait, maybe they could just stab John Cena
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all that dolphin tuna isn't gonna eat itself...
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Would pwn that bitch.
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I was wondering what the fucking hold-up was.
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Dempsy is on there and Kathryn Heigel too. Don't worry they'll show Puff Daddy as well b/c his show is on tomorrow on abc.
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cuz 2 reasons for watching pushing daisies are gone...and they shoulda just played clips from the movie....enchanted was surprisingly good, and the songs really are catchy
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What happened to the indian people driving cabs and hispanics, asians, weird haired women and beggars and homeless people?? I don't know what New York City setting they are talking about...
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Cate Blandchett didn't win supporting, she's just.... just awful. She pretty much is a bad Tilda Swinton.
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What kind of bizarro world are we living in here a kid comes out and has a much better stage presence than actors with decades of experience - including several previous award winners?
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3 fucking songs from Enchanted?? give me a fucking break! they should have nominated every song from Once and Shakira's 2 songs from Love in the Time of Cholera, which were surprisingly great
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...is better than anything at the Grammy's this year.
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sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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Dude, that that shit out 1st.
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Maybe they'll keep adapting McCarthy's (awesome) stuff. Blood Meridian- check. The Road- Check. Maybe go on to do Child of God and others. Cormac's the man!
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That won't be funny.
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The baby goes to... ANGELINA JOLIE!
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Why don't I own Superbad yet? TO BEST BUY!
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awesome, I love this irreverent shit. Seth has dropped a bunch of weight
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seth rogan & mini-seth
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I actually thought that was them walking out
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They keep say Holly Berry. Does Jonah Hill know who Halle Berry is?
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THAW that shot out 1st I mean. Damn champainge
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What the fuck?
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THAW that shit out 1st I mean. Damn champainge
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kids have no fear thats why.. except me when i was young i was shit scared of everything.
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Oh, Transformers lost again. Blade Runner fans rejoice.
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That makes up for Transformers losing VFX
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die michael bay....die
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By default!!
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They should just give up now.
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The sounds in that movie was bone-crushing, crystal-clear madness.
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The Oscars are boring and lame, but I love movies, so here I am.
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No award. Justice is being served tonight. And champainge
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Why God?
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I guess in retrospect it was a good idea to not just recycle the 60s Batman's *BIFF* *BANG* *POW* text bubbles.
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Transformer's shutout - Bourne rocked in the sound editing department!
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Guess which one I have muted 98% of the time and which one that I have the volume way up? By the way, it is cool seeing Amy Ryan lose an Oscar on one channel and throw shit on Dominic West's face on another channel. Also, the Wire even in this lesser season is better than 99% of all the films nominated this year probably with the exception of "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "Away From Her", and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly".
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looked like he knew his shit.
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cause the herky jerk hand held visuals didn't tell you what was going on.
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seriously....check out pics of sherman....hill is is fucking twin
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These are broken into different categories? Really? Pretty much the same nominees for both. And of course BOURNE won both.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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The Academy really hates Bay/Transformers
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Praise the Lord!
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ok....
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AGAIN. FUCK-THE-FORMERS!!!!! Peace on earth and all that!!!
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The O'Connell guy's been up for the Oscar 20 times now without a win. Move over Susan Lucci!
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Nice.
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I don't know why they bother nomination any Sci-Fi movies, they never win.
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And hasn't won yet? Wasn't he a sound guy?
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Because it was first on the list of nominees.
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Sound rules.
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Maybe that's the academy's tribute to them...
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Ultimatum is so awesome.
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or no less than equal to "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "Away From Her", and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly".
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Much rejoicing among Blade Runner fans.
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This shit better pass...
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Still bang Julie Andrews. And give her a donkey punch with the handle of her Mary Poppins umbrella.
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Seriously, it was either of the sound categories (I think it was mixing) and he was nominated 20 times for movies. And he just lost again.
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the 'wrap it up' music. you can be in mid-dedication to a recently deceased colleague, and they'll play your ass right off the stage.
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And still no win for him. They hate him more than Michael Bay. Could be his lover, who knows?
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Tried to speak, mic was already out, hilarious.
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her tits look great though
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Holy crap!
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For most entertaining thing on tv in the past few years.
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No just for herself....BUT FOR ALL BLACK WOMEN
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i'll be able to upload the hotties to my own personal holodeck and have my own oscar party. Hurry up 2030!!
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She fucking owned it, or Paige who was great too.
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Kicks so much ass, and was amazing on The Shield
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but today speeches are five seconds long.
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What's the music from where they're showing all the previous best actress winners? Is it Forrest Gump?
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Naughty things.
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That was cute.
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FUCK MICHAEL BAY!!!You may take our money, but you'll never take AN OSCAR!!Bay gets an Oscar: http://tinyurl.com/2mcg43
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Who's Julie Christie?
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i agree with you 100%.
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please God
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seems to be going by really fast, hasn't been a drag like every year, good telecast in my opinion. and is Julie Chtistie a GILF or what!
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But it would be better if they delivered booze, instead of pizza
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It could be a gusher of tears if she wins!
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what don't you understand you dumb bitch!
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Has scared me since Hard Candy
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Please.
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fucking yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I hear that films really good I'll have to see it.
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I'm glad.
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Juno lost man.
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was an amazing performance, especially under all that makeup
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page had that locked
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its a fix.
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well she's hot.
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Marion is AWESOME!!
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Now the Oscars do matter finally. Besides my anger at them for rejecting ZODIAC in every suitable category.
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I just want to fuck my tv from seeing her
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She's something else. I even liked her as Kitty Pryde.
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there are suprises tonight!
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Beware the haters!
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Holy shit shes smokin
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did they not even SEE Transformers? Worlds end was great too..... Golden Compass was a bit bland really, visually anyway. Transformers had anyone who worked in visual effects collectivly gasp at what they managed to pull off.... bloody oscars.
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Is it just a coincidence ? The show seems to be moving at a good pace. I may actually get to watch the best picture award. Must be because they trimmed all the fat with the reduced timeframe to "produce" the show. Now if only they would cut the fucking ridiculous musical numbers.
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Just to hate on Transformers?I salute you.
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been in love with christie since i was a kid....hrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmm
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Very kind
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is an 8... no, make that a 9 --the bump attributed to her accent and general incoherentness.
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Except for Javier Bardem winning, my Oscar pool has gone to hell.
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Everyone rocked her world apparently.
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Here is how to win an Oscar pool. If a person nominated in the category is the only one to play a real person they'll win automatically.
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Dude, I thought the same thing earlier.
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it's a fact
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That hack-eyed performance was shit anyway
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So fuck all those people who said I'd be in line to see it opening day. Fuck em!!!
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automatic suckage.
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Seeing the clips from the movie have me wanting to search it out and watch LVeR.
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or am i off?
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wants to lay his jungle gorilla in that foreign chick
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Thanks God, the Juno express was stopped on this round. Now, if Brooke Busey-Hunt (I do not give her power and call her by her made-up stripper/showbiz name) does not win for Original Screenplay for Juno and Tony Gilroy for "Michael Clayton", I will be happy.
But anyway, great choice for Best Actress because out of all the nominees Marion Cotillard carried the movie most. I think that we are just got to see the explosion of the next great international actress. -
Someone holds the book and flips the pages.
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Is there never a time to hate on Transformers? No. I would love to be in a cage match, tied to the wrists with switchblades with Bay. And of of course the proiverbial steel chair.
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We all paid with a part of our souls.
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Time-Warner, Tom Hanks and his friends voted for Linney because she is in the HBO miniseries "John Adams" made by Tom Hanks.
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HELLZ YEAH
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hope so shes great
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It's 9:19 and we already have a Best Actress. That isn't the norm, is it?
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Appropriate.
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to do is get a goregous one and ugly them up.
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and i don't shave.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:19:30 PM CST
WTF? Jon plays Nintendo Wii on the gigantic screen
by badwaldo s revenge
My face is green with envy. I sold Wii package on eBay along with Guitar Hero III, Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario Galaxy to pay the last-minute bills last December :-(
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Seriously did the watch the same movie as me. Thought she was very average.
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lead such sad lives.
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WTF? Can Irish talkbackers help me out here?
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seeing as he is 17 years older and shes 19
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I had a media pass and STILL want my money back! Hating Transformers is like Jello, there's always room.
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Seriously, "Falling Slowly" damn well better win.
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If this song can get nominated, why can't Transformers get an Oscar?????
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I can't believe that Golden Compass beat Transformers in the visual effects department. There is NO WAY that is possible...hhmmmm me thinks some kinds of politics is afoot. Golden Compass effects are fairly average.
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I can't believe that Golden Compass beat Transformers in the visual effects department. There is NO WAY that is possible...hhmmmm me thinks some kinds of politics is afoot. Golden Compass effects are fairly average.
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Surprisingly sober there, Col
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it would have been awesome.
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So, it won't win.
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...she was practically bred in a tube to be on stage.
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Do you even know what your fucking name is?
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so clearly deserves to win over all the over stuff.
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This song just rocks without being cute.
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The Godfather parody.
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No one saw that movie.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:22:27 PM CST
How the hell Once didn't get a best picture nomination is beyond
by ampersand110
seriously awesome movie
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out of a skyscraper window so I don't have to listen to any more of these shitty songs!
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she's too classy for him! i wont believe that rumor!
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HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S JACKY!
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was act nervous. I guess she nails the androgynous vote.
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A legend.
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That song from "Once" wasn't nearly as amazing as the people in this talkback have been making it out to be. Really? If that song loses it'll be that much of a crime?
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Feb 24, 2008 9:23:25 PM CST
This is embarrassing....Where is Gabe Cash When You Need Him
by uss cygnus
Who are these idiots? Tilda Swinton? Marion Cotillard? Javier Bardem? YOU WANT TO CUT MY FUCKING HEAD OFF AND USE IT AS A FUCKING BASKETBALL?!? FINE!! I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE KILLED BY THIS LIMEY, IMMIGRANT, JERKOFF!!! I WANT TO BE KILLED BY AN AMERICAN!!!!!
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I was eating my weight in wings and cheese dip
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just too amazing
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I also think Once was the most touching film I saw this year. I hope it wins.
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if Micheal Bay took transformers out of the running, just so he didn't have to read about you all bitching about it. The Boring Ultimate winning sound over Optimus? I guess its not as bad as losing to a 10 year old Coca Cola commercial.
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playing himself again, like he always does.
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FUCK YEAH JACK NICHOLSON!
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Really? They thought this was a good idea? Really?
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Please god not every single best picture... I want to go to bed soon.
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the Brando tribute sucked so I guess it won't be anything grand
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I saw the name Damien Rice in the special thanks section of the credits for Once, because I heard the music way before I knew anything about the movie and swore that it was him.
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Bay didn't have to take the movie out. That shit sold itself. Go shhot a pregnant reality show whore.
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Stay away from the light Harry. STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT!!
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Watch them all.
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Bay didn't have to take the movie out. That shit sold itself. Go shoot a pregnant reality show whore.
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that shawshank, goodfellas, casino, taxi driver, raging bull and brokeback aren't on that montage
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ABKing - commence masturbation.
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That's a dope movie.
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a mighty injustice
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Best decade for film ever? Yes. And not just because of the Best Picture winners.
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ZZZZZZ...
Why are they using so much time on old material rather than this year's winners?
And how will the academy have enough material for future retrospectives when they cut off each winner after about 10 seconds? Other than the first lines, most of the most clever, heartfelt, and memorable lines are the ones people toss out after they run out of people to thank. -
Annie Hall my ass
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Watch this space
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Hmm, don't know if they cut it out. That would suck.
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I'll never get used to her perma-pucker.
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It still holds up.
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I'll say it again. Do you even know your fucking name?
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That's what this Bourne Ultimatum guy is gonna say
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doesnt stand the test of time...
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Sleeping with Colin Farrel to women, its on the list of 100 things to do before you die
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weak.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:29:42 PM CST
I hope Clooney doesn't win. After all his false humility crap.
by chadiwack
Oh oh oh no I won't win..me no way, I mean Daniel day lewis is such a better actor...me Oh gosh no I don't have a chance...Oh hell has a better chance of freezing over...I'll just have to cross my fingers gosh darn it. maybe, kinda a lil hopeful. we will just have to see. It's not easy playing against a powerhouse like daniel ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz. SHUT UP CLOONEY!
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Feb 24, 2008 9:29:46 PM CST
I hope Clooney doesn't win. After all his false humility crap.
by chadiwack
Oh oh oh no I won't win..me no way, I mean Daniel day lewis is such a better actor...me Oh gosh no I don't have a chance...Oh hell has a better chance of freezing over...I'll just have to cross my fingers gosh darn it. maybe, kinda a lil hopeful. we will just have to see. It's not easy playing against a powerhouse like daniel ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz. SHUT UP CLOONEY!
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Tons.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:29:50 PM CST
I hope Clooney doesn't win. After all his false humility crap.
by chadiwack
Oh oh oh no I won't win..me no way, I mean Daniel day lewis is such a better actor...me Oh gosh no I don't have a chance...Oh hell has a better chance of freezing over...I'll just have to cross my fingers gosh darn it. maybe, kinda a lil hopeful. we will just have to see. It's not easy playing against a powerhouse like daniel ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz. SHUT UP CLOONEY!
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3x for Bourne. I should probably see that shit
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Feb 24, 2008 9:30:00 PM CST
I hope Clooney doesn't win. After all his false humility crap.
by chadiwack
Oh oh oh no I won't win..me no way, I mean Daniel day lewis is such a better actor...me Oh gosh no I don't have a chance...Oh hell has a better chance of freezing over...I'll just have to cross my fingers gosh darn it. maybe, kinda a lil hopeful. we will just have to see. It's not easy playing against a powerhouse like daniel ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz. SHUT UP CLOONEY!
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don't even get me started. I was waiting for Return of the King to get the same dry-fucking, but thankfully, those fuck sticks couldn't deny Jackson's three picture achievement.
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Now if it just had acting, hahaha
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Shut your goddamn mouth about The Departed. That is all.
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Damon gets a shout out!
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Babel for sure!!
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Saw it again the other day, wow some of you are dense.
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the fights were flip books
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Honestly.. what a bad year 2004 must been
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ZZZZ
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good stuff.
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Leading the way tonight thus far, right...?
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You never saw the movie. I'm unabashedly blind when it comes to this film. It's one of the most touching scenes in recent cinema. Every time someone mentions the movie or I hear one of it's songs I smile on the inside. What more can you ask of a film, really?
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It holds up the shelf my Star Wars movies sit on.
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You never saw the movie. I'm unabashedly blind when it comes to this film. It's one of the most touching scenes in recent cinema. Every time someone mentions the movie or I hear one of it's songs I smile on the inside. What more can you ask of a film, really?
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The Bourne Ultimatum. Christ almighty.
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Was the Green Fairy
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And nothing comes close to it, even to this day. Thank you Sir David Lean.
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Your not Sidney Poitier. That award obviously goes to Denzel Washington, he has the much more exotic name as well.
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...is performing very Matrix-ly tonight.
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Please make some sense you arrogant douche.
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keep the light off of her or she'll burst into flames.
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cruise is a pussy blocker
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all the rest is pointless to me. Well, if Michael Clayton wins another oscar it's gonna be miserable to witness but still... Way to go, Marion!
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why is there a chandelier hanging from that mannequin's neck?
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we get it Chadiwack
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Says Jon mentions the Aint It Cool talkbacks ONCE during tonight's show.
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Or is It a Montage of How Many Times Oscar screwed up and awarded medicore pictures? Yeah, I am looking at you BROADWAY MELODY, GLADIATOR, and A BEAUTIFUL MIND. Why the fuck would you give Jack Nicholson the presentation of this montage? That is not using Jack right.
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Jebus, she better have 10 security guards with her.
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than all the Best Picture nominees at the moment.
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I want to date an Australian chick.
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Jesus Christ, did she even look at that necklace when she chose her dress...?
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If he hadn't decided to be a dick in every scene he's in it would be a great film. Damon and Leo do a great job.
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Can't believe it didn't win best picture.
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That made me snort. Bourne wins 3 Oscars!
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Feb 24, 2008 9:33:27 PM CST
First Katherine Heigl, then Jessica Alba, that French actress an
by badwaldo s revenge
They are so roilingly hot my dick springs up to salute natural beauty. Oh, and Ellen Page makes my heart pump blood with furor, despite her height.
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Another Bourne would make me very happy indeed.
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I was gonna say the same for you dickhole. Back up your statements.
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I don't need to read lists of nominees, Harry. Jesus. And that's really all you had to say about Seth and Jonah presenting? Really??
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Yet they use the music every year.
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And update your Not-So-Live Commentary.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:34:44 PM CST
Delicioiuscowbell, Titanic just might be the #1 movie moneywinne
by pennsy
For a long time; you will never see a movie be #1 at the box office for 13 consecutive weekends ever again like that was.
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What's the song that played during the Best Picture montage? That song sounded super familiar, I can't remember if it's a movie theme or what. Anyone got a clue?
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Is fuckin old
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i want to party with this old guy. i bet he'd be a fucking hoot
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Eugene Levy in A Mighty Wind
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The talkback is right here, buddy.
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The Force will be with you.
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And why is he thanking Will Smith?
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I think we're supposed to be the live commentary.
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The patronization from the crowd is too painful to watch. So fucking fake.
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"to Hitch, who took a chance..."
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with pussy like Kidman and Cruz, and he still werent happy. Now he has robochick..GAY!!
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Any day
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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo didn't win BEST PICTURE in '84?! Now that is what I called "robbed"
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I can barely see what's underneath that necklace. She should have just ordered Liberia's 2007 stock and made a full dress.
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movie history is on the screen right now, embodied in one man
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[snorts] "Earth to boring guy." [Audience howls with laughter]
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Feb 24, 2008 9:38:16 PM CST
Its the obligatory "no speaking while old guy gives a speech"
by j-dizzle
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ditto previous post
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Feb 24, 2008 9:38:18 PM CST
Oscars are on, guess I'll wathci it till the Simpsons is on agai
by digitaldong
Yeah and everytime I see Clooney I wonder just how many cocks he sucked to get where he is. My guess, a metric ton.
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so we know who the fuck is talking.
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Ok, he's gone now! LOL
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What a bullshit win.
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HAHAH fucking hillarious, was thinking the same thing
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What's the song that played during the Best Picture montage? That song sounded super familiar, I can't remember if it's a movie theme or what. Anyone got a clue?
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NOW.
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Ran out of booze. Sucks. Gotta hit up CVS. Sale on Champainge.
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She's probably trying to blow him. I bet it's one slippery Society-style flesh fest in Harry's room right now...ugh.
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Not worthy of their consideration, it seems. 2001- robbed. SW- robbed (although I love Annie Hall). The best sci-fi filmmakers can hope for is technical awards. I remember when Tron came out, they wouldn't even put it in the running for any SFX awards because the computer effects were "cheating".
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Cotillard's Edith Piaf was pure genius, while Page was doing (in a quite mediocre manner) the same sullen ironic teen thing done much better in the past by Thora Birch and Sarah Polley. I'd like to see *her* tackle something like Piaf - it would be a joke. And how glad am I that not one of the acting Oscars has gone to an American so far? Sweet! American actors mostly suck.
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the bourne ultimatum.
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Good news for you. Damon and Greengrass have signed on for a fourth Bourne film.
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was one of the writers that went on strike.
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thank god most of you wont make it anywhere near 98....but that man is movie history....but to most of you, movie history starts with batman....fuckers
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suck.
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Never got that one.
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..if I'm not mistaken. If I am, the haters will attack.
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Bring on the tampon commercials!
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WTF? Penn Gillette? Steve Guttenburg? Adam Corolla? are you serious?
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Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
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First Saving Private Ryan now Bourne.
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Teddy Rabbit made from Intel ftw!
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What's the song that played during the Best Picture montage? That song sounded super familiar, I can't remember if it's a movie theme or what. Anyone got a clue? Come on movie nerds I know you can help me out.
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...that he's the only one who finds him funny on the Oscars.
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It was the score from Dragonheart
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although the counterfeiters was pretty cool
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He probably couldn't find any wetwipes to clean his grubby intoxicated fingers
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has done been nominated for Best Foreign Film?
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very hot
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Probably could fit all the folks who saw La Vie En Rose in a phone booth.
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But that one clip makes me REALLY want to see it.
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Why don't they just stick them in the best picture award? Surely a foreign language can't be THAT big of a set back.
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except for voters.
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dude he's the greatest thing of this show, get the fuck over yourself
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Was it me or was Ultimatium pretty much a clone of Supremacy?
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Couldn't snooze, with her eyes wide shutbefore I asked to hit her gut
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WT Bloody F?
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in all her orifices
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It will be an upset but fucking Alan Menken is kick of upsets, that asshole won for Colors of the wind on Poke a Hooker, over the best song ever EVER in a movie, You've got a Friend in Me.
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Where the hell did they dig up this leftover from the '80s?!
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Beowulf should have won best animated picture, just for Angelina's perfect CGI tits alone.
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I might have to blow my brains out
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Nominated 10 times is Enchanted for best song. Oh and some other song
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What would foreign language movies do without the 2nd World War and the Holocaust? Never mind, playing a real person - this one trumps everything in the win department...
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way too predictable...borat is weeping now...the jews beat kazakstan again
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is the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life. Not that there's anything wrong with gay, it's just that that set--it's fuckin' gay.
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there's no hope.
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Yes it was the theme from Dragonheart. They use it all the time in montages and trailers. The theme from Dragon: The Bruce Lee story is used a ton too, and it'll probably be in the dead people montage. Both were Randy Edelman scores.
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On my Austrian Leaf Blower.
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I think I might be buying the DVD just for her CG-tits. Plus, I liked the movie..
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Clooney and Viggo both have films coming out this year from Time-Warner. They will split the "suits" vote.
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bathroom and snack break!
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'Here singing "You Have Failed Me Again Starscream" Is Grammy Nominated R and B Sensation...
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wtf! they are coma inducing
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Sorry, I didn't mean to insult the Hollywood legend...who was he again?
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What would the documentary category do without Chernobyl?
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or Farrell will go on the rampage
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save my place in line....and this guy cant fuckin sing
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Fake ass hair
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is the gayest thing this night yet
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I meant Jon Stewart
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last foreign film in best pic cat.
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shit....he looks like crap
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Well done.
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-Once should win.
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He wouldn't have slipped
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Feb 24, 2008 9:50:01 PM CST
Biggest show of the fucking year, and they can't clean a wet spo
by johnnys2
Jesus Christ.
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i honestly didn't know he was still alive. and now he's going to be *dancing?* does this qualify dancing with the stars as raping my childhood?...
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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YES!!!!
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This time.
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3 SONGS AND YOU COULDN'T WIN ONE AWARD!
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...none of that garbage from Enchanted won. Not a big fan of the song from Once, but it was 100 times better than the other garbage and at least tolerable.
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frankenmug's face makes TV shortcircuit
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all i hear is "Sean Archer, Castor Troy, Castor Troy, Sean Archer" and all I think about is how he thinks his hair looks real....If i go bald i'm definitely asking him for advice
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Or does one equal the other?
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Leave the god damned microphone on!
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Shit
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Shot with Handi-cams you say?
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Funniest line of the night so far.
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lolz
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The Oirish are comin'!
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John just made the best joke of the night! So arrogant.
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That guy is so arrogant. Joke of the night.
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Tsk, selfish man stole all her speech time.
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Oscar gets it right.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:53:55 PM CST
Wouldn't want to have to write the review of this Oscar tonight
by skinjob69
It's completely unremarkable in every way. No great ad libs, nothing unscripted. Host's script= safe and middle-of-the road. Ratings are going to suck. Makes me actually miss the 3-6 Mafia bit, or the Jack Palance push-ups or even the guy crawling over the seats.
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travolta vs seagal?
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I've heard nothing but heaps and heaps of ebullient praise.
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I highly doubt if the holocaust hadn't happened that all 6 million would still be alive anyway, what with illness, aging, maybe 3 million.
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suck my cok
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instead of the usual Disney shit! (and it's a good movie, too!)
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just advertised Snickers here in the UK. Comedy gold.
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best soundtrack ever
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This has been a deadening Oscar show, but congrats to Once for stopping the Evil Disney Empire at least for tonight.
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classic!
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I should really check out that movie.
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this is the shit!!!!!!! go marketa^
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She came back on!! Great great moment.
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Carrie Underwood's song was better than those.
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Holy hell I'm glad they brought her back out there!
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But good job to the Academy..
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Have they ever given someone an acceptance speech do-over?
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Well, good for you! (I guess)
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8 i got
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Thats Classy letting her do her speech.....way to go Academy
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Inviting Marketa back out after she got cut off earlier was a classy move. Whoever made that call got it 100% right.
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I'm struggling, but I can have hope [sniff]
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Glad he brought her back.
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E.T. was in fact nominated for best picture. Lost to Ghandi. It should have won.
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Now there's an Oscar moment... her speech is a bit shit though, but still, good show.
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other people get cut off and don't get a do-over. and then she just says a bunch of melodramatic crap.
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and everyone else got screwed.
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The most xenophobic and anti-Semitic comment in talkback history. Congrats to you pal! May there be a shower without water in your future.
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Getting Marketa back out on stage.
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Feb 24, 2008 9:59:12 PM CST
That is my favourite moment of ANY Oscar I have ever seen.
by juggernaut125
Giving her a chance to say her thanks. Say what you will about Jon Stewart, but he KNOWS what the Oscars are about.
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who finds Cameron Diaz disgusting?
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That mic shot up fast when her hot ass came out on stage
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I wasn't being facetious.
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letting Marketa back onstage to finish her acceptance speech. I guess everybody REALLY fell in love with the actor/singers and the film, huh?
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was not a better film than Gandhi. Not even close.
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...the wall says, "fuck you" and cockpunches her in the face.
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But the movie was cool.
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And listen to that audience appreciate it.
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nicholson's joker? and can she get on jennifer hudson's 'phonics' reading plan?
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was fucking robbed of a nomination..
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Unbeleeeevable work
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That's classy.
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Feb 24, 2008 10:01:05 PM CST
Paul Dano looks really old for his age, like an older Dakota Fan
by ianrewel
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NCFOM and TWBB battling it out in a battle to the death!
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...but since then she's just never reached that level again.
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I love NCFOM but the cinematography in TWBB were out of this world. Congrats!
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RAISE YOUR HOPEFULLL VOICE..FUCK YOU ENCHANTED. ID STICK MY COCK IN AMY ADAMS THO. POOR CUNT LOST MUAHAAHHAHHAA
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The guy got reamed. JESSE JAMES was a masterpiece in every way, and for as much as I didn't really like NO COUNTRY, it looked great.
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coming up.
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here it is!!
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Wait. For. It.
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no comment
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sucks that he left so early, what a great actor
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RIP, mr. ledger.
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Jack Valenti that is
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They should have just put the guy on it anyway just to see if anyone noticed. Gotta get those laughs somehow!
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Yep.
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fuck him
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everytime they show laura linney - viggo mortensen is in the background very stoic looking like he is ready to murder
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I always get chills watching that
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suck on it haters.
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brokeback garb?
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Not too much not too little. It really is sad..
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There he is! Such a freeking waste!
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Way too short man. I wanted to see some Joker footage.
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He died like a week ago.
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That sucked.
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bringing her back as opposed to someone else made sense. Hansard only spoke for about 30 seconds so it was bullshit they cut the mic like that. I guarantee Stewart bringing her back was his idea. She seems extremely unassuming and I doubt she threw a "hissy fit". That was the best thing I've ever seen at an Oscars.
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just packed in for the night. Cheers Sky fucking Movies, what a great service you are. Enjoy the rest of the show guys.
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And did it sound like they faded the audio under so the applause didn't get obscenely loud?
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Good job on the Ed Harris impersonation. Be it an impersonation from a movie you were just in with him. And nice balls.
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unless I missed it.
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WTF? Ooooo I like that dead person better! Show some fucking respect!
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Was Roy after Jan 31st? But I don't understand the Brad snub. Maybe his family didn't want it?
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Rufio aint dead!
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Marta's coming back on after the break so she can spout an even more cliched speech
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Feb 1st 2007 - Jan 31st 2008
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Shame. :(
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of did my fucking eyes deceive me? WHERE IS ROY, THE FUCKING MAN'S MAN!?
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before last years oscars and he was shown. this is insulting
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No edge at all to this year's Oscars. I like Stewart, but it's the safest Oscars in years.
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He designed many famous movie posters!
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His loss and impact on movie-making was the biggest. Nothing against Heath whose loss was tragic.
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A mention of the Jaws music after the obit thing and they decide the death-day cut off was the 31st. Fuck you, Roy Scheider, I guess...
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*boo
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Actually Ledger shouldn't have technically been in this one either... Don't they usually just show the full previous year deaths? 2008 deaths should have been next year.
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which was the cut-off date for the Oscar obits. So he'll be in next year's show...
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Really, they should mute the audience mike so we would do not have to hear what jerks the Hollywood community are for not clapping for the greatest African filmmaker Sembene but saving the biggest applause to Heath Ledger. And, excuse me any death montage should have ended with Bergman not Heath Ledger. Who ever had the most impact on film should end the montage.
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*boo
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Anyone remember that Buffy episode, Family?
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Delivered that presentation nicely.
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his score was groundbreaking
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Didn't see him in that death montage. Shame on those who left him out.
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Man, such a great actor and person, just ignored like that. I hope someone mentions it during the night.
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The cutoff was end of Jan. But he was a fucking man's man!
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...died in February, so he'll get included next year.
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How do you manage that?And I wanted 3:!0 to Yuma to win, loved that music.
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I did not know that.
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to hopefully see Daniel Day-Lewis get Best Actor.
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can clean my apartment and my cock anytime! (and please don't kill your career with Night at the Museum 2, Amy!)
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Feb 24, 2008 10:11:30 PM CST
Alright I', back. But now I have a ruben sandwhich to eat.
by toughguyrizzo
And For a writer, Skywalker is amazingly gifted.
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It's whichever hollywood member died between the oscars. Chris Penn died a week before the Oscars. I remember very well and he was shown in the Obit.
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How the hell can they leave people off a memorial?? In the real world, if you leave out someone's obituary in a newspaper, you are as good as fired. This is pathetic.
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wasn't anyone watching the screen? The very first thing they showed during the montage was the date range. Read the freakin screen
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Still my favorite actor.
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Way to over enunciate.
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Shame why they can't include a small clip for anyone who died before the awards. Can't take that long to add it to the montage.
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I saw the video, and I believe.
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DAMN! They've dropped the recruiting age to 15!!!
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which is a very good thing.
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Whats' a guy to do?
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Feb 24, 2008 10:13:29 PM CST
uh... shouldn't you all be somewhere getting blown up?
by vaudeville villain
you have no time to be announcing nominees!
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Is fine. And in shape.
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but how many of these soldiers going to be dead soon? END THE WAR IN IRAQ! (that's my political statement for the Oscars)
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holy shit I am pissed not only did they attribute Roy's ad-libbed line from Jaws to some screen writer but they didn't even recognize that he died because they were taken with some younger younger Aussie piece of ass!! I liked Heath Ledger too, but Roy has been in a bunch of grat films spanning over 30 years and gets ignored. Fuching pisses me off.
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I'm petty Officer so and so!!! And besides letting you know the nominees, I just wanted to say that the "Dont ask, dont tell" shit os really working for me.
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How horrible would it be if they announced the Documentary nominations and No End In Sight won? I don't think the Oscars ever be forgiven.
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What are the chances that PTA would win as Best Director at this point, I wonder?
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They're all fourteen years old!
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Hey, it's my prom dates from junior and senior years of high school! Except these gals added Oscars to their dresses from JC Penneys and Kohl's!
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We will let you announce the Oscar nominations but when you come home we will spit on you and call you baby killers.
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lumbers on. UGH. I think Atonement will deliver an upset, darkhorse win.
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I agree, Giaccino is a modern musical genious
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That would be ironic if they didn't...
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and somehow this bit means they really care about them? They can take their Redacted's and Elah's and jam it up their collective asses. Skip your phony sentiment, we know what you think of the war, our soldiers and the military. Nice try thouch.
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They show that redheaded Tim kid and Rufio, and neither are dead... Who de hell died????
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seriously.
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Any woman who is an auto mechanic has to be a les
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First soldier: super gay.
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Michael Moore rules.
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Was he last year?
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...with all these anti-war docs
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Bank it.
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I'm pretty sure everyone is still alive.
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Did they give him 2 chairs?
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Feb 24, 2008 10:18:16 PM CST
Even my picks for Documentary and Shoert Documentary have won!
by ianrewel
besides the criminal ignoring of ROY SCHEIDER and BRAD RENFRO this has been the best oscars in years IMHO, I hope JUNO gets the big win, at least Diablo Cody should win
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best picture.
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That's the name of my trip to East Detroit, 3:13 AM, last June 19th. Let's just say I had a Hugh Grant moment, mixed with a little Eddie Murphy...
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Not that they give a shit about the winner.
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MUAHHHH!!!
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glad Micheal Moore's fat ass didn't win...he is the biggest doushebag ever. Seriously, make a documentary is isn't liberal as hell
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That's what happens when they get a ton of indie films nominated for the major categories.
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The big problem for her is that she has the same classic problem many "momentarily hot" Hollywood babe actresses have. In THE MASK or SOMETHING ABOUT MARY she was the hot or playfully fun cute girl that you wanted to take to a movie or go out for a beer with. She's the perfect hang-out girlfriend to be with or (sorry, but in a male pig way) show off to your guy friends. The problem is -- like most actresses that fit that niche -- her age is catching up to her. She was never a "classic beauty" type like Catherine Zeta-Jones. So the fun quirky things that defined a once youthful face 10-15 years ago are now fading rapidly.Not to mention, from seeing her on talk shows, she clearly has the brain of a carrot...
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the way the obit was setup this year with side by side clips. confused people.
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silly
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Did any of you conservative fuckfaces actually see "Sicko"? You probably would've liked it.
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lol at the pretentious dickwad.
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It was a makeup person if I recall??
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surely it should be a few days before broadcast not the 31st for this very reason. All it would take is someone an hour or two to keep the death list updated...
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that best actress is announced so early on now?
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Why is Elton John's hair standing straight up?
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Also known as propaganda.
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I have to 'wake up' in three hours
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Appearing in his own b-roll from next year's actor's RIP montage.
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preceeded all the anti-war, anti-American docos. Phoniest. Gesture. Ever.
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thats who died
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Daniel Day Lewis' night is about to be made
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not any of the fucking kids. (yeah, I was confused at first, too. But then I remembered I could read, and I wasn't confused anymore!)
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Sad. The names on the screen were small.
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Call that sexist if you want, but I just call it getting people's attention before the costume, sound, effects awards put them to sleep.
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usefull idiots.
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Every time that dude shows up I gotta say it.
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His man-friend's "hair gel"
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Monty Westmore .... assistant makeup supervisor
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I'm pretty far to the left and I think he's a stupid piece of shit. Wackjobs like him make the rest of us look bad.
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And what's up with last year. Snubbing 'Gizzly Man' AND 'Murderball' I don't know what they're thinking.
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yeah ok
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that I have time to correct my mistyping, hence the multiple post.
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...In the RIP section as well. It comes off smelling too much of Hollywood trying to be hip towards one of its own.To be honest, if you're going to put someone at the very end, as the fade out person, given how much he truly did do for the Academy and Hollywood and what not, how the fuck did Valenti not get a better nod? I'm sorry, I don't mean to speak ill of the dead or anything like that...but surely someone who truly DID make a truly historic impact on the history of film like Ingar Bergman should have gone last...and if not someone of that caliber, then Valenti certainly deserved that final fade out shot.
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those music guys suck!
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here comes Indy!
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drunk? senile? a lil' of both?
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vs Bay. Complete ownage
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Although he DOES look a little old.
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someone wake him up
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She's fucking smokin'
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looks like hes about to die
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talk about a mid life crisis.
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he's fading out....
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burgandy, and it sucked balls. Moore is a fat bitch
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Shoe in.
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it used to be a fraught journey of personal anguish, now they just take a taxi. (sorry someone had to make it)
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suck my cock
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What a revelation.
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Let's see...
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Good for her!
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is she dressed as a flintstone?
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The makeup guy for Hook died.
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"What is happening?!?"
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Bull.freaking.shit.
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Literally, this year's "Little Miss Sunshine"!
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why why why wh why why why why why
what a piece of shit - now that crack whore is a fucking oscar winning crack whore - least wen she goes back to stripping she can use her Oscar as a prop -
She's the new Michael Bay.
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Grizzly Man kicked my ass....that shit was Crazy....go herznog
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Except in Hollywood where the popularity contest never dies.
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oh, and most fake, fake-pregnant baby-belly EVER in the movie Juno. So fake it took me right out of the movie for a minute while I marveled at how fake it looked...
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cmon indy
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I just sent a complaint e-mail here... http://www.oscars.org/contact/index.html Obit snubs during the obit piece happen every year and it always infuriates me. There is no excuse for it and I strongly urge others to complain as well. This is simply unprofessional and irresponsible on the Academy's behalf...no to mention just plain shitty.
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Now every goddamn stripper is going to say she's writing a screenplay moments before she picks up her dollar bills and panties
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Feb 24, 2008 10:27:22 PM CST
HAHHAHA DIABLO CODY WALKS LIKE SHE IS BEING CHASED BY COCKS FROM
by jbouganim1
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Now, please let the backlash for Juno begin along with the Obama backlash please. Goddamn it please!!!!
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That was a tough category.
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In that pale-skin-goth-suicide-girl sort a way.
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I guess I'm thinking of some other ex-stripper with a tat of a naked woman on her arm. Dime a dozen.
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Courtesy of the Wilma Flintstone Collection
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phony name, phony "nerd" schtick...what a crock of shit.
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I'm currently an exotic dancer so I find this inspiring.
'Is there a fire here ladies?' -
Feb 24, 2008 10:28:36 PM CST
FORMER Stripper won Best Original Screenplay Oscar
by badwaldo s revenge
Can she hit the treadmill and still shake T&A for the horny young screenwriters? Fugly arm tattoo. Maybe she can author the script on the life and times of degrading sex-crazy porn star Belladonna.
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American Living JCpenny commercial?
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Film at 11.
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I'd flee to fuckin Canada.
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Feb 24, 2008 10:29:03 PM CST
DIABLO CODY WALKS LIKE SHE IS BEING CHASED BY COCKS FROM HER PA
by jbouganim1
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First short film documentary.
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Feb 24, 2008 10:29:07 PM CST
DIABLO WALKS LIKE SHE IS BEING CHASED BY COCKS FROM HER PAST
by jbouganim1
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I dated a stripper once... well, technically twice... and strippers are the worst girlfriends, but they are dramatic like actresses.
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I was just thinking ,why aren't there a lot of movie trailers shown during the commercial breaks? It would seem to make sense...I guess.
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yes fucking yes, go diablo cody, best blogger alive, fuck yes!!!
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For those that hate the film because Juno does not talk like a true 17 year old, it's a generational thing. Cameron Crowe and John Hughes are Baby-Boomers who rules the 1980's with movies about Generation X teens. Some back then hated those films, but most teens at that time loved them.
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will the site self destruct? Hmmmm...
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Don't remember that in other years. Right- they can support them now that the surge worked. God forbid they support them when the going is rough. Phony patriotism- the only kind in L.A.
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Talented AND beautiful. Really great to see her win!
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yeehar
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OPRAH buys the world. coming to NBC, brought to you by Kellogs.
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YESSS YESSSSSSSSSSS
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Obama Backlash? Jack Velenti going last because of his impact? Get fucked you dumb shits. You fuckers don't even think before you post.
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damn Recese Witherspoon is hot... Ryan Phillpine is an idiot
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William (James T.) Shatner!
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that´s some huge ass
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Yes, I would, lets go DDL
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Its a little weird. Two shots of Jager would get me there though.
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Come on!
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because it sure as shit wasn't going to win for best picture! (although I liked it, it just won't!) It's the sympathy vote. So, by that logic, TWBB will probably win best pic and director...
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You think Hanks is a right-winger? You really are a fucking retard. There are no right-wingers in Hollywood, at least none of any stature. Even Bruce Willis jumped that ship. Too bad for you, fuckface haha.
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Shit....nothing? Ok, I'm going to try. And what the fuck is she saying? Co-HO-neeeeez? Dryer than skywalkerfamily.
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And his pretentious bobble head move.
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...Is frankly that so much of her so-called back story is a PR push and half of it is utter bullshit. Her "rags to riches" story is not like J.K. Rowlings, mother on welfare who makes good in a fluke chance and goes on to immortal literary fame.For fuck's sake, Diablo WORKED at a professional ad agency and was promoted for her abilities -- she only stripped for a year and took it up for fun, to feel naughty. So this whole bullshit PR angle like she was a stripper crack whore who lived in a dive hotel and who wrote Juno on scraps of paper and NOW she's a successful Hollywood writer is SUCH crap it makes you WANT to hate her and JUNO.
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!!!!!!
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Oh there you are.
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I would make sweet love to her. That is all.
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sounded like she was doing the voiceover from Ghetto Defendant
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doesn't have a chance in hell, but i'd like to see him win...
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DDL wins
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that should go along with the milkshake line for TWBB
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FUCKAZ
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DDL FTW!!!
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I'm sooo confused.
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but only if DDL wins
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did a great job, though.
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his Oscar.
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And then FINALLY we'll have a classic Oscar moment tonight.
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The greatest performance of the decade! Daniel Day-Lewis rules!
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U DAMN RIGHT!
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...lost :(
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Absolutely mindboggling performance.
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Woohoo!!
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WTG Daniel!
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An award given to an amazing actor
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DDL! Awesome!
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Fantastic
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I really gotta watch that film. I'm curious.
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Daniel Day-Lewis for "Tonight's Speech" written last night at his hotel.
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It couldn't have been easy doing combat with knives whilst your business is hanging out.
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Viggo did too, but DDL was amazing.
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He's all class. And this will go down as one of the best performances in film history.
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Day Lewis owns all!!
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No doubt.
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Feb 24, 2008 10:37:21 PM CST
At least now Clooney will be quoted EVERYWHERE saying 'see I tol
by chadiwack
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...a total WHORE?
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wow dude, you called that when no one else did... I had no idea DDL was gonna win. That's like saying the sun is gonna rise tomorrow
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Yes, with a capital "C"
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probably pretty close...
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Age of Innocence, Ballad of Jack and Rose, Gangs of New York, I'm trying to think of one you couldn't give an oscar for...
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo DDL should play everything.
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Easily Daniel Day Lewis is the best actor around today. That performance will go down in the greatest characters in film history.Should have won it for Bill the Butcher but this guy is a tour de force.
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classy.
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Thats how badass he is.
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The Barbera Walters special, when they showed a clip from Raiders of the Lost Ark, The subtitle said 1985. I started screaming 81 you fucking fools! 81 you fucking fools! 81 you fucking fools! fools! fucking ignorant motherfucking fools! Well this will keep me up tonight, I thought. Now there are some people walking the earth with the belief that the film is from 85. They have no sense of time or history. I hate that!
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Really?
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Anyone see that girl Viggo was with? Did anyone else she looked a little young for him?
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But hurry back fellas, the talkback needs your snarky remarks.
http://tinyurl.com/2hvboz
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*clap clap clap clap clap*
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No, I can't back that up!
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I drink your milkshake Mr. Bond!!!!
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But its a hard call.
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AAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Asshole Oscar motherfuckers for dissing Roy. I hate them ALL. DICKHEADS!!!! -
No Country winning Best Director and Best Film? Hmmmmmmmmm
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It was his niece I believe. from pre-show
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Showing the "I abandoned my child" clip after having just watched "I Drink your Milkshake" on SNL this morning that dumb skit finally paid off.
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Money is on No Country.....comon baby needs a new pair of shoes.
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at the boxoffice than NCFOM and TWBB *combined*.
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Damn.
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Nice to see him up there again
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Maybe Ed Harris will finally win an Oscar someday. Ohh wait that was Viggo again.
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but he deserves it for everything else
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Just watch!
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I would make sweet love to him. That is all.
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Feb 24, 2008 10:42:53 PM CST
I want a milkshake honest to blog i've never flipped a coin, do
by ianrewel
nuff said
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good deal!
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You dudes rule!!!!!!!!!!!
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Does this make it any more possible for Blood to win Best pic?
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For the Coens and PTA :(
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Granted, I haven't seen NCFOM so I don't know if this is a travesty or not.
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Nice work!!
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First 2 director win in Oscar history?
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Feb 24, 2008 10:44:19 PM CST
I want a milkshake honest to blog i've never flipped a coin
by ianrewel
do I look like I'm negotiating? I also want to kiss a wet cunt. nuff said
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here we go...
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looks like a badass
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These dudes are creepy.
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But not for me though.
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I must be doing something right.
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They went out and achieved anyway!
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I'm in full blown TB mode. Anyways after seeing clips from Sweenys Todd again. That movie I am gonna say was my favorite last year. It was really good. Burton and Captain Jake should get an honoary award together for there colloborations, I am gonna say its probably the best in Hollywood. I mean yeah there have been better, but have there ever been one that has gone on as long as theres? Except my Hitchcock and his wife? Also for work so different each time.
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Awesome that they won, was for Schnabel though
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The Leads are weak!
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Best Director and Best Picture usually go hand in hand. Once upon a rare occasion they don't.
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bingo
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Great to see it.
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Could the Coens be any less enthused, though, about either win? Srsly.
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN!
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hell yeah! Would like to have seen TWBB tie in an ideal world.
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Well deserved too.. TWBB was a great movie, just came out in a tough year.
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YESSSSSSSSS KILLINGS AS EASY AS BREATHING
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I liked this movie. I have my own problems with it. But, well... it was the only one of the five choices that I actually saw, so.
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Baby got her new shoes.
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Tess Harper where are you?
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Meaning, balls
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It would be appropriate if he didn't let them complete their acceptance speeches.
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like NCFOM was.
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and you too, Orionsangels, you anti-semite!
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Really loved that film and TTWB.
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He makes hosting the Oscat's look so easy. He's beyond relax, its as if he's doing his own show.
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Too late to type right!
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Was that a good Kenny from South Park impression? ;)
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I'm finished here.
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God. My Mother. My producers for taking a chance on a script about a talking cow with ebola and as always my wonderful co-wives ....is that the music? I have to go now.
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Probably the boringest Oscars ever. Everything was soooo fucking obvious. Even the people from No Country are not even that enthused. I guess mirimax told the Coens though if they wanted to keep making movies that they would have to show up to accept this award.
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No cheap shots, no vulgar remarks (well, not too much)
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Now thats quite an achievement. There Will Be Blood deserved a lot more but the year belonged to one film and one film alone.
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Now I have to go see NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and JUNO.
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If the two of them had split the picture vote, allowing Juno to win. Ah, good times then. :D
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I actually really liked "No Country," but PTA's Blood was a classic... just amazing. I think we'll look back years from now like we do on Pulp Fiction... wondering how it didn't win best pic & director, when it's clearly a legendary film.
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Gross!
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YES, EVEN HARRY
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thoroughly enjoyable, all the winners were very deserving, and Stewart was great host
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All five nominees (and pretty much every film nominated for anything tonight) were better than "Crash"... so the night wasn't a total bust. What a disgrace when that was sandwiched between all the other Best Picture winners in the montage earlier...
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for the big P Diddy 'I want to be an actor now' vehicle tomorrow
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BEST PICTURE OF 2007!!
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Fuck anyone who hates on him. he was absolutely great.
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was one of the best movies I've ever seen. No country only managed to get a shrug from me. What total bullshit. Coens came off as seeming like "Yea, we won. You're surprised? We're not. We're AWESOME!" I guess if TWBB jumped from the scene with daniel in the restaurant with HW to all of a sudden him pounding the skull of Eli Sunday with a bowling pin it would have won best picture. Whatever. Nothin I can do about it.
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Did you an clip from the early 90's of the Howard Stern Show with Jon on it, he was stoned and SO out of it. NOW he's family friendly and Political. It was really funny to see.
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NCFOM deserves both directing and best picture, kudos to day-lewis winning best actor, and oh well to ellen page, better luck... whenever other than that, ok oscar show, needs a new host
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God bless Michael Bey!
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behind DDL
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No Country for Old Men will win Best Picture, but 2 years, 3 years, 5 years down the road people will still remember There Will Be Blood. The best film doesn't always win. That was the case tonight.
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Oh, it didn't win? Damm.
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There is nothing special about his directing, or his movies. Fucking people are retards. Why's his shit popular?
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Don't get me wrong, I love Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones ... and Javier Bardem seems to be a great guy. Just haven't gotten around to it.
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And let's not forget the troop bashing and lie filled documentaries about them, either. Who fucking cares?
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...but they're sort of douchebags. Joel seemed gracious enough but Ethan, acting the little arrogant twerp that he emanates should just fuck off. Great movie, though.
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She got the Gary Coleman disease or something?
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And then there's Atonement, but nobody watched that. Go Coens! And good on Daniel Day for win (Viggo #2 and Clooney #3) and awesome that Once beat out the Disney machine!
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You know, for a lame writer who is the latest flavor of the month (meaning her 15 minutes of fame are already ticking downward) and who gets praise for writing as if she is "hip" and "trendy" and "pop culture savvy" and all that typical flavor of the month bullshit, its rather funny that she didn't geek out more that Indiana Jones presented her Oscar.Anyone notice that as she walked off the stage she stayed AHEAD of him, she didn't walk WITH him or say anything...not even look remotely pleasant? In fact, the ONLY time she actually turned to him was to grab her Oscar envelope -- and even THEN she took it with a firm tug from Ford as if to day "Give me my fucking envelope as a souvenir. I can sell that later on eBay."Thank goodness JUNO didn't win Best Picture. Most OVERRATED film this year, certainly the most lame film to get nominated in the Best Picture category, as if the Academy was stretching to fill out the top 5...which is ridiculous given all the other films out there.
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there will be blood is hands down the best picture of the year and to not recognize it as such is a fucking crime, and the choens are a bunch of assholes. the are lucky that everyone in hollywood jumps on the same bandwagon and follows the heard. congradulations Paul Thomas Anderson
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there will be blood is hands down the best picture of the year and to not recognize it as such is a fucking crime, and the choens are a bunch of assholes. the are lucky that everyone in hollywood jumps on the same bandwagon and follows the heard. congradulations Paul Thomas Anderson
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Who should be arrested for impersonating a Best Picture?
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I'd go blind watching that clip over and over.
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Anyone want to bet on how good or piss poor this Oscars did? Given that there really weren't any "big" movies nominated or driving this thing that actual working class PEOPLE went out to see? There was no TITANIC or LOTR here to save the ratings, but who knows? Maybe people tuned in just out of Sunday night boredom...
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I will give you that No country did take chances in the narrative, but TWBB had way more subtext and challenged the audience way more than No counrty. Even with No country's time jump and trying to figure out what's going on, TWBB was still more engrossing and had way more to offer with it's subtlety.
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She grabbed the envelope from Ford like he was some damned pee-on. Fuck that bitch. I'll bet we'll never hear from her again.
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It's great that it pissed off the general audience with that ending. It built you up into thinking "This is one of the greatest films I've ever seen". Then the rug gets pulled from under you and your cinematic knowledge is going into mayhem mode.You breathe and think what's happening and then suddenly nothing makes sense but that's what it does. You start to realise that the good guy doesn't win (yourself) and you can't stop what's coming. That's immaculate, that's emotion being played back at you. Genius, pure fucking genius. The people who hate the ending hate the fact they allowed themselves to get into that situation. The same situation that Josh Brolins character gets in when he find the money. You think you're away easy but in the end, something bites you on the ass.Immaculate beyond a doubt.There will be blood is a great film but the emotional impact on your viewing will always be with NCFOM because of that ending. The rug was pulled and you even slipped.Now it's time for me to get blotto and celebrate in the Best Film of the Years awards. :)
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He did well in There Will Be Blood, but he seems to have a low celing. I could seem him playing a Columbine character or something, but not much else...
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Can't remember the last time my favorite movie of the year won best pic. Silence of the Lambs, maybe? Anyway, not only does NCFOM have an ending, it's the best ending of the year! Sorry it didn't end with a shootout/deathbed confession/catharsis/victory lap/spaceship liftoff/robot reunion/rousing musical number/last minute comeback/prom/graduation/state funeral/flash-forward/birth/talent show/rescue/courtroom speech/freeze-framed high-five/freeze-framed group jump/freeze-framed hug/freeze-framed old person skydiving/whatever... But make no mistake...that movie had an ending.
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at the end of No Country. The movie kind of left that up to you and I like to think she made the most sense by challenging Chigur's way of thought and got away clean as a result.
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and all those docs too.
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got pwn3d!!!!11!! lol wtf
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But Daniel Day Lewis was amazing in that film....
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Something about her face, maybe it's the eyes. She has that Jeffrey Jones look going.
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Feb 24, 2008 11:14:31 PM CST
Once again, the Oscars choose the flavor of the week...
by jacksparasites
Star Wars, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Double Indemnity, Pulp Fiction - what do they all have in common? Oscars snubbed them. And now they've snubbed Juno for a film nobody will be interested in watching or talking about in film classes in 5 years. Way to go, Oscars. NCFOM sucked balls! The one good scene in the whole movie, the coin toss scene, felt like they were trying too hard to be Tarantino. Maybe next year, the Oscars can try giving the award to a movie that is actually ABOUT something.
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Seriously. I guess Zodiac came out to early last year; people forget too fast.
Is it just me or Ellen Page is fuckable as fuck. Helen Mirren is the hottest old lady (G.I.L.F.) in the planet.
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I drink your BREASTMILK
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Remember us.
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Way to go, Daniel Day Lewis. The guy is just a lanky tower of acting power. Seriously, one of the most amazing performances of the last 10-15 years. He had some fine competition but I'm glad his role/work was acknowledged. Well done.
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I remember when the Coens used to the be the ones people would champion and say were underappreciated... and now they're appreciated and they're up their own asses and snobby and don't deserve it? It's not like they won for INTOLERABLE CRUELTY or anything. Their filmography is amazing and it's a testament to the greatness of No Country For Old Men that it can be counted amongst their best works. I just think it's funny watching the tide turn... it's like watching an indie band make it big and still manage to keep up amazing, unique work... and still see the fans turn on them...
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Shitty Direction, bad camera angles, sound was off on applause and orchestra. I would've enjoyed it on HD (great clarity) but all those reasons just put me off. This year provided nothing special for the 80th Oscars.
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Or is Rachel McAdams still holding that crown?
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For we now have vital seconds of footage of Cormac at the Oscars, wearing a tuxedo, clapping, and smiling. Who would have thunk it?
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Jesus Christ, the lengths to which you geeks will trip over each other trying to out-praise that meandering, pretentious mess by PTA is simply astounding. I'm sorry, but that "I drink your milkshake" bullshit was a piss poor flameout for a film that lost its way about 75 minutes earlier. And please, shut the fuck up already about your relentless "Juno" hatred. We get it. You all could write a "better" script. Cody Diablo deserves nothing because she was once - god forbid - an "exotic dancer." Any 10 minutes of the "Juno" script was better written than 3 full years of that tired "Arrested Development" bullshit that the very same hacks keep praising (hello, "Entertainment Weekly," I'm looking at you) ad nauseum as "classic" comedy.
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There was nothing Razzie-worthy about that masterpiece. It had MUCHO CAJONES!!! MUCHO CAJONES!!!!
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It's called "Thank You For Smoking." Check it out.
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or he has no heart. ONCE is an amazing movie.
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Cool.
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JBouganim1for - "DIABLO WALKS LIKE SHE IS BEING CHASED BY COCKS FROM HER PAST"(Although, it took him three takes to nail it...)
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did adrienne shelly get nice applause?
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she justs sits there.
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the Dude abides!
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And I really loved that song. Even Colin Farrell got choked up introducing them.
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Either you are trying to bait people into arguing with you, or you are about as smart as a groin. Silly.
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If only for the great music.
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I am Batman has no heart. You should have seen what he said in the Ledger Obit TB. Classless.
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I won at the bookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thankyou to all my friends and family members, especially my sister Kiri for the birth of my nephew Wyatt (how fucking cool is that name!!).No Country For Old Men winnig best pic, amazing!! My dad (who is totally stuck in the 70s) thinks that Javier Bardem should get a spin-off because he was so good. That's like the highest praise I have ever seen him make, ever. I also have won A LOT of money this year. I normally win a bit but thisyear I was 100% correct in the 5 major categories. I would love to buy all my fellow tbers a drink, but I have instead decided to drink on all your behalfs. Here's to a GREAT 2008 my friends.
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Best moment of the shoe = definitely Stewart bringing Marketa back to give her speech after they rudely cut her off with this music just as she was opening her mouth.
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It's the way of the world. There's no real use complaining because popularity and recognition will ALWAYS equal backlash.
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juno was a nice film, but easily forgettable....no country is a masterpiece...and if you dont agree...fuck you....fuck you right up the ass
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was adrienne shelly even on the montage?
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how many days before enterlamement tonight has exclusive footage of diablo cody stripping at "the body shop"?
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Over Transformers?
Way to say "We're liberal athiests." Idiots. That's what happens when you let your political stance take precedence over reason.Not that Transformers was any great Oscar film, but it clearly had the best FX of the three films. This nonsense was just a response to how the Christians panned the film, it made no money, and the trilogy got scrapped.Obviously they think that adding "oscar winning visual FX" to the franchise might help it out.
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They're great little indie-flavored comedies, and I like them both a great deal, but there's no real use in arguing their merits on these TBs. They're not really this crowd's cup of tea, simple as that.
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She's looking a bit creepy. Can't women just grow old gracefully without nip/tucking themselves to shit?
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It's like a puzzle for you to piece together when you're all alone, or at least after you've scribbled your name on the wall with your own feces. I'm not here to knock you by any means. Just knocking the hype of a good but ultimately over-rated film. It's amazing how filmmakers get a free pass based on previous great works.
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I think NCFOM is pretty mediocre overall compared with their other films.
Technically, it looks great, and I think it's one of the best-looking films the Coens have ever made.
But I thought they made a poor adaptation of McCarthy's great source material - and that's what counts most to me. Every change they made except for dropping the hitchhiker subplot (and they made a LOT of changes despite what many critics have written) made the film a lesser work than the book.
I think the backlash against the Coens has more to do with the Coens' fans - and the fans of NCFOM - rather than the Coens themselves. There are a lot of bandwagoneers who have been rallying around NCFOM. Some claim to see great depth in the action (depth that I think was mostly lost in translation from story to screen), and there are others who seem to think that liking this film makes them smarter than people who don't like it.
So I can understand the backlash, but not the target - it's not the fault of the Coens that an astonishing number of NCFOM fans are haughty, psuedo-intellectual pricks. -
I loved No Country. Loved it. Like I loved Fargo, but like Fargo it didn't deserve best picture. Best picture encapsulates everything we want from an out of body experience: wonder, escape, and emotional release. Coen's always nail the wonder and emotion, but struggle when it comes to escapism. There characters are too rooted in reality. Anderson's epic brought us back in time, lambasted humanity and delivered such militant atheistic scripture that how could he possibly sway the academy. Fargo lost to Braveheart, which did more than Fargo as a whole. TWBB does more than No Country. Not too mention had better performances overall. Dano doesn't get enough credit. There Will Be Blood's message was more accessible to the masses...No Country is obnoxiously exclusive...keep in mind, i do love it. I can appreciate Ethan's smugness, but he should consider how much these award ceremonies really mean to those who want to pursue art. Yes it glorifies actors, but it also praises the other components to making an out of body experience. I judge competitive speech at the high school level. Each weekend these kids try to out act one another. Every week there is a mini Oscars for these high schoolers leading to the state and national competition. While No Country really spoke loudly to the uncontrollable and sinister truths within the human psyche, TWBB did that while implying how it affects the future. TWBB takes responsibility for the deep philosophical and psychological issues it provokes. Plainview's view is the only view. It is his story, his milkshake, his competition. The Coen's posit the question as the answer, while Andersen claims the answer is not questioning. The Coens have a theory and PT has indisputable proof of law. PT is a master of horror.
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I loved No Country. Loved it. Like I loved Fargo, but like Fargo it didn't deserve best picture. Best picture encapsulates everything we want from an out of body experience: wonder, escape, and emotional release. Coen's always nail the wonder and emotion, but struggle when it comes to escapism. There characters are too rooted in reality. Anderson's epic brought us back in time, lambasted humanity and delivered such militant atheistic scripture that how could he possibly sway the academy. Fargo lost to Braveheart, which did more than Fargo as a whole. TWBB does more than No Country. Not too mention had better performances overall. Dano doesn't get enough credit. There Will Be Blood's message was more accessible to the masses...No Country is obnoxiously exclusive...keep in mind, i do love it. I can appreciate Ethan's smugness, but he should consider how much these award ceremonies really mean to those who want to pursue art. Yes it glorifies actors, but it also praises the other components to making an out of body experience. I judge competitive speech at the high school level. Each weekend these kids try to out act one another. Every week there is a mini Oscars for these high schoolers leading to the state and national competition. While No Country really spoke loudly to the uncontrollable and sinister truths within the human psyche, TWBB did that while implying how it affects the future. TWBB takes responsibility for the deep philosophical and psychological issues it provokes. Plainview's view is the only view. It is his story, his milkshake, his competition. The Coen's posit the question as the answer, while Andersen claims the answer is not questioning. The Coens have a theory and PT has indisputable proof of law. PT is a master of horror.
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Goosebumps every time I see it. Every. Single. Time.I have not yet met anybody who doesn't love it. By that theory alone, it should have won every award going, but for a $150,000 pic, it's sure done well. Guys, show this to your lady, and enjoy the great sex that will follow (that's a guarantee).
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um, could Once be geared any more toward the opposite crowd than you described? i don't think so.
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Feb 24, 2008 11:39:11 PM CST
NCFOM was a free pass? fans pseudo intellectual pricks?
by irrelevntelefant
all i can say is "fuck you you fucking fucks" go suck ewe bolls limp cock, you sons of shit filled cunt fucking wastes of fuckshit retards! sincerly, a psuedo intellectual prick
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I thought Transformers had the weakest effects by far out of all the nominees. There was not a single frame of that film that came even close to convincing me that the robots I was looking at had any measure of reality.
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Raise you hand a little higher...
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one word...morricone....the composer liberally borrows from his stuff
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Who started this "passed" shit????
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HARRY KNOWLES: "the COENS have been the greatest and most consistently brilliant directors in history"
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rich people pattibg thenselves on the back.
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something about that lame tattooed bitch rubs me the wrong way, beyond her just being lame and badly tattooed. After all, when is a girl ever GOODLY tattooed? I hate it when some nice fresh looking sperm bank decides it's time to have some tribal mark inked permanetly into her, just above her luscious, ripe, firm little ass. I see that shit from afar and it just looks like a black pile of dump above what used to be a great ass. I see it up close and I realize the only tribe she belongs to is The Lady Of Trendy Boredom. Ellen Page can go suck a cock too. Her mouth is always full of something... and no I don't just mean "Diablo's" badly written over-wordy dialogue. Oh yeah, walnuts!
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Since it didn't seem to win anything, this must be a great film. The ending of NO COUNTRY, way too flawed to win an oscar. Way too much dialogue crammed toward the end. Loved the way it started, but an ending makes or breaks a film, and this just didn't cut it. So of course, it wins an oscar, should not be surprised.
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Hhahaha. What a loser she was.
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rich people patting themselves on the back.
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for worst suicide attempt
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a half ass gilmore girls script got drunk, pity fucked a zach braff script, and then proceeded to smoke marlboro reds and do jager bombs through the first two trimesters of development....
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Uh...maybe if you stop dancing on people's graves.
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And it was tremendous, look for it tomorrow.
Harrison Ford? Robin Williams? Huey Lewis? Josh Groban? Brad Pitt?
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...movies, otherwise crossword puzzles would be celebrated today.
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at the films that didn't get nominated, probably really good movies.
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The only tattoos that look SOMEWHAT acceptable on people, are sailor tattoos. Small, percise, and to the point, usually having to deal with what ship he was on or what year it went down. Like Quint in Jaws. Arm tattoos on girls, and they're usually only on the skinny, slackjawed, black haired variety, always make them look like skinny trailer trash crackwhores, which in my generalizing im assuming most of them are, but cripes... What Im trying to say is I hate that no talent bitch Diablo Cody, most of all because she's made me kind of hate my girlfriend, who usually has great taste and an excellent bullshit detector, but unfortunately had to think for herself and like Juno. Even tonight she says that she thinks the movie spoke to a whole generation of EMO douchebags, and glossed over my explination that it spoke to them by simply cherry picking better, more creative moments, themes, and styles of other EMO/quirky films like Rushmore, to come before it. I swear to God Juno is the one and only turd I would prefer to watch Little Miss Sunshine over. That should say it all right there. I'm tired of the Goddamm quirkiness people. And you can go fuck yourselves in the quirk if you're not!
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The guy who died from JP and Hook was the makeup artist. He also worked on Treasure of the Sierra Madre so I think he had a pretty distinguished career.
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don't recommend high if there is a supercuts right next to the theater. i look like fucking buster brown now...
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Mark my cliched words.
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Well-deserved.
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That made me laugh.
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haha
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do any of these women realize that someday soon, their skin will get wrinkly, and those tattoos are gonna look real bad? tattoos are not attractive....piercing every part of your body is not attractive...way too many people in this world with poor self image...and if i had known that i coulda become a screen writer by doing lap dances and showing my cooch, i woulda done that shit years ago
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(Now we know who has the longer straw.)
But the coin toss was called for Los Bros Coen.
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A lot of accusations above toward those fans of this film as being pseudo-intellectual - if that accusation is not true, what is the message? Haven't seen any alleged fans of the film give it a substantive defense other than to say, it's 'complex'. Frankly, the end made it seem like a fairly racist and anti-immigration, but then again, i was nodding off between the sudden occurrence of speeches made by the characters...sad, because before that the story was being told pretty well visually...i don't think the story really goes anywhere
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Harry said fuck you Bill Conti for cutting off Markéta Irglová, but I think it's more the fault of Glen Hansard, who hogged most of the acceptance speech time. Nevertheless, yes, that was a classy thing for Jon Stewart to do.
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hats off to everybody...they all were fantastic movies. We never even get this close to getting the awards right, but our job is to complain, at least a tad. Assassination of Jesse James should've been nominated for best pic...Other than that and the lack of Zodiac I'm pretty satisfied.
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This film may have set a record for voice overs, i believe the entire film is voiced over - maybe it could have been nominated in the documentary category
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"Best Film Editing, wow, someone just took the lead in their Oscar pool based on a guess."
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Feb 25, 2008 12:24:44 AM CST
I will say that chicks that have tats on their lower backs are..
by han cholo
Usually really easy to pick up in bars and clubs. Seriously, Vince Vaughn's line in Wedding Crashers was right on.
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I thought they pulled off a good one this year.
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Seriously.
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No Country should have got editing and There Will Be Blood should have got best adapted. Jesse James should have gotten an oscar for most fucked over great movie of the year.
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Are people actually trying to claim that NCFOM is "racist"? If so, then it might be one of dumbest attempts at criticism I've seen. Yes, the message of the film is complex. Yet, it's also very simple. And if you're not sure what it is, I would encourage you to see it again and to listen very closely to the opening narration and how it directly relates to the final scenes in the film (i.e. the dream).
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I can't wait to see more of his films! Ellen page can fade away...honest to blog!
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Are you people fucking serious? You're bitching about Diablo Cody's fucking TATTOOS? You are ridiculous! She's a goddamn writer! What about that??? Could you keep your tiny little narrow minds on the thing that fucking MATTERS??? Jesus, the level of sheer stubborn assholery blows my mind... You don't like her writing, fine, but lay off her personal appearance. Because IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.
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i have a huge tat on my lower back, although it's not a tramp stamp - it's an image of the rose window from the sainte chapelle. nobody ever picked me up at a bar, though.
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When I reviewed TRANSFORMERS last summer people kept defending it by saying "it's not supposed to win Oscars" and I said actually it is, it will win best visual FX and possibly sound effects and sound effects editing. Yeah, it was nominated in those three categories but, like NORBIT, it was shut out. So I am happy to publicly admit that I was wrong on this and congratulations to Michael Bay for fully achieving his vision of creating a movie that is not supposed to win Oscars.
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she has put tats on her boobs now...kills me...such a beautiful girl...and we know she has poor self image....and can someone please explain to me why all the post oscar stuff has to be hosted by gay men? what happened to ebert...is he dead yet? if not, wheel his ass in there...
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as he gets older, his dates get younger
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Well leobloom, I wrote a long response and its not there, so long story short: I am convinced, NCFOM is mediocre at best, and all you had to do was to force me to recall the Seventh Seal and without complex explanation it becomes clear , next to this great film, how mediocre NCOM really is...simple test, turn off the subtitles for Seventh Seal, and you could still appreciate and understand the overally story, and the drama between each character...NCOM starts well establishing the reality of evil, but suddenly we rarely see the character who understands this, and when he reappears, the film goes into 'book-mode' with tommy lee and the other guy sitting there with endless dialogue. In addition, the drama just fades at that point, and Tommy Lee's character just gives up? contrast with Seventh Seal, that has drama throughout, and the truth seeking Antonius Block, facing his inevitable fate with death, still finds hope and redemption.
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Well leobloom, I wrote a long response and its not there, so long story short: I am convinced, NCFOM is mediocre at best, and all you had to do was to force me to recall the Seventh Seal and without complex explanation it becomes clear , next to this great film, how mediocre NCOM really is...simple test, turn off the subtitles for Seventh Seal, and you could still appreciate and understand the overally story, and the drama between each character...NCOM starts well establishing the reality of evil, but suddenly we rarely see the character who understands this, and when he reappears, the film goes into 'book-mode' with tommy lee and the other guy sitting there with endless dialogue. In addition, the drama just fades at that point, and Tommy Lee's character just gives up? contrast with Seventh Seal, that has drama throughout, and the truth seeking Antonius Block, facing his inevitable fate with death, still finds hope and redemption.
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And the haters went to see it anyway, so I'm sure Bay doesn't give a rip.
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http://tinyurl.com/3yugd8...and more tats on the body...http://tinyurl.com/3a8sj3
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The message is this "Don't Be Stupid" Thats the message. Don't turn your back on a strange man even when he's cuffed, don't stand still, Don't go back too give the guy water. Don't tell strangers where your son in law is meeting you. Don't be the second guy looking for the money- if your not better and meaner than the first guy looking for it. Take The Coin Toss! Stupid people get the shit end of the stick everytime. Thats the film deep meaning.
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and the movie captured the meaning of the book...sorry that your taste in movies doesnt ever run above transformers, but no biggie
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I find her very pleasing to the eye.
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLAcademy: Lost.All.Credibility.
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LMAO. Best moment of the night...on Jimmey Kimmel Live. It was so unexpected. Next was them bringing back the Once girl to give an acceptance speech that was so rudely cut off. Don't they have screen monitor in orchestra pit to see that there are multiple winners in a category? I guess one person is supposed to speak for the group but if one person finishes early to make room for another they should have the chance to speak too. I'm really happy at all the winners. What's with all the jerk comments about Tilda Swinton. So what if she doesn't care about fashion, I love that she's unique looking and a great actress also which is what we're celebrating.
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Stop Over Reading into it. And never judge the movie againt the book. They are two different versions. I can't wait to see THE ROAD. Also since you wanna talk about the book. Clive Barker does the whole 3rd person thing better in Books Of Blood. You fucking twit. I guess you gonna tell me that the film fucks over the book like Clock Work Orange fucks over Alex change. Good I hate you pseudo intellectual twits who love to talk down others who don't buy into the whole "this means something" bullshit that you need to add meaning to your plain jane lives. Cause some times thats all the story is. It's just an incident handled all wrong. Some didn't know what they were doing, and others did, and a few others accidentally found themselfs involved. but maybe I'm ignoring jones character who wants to set one last case right. Transformers..... Fuck your quip!
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damn dial-up...
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crap editing.
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the editing is actually not that bad. But Oscar-worthy? No. Friggin. Way.
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Can fuck itself in the ass.
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he says "fuck this, i'm getting to old for this shit". the only reason the coen brothers didn't put that line in there is danny glover has it copywrighted
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it's a june 2009 expiration date
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"Surely some humanitarian organization will recognize the selflessness with which Murphy has taken three of the movie's major roles, thus saving two other actors from a nasty black mark on their résumés." Sam Adams, I dont know you, but I salute you.
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why the fuck werent you writing the jokes for tonite? why the fuck arent you in the wga? if you are...why the fuck are you here slumming with the great unwashed?
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Glad to see her win. I agree that it was the award Juno deserved the most. Although her acceptance speech at the Spirit Awards was better... I was hoping she'd repeat it just to hear her yell "Motherfucker!" at the Oscars.
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my day job pays better
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the coen's chose this to be their first film that didnt have multiple meanings...just a straight forward modern western. ya the coen's didnt give a shit about the source material or its allusions to the differences in the ww2 gen vs the nam gen (baby boomers)....chigurh is just a simple psycho, representitive of nothing...and while kubrick did change the ending of burgess' masterpiece, it is still satisfying...but think of me as some pseudo intellectual...thats cool
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was cuba g's acceptance speech, and everyone giving him a standing ovation... none of those fuckers would even think about working with him now. hell, the only thing that could have made norbit worse would have been if cuba was in it (wait as SECOND!) I bet the acadamy sends him an invite envelope and inside is a plain card that reads " please drop your oscar in the nearest mailbox for immediate return. "
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Anton is a killer. He believes in chance, he offers it to you when you don't give a solid reason to kill you. His world, his rules. In the film he decides too break his contract and go for the money(not the same in the novel) He betrays those who hired him. He is set up too do better by doing so more than likely- he breaks his honor. Now, Anton isn't the only threat against Llewelyn. And Anton isn't the one who finds and kills Llewelyn. He comes later for the money, unfortunately I don't know if he found it or not. I have to see the movie again and re examine the scene with Ed arriving there. Like all american films- the bad guy is elegant, you can't take your eyes off him- no matter what he does. Scarface, Hannibal, Myers... Anton has an "Ism" and it's his pension to toss chance into the fray when he feels it not too entirely fair too kill you, but Carla Jean see's through this. She says "the coin doesn't have a say" "it's just you" and Anton killed her.
Ed Tom's Uncle Ellis also says "This Country's hard on people. You Can't stop what's coming, It ain't waiting on you, that's vanity."
Llewelyn put himself in a place, a place he thought he could slip out of, and he found out that, that just wasn't true. Anton was called in too see it to an end and many innocent bystanders got caught in his path. But Anton wasn't Llewelyn's end. Anton wasn't quick enough. He made promise to kill Carla Jean and he saw that through. Anton is a killer, it's what he does. This was about pride controlling men. Anton's pride, Llewlyn, and Ed Tom's in a way. And everyone lost in the end. They let pride be theyre undoing. Logic was abandoned and bad shit came of it. Anton had to keep his promise and he got a broken arm out of the deal. Llewelyn had to keep the money. Ed Tom well he backed out, he knew which way he was heading, but his pride confused him into thinking it waited for him. It wasn't waiting. But he was on the way to finding it. -
it's the cinematography which sucks. As far as I can tell wouldn't editing be about how they cut the film together? Cause if thats the case Ultimatum and Supremacy did a great job of mixing those 'control room' scenes with action sequences considering they were shot at completely different times and places but seamlessly flowed together to keep the tension at a continuous pace.
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brought to you by "The Creepy Thin Man" :-)Oh and "randomdude": you just made my day, buddy! :-)
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Feb 25, 2008 2:39:31 AM CST
pilgrim... you said "anton has an 'ism' " heh-heh...
by irrelevntelefant
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editing is in fact about how they put the film together. As I said before, the editing is not that bad in BOURNE ULTIMATUM.And you're also right: the BU's cinematography sucks ass.
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Juno WAS this years Little Miss Sunshine
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You will push the wrong man one day, and he will make a clear example of you. If your lucky you will survive it, and maybe even learn for it. You pushed first. Be glad that we are separated by all these 1's and 0's. You have no real way of knowing anyone true taste an intellect in a place like this or the measure and means of that individual. If you act like this in the real world. Worry about a guy like me looking for an excuse to make short work of your judgments. I would toy with you like a small yapping annoying beast. With no intentions of killing you, but I'd be sure too leave you broken and at odds with your own pride, putting it all back into it's true perspective. Prides a mutherfucker.
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... and that only came out last year. I know I sorta liked it, but I think Juno was a significantly better film; despite the grating hipster diarrhea in the first 30 minutes there was a very well written and acted story under there. Unfortunately, I think all that slang is going to make the film seem really dated in five years time and make it seem more like an artifact of the times. Of course some folks out there will wager five minutes was enough time.
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juno must pay her way through kethikan ju-co by taking a job as a topless go-go dancer/waitress at the local moose lodge she serves up bloody marys, lap dances, and an edgy, quick witted can-do attitude.
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haha... Midol. That's funny. Seriously, who gives a shit that she's got a prominent tattoo? Really, does that at all affect her writing? No. So shut the fuck up about it already. Same goes for her former occupation. Get over it. Quit being a bunch of fucking 6th graders. "Christina Ricci got a tattoo." "Really? Poor girl. Now she's forever a horrible actress and a bad person." Anyone spewing this bullshit is as bad as any of those E! hosts that everyone hates. There's no difference between being catty over couture and being catty over tattoos. Because, I repeat, it DOES NOT MATTER. I said the same thing about the Amy Winehouse haters at the Grammys. You don't like her music, fine. But the bullshit, "she's a crack whore" was too much. She's got a great voice no matter what substances she puts in her body. The day I give a shit that my favorite movie is written by a nice, clean, attractive person or my favorite song is sung by an All-American blue-eyed blond is the day that I've officially become An Asshole.
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Your call!
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That's a very interesting take on the film which I never noticed the first 2 times I saw the film, and it seems totally applicable in retrospect- guess this gives me an excuse to see it for a third time.
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I'd say most of the hate sent Diablo Cody's way hereabouts comes from jealous mysogynists who just don't like the idea that a stripper, who they normally can look down on and smirk at, is associated with, and now honored by, the film industry. If she'd been a corporate CEO or a coffee barista or a firefighter or WHATEVER, they probably wouldn't have such a stick up their collective ass.
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nice summation of the movie...i thought it had no meaning tho? as for your last post, you dont happen to have a 1958 quarter...do you?
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I'd say most of the hate sent Diablo Cody's way hereabouts comes from jealous mysogynists who just don't like the idea that a stripper, who they normally can look down on and smirk at, is associated with, and now honored by, the film industry. If she'd been a corporate CEO or a coffee barista or a firefighter or WHATEVER, they probably wouldn't have such a stick up their collective ass.
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Feb 25, 2008 3:14:27 AM CST
necgray, i saw your sense of humor pictured on a milk carton
by irrelevntelefant
and for the record, i have never had a stick up my ass. a finger, yes. but only to the first knuckle, otherwise it's gay also, i'm not sure what mysogynist means, but it sounds like "massaging it", and that makes me giggle....
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as you can see, double posting because of the load time is now a factor. So I will simply say that while I normally don't get strident about a subject, I really hate tangential and meritless arguments against an artist, particularly against a writer. Especially Diablo Cody, who I'm sure has put up with enough of that kind of snickering bullshit to last her a lifetime. Kudos to Cody and fuck all the little boys who hate her because they want what she's got.
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for that meat-shattering gunshot at point blank range.
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but that guys a scary motherfucker...
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Golden Compass won Best Vis FX. Clearly wrong.
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I've never forgiven him for Boogie Nights. Sitting there for, what, over two hours basically watching a giant egotistical wankfest. It should have been no surprise to see the giant cock at the end. Paul Thomas Anderson's metaphorical cock. Ready to fuck you full force in the ass cause you were stupid enough to see that shit. And if you were actually enjoying it until that point? Well, shit, jokes on you cause you just slobbered all over Paul Thomas Anderson's giant artist's cock. See it. Marvel at it. And then take it full force in the ass.
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an American didn't win one of the top 4 acting awards? Seriously.
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The perfect example of how to overload the viewer on lo-substance, Hi-Calorie Visual Effects candy. I'm sure under the shitstorm of ADD CG there's some technical brilliance going on and I feel sorry for the wizards who obviously worked so hard on this thing But maybee now The director will see that Special Visual Effects need to enhance and complment a film to really work well and not just be sprayed all over the screen ALL the time because that tends to lessen the impact and become unwatchably annoying unless you're 10 and hopped up on E-Numbers and Cafeine drinks! Or maybee he wont!? who knows. Anyway Well Done Golden Compass! might not have been a 5 star film but it looked STUNNING and you could actually see what was going on!
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i take it that you werent around during the late 70s and early 80s, for boogie nights was really more about that time and the excesses of life in the valley than the real porn industry, and if you had watched the film in that vein, you woulda enjoyed it...sure as shit takes alot to entertain some people
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think that has something to do with the quality of actors coming out of america? or maybe the film industry is truly global (which it is)
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Fuck the haters. Michael Bay rocks and he makes fun summer popcorn movies that normal, every day people actually LIKE to see because they're fun and visually big and filled with giant explosions, which is the absolute NECESSARY ingredient for any GOOD movie. So I say they should actually let him hand out the awards at the next Oscars, let this scene play out over and over again in each category, and see the difference...BAY: You're an AWESOME actress, Cate Blanchett.BLANCHETT: Oh, you make me blush.BAY: Here's your AWESOME Oscar.BLANCHETT: Why, thank you.BAY: And do you know the word to describe winning it?BLANCHETT: Uh...Awesome?BAY: Bingo. (Pushes button, explosions go off everywhere)BIGGEST VIEWING AUDIENCE AND HIGHEST RATED OSCARS EVER!!!!
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whereas THE GOLDEN COMP-ARSE sucked balls...
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Feb 25, 2008 5:34:14 AM CST
Glorious news! No Country kicked the shit out of everything!
by evilgeek1
I have a Spanish friend who completely abhors Bardem. I think when I tell her the news, I'll break her nose and laugh just to make the moment extra special. What a lovely day in store for me. Hehe!
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That prissy little bitch walks and talks like an arrogant, spoiled Streisand-esque bitch. She has a demeanor that is so damn condescending. Glad to see a person win who will be grateful and not look down on people like they owe her something (Marion Cotillard).
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Nice to see an Oscar winner who at least has the decency to admit that she's given a little sucky sucky in her time for an extra $100. Refreshing honesty.
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and she rocked that movie, Harry you first class ass clown. That makes me question whether you know shit about anything.
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This guy played it too safe and not to mention none of his material was funny. Is it proof that the writters have yet to return to work? Yeah Harry, I noticed that Denzel looked pissed, but hey when American Gangster and the Great debaters is snubbed for shite like Juno and Attonement..
Glad Bardem won just as I predicted, that fucker owned NCFOM and that Ethan Cohen looks like a douche. fuckin nebbish. Tilda's speech was some funny shit. Clooney got owned! Wished Ruby had won, but she only had very minor scenes in AG, but atleast Page or that chick from Gone Baby Gone lost, so I'll take solace in that Buahahahahahahah! -
This guy played it too safe and not to mention none of his material was funny. Is it proof that the writters have yet to return to work? Yeah Harry, I noticed that Denzel looked pissed, but hey when American Gangster and the Great debaters is snubbed for shite like Juno and Attonement..
Glad Bardem won just as I predicted, that fucker owned NCFOM and that Ethan Cohen looks like a douche. fuckin nebbish. Tilda's speech was some funny shit. Clooney got owned! Wished Ruby had won, but she only had very minor scenes in AG, but atleast Page or that chick from Gone Baby Gone lost, so I'll take solace in that Buahahahahahahah! -
This guy played it too safe and not to mention none of his material was funny. Is it proof that the writters have yet to return to work? Yeah Harry, I noticed that Denzel looked pissed, but hey when American Gangster and the Great debaters is snubbed for shite like Juno and Attonement..
Glad Bardem won just as I predicted, that fucker owned NCFOM and that Ethan Cohen looks like a douche. fuckin nebbish. Tilda's speech was some funny shit. Clooney got owned! Wished Ruby had won, but she only had very minor scenes in AG, but atleast Page or that chick from Gone Baby Gone lost, so I'll take solace in that Buahahahahahahah! -
Was when Jon Stewart brought back Marketa Irglova after that douche Bill Conti played her off. You could tell Jon really liked the two of them and I'm sure he convinced the producers to give her a chance to talk. And when she did, wow, what a great speech.
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His scripted beginning was not good at all. But he got more comfortable as the night went along. And his adlibs were really funny. Especially the immortal line, "That guy is SO arrogant".
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liked Blocked eyes and ears.
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when Jon Stewart made fun of Norbit (I hope Eddie Murphy was in the crowd) and when Tilda Swinton made fun of George Clooney for Batman & Robin. I also loved how when they showed a clip from Gone Baby Gone for Amy Ryan's performance they showed a moment that made her character look like an altruistic single mother when in actuality she played a racist child abusing prick.
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if this has already been asked sorry but why was The Rock a presenter. Don't get me wrong, I love the Rock, or is he going by Dwayne Johnson now. He's a funny guy, and a good actor. But like Miley Cyrus, who has already been mentioned, I don't think he belonged there. Neither did Seinfeld in bee form either.
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Most of his films deal with troubled Father-Son relationships: Boogie Nights, and how Burt Reynolds becomes like a bizarre surrogate father that Dirk's real father could never be, Magnolia and the relationship between Cruise and Robards, and TWBB and "I've abandoned my boy!" Filmmaking is PTA's therapy.
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Feb 25, 2008 7:14:21 AM CST
"greatest and most consistently brilliant directors in history"
by messi
What? The guys that made the ladykillers and intolerable cruelty. And you can't believe Viggo was nominated? He gave the second best performance next to Day Lewis.
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I was so happy for them ("No way in Hell are they gonna win", I tell Jill, "because they actually deserve to"). I had little happy tears when they did, which swelled to big old happy tears when Jon took a minute to let Marketa back on stage. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT, JONNY BOY!!!
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I was so happy for them ("No way in Hell are they gonna win", I tell Jill, "because they actually deserve to"). I had little happy tears when they did, which swelled to big old happy tears when Jon took a minute to let Marketa back on stage. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT, JONNY BOY!!!
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I was so happy for them ("No way in Hell are they gonna win", I tell Jill, "because they actually deserve to"). I had little happy tears when they did, which swelled to big old happy tears when Jon took a minute to let Marketa back on stage. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT, JONNY BOY!!!
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Website's a bit slow today, eh?
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STILL No Country For Old Men.....The sequel finds....wait a second...I haven't seen the first one yet. Hurry up DVD release! Oh, and, Ellen Page just became my pick for cutest girl ever in the history of gurls.
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I guess he was'nt as "cool" as Heath Ledger who only made ONE successful movie.A few things I learned from last night's telecasts: Bill Maher would have been a funnier host, Diablo Cody is a overated cunt, one too many pregnant actresses ruin the fantasy and Hollywood is still gay.
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If she does.....that would be hot.
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When one of your 5 best picture nominees is Michael Clayton, you really don't have much of a bench to speak of, in terms of depth. It was a 'meh' Oscars, and Marion Cotillard really needs to hand that Oscar she got to either Keira Knightley or Ellen Page. Jeebus, you could fit all the people who saw La Vie En Rose in a phone booth with room to spare.
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but I saw "No Country," and if you're gonna give awards for things like Best Supporting Actor, Bardem earned one.
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Changing her name is reason enough. But try reading her EW column. It's filled with the same overwritten, cutesy, precious-as-all-hell wordplay that ruined the first 20 minutes of Juno. SILENCIO OLD UGLY TATOOED LADY! honest to blog...
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can't act for shit. She's the female Orlando Bloom. Wooden.
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during the best song award and cried like a little bitch about not winning
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Like you wouldn't hit dat.
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happened, as in no Americans winning any of the acting awards.
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Best picture win is a giant stamp that says "not the best film". Blood can join the ranks of Pulp Fiction, 2001, and Clockwork Orange as the best pictures that didn't win. No Country for good endings can keep the damn statue. It'll always be remembered as that movie with the dissapointing third act.
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starring jack and harrison, thanks to depends.
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kill it with fire.
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Now let's adapt more of his stuff. Better than seqels. Better than comic adaptations. Better than cartoon adaptations.
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Did anybody else LOATHE that movie as much as I did????? SPECIFICALLY the writing. I haven't heard that much unnatural, wannabe hipster bullshit dialog since the last Kevin Smith film. Definitely the most over-rated film in YEARS. I guess it totally wasn't the 'cheese to my macaroni' (Insert lame acoustic song sung by four-year-olds)
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It's a wonderful night for Oscar..Oscar, Oscar; who will win?? I miss Billy Crystal melodies; yeah, I'll say it. For anyone who cares, the fashion seems to be jewel colorled strapless with feathered or fringed trimming. I'll wear to the office tomorrow.
Stewart does an apprapos joke about "make up" sex after the writer's strike. When SAG goes on strike I guess it will be "revenge sex", which we all know is more angry and thrilling. I can't wait. I bought a black Gimp zipper mask just for the occasion. Writer's are NERDS! Did you hear? Writer's are Nerds! In case you didn't get it the first time. Stewart funniest joke of the night: Black president or female president = END OF THE WORLD. The future is NOW. I must say, I am pleased to have the most powerful nation on this planet dragged kicking and screaming into a representation of realitly.
The costume design award was dubious, to say the least. I was pulling for Sweeny Todd -- which was bright and old like Helen Mirren - but when an old dame accepts her award in a backless gown that makes her looks like the bones of a gone over bucket of chicken -- I have doubts.
Clooney introduces 80 years of Oscar. It is no where near the absolute fabulousness of the 70 year family album - which rocked. Hard. Let's blame the Writer's strike. (That will be a common phrase throughout; I have no doubt.) Afterwards comes an imac promo - like we don't get enough advert insertions during television shows.
Carrell does a nifty burn on Stewart and his need for attention. I believe it. Brad Bird wins and I have high hopes for Toy Story 3. No love for Patton Oswald during the speech, which is a shame. Great voice work.
Katherine Hiegel is introducing Best Make-up and it's totally hilarious because her make up while presenting looks fucking terrible! "Wait, she's presenting for make-up so let's use a TON of bronzer on her fivehead...I mean, forehead!" Rick Baker is a master and he needs to remove himself from Eddie Murphy's world. Rick. Buddy. "Coming to America" was a LONG time ago. I know you like to advance the aging and the fat suit craft but you need to go back to horror. I need you to inspire the freak out because people are surpassing you on the realism. You are my hero.
Any Adams sings the "Happy Working Song". Cute song but her waving arm flab is disturbing people's hairdos in the front row.
Catherine Zeta Jones seems to be catching up with Micheal Douglas, age wise. But he still looks at her like he doesn't have a clue what she is talking about. It's a generation thing.
Cate Blanchette gives out the award for Art Direction. Is Sweeny Todd too gothy? Is there such a thing as "too gothy"?
Cuba Gooding's speech for Best Supporting Actor seems to be the highest pinacle that you can achieve. Too bad it's all he'll have. Ever. Fire your fucking agent Cuba. Nominees: Hal rocked "Creepshow" when he got the monster to eat Adriene Barbeau. I want Oscar to play catch-up....Ah. Javier. He thanked his mom. I forgive.
Owen Wilson's nose presented some award. I was too mesmerized....Is that thing getting bigger???
Seinfeld presented movies with bees in them. "The Swarm" was awesome. But how could they forget that movie where Muchaley Culkin was stung to death? That was awesomer.
Alan Arkin gives the Best Supporting Actress to the woman who should be playing Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies. Tilda, I love you, but mentioning Batman nipples = nipples on Batman. I would have accepted the shout out of "Sexiest Beanpole on the Planet" or "Gotta Eat!"
Josh Brolin and James McAvoy couldn't have been any cuter unless they snuggled on stage. Kristen Chenowith has some pipes and bags to support them but if you haven't heard her Tony award winning song "Why are you telling me?" from the Charlie Brown performance, you are missing something.
Me yelling at the TV: "You are BOTH Dench! So Dench! You could not BE anymore DENCH!"
Lead Actress by Forrest. It sucks to be Cate this year. This was her weakest catagory - can we even say that? It seems wrong - but Marion was super strong this year. A darkhorse pick for some but what I found to be the easiest "surprise" of this year.
Slippy Colin Farrell introduces the nominated song "Once" and I feel like I'm at the Grammys. People are playing their own intruments! Conti orchestra was extremely loud during the song. Distracting mixing. This production better not win an Emmy.
Jack Nickolson does the 80 years of Best Pictures and no one fucking claps at ALL. During the 70 year show, they all started clapping around "Sound of Music" and didn't stop until the end. Is Hollywood getting lazy?? Best fucking pictures!!! I have to say, how cool is "Gone with the Wind"? It's all black and white, black and white _ COLOR_ black and white, black and white. Not that it means anything perse but it clicked some of my brain dead neurons.
There is some squinty Rene chick, then Nicole Kidman dripping in diamonds gives an honarary Oscar to a 98 year old Production Designer Mr. Boyle who reiterates during his acceptance speech that he does "the physical interaptation of the SCRIPT" and useless hours I spent arguing with ZeroCorspe, Chrth and the like in the Strike talkbacks are vindicated! It was fun while it lasted, boys. Donate to the Motion Picture and Television fund and you'll feel better. I noticed Hal Holbrook stopped clapping in mid-clap. Someone give him a shove to get him going again.
Travolta DOES have an awful haircut. I think it is the sideburns. His hair is the cinematic equivalent of an L. Ron Hubbard movie.
Hillary Swank does the "Death List". Make sense; no one does death like Hillary, be it accidental or by misadventure. Oh god. The music's off. How am I supposed to have a good cry ripped out of me if the music isn't there? Agents, producers, exces? I see now why they made the "behind the scenes" reference - who the wha? Debrorah Kerr, Igmar and Health Ledger. Bummer. That was not fitting for any of them. I'm blaming Conti (he's been off all night) and the producer.
Newsflash: Harrison Ford is DRUNK! Okay, not that newsflashy. But, wow! Totally smashed. Calista Flockhart must work her elbow as well because I never knew of a drunk that got along with a temperance. I bet at first, they had total drunk sex one night and she acted like it was okay with her because how else could she get such high profile other than being Harrison's liquour jockey? Now she keeps a selection of mini flasks in her Prada to control him. "Harry, baby, sober you do "Firewall". Have some happy. Remember Indy? You were good when you did him. I know baby; don't argue. Have a sippy. George and Steven agree with me. They gave me the cup and asked you to choose wisely."
Helen Mirren - the Queen and her puppies - deliver the Best Actor to Daniel Day Lewis. Christ. He is such an articulate fuck. I wish I was one of his earrings. But why is the Best Actor so far away from the Best Actress in the line up this year? Was it like that last year? What the hell. My husband is telling me to calm down....NO I won't CALM DOWN! THAT'S UTTER BULLSHIT! YOU THINK IT MIGHT NOT MEAN ANYTHING BUT IT DOES! IT DOES, DAMMIT! PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING! One of the days he will realize it when I buldgeon him to death with my Buffy box set.
Scorsese introduces best director. I remember Martin when he hadn't won anything. I'm not saying he didn't deserve winning the award for "The Departed" but Awardless!Marty was a kindler, gentler Marty. Sort of like a pre-broadway Matthew Broderick. Do you remember him introducing Stanley Donan? Adorable. He gives the award to the Cohen Bros. - Francis looks down because she can't look Ethan in the face because you know they are both going to start crying if they do (*squee*)
Denzel hands off the Best Picture Award to the Cohen Bros and Scott Rudin. I await the angsty porno adaption, "A Cuntry for Old Men". Hal Holbrook will only need a nudge to get him started.
Cheers to another season passed. Next year will be better. As long as SAG doesn't strike. If they do...I'll see you in the talkbacks.
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Scott Rudin's shout out to Sydney Pollack was quite moving I think...
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Scott Rudin's shout out to Sydney Pollack was quite moving I think...especially considering the circumstances.
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with No Country and Diablo Cody being the big topics, there would be more witty "C U Next Tuesday" jokes (kept it clean for the ladies...) but all you twatfucks can do is complain about bullshit fucking... um... shit. let me get some coffee and try that again
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all non-australians should be banned! only cate should have won.
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Thats right I said it.
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before the Oscars (which I did not watch). Ellen Page didn't look that hot during her interview, but at the end when she sang and played guitar it was very hot and I was turned on. I did not pleasure myself however; I saved that for the final interview with Harrison Ford.
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If you didn't 'get' the ending of No Country For Old Men, then you are a stupid simpleton who just likes shootouts and car chases. Just ask every snobby reviewer in the world. It couldn't have been that you wanted to see the resolution to the amazing cat-and-mouse death game that you had been invested in for 2 hours. Nope, I'd rather watch Tommy Lee Jones retire and tell us about the dreams he's having.
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It's shocking how BAD so many of them are and how many of them beat out more deserving films. I'm willing to bet that at least half of these "Best Pictures" aren't even on the AFI 100 Greatest Films list or in the National Registry (both of which represent a far greater achievement, in my opinion).
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oh sorry for that. however: bill conti's arrangements sucked.
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Regis: "I'm joined today with the Oscar-winning actor for his portrayal of the cold-blooded killer, Anton Chigurgh, in the award-winning movie, No Country For Old Men. Please give a warm welcome to our guest...Excalibur Bum Bum!"
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I don't see why people find her attractive, she looks like an exaggerated human being.
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I don't think he even cares about not gettin no Oscars now.
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You fail. transformers should have won for the Starscream air battle alone. Talk about bias, you were going to hate it from day one. Be objective dumb cunt.
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That made me happy, i thought she'd get overlooked, but now the greatest female performance ever won it, Deniro won for greatest male performance ever. Solidity in it.
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tries far too hard to be clever and just ends up being boring. Well NCFOM has a brilliant first half, so glad it won...at least a good movie won Best Pic for a change...the last few years some shit movies have actually won that title (Crash, MDB)
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Punisher in Slavers mode. Most brutal motherfucker ever. He would scare Chigurh.
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Good composer, maybe great...
Not a good arranger/live conductor for the Oscars. Please consider someone else next year. I'm talking to YOU Gil Cates! Maybe Newton Howard, Giacchino, Newman (Thomas)?
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WHATS THIS MOVIE EVEN ABOUT ANYWAYS?? was what I heard on a mic that was probably left on during the show when best director was being awarded. ANYBODY ELSE HEAR THIS?!?!?!
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I believe those "waving flab arms" are called Bingo Wings! BINGO WINGS!!!
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Feb 25, 2008 10:24:26 AM CST
CYGNUS HATES THE OSCARS AND THINKS IT SNOBBISH AND INACCESSIBLE
by bringingsexyback
Yet devotes 4 hours of his life to watching it. You are the total douche package. Go play with your Shatner dolls instead.
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It isn't her face that's too big, it's your head that's too small.
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7:30pm (pst)
tried to put 18 month old to sleep. he kept wanting to have crib/cage match with tigger and pooh
9:45pm (pst) woke up on floor next to crib, son staring at me in dark like i am an idiot.
10:30pm (pst)played city of heroes for about 30 minutes. had some leveling up to do.
11:02pm (pst) checked the aicn site for oscar update. people outside of west la actually have drunken oscar parties?11:30pm -? talked shit in aicn talkback about diablo cody. pissed off necgray 1:40am (pst) fell the fuck asleep (again)
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But I haven't seen an Academy Awards broadcast 1997. I think it's a disgrace every single fucking year. The movies might be great - and they are this year - but to make it into a cheap contest with a lot of backslapping 'Hey, isn't Hollywood great?' kinda shit going on?
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Oh I got it alright. Lets not follow the protagonist to his death.Lets kill him off screen. Give the audience a big fat middle finger for giving a fuck about the character and lets have Tommy Lee ramble on into nothingness for the last five minutes like grandpa on the simpsons. Oh I got it and it sucked. But go suck on your tea and butt fuck your arrogant prick critics all you want. You can keep your superiority complex I'll stick to films with competant narrative structures. Like There Will Be Blood.
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no country was a great film... and for the record, you sip tea, you don't suck it. and you don't butt fuck arrogant prick critics, you mutually masturbate...
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Diablo Cody didn't wear a bra. John Stewart is the new Jack Lemmon, he's fucking hilarious. AND he brings out that chick from Once to give her acceptance speech...Fuckin' A. No Country was the exact thing people expect to win Best Picture. 'There Will Be Blood' was not the Best Picture...it had the Best Actor. But 'No Country' had the BEST EVERYTHING as a whole. Blame the Coens for taking something like that and making it the Best Picture. You got exactly what was there; the story is about the random horror of events set in motion with inevitable consequences. I too, tire of the 'Lady or the Tiger' ending in Hollywood. Unbreakable had that same kind of ending...the 'DIY Ending'. But: No Country For Old Men is captivating all the way to the end. And the POINT of the novel and the film is the conversation at Jones' father's house. Jones is in the film as its narrative spine. As a writer myself, I'm shamed by how fucking good a novelist Cormac McCarthy is. The Road is one of the best genre/non-genre books I've read in a long time.The guy who got the honorary this year was a doddering dude, and the best part for me was Harrison Ford pretending to give a shit.Lastly, The Oscars are a chance to see what actors really think. The camera focuses on say 'Diablo Cody' a stripper cum screenwriter, but in the background is a guy like Babaloo Mandel who's been in the business busting his balls for years, and he's just fucking FUMING. His NYU Film School diploma is mouldering on the wall and a FUCKING STRIPPER BEATS HIM OUT FOR AN OSCAR NOD! God, I love Hollywood sometimes. Diablo Cody is proof that strippers SOMETIMES spend their earnings on real things like school and outside projects.Once's win made me as happy as 'A Mighty Wind's' win. The end.
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...she's also fucking gorgeous.
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I'm so happy the film won best documentary. Especially after the Discovery channel banned it from their network, saying it was too controversial. But it's not controversial because it deals with real events that were horrible and must be documented instead of the world turning a blind eye. It's relevant to everything that is getting fucked up these days. HBO just bought the rights to the film. In fairness to Harry, I don't know why he didn't like the Academy's picks this year for this category. I'm curious to know what he would have picked.
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"proof that strippers SOMETIMES spend their earnings on real things like school and outside projects"... so i guess technically there are about 250+ guys in north hollywood that should get "executive producer" credit for "juno" (fairly certain all of my stripper contributions went to weed, bcbg bags, and ummm... weed)
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Feb 25, 2008 11:26:59 AM CST
EXCERPT FROM THE TRUE BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY BITCHES!!!
by bringingsexyback
He did not wish tribute, nor song, or monuments or poems of war and valor. His wish was simple.
"Remember us" he said to me.
That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. "May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie."
And so my king died, and my brothers died; barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory, but time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives... not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds.
ow here on this ragged patch of earth called Plateaea, Xerxes' hordes face obliteration!
Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers... knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300, yet they stare now across the plane at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks.
The enemy outnumber us a paltry 3 to 1, a match for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a world brighter than anything we can imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300!
To victory!
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First of all when did Summer Phoenix become such a hottie? I remember seeing her in something years ago, when she was probably in her preteen goony phase. But now...nice job Casey. And Ben is in the funniest thing to hit Jimmy Kimmell in ages. Run to YouTube and catch I'm fucking Ben Affleck, its all over the place today. And to finish the punchline..."I thought the funniest thing to hit Jimmy Kimmell was Sarah Silverman's cunt." Thank you and good day.
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Yeah, I know Renfro didn't make anything great recently, but come on, he deserved a 3 second tribute like everyone else who died this year.
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but she was friggin hideous as Edith Piaf!! Yikes those brows!
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What would they do? Would the Coens just accept it?
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Feb 25, 2008 11:42:07 AM CST
captboulder, YOU are full of shit! [thats why we love you, man]
by ironic_name
I didn't say you were wrong, but foreigners = non australians. accept this, and be fat and giggly, brutha!
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but they suck.
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Feb 25, 2008 11:45:27 AM CST
SKIMN - THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP ON FUCKING BEN AFFLECK
by bringingsexyback
I just shit it my pants. Hilarious.
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That may be the funniest thing ever. I was laughing so hard when Josh Groban was singing that when Harrison Ford appeared, I think I made a honking sound. It was definitely the best thing all night by far. Stewart is a terrible host. Sorry, but they need to get a funny actor back as host. I'm sick of this talk show host nonsense. You need show people for this kind of thing. And some of them, like Stewart, aren't show people. The only fun parts were from presenters like Jonah Berry and Dame Seth Dench, and McAvoy and Brolin. Otherwise the show itself was very lackluster.
I was happy with most of the winners except for Tilda Swinton. She wasn't that great in the film and then she got up there like she'd just won a year's supply of turtle wax. I know, I'll use my Oscar speech to pretend(?) rip on George Clooney. Whatever.
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Feb 25, 2008 11:45:44 AM CST
I thought I saw renfro for a sec, but it was jurrasic park
by ironic_name
rufio!
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No...because Producers don't get writing credits. What do you want, another strike! Get real. Also, loved the uncomfortable applause when Heath Ledger's picture appeared last...It wasn't what I would have expected.Also, a gay shout out at the Oscars isn't news?! AWESOME! Finally, America grows up a little. Though 'this is just hardware' was a little stereoypically gay....Speaking as the older brother of a little gay man, it sounded like something he'd say. Sheesh.
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ralph malph!
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By the time it came out I had already seen 150 too many obnoxious "Diablo Cody was a stripper" articles. Too many critics had seen it at festivals and fallen in love with Diablo Cody and it seemed like a 9 out of 10 chance it was because they thought there was a chance she would show them her boobs. I hated her wacky name and her being called a "blogger" and the fact that she had really only been a stripper on a whim for a year and not an actual molested-by-father, addicted-to-drugs troubled person like the word conjures in your mind. She was more of an ironic stripper, it sounds like. Plus there's this Jason Reitman, I never seen THANK YOU FOR SMOKING but I still plan to murder its smarmy, stupid trailer which, I have been told, is an accurate reflection of the style of the movie. And also once I started watching JUNO there was the matter of the painful "that's one doodle that can't be undone" opening scene with some of the worst, most self-conscious dialogue in a long time. And some of those montages - geez, I wonder if this dude knows about Wes Anderson? Nah, probaly a coincidence. And even last night at the Oscars, Diablo Cody: "this one's for the writers!" as if she is a proud veteran of a profession she only joined recently because her agent told her to.
AND YET, Juno is pretty good. You get past the superficial elements like the corny nostalgia for junk culture and the hipster references in the dialogue (don't they have myspace pages now for listing your favorite bands and movies?) but the actual movie has heart. The characters are all flawed but ultimately good people, even the parents. Also you start to get the idea that alot of those annoying elements are part of the character's front that she's above it all and can handle everything, when really underneath she's just like anybody else. And although I liked KNOCKED UP better and it's a similar topic it is a topic that has not yet been done to death in movies, especially in a lighthearted comedic way.
So yes, it's overrated as hell, no I don't think it deserved most of those nominations, but that doesn't mean you gotta hate the movie. It has its strengths. And to call Cody a "cunt"? For what? Having a dumb tattoo? Jesus some of you pricks sure like to live up to society's stereotypes of talkbackers as vagina-fearing shut-in socially retarded miserable little joyless worthless dickheads.
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i never called cody a "c u next tuesday" (again keepin it clean for the ladies... thats right ladies, i'm sensitive and shit like that) it's just easier to make funny-funny about a stripper/screenwriter than it is to make fun of javier bardem ... not going to lie,i go for the easy... (and i actually enjoyed juno, just not oscar worthy)
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I think it should be alphabetical, not designed to end on an emotional high/low note...
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there was a date limit for the obits, feb 1st to jan. 28th...so anyone who died past january 28th, 2008 will be on next year's oscars.
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I ain't skeered o' Virginia! Them Yanks gotta get through West Virginny first. I like boobs. And I must be one of your cool people, because I didn't think she came off like a cunt...She didn't, however, wear a bra...chicks who strip with big boobs who don't wear bras with tattoos that write and aren't Poppy Z. Brite are okay with me. I did say 'Stripper Cum Screenwriter'...Did you think that I wrote 'Stripper/Cunt/Screenwriter'?Because that's not what I wrote. And for the record, that's how I would describe Kathleen Kennedy. I kid.
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21.9 rating, 33 share, vs. last year's 27.7/42. USA Today pretty much summed things up: "Unfortunately, even had (Stewart) been the warmest, funniest host ever, there wasn't much he could have done to add drama to the parade of mostly unknowns. That's no slam on the winners, a few of whom were famous, some of whom were charming (such as Marion Cotillard), and all of whom may be deserving. But for the broad Oscar audience, the show works best when there's a rooting interest in the nominees and an emotional connection to the winners."
To the "yay, Cotillard deserved it" contingent on here, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree. Page was ass-frakked.
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yay, they all got adopted last night!
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cody having a tattoo on her lower back, its a june 2009 expiration date - is HI- LARE- EEE-USS!!
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I actually think Tilda Swinton should have won an oscar for playing Hillary Clinton in "The Chronicles of Narnia".
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Do you really imagine a Terminator engaging in the type of conversation Chigurh has with the owner of that rural convenience store? I’ve read the book too and I think they carried his character over pretty much intact. Either way you slice it, the man was a killing machine which is why his occasional bits of thoughtful dialogue in both the film and the novel were so chilling and compelling.
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Have another Grey Goose, you has-been, John Daly wannabe.
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Was the upset for Transformers. I hate the movie but I can admit that it should have taken all the dumb technical awards it was up for. Seriously, a movie using special effects perfected back in the early 90's for Coke. And the boring ultimatum. I bet Bay riged it so Transformers didn't win anything so we would could not bitch about it. But you know that movie deserved it.
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Was the upset for Transformers. I hate the movie but I can admit that it should have taken all the dumb technical awards it was up for. Seriously, a movie using special effects perfected back in the early 90's for Coke. And the boring ultimatum. I bet Bay riged it so Transformers didn't win anything so we would could not bitch about it. But you know that movie deserved it.
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a half ass gilmore girls script got drunk, pity fucked a zach braff script, and then proceeded to smoke marlboro reds and do jager bombs through the first two trimesters of development... *pats self on back, gets excited, turns into self-reach-around*
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Also Vern I discribed Diablo 2 Cody a cunt, not because I am afraid of the vag. But because she was acting like one when she got her award. It was not fucking surprise that she won and she is a cunt for acting as such, and I am just tired about hearing about that fucking movie. And still think that its fucked up how we live in a world where the Christian front will fucking go apeshit over crap like the Golden Compass, but movies about teen pregency never once got knocked for well.... up playing teen pregnancy. And its Cunts like Diablo that write an ACADEMY award winning screenplay about witty teen having a baby, and not ever caring about the fuck up life and emotional problems she will face. I guess she was just too cool for school. I don't care if she looks like a suicide girl and wins an Oscar, its the fact that she said this is for the writers. Its like Micheal Moore winning an Oscar and saying that this is for the soilders.
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if you weren't so afraid of vaginas, I'd swear you were a douche!
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I agree that the convenience store sequence was good - one of the film's highlights, even. Unfortunately for filmgoers, it was the only major conversation with Chigurh that was adapted wholesale for the film rather than cut in half. The full conversations with Wells and Carla Jean were great glimpses into Chigurh's thought process, and considering the way fans (and even the film's detractors) ate up the convenience store scene, it makes me a little sad to know that several exchanges which were just as gripping were simply edited out of the film. The film gave us an appetizer, whereas the book was a full meal.
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Man you gotta love fame.
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I agree with you that the personal attacks on Cody are pathetic and more than just a bit creepy. I think there are plenty of people in Hollywood to hate on a personal level more than Diablo Cody, who I think deserves a lot of credit for pulling herself up from obscurity. Good on her I say. And I'm one of the people who couldn't stand her movie. And yeah....about hat movie. I'm not sure Vern you're getting the full breadth of why people dislike it. Yes it's overrated and oversold, but that isn't the extent of it. The writing is the most subversively manipulative crap to hit a theater this year. It sells itself as being a brand of reality, when it's no more true or honest than I Am Legend or the like. People simply don't talk like that. Are teenagers precocious? Sometimes. Do they have moments of wisdom? Occasionally. But no one, and I mean no one. Is so clever and sharp that every situation has exactly the right joke to diffuse any discomfort said situation might yield. The movie at several occasions bring up some pretty dramatic topics, and instead of exploring them or dealing with them, it cracks jokes to gloss over them and never revisit them again. Moreover no consequences ever seem to be suffered. If something bad happens something good and sweet happens to take its place. Characters react to difficult situations with nothing more than a bon mot and after that, somehow, things seem to be gosh darn ok. Case in point, when Juno is explaining to her parents that she is pregnant she mentions that she already found a couple to take the baby, in light of this no one says "You've been meeting with strangers to take you fucking baby! Are you insane!" Nope, just a bunch of zingers that add up to a teen admitting to her parents that shes pregnant being the feel good scene of the year. The movie is preposterous in every respect. And the fact that people think Ellen Page deserves an Oscar for effectively being sarcastic and dropping pop culture references over Marion Cotillard who TRANSFORMED in mind body and soul would be funny if it wasn't so violently wrong. It's also really sad insofar as it proves the American public doesn't actually want to confront difficult issues, they would rather the issue be on hand and be made to laugh at it inconsequencially so they can feel good about NOT confronting it. It's really very sad.
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Get passionate about the movie, not the person who wrote it.
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Diablo Cody used to be a stripper.Diablo Cody wrote a screenplay.Diablo Cody's screenplay got made into a film.Diablo Cody's film has done very well at the box office.Last night, Diablo Cody won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.Have you done any of these things, Creepy? I mean, aside from stripping for yourself in front of the bathroom mirror?
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Hmm. Two messed up chicks. One crazy rich man. And two crazy old guys. Yeah, great movies there.
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"I did watch Sicko" - No, you didn't, Bruce Thomas Wayne. If you did, you would've said something of substance. You didn't. Your kind never does. The best they can do is cut-and-paste from sites like moorewatch.com.
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THAT'S WHY YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD!!!(And class move trying to drag Moriarty into your little "I'm Jealous of Diablo Cody" mud puddle there.)
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admit it... you're really Diablo Cody's (soon-to-be-ex) husband, aren't you? dude, you should've seen the writing on the wall when she became a stripper.
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I hate Juno and Diablo Cody as much as the next guy nay, more then the next guy but your hatered for diablo cody is intense, you call her a whore as if she personally affected your life, it's just a moive and movies can choose to be whatever they want if you don't like the way they handle a subject go watch another movie.
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Best performance you've ever seen, Harry? Really? It's not even the man's best performance. How about Pacino in The Godfather (both the first and second)? Welles in Citizen Kane? DeNiro in Taxi Driver or Raging Bull? Etc, etc. I love Daniel Day-Lewis, but his performance ranged from a John Huston impersonation to over-the-top hamming.
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Do you think for one second that your posturing behind "the serious subject of teenage pregnancy" is being bought by anyone here? You considered Cody a piece of trash even before you heard about her divorce. It's obvious to everyone that your jealous and resentful of her success because of her background.
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..a pity fuck from Maya Rudolph.
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story.
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No one invited Tommy?
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I saw her press interview on E and man, she was smoking.
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...Or, like...what? I mean, it was pretty bad. Not okay, or pretty good, but mostly pretty bad. It was very poorly written and desperately contrived to make it a vehicle for two stars. It was an endless bundle of unimaginative cliches. Ridley still proved hes got it though with the concluding raid. About the only time it came to life. That said, the best moments of that film just about equal the worst moments of City Of God or The Wire. It got shut out, because there were far too many good films this year. Into The Wild, Zodiac and Jesse James didn't get much attention either, and you cant compare junk filler like AG to them. Man, you motherfuckers who are all jealous of Diablo Cody get on my nerves. No, Juno wasnt a masterpiece. But it was good for what it was, a quirky little dramedy. At least it didn't take home the oscar like American Beauty. So what if Cody was a stripper? You have something against naked chicks now? I'm cool with your homosexuality, but don't try and make it shameful for us heteros who like hot women. Also creepy, theres been a stack of afterschool specials that deal with TEEN PREGNANCY! and plenty of TV shows and lots of those pamphlets they give out in school. The only reason people went to see this movie is because it DIDN'T go down the same boring fucking road all those other productions did.
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Oh Transformers. Oh Juno. Oh Daniel Day Lewis.
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if you weren't so afraid of vaginas, I'd swear you were a douche!
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...but it DID get fucking robbed of the special effects oscar.
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"Jesus some of you pricks sure like to live up to society's stereotypes of talkbackers as vagina-fearing shut-in socially retarded miserable little joyless worthless dickheads." That made me laugh.
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Don't even go there. Your complaints about her work are peripheral at most. Your attacks on her are very much personal and, yes, quite creepy. You're simply an odious tool trying to backpedal out of a situation that just blew up in your face like an ACME cigar.
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...Whats wrong with you fucking closeted faggots? Its hot. "do they realise that one day their skin will get wrinkly..." What does it matter then? Because no one wants to fuck the grannies anyway. Don't worry about these fat losers, all you beautiful skanks out there, keep getting tattooed and wearing low cut jeans. I for one appreciate it. Also, as one who has dated and is still friends with a number of strippers, they are alot closer to Diablo than the trailer park crack whores they are commonly associated with. Just chicks who would rather make 1000 dollars a week for a few hours easy work a day than work a shit menial job for half that for many hours a day.
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I agree with your thoughts on Juno, In my opinion it was a terrible screenplay, and not a great movie. Just cause it wins an academy Award doesn't mean I will know say it's a great film or script, come on Jason Rietman getting nominated for best director instead of some one like Fincher is a joke, and academy awards should not be looked at as the end all be all for what films are. where we differ is that you have some really hate filled things to say about Cody, I think her screenplay for Juno was not good and she's not gonna prove to be a great writer but I'm not gonna call her a whore and start ripping her personal life apart, i don't care enough about the girl to waste writing how much she sucks. I think a lot of people agree Juno isn't a grea film not even a good film, but just take it easy on the hate.
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...You attack Juno as a poor choice, and then ask about American Gangsters exclusion? No wonder you "dont get it". Anyone with a modicum of taste, intelligence and experience could distinguish between which of those two pictures was more deserving.
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There's a large group of (idiot) voters who like to pay off age and experience. They would have otherwise voted for Page, but instead split off toward Christie (because they suck), therefore splitting, making Cotillard the winner. She had no business being higher than second or third, but thanks to the dickheads who factor in seniority, the best actress (Page) lost.
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was nominated and the movie was hailed as brilliant. Now, Pirates 2 and 3 come out and no one cares. Also, Spidey 3 had better visual effects than Transformers.
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was nominated and the movie was hailed as brilliant. Now, Pirates 2 and 3 come out and no one cares. Also, Spidey 3 had better visual effects than Transformers.
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Yeah, Vern is at home watching Saw III.
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I think the broadcast felt stripped down and classy, not too over the top with the glitz. I'm glad they didn't have the chance to overwrite it. Jon Stewart fit the tone perfectly and he didn't have to try too hard. Even (most) of the presenter banter seemed genuine (my favorite was NOT the Seth Rogen piece, but rather James McAvoy and Josh Brolin quoting the movies). This was my favorite Oscar broadcast in years. I, for one, am glad to be rid of the cheesy shtick that Billy Crystal used to do.
I was soooo glad that the Irish folk won the Best Song, as it seemed like they were so darn sincere and as much as I'm in love with Amy Adams, I couldn't stand that Disney tripe which did not deserve to win. And definitely total class to let the Best Song woman come back out to give her speech. 'Take your moment' - my admiration for Jon Stewart has risen even higher, if that's possible.
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Receda- the quirky/cautionary tale of a 15 year old boy who comes of age, literally, when he discovers his dad’s hidden porn collection. No one ends up pregnant, but a lot of cashmere socks go missing. Starring some 25 year old actor who looks 12 and talks like no one you have ever met (cause if you had, you would probably slap them for talking that way) I’m going to take a year off and DJ at a strip club in North Hollywood to really get a feel for the characters. I already have Calvin and Hobbes tattooed on my pelvis, is that whory enough?
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Hmm.
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I think
1. Juno is a little overrated
2. Transformers should have won Visual Effects
3. There will Be Blood was a better balanced movie than NCFOM
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...Might be next years Juno. It deals with A-rabs in a quirky, indie way. Plus its got a young chick with spunk at the center. As far as best original screenplays go...No, not on par with Chinatown or Network. On par with quirky fun flicks though? Like Pulp Fiction or American Beauty? Yes. Very much so. On par with Good Will Hunting too. The bigger suprise was in the adapted screenplay win. PTA and Sean Penn did very good jobs at taking unwieldy material and bringing it to the screen. The Coens bascially just reformatted the book.
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Juno was a great movie for what it was. Ellen Page gave a great performance. Did it deserve Oscar noms? meh. Did Ellen page deserve a nomination? not really. Anyone who thinks so need to go start a new 'Buffy' talkback somewhere.
Does 'Juno' deserve such unbridled scorn and derision? Not even close. It was a movie small in scope, and of course it wasn't a 'Network' or 'Chinatown'. But neither was 'Pulp Fiction', but you schmucks weren't lambasting it. That script was clever and quirky. So there's room in the Oscar pantheon for all kinds. Get over it.
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You call some of the TBers a prick or afraid of the vag,(I guess that includes me too.) because some of us called Cody a cunt,when you stood idly by when there were worse posts that were racist or anti semite..WTF makes that hack Cody immune to negative comments? Juno sucked and I have no respect for some stripper "screenwriter" who comes out with a lame ass movie that gets more recognition than far better offerings out there.Oh BTW I have a GF so who's afraid of Vagina Wolf? If someone is trash or ignorant, I'll call her a cunt just like I'll call someone a prick.If your comment is aimed at me, I guess it takes one to know one Guvner.
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i made her a mix tape... it cost me $400 wait for it, wait for it....
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Annie Hall my ass.
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that is all.
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If the stripper gets pregnant, then she could write something funny about that and win another oscar. hah
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But he's bitter cause Kevin Smith never won an Oscar.
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But he's bitter cause Kevin Smith never won an Oscar.
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The guy thought the animated Transformers Movie was shit or don't have a clue about G.I.Joe, yet likes Juno. Your Geek license has been revoked.Not that it matters cause he's so "kewl".
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I don't know why it keeps doing that.
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...You are scared of the vagina. Just look at your post. If someone is trash or ignorant, you will call them on it. Her basis for being trash or ignorant is because she has a vagina and has exposed it. Do you think we get invoke sharia law and stone her ass at next years oscars? I'm sickened that so many women went burka-less to this event. Its high time any woman dare to be attractive and flaunt it for cash be regarded as the sub human scum they are and taken to the fucking hauge and be tried for crimes against humanity. But dude, I'm curious how the mind of a fucking tard works, so explain to me in what manner Cody is trash or ignorant, or why she needs to be singled out anymore so than any other writer?
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I got to admit that she took a subject matter that's very delicate and made a pretty good movie about it. I just think here's something missing. It felt like it needed just a little umph but didn't quie get there.
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you gotta at least watch the movie if your gonna tear it apart. Creep you have no right to call Juno shit, I had to sit through that film which was like chinese water torture. I have a right to call it shit. I hate people who tear movies apart without watching them, I.e, Eli Roth haters!
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your strong sense of hate/disgust towards Diablo, but i find it amusing, nonetheless. i have no feelings towards her or Juno one way or the other. so i say hate on!
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Written by Creepy Thin Man, man I hope I spelled it right.
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biopic greenlit? consider it the prequel to Schindler's List...
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intimidated? maybe...
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"don't have a clue about G.I. Joe"...That's some funny shit right there. Did you read that sentence before you posted it? FYI, the Transformers animated movie is fucking wet hog shit. They kill Optimus Prime, and if that ain't bad enough...the fucking music sucked a length of dick that could be seen from space.I ain't seen Juno...the wife wants to see it, but like I said a while back it's got that whole Wes Anderson/Little Miss Sunshine/Squid and the Whale vibe. I've outgrown that phase of my movie watching life, because I'm not gettin' tail for liking pretentious niche bullshit anymore and none of my friends would be impressed by me liking that shit either. I like what I like, sez me. So, the wife makes me watch Juno, I'm making HER watch Cloverfield.To whoever compared Juno to Pulp Fiction...the dialogue in Pulp Fiction is a little arch, but it's not fucking pop culture name-dropping Kevin Smith fucked Dennis Miller 'arch'...The scenes I've checked out from this? That's the kind of shit I've decided I don't need to like to impress anyone around these parts. Fuck people who can't appreciate flicks for fun. Juno seems like a fun flick, but it sure as fuck wasn't as good as 'There Will Be Blood' or 'No Country For Old Men'..., but I'll end up seeing it because I'm married, and Blockbuster will sell it as part of a 2 for 20 dollar deal, and I'll get to buy fuckin' Shoot Em Up.P.S. GI Joe and Transformers are fucking toys. Toys for children. There's no pathos in plastic, Serpentor didn't REALLY kill Duke with a fucking snake arrow in his bid to take over Cobra-La, and it's hard to have pathos when the guy who plays fucking Starscream is supposed to be the heavy in GI Joe. I have to admit, the Joe comics had some cool shit, but hell, Frank Miller was doing COOLER shit at the same time. Lay off the toys, mac, it's just gonna fucking drive you insane when they don't do it right.Also, G.I. Joe fact: Joes are fucking stupid. Every time they get locked up by Cobra or the Dreadnaughts, they wander in their cells talking to one another, simply ignoring the fucking grenades on their belts and the holsters with pistols in them. Fucking Quick Kick's Miss America sash had fucking THROWING STARS BUILT INTO IT! Fuck GI Joke and the Transformers.Fallout Cody and the Time Rippers deserved an Oscar for wearing a house dress without a bra. End of story.
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...Well, then why DONT you want to watch Juno, which is, well, fun. Yeah, theres alot of pop culture references and quirky dialouge. Thats why I'd compare it to Pulp Fiction. Its probally even a little better. Also, you bag on the men-children here for their perverse love of toy movies, but you want to see Cloverfield, which is probally on par with Transformers?
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Feb 25, 2008 3:54:29 PM CST
WHY THE BLOG ARE YOU ALL FIGHTING ABOUT DIABLO CODY?!
by bringingsexyback
Stop giving her free press!!! C U Next Tuesday!!!!!
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Nuff said!
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Your defense of Cody is laughable at best. But I can't blame ya, since you are probably a regular customer at the local titty bar.Not approving of a Stripper or a Porno star making it big in Hollywood does'nt make me afriad of Vag, on the contrary, I love classy Women, as oppossed to skanks and most strippers hate Men if anything they see those same strip club patrons as mere dollar signs.Obviously you and Vern are pedestrian minded to make baseless assumptions. If you read my post , stated that I'll call a guy who is a jerk a prick (like verny just did to the tbers) as I would call a chick with an atittude the C-word.Spare me the "chivalry" BS you douche.
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Feb 25, 2008 3:57:54 PM CST
CODY IS NOT A CUNT BECAUSE OF JUNO, BUT SHE IS A CUNT
by bringingsexyback
for rudely and disrespectfully snatching that envelope out of Indiana Jones' hand when they were leaving the stage. For that, she a cunt. I know we all have a laugh at Ford's expense here for his age and shit, but we don't diss him in front of a world audience.
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we fight over cody cause we want to stick our weiners in her...
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From human being to ground beef in 1 second? Come on now. That effect blows away anything in Bayformers.
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dude your so backpeddling. After everyone on here came down on you, your trying to play off like you weren't really serious about your coments and you were just joking around. haha, come on.
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No, I bagged on a dude giving another dude shit for not knowing about a series of toys from two decades ago. Not even that! The series of commercials and print ads that pretended to be cartoons and comics that whored those toys! And yeah, Cloverfield is probably on par with Transformers. (I.E. An overblown fun spectacle.) Luckily, in the case of Cloverfield, it is an original intellectual property, so no one could say that they painted flames on the underwater giant fish man and get their longjohns in a twist over it ad nauseum both pre and post release of the film and the DVD.And Tourist, I respect the fact you like Juno, but I'll type this for you really slow-like so I know you got it: I think it's pretentious 'Wes Anderson' crap. It's long takes and snappy dialogue ripped out of the chatrooms and forums around the internet, and peppered with good performances by 'precocious' youth, and populated primarily by character actors I like. Hell, I even said I'd probably like it, it's just not on my list of things to do...It's right after putting my dick in a fan, and just before artificially inseminating a grizzly with a turkey baster. Just kidding; I'm just not jazzed to see this flick. I like the fact a stripper beat out guys and girls who work their balls off to make great cinema. The Oscars fucked real writers to make a 'feel good news event' for after the Oscars were over. That shit's hilarious to me, man. Much love, but come on, Transformers: The Movie? It was shitty. Especially if you've never seen anything about Transformers...it would be like taking your 14 year old cousin's XBox 360 away from him and handing him fucking Warlords and a pair of paddles with an old ass Atari.That's the reaction Vern had because he didn't get exposed to those commercials when he was a kid. So, don't bust the guy's balls because he doesn't understand the infatuation with big ass trucks pretending to be John Wayne. Bust his balls because he said people were afraid of vaginas! I know I am. I wasn't born, I was running away from my mother's vagina.
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Feb 25, 2008 4:02:52 PM CST
"...rudely and disrespectfully snatching the envelope..."
by mr. nice gaius
Even if that was her actual intent, do you really think Captain Cranky (aka Harrison Ford) gave a shite?I wouldn't read that much into it. The girl was obviously emotional and didn't want Indiana Jones to give the envelope to a museum.
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...Its because I did grow up watching movies that were less than popular and out on the fringes that I might say Juno is as good as or better than Pulp Fiction. You know why? Cause Pulp, like everything Tarantino has ever touched, is just a mix tape of obscure film references. Big whoop. At least Juno had a bit more going on than strictly sampling a bunch of genre flicks. When your most famous speech from your most famous film is lifted from another film, then your in trouble. By the way, since I actually date an ex stripper and still mingle with them, I can attest to the fact that they dont hate men. Just dickless mysognists like yourself.
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Is being handled by Top Men.
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Feb 25, 2008 4:06:34 PM CST
NAH YOU GOTTA WATCH THAT AGAIN - I HOPE IT GOES ON YOUTUBE
by bringingsexyback
Ford was gracious about it but he should've bitchslapped her for doing that. BTW Ford was hilarious in I'm Fucking Ben Affleck.
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...was looking HOT!
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Cody should hook up with Gary Busey and have one fucked-up demon love child...with horse teeth.
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I think the book is always the full meal. There is just so much more room for character development in a novel versus a film. I agree that those scenes you mention were compelling but at the same time I understand why they opted to cut them for the sake of the movie. I rather enjoyed both the novel and the film, though perhaps seeing the film before reading the novel changes one’s expectations. (I read the book after seeing the movie personally)
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And I can't believe it was nominated for anything, let alone beat Transformers in the visuals dept. The movie fucking sucked.
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Geeks are an insecuure lot, I suppose. He was just pointing out the stereotypes, folks, which in fact, they are.
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But a better word is "oversensitive."
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...after all the pomp and self-importance of Enchanted's THREE nominations, that it didn't win for best song. COME ON THE IRISH, YE SHOWER OF AMERICAN FECKERS!
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my small penis resents your implication, burgandy
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...Coincidence, but since I don't read fucking tabloid gossip papers and sites, because you know, they are retarded and all, I would have missed it. Um, are you a guidance counselor? You seem really, really obssessed with the well being of teenage girls. What were your thoughts on There Will Be Blood? Are you concerned some young men may begin sporting moustaches and ruthlessly constructing souless corporations?
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Giving one to some shit named Diablo Cody.
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is it about a teenage girl getting her menstral cycle?
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Feb 25, 2008 4:23:19 PM CST
Britney Spears shaves her head, Sweeny Todd released soon after.
by loafroaster
I'm just saying, is all
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Harry, what's up with the Miley hatred? She's a 15 year old girl, and WAY excited to be invited to the Oscars. Give it a rest. And the Diablo Cody hatred with the talk-backers. Vile. But here I am reading all these pathetic tear-downs. Guess that's sad too. Anyway, I thought Stewart was sauve, cool, and excellent. The musical numbers were not up to par. But as always, I thought it was enjoyable. Let's hope they nominate a film or two next year that people actually see.
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not a great year really, Page should have got best actress, it's that simple. Harry? What you got against Surfs Up, it was a cool animated flick, I would have been happy to see any of those nominees win.
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Mark my words.
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DAMN YOU OSCAR!!!
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I was sitting down with my GIRLFRIEND Mitzu (Whom I have sex with), an Asian delight who loves the touch of a large man who spend a great deal of his life watching TV and very little of his life doing anything, when I remembers the Oscars were on today. That's what she loves, gentle readers. One who watches and criticizes instead of doing and experiencing. It gets the girls, dare I say it . . . oh, so wet.
Before us were several very hip cultural references. I kid you not. I cant explain them all, but trust me, they were there. And you would have found them both funny and cute, with a hint of sophistication.
Are you familiar with a little show called Red Dwarf? Well, I sat down to watch the Oscars, as i always do with any formal occasion, with an official Arnald Rimmer hologram silver H on my forehead. YES! YES I DID! I truly did. I love to wear it during Oscars. Yes, I really am that cute and hip at the same time. At least in my own mind I am.
My son Millenium Falcon watched the Oscars with us. That is when the little scamp would put down his latest issue of Asian Tits magazine. You see, I believe in not having any rules with my kid. No rules. no structure. and, well, no parenting. But it's all for the best because like me he is also grossly over weight and social mal adjusted.
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Please get over yourself. Thanks.
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you must be kidding with that question. Anyone with a brain hates all empty manufactured pop culture idols.
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"Dad always talking about his kid" has it... you were right to let it go...
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Why don't you adore your 5th Grade English textbook, and focus on the 'two, to, too' section? Adverbs seem to be giving you a hard time as well, snarky britches. But I know you will fastidiously (adverb!) look over your book and whilst reading and remembering the -ly on adverbs and the difference between those pesky homonyms, you'll go ahead and play 'Hide and Go Fuck Yourself' with Millenium Falcon and your wet Asian criticizing couch potato wife.Just kidding man, your post was kind of funny. It would have been funnier if you actually, you know, knew how to speak English.
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Best Inanimate Object 68% of the Talkbackers Would Like to Be : the pregnancy stick from Juno it was presented by paul reubens
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Those same Tbers who dismiss American Gangster as Oscar worthy or a good film, are too quick to defend Diablo(w)when the others bash Juno which being nominated is a travesty to the Academy. Then again Malcolm X,Goodfellas,Star Wars,etc. got snubbed or lost out to a lesser quality film.Crash as pretentous as it was, deserved to win.More than I can say for Juno or even the overated Attonement.Oh and Tourist, I would'nt brag about dating an "Ex"stripper, instead you should have her checked for genital warts.HPV can be a mutha..Yeah and I suppose voting for Obama, instead of Hillary also makes me a mysoginist right?Asshole
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Man, its so weird seeing someone you've met holding an oscar. Though pretty much everyone in dublin can say that! Good for him.
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Don't listen to micturatingbenji, please stay in character and always post comments that sound like they came from some sort of alternate universe harry, one that is just like this harry, except with better punctuation and a lexicon less reliant on pairing food and sex in embarrassingly vulgar ways.
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that have actually won best picture. Sure, Juno is overrated, but that doesn't mean it was a bad movie. In fact it was pretty good. Vern's opinion is pretty spot on, but I'll add that the characterization was well done, and in my opinion the heart of the film. All the characters were flawed, but when you think they're going to make one of them the villain, they turn out to have a good side too. They're well thought out and their motivation comes through in the dialogue, acting and set design.
Sure, there was a clunky line now and then, but at least she tried to write stylized dialogue. Hell, no one seems to try anymore. Screenwriters need to go back to the forties and fifties and see how a screenplay is written.
I will admit, my pet peeve in that film was that they mentioned some kick ass bands like The Stooges and The Runaways and then they have a limp, acoustic, precocious, twee soundtrack. The director should probably have figured out he needed to play the bands the characters were name checking the entire fucking movie. (Sonic Youth's Carpenters cover did kick a lot of ass). -
Why didn't they include Brad Renfro in the memorial part of the broadcast? Or did I just miss it?
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Feb 25, 2008 5:51:01 PM CST
I was a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis's Plainview performance.
by jonquixote
Until every shit-ass comedian started doing impressions of it. And not just comedian-impressions, but bang-on eerie impressions. Awoke me to the honest truth: that performance is 20% good role and 80% voice + mustache combo. Respect to DDL, for being one of our greatest actors and for coming up with the voice and growing the mustache, but Clooney should have won.
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I still can't believe that won.
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I really have no idea who Miley Cyrus is . and so therefore I dont care.
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I can watch that movie all the time.
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And the number of people that saw La Vie En Rose could fit in a phone booth with room to spare.
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..Maybe it's also that annoying accoustic song near the end of the Movie: "Dododododododododododo.."
I thought the Kimmel/ Affleck sketch was funnier than Juno. Ok enough rant. And skywalker..I can't belive that shit one either,same goes for "hard out there for a pimp" as song of the year. In which Harrison Ford presented the awards to some rap group who made the song.muahahah -
Hannah was there. Also what about Hillary Duff?
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http://tinyurl.com/2panlm
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considering it should have won. You cannot write characters that brilliant, only in life could something like that happen. I would have given anything to see Steve Wiebe on an Academy stage. Fuck all.
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And I'm talking DRAINAGE!!!
As for a comment that was made that not all girls that have lower back tats are tramps, that is true, but I'd say 90% of the girls I met at bars or clubs are very receptive to me. But maybe I'm just good looking or really confident. Hell, I think I'm both, and to top it off, I'm a nice guy so no negatives there. -
...very simple..he's taking the Jason Alexander role in the Shallow Hall remake.
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No Cunt for Old Men
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That doesn't make any sense. If that's an attempt at a flame then FUCK YOU!!! otherwise disregard that last comment.
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I must have missed something.
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That song is ass. That's probably the worst cover on that album, and one of my favorite Carpenter songs! Mr. Bateman lost some street cred when he brought that one up.
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Yet people still watch.
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Hope your talking about Xhipos, cause my comment makes complete sense
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christ, are people here and the msm so fucking stupid?? first it won the night, so i highly doubt that they will have to refund any advertising monies....second, the strike worked....viewership was down across the board...with no first run shows to hype the thing, people didnt remember and didnt care...most tv viewers are idiots...if you dont remind them something will be on, they wont watch...let me also add that the new fcc rules and the oscars shortening speeches have totally fucked up this award show...used to be you would wait for someone to say something totally outrageous...now everyone is on their best behaviour...the last time someone said anything that brought headlines was moore in his bowling for columbine win....the dresses are all modest, etc...at least next year, there wont be a fucking repug administration in charge, so the right wing christ nuts wont have any voice in government....i say full frontal nudity for all presenters...thatll bump the ratings
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no not a douche.... just merry.
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I thought he was going to announce the Black Panther takeover of the building the way he walked up to the stand.
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thing anyway.
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and fuck you, off to see ncfom
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What souless fucking bastards.
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Yes!
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And Renfro didn't.
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to leave Prince's party.
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Feb 25, 2008 9:46:04 PM CST
Maybe this explains in a nutshell why the Oscars tanked, rating-
by pennsy
From the TV Without Pity Oscar forum: "One of the most entertaining parts of the evening was when the Coen brothers won best director and there were technical difficulties with Channel 7, and the screen was still the Oscars but the sound was the (ABC affiliate) or something. Some lady asked, presumably about No Country for Old Men, 'What is it about?', and a guy's response was, I believe, 'A guy with no expression blowing everything up.'"
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Don't know if someone already mentioned this, but he wasn't included in the montage because he died in February and the montage only went through the end of January. I thought that was pretty stupid... how difficult would it have been to add another name or two and make it current?
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I'll say it again: FUCK YOU!!!!
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He needs a woman to give his manmilk a shake.
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"As a writer myself, I'm shamed by how fucking good a novelist Cormac McCarthy is." No one cares about you, and it shows you know fuck all when you make it sound like a diploma from NYU film school means something. Film is a subjective art form, learning or qualifications mean shit. And There will be Blood was the best film of the year. It was an epic piece of filmmaking, something akin to casablanca, citizen kane. No country for old men was just a well made movie, but nothing that hasn't been done before, and it seems it gets more praise for it's narrative which was form the book. but compare it to 2006's best movie which was actually groundbreaking, Children of fucking Men. no fucking contest.
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NCFOM, best film of the year, loved it. Followed in order by The Assasination Of Jesse James, Into The Wild, Rescue Dawn and There Will Be Blood.
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I have a philosophical question for you about TRANSFORMERS effects. Seriously, I don't know the answer on this one but let me know what you think. Clearly they made the imagery look very realistic, so on those grounds it seems like they deserved the Oscar. But what about the design of those effects? I know they were just doing what they were hired to do but these effects were designed in such a way that they obscure the storytelling of the movie and more than a few people can't tell what in the fuck is going on, even sometimes in still photos. Should that be considered by the voters? Is it purely a matter of "does it look real?" or is there also an artistic quotient that should be considered? In LORD OF THE RINGSes if Gollum looked like a real guy standing in front of you but you had no idea if it was his ass or his elbow you were looking at and it caused great confusion throughout the movie, should it still have won the effects Oscar? I think this is worth pondering.
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CREEPY THIN MAN: No offense intended bud, I didn't know you were in the Taliban. In my culture assholes who talk about "low class whores" and "fucking cunts" are not held in the same regard as in yours. In my opinion it is the year 2008, Diablo Cody lives in America, we don't stone women here for getting pregnant or showing their tits. For fuck's sake dude get a fucking heart. People make mistakes and I've known plenty of strippers and teenage mothers with more class and worth as human beings than you, pal. You don't know Diablo Cody and we don't know you, but please note that you are judging Ms. Cody for writing about pregnancy, we are judging you for presenting yourself as a hateful, ignorant, black-hearted scumbag. I liked AMERICAN GANGSTER too, though. High five.
INDUSTRY KILLER: Well JUNO is low on my list, I don't want to be the guy defending it, and I can think of plenty good reasons to hate it. But those ones you listed I don't get. You think the dialogue is supposed to be realistic? I think it's trying to be stylized like HEATHERS. I'm not a fan of the dialogue but it's sure not trying to reflect reality. I think the other part you and a couple other people are criticizing is exactly what people like about this movie - it's taking this topic that is usually Lifetime Television For Women melodrama and treating it in a more funny and human way. It's refreshing that it acknowledges the possibility of a teen becoming pregnant and her parents, instead of freaking out, being loving and supportive. I've seen it happen (but with less wisecracks). And shit, isn't adoption a good thing to promote too? Better than having an abortion or raising the poor kid to speak in '80s references? It's not much but it's a positive movie, what the fuck is wrong with that every once in a while? You know I love my bloody mayhem but don't get mad at somebody for enjoying a story about people making good out of a bad situation.
SKYWALKER: You and your riddles. SAW III, Kevin Smith? What in the hell are you talking about? Still, congratulations on your 3 sentence post. I dare you to write two complete paragraphs explaining your stance on any topic.
STALKEYE: I didn't read the whole talkback, I can't police the world for racists and anti-semites. When I see them I make fun of them, so yes I was happy to send one sentence in the way of you fuckin neanderthals calling Cody a cunt. What has happened to this place over the years, everybody calling everyone and everything gay, cunt, faggot, calling all black men gangsters. Since when are all the nerds living on a compound in Idaho? And dude, how are you accusing me of saying that Diablo Cody is immune to negative comments in your response to my post that was 75% negative comments about her?
And by the way, I don't know about GI Joe? What kind of a monster are you, going at me like that? And taking away my "Geek license"?! Do you know how hard I worked for that fucking thing? I am a human being! Everyone who knows me knows that I pride myself on my knowledge of GI Joe, Garfield, etc. You have crushed me.
BRIGHTEYES: right back at ya pal
BRINGINGSEXYBACK: what is this envelope/Harrison Ford business? Musta missed that.
And to end on a positive note... I was glad Tilda Swinton won, and her speech was great. I don't think Harry's giving her performance enough credit, she played this great vulnerable version of what's usually a superbitch villain character. I agree that JUNO shouldn't have won, I would've gone for MICHAEL CLAYTON, but oh well. This was an Oscars without any CRASH-style outrages as far as I'm concerned. Great to see the Coens, Day-Lewis etc. rewarded for great work. I would've been real happy if Viggo somehow won though, that was my favorite performance of the year. Fuckin spectacular. It was a good movie year to have so many good ones nominated and not even all my favorites are in there. -
Say what you will with your bias hate but it should have won for the starscream air battle which was visible and brilliant the effects in that shot were just incredible. The design was godlike and it just looked ahhhh and the sequence itself, stops your heart. Looking back at it the best most convincing shot was Optimus screaming "roll out" and Bumblebee changingto into a camaro and the wheels spinning as he's still transforming and then it spins away and is a fucking car. That still blows me away, i mean what the fuck man, I refuse to believe that shot was CGI, it was actually the character bumblebee in front of a camera.
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Who saw the behind the scenes on the Director's cut? I had no idea how many effects were in that. The CGI shot of San Francisco from the ocean had so much detail to it and unlike Transformers, you could tell what it was supposed to be.
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I don't think Juno was subversively manipulative, if that's true then you are stupid because you choose to be manipulated or not. i just thought it wasn't good, nothing special. people said it had realistic dialogue then i realize the people saying that were critics and people involved in film, none of who live in the real world so they assume that's what quirky witty realistic dialogue sounds like. then people said it was hilarious and i thought i'd be laughing like Naked gun or at least superbad, but I chuckled once. Then it gets nominated for best picture instead of assassinatin of jesses james GRRRRRR.
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yes it was good but the complexity in Zodiac's effects to Transformers' effects are apples and oranges. or more like apples and cheese.
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Fair enough. I'm just bitter that Zodiac got shafted, and I don't think I can let it go. Hopefully Benjamin Button will do better and I can get on with my life.
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together. it would cause all nutsacks to explode in oil.
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I didn't know we were supposed to write short stories in these tiny boxes. Sorry about that. I guess my Communications major is wasted by writing short to the point posts instead of long winded asshole ones.
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Three sentences with a complete thought. I'm proud of you Skywalker. Soon the one sentence, indecipherable insult posts will be but a distant memory.
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According to deadlinehollywooddaily, who spoke to one of the producers (?). I know he hadn't been box office lately but that is just classless. They throw in AGENTS this year but not him. Yeah, edit this, he hasn't had decent box office in years but lets put this agent in that no one has heard of.
The whole production of the show this year was cock-eyed. Here's some stuff we were going to show you if there was still a strike. Strike's over; they *still* show reel after reel of useless looking clips (not talking about the "joke" clips either). The line-up was screwed up. Best Supporting awards right off the bat worked out fine forever. If you were hoping to keep viewers from flipping channels, it probably didn't work. You have losers like me who will watch it all they way through or you don't. At least when the two supporting awards were presented out of the gate, it could have kept up the suspense about the bigger prizes later on. The producers seriously dropped the ball on this one. They will blame the writer's strike, of course but it doesn't forgive some of the basic production choices that they made (Not putting a leash on Conti is another).
If Gil Cates gets an Emmy for this production, I'm going to hit him over the head with it. Then everyone who voted for him.Ï -
as a novelty and turned it into a career as an author, columnist and Oscar winning screenwriter. So call her a phony or a lucky brat but "cunt" and "low class whore" is still not applicable.
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You can get these at your local ShopKo. Tell them hamslime sent you and I get a discount on Air Heads. I also don't know how to do paragraphs so I apologize in advance. BEOWULF- Didn't see it, looks cool though. COMANCHE MOON- I could have sworn this came out last week. JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER- Nerds. Need your Aquaman fix? Here you go. BARBIE MARIPOSA AND HER BUTTERFLY FRIENDS- The joke contest showed there are plenty of pedeophiles here, this one's for them. THE DARJEELING LIMITED- It's Wes Anderson. You either like him or you don't. He's brilliant, so most of you probably don't. JESSE STONE: SEA CHANGE- I wasn't aware that Tom Selleck was still working, good for him. 30 DAYS OF NIGHT- Holy crap! Hartnet doesn't suck in this one. THE LAST EMPEROR- Criterion is french for "too goddamn expensive". I'm not a pro at this, and Harry's probably busy, so this is how I'm choosing to give back to AICN. You're welcome.
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changing the awards lineup was stupid...conti was all over the place...if you are gonna cut speeches, why waste time on speeches from 20 years ago...i understand the strike effected the overall production, but the way they did the clips was irritating...oh, and note to the academy, for the 90th anniversary, dont show the list of yearly best pic award winners...its embarresing to watch the decline of movie making through the years...but the ratings really didnt tank...overall viewership has declined since the strike and it won the night handily
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Well although we agree to disagree,atleast you clarified a few things ergo I can't call you out for sleeping at the wheel when Tbes are spewing hateful comments.But this is he AICN talkback and thi kinda shit has been going on for years. As much as I may disagree with the offensive shit many Tbers have posted, I'm a proponent of free speech, just as long a shit does'nt get way outta hand.Back to Diablo, I too have seen her demeanor while accepting the Oscars,and my Girlfriend who was with me said "..who does this bitch think she is?" BTW she liked Juno but rooted for NCFOM. :0P I did'nt need to mention the harrison Ford incident when I called her a cunt, as the other posters have made it more than obvious, yeah the Ex-stripper who now dumps her hubby, since her film has become an overnight success.Now those comments "the rest of you are cool" and of course the "fear of vag" were patronizing and frivolous.So fuck it, your Geek license.."just been revoked" But seriously you know it has'nt since your crib is prolly decked out with Blade memorabillia n shit.Can't apologize for the vitrol, but let's all "Move along,Move along.."
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Due to the fact that the "I'm cool cause I date Strippers" Tourist got overly sensitive with the Cody bashing.Anyway, The GIJoe remarks aimed@ Vern were used in sarcastic manner and not to mention his previous posts on the GIJoe casting thread(s).When I think of GIJoe, it's mostly Larry Hama's/Marvel comic series and of course the cool action figures I collected during my early teens.The Cartoon somewhat left a lot to be desired, but aside from the "no one gets killed while shooting lasers rule",It was a violent series for a 30 minute commercial. I take it you were a He Man fan. You complained that Joe didn't have pathos, but bitched about Optimus Prime's death in TFTM? talk about contradiction. Yeah so what if GIJoe or TF was made 20 years ago, and Star Wars is over 30.They are all pop culture icons fool.And to ride me on and on about GIJoe on a geek site is too redundant, ok asshole you made your point.This is what happens when you don't take your Prozac.
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That is certainly a valid question. I do agree that it at times was very difficult to see exactly which mechanical limbs were turning into what during the action, but at other times it was perfectly easy to follow. I never saw it on the big screen so maybe I'm biased by having seen it on DVD where I didn't find it headache-inducing at all.
Personally, I think there's a difference between special effects and the actual design of them, even if it's fluid also in the best of circumstances. As for Transformers, I prefer the giant, fuck-off, alien space robots to be the whirling dervishes of tranforming metal beating the shit out of each other as they were presented, rather than have them slowly or more simply transforming while engaged in hand-to-hand combat looking like it was choreographed for a lame Roger Moore Bond flick just so we could see just how clearly and seamlessly ILM accomplished them.
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I agree with you on Transformers. What a goddamned mess. Low five!
Messi, I don't know why you defend it so vigorously. Liking it after your pre-release hate is one thing, but you're putting that turd on a pedestal.
Back to Vern: I can't find it on Youtube but after Cody's acceptance speech, and they were walking off stage, Cody suddenly turns around and SNATCHES the envelope from Harrison Ford's hand. Doesn't ask him for it, doesn't point to it - just goes and snatches it. She's got a serious problem with social skills and disrespecting a legendary icon like that on the Oscar stage of all places. I hope someone recorded the show and can put that on YT. -
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"....Fuck Chariots of fire..."? Really? That was an excellent movie and in no way deserving of molestation. Just because it won over ROTLA is no reason to be bitter. Both are great films.
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I can name a thousand things wrong, but just the scene with the Autobots sneaking around the yard and the idiot parents not hearing a thing was just unforgivably insulting to the audience. It wasn't awesome, it wasn't funny.
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There Will Be Blood: A Look Back At The Bush Presidency
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I saw the "snatching" (hee) of the envelope but I got a completely different take off of it. I haven't watched it again but I thought she was crying and embarrassed, trying to hold it together. When I'm crying and embarrassed, I don't like to look people in the face either; I tend to lose my shit. Different perceptions, I guess. Who knows, maybe she sobbed all over his bourbon reeking shirt once they got off stage and out of a television viewing audience.
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She's not a cunt. She was just overwhelmed. But I do hate hipsters.
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Us Magazine questioned an "Academy Representative" about the snubbing of Brad Renfro. The artice quotes, "It was really an editing decision because we can’t fit everyone in," says the rep. "There was no specific reason." No commentary on why Roy Schieder was skipped other than the dates given at the beginning of the segment. But I call bullshit on that one. They could not edit in 10 fucking seconds for Roy S? A two time Oscar winner? That is just complete BS Academy. Get new vid editors of the retarded monkeys cant work on a short schedule. With that short schedule being two friggin weeks. To the Academy ad flip a virtual bird and say, "have a nice day".
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"However, it is kind of interesting to read the reactions to a young woman receiving an Academy award for her very first screenplay. Did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck get this much vitrol??" If I recall, there WAS a Ben and Matt backlash, but the difference here is that GOOD WILL HUNTING was a better script and film than JUNO. Ten years after GWH, people still watch it and reference it. It has stood the test of time. And, it does not bog itself down with kitschy pop-culture references and flavor-of-the-moment Webspeak, which will give a film a shelf-life of a couple of years (if that). JUNO will not fare so well. Cody is trash (just look at how she dresses for the fucking Oscars). Reitman is trash (JUNO is a major step backward from TYFS). JUNO is trash (a 'comedy' about a meanspirited teenager selling a baby). And if a ham-handed and slight piece of GHOST WORLD-wannabe bubblegum like JUNO can get nominated for Best Screenplay, Picture and Director - and actually win one of the three - the Academy Awards are trash by association.
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I should really proofread before hitting "Post talkback".
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I have little doubt that TRANSFORMERS lost to the GOLDEN COMPASS based on the merits of the question posed by Vern. I can totally see those Academy voters sitting there in front of their HD TVs with pen in hand saying to themselves:"Wow! Wait...stop! Oh...this is too busy...too loud...and too Bay. Now, this GOLDEN COMPASS film seems nice. It has Kidman and Craig and it's very pastoral. Wait...is this the one the Christian-right threw a tantrum over?! Then I will vote for the GOLDEN COMPASS and support my Hollywood friends who were embarrassed by this bomb."Or something like that.
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don't get me wrong i loved once and falling slowly is a great song but it should NOT have won best song. it shouldn't have even been nominated. the song existed well before the movie. it was originally released on the Frames(Glen Hansards band)2006 album THE COST, as did several other songs from the movie. eddie vedder wrote an entire album for into the wild and didn't even get nominated. this is the second time he was screwed. (man of the hour/big fish)
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But Children of Men gets left holding its collective dick in its hand? IT HAS ONE OF THE BEST TRACKING SHOTS EVER! Michael Caine gives one of the best screen death performances as well and no credit given. prediction: Diablo Cody will be co-host on The View by early 2010.
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Feb 26, 2008 11:19:35 AM CST
'Juno,' 'LMS' haters are no different from Academy voters...
by burgundy82
... by the way. Bemoaning the inclusion of low-budget indie comedies? What the fuck are you really worried about, anyway? They NEVER win, guys, and for the very same reason you're bitching about them. They're low-budget indie comedies. Irrelevntelefant, I agree wholeheartedly that "Children of Men" was robbed last year, but believe it or not I would have put it in "Babel's" place, not "LMS." Why should every Best Picture nominee every goddamn year be a drama? Tell me what the fuck was so special about "Babel"? What separates it from "Traffic," or "Syriana" or, fuck, even the lowly "Crash"? I'm sorry, but if ANY of last year's films was overrated, it was that plodding, joyless piece of "art."
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i agree comedies and comedic performances are one of the most overlooked when it comes to the academy. pulling off a great comedic performance is more difficult than pulling off a great dramatic performance- almost every actor on Inside the Actors Studio confirms the same. I don't mind when an indie quirky film gets nominated, but it's almost as if there is a nomination slot reserved for just that purpose. the big question is, when will Stephen Colbert come out with a "I'm fucking Diablo Cody" video?
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one catagory for drama, one for comedy
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What the blog was that movie about? I have no idea. How all these people are somehow connected by a gun? Overrated!!!
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RAAAAAMMMMMBO!!!!!
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Okay, I don't understand why Brad Renfro or Bob Clark weren't on there, but you can't get on them for not including Roy Scheider. They do the Oscars every year, 80 in a row now. The only way to do it is to have a hard and fast cut off date. If they include Roy Scheider this year because he's so great then what does that say about the other people who die in between that they don't choose to show? He'll be on next year, I'm sure.
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A Christmas Story is only one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time....
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You're right that the Academy should adopt that practice from the Globes. Only problem is, the "Best Comedy" or whatever it would be called wouldn't carry any prestige for a long, long time. They really should have been doing it that way for years. Instead, we have a system where, like you said, basically one slot each year is reserved for a "People's Champ"-type indie comedy (or a big-budget musical), and the nod itself is their big honor and the best they can hope for ("Chicago" notwithstanding). And BringingSexyBack, it's NOT overrated. In fact, it was pretty accurately rated. That's why it's been mostly forgotten. Look, I'm not saying "Babel" is a bad film by any means, but it's not Best Picture material. So take your condescending use of Diabloslang and fuck off, sir.
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damn... i guess my work here is done...
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that's pretty funny.
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I hate the both of you. Straight up; I'd like to see bad things happen to you on DVD, being played over and over again with a laugh track. I'd like your parents to have to give a commentary track with their fucking weeping included, and I'll make fucking failure/sorrow smoothies out of their tears as they watch bull elephants kick around your sorry excuse for fucking corpses after you'd both been eye-raped by Greg 'Big Wooden Dick' Jefferson into comas.Nah, just kidding. Messi: My mom cares about me, my wife too. Projection is a nasty habit. Look, I found it funny that guys who put stock in their precious diplomas get a big p-noss in their brown from ex-strippers who literally cobbled together a half-decent script from nothing! I wasn't saying that I think it's wrong, just fucking ironic and funny. At no time did I place a 'value' on a diploma, other than the time and effort one puts into getting it, and what they do with it after. I think there are a lot of dudes walking around with honorary doctorates who couldn't prescribe children's aspirin, right?And second, you're right...nobody gives a fuck about me or my life. However, I 'win', because my opinion got you riled for some reason! Nice to see that you DO care. I was actually contemplating the worth of even replying to your mean little post, but then, I thought how you'd wonder how I took what you said... No skin off my nose, lady. We're still friends. Beyond forever. Beyond Thunderdome.Just as a kind of point of reference, I mentioned that I write. Comparing my own struggle with writing to the relative ease McCarthy seems to have putting out brilliant prose was the only way to relate that info to you...Sorry. I won't make you read little peeks into my life when trying to make an analogy. Last one, I promise: if I eat peanut butter and cheese crackers I nearly black out trying to take a shit.Now, to my rebuttal to both you and the guy who likes GI Joe: You're a kindergarten baby, and I have it on record that you stick your head in the gravy. While doing so, we all know that you like to wrap it up in bubble gum and ship it to the Navy. And, "There Will Be Blood" or, "Gangs of the High Plains" as I call it, had one thing going for it...well, I take that back..two things: The score...which was fucking incredible, and Daniel Day Lewis. I think the film got what it deserved.'No Country For Old Men' was greater than the sum of its parts...that's what the Best Picture is. My family and friends (sorry to interject personal perspective, but it will make sense, honestly) all saw No Country...none of them knew what the fuck 'There Will Be Blood' was. They were both really good flicks, but the Coens have the ability to make their films interesting when they're having an 'off' film...and downright riveting when they're 'on'. No Country For Old Men was 'on'.Stalkeye: HAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ok, man. I said Transformers was shitty AND had no pathos. I didn't care that they killed off Optimus Prime, and guess what? I still don't care. What I was pointing out was that the move sucked hog balls, and to kill off the main hero on the fucking poster for the big commercial for the toys you're selling is fucking stupid.I agree...Larry Hama's Joe comic series rised above and beyond its source. Props to the fucking Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes fight on the El. That shit was great. I had no idea you had a 'running gag' with the GI Joe thing....sorry to bust your balls about it. However, it's people's slavish devotion to the way things were back in the day that makes people liking genre shit into fucking dorks. Every guy on the football team from your high school knew who the fuck Spider Man was, he just didn't talk about him all the fucking time. That was me, actually.Best,Your Pal,micturatingbenjamin
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The reason I remember is because I forgot he had passed away until I saw it again on the Oscar montage.
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...Singer/Actor Robert Goulet, legendary comedian and game show/X-Files favorite Charles Nelson Reilly, Bob Newhart pal and perrennial characeter actor Tom Poston, 55-year career veteran Alice Ghostley, 75-year career veteran and Frank Kapra favorite Charles Lane, groundbreaking talkshow host and TV producer Merv Griffin, most famous of mimes Marcel Marceau, and famous Native American actor Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, among others. And agents and publicists were included? WTF!?!?
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is incorporated should automatically get an honorary oscar... strawberry *cough*
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To be fair, the montage zipped along faster than pretty much anything on Oscar night and I'm not surprised some viewers blinked and didn't see a few people. Oscar let the 72,193 montages of previous Oscar moments prevent them from adding very many new moments this year.
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...The guy is made of Wood. I'm not sure how they managed to keep his eyes open during that speech. Agree with Babel. Fuck I hate Iñárritu's movies. LMS shat all over anything hes ever touched.
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Best music? Costumes? Editing? Set design?
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Being shown dead on the Oscars should not be a popularity contest. The absence of Roy just hit me because at the time we were only two weeks out from his passing.
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It already influenced Beowulf, and 10,000 BC
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I'm with you, Buff. The backlash against Cody is ridiculous. Mosquito, you can't make any claim about the shelf life of Juno compared to GWH. Juno's not even out of theaters yet, for chrissakes. Way to project your own opinion onto the future. I don't make any claim about Juno, either. I just think it's absolutely fucking ridiculous to continue the Cody bashing vis-a-vis her appearance or past. If you didn't like her script, fine. But once again, just like so many others, you have to drag out the stupid "trash" label. Well fuck that. HOORAY DIABLO CODY!!!! I don't even care about the script anymore, now it's a matter of supporting a fellow writer against asshole backlash.
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To be fair, I didn't say it was ridiculous, I just said it was interesting. I haven't even seen "Juno". BSB just got me thinking a about preconceived perceptions: Matt and Ben - clean cut, tux wearing young men gamboodling (so not a word) on stage like puppies - to Diablo Cody - an inked and animal printed, pop culture impressed female.
I guess I'm questioning, like you, the mean spiritedness of her detractors - wielding looks, background and gossip as a cudgel (thx Daniel Day) like it legitimately backs up their opinions that they thought the script sucked. It has no bearing really....
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haha... yep, a lot like a strike talkback. I'll see you again in three years when the contract's up... Ridiculous is definitely my word. I didn't mean to imply that you're quite as strident as I am. I couldn't tell you why, but the Cody bashing just really pisses me off. I think it's partially the fact that it's so mysogynistic and as a guy, I always shake my head in shame that my fellow dude can be so douchey. If Ron Jeremy wrote an Oscar-winning script, those same guys would probably be yucking it up and high-fiving. And yeah, the mean-spirited aspect is really what gets me. You don't like the script? Fine. You think it's uncool that she was a stripper? Fine. Implying that the two have anything to do with each other is fallacy. Stating outright that they're connected and that she's a lesser writer AND person because of her past (and because she has a GASP tattoo!) is just plain assholery. And none of those detractors has really outlined how her "hip" or "ironic" or whatever dialogue is connected to her past as a stripper or her tattoo. Some come on, boys. Let's see you justify your A to B argument.
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Her script might well indeed by crap, for all I know but I haven't really heard a decent argument to convince me of that, comparative to its critical praises. Mosquito Marsh might have been on to something with "webspeak" dialogue becoming dated over time but instead of bolstering that line of argument, he went off on a bit of a tangent.
I will eventually see for myself of course, but I was wondering if something was more tangibly wrong with her script - grammatical (not artistic!) fundamantals, act problems, foreshadowing, continuity errors and the like. Arguments about these things would convince me more of a sucky script than doling out her daring "hipster" persona. -
How does it compare to Thank You For Smoking? That movie was awesome, but I think it was more for Aaron Eckhart and J.K. Simmons more than anything.
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... was a great film, Juno is better.
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http://tinyurl.com/2noasg
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Last night. Overhyped. and to counter the view. Day lewis's performance is not the greatest in the history of the genre. I thought it was acting showboating its its worst especially at the end of the movie . It reminded me of wyte goodman in dodgeball. who gym logo was Were better than you and you know it. PTA's Screenplay was utterly incoherent. I have no idea what he was trying to say. Other movies have used oil in a political way. like Syriana. What was the point of the intermission? The critical reaction to this film damaged it I believe. the academy like actors who say the same line over and over and loudly. Penn should have won for Richard Nixon and Mystic River, A film i didnt like.
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In 2003, in the AICN IRC Channel on Oscar Night, Anonymous cowards like InvaderZim, wixlet, and Huneybee were kicking anti-war comments like crazy. They hide behind their anonymous IRC identities without email addresses so they can gleefully keep from getting the ever-loving shit beat out of them. They know they'd be vomiting up blood in a ditch if it wasn't for their cowering behind their keyboards. Just for the record. Will post in every stream of consciousness thread in every subsequent year until they grow a sack and back up their words with actions.
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