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Harry's 14th Annual Academy Awards Live Blogging.... Here we go...
Hey folks, Harry here... as you noticed, I didn;t twitter that "harry here" because Harry is here - on AICN - not on Twitter tonight. That's right - as I have done the past 13 years, I will be live blogging in little bits my reaction to the Oscar broadcast. Now - I love and hate the Academy Awards... It is an awards show above all others - it is gaudy, glitzy, crazy and insane. But I hate the campaigns. Personally, I wish the Academy did screeners and that's it. No meet and greet with the Academy members, no Academy junket style Q&As with the filmmakers... Just watch the movies. Watch the performances, listen to all the scores and let's see how it turns out for a year.
There's nothing that'll stop the media from writing articles, like I do... but I just abhor the concept of buying an Oscar. I want to believe in it more than they do.
I do have good news. Barbara Walters claims this will be her last Oscar Telecast. I hate that - as usually I love tearing her apart and laughing at the faux emotional bullshit that is usually a part of it, but I kinda loved it too. Especially when it is its silliest. So - Here we go... at this moment, Baba Wawas is interviewing Sandra Bullock - who was really good in THE BLIND SIDE, but her adopted son was the best thing in that movie.
So on my 15th year of doing this - I wonder who ABC'll get to do it.
Well - here comes the official Academy broadcast...
Right now - they have the 5 Academy Award nominated Actresses with beautiful dresses - but honestly, other than Penelope and Mo'Nique are the serious noms. At least to me. But it is interesting that they have all the Noms together. Gotta feel odd. Jake Gyllenhaal talking about PRINCE OF PERSIA. Clooney was slapping fingers through the fence with folks. Clooney's hair isn't as awesome as normal. Here's Sandra in a gorgeous insane dress. This Red Carpet doesn't feel like a red carpet live. It's is very odd. Some reason Zack Efron is being interviewed - on DISNEY ABC's broadcast. Ugh.
Healthy Choice, Nasalnex and Samsung 3D tv... ACK!!
Sorry - Found out the door on my dad's car was open outside in the rain. Missed some stuff. The last 10 films to be nominated had CASABLANCA win. We do not have a better film than CASABLANCA and we're not likely to ever. That said. Whoopi Goldberg is advertising Adult Diaper types of things. Weird world.
Awesome. Ad for Kevin Biegel's COUGAR TOWN during the Oscars. Awesome.
The Price Waterhouse guys. Steve Carrell and Tina Fey - again... here as Presenters and plugging DATE NIGHT. Billion dollar jail bait Miley Cyrus is now being asked how she likes DRAMA. What an amazing question. THE DUDE, FLYNN is awesome. "It would be beautiful" when asked about what an Oscar win would mean for him. The dude is wearing Gucci. Take note. Kristen Stewart. Kate Winslet is just awesome as usual. Now Precious is hear. She's stunning in the movie. Gabourey hopefully will win. AB LAD: Stretch Armstrong is here. Meryl Streep is awesome as that crazy cook in JULIE & JULIA. I hated this Red Carpet presentation.
Now - THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS will begin:
Have to say, I do like that they have movie ads during the Oscars again! Goodwill ad before the Oscars. Irony?
Stunning Stage! Whoa - they begin with all the noms for Actor and Actress... Very cool in my opinion. Gabourey's voguing is awesome!!!! The lay out of the theater is great. Comedy teams are hitting the screens... NEAL PATRICK HARRIS!!! Musical number about comedy teams.... Wow - so awesome! It is very gay in the best Oscar musical number tradition. Scantily clad gals with big Gypsy Rose Lee Feather fans.... And by the way NPH's tux is crazy sparkly!
Coming down from a chandelier is Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin! Now let's see how they do...
Apparently no matter what the votes are, Meryl Streep is required to be nominated. She does have the most losses. Christopher Plummer is given props. That damn Helen Mirren. "Steve that's Dame Helen Mirren!" Apparently Meryl Streep has a large Hitler collection. I have to say though - the opening doesn't really have a great rhythm. Woody is waiting for the barbs and it is a stoner joke. Steve Martin killed the wood sprites.
The first presenter is Penelope Cruz for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominees are Matt Damon in Invictus (great work), Woody in THE MESSENGER (another great role), Christopher Plummer for THE LAST STATION (personally I preferred him in Gilliam's Dr Parnassus), Stanley Tucci in The LOVELY BONES was so fucking creepy. Loved him. And Christopher Waltz in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS who is edging towards the stage to get his award, of which I feel no suspense only the impending satisfaction of his win...
The winner is CHRISTOPH WALTZ - "Oscar and Penelope -that's Uber Bingo" - I'm so happy with this win. Tarantino introduced us to a great new Actor, yes, I have tears already. VERY HAPPY!
Ryan Reynolds comes out to introduce a clip to THE BLIND SIDE... Is this his Hal Jordan look? He looks very very slim these days. I have to say, I'm very surprised by THE BLIND SIDE - it didn't look like something I'd dig, but I love the film.
Cameron Diaz and Steve Carrell come out. Looks like it is for the BEST ANIMATED FILM... Fantastic Fox - Coraline - they're animated and talking about what it felt like to be nominated... The Secret of Kells... Then THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG.... Then UP - Doug is licking the screen "SQUIRREL!!!" Ed Asner in the audience!!! And the winner is...
UP - Which is the best film of the the top ten BEST FILMS.
Miley comes out to do BEST SONG - BATHROOM CALLED - but T-bone Burnett won the song, but I didn't catch the song name. From CRAZY BEAUTIFUL!!!
KIRK 2.0 Chris Pine hits - with the intro to DISTRICT 9 - if DISTRICT 9 wins, I vow to watch only DISTRICT 9 at home for the next month.
Now during this break... here's what's going on at my house. In attendance is myself, Father Geek, my sis, her boyfriend aaron, my nephew Giovanni, Yoko and just crashing is Kyle Newman and Jaime King. And we're laughing, catcalling, being outraged...
Robert Downey Jr and Tina Fey... that's a great grouping... Robert's glasses tint matches his bowtie. Sickly little mole people.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY --
The Hurt Locker, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - the best, Eli Roth's voice was heard on the Oscars. THE MESSENGER, A SERIOUS MAN (which was written in some strange language unknown mostly to me. giggle) UP - I'd die if this won everything it was nominated for.
AND THE WINNER IS:
THE HURT LOCKER - won. I radically disagree with this. But that's just me. The acceptance was earnest. But I'm not a fan.
Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick come out... A John Hughes tribute. Oh god. This is really wonderful. Just seeing these two eulogize him is killer. Ferris Bueller clips... I saw this film 10 times on initial release. God - TWO PILLOWS! Oh man, I'm crying... fuck. I just am dying. BREAKFAST CLUB taught how to be a teen. Where are the BRAS ON HEADS?!?!?
Wow... A huge amount of Hughes cast is on stage. God. This is killing me. For kids that have grown up after his films - they mean so much. I just wish he'd done even more.
Sam Jackson hits to present for UP - just images from this film gets me crying... God I love this. Yeah! Ed Asner...
Gigi music - this is for BEST SHORT FILM - talking got loud at the house.... They're doing a montage of Short Films - and then the features later directed by them.
The Nominees for BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM..are awesome looking... Only seen the WALLACE
LOGORAMA won! Which is just amazng looking. I really want to see it.
Now THE BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT - Cina's Unnatural Disaster, THE LAST CAMPAIGN, THE LAST TRUCK, MUSIC BY PRUDENCE, MAUERHASE
The Winner is: MUSIC BY PRUDENCE... - very awkward acceptance speech that got shooed off by the band
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM - The Door, INSTEAD OF ABRACADBRA, KAVI, MIRACHLE FISH and THE NEW TENANTS -
And the winner is THE NEW TENANTS - and the second person didn't say a word.
Now - BEN STILLER as a Na'vi hits the stage... "This seemed like a better idea in rehearsal" Best makeup presenter...
The Nominees for BEST MAKEUP - IL DIVO - which was great subtle makup. STAR TREK which should win for the work. THE YOUNG VICTORIA - which I disagree with.
The Winner is: STAR TREK! Holy Shit! There's an Academy Award winning STAR TREK movie. Holy Shit. The STAR TREK franchise has an Academy Award! Awesome!
The Dude present the Coen's SERIOUS MAN. damn academy censored NIPPLES!
Jacke Gylennhaal & Time Traveler's Wife to present BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY... UP IN THE AIR - I could live without, PRECIOUS great, IN THE LOOP the best, AN EDUCATION, DISTRICT 9 (win)
And the Winner is Jeffrey Fletcher for PRECIOUS.... it beating UP IN THE AIR makes me very happy. A breathless acceptance... fantastic acceptance speech.
Queen Latifah comes out to talk about the Governor's Ball... ROGER CORMAN!!! Awesome! One of the greats. GORDON WILLIS did some of the greatest photography ever. Lauren Bacall!!! Awesome. John Calley.
Lauren and Roger are there - and they receive a Standing Ovation - very awesome. Lauren treated me wonderfully when I met her.
Robin Williams comes out... for BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS -- Mo'Nique should win this. She is astonishing in the film.
And the winner is MO'NIQUE - I have to say - PRECIOUS seems to have a lot of momentum.
Sigourney Weaver is hitting the stage... BEST ART DIRECTION... AVATAR, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, NINE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE YOUNG VICTORIA....
And the winner is... AVATAR - Avatar's first win of the night. And the 3 winners are doing a great
Tom Ford and Sarah Jessica Parker hit the stage... "Nice bag you're wearing," Yoko... All women are making fun of Sarah's dress.
Best Costume Design,
BRIGHT STAR, COCO BEFORE CHANEL, DOCTOR PARNASSUS, NINE and THE YOUNG VICTORIA
The winner is THE YOUNG VICTORIA. It was wonderfully outfitted, I'm stunned that COCO BEFORE CHANEL didn't win. A very aloof acceptance.
Charlize Theron has boobies with ROSE BOOBIES... god she's lovely! She presented for PRECIOUS.
Special Tribute to HORROR MOVIES... the Paranormal Activity parody is genius with Steve
OMG - The TWILIGHT stars do the HORROR genre. The world of horror fans scream.... Ok here we go... Jaws, Chucky, Exorcist, Psycho, Poltergeist, amityville, shining, scream, Hellra... oh shit going to fast. This is kinda awesome... CLASSIC HORROR! Gregory Peck!!! Too quick to write.
Now Zack Efron and Anna Kendrick present for the Sound awards... They're using DARK KNIGHT to show sound design. This is a really great informative piece about what these sound people do.
Sound Editing...
AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, STAR TREK, UP
And the winner is - THE HURT LOCKER - which is total bullshit. Total bullshit.
SOUND DESIGN,
Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Star Trek, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, TRANSFORMERS 2...
and the Winner is THE HURT LOCKER... I really and truly disagree with this. It was great work, just nowhere near as solid as the work in ALL THE OTHER FILMS.
Elizabeth Banks... on the Sci-Tech awards...
JOHN TRAVOLTA is presenting for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS...
ELI ROTH!!!! Awesome!
Sandra Bullock comes out... for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - wow - the video broke on this...
And the winner is...
AVATAR wins best Cinematography. Mauro Fiore wins. This is the first 3D photography film to win BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY.
Demi Moore to present the Deaths of the year... She looks beautiful btw...
James Taylor is playing through this... "there are places I remember, '
Patrick Swazye, Jarre, Jean Simmons, Tullio Pinelli, Eric Rohmer, Ken Annakin, David Carradine, Gareth Wigan, Daniel Melnick, Dom Delouise, Army Archerd, Ron Silver, Brittany Murphy, Lou Jacobi, Betshy Blair, Jack Cardiff, Kathryn Grayson, Arthu Canton, Nat Boxer, Millard, Kaufmna, Roy Disney, Larry Gelbart, Horton Foote, , Robert Anderson, Budd Schulberg, Michae Jackson, Natasha Richardson, Jennifer Jones, David Brown, Karl Malden... and of course earlier John Hughes.
J Lo and Sam Worthington... present score musical number
Hans Zimmer's SHERLOCK HOLMES... this is awesomely fun... Not very Holmesian... Then... Marco Beltrami for HURT LOCKER... what the fuck is this... this is seriously what the fuck... Alexandre Desplat's loving score to FANTASTIC MR FOX... Michael Giacchino's UP... the guy is doing THE ROBOT to UP. This is so weird. What the fuck... they're pole dancing to UP. The AVATAR kinda works... Head spinning to Horner. So weird.
Best Score - and the winner is...
Michael Giacchino for UP!!! YES!!! FUCKING A!!!!! Favorite Win of the night thus far!!! Great acceptance speech about how being creative is not a waste of time.
Gerard Butler
Visual Effects - AVATAR, DISTRICT 9, STAR TREK....
And the winner is... AVATAR -- so deserved. "remember the world we live in is just as incredible as the one we created for you."
UP IN THE AIR.
Matt Damon comes out - Best Documentary Feature
BURMA VJ, THE COVE, FOOD INC, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
and the winner is THE COVE!!! YES!!!!!! Brilliant doc.
Tyler Perry is presenting for BEST EDITING...
AVATAR, DISTRICT 9, THE HURT LOCKER, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, PRECIOUS...
And the winner is: THE HURT LOCKER... man, HURT is so going to win the big awards, this is CRASH all over again.
Keanu presents for Kathryn's HURT LOCKER - which means somebody thought of POINT BREAK! That's the movie she should've won for BEST FILM.
Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino... Best Foreign Language film... AJAMI, THE MILK OF SORROW, A PROPHET, THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES, THE WHITE RIBBON
The winner is: THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES from Argentina... Haven't seen this or Ajami, MILK OF SORROW or A PROPHET... I hope too soon!
now Kathy Bates comes out to present AVATAR
Actor on the lead role....
Michelle Pfeiffer introduces Jeff Bridges for the nom.... George's co-star in UP IN THE AIR presents Clooney's nom.... Julianne Moore presents for Colin Firth's nom... Tim Robbins presents for Morgan Freeman's nom... Colin Farrell presents for Jeremy Rennar - Colin was wonderful, roasting and honoring his friend.
Kate Winslet comes out to present for Best Actor... to Jeff Bridges - for a career. FLYNN WINS!!! THE DUDE ABIDES!!! YES! "Thank you academy members, MOM & DAD look!" "Thanks mom & dad for turning me on to such a groovy profession" "for a role in Sea Hunt" That's his Rooster Cogburn look. Fucking awesome. No orchestra for him. This is long in coming!
They come back with a montage of the BEST ACTRESS noms... Forrest Whittaker is presenting Sandra Bullock's nom. Tony Blair is presnting for Helen Mirren.. I love Mulligan in AN EDUCATION, Peter did hers. Oprah Winfrey is handling PRECIOUS... after Oprah described the hiring process... Jaime King stated, "HOLY SHIT!" wow. Stanley Tucci
Sean Penn presents BEST ACTRESS...
And the winner is... SANDRA BULLOCK... Oscar winner... SANDRA BULLOCK. Wow. It is truly amazing. But I like this win. It was great work - and not very normally recognized. That said. Precious and Meryl were robbed.
Barbara Streisand... is presenting for BEST DIRECTOR... James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino, Lee Daniels and Jason Reitman...
And the winner is KATHRYN BIGELOW - Academy Award Winning director of POINT BREAK!!! Makes me very happy. This is a very strong speech.
Tom Hanks to present BEST PICTURE... THE HURT LOCKER... which I don't feel exactly thrilled about.
There were no recollection of nominees - it just became... THE HURT LOCKER. Bigelow looks like she's about to faint. I'm happy for her, but I do not love this movie.
This year's oscars were pretty damn clumsy. The highlights were there, but mainly an unsatisfactory award show for me...
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Fuck all!
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Let the pigeons loose.
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Fucker.
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WHAMMY
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yay.
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Pants feel tight...
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here we go!
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Bum love in the house....what up y'all?
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anything but the Oscars
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Or did AAA come to your rescue?
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Jesus tubs, don't eat him!
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Biggest AICN ass-kisser - BadMrWonka Best Troll - TehCreepyThinMan1978 Most repetitive talkbacker - AsimovLives Biggest Jay Leno fan = Coughlin Laws Ummmm.....that's all for now....
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MATTT DAMMMONNNN
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Glad to see you back. And fuck Koutch. Scorcese hit a home run with Shutter Island.
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As soon as Zooey steps out.
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And that'll be the first time I've had to change my seed encrusted pants this evening.
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WOULD
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What is that???
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YAY!
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jack ass.
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to fuck a daughter. He's THAT good.
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someone needs to bitch-slap that Sherry woman or whatever she's called. "Heeeeey Geoooooorge" fuckin talking about how she wants him and will wait for him while his girlfriend is right FUCKING NEXT TO HIM! God, such lack of respect!
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Helen Mirren is STILL a Naughty Bit of Crumpet, isn't she?
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is free-associated gibberish...You ain't seen nothing yet!
Godspeed and good luck! -
You can lead Sarah Jessica Parker to water...but you can't make her drink.
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So they ask a star a question and cut off every single one of them? Classy.
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I was pretty drunk on NYE, but I could have sworn she was butt-naked during that show in Times Square. Btw, what the hell is she doing at the Oscars?
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im at work in NZ.... its sunny as fuck but im at work... cunts
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She truly deserves her Razzie!
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its much better red carpet show
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This whole format is way too 2005, Harry. Put a live feed and live chat along with it, brother. You have the money for this shit for Christ's sake.
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"My Dad doesn't know what's going on right now.""You're kind of LOST aren't you?"
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Awful. I can't even look at her without thinking about the fact that she didn't know or care whether the Earth is round or flat.
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..to see if Mickey Rooney is still alive. Is there anything else relevant going on?
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Mar 07, 2010 7:19:19 PM CST
The thing with Mirren, her ancient quim still tastes like
by stuntcock mike
a ripe watermelon on a warm summer day.
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relying on someone to find a link to reliable live stream...
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It's a whole lot of blah blah blah..and I'm pretty sure the government has inserted subliminal sound messages into this live feed to keep the masses passive.
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that she deserved a nomination for one of her movies?
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Sure I'll tune in to see the Best Director and Best Picture catergory but the rest will be pure shit!Some of the worse nominess on the Oscars has me thinking the Mayans were off alittle bit!
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did they turn on your ABC?
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Red carpet is so boring, and useless. I've been watching Sky UK's coverage and its ridiculous that year in and year out they keep hiring personalities who clearly know nothing about movies.
Oh and if anyone is interested, I will be live blogging the Oscars at...
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Mar 07, 2010 7:21:42 PM CST
Those cases contain tonights coke supply for Tracey Morgan.
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Jesus Tina, why are you there?
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Might be watching these instead.
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That TV on mute idea really was brilliant, akkosa. THank you.
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...high as a kite....
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IS ON!
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earlier today, my cable company dropped the network broadcasting the oscars. is this a blessing in disguise?
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I have cablevision and no, they did not turn it on.
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The show is too long, boring, too many hippy speeches and sketches, songs and people I don't care about. I like to know who wins what and the Internet tells me that.
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Damn you can see the wrinkles on Cameron Diaz the bad tans on Clooney and Chaz Palminteri. HAHAHA Awkward interviews rock as well!!!
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singers, television actors, etc. to present awards. What happened to good ol fashioned movie stars?
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Is that a new perv or was it there all along? I mean, it's not the worst perv in the world by any means it's just... strange...
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Mar 07, 2010 7:24:19 PM CST
mmmmm Jeffrey Bridges sure looks yummy indeed
by bruce_vilanchs_green_testicle_juice
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Kindly strain your piss through my teeth.
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hurt locker was a watch once movie can't believe its up for an oscar and might even win.
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I live for Oscar night.
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...never goes out of style...Yum!
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Who knew a little white girl from the valley lived inside Gabourey Sidibe?
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Will switch over to Oscars when the main show starts
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I'm pretty much drunk right now.
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When night falls, does Sherri think a giant sky monster ate the sun?
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I respect that.
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My brother tells me his cable provider (don't know which) is in a money fight with ABC and removed the network from it's service.
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http://www.justin.tv/vip__tv/ it's the uk broadcast
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dang she looks good.
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eh gets hit on by a lard ass at the Oscars and doesn't afraid of anything.
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on red carpet pre-show...is she really that ditzy or did she have a few drinks beforehand. I cracked up when she told Miley Cyrus that she had mastered comedy. Wahaha.
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Win damn you.
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A bookmaker for Sky T.V. in the U.K. has six movies movies at 100-1 to win Best Picture - with only Avatar and The Hurt Locker at low odds.
As I've said before - this 10 Best Picture nominations is nonsense, because there's still only five movies that really count - and as it is ever year - only 2 or 3 of those that stand a chance in hell. -
...will probably be the highlight for me. That's how shite my night is so far.
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I hope he's not presenting. 2 minutes of ADD and coke fueled jibberish I can do without.
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With a Harold and Kumar reference!!!! I love this guy.
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Irony.
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You answer your own question. Basically the real movie stars are a dying breed. Hollywood power assholes rather give movies to singers and tv stars nowaday.
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Them list off the best actors and actresses, then say "Now go sit the fuck down."
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Will you settle for Neil Patrick Harris? What a shitstorm!
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Shave your fucking face!!!
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like the 1990 Awards again.
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freedocast.com/Slapdog71
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I love this guy!
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is that good or bad? (memory not what it used to be)
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Really corny and forced a few minutes in :(
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Shit.
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...stiff as wood. Did they rehearse this more than once?
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The BBC have the Oscars highlights in advance and cut down to a minute... Well of course not but it's still pretty funny :) http://tinyurl.com/yhvpa3c
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Helen Mirren IS still yummy.
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I hope she slaps someone.
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how frustrating - they picked today to take the only abc channel off the air - anyone know a live stream of the Oscars? I've been trying but cant find one
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was horrible. Biggest debacle since Rob Lowe.
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Ha Ha, you think they rehearsed!
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I'd hit it easy!
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And fast.
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Live blogging means you actually have to blog LIVE you fat fucker!!!
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It is like the year when Titanic won.
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Clooney must have Toyota stock or some shit.
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...a Nazi obsessed with finding Jews...they cut away to Etan Coen. Stay class, Oscars.
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back on mute
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About fucking time.
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Who won so far.
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Cool fucking chick. I kinda hope she wins it.
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Oh, and the 1990 awards were a trainwreck, featuring Rob Lowe's song number with Sleeping Beauty.
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The Jackie Mason of award shows.
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...the actor/actress award presentation. The shit last year was cringe-tastic!
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But I'm more interested in where Bigelow's head should be.
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The Toyota line was kinda funny. And I like the fake animosity between Alec and George.
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What the fuck is his problem?
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He's giving DEATH STARES to Baldwin and Martin. Like I'm afraid for his children for their children!
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I like it. Had me for a minute there. Shoulda known... He's a prankster.
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Cuz he's a monumental douche if it's not.
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..until you've read him in the original Klingon..
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Is that the worst makeup in the history of film?
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with his scene from Lovely Bones being shown. For that matter, it WAS pretty fucking creepy.
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COME ON!!
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True story.
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Not a surprise, but well deserved. Although some Chris Plummer love would've been nice.
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...ate lead paint chips as a child. Fact!
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YES! That's all I care about.
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You're supposed to say "And the Oscar Goes To..."
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He was fantastic. Deserved.
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And it shows!
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You heard it here first, folks.
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Enjoy it Quentin
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this year. The Academy felt like the losers weren't losing enough.
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Ok, one down plenty to go.
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The Merkin with a Mouth
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are we having technical difficulties?
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See where I'm going with this?
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Yeah IB got an Oscar, but he won't be banging Kruger tonight. :(
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uguuugh
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some of us don't have "tv" harry. some of us don't have "friends to keep us updated". some of us rely solely on harry live oscar blog.
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Don't you dare give the fucking statue to Bullock. Also, congratulations, Christoph Waltz, you deserved that win!
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but when he said "thank you" they started playing music and walking him off. He didn't thank any family...
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Thats a Bingo!
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Classy guy.
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I'm watching it there.
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Actually kind of glad they brought that back. However, the show is going to run 5 hours now.
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I agree, but that 'aint gonna happen. :(Live stream here if anyone missed it: http://www.freedocast.com/Slapdog71
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It's almost 2am here in Blighty.My eyelids are starting to droop. Must.........fight.........sleep...........
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oh yes.
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If you have Cablevision, the Oscars are back on. They have reached an agreement with ABC.
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between presentersSomething I could always do without
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That was cute.
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Seriously, the jokes are horrible, the clips way to long, NPH's musical number was shit that devolved into him shouting the lyrics. Bruce Vilanch should be hung. It looked like Baldwin kept looking out for Tina Fey thinking... give me something remotely funny to say!
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I hate that movie with every fiber of my being, even though the acting all around was very good, especially Waltz.
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Seriously.
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Fucking Up bullshit. Goddammit.
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They should be at the technical Oscar awards with the nerds.
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Way to beat the symphony, chief.
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How could the only animated film (this year) to be nominated for Best Picture not win when also nominated for the sub-category of Best Animated Feature?
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That Sucks!
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or Miley Cyrus is enormous
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Adam is not bringing anything.
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thanks for the heads up about cablevision
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Me neither...?
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singlehandedly made NINE worth watching.
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Sarsgard looks like he escaped from THX 1138
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I'm more surprised she can breathe in that damn dress. Jeebus!
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OH right...never.
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http://www.justin.tv/vip__tv/
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Good call :)
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Bridges is definitely getting the Oscar then.
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She sounds like a 60 year old who hasn't quit smoking.
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This show is going to be on for three days.
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I guess we know what picture the fanboys are endorsing.
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Is very funny!
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Theyre saying that again after.... about 20 years of saying "And the Oscar goes to..." Im glad they brought that back. I always thought "goes to" seemed sort of politically correct, like there can't be winners and losers. Thats true regarding movies or any art but its just an awards show. They needed to lighten up. Im glad they did.
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The 'shat is Kirk.
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I guess they saved time by just showing bit of each of the nominated songs, instead of performing each one. Fine by me - I'd rather watch movie clips than musical numbers (and, please, no interpretive dance numbers).
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He's working on his DVD Column! :P
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More than enough. Where's a mop?
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No stupid musical numbers for the nominated songs
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Mar 07, 2010 8:12:43 PM CST
knowthyself....Steve Martin is one of the best stand up comics..
by bumlove
...ever. And his early films like The Jerk, Three Amigos, and even All of Me....were brilliant. His films for the last 20 years have been mostly crap with the exception of Bowfinger...but he's still hilarious as an MC, and in interviews...just not on film.
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HAHAHA Robert's outfit wins BEST EVER outfit @ Academy Awards!
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Harry, like his site, is stuck in 2001
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Fucking 3.
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I know that a hanging offence around here, but I really don't. I enjoyed it well enough, but I thought it was a weaker Pixar effort. I found it visually unremarkable - just lots of trudging around the plateau, nothing particularly eye-popping, and the dialogue - whilst cutting edge in their having an octagerian coping with death - wasn't especially interesting either. The cub scout was bland, and the villain was mostly forgetable.
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not sure i can post too many posts since people are giving me looks for using my blackberry while the show goes on, i should post pics later my pall clooney played a great prank on one of them
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have some chemistry. Wouldn't mind seeing them in a RomCom.
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Shoulda been Basterds.... I'm just sayin'.
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You TOO can get a kiss from Kathryn Bigelow!
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..is appreciated. Keep us updated on the behind the scenes goings-on at the Oscars.
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Up is far down on my list of favourite Pixar flicks. The characters were wonderful (as usual) but I felt the story was weak.
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Promise me damnit!
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...is insulting to all the other 2001 Geoshitties sites still out there (yes, I know Geoshitties is gone).
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Jason Bateman took Jane Seymore to the Oscars.
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Came THIS close to busting his ass on the stairs.
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Oh wait, its a John Hughes dedication piece, my bad...........
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She looks like Angela at the end of Sleepaway Camp. Look at those psychotic eyes. Someone hold me.
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So wonderful. I'm gonna cry during this Hughes tribute.
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Good times!
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sweet that there's a Hughes tribute
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Possibly my favourite Hughes film.
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we all loved huges, i helped him write some of his films and he was always a gentleman
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Muhahahahaha
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ooh ... no cookie for Quentin. Fail better next time, Q.
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Emilio: “My god, are we going to be like our parents?”
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The two hosts should have been out during that medlay too.
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Is the biggest guy on the stage. Talk about REVENGE of the nerd!
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we worked on it just as hard as this hughs one
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Someone tell his psychiatrist to up his dosage of Xanax.
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...is all kinds of weird and creepy. And shall we say, "overlong?"
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heh.
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Oh well, maybe if they come on soon I can use that time to go back to the Leafs game.
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than Paul Newman fer Chris'sake!
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"Pants on the Ground"
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Mar 07, 2010 8:24:33 PM CST
I thought Best Movie couldn't be nominated in the same section t
by chimpjnr
Or did they they change that this year for UP?
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Fake JettL just isn't the same as REAL JettL.
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Please, Sam...say it!
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Beauty and the Beast wasn't nominated for Best Animated Feature; the ghetto category didn't exist back then.
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You've doomed us all.
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Why not just pick up your remote and start pushing buttons?
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and thinking "Why am I making a chair in Pittsburgh?"
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Mar 07, 2010 8:27:16 PM CST
UP is your standard animated film that comes out every year!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Nobody is surprise that is was nominated and won! Same BS will be release again and again!
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Hughes had a huge impact on a lot of us.
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Only Breakfast Clubber not there.
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Looks like he was toking on a bong.
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underscored how old I really & truly am :)
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i couldnt tell the difference between Ally Sheedy and Jon Cryer
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...go look up John Bender in 5 years. That will give you something to laugh about.
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Hands off, you bastards. She's mine.
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Wow, I totally forgot how goddamn nightmarish that Tin Toy baby is!!!
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and not, you know, Toy Story, also directed by Lasseter?
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boofuckinghoo
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boofuckinghoo
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All over the place tonight...
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After years of reducing the length, I'm surprised. Are they stretching it out because there's less ad space being bought up in these difficult times. The most recent edition of GC is testament to that - didn't even crack 100 pages.
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AND FUCK ALL THE CORPORATIST BASTARDS
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and goes on for 15 more minutes than it should have.
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Sweet.
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And I think it's fitting that a product placement piece won on such pandering nght.
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But logoarama looks like a worthy winner!
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John Hughes, praise? Really? Did the man ever make a great film? No. He did not. His movies pretend at being about growing up, but did he ever explore making movies about black children's lives? No, they're not part of the "growing up" experience. Did he tell the story of gay or bisexual children? No, not part of his world. He took the easy path every time, took the path of artless least resistance. I am GLAD Hollywood never has to sit through another of his rotten lies again. Ptooey.
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"You can applause them..."
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was robbed!
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He made this really weird comment on the red carpet about her not speaking English, and her immediate reaction suggested that she did and wasn't thrilled by it. Anyone? He's in odd form this evening, regardless of whether he is in on some joke.
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Train wreck.
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who's this broad?
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that John Hughes tribute was the best thing I've EVER seen on an Oscar broadcast. When they brought out Molly Ringwald, I wondered what she was doing there. As soon as she said John Hughes, the waterworks started. What an amazing and classy tribute by the people I grew up - that generation (at least the characters) were my role models as a teenager. Kudos to the Academy broadcast for finally getting something right! I'm still bawling.
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fuck the academy...
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you're a douche
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playing people off this year. Guess not.
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?????
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Who was THAT skank robbing the brother of his moment?
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or did she just pull a Kanye?
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That was pretty fucking rude.
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that the OSCARS during this section are a little smaller and ligher than the others?
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TAKEOVER THE DAMNED SPEECH, WHY DON'T YOU???!!!
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you do know you're a complete asshole, right?
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Cue da music.
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Good job, RefutetheHype. I predict you'll grow up to be a fine troll one day.
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What are you talking about? You just ran on stage and interrupted a guy. Don't call me a douche!
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T-Bone Magnassun.
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Mar 07, 2010 8:37:57 PM CST
with all the big names that have passed over the past 2 years
by brabon300
i still think that hughes was a weak choice for a full honor newman deserved one much more
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...that bitch cutting him off was some bullshit.
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What the eff
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If he wins an Emmy for directing, I'll burn down Hollywood.
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The fuck??
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Suckery
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Elvis Mitchell.
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...that is all.
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but do a 3 minute bit of Ben Stiller dressed up.
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Funny Funny really...
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Mar 07, 2010 8:40:24 PM CST
Benny looks simply lucious as a N'avi
by bruce_vilanchs_green_testicle_juice
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You try growing up poor in England and black and then try to believe john Hughes knows FUCKALL about growing up. The man lied and told people what he WANTED them to hear and what they wanted to hear themselves.
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Un-fucking-believable!!
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They're about the only funny part of the show (not often you say that - Christ, what a yardstick), but how many movies have a Nazi theme?
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Last year was bullshit!!!! I seen MLK. It wasn't as good as The Wrestler. Nazi, Gay, and Musical flicks are oscar bait!
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gotta give it something
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With all the other nerds.
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..but I loved that bit.
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Make a couple of average performing, fondly but not majorly remembered teen comedies.... and you get a better send off than the best actor of his generation! At this rate Kevin Smith will get a bigger tribute when he goes (which is probably pretty soon for that fat fuck) than Deniro, Pacino, Nicholson, and Hackman COMBINED! Hey Apatow will get a bigger one than Depp and Downey Jr. too. Yeah Academy reveling in mediocrity since 1929!
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And where the hell was District 9? That should've won this.
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and a lisp?
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F the redhead. Called her out just minutes later. Yes. Way to go Stiller.
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Phenomenal.
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agree....d9, for its low budget shouldve at least been nominated
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Fuck this STINO bullshit.
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Somewhere in Portugal, AsimovLives weeps bitter tears...
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So you're going to hate John Hughes because he didn't make movies about YOUR childhood? Guess what... he DID make movies about what a lot of us experienced growing up. We all have different life experiences. Why don't YOU pick up a camera and make some movies about YOUR experience and get off John Hughes' ass.
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Where da Windex at, indeed!
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DAMMIT
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At least we don't have to worry about Smith going out in a plane crash!
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he was suposed to come out as a female navi along with stiller, but producers got scared that cohen was a lose cannon and might curse or bum hump mary streep and shout death to jews in bruno voicetoo bad he shouldn't have been banned from the ceremonies
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I have. Thank you. But don't celebrate empty shit.
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alot
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Shut the fuck up after 1 minute. They needed to cut off you glory hogs around 5 times already.
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growing up in AMERICA (and other films about living in AMERICA) even if he had made movies about poor black kids, they would have been poor black AMERICAN kids, so you probably still couldn't have been able to relate. By the way, just because a movie's world is different from your own doesn't make it a lie, it just means it's different.
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for best sideburns application.
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Is the most complex and nuanced of all the nominees for Best Picture this year. And that's exactly why it won't win. :(
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"King of the Universe" Depends on the win I guess.
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Cause the guy's a Trekkie, through and through. Those Romulans looked neat (even though I guess not all romulans have forehead ridges, but that was established in TNG)
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She had trouble getting out of her seat, that's why she was late getting on stage. Jeez, get DVR's, you guys.
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it just goes to show how worthless these awards have become.
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...because computer privileges at Bellvue Hospital are stopped at 9pm, and it's lights out for all patients on the psych ward. He'll watch the highlights on Good Morning USA and comment afterwards during his alotted computer time.
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It was funny the first time. But now he's just an embarrassment.
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Fingers crossed for Iannnuci et al.
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in a oscar nominated movie. Are you fucking shittin me?!?!?!?!?!
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'Quickie?" "No... thank you." That's pretty funny.
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...have already been ran out of town on a rail...or just shot out back...
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...have already been ran out of town on a rail...or just shot out back...
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DROP THE CHICKEN BEFORE I BLOW YOUR DAMN NUTS OFF ASSHOLE!!
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precious was melodramatic claptrap
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Precious is the definition of M-E-H.
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Lmao!
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Are you female? Or just playing for the other team? Both teams?
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That's what I heard.
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Would you be happier if we all just wallowed incessantly in morbid, bleak stories about poor black kids? Is that the only valid story in your mind? Whether you liked him or not, John Hughes made movies that an entire generation of Americans loved and identified with. Sorry you had a shit life growing up. Not Hughes' fault. Or ours. There's room enough in life for comedies and dramas. You sound like you could stand to watch something for a laugh.
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Fuck... best line of the night!
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Ugh. D9 or An Education really deserved this over Precious.
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...I hope?
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Class ad-lib from Steve!
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should star in a summer buddy comedy
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How in God's name on what fucking planet does Star Trek have bad makeup? Oh, wait, this is from planet bitter troll failure aka Shermdouche. Nevermind.
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lol Steve still brings the funny. The Precious writer saying "i don't know what to say"...maybe he should have written it down, dumbass.
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With occasional moments of wit, but way too few and far between.
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Winners should stay in their seats, while the waitstaff gives a round of drinks to them and everyone in their row.
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but they didnt do the same for paul newman, who was hollywood royalty,
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that jock at the end of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? all that was missing was San Dimas Highschool Drama Club Rules!
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this is just cheap shite
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because black people don't deserve to win anything that isn't sport related
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Wow... just... wow.
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....3...2...1...
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Hell yes.
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Directors gotta eat?
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Yeah, I know. I'm not defending that. RefutetheHype was on about being a poor black child in England and how John Hughes was shit because he didn't make movies about poor blacks or gays.
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Fuck Yeah.
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Did anybody else think he was dead?
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Aaaaaaaand, here's Robin Williams!
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since camp...she will win one of these someday
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I would!
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Mar 07, 2010 8:59:07 PM CST
@Refutethehype Black people were in a lot of movies in the 80's
by samuraiyao
Why pick on John Hughes?? Did John Hughes have any Indian, Mexicans, or Germans as the main focal point in his movies??? John Hughes is practically harmless man...
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He shoots mounds of shit out of a cannon to see what sticks.
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Good call.
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she put on weight for that role, like a whole 3 pounds
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Brace yourselves for Monique's speech...
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Outstanding work.
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be prepping another Madea film.
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Because Reitman created the Vera Farmiga character and if you think about what she does in the movie she'd have to be either psychotic or just plain evil. I don't buy that character.
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so can Monique. Far superior performance.
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Thank god, Bullock didn't win. You can't win a razzie and an Oscar in the same year.
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They would hire a comic to give to a comic. Moscow on the Hudson is an amazing movie.
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Because Reitman created the Vera Farmiga character and if you think about what she does in the movie she'd have to be either psychotic or just plain evil. I don't buy that character.
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i understand, but it bugs me how the academy treats some of its people...just like how they treated bacall and corman bacall is a queen, and half the people in the industry owe their jobs and livelihoods to corman
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"You need to get your ass to the welfare" sure Kendrick was a caricature too but at least she was watchable and funny. and the character actually developed. MoNique was just the same damn thing the whole movie.
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someone win an award, walk up on the stage and simply say "Thanks!" and walk off. That would be an acceptance speech to remember.
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I thought it was a great speech. What were you expecting?
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Because it didn't offer anything special. Anything we haven't seen for years in other sci-fi offerings. And compared to other Trek flicks, it is nowhere near as makeup heavy or as impressive. Past Trek's should've been nominated, not this. Some ears, a skull cap for Bana, the midget, and halfassed aging job on Ryder is not oscar worthy.
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Bullock is up for Best Actress, no? Not supporting.
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No she didn't... I think Harvey Weinstein had a stroke with that speech. Actually Harvey doesn't think it should be about the performace either... it should be about him taking you to Spago's.
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Vera Farmiga's character in Up in the Air is the equivalent of a Twilight Zone episode with a twist ending.
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Like he thinks Mo' went to far :)
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black people are so predictable
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Bullock's up for Best Actress, not Supporting Actress
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Mar 07, 2010 9:02:59 PM CST
SALUTE TO HORROR FILMS! after these messages...
by stereotypical evil archer
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Oh...okay.....
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Salute to HORROR films!!! *squee*
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had a short Oscar acceptance speech for his role in Stalag 17.
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Refuse it from the presenters hands. Laugh, and walk off.
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And, btw, Colin Firth, thanks for A Single Man. Saw it for the second time this weekend, and loved it even more. If you haven't seen it, and you aren't homophobic, see it as soon as you can!
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Go ahead. Who cares about the past, think about the future. Or the very recent past. It was an award for what was the best makeup in 2009. Star Trek had the best makeup job in 2009. Doesn't matter what came before. It was the best. Deal with it. Troll.
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Proving still for now and forever that the only thing you have to do to win is scream a lot, stamp your feet, pretend to cry, be an ethnic minority and extremely obese.
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Torture POrn too?
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Different category...
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monique played against type she is a standup, playing a heavy in her first major role...that is why she won kendrick needs a role that breaks type...then she will win she is an amazing actress
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She was a selfish woman who cheated on her husband and nearly got caught before breaking the lead's heart. That makes her morally deficient but no more psychotic or evil than the male characters who do the same thing all the time in movies.
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Take a number!
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I want to see some real black ACTORS and Asian ACTORS get their due. Just ONCE. But Hollywood loves their moniques.
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In Domino.
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...full of bloated histrionics.
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Wouldn't it a good thing if some homophobic folks DID go see it?
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We lost Charles B. Pierce yesterday.
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so many to show off, how long will the bit be?
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evil watch the movie again...she plays clooney's character all the way...he shoulda punched her lights out
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Are you serious? She might as well have been bobbing her head and asking where the KFC at. SO stupid and racist, that movie. FUcking racist.
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winning for Goodfellas. I think it was "Thank you all" or something equally minimalist.
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What was it about?
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TOO BAD HATERS. Judd Nelson recently appeared on the USA show PSYCH and Ally Sheedy is appearing again this week.
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D9 had better makeup, yet wasn't nominated at all.
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I thought you LIKED realistic movies about poor black kids?
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It's called being true to yourself. Why don't you try it sometime.
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You dumb ass moron. Why aren't you attending the Vanity Fair party tonight? I'm sure you were invited AMRITE?
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mostly cgi???
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District 9. Also, gotta love how anyone that has a differing opinion, you label a troll. Fuck off.
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Did John Hughes make fun of black people or something??? I still don't understand your fucking comment.. What does John Hughes have to do with inner city kids??
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Yes, but only when I'm not there. I caught the 5:30pm on Saturday at the Mall of Ga. (a HUGE theater there that draws people from probably 20 or 30 miles away) and t here were five other people in the theater besides me. All over 50.
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Here they go.
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Here they go.
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Realistic, yeah, not fried-chicken-o-rama inner city lies pretending to be sincere.
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I thought it was all CGI.
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Yeah...loved those two actual sets in the movie...
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Mar 07, 2010 9:08:59 PM CST
You nearly died 13 years ago...but u stepped on Sigourney's dres
by brokenheath
dick.
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That's exactly it. Right there. No, he didn't. And no, he didn't. There you go. Need more help, little boy?
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the joke.
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Weaver gives it to avatar award. Robin gives it to a comic. They want to ruin the guessing game for those at home?
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Are you doing a character study to see what it's like to win an Oscar?
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Two?
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I guess this is the horror tribute
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Hot illustration by McQuade featuring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Renner of "Hurt Locker" (dressed in bomb suit), George Clooney, Michael Stuhlbarg, John C. Reilly, (above) Neytiri/Zoe Saldana of "Avatar", (below) Mo'Nique from "Precious", Brad Pitt, Carey Mulligan from "An Education", Carl Fredrickson from "UP" and one of those Prawns from "District 9" - phew!
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Looked aweful. I can't remember if she starred in a Hughes movie though she certainly was from that era and was in other Brat-Pack movie. I couldn't get over how dreadful she looked.
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Woah.
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Did you see the other nominees, seriously. It was also pretty cool.
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That's when all the straight guys go leave for a snack.
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The only thing so far that was halfway unpredictable was Waltz win! LOL Gotcha', you though I was serious didn't you?
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ugh.
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"I already have 3 of these, suckas."
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Looked it up on Youtube. All he said was. "It's my priviledge. Thank you." That's excellent.
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...in other news, the Pope is Catholic.
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Got to be a major embarassment not being nominated for once. I havn't seen him. Is he there? And for and for all - could the OSCARS get over their love-affair with all things British. Easy to replicate something that was as opposed to come up with something that never existed (shit - that sounded like an endorsement of AVATAR).
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Yeah Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are known for supporting Stupid Racist Movies about Black People. The Image Awards thought it was really Stupid and Racist too.
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...Now SHE looks yummy.
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Give one award to a movie about a long series of bomb defusing scenes broken up by a totally contrived plot with a missing kid, and give the other to a movie about how stupid fat people can be saved by smarter skinny people. Should have been Basterds and District 9.
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Every year its either some gay dance movie or some Victorian era bullshit. What about Dark Knight?
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i can't get over how they include "based on the novel push by sapphire" as a part of the title...drive me nuts
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please explain that comment to me
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she was all up in our faces and being dramatic about the way she spoke about doing unpopular things that were rightif she wasn't holding the statue she probabaly would have snapped her fingers when she said iti'm not racist but seriously why do black women have to be the way they are, it just fuels sterotypes
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LAMPS!! SHELVES!!
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if coraline doesnt win, he is gonna call moore and have him send the snake god to eat the entire academy
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http://tinyurl.com/ycrxdnn
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RefutetheHype is just trolling, just ignore the prick.
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It's the iBad!! I keed. I keed. So sorry. It really does suck though.
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I don't recall all that many Oscar speeches, especially one from 20 years ago, but I did remember that one.
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...was probably worthy of a nomination for Best Costumes too. But then again, I know shit about fashion.
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Dude, come the fuck on.
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Only by default. I agree, the nominations were lacking.
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Are presenters usually as vulgar and crass as Martin and Baldwin? Feels like a roast.
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"i'm not racist but seriously why do black women have to be the way they are" ---- lets think about that statement for a minute...
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Get ready for another tired gay sex joke.
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Slapping Balwin as he sleeps.
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yes lets....
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Ryan Reynolds is all over the place...alone. I don't see ScarJo, and figured that either E or ABC would have no problem finding her. Did they separate?
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..have just redeemed themselves.
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true
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Stop it, God dammit!
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Even from a teleprompter. Fucking kids these days.
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two kids putting on an oscar show of their very own! look mom and dad, we wrote our own jokes! we're paranormal activity!
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...need a few clips of it in the montage.
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Really?
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wheres jeffrey combs
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and a little sniff too.
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Your "THAT was funny" was funnier than my "That was funny". Must've been the caps.
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heh-heh-heh...
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And neither are a lot of these films.
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Did they just show Twilight? Since when is that a horror? Was LOTR a horror? Get over yourselves.
The only horrifying thing about it is the terrible act, and.. kEVERYTHING ELSE. But since when is it meant to be scary? -
like how many of those clips were from non horror films?
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Edward Scissorhands?
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aren't horror films (are they?)
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Comb your hair, Efron!
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Blood at the Oscars.
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What the fuck is that doing in a horror film tribute?
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Alfred Hitchcock said "Thank You."
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it's a write in
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thats how you get the splosions
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a horror movie make.Also, they are going to talk about how The Exorcist was the last great horror film to win an Oscar then START with Jaws?
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jeez, her dealer must love her
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Perfect.
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Awesome.
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DID get Oscar Wins or Nominations when they were Released
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and why all the From Dusk Till Dawn clips...they probably wanted to show Clooney and Hayek, but the movie was only so-so.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:25:53 PM CST
Now we know the connection with Hollywood and bad horror films!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Hollywood has forgotten what horror means!
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Mar 07, 2010 9:25:59 PM CST
We're still paying for the joke about sound editors aren't we?
by yotzvonfrelnik
Just saw Morgan Freeman's voiceover for the art of sound editing. Fair enough, they deserve attention as much as anyone else in the business, but it feels like we're still saying "Sorry, so sorry... sorry..." for the simple ribbing Mike Myers made a few years ago.
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Does this presage a Hurt Locker Best Picture?
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...it's one category I would've thought Avatar was unbeatable.
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Scarlet is doing a play on Broadway.
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Jigsaw grew long hair and scored the Hurt Locker?
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i see the voters still trying to prove that they hate geek culture well dont come to comic con you fucks
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deserved its own category.
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...out teching Avatar....upset in the making?
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I guess we'll all have to stop refreshing every 30 seconds.
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shitty movie, but fuck sound desing was amazing
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but Planes, Trains and Automobiles is my favorite John Hughes movie.
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true story
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But instead...ELIZABETH BANKS! Huh...?
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Part of being a powerful Hollywood director means using the casting couch to bed lots of young hopefuls. She might as well do what men have been doing for years, like that one female director who married the teenage star of Kick Ass and had a baby with him. Even the Berg used the casting couch...old Stevie bedded a young 19 year old Valerie Bertinelli early in his career when she was on One Day at a Time. It's true...ask Jett.
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the guy from Legend of the Seeker... no it's... the guy from Beauty and the Beast... no, it's...
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that you have to hold for a pause between jokes to let the audience take it inif you just speed through it no one laughs and you just look like a crazy bitch, s'all about the timing people
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as a big fuck you to Jimmy Cameron... he probably doesn't care thou he could buy everyone in that building not named Spielberg right now.
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Where's your Xenu now, mother fucker?
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Did that horror tribute include the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD? I don't remember seeing it (which alone suggested that if it was used at all it wasn't used enough)
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good thing they didn't give Travolta an Oscar...same with Eddie Murphy.
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ET the fuck out of her all night long
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Why do we let this weak sauce ceremony cockblock the movie industry for a third of the year (and the other two thirds in production)? It's just an excuse for a bunch of orange horse faces to rub their muzzles together.
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is gonna lock the doors and shoot everyone if martin and baldwin show up again
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Avatar to lose all the technical awards it probably deserves but win best picture which it shouldn't even be nominated for.
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Eli Roth is the only actual human who induces Uncanny Valley creepiness.
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Which category are you presenting this year? I figure you must be backstage somewhere, not in the audience, if they let you post to talkback.
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The horror montage had a blink and you miss it clip of Ash escaping the "evil force" in ED2! Finally this classic makes it to the academy awards!
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he fucked stacey nelkin, but it didnt do much for her career...
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No one got an award or anything and they tossed those twili brats onto the stage. It almost as if they tricked us to sell the twilight flick. No one got an award. Give John Carpenter or Wes Craven an lifetime Oscar if you plan on doing some shit like that!
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That Hurt Locker Sound Guy is one Lucky Bastard.
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He went to SNL's after party last night.
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I'm watching that livestream from SkyOne in the UK. At what are undoubtedly commercial breaks in the US, we're treated to a bunch of talking heads bloviating about the awards (which I am muting). Still, it's better than the commercials the rest of you are probably watching.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:34:48 PM CST
Hurt Locker wins pissing me off, especially for screenplay
by soylentmean
Tarantino shoulda won, dammit.
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Oscar pool
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There was an interesting post on BoingBoing and ArsTechnica a month or so ago saying that some new research shows that the Uncanny Valley probably doesn't actually exist.
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There was an interesting post on BoingBoing and ArsTechnica a month or so ago saying that some new research shows that the Uncanny Valley probably doesn't actually exist.
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Just Steve now.
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Oh, fuck you Sandra Bullock.
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Yeah, those green screen shots were AMAZING!!!!!!
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Avatar with the easy winner.
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And it did because they invented a new camera system from the ground fucking up. They deserve that one for sure. the other ones were pretty films, but Avatar changed the freakin landscape.
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i'm in the audience, i'm updating on my blackberry..in fact i will have a huge scoop later in the night, one of the biggest scoops that this site has ever had. should post it near the end of the show
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Mar 07, 2010 9:36:48 PM CST
How can Avatar win best cinematography if it's all fucking CGI?
by jackie boy
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Of course, any year that doesn't have a Deakins nomination just isn't that important.
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Nice caboose...
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although somehow Avatar did. I still dunno about that. But it's "the future of movies". Still, a shit ton of computer assistance for that there "cinematography".
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That sound editor/mixer Oscar winner's wife is getting it hard tonight. Asian wife for the win.
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rue the day that happens
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Mar 07, 2010 9:38:19 PM CST
What's up with the fuckin' retarded bigots in this tb?
by skyway moaters
grow the fuck up you wanking teenage bastards
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In terms of Big Jim's spouses, she might even rank below Big Bob waitress wife #1.
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i hope he ends with that
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I can't wait to hear from the talkbacks who was omitted. Keep your eyes open, fellas....oh fuck, James Taylor sucks dicks.
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His Intro for Sandra Bullock, he used that on Ben Stiller at a previous Oscars. Still, it's a good gag!
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Mar 07, 2010 9:38:56 PM CST
What's up with the fuckin' retarded bigots in this tb?
by skyway moaters
grow the fuck up you wanking teenage bastards
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Mar 07, 2010 9:39:04 PM CST
Who cares if it's CGI, cinematography is what is in the frame
by tall_boy66
Real or imagined, it's how it looks. Who cares if it's "fucking CGI" you fucking retard. besides, 3D camera system from NOWHERE!!!!
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after the Oscars.
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...winning Cinematography if I knew that the Cinematographer actually assisted in designing the exact look of the CGI shots. I don't mean he has to be programming them, but at least doing something like storyboards.
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DR. NO DIED????!!!!!
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must not have been great to ignore Deakins.
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WHERE ARE THEIR AICN OBITS?!?! Ed McMahon will lead an avenging zombie army until justice is done.
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seemed kinda weak. could've done without the live singing maybe...
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couldn't tell as the directing sucks and they held the long shot instead of going to the split screen sooner.
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Always the most telling in terms of stardom and how Hollywood views people. Would it have killed (sic) them to have just continously applauded for the entirety? Sure, give some a bigger burst, but some got nothing. Disgusting. Oh...and did Newman die last year? Is that why he got nothing?
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At least the Oscars know how to pay their respects. I wish I could say the same for AICN.
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Best Cinematography? The Hurt Locker should have won. The Bread and Butter of that movie is its Cinematography.
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Appalling!
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Before they zoomed in on the screen.
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this is about movies, so his contribution of "the wiz" over 30yrs ago constitues being in the list? whats next, if milla jovovich dies she'll be in a grammy memoriam?
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WTF Oscars?
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last year's death montage was a LOT better with Sarah McLachlan's 'I Will Remember You'...they should invite her back every year
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She died and they showed... Michael Jackson. Burned again.
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No love for Moonwalker?
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Mar 07, 2010 9:45:04 PM CST
How hard & how much they clap, tells us who they love the most.
by orionsangels
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Yeah, A Serious Man was Deakins' only credit this year and it was kind of lackluster for a Deakins film. I wonder if perhaps there was some direction from the Coens about not making it too flashy and glamorizing what, for Dr. Lawrence Gopnik, was supposed to be a very mundane life.
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Should have been in there. What a load of bullshit.
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Fucking disrespectful assholes.
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Sure there was a applause -o - meter of death but the added distraction of a performer on stage does not work for me. Even if it is James Taylor.
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shows where cinema is now by rewarding someone who simply pointed a camera at a blue screen. Ugh. "The White Ribbon" was robbed.
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Live on camera?
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Director missed Swayze chyron graphic cuz he was focused on James Taylor.
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Did anybody notice the complete lack of Farrah Fawcett? And they're putting in public relations people. No offense but what next? Extras? The guy who got coffee on a few movies?
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I'm just sayin....
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Lorena Gale? Farrah Fawcett? James Whitmore No? Fuck.
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I wonder if he will lead the audience in a rendition of Take me out to the ballgame at the 2 hour mark of the show.
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...Alexandre Desplat's name properly this year!
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The 70's live again!
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Suda 51 > Tarantino
Videogame designer Suda 51 wipes the floor with Tarantino, far more wit and creativity.
Inglorious Bastards is just stupid. Jackie Brown seems a distant memory now as Tarantino just spews out the same movies over and over again.
Why on Earth Basterds has been nominated is a mystery. -
Meanwhile, interpretive dance is still shit.
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..with none for best original song. And now they spring dancers on us for original score.
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Why are these people dancing like this?
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Dress made of bubble wrap?
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THE HURT LOCKAAAA
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How on Earth did it not win Best Adapted Screenplay?
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I get to see The White Ribbon this week, but from what I've seen in the trailers, you're probably correct.
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of the in memoriam, im sorry, that is just poor direction and michael jackson should only be memorialized by other sick drug addicted pedophiles
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...funniest thing on the show so far.
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It's like they're slowly starting to realize that the rest of the world just doesn't fuckin' care.
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I demand this question from the creator and all I get is people dancing on screen.
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I heard the Academy producers removed all Tiger Woods jokes from the telecast
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Was she not a member of the Academy, is that why?
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...I think.
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I kid...I kid the homos.
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seems uncoordinated, people just jumping around and pumping the floor every once and a while
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...be related to the music at least a little bit?
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--Silent Bob
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Best to wiki it. Virtual display and capture system, works like a camera but main intent is to let the director see his virutal world and and characters in real time with control over how the camera is placed and moved around in this virtual realtime evironment. Basically a monitor with a 5 axis ir bulb marker on it so the ir cameras knows it's exact location and position is on set, showing the director a videogame render of the virtualworld in on the cameras lcd display screen. It deserved the win.
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by Ed Asner's dentures!
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have very embarrased fathers
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....best soundtrack I've heard in a LONG time.
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Damn, I hope so. Otherwise, this is the definition of Hell being other people.
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from UP's famous scene
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Where the show's producer let's his boyfriend get some free promo for his show down at Buddies in Bad Times theatre. The only thing that will redeem this is if a performer bails and has to be carted off.
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but you guys sound like a bunch of fucking rednecks
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Nothing says ratings like interpretive dance...
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I can't believe how flat Kirsten Stewart looks in her gown. She should take some of her TWILIGHT dough, of which I'm sure she has lots to burn, and buy herself some boobs.
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Why's it called blacklisted, by the way? Why not whitelisted? As Arsenio would say, "Things that make you go hmmmmmmm".
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(Sarcasm implied)Dancing that has little to nothing to do with the films they represent. Although I do like listening to the music.
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HECK
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Disrespect.
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Are we only half way through? Like at the mid-way of Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett pulls her carrot and says she'll never go hungry for carrots again.
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The did not include Farrah Fawcett in the memorial, but they include a non-actor like Michael Jackson? THAT IS BULLSHIT!
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While she's at it, Stewart should pick up a personality too. I blamed her flat acting in the TWILIGHT movies on uber shitty material, but even here just reading cue cards to introuce the horror clips she's as flat as...well, herself!
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And so were Giacchino and Zimmer. Wow.
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I watched Sherlock last week and it was the first time in a long time that I actually noticed a score, great theme.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:52:28 PM CST
The poor fat girl from precious is almost too fat to clap
by orionsangels
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ass holes
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Kicking ass and taking names. Best film of the year, far an away.
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It's the BOMB!
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good job sam
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Farful's fans are going to be outraged.
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Thank goodness.
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Sorry haters, that made score--which are pretty lame without their moving pictures--pretty cool.
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Take that, recycle-bitch Horner!!!!!! Up was an absolutely BRILLIANT score!
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Horner's score sucked...
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Jesus Christ. Fucking Giacchino. Goddammit.
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was completely inappropriate to the music, with the exception of the UP ne, maybeeeee. They are really sloppy this year. Jesus.
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I'm not watching this year but my gf is and so far I haven't heard a scream from her. I can only guess this year Oscar is sucking donkey balls!
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People really think The Hurt Locker beating Avatar will be an upset? One of the best reviewed movies of the year about the fucking IRAQ WAR. That has Oscar bait all over it...I would honestly be surprised if it didn't win BP. I personally thought it was decent, not exactly BP worthy. It had some great scenes, but was bogged down by no plot, a lack of real direction, like that horrible middle segment when he looks for the kid.
I think Avatar deserves it just because of how insanely it connected with the world, promoting people to think and actually attempt change for once, and of course how it single-handedly has pushed cinema in a new direction - for better or worse. I mean face it though, it's been a weak year, any BP winner will be one of the worst. If anything though Jim Cameron deserves the director award...the man helped invent new technology to make his film! I mean, come the fuck on! -
Lucy Gordon, aka reporter Jennifer Dugan in Spider-Man 3, was not in the montage.
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but Sherlock Holmes was definately the best score of the lot.
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Awesome!
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I guess they're just gonna show us Clooney's reaction to everything instead.
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Actually, it's not that exciting, although Giacchino is awesome. But is the Up soundtrack even available to purchase?
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Interesting.
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pressed return when i was trying to press shift and ?.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:55:44 PM CST
Avatar wins again. Pissing off the backlashers, love it!
by orionsangels
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Damn, she was beautiful
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I was still hoping they'd give it to D9. Effects on a budget!
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And Jon Landau looks sleazy.
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Giving it to District 9 would've sent a better message to Hollywood in terms of being frugal with their budgets. Cause lord knows, not every film is going to be as successful as Avatar.
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Actually happy about this, although they need to expand the category to five nominees
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Haven't seen him in ages....what's he been up to?
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Seeing that clip of Avatar from the early render stages to the final was just amazing. It's mind-blowing how they made computer graphics look so fucking real...it literally looks like a live-action scene. D9 did a great job too, but Avatar seriously fucking owns every movie ever as far as the CGI goes. Obvious win.
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Avatar doesn't win best pic i'll be happy.
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It's the guy from Teen Wolf Too.
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And the only prescription is more Jason Bateman.
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Yeah. I believe she hung herself.
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Up sounded like your typical animated movie score. if they needed to nominate him they shoulda went with Star Trek, although that sounded like Lost most of the time but yeah.
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from Zune Marketplace. I assume it's available other places, too.
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A December release would've guaranteed some kind of nomination.
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Thanks, chimpjnr, for the biggest laugh of the night.
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I would like to complement you on your user name. You, sir, have taste.
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you guys suck
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fuck these brit twits
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Oscar loves shit like that. District 9 was the best of what's possible in digital effects, but they didn't reinvent the wheel. Movies like Clash of the Titans though, are just going through the motions, not creating magic on screen, that we can all enjoy, but instead going through the motions, like having a CG Medusa that moves at 90mph, those making it look as boring as possible, instead of creating slower effects, like the original Harryhausen Medusa or the Walkers from Empire.
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If they really wanted to send a message, they should have given it to Moon. What they did with a 5 mil budget was absolutely remarkable.. and it look great plain and simple. Nolan and Jones deserve Oscar's for "Keeping it Real"
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funniest thing on abc in hours
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What. The. Fuck?
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is Harry's name-dropping Oscar party blogging.
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...compliment. I'm not sure how I would complement you on your user name.
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Avatar and D9 being on the roster is very important. BTW Hurt Locker should take it all, and leave a little for Avatar and D9.
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...no one saw Moon. ;)
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Where president of the academy makes a speech about piracy and tries to make torrent downloaders feel guilty?
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If you haven't seen The Cove, you need to rectify your mistake immediately.
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me think of Newsradio.
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Can't bring myself to watch it. I'll just stick my head in the sand and keep eating my cheeseburgers.
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not sure why people get all fussy over dolphins being killed, i mean no one bitch pisses about all the chickens we kill a year, why? Because people know chicken tastes good, i suggest more people eat dolphin and then we'd understand why we need to kill them to eat themoh, also what the fuck is the guy from the mario brothers movie doing on stage?
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It's the racist white dude who did brown face in Short Circuit!
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and sales of tuna skyrocket across the globe.
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Sammy Protag Onist: "Gotta diffuse this bomb!"
Bob Token Black Guy: "Looks like we in a whole ton o shit, dude!"
Sammy: "Shit! Its gonna go boom boom!"
Bob: "No! No!! No!"
Sammy: "Go! Go! Go!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!! -
that fuckin save the dolphin movie won
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would have been much more respectable if it wasn't "marketed" and "reviewed" as realistic. Great movie sure but not even close to realistic. ...OMG it's taht guy from Lost!! lol!
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The guy from Short Circuit won an Oscar
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Shewolf of London.
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If watching it makes you squeamish, try reading anything food-related by Michael Pollan instead.
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and let the interweb users cast in their votes for best achievement in film-making.. Kind of like what IMDB is doing right now.. Award shows should not be telecast on tv at all, it just fucking sucks..
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hey Fisher Stevens is the guy that played Minkowsky on LOST
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NO SIGN!!
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Really, really good. Will make you want to nuke Japan all over again.
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if the plight of dolphins are a major concern.
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In The Loop, a comedy which is well written. There has not been a witty US comedy in years. The Academy could have sent a great message by awarding In The Loop.
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they arent wiping out the dolphin pop and they eat the meat....you just wanna fuck hayden
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I'm starting to actively hate that movie
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It's as good as Jarhead, nothing more.
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So THAT'S why I never watch those shit movies! Eureka!
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I hear she has been naughty. I think it vital that she be disciplined...by me. Bend over Miley.
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damnit
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Mar 07, 2010 10:10:59 PM CST
Maybe Sean Penn will give his Oscar from last year to Micky Rour
by fiester
Where it belongs.
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on Haiti and how Chavez isn't a dictator lmao!
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If he had just thrown in one "Woah"
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Can't wait. I've done a terrible job of catching the nominated films so far.
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remember the world we live in is just as incredible as the one we created for you. and this was the entire point of Avatar.
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She's 16. That's legal in a lot of states. No pedophilia for you.
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why all the hurt locker hate? seriously, it was a good movie this was a weak year for movies
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Mar 07, 2010 10:12:12 PM CST
Martin Sheen's doing the voice for Hyundai commercials now?
by jackie boy
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named Oscar. Oh, you thought it was a real person...
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Mar 07, 2010 10:12:22 PM CST
Ya'll should be read the tweets from Roger Ebert!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Very entertaining and hilarious!
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Lost is winning everything.
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And it will win best movie. Watch.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:13:39 PM CST
Did you just compare THL to Crash?
by danielplainviewonvacationinboston
You soulless bastard.
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Argentina ftw!
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Avatar Based on the Film Dances with Wolves Directed by Costner
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Where are the hosts? Why can't it be a hostess? A hot, hot hostess? Or just some dude dressed up as the Twinkie Cowboy. Brokeback Mountain jokes would be too easy. Maybe they could get somebody to dress up as a Hostess cupcake. Shit, now I'm hungry.
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Same reason why Watchmen isn't either... the academy sucks.
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sony didnt send out screeners or something i heard
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I want to know what happens when he texted DOLPHIN. I bet it's some RING-like telephone-based supernatural plot for revenge by vengeful murdered dolphins. HELLO AGAIN, AND THANKS FOR ALL YOUR BRAINS!
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after the Oscars.
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...his ass should be played off the stage by Keyboard Cat. Damn, the Oscars are dull and insipid. But what else is new. Seriously, this talkback is more entertaining than that shit.
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quentin's drunk
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i know there's a recession but couldn't they have gotten a better set?
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Thought she was 18. Anyhow she does little for me, certainly not in that way.
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The Studio didn't think Moon was good enough to compete, so didn't bother to send out any screeners.
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my parents are from argentina. thats why i wanted it to win.
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What, did they just figure "hey, it's out on DVD so obviously everyone's already seen it"?Bunch of boneheads
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Cameron's gonna pay a guy to give him an atomic wedgie backstage.
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Is that the costume drama version of Hurt Locker?
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Thank the Academy for not considering Navi a foreign language. Hahaha. Ok, that was kind of funny.
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He probably needs to find a new girlfriend, which is what will happen this week.
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...is that soooo much of it is simply unrealistic from a military standpoint...and yes, I've been there. Those things took me right out of the movie.
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AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID HOMETREE!!!
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...I'll never get "About Schmidt" nude Kathy Bates out of my nightmares.
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And was used at the green screen for the production of Avatar.
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mentioned for the first time in the history of the oscar telecast
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That'd be my choice...
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thanks, that's excellent that you recognized that. sometimes i think people think i'm a chick named nora.
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Inglorious Basts was *easily* the best edited film I saw last year.
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not great.
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its here: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/30/sony-not-supporting-moon-for-oscars-duncan-jones-tweets-his-displeasure/ clint mansell snubbed again!!!
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Shoulda swept the awards...Willem Defoe, Gainsbourg...fuck man
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do you design toilet paper to only be rolled one way? And WHY
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how utterly useless and pointless the 3D was. watching this in HD gives an idea of what the blu-ray will look like and as i thought in theaters, the 3D was unnecessary and actually took away from it. cue the the complaining bob.
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She's a dead ringer for Jillian Michaels
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no other film is even in the same league as these two.
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or something.
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How many of these people are gonna have to be resucitated at the multiple afterparties they attend?
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forever. Rockwell for best actor
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the funny thing i was human and my head came only up to her blue vagina.
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He wore out Lisa Snowdon so a new girlfriend is maybe necessary.
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as was said, hurt locker was good, really good. but i at first that it was maybe a bit overrated but then i thought, if not hurt locker...what? there were very few if any GREAT movies this year.
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Thought is was better than District 9.
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Proof that most studio execs can't discern the quality of their own films."is it good?""I don't know, how much money did it make?"
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Worst. Live. Blogging. Ever!
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When you look at Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Paths of Glory, The Deer Hunter or Full Metal Jacket, you realize how fucking lame and lifeless The Hurt Locker really is.
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Did Harry not get his Hurt Locker embossed, authenticated, and autographed anti-IED suit from Kathryn Bigelow?
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...might just be the most insightful thing he's ever written.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:25:17 PM CST
Jeff Bridges Wins!!!!!!!!!!! I'm from 10 minutes in the future.
by orionsangels
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Oh my yessssssss
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They forgot FARRAH in the dead reel!
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....yawn.
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I have a little anecdote for this that will probably bore everyone here to tears, but I'll tell it anyway. The first time I saw Nora Inu was at a Kurosawa festival four or five years ago at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It was right after the restoration had been done, and just before the Criterion disc came out. Unfortunately, the audio of the film was totally fucked up after about ten minutes into the film. They offered refunds and apologies to everyone. About half the audience left (about sixty people or so, as I recall). I stayed, and watched it anyway, and even with barely being able to hear the audio, it was still an incredible experience to see it for the first time. I have a few Kurosawa films left that I haven't watched for the first time yet. I think I'm going to hold on to those for quite a long time, as I imagine life will be much worse once I have no new Kurosawa left to watch.
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Bridges to win.
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and michelle pfeiffer's still goin
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Just hand him the fuckin' statue.
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One of the dumbest war movies ever made, and one of the most overrated movies ever made. It was corny, and marked the beginning of Coppola's decline. Platoon is the best Vietnam movie ever made.
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Why all these has-beens that haven't been in anything that grossed 6 mil in 100 theatres in 10 years? Combining that with Zac Efron and the cast of Twilight makes it seem like none of hollywood's current top actors don't want anything to do with this show. But anything that involved Vilanch... I wouldn't want to be involved either.
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Lol, thought she was going to say "a good lay".... lol
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Very zen.
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...we need personal stories like this just like James Cameron needs a bigger ego.
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If Clooney pulls off the upset, the smug from that speech may make Haiti look like Hiroshima.
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Since the last one. It would be better if it were UNscripted and hosted by foreigners. Life is Beautiful everyone is beautiful I love you beautiful! You can applause them!
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Mar 07, 2010 10:29:13 PM CST
Egads, I hate these "tributes" to actors they already "recognize
by big jim
by nominating them. Seems a bit much to me.
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Should've just had more Hollywood babes on stage -- which would have helped with the ratings of this HORRIBLE Oscar show -- at which point they all could've simply said in unison: "Yeah, I did him."
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Can I come too?
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nominee to cry. Maybe he'll swear at him?
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...then Cameron claims to have invented it.
Avatar is not as ground breaking as many assume.
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i think we're watching an orgy right now.
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"...can you do that for me, Ted? It is Ted isn't it?" Pretty funny. Morgan looks like he's trying to figure out who Tim Robbins is.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:30:27 PM CST
And the Award for Best Actor goes to The Hurt Locker, not any ac
by jacksparasites
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That's funny. I agree with you, but switch the names of the two films in your comment. Platoon is terrible. Half of the film's impact is due to Barber's Adagio for Strings. The film would be severely crippled without it.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:30:33 PM CST
And the Award for Best Actor goes to The Hurt Locker, not any ac
by jacksparasites
And the Award for Best Actor goes to The Hurt Locker, not any actor in the movie but just The Hurt Locker.
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in assassination of jesse james with like 20 good actors. SWAT!!!
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Was that a swipe at Morgan Freeman's affair with that very young woman?
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Hailee Steinfeld just won for Beat Actress.
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...yeah...
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Come on now....
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hopes and dreams, mortgages and marriages.... on the line
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in the morning. Apocalypse Now overrated? Surely you jest.
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...with her gargantuan nostrils.
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...spooning in Mexico and Ted getting coffee are actually true. Hah.
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I'm from one year in the future. March 2011.
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The Dude for the fuckin' win.
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Please...
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I guess I should see Crazy Heart
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Sorry Bridges.
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Way to go Jeff Bridges!
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Alright J.B.!
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Sigh. I fucking hate country music, and now I have to watch that fucking movie.
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Bridges is the man!
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Loved the Fisher King. Loved the Dude. Haven't seen Crazy Heart. But I will now.
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...and now, OSCAR WINNER! Yay, Jeff!
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well deserved.
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Great job, Bridges
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Great job, Bridges
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Coulda been Sam Rockwell for Moon.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:35:39 PM CST
BandysTract, it's just that Brad Pitt has better things to do
by big jim
because, you know, he's Brad Pitt. As for Sam Rockwell - apparently the Academy has never heard of him.
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...is so other actors have a chance.
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stfu already
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This is pathetic.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:36:17 PM CST
Thanks to the first cell that came up from the ocean & started l
by orionsangels
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I've spoken to military people who've complained about many of the War movies you mentioned as well. Dale Dye did a Q & A for PLATOON at my college back in '87 and when I asked him what he thought about FULL METAL JACKET he said he thought Kubrick was "picking his nose". He called it "A Clockwork Vietnam." And plenty of people who actually fought in Vietnam think APOCALYPSE NOW is a cartoon.
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Unrealistic garbage!
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MAAAN!
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LOL. He cracks me up.
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Scotchy Scotch Scotch!
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So Jeff gets to blather about nothing forever but the guys on the smaller awards get like 5 seconds to say something?
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I'm from 10 minutes in the future...man.
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Jesus
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Go Carey Mulligan! I'll accept Meryl Streep to forestall a potential Bullock win though!
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Hello my friends, i wanted to wait untill the end of the show to post this as that has been my plan for over a year now, but to be honnest - I'm just too damn tired and this show is draggingAs most of you know i have been a hollywood "insider" for a while now, but as most of you probabaly have figured out by now (sarcasm intended) I am not a hollywood insider and i have not worked on every movie ever filmed. You see friends, The character of Jett was all an act, but it wasn't just an act for fun or as a form of trolling. I am not just some fanboy sitting in a starwars poster adorned room, I am infact in my late 30'sand have worked in the industy to some sucess for over a decade now. For obvios reason, i will NOT reveal my identity but odds are that if my name was mentioned a majorty of you would know who i am and have probabaly seen some of my work. About 3 years ago i came up with an idea for a film, a comedic tale of an internet message board poster who takes on the guise of an insider and fools the world into beliveing the things he post about movies i had a pay or play contract with a major studio so i knew the film was going to hopefully happen.I joined as a talkbacker and kept quite for the most part then when indy 4 news broke, i created a fake title (Pharoah's crown)and the internet went razy, people started quaestioning who i was and if i indeed had a valid scoop, I'll admit i had a great amount of fun with this, and i got some good characters and dialogue for my script, months later i jumped on the batman 3 scoops and while the enthusiasm from talkbackers was less intense, i still had many beliving what i had was valid news, and it spread from AICN, even batman-on-film (a site that claims it doesn't post rumours) was posting my stories about the supposed batman 3 script in the work.I had constated Harry about what i was doing and told him who i was (he was a fan of my work) and he encouraged me to go on, he even offered to make a post about me being fake to shake up the pot a little bit (also at my request to see if i could redeem myself after proven wrong, which is a big turning part in the film i am doing). My original banning (as JettL93) was all planned, i neever actually was banned, my posts where removed and i created a similar username, every post i created in both usernames are saved and i intend to publish them in either a blog or perhaps as a feature on the eventual dvd and bluray Frankly though, my script is all but finished right now and i should be casting within a month, so my time here is at an end, i'd love to continue it, but i said to myself 2months ago that i would call it quits on Oscar night (or is that Oscer night??) and by darnit i have to stick to that deadline or the movie will never get made, that said, I had alot of fun and i really hope that when the film gets made you all go an see it, perhaps even some of you will notice the characters you helped to inspire. When the film is done i have already promised harry an exclusive review and at that point my indenity will be out of the bag and we can all laugh. Harry has promised me to keep his lips sealed until then, so don't bother bugging him to spill the beans on who i am.Well folks it has been fun, but i must go, and i'm a man of my word, so you won't be seeing me at all untill the film is wraped and ready to hit theatres (not sure the title but the working one is simply "Jett"). So farewell to all, sorry if i pissed any of you off but i hope you know it was all in jest and i do intend to use that feedback in the final film.peace out!
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he looks like a freakin nerd without a beard and mustache, my word.
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Learn something new (and rather trivial) everyday.
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Big mama buying a round for the whole house!
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...a very intelligent, smart man, great story teller. He was very dismissive of Hollywood war movies, and despised Apocalypse Now.
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genius
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genius
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I forgot to keep track.
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...the other winners would have more time to say thanks, but noooooooo...
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That girl is going to be A STAR.
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if Precious wins?
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barf....this pandering self promoter makes me want to gag.
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You don't ask fucking questions.
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Thinks she has a dick.
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YOU get an Oscar! YOU GET AN OSCAR!!! You're ALLL GETTING OSCARS!!!
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or hello "tight cast" or worse, death...
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or hello "tight cast" or worse, death...
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So I'm in the dark for the rest. Fuck.
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if Precious had been about a fat white girl?
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...is bigger than all of your dicks. Fact!
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are just pathetic!
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wow these actors are so self important...I love movies but come on...these people aren't curing cancer...
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...the two films that are mentioned time and time again are Platoon and Saving Private Ryan. Both authentic to vets in different ways.
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Holy crap I just spit cola out of my nose...
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Unbelievably awkward.
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is going on forever. Get on with it.
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That whole movie I was getting this vibe that she was taking the kid playing her black son aside after the takes and saying, "Look, you don't upstage me, Motherfucker!"
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a tombstone or an urn. Really man, this place is for people who dont want to be known. We all come here for a common cause to bitch about the industry slacking the line.
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is manipulating pandering movie...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXneIjC01D0
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Your non character posts are insightful an bring good stuff to the table.
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Should have nominated and gave the award to Sasha Grey.
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oh boy here comes the water works...just take the award and get off the fucking stage
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Sorry.
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Goddammit. Fucking Bullock. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I found another stream, by the way. Almost wish I hadn't.
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Really? The Blind Side? For fuck's sake!
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Sandra just snubbed Meryl. First it was the dude asking for his envelope, now Streep.
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Mr. ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!
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HOLY SHIT!!!
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The Bionic Girl, Speed, Practical Magic, Miss Congeniality, and now.... OSCAR WINNER!!!
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"Nigga please! Carey wuz robbed."
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i used to claim that exact story back when i used to go to chatrooms. oh the old days. :P
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Kenu checked it in speed.
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A razzie and an Oscar in the same year. The Oscars are a fucking popularity contest....this shit is lame.
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I've hated Bullockshit all my life. If Avatar wins best picture this will go down in history as the worst fucking Oscars EVER.
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...is the Kodak Theatre big enough for her ego?
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Now she can live on his property.
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God this must be a weak year for an actor the caliber of Sandra Bullock to win an Oscar... It tells you something when an actress wins two Razzies and an Oscar in the same year... arghhh!!1
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mirren is still hotter
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He in on yer gag?
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"Hi, so, yeah, it's Hurt Locker."
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thank you for shitting on a historic win
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45 minutes?P.S. I think we broke the site
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Fuck your shitty site Harry. When are you going to spend the cash to buy a real webserver and rewrite the code on this shithole?
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He in on yer gag?
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No one will give a shit about the Hurt Locker in, oh...15 minutes or so.
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Hurt Locker FTW!
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Which hosts do you mean, Harry's web hosting company, or the Oscar hosts? (This is rhetorical.)
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Mar 07, 2010 11:04:49 PM CST
One year from now people will forget Hurt Locker ever won.
by ganymede3001
What a fucking travesty. The Hurt Locker is so fucking overrated. The Academy should be licking the ass crack of James Cameron for thrusting Cinema into it's next age of film making.
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Avatar was my favourite movie of 2009, District 9 number 2 and Hurt Locker in 3rd, Hurt Locker was a worthy winner
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Weak. Avatar pretty much got snubbed.
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Bigelow. I will drink your tea....drink it right up.
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They don't want to give two awards to two black women for the same film, so they think they can make it up by awarding Bullock for a shameless chick flick featuring a black kid.
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DESERVED IT!!! Hurt Locker had NO depth!!!! I would have been happier with Avatar!!
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It's bullshit.
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It won the only award it should have won: special effects.
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and wouldn't have had to rush the Best Picture Award, if they hadn't spent 10 - 15 minutes on actors going on about how much they like other acctors who got nominated for best actor & actress.
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I love that movie. The Hurt Locker, not so much. I'll have to watch Inglourious Basterds to get the taste of its loss out of my mouth.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:07:09 PM CST
Surprised by the lack of love for The Hurt Locker
by billypilgrimisunstuck
Just saying.
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In a few years, no one will remember Hurt Locker, but in just as many, no one will have forgotten AVATAR.
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of 'Near Dark'. I like it.
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escort her down the stairs. She was like "I dont walk down stairs with out aid... waiting... waiting..." ego indeed. what the fuck happened ok hurt won director and picture.. wait that was really fast kinda rape like
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is that 3 or 4 with Lost connections
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How does that even happen in 2010?
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FACT!
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first it was "Thank Heaven for little Girls" for the tweens & then it was "I Am Woman, Hear me Roar" for Katheryn?? Hey Acadamy, YOU'RE NOT HELPING! Retarded.
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Any of ya'll that have friends in the environmental lobby might want to give them a call and make sure they're not standing on a ledge somewhere.
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I still can't fucking believe not even 1 nod for that brilliant film??? Hurt Locker for best picture?? Bigelow over Cameron for best director??? WTF is going on??
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It was fun while it lasted.
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The likes of Square-Enix has been creating amazing CG for years. Cameron's work builds on what has already been established, but it is not the huge leap some people make out.
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He dresses like Scrooge McDuck and dives right in. Also, he's got one on every continent.
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What a joke! Once again the Academy gets it wrong. Are they just pushing for political correctness. As soon as that liberal douch-bag Barbra Streisand walks out the Hurt Locker was going to win. There's a reason why the Army pulled its technical support people and numerous EOD units and personnel say this film is utter fiction. It's like giving the Best picture and director Oscars to the movie SWAT for its accurate portrayal of police work.
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THE HURT LOCKER was the most compelling of the nominees and deserved to win. A truly spellbinding film. Nice to see credit being given where it is due.
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What a joke! Once again the Academy gets it wrong. Are they just pushing for political correctness. As soon as that liberal douch-bag Barbra Streisand walks out the Hurt Locker was going to win. There's a reason why the Army pulled its technical support people and numerous EOD units and personnel say this film is utter fiction. It's like giving the Best picture and director Oscars to the movie SWAT for its accurate portrayal of police work.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:09:42 PM CST
Harry can't update his site, he's JUST A BIG GUY WHO LOOOVES MOV
by reflecto
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!!! WHAT'S THAT, YOU WANT ME TO PROMOTE RAJA'S SMURFS AND THE WOLF MAN? YOU WANT ME TO CALL THE BAD REVIEWS FOR ALICE IN WONDERLAND "DIVISIVE" INSTEAD OF "UNIFORMLY BAD"? WELL OK, BUT ONLY IF I GET MY PWESENTS....LET THOSE FUCKERS CONTINUE FUMBLING AROUND ON MY RUDIMENTARY SITE...
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That's good, because it might take me some time, and repeated refreshing, to replyIt was a bit of a game sometimes - what will happen first: the page will refresh or Martin and/or Baldwin will appear on stage.
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I'll believe it when I see it sir. Take care.
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just fucking lame...
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How/Why I think Bigelow and Cameron got divorced:
Kathryn: I told you I wanted to be [a director]! I told you that!
James: I thought you were kidding! I thought it was a joke, I even wrote it down in my diary. “[Kathryn] had a very funny joke today.” I laughed at it later that night. -
... the Academy remembered who buys their lunches -- NeoCons. Pretty disappointed, but moreso with Bigelow for selling out and being the Switzerland of Hollywood.
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you didn't get free tickets or something? After all the GARBAGE you praise on this site, you don't care for this film?
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"I loved Kathryn Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER, but then... I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's career." -(first sentence!) of Harry's review of "The Hurt Locker""I'm happy for her, but I do not love this movie." - Harry Knowles Oscar blog right now
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Stay gay.
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It's not that I have a lack of love for The Hurt Locker. I saw it when it was first released and remember thinking "this is a really good movie". But then I kinda "forgot" about it. Then list season arrived and it was at the top of every list, I found myself surprised. And then it just seemed to gain momentum from there. I definitely don't hate it, but it just didn't blow me away like the awards would have you believe.
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It is, in fact, a good movie. But it is nowhere near deserving of a Best Picture award against Precious and Avatar.
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may be a super huge see you en tee irl. I couldn't help but notice last year they cut to a shot of what appeared to be Kate Winslets table talking shit about her lol. Also it kind of sounded like Stanley Tucci was basically saying in so many words 'your co-stars respect you, despite not personally liking you' lol.
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God. Why am I surprised? At least Precious didn't win. I absolutely hate the political correctness of the Academy Awards.
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I don't care what any of you Avatar lovers think. Out of the 6 movies I saw Hurt Locker was the best. I can believe Avatar was even nominated. Avatar will be a movie that will be forgotten in 10 years except for tickets sales (like Titanic)...
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she would have made a real movie that accurately depicts what they really do on a bomb sqaud. Fucking hell. Mickey last year and Jim and Neil this year. Well Moon too. Fucking oscars!!!!
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1. I'd hate to be JC's wife tonight...or his driver. It'll take a week to wash the blood out of the back seat.2. Mad Cash Props to the Hurt Locker producer who jumped on the grenade, did what had to be done in Payola/Political Hollywood and helped get the win by reminding the voters what they should be voting for. Don't feel bad he could go to the shitty awards...the $$$$$$$ he got paid to do that will soften the blow.And as usual in Hollywood after the Oscars....the Mercedes/Ferrari/Bentley dealers will be busy with flush Academy voters for weeks.
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The Academy and Hollywood show just out of touch they are with the rest of the world. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! "The Hurt Locker" is a forgettable movie in comparison to many of the other films that were nominated. Hell I liked, "An Education" more than Locker. Yet I know many female Academy voters that voted for it because of Bigelow. And Hollywood wonders why the ratings keep dropping year after year.
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It only made 21 million folks..worldwide! I'm boycotting next years Oscars.
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...I forget about that Hurt Locker producer corruptly rallying Academy voters to vote for his film and telling them to rank Avatar down. The Oscars were rigged this year...and likely ever year. Peace out.
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sure it was a cool experience, but it wasn't a film. A good film won, I personally think Basterds should have but I'm not in the academy and neither are any of you-
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To those who care; to those who can do something about it.
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I'm worried it's one of those movies that gets so much buzz but then you watch it and go, "hmm". It looks decent, I'm just wondering if anyone has really seen it and what their thoughts about it are.
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Condolences, achievers!
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You haters must be insurgents or something.
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Comparing The Hurt Locker to Crash may be the most unbelievably wrong thing you've ever said. Wrong as in not right, and wrong as in just cruel. Maybe never being close to a warzone makes non-animated movies hard for you to respect since you apparently thought Up (the most overrated Pixar movie ever - but still good) should have won.
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James Cameron, you don't get a fucking thing.
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The academy wants to make him work for it. They know QT won't stop until he has his own statuette, and American cinema will be all the richer.
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When a film does get it right though, that's a bonus and an incredible achievement. Just because a film _doesn't_ get the details right doesn't mean it isn't good though. V for Vendetta had one incredible line in it that has stuck with me since I saw the film. "Artists use lies to tell the truth. Governments use lies to hide the truth." The last part isn't particularly relevant to the present discussion, but the first part most certainly is.
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Possibly one of the most mediocre Oscar winners ever. At least Avatar is a historic film in the way it has pushed the enveloped and changed the future of cinema...and in the way that everyone in the world went to see it 5 times. But even Basterds should have beat out Locker for BP.
Listen to some of you tools..."Take that, James Cameron!", like you know him...god some of you people are so fucking gay. Cameron gets the last laugh anyway, he used to bang Bigelow back when she was hot. Or 'hotter".
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Loved Avatar, think Cameron is a genius, but from all reports he is not good husband or friend material.
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Gimmie a break: Avatar is 100% more PC than The Hurt Locker.
Also: it's not a fucking documentary or recruitment film for the military. It's not obligated to show the Army in any kind of light, positive or negative. It's a story about specific characters who happen to be in the military.
As for accurate depictions: the writer, who also won an Oscar tonight, was embedded with an EOD unit for months in Iraq. All kinds of fucked up shit goes down all the time--talk to anyone who has been in any branch of the military service--just because you have a uniform on does not make you immune to acting like a fucking idiot.
You wingnuts really ought to go post on your neocon sites. You shouldn't even be watching movies: they're made by people that hate America and all the money you give to them goes to Obama anyway. You really ought to just stay home and read your bibles. -
Do something original, please.
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What the fuck fat man.
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Possibly one of the most mediocre Oscar winners ever. At least Avatar is a historic film in the way it has pushed the enveloped and changed the future of cinema...and in the way that everyone in the world went to see it 5 times. But even Basterds should have beat out Locker for BP.
Listen to some of you tools..."Take that, James Cameron!", like you know him...god some of you people are so fucking gay. Cameron gets the last laugh anyway, he used to bang Bigelow back when she was hot. Or 'hotter".
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He spent 10 years of his life traveling to Pandora, filming the stuff there, and traveling back to Earth to edit and master the film. Best documentary should have been his.
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What the fuck fat man.
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What the fuck fat man.
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Fuck HURT LOCKER. It was over-rated and, worst of all, wasn't even militarily accurate, as many soldiers have since come forward and bitched about. AVATAR, on the other hand, is Hollywood's biggest money-maker ever, rewrote the book on SFX, made 3D more commercial than ever before, and is a sign of future things. In short, it actually revolutionized filmmaking, while HURT LOCKER is a bullshit story that Academy voters thought was the politically correct movie of the moment to vote for.Meanwhile around the world, all the millions of people who LOVED Avatar and made it a hit are now saying "WTF?!?" -- and then Hollywood will actually wonder why the Oscar telecasts keeping dropping in viewers, till it reaches the point where NO ONE is watching...in fact, it will have to become a pay for view event because the only people who will want to see this bullshit will be relatives of the nominees.
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What the fuck fat man.
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It wouldn't have been as great of a movie if it were realistic. It worked so well because it was a compelling fictional character in a real life situation. Just because the filmmakers are honoring the troops doesn't mean they made the film for them. Am I the only one who thinks that actors really like Meryl Streep and tease her because she is a good sport?
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HL is a flawed film to be sure, but all of the nominees were in their own way. None more than Avatar, though, which is lazy as storytelling can get and already looks as visually innovative as a velvet poster with a black light.
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most of it is about himself, how he feels, his whims, etc...
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Feels good.
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the idea they are trying to tell us they see some special thing in the hurt locker that makes it a better movie than avatar and the others, shows how snobbish they are. giving hurt locker so much attention shows how sexist LA is. if a dude made that movie i guarantee it wouldn't have had half this buzz. hurt locker is like crash because it is overhyped hollywood snob fare that gets awarded during the hype then in a couple years NO ONE will remember hurt locker, and the world will be lining up for avatar two.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:28:54 PM CST
Ha ha! Take that you fucking mouthbreathing Avatard zealots
by shawn f.
A REAL movie took Best Picture, not some nerd fantasy version of Dances with Wolves. Go down to your parent's basements and cry into your Doritos. And Harry, you compared The Hurt Locker to Crash? What's the matter? Summitt Entertainment didn't suck your dick hard enough?
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I get that a lot of people have problems with The Hurt Locker. There is a certain amount of people acting like idiots that took me out of the movie a bit. And the sniper scene was tense, but seemed extraordinarily convenient in how it played out. I still liked it a lot, though, on the whole. Avatar. . . I enjoyed the experience, but I'd seen the movie twice before in almost its entirety, 20 years ago when it was Dances with Wolves, and 15 years ago when it was Pocahontes, an countless other incarnations. It was well paced and well staged, but completely unoriginal in its story and visuals. I am much more satisfied with The Hurt Locker winning than if Avatar had won.
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Sadly I saw it at a friend's house, who downloaded it, other friends of mine saw it on the plane whilst travelling. All of us would have loved to seen it at the movies and paid for it. But it still hasn't been released for wide distribution in Hong Kong( where I currently live) and Japan (where I used to live).
Movie industry, need to stop worrying about pirating as much and have a look at your distribution model, this is the year 2010, not the 1970's.
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lets not forget that big tarantino has been one of the most influential worldwide filmakers of the last two decades. the fact bigelow has a best director oscar before him, shows that the academy really is meaningless politics.
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"HURT LOCKER...over-rated and, worst of all, wasn't even militarily accurate, as many soldiers have since come forward and bitched about...HURT LOCKER is a bullshit story that Academy voters thought was the politically correct movie of the moment to vote for."
Yup. I really, REALLY wanted to like HURT LOCKER, but around the point where a bomb squad flawlessly morphs into a sniper team more professional than their British SAS counterparts(!), I decided Bigelow was up to her old embellishment antics again, a la THE WIDOWMAKER, which notoriously infuriated the Russian Navy.
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"lets not forget that big tarantino has been one of the most influential worldwide filmakers of the last two decades."
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is it really that bad in terms of being "Oscar" fodder and schmaltzy ?
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some directors who dont have oscars. terrance malick. quentin tarantino. zhang yimou. and suddenly having an oscar means nothing to me.
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I found your posts quite hilarious. Thanks for the humor!
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...the show actually felt a bit relevant this year.And I'm glad Sandra Bullock won, if only because her speech was awesome.
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"Avatar" was so fucking overrated! One fucking stupid one liner after another. "You aren't the only one with a gun now BITCH!" Cameron spent the last ten years at the George Lucas school of screenwriting. Make it look cool and you don't need a fucking story or a script. And Harry, FUCKING HARRY!!! Comparing Crash and the Hurt Locker is like comparing Ron Jeremy's cock with yours. Crash was a spoon feeding piece of self righteous dogshit! What am I saying, who gives a fuck about what Harry says anyway, he's the guy who described that steaming pile of shit The Lovely Bones as "quite simply, Lovely." The Hurt Locker was a damn good film. Avatar was a summer blockbuster, nothing more! Fuck off you hating bitches.
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That is unless this post was bullshit... Ah that would still be funny.
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Harry, what are you talking about when you say you "don't love this this film"? Here's an exact quote from the first line of your Hurt Locker review: "I loved Kathryn Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER, but then... I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's career. I love THE LOVELESS, NEAR DARK, BLUE STEEL, POINT BREAK, STRANGE DAYS, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER and I really love THE HURT LOCKER".
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that one day this summer, i found myself totally bored with nothing to do. i realized that movie had started playing at the theater that week. i checked the times. i read the synopsis of the story, and watched the trailer online. i sat there, thinking of what to do. and i decided, that movie looks boring, im just gonna go swim in the pool. half a year later, it has somehow won best picture, but i still feel right. its not even worth watching once. also i feel sure about this, based on the appearance of the writer and director of the movie, who i saw at the oscars tonight. there's no way that little jew boy and some old lady made an intense military masterpiece. lol, im sorry, theres just no way.
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Like The Hurt Locker winning the Sound categories. I'm curious why he thinks it was bullshit? I never saw the film so I can't say I agree or disagree, just would like some more info.
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Like alot of Hollywood products about the military, it has to reduce being trained as a unit to work together effectively, into one guy being a superhero who does everything. I'm sorry but Renner's character would never have gotten away with being such a "don't give a shit" asshole to the rest of his squad like that. You cannot go around like you don't really care if you live or die and everybody else just has to accept that. After his first day there, his squad mates would have had his ass transferred to KP duty. Nobody wants to work with a guy who can get you killed like that. Also they would also have never worked on that large car bomb like that. They would have likely just exploded it with an anti-ordinance weapon like at .50 cal sniper rifle.
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It was good but no picture of the year...
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Mar 07, 2010 11:45:25 PM CST
Re: Yes! The right picture won best picture! by Tom_Bombadil
by bishamon
yeah you are correct. when we are all watching movies on 3-D HDTV's we will have forgotten about Avatar and the idea that a movie can actually change an industry.
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cameron and bigelow are good friends. he stood up smiling and applauded when she won. EVEN JAMES CAMERON REALIZES HURT LOCKER DESERVED TO WIN.
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What a fucking awesome win that was! And the only thing that didn't deserve to win in the last 2 years was Sean Penn for MILK.. What a dumb political bullshit win that was. Everthing that should have won tonight, did, period.
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seriously? Seriously? Milk should have swept the entire ceremony last year. It deserved everything and SO much more.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:51:18 PM CST
A talkbacker mistook the music from Psycho for Re-Animator
by darthpigman
Classic.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:52:27 PM CST
You anti-Avatar people are some hateful motherfuckers aren't you
by dogsoup
You had to spend the energy to do an "IN YOUR FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!" and then follow it up with "It was good just not THAT good.." Well if you liked it AT ALL then why are you shoving it down the throats of the people who liked it more? It's like saying "FUCK YOU PIE LOVERS YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!!!...Now I like pie too but not as much as I like cake!!" That's really fucking stupid.
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Because he didn't even read the nominees, didn't even finish his last sentence, didn't even say "the winner is" before ripping open that envelope and saying THE HURT LOCKER. That was a TERRIBLE presentation, I must say. WTF Tom? WTF.
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What industry changing thing is Avatar changing? You think every fucking movie is going to be filmed like that? You people are fucking stupid. Even if the technology "revolutionizes" film, that doesn't mean it deserves Best Picture. Movies are about storytelling, not effects or else the Star Wars prequels would have won three Oscars. Avatars story was unoriginal fucking popcorn slop. Fuck this Avatar shit.
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when we are ALL watching movies on 3-D HDTVs? You mean in 2025? I'm still the only person I know other than my parents who owns an HDTV, let alone a Blu Ray player, and not one of us gives a fuck about 3D at home.
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Avatar and Jonas Brothers being comercially succesful do not mean any of them is good.
It actually just depicts how low people's hability to exercise critical thinking is these days.
Both District 9 and Inglorious Basterds are better than The Hurt Locker, and all three are miles, and miles, and miles better than that unoriginal, lesson on scripwriting 101, pretentious piece of blue shit. -
Goddamn movie company canNOT open a movie well. Horrible advertising. Hurt Locker tanked, Astro Boy has struggled (except in the United Kingdom, where it has done pretty damn good, yay Brits) thanks to what Summit considers "advertising". Anyway, kudos to Hurt Locker, and Up, the only 2 movies besides Astro Boy I cared about this year. The Oscarfest was ass as usual. Hey Sean Penn, go hug a dictator you dickless turd!
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YOU MAKE ALL GEEKS LOOK BAD. TAKE IT FROM THE GAY NERDS WHO FELT THAT BITCHSLAP A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THE HURT LOCKER IS NOTHING, *NOTHING* LIKE CRASH. IT'S A FINE FILM, A GREAT THRILLER AND THE BANE OF THE RIGHT WING; YOU'RE JUST PISSED ONE OF YOUR BUDDIES DIDN'T WIN. WELL WE ALL LOVE BASTERDS AND AVATAR HARRY, BUT SOMETIMES HERE IN THE REAL WORLD NOT ALL THE AWARDS SHOW CAN BE THE SPIKE MOVIE AWARDS. IB AND AVATAR WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME AND ARE GREAT FILMS, BUT HURT LOCKER WAS EQUALLY INCREDIBLE. MAN THE FUCK UP AND GROW THE FUCK UP, THIS MANCHILD ACT IS *TIRED* WHEN WE KNOW YOU ARE NOT NEARLY AS BLITHE AS YOU TRY TO COME ACROSS.
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Hurt locker like every oscar winner. forgotten in a few years lol.
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i am on disability pay, living with my mom, below the poverty line. my sister is married and lives in a trailer and works at wal mart overnight stocking with her husband. and they are buying a brand new large 3d compatible tv, and i'll be watching avatar 3d over there by the end of the year. my family is below the poverty line in america and we will be watching 3d tvs in our homes by the end of the year.
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Maybe Cameron shouldn't have cheated on ex-wife Katheryn Bigelow with Linda Hamilton during Terminator 2, Biggest Facial Ever!
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I'm crying I'm laughing so fucking hard!!!
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What I've always loved about The Oscars are its montages. This year we only got one for Horror Films. While that was awesome, its disappointing that it was the only one.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:58:52 PM CST
Anyone who thinks District 9 is a better film than Hurt Locker
by redjester
is a moron. That includes you Harry. And in regards to Avatar, although I am a pretty big fan of the film, I would've been pissed if it had won best picture or best director, although best director would have been more plausible.
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SHOW ME A CLIP FROM THE MOVIE! Show me how the actors acted! Stop showing me other actors fawning all over the nominees! I hated it last year and I was bored with it this year. Except for with Tim Robbins funny anecdote about Morgan Freeman calling him Ted on the set of Shawshank. That was the only good one. Get rid of it.
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Hurt Locker vs. District 9 - both good movies, yet D9 has aliens, THEREFORE, D9 should win. Basterds vs. Hurt Locker - both good, but Basterds is Tarantino, therefore it should win. No argument on merit, simply geek bonafides. I love all these films, but no, Hurt Locker deserved its spot, period. It had the edge.
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for all u immature kids who dont get real life, lemme break it down for you. this is harrys site. it wont exist without him. harry is on a downward spiral. hes paralyzed himself with obesity, and his thoughts are seeming like a naive teenager who ignores the problems he notices. the point is that its obvious that harry's mental and physical health are in a state of stark decline, and most likely to continue that way. meaning this site will fall apart once he finally does. someone needs to make a new site for people to talk about movies. lol.
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The Best Actor circle jerk is retarded and hopefully they'll get rid of it next year if we bitch about it enough on Aintitcool. Yes, we're that fucking influential!!!
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Fuckers.
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So what, you wanna fight about it?
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"Just because you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good!"
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I thought it was poorly received last year. Maybe it was so they thought "We'll only do the actors that matter" and limited it to Best Actor and Actress. Screw the supporters. I wouldn't dislike the idea so much IF they would at least give us some honest to god clips that show US why the actors are nominated instead of giving us other actors who TELL us why they are nominated. Show me, don't tell me.
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guessed almost every single award winner. should have done some serious betting...
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best visuals over Avatar. That scene where they warp into the debris field is enough by itself, not to mention the rise from the planet ring. But I know it's about achievement, not the emotional response it invokes, which was 0 with Avatar.
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Hurt Locker Gross: $20,000,000
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HAHAHAHAHAHA SUCK ON THAT AVATARDS! Dumb boring lazy cliche story Laughable character development Wooden acting Some of the worst dialogue every written Overrated garbage and Cameron should have never stopped beating his wives apparently. Avatar is by far the worst movie he has ever made..... what shame lol
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I honestly don't recall there being any Best Picture Oscar talk for The Hurt Locker when the film came out. I do think Kathryn Bigelow had something to do with it. But I do wonder...
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James Cameron may have redefined how films are made going forward, but he lost to a small low budget film that while very good did not deserve to win best film. Mark my words. In years to come people will look at this victory in the same light as when Annie Hall beat Star Wars or when Ordinary People beat Raging Bull.
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All of the tension in his film came out of the dialogue- not the action- which I thought was pretty brilliant. I was extremely disappointed he didn't win Best Original Screenplay.
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....and no one on AICN cares. Cool.
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for anything other than Special effects. OVERRATED JUMP ON THE NEXT FAD BANDWAGON BULLSHIT
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Deserves Razzie for stupid movie marketing.
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Haven't read the thread, but Mo'Nique's acceptance speech was bullshit for a bunch of reasons. Also, Harry didn't love "The Hurt Locker"? He fucking loves every movie he sees, so much so that he apparently wept uncontrollably throughout the broadcast. In fairness, I haven't seen "Hurt Locker", but if Harry doesn't love it, it must be a truly worthless waste of film.
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They should have definitely shown clips from the films as the orchestra played the music. I mean, in the long run, it's about movies right? What do dancers ultimately have to do with movies? Unless they're movies about dancers. Which they weren't. Glad Giacchino won though.
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2012 should've won Best Picture, it's popular!!!
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Wow! What a shock! Another year where Hollywood shoots itself in the foot and picks a "meh" movie over the movie that CLEARLY the public loved and was rooting for. Yes, I know, all the high brow fil-um fans (not movie fans, mind you, because there's a big difference to them) will now argue how HURT LOCKER deserved it over AVATAR, but I say they're just fucking nuts. As others here have noted, AVATAR rocked the cinema world in truly historic ways and it literally revolutionized aspects of film-making. I mean, seriously, all other awards aside how could you NOT give AVATAR the Best Picture Oscar?I don't always agree with him, but Harry's RIGHT on this one. This is another Oscar groaner, where HURT LOCKER is this year's CRASH that Academy voters picked for all the worst reasons and its going to leave LOTS of people scratching their heads, and future Oscars will lose more viewers yet again.Or worse, this will go down in Oscar history as another laughable ANNIE HALL moment, where it won over STAR WARS -- you know, that thing that actually IS a masterpiece of film and was even voted film of the fucking Millennium -- all because, at the time, everything thought ANNIE HALL was "all that" or Diane Keaton in her vest outfit and hat was going to be an iconic image for decades to come. Meanwhile, it was a merely "okay" film (just like LOCKER is), while the movie they snubbed (SW) went on to become a TRUE iconic thing in the lives of generations to come, which AVATAR probably will too.So nice going, Academy. You blew it again.
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They played A Montage of Clips for each acting category. PAY ATTENTION BEFORE YOU BITCH!
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ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!
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Ron Silver just passed away at age 62 after battling esophageal cancer.
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They're afraid of being replaced by CGI. Mark my words.
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I thought the winners were mostly great. The films this year were pretty good. The only one I hated, Up in the Air, didn't get anything. The only other problem I had was the dance number that was included when they decided to get rid of the Best Song performances.
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now you people are saying Annie Hall didn't deserve the win? Jesus fuck-all christ, go bury your head in the sand and wait for your fucking prom, you tards.
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Yeah I agree. An Avatar win would have shown confidence in like...people who fucking love movies!!! And that badass feeling of leaving the theater, who you are, everything, to go someplace else!! That's what fucking movies are about. But Hurt Locker winning Best Picture is a bummer because so many people are whining about it that it's also nullifying Kathryn Bigelow's much deserved win. She is an incredible director and an inspiration. And we need to be discussing her win more.
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It's just the way it is.
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Outside of the technology of "Avatar" and the fact it grossed the most money all time, what so fucking good about it? The story is unoriginal, the aliens are native americans, and we've established quite clearly on this site that a LOT of people including critics feel the dialogue was extremely subpar. So according to you it should've won Best Picture because it made the most money and it looked cool? Too quote Kiefer Sutherland in Phone Booth "That's just stupid." Avatar is no Star Wars, don't insult Star Wars again. The Hurt Locker was the better film, PERIOD! Avatar made more money and looked cool, wow, that makes sense.
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They played a very short montage where we saw each nominated actor say maybe one word each, while the rest of the scenes showed them smiling or yelling or crying or what have you. It didn't give me a good reason to believe these were the Best Actors of the year, unlike what they did with the Supporting Actor clips. That showed me why Mo'Nique was nominated and I can see why she won thanks to the way they handled it. I can NOT say the same thing for Sandra Bullock. So my bitching is justified, thank you =).
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the story was predictable at best. The Hurt was a much better story.
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"What's so good about it?!? " "Its AWESOME because..." Oyyyyy...
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First Alice In wonderland beats Avatar's domestic record for the opening weekend of a 3D release, and now Avatar walks away with only three minor oscars. But at least James Cameron has $2.6bn to console himself with.
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"Cameron gets the last laugh anyway, he used to bang Bigelow back when she was hot."
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Screwy CNN... they posted it as a most-read story and I thought it was new. Just weird timing... last March. We lost so many good actors this year, its hard to keep track.
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if it was up against a genre picture.
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History was made!!!
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Give us clips clips clips, not sappy bullshit which every person regurgitates until the actor whose dick they're sucking throws up on George Clooney. It's a queer set-up, bag it and give us clips.
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She looked anorexic and hideous. Bigelow's a fucking babe!!
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For someone who's pushing 60.
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Best original score clips need to played for THE MOVIES THEY WERE INTENDED FOR. If I wanted to see a bunch of fags dancing around on stage I would go see broadway shows. But thank you for being a douche cymbalta. Btw, I watched all 3 1/2 hours. It's about movies, play the fucking clips from the movies. Fuck.
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Thank you for mentioning that. It was a very good movie. I really thought it deserved the award. At least someone is talking about movies other than "The Hurt Locker" or "Avatar".
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Right guy won but for the wrong movie. "Star Trek" was fucking awesome!
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That was a shocker on the level of Tarantino losing Best Screenplay. I thought it was a lock.
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same as no country for old men one viewing was quiet enough.
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ALL YOU WERE DOING WHEN THE HURT LOCKER CAME OUT IS TO PRAISE IT. YOU DID SAY YOU LOVE IT AND NOW YOU BACKTRACK!!! WTF MAN! ...... HURT LOCKER HATERS CAN GO BACK AND MASTURBATE IN 2D. THAT FUCKING MOVIE IS LIKE A FINE GIRL WITHOUT A SOUL. BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT BUT NOTHING IN THE MIDDLE.
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than the Star Trek score, and I own and love both. But the UP score just fit the movie so perfectly, and gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
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I did a termpaper in high school on George Lucas my senior year that was so long, the teacher called my mother to say she didn't know what to do because, even though it was impeccably written and concluded, it was about six times longer than it needed to be (this is 96, btw, before the prequels or even the relreleases). I took the B because I knew I'd get an 'A' in the class anyway and I told her I just enjoyed writing and researching it so do what she had to do. I probably owe my career as an editor in television and now someone with a sci-fi show in development because of a love of filmmaking that began with Star Wars. And even I FUCKING KNOW Annie Hall is an awesome movie and can clearly see why (even though it may not be the bigger long-term classic that ANH is, but since when has the Academy been good at picking those?) it won. Annie Hall is probably the greatest romantic comedy ever made and was groundbreaking in many of it's own ways... which makes me think anyone who proclaims it as middle of the road as Hurt Locker probably hasn't seen the fucking thing.
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BUT ITS A FUCKIN FILM, NOT A FUCKIN VIDEO GAME PRETENDING TO BE A MOVIE...FUCK AVATAR...
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I think Up is a much much better score than Star Trek. Up was an instant classic the first time I heard it, reminiscent of something old, classic Hollywood would have turned out (which is befitting with its thematic subtext). Giacchino's Star Trek score was lacking a theme the first time I saw it. I still can't really hum it, and I've seen it 3 times. And while that's not an indicator (being able to hum a tune) of what's a better score, I think Up was instantly memorable and a perfect accompaniment. Trek's was a good fit for the film, but didn't do much for me. Some action cues, a Title Theme, and the Classic Credits, but that's about all.
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because Harry lives in an imaginary place that doesnt exist and he doesnt know what real people are like. He believes in fairy tales and bullshit. Also, there wasnt a democrat in the movie crying about the war in Iraq. Harry didnt understand that part.
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STILL Complaining about ANNIE HALL beating STAR WARS?I love STAR WARS as much as the next geek but...Is Lucas a better director than Woody Allen?Is Lucas a better screenwriter than Woody Allen?Lucas and Cameron both laughed all the way to the Bank. And Cameron got his Oscars for TITANIC.The only effect that AVATAR has had on Cinema is that alot more badly scripted CGI fests will be released in 3-D so they can charge more for tickets & make more money than they normally would before bad word of mouth gets out.
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Right on. Up was "old Hollywood". I couldn't have said it better.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:35:39 AM CST
What's funny is probably every Avatar-Hater here paid to see it.
by dogsoup
You can bitch all you want but you helped it do what it did! YOU'RE ACCESSORIES!!!
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"Up" had a nice little tune to it, but "Star Trek" had more life and catchiness for me, but that's all about the individual I guess. It sounds like a young John Williams score before he started recycling his musical themes. IMO.
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But the fact is Hurt Locker edged it out.
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Of course we're gonna see Avatar. It's fun, but it's a popcorn flick, nothing more.
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Anybody? I say no.
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At least Brian finally got an Oscar. I thought he deserved one for Untouchables...
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So what's all this hate about?? It's not fucking Citizen Kane we agree and it would never have won Best Picture. But damn, leave the Thundersmurf movie alone for not being Casablanca. Shit, if you want intellectualism read a book right?
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Mar 08, 2010 12:42:17 AM CST
I agree with you all. George Clooney needs a hair cut.....
by thedannerdaliel
After today we have another 364 international MALE days to look forward to......but just for today, congrats to all you females out there. Enjoy this Monday
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and I really dislike Tarantino, but as an objective fan of great movies, why do I have a feeling that's the movie that should have won? Must see to confirm...
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I think he'll make one within the next five years. I think though that it will really be 4 or 5 years before he does. If he does one within 3 years, I would be shocked.
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just like I paid for every movie I see. You have no point. It's not my fault I paid for some shit that's overrated.
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hollywood royalty and the father to the vast majority of directors deserve much better
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Cool news reported on AICN? Course not! "The father to the vast majority of directors deserve much better."
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You could have waited for DVD if it looked like that much shit. I do that all the time "Eh that looks like shit, but might be a gas on DVD. Is it worth a Red Box dollar?" So yeah, you and I both helped line James Camerons mattress with millions of dollars so whether we liked it or not, you didn't, I had a fun time, we made it what it was.
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Did anyone see it?
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Mar 08, 2010 12:48:20 AM CST
Wait, you liked "The Blind Side" but are comparing "Hurt Locker"
by lenny nero
Harry, man, what's going on inside that brain of yours?
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Hurt Locker was total crap. Competently made. But the story and characters were just shit. The academy gives it to them over the most successful movie of all time, go figure. There's no accounting for taste. They didn't give best picture to Star Wars in 77 either so...
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You said: "AVATAR is having a bad weekend. First ALICE beats AVATAR'S domestic record for the opening weekend of a 3D release."Puh-leeze. How is that bad for AVATAR? The movie's been out for weeks, and it's clearly a ginormous hit with the entire fucking world compared to ALICE, which we'll have to see if it has legs. And comparing the opening weekend for AVATAR to ALICE is fucking ridiculous, since (1) AVATAR was the actual trail blazer and no one really knew "what" it was going to be and (2) ALICE was ultimately helped by AVATAR mega times over.For fuck's sake, even the CEO of IMAX said so in the ALICE wire service article that went out about its opening weekend. From the article...Wonderland raked in $11.9 million on IMAX, surpassing Avatar's $9.5 million. IMAX president and CEO Greg Foster says that Wonderland is enjoying a "halo effect" from James Cameron's computer-generated smash, which has done $720 million."I think people went into the theaters because of AVATAR and saw 3-D and IMAX for the first time," Foster says. "That got them excited about the experience, and ALICE was the next big movie to come along."
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Daniel Day wasn't even nominated, FUCKERS!!!
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and it didn't look like shit. Remember what I said " beautiful to look at but nothing in the middle".
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Fuck you? Yeah. That.
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I saw it and liked it quite a bit but just dont get all the critical praise for it. I recognize that it is a character study about being a member of the IED unit in the early days of the Iraq War and is not intended to have a plot or much of a storyline. That is fine. I would say that I dont go much for that kind of film but Up in the Air was also a character study and it was totally engrossing and amazing. Why? Because I cared about the characters. A film can be a character study and lack a plot or cohesive storyline and still be amazing if the characters are well written and well-acted as they were in Up in the Air. I just didnt feel for the characters in Hurt Locker....I wasnt made to care about them and therefore it came across just a film that expertly shows how a tour of duty for these IED guys goes with some brilliantly directed action setpieces....which a good film for me makes....but not an Oscar winner.....for me it is viva Up in the Air and District 9!!!!
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Don't underestimate the value of a great promotional campaign. I guess.
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is porn.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:56:46 AM CST
Hurt Locker is now the Forrest Gump of war movies. Congrats, Kat
by flip63hole
You and your vagina deserved it.
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Yup. Avatar made people want to see more 3D.
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I'm a douche because I don't miss the clips they show on EVERY OTHER FUCKING AWARDS SHOW? I thought it was really cool last year when past Oscar winners honored each of the nominees. It was a real passing the torch kind of thing and you could tell the nominees were genuinely moved by it.This year it was all about people honoring people they've worked with. And they did the same thing with the people who introduced the Best Picture nominees. Travolta for Tarantino, Keanu for Bigelow, Kathy Bates for Cameron etc.And if you think a fucking 2 minute clip from a movie gives you ANY insight into why one actor should receive an award instead of another actor... I can't even respond to something that stupid.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:59:53 AM CST
What I've learned: cartoons and SF don't win an Oscar
by chuck_chuckwalla
But a shaky-cam, pseudo-documentary that is loosely based on historical facts can take it all. District 9 had more of a chance than Avatar — at least it had shaky-cam.
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Since it just became a make fun of Avatar awards. Did the Huffington Post pick these winners? Seriously fucking joke.
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Crash stole the Oscar with Scientology money and influence, and because of people latent homophobie towards Brokeback Mountain. The Hurt Locker seem like any of that to you? it benefitted from the "Not Avatar" vote, for sure, but Crash? seriously?come on, man. that's ridiculous.
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I like that Harry the Twitter Twat doesn't like it
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Was it a cool movie? Yeah. Did it deserve best picture over Up In The Air? No. Hell I even enjoyed Inglourious Basterds more than Hurt locker. And why is it called Hurt Locker? In the thoughts of the immortal Locke, "I don't understand".
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I was talking about best original score. Isn't that what you were talking about?
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That came out in 2008 won for Best Picture for the 2009 Oscars????? Especially since it seems like getting even fucking nominated for Best Original Song Seems like a fucking Act of God in terms of stringent rules and regulations?
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A movie that makes the insurgents of iraq the bad guys and portrays the americans who fight them as heroes somehow beat a politically correct movie that does the opposite. In Hollywood of all places. Remarkable.
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The only reason I watched The Hurt Locker was because of your positive love review. What the hell is wrong with you? You used to be my geek hero man!
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Annie Hall is the "greatest romantic comedy ever"? Fuck THAT shit right up its ass. NO ONE fucking gives a shit about Annie Hall all these years later. Who even remembers it AS a movie? Do you EVER hear anyone quoting something from it? Fuck, even chicks looking for a chick flick movie night don't rent that shit anymore. Meanwhile, you can say a few simple words and people will go "That's STAR WARS."Hell, you could hold up the goddamn poster of Diane Keaton and Woody Allen facing each other and say "name this movie" and people would be left scratching their heads. Meanwhile I could show the handle of an unlit lightsaber on a table and people all over the fucking world would INSTANTLY go "Fuck yeah! Star Wars!!!"The idea that the Academy picked the right Best Picture winner by choosing ANNIE HALL over STAR WARS is one of the biggest and longest running jokes in Oscar history, and anyone with a brain that's got a few firing synapses knows it.
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You have a point.
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Mar 08, 2010 1:08:14 AM CST
Harry, didn't you put "District 9" as your number 1 film of 2009
by evangelion217
And you think "UP" is the best out of the 10 nominees? What gives?! Did you just change your mind all of a sudden?
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Bigelow a wad of $100's and said "here, have fun tonight since your movie made $0 dollars" when she turned around after winning.
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and I am a liberal.
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The Best Score thing didn't bother me. Because if they HAD shown clips they probably wouldn't have matched the music any better than the dancers did.
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This should've been (500) Days of summer vs. Avatar not some ehhh good at the time movie but doesn't really offer shit second time round movie vs Avatar.
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He doesn't what the fuck he wants anymore. He's lost it. He hasn't even tried to update this site with cooler shit. Looks the same as it ever was.
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far more worthy of best picture than Annie Hall(which is still a great movie).
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It just doesn't feel like the Oscars without him.
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Can't believe the hate i'm seeing here for Hurt Locker. Comparing it to Crash? REALLY?? Crash was an insulting piece of white guilt trash. Hurt Locker was an excellent film. And Avatar.... my god was it visually spectacular. But it was also a pretty awful screenplay. Do none of you have any grasp of that? Just how shockingly bad some of the dialogue in that movie is? No? I saw Avatar twice. It's a fun movie. It's not a Best Picture winner. And my god, we FINALLY have a woman winning Best Director and you guys shit all over her because your fanboy movie didn't win. District 9 was more worthy than Avatar anyway.
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Aside from a couple of synced up moments, the dancers were terrible. If they were to get a halfway decent music video director/editor in there to sync clips to the music it would have worked a hundred times better than the dancers. I understand that they need to shake things up once in a while, but the clips could have been way more moving.And my thing is, if it's an awards show about movies, how do dancers fit in anyway. It was just wrong in many, many ways.
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I laughed at her prima donna bullshit of "I won't walk down 3 measly steps unless someone is escorting me." It only confirmed her uptight bitch status for all the world to see.Plus, I loved her politically correct speech that this could be the night history is made and a woman wins. Fuck, it was like she was CAMPAIGNING for Bigelow right there and then, as if to say "I'm Barbra fucking Streisand and you assholes in the audience better adore me because I'm better than you and I'm looking down my huge honker at you all. And if the envelope I'm holding DOESN'T have Bigelow's name inside, then somebody backstage better grab a pen, fill out a new card, and fucking hand me an envelope that DOES have her name."The second she opened her yap and started with her bullshit PC speech, you knew Bigelow was the winner.The only joy I got from the moment was knowing that given her ego, it was eating Streisand up that some OTHER woman was making history and NOT her.
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That shit wasn't even nominated!!! Fuck dems Oskars.
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all the other films up there. Honestly, Avatar sucked farts in its acting, script, story, dialogue- every-friggin-thing besides its amazing visual effects.
Gosh dang it, get a clue dorks. There is a reason why the most reputed critic alive today (Ebert) placed Hurt Locker in the top ten of the decade you fools!!!
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the Hurt Lockers is titled because of the main character's foot locker full of things that almost killed him. did you even see that movie?I'm sorry, but if you can't even grasp that, why on earth should anyone lend any weight to your opinion of the movie?
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what a fucking whack job, seriously. There are very few women I would enjoy punching in the face, but she's one of them.
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I'm just glad that piece of shit film Up in the Air didn't win shit, rightfully so.
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With characters doing abrupt and inexplicable things out of bumfuck nowhere.
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"Avatar sucked farts in its acting, script, story, dialogue- every-friggin-thing besides its amazing visual effects." Reminds me of ever Star Wars movie possibly sans the first two
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Up should've fucking won. For a hot minute there I thought the academy didn't have its heads up its collective asses and would possibly not fuck it up...but it did.
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But I was drunk both times. And if it's really that literal, come on. I mean, I enjoyed the movie, but best picture it was not. Neither was Avatar for that matter. Of all of the nominations, I think Up in the Air or Up should have won, since they were wildly entertaining films.
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People complaining that THE HURT LOCKER isn't an "accurate" enough portrayal of the real life military when it's competing against a movie where Hitler gets his head blown off in a movie theater and another movie set on a planet with floating upside down mountains are just too fucking funny for words.ALL Movies are FANTASIES. Especially the ones that try the hardest to be "Accurate" and "Realistic."
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on youtube.
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Though I do love a good Dolphin burger, grilled with a squeeze of lemon, simple, but does the trick.
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Yeah but QT didn't mention over and over and over and once more over again how his screen writer was a journalist who was integrated with a special unit set to kill Hitler During World War 2. And Cameron never said that Avatar was based on a real event which involves real people who are still alive and working.
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What a weird fuckin thing to do to the first FEMALE director to ever win. Was he drunk or some shit?
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Almost completely agree. That's rare.
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The problem with geek culture is that 70% of the posters think acting ridiculously right-wing without any concept of their actual politics will turn them into Snake Plissken overnight - even though all Carpenter's Kurt Russell characters are disaffected individuals who defy the institutions around them, be they authoritarian, repressive right or namby-pamby left.
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'The Hurt Locker' is a brilliant film Harry, why is everything you've said about it, aside from it taking Best Director, so negative?! Did you really get suckered in to all that 'Avatar' hype?! Comparing 'The Hurt Locker' to 'Crash'!?...if I were a producer on 'The Hurt Locker', I'd sue you for slander and libel!
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With respect to your work, yes, you blow 'em from a distance, which is exactly what the Guy Pearce character does in the opening of THL, but he buys it anyway. The whole hook of the film is that Renner's character is a dangerous risk-taker who does not operate from a distance; to the chagrin of his professional co-workers, he always leaps into the lion's mouth because his death wish is all he is able to live for anymore.
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One... you lost your train of thought or something many times throughout this.
Two, are you seriously comparing The Hurt Locker to Crash? Seriously? Have you been smoking crack? I know you love Tarantino and everything but wow. And you go from "Oh this is great for her..." to "Oh god this is terrible!" -
The Hurt is so fucking boring and Avatar - yes it made a shot ton of money but deep down it was retarded
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Harry would compare Casablanca to "Crash" too. All he cares about is that one film is genre and one is not.
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Only crappy films nobody wants to see needs oscars...
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The Hurt is so fucking boring and Avatar - yes it made a shot ton of money but deep down it was retarded
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Only crappy films nobody wants to see needs oscars...
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Mar 08, 2010 1:52:03 AM CST
Walterego, Avatar doesn't hate on the military, jackass
by iamnicksaicnsn
What it criticizes is corporations. Military Contractors. Not the military, necessarily. Blackwater. Not the military.
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Mar 08, 2010 1:52:44 AM CST
R.Duvall`s reaction to Martins "black child joke" was priceless
by thedannerdaliel
I don`t think he got that one at all.....
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until someone remakes that Pentagon propaganda piece of shit "The Green Berets" complete with pidgin-English George Takei as the good Vietnamese. Sorry Duke, rest in peace.
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June 2009: "I loved Kathryn Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER, but then... I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's career. I love THE LOVELESS, NEAR DARK, BLUE STEEL, POINT BREAK, STRANGE DAYS, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER and I really love THE HURT LOCKER."
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Believe it or not.
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that The Hurt Locker was a so called "liberal" film. Considering the whole movie was spent portraying our soldiers in a positive light only to make the hero look like a dead-beat father and a spiteful, cynical warmonger in the ridiculously shoehorned ending of the movie.
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The whole film clearly shows Renner's character as scarred by war and only left with the adrenaline rush; when he goes home, he doesn't feel he's home - home is where he's fighting for his life. He was not a spiteful warmonger; he was a product of the conflict.
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"What it criticizes is corporations. Military Contractors. Not the military, necessarily. Blackwater. Not the military."
Nice try, but we're currently in a golden age of feigned, right-wing outrage...suggesting a corporation might do something questionable means you're a socialist, portraying a soldier (government or privately employed) as anything less than a god means you're a pacifist.
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didnt deserve the wins. its an average war film at best. when i was in the airforce, i knew guys who were EOD, and bombs are not diffused in the way they are shown in this film. they either freeze the bomb with liquid nitrogen, or use a controlled "smaller" explosion to kill it. always with a robot, always from a distance.
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"He was not a spiteful warmonger; he was a product of the conflict."
This was actually the best part of the movie, and a very realistic situation...I've read numerous stories of badly injured vets fuming because they couldn't be back on duty helping their buddies back in Iraq, as if they were letting them down. -
Using the idiocy of the protagonist as the primary catalyst to move the plot forward seemed cheap. I still liked the movie quite a bit, and had fewer reservation than I had with Avatar, but it had some logic issues.
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should have been the clear winner for picture, or director. although i would have accepted avatar for either as well, or district 9 for that matter. hurt locker isnt even memorable.
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that's gotta be in the top 10 all time for box office. I know the IMAX and 3D prices are inflated a little, but jeez...Johnny Depp just keeps getting closer and closer to "most bankable actor out there". watch out Will Smith!
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The blue turd lost.
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I'll accept that. I generally try to see things from different perspectives, I obviously missed this one. What you said makes perfect sense.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:14:20 AM CST
Bigalow announces plans for Hurt Locker 2: Hurter Locker
by thedannerdaliel
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trust me, even the beautiful people watched that and cringed...
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Mar 08, 2010 3:19:47 AM CST
some thoughts about the broadcast, now that i have had time
by brabon300
to ponder the cohost thing was awful, and they need to dump the writing staff...most of the jokes were flat the opening dance sequence was awkward and clumsy...and a waste of time ok that they cut out redoing all the best songs, but that dance number with the scores was atrocious they took a good idea about having past winners group announce current nominees, and totally screwed it up, having "friends" of the current noms get all mushy...told us little about the role, or why they should win for it, just how nice they were uh, did anyone understand the point of the horror film montage? especially since exorcist really wasnt the last horror film to win big, as they included a clip of silence of the lambs, which swept the oscars (but really wasnt a horror film, as many of the other werent either), wouldve made sense had they been leading to the corman lifetime achievment award, but they gave that out at the earlier ceremony (way to piss on the man)forget the whole expanding the number of best pic,it was worthless look, the top awards havent been surprises in years, thanks to all the other award shows...so they need to spice up the program itself i say get howard stern to host next year...and let him produce...FOR LESBIANS EQUAL RATINGS
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HL got the oscars,as a way of message for the future of Cinema, because the Academy dont like scifi,is scared of Avatars' revolution in film-making and ofc they owed it to a woman director.
But its a shame and unfair that a bad actress like Bullock got the oscar and a bad movie like Precious got the oscar for screenplay.fuck you Academy.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:42:05 AM CST
One person before was right...actors won't vote for CGI characte
by brokenheath
that'd be saying yes we approve computers taking over our jobs. No matter how much Cameron says the technology captured the actors, you know eventually photo-realistic actors will be created without the need for motion capture. And it's also true that Avatar was an amazing experience but as for the screenplay and some cringe-inducing lines it doesn't stand up to past winners. And shut your pieholes fanboys hating on Annie Hall. Woody can make me howl with laughter even in some of his poorer movies and Annie Hall and Manhattan he was at the top of his game. They are classics that stand the test of time.
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being a good girl in Holywood,then Avatar should get it for revolutionizing cinema.And HL had a better screenplay? really? since when? come on now,it all leads to the Academy getting scared of movies who revolutionizes Cinema and becomes a threat to their jobs.It happened with SW,it happes with Avatar.fuck them.
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being a good girl in Holywood,then Avatar should get it for revolutionizing cinema.And HL had a better screenplay? really? since when? come on now,it all leads to the Academy getting scared of movies who revolutionizes Cinema and becomes a threat to their jobs.It happened with SW,it happes with Avatar.fuck them.
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double up on best picture noms to get people to watch, and then give it to a film that nobody went to see while the biggest film of all time waits in the wings.
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Mar 08, 2010 4:32:32 AM CST
So if Indy4 made billions it should have got an oscar?
by thedannerdaliel
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really well said
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I'm so sorry that you only watch crappy movies like 99% of the Oscar viewers. It must suck to see your favorite movies get "snubbed" every year. Maybe you should become educated and cultured and you wont have to worry about that.
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Other than visual effects, that is...and even District 9 gave it a run for its money, considering its budget. Avatar was a very good, very entertaining movie that was incredibly light on story, depth, and character. Those types of movies don't deserve Oscars.
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Mar 08, 2010 4:50:35 AM CST
btw: Avatar is nowhere near the highest grossing film of all tim
by slimbutnotreally
There's this little thing called inflation. Avatar is #14 on the list. About twice as many people saw Star Wars in the theater. TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE. Think about that. How many Oscars did Star Wars win? Guess what...it won just about the same ones Avatar won. Now shut up.
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you are aware that the awards shows are just overlong commercials...right? that is why the academy awards was originally created i still dont get why you guys think gross has anything to do with quality hannah montana made a ton of caishe, and that movie sucked ass...twilight grossed more than hurt locker, was it a better movie? not one plot point in avatar was new...cameron borrowed from his own films as well as other films to create a plot yes, the fx were stunning...but if that is what movie making is becoming, all glitz and little substance, then i feel sorry for the movie going public as for me, i will choose to stay home and rewatch classics like citizen cain and the godfather
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and that was costume design (and it didnt even win) ... hello ? thats a real crime for campions masterpiece (and maybe the purest work about love and poetry ever hit the screen. yeahh i said that, and don't get me even start about the performances of whishaw and cornish). Maybe the academy thought we already have a woman with hurt locker. And an ex husband. But hell that could have been a great oscar battle between the 2 big women biegelow and campion if the academy only had watched bright star. And where the wild things are didn't even get a nomination ? Ahhh i'm out ...
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and ABC.
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/Vancouver+makers+Avatar/2653715/story.html
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The convenience stores are selling 5 buck dvds these days. Plenty of crap, but quite a few jewels too. Tonight, pissed out of my mind, I found The Longest Yard: Lockdown Edition. Widescreen, plus all kinds of extras. 1974 my brothers and sisters. One of the great 70s movies. In most anyone's book, The Longest Yard would be the definitive Saturday afternoon movie.
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Did anyone really want Avatar to take its place alongside mediocre crap like Crash, Chicago, A Beautiful Mind and Slumdog Millionaire?
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Right on! Also, Kathryn Bigelow will go down in history as the best looking director that ever won an oscar. Damn, she's one hell of a MILF! I'm in love! I wonder if Cameron now doesn't feel like a fool for having divorced her.
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Absolutly. Good to know you also have the love for the lovely Kathryn Bigelow.And the JJ Abrams' TWILIGHT TREK oscar for make-up is a joke. That movie has no better make-up then any of the predecessor Star Trek movies, or any other cheapper SF or horror movie. This oscar is proof you can indeed buy an oscar, if you know the people inside. What a joke! Of course, i laughed.But never mind, the right person won the most important oscar, and it's good to see justice done once in a while. And she's hot!
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For what? Shattered expectations? Oh. makeup.
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"It Only Hurts When I Locker"
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Mar 08, 2010 6:20:45 AM CST
And least we forget, District 9 is really better then Avatar...
by asimovlives
... and Moon was better then District 9. And District 9 was excelent.
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... and making the insane comparison to Crash!! Of all movies!! Give me a break! Seems Harry forgot he used to love THE HURT LOCKER a few months ago. And Bigelow should had won for POINT BREAK? Not even gay love for Patrick Swaize can give justification for that absurdity! POINT BREAK is by far her worst movie, the only movie where she was an ass for hire for the studios, and still, he did came oput with style on what would be, in anybody else lesser hands, a huge pile of unwatchable crap! The best movie of her career is either STRANGE DAYS or THE HURT LOCKER, youm know, two movies which are actually smart and intelligent, instead of the dumb actioneer. And she totally deserved her oscar for THE HURT LOCKER. Sucks to be those who can't understand why.
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but at least none of the winners pulled out a list and started reading names, just that crazy woman who stole the dude's spotlight and then rambled on. The Dead People segment also seemed kinda thin, like there was a bunch of people they left out last year because they didn't make the time cutoff, and then left out again this year.But overall, this was something missing--there were plenty of big names there no doubt, but the ones who were missing meant this year had less gravity than in years past.
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A film that when you calculate it's gross less than 1% of people could be bothered watching beats the highest grossing straight drama of all time as well as Basterds and a film that not only grossed the most ever but will change the way films are made ... sorry but I watched Hurt Locker and it's good but not that good.
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Is that a directors cut or something? The version I saw was pretty much a cheesy B-movie actioner remake of point break. I dunno how you can keep your brain turned on during it without breaking into fits of laughter about how rediculous the main character is and how devoid of an actual plot the movie is.
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This Oscar telecast was SO lame right from that start that I started doing other things at my desk while watching it out of the corner of my eye. But when they had the Documentary award for THE MUSIC OF PRUDENCE and it started with the Black guy accepting, but suddenly some white woman appeared out of nowhere and was cutting him off, it seemed like something odd had just happened. Well, apparently it WAS a live Kanye West moment. From the Telegraph UK...http://tinyurl.com/y8hzj9rOSCARS 2010: ELINOR BURKETT'S "KANYE WEST MOMENT" AS SHE STORMS STAGE TO RUIN SPEECHThe Oscars had their own Kanye West moment when journalist Elinor Burkett gatecrashed the speech of best documentary winner Roger Ross Williams. The audience watched in bemusement as Burkett stormed the stage and elbowed Williams out of the way, saying: "The man never lets the woman talk. Isn't that just the classic thing?"Williams' short film MUSIC BY PRUDENCE, about a disabled singer-songwriter in Zimbabwe, had just been announced as the winner of the best documentary short category. But Burkett -- a Zimbabwe-based journalist who came up with the idea for the film and was originally listed as a producer, but later left the project and sued Williams -- was determined to ruin his big moment.As Williams began his speech by declaring: "Oh my God, this is amazing. Two years ago, when I got on an airplane and went to Zimbabwe, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I'd end up here. This is so exciting..." the purple-clad figure of Burkett hoved into view. Williams could only watch helplessly as she pushed her way to the mic and launched into a speech.The incident brought back memories of Kanye West's infamous interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.Explaining her actions afterwards, Burkett told Salon.com: "What happened was, the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court."But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn't invited to any of them. And he's not speaking to me. So we weren't even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won."And then, as I'm sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me, so I couldn't get up there very fast."He won't talk to me! This whole week, there have been events thrown by the International Documentary Association, and he hasn't passed any of the invitations on to me."She claimed: "The movie was my idea. I live in Zimbabwe. Roger had never even heard of Zimbabwe before I told him about this. And you know, I felt my role in this has been denigrated again and again, and it wasn't going to happen this time."
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Both picture and director. I have my reasons but mostly because I like the visual of Harry crying himself to sleep last night on the "Alice in Wonderland" pillow Tim Burton gave him in exchange for the review. You have to enjoy the little things I guess. As always, Fuck You Harry!
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I loved to see Harry kissing up to JJ Abrams and his over-earnest over-reaction to TWILIGHT TREK winning for make up, ak, the award JJ bought. And also his hysterical reaction for the best score winner for one of JJ's own personal ass-slaves, that Guancanchino guy or whatever the fuck he's called. Yeah, the same guy, the same "brillant" composer who, when he made the more emotional cue for TWILIGHT TREK, the chorus sings the names of his pets he had when a teen. Don't believe me, go listen to the audio comentary. What a fucking creative professional! People piss on THE PHANTOM MENACE, but at least for that movie John Williams actually got sanskrit lirics which were appropriated for what the mvoie was about. Ghinchimino or whateverthefuck the guy is called, he came up with pets names. Fuck that assclown! His best score he ever made, for THE INCREDIBLES, it's all due because he ripped off from John Barry left and right. Fuck this assclown and fuck JJ Abrams, a pestilence of lack of talent that sucks out the talent of anybody involved with him.And Harry, really, shame on you! Stop sucking up to the boss, it's embaracing. and by the way, JJ Abrams is using you. you will not get from him what you think you will. Michael Bay didn't, and JJ Abrams will not either. They are heartless hypocrites who are using you, you are discartable for them. Learn that already. Stick with Guilhermo Del Toro,that's the truly talented director you have a real close connection with. Not that JJ Abrams untalenteddouble-faced hypocrite.
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...but I had no idea that she wasn't even involved with the picture anymore. Coming up with an idea for a documentary doesn't mean you deserve to accept the Oscar, especially if she left the project. I need to watch a clip of that moment again so that I can watch the unspoken body language.
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Your post was one of the most surreal thing i have read in recent years! I even wonder if you are unaware of it's own irony.
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It's true. Opening scene, tense bomb situation, they wheel a dinky wee cart with explosives upto the IED and its wheel falls off half way, all it needed was a sliding whistle effect. Main character is a macho douche imbecile who proceeds to try and sabotage the chain of command at every opportunity just to "build up the tension". His arc within the story is, he starts as a douche, he is an ass during the movie and gets away with it, the movie ends and he is still a douche. The squad leaders arc is "I dont wanna have kids, im too young and shit" to a 10 minute scene at the end where he goes on about the fact "I'm too young to die, I wants to have dem kids real bad". Wheres the smart or intelligent film making in there? For a movie that is touted as an accurate character study of soldiers in the field it's rather flimsy and by the numbers hollywood style soldiers. There's nothing real or involving there.
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Anyone who missed Cockypops post above allow me to reiterate: June 2009: "I loved Kathryn Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER, but then... I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's career. I love THE LOVELESS, NEAR DARK, BLUE STEEL, POINT BREAK, STRANGE DAYS, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER and I really love THE HURT LOCKER." March 2010: "I'm happy for her, but I do not love this movie."
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Harry liked the Bullock win for the Hallmark Hall of Fame-caliber performance and movie "Blind Side" but derisively compares "The Hurt Locker" (a movie he professed admiration for just a few months back, BTW)to "Crash" and thinks Kathryn Bigelow should've won for "Point Break." That says a lot. I'm just not sure if it's about alcohol intake or legitimate opinion or both...
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Its a fuckin' procedural drama. Through showing a slice of these characters lives, simply and matter of factly, it helps to contextualize a war no one has yet been able to define. It's not about sweeping character arcs, the characters are ALREADY shaped. It's about watching these different personalities deal with the situation into which they've been thrust. And through the actors beautifully organic performances their humanity shines through a cloud of war. And I can't believe Renner's character in THL is a douche but you back Avatar for best picture, if ever a character was a one dimensional douche its Jake Sully played by that vanilla, mumbling, charisma vacuum of an actor.
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NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Eat it Avatar.
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Hurt Locker was the odds on favorite and really no surprise it won in a crowded field of average to amazing movies. The ten nominations really kept the show from running on time since they had to take about 3-5 minutes discussing and showing the movie that was about half an hour that could be cut if they went back to five. I also think if Avatar or District 9 was every going to win. Avatar shouldn't since really its Pocahontas with CGI or the last fifteen minutes of Jedi extended for three hours. I was hoping for Bastards, but QT's films are not PC and he knows going in he is never going to win. It is funny the solider suing Hurt Locker played his hand well since it did win for best original screenplay and movie. Someone is going to be well off in the next few months. Even though it looked bad for the Academy, he only brought the lawsuit on after the votes were counted. Shifty move. Star Trek deserved make-up due to how crappy the other nominees were. I am glad the woman who won for costume hit the nail on the head of the Academy's hard on for period pieces when its really not that hard to do. Awesome to see the Dude win for Best Actor. More awesome was the Shawshank re-union. Bullock won due to having a bunch of hits this year and really no other outstanding performance since they screwed Up in the Air putting both of actress in the same category for supporting which made no sense. Martin and Baldwin were ok, but NPH should have hosted. Monique speech will probably get her into hot water. Waltz was the correct pick as well. It was a paint by numbers oscars even with the ten nominees. Maybe go back to 5 next year due to the time and the fact that this year's movie list looks rather weak.
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1.) 3 Oscars for Avatar were enough. And well-deserved in the categories where it actually won. VFX, Art Direction, Cinematography. The right choices.
2.) Happy to see Bigelow win. She's a great director and it really "was about time" for female directors to make a mark at the Oscars. VERY happy with this decision.
3.) Hurt Locker was an awesome film. 6 Oscars - well-deserved.
4.) Sad to see that "The White Ribbon" didn't win best Foreign Language Film. Terrific movie. Haven't seen the Argentinian winner yet, though.
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Presentation show is like 10 minutes long, just Meryl Streep as Julia Childs, plus Sam Jackson as Nick Fury, lauding Moon & District 9. And maybe the dude from Inglorious Basterds, but I haven't seen that yet.
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I really think the movie is overrated and it shouldn't have won best pic. BUT I think Cameron ought to have gotten director. Visually, it's enough of an achievement to warrant it. It's just that the overall movie isn't that good. Not that Hurt Locker was much better, mind you.
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Black Dynamite says something.
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FUCK AVATAR DESERVED BEST PICTURE!!!!!!!!!1 fuck this average movie called hurt locker!
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Of course opinions can change over time, but when they swing radically over just a few months, with no rhyme or reason given, you're just setting yourself up for the "hack" tag.
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Avatar got robbed.
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ONE DAY !!!!
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The oscars wanted a "first" just like when Halle I suck balls Berry won for her shit role in Monsters Ball. The Hurt Locker could have been directed by anyone what with its shaky-cam bullshit and what not.
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The problem was it wasn't handled very well to be a straight up drama about anything. The way the movie was shot it jumped about from being something serious to being something comical and very much propogandist. The fabled sniper scene alone is enough to call bullshit on the notion that this is anything but a mis-mash of ideas trying to be something its not. That scene plays out like any cheap cliched hollywood action scene trying to make americans seem "badass" and riding in to save the day. The bomb diffusal scenes are all carbon copies of each other where renners character proceeds to be as big a dick as possible by throwing smoke grenades at his own squad, taking off his kit, ignoring orders etc etc. To make matters worse he continually gets away with it, either by military punishment or by being immune to any of the dangers of combat.
What this movie teaches is that by being a dick within the military, ignoring superiors, flying by the seat of your pants and taking no responsibility toward your comrades you will succeed, you will be a badass hero and you will be invincible. If you're gonna contextualize a war, be realistic about it, show the horrors of war, the tedious nature of war, the unpredictability of war. Dont create a character that flaunts the rules and flies by the seat of his pants outside the realms of reality, that turns it into any other action movie and means it will be judged as such. -
FUCK YOU, AVATURD!!!! HA!!! HA!!!! HA!!!! Say what you want, fanboys, but you know full well you thought your boy Cameron and his steaming blue shitpile were gonna walk away with this thing last night. Well HA!!! HA!!! HA!!! Avatard fucking sucks!
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Roger Ross Williams can suck a fat cock.
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What did she say? "Finally it's about the performance and not the politics"? Fuck that fat sack of elephant turd. Like the other actresses didn't deserve a win? Oh yeah, you played a hysterical black woman. What a stretch.
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The Hurt Locker was easily the second best movie of the year, behind (500) Days. Zooey & Co deserved the win, but if she's not raising hell they who am I to second guess her?
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We were guffawing at their bits, especially the Paranormal Activity skit. We NEVER guffaw during the Oscars. This was a first.
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can someone tell me with 100% accuracy the criteria for getting a vote. are movies supposed to be entertainment? art? define those. anyways, time for some hate. up was a kids movie with a ten minute montage that made adults sniffle. so yeah, IT WAS A KIDS MOVIE. are u a kid? district 9's entire plot revolved around this concept....a man touches liquid and turns into an alien. let me think...the liquid was some type of rare energy stuff, and took 20 years to gather a little bit. it touched the guy and turned him into an alien. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! how would the alien be sure that could happen if theres no way he had the liquid before to see it touch a human. even if in another world the liquid touched an alien and he transformed, it doesnt make any sense it would do that to a human or another. HOW THE FUCK CAN LIQUID FUEL TURN ANY CREATURE INTO ANOTHER A PRAWN. for something so outrageous, they had to at least put more explanation in. when the filmmakers leave out explanation its cause u should be able to make the connection yourself. IN NO WAY DOES IT MAKE SENSE THAT RARE RANDOM LIQUID THAT HAD NEVER TOUCHED A HUMAN WOULD TRANSFORM HIS DNA INTO A PRAWN. the fact they didnt even try to explain it shows inconsideration and disrespect of the viewer. ok and now on to the hurt locker. the sexist, forgotten win. its about time a woman won, right? sure, whatever. well, a woman made some, decent war flick. the same woman who made, um, a couple other movies no one cared about. no matter, her only competition is james cameron, who just revolutionized theatergoing entertainment, or quentin tarantino, who has had more impact on film then few others these last two decades. its not like they would ignore these two deserving titans of the industry, just to say, aw look the lady did a good job! would they?
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I thought those were hated so much last year that they would be excised. But I suppose they're all about self-centered celebrity worship, so the Academy kept them in. Seriously, telling us Morgan Freeman is a wonderful human being and telling stories about his past career has nothing to do with his acting in the movie he was nominated for! The praise for all of these actors as beautiful human beings was kinda disgusting. They don't deserve to win because simply because they're nice people. Sickening.
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...a knock at Halle Berry.
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Where were all the sexy Oscar outfits? Most of the women were dressed very conservatively. I mean, a portion of the fun of the Oscars has always been, "Damn, did you see the cleavage on [some actress]?"
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They really lost the plot.
Where was the glitter factor?
Everything felt wooden, staged, clunky.
I only like the presentations for the BEST acting awards: very heartfelt, almost moving... And the John Hughes tribute was lovely.. but why only John hughes? What about all the other people who die?
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That's how good it was. It wasn't until I saw Guy Pearce alive in an interview that I realized it was just a movie.
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u fat sick bastard who is in denial. honestly i dont think u should try to change, if you come out of denial, i think you'll find there's nothing for you to live for. so have fun. and read my trash of your beloved up and district 9.
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Overall, I liked the show. It was paced well, Martin and Baldwin fell into a good groove, and I really liked the tiered crowd seating. As predicted, the most tepid, mediocre, piece of shit movie won most of the big awards. Avatar (for it's technical brilliance) and Inglorious Basterds (for it's writing and creativity) were both infinitely more deserving films. In 30 years, no one will remember the horseshit that is The Hurt Locker ... just like Crash (I actually agreed with Harry for once). Overall, I liked the show, but hated the results. Oh, and on the subject of Carey Mulligan, to paraphrase the great humanitarian Tracey Morgan, I want to pee in her butthole.
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... Assitwat Lives to pipe up as soon as Star Trek bagged the Oscar for Best Make-Up (which no-one gives a shit about anyway). You didn't disappoint, sir. Nice to know you bought the DVD or BluRay to listen to the commentary.
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maybe you can have a coherent thought.
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... is ONE TOO MANY. Yeah, I said it. Piece of shit movie, with flashes of Tarantino's former brilliance. He needs to learn to give his characters voices that aren't HIS OWN. Death Proof? Gang of women sitting around talking like Tarantino. Basterds? German, French and American soldiers sat around talking like Tarantino. And yes, the opening scene was fantastic, and Waltz was truly brilliant. But he then went on to play EVERY one of his scenes throughout the film in EXACTLY the same way. Urbane - friendly - warm - makes sudden comment, turns menacing - suddenly laughs and reverses back to being genial - blahblahblah - suddenly back to menacing and BLAM! - someone dies. That's not a criticism of Waltz' fantastic acting. It's a criticism of Tarantino's shit writing. Hurt Locker deserved the wins.
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No "king of the World" speeches for Cameron this time!
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Not much cleavage this year (except for the women who don't have any cleavage wearing dresses showing they have no cleavage), Disappointing. We all know BALE OUT (RevoLucian's Christian Bale Remix) was song of the year.
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... the good doctor Kermode explains it far better than I. http://tinyurl.com/y86sq9 http://tinyurl.com/yb2rg28 And I would like to dedicate the next one to Assitwat Lives. http://tinyurl.com/ye5bgmu Enjoy.
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"district 9's entire plot revolved around this concept....a man touches liquid and turns into an alien.let me think...the liquid was some type of rare energy stuff, and took 20 years to gather a little bit. it touched the guy and turned him into an alien. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! how would the alien be sure that could happen if theres no way he had the liquid before to see it touch a human." Dude, CJ made the fuel to power the command pod and return to the mother ship. Wikus just stumbled upon it. There was no explanation needed, because it wasn't relevant to the story. Now, maybe in District 10, if it gets greenlit, they'll go into a reason "why". CJ said they had the technology to reverse the transformation aboard the mothership, so obviously, this had happened before. Hell, the transformation process could very well be a alternative method of repopulating their species. It actually does make sense if you just think about it. Not everything needs to be laid out for the audience, especially in cases such as this, when it has no effect on the story at hand. The story involved aliens, and mutations, and all that jazz, but that's not what the film was about.
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OK, so I'll admit I have not seen any of those nominated documentaries, but it seemed a little off to me that the movie about killing dolphins beat some other movies about human problems and oppression and suffering. Don't get me wrong, from what I know of the Cove, what they do to those dolphins is disgusting and unforgivable. Also, I don't worry about saying that, cuz I'll never get to bang Hayden P, anyway.
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will be released ? I'm sure it will be about a guy in a bombsuit who is called in to fuck nasty arabic chicks in their dirty places.
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So what? There's lots of people out there that care more about the atrocities committed against nature than those committed against humans. Humans have voices, nothing else does. I haven't seen The Cove, but if its recognition at this Academy Award BS gets people to think, maybe to make changes in their lives, then word up.
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... Kiwi? Dude's British. And although I kind of like Tarantino's musical choices and how he used them - I think it's a fair point that overseeing and using a score properly is another facet of directing that Tarantino doesn't want to handle.
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She won because she's a great fucking director, and one with more visual style and film-making balls than 99% of the directors currentlty working the hollywood machine, a fact which has sadly been largely overlooked and ignored for the past 2+ decades, but which has finally been recognised with The Hurt Locker. She deserved that award more than any other director there this year, and the fact that this award will finally put her on the hollytwood map and allow her greater choice and opportunities from here on out is a win for fans of cinema everywhere in my books. Having a film maker as good as her now being "in demand" in Hollywood, and likely having her pick of projects for a while is pure win in my books. As for Avatar, yes it was technically groundbreaking, and I personally enjoyed it a lot, but it didn't come close to being the best film of the year, or even best sci-fi film for that matter. For my money both Moon and District 9 were better than Avatar in both those regards.
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Maybe they should split this into two categories next year: Cinematography - Computer-Generated, and Cinematography - The Kind that Involves Actual Camera Work...
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This is similar to when Roberts won over Ellen Burstyn. Bullock's performance was average, but the film was shockingly bad. Get ready for "And Academy Award winning Sandrea Bullock" being attached to every crap romantic comedy she does in the future.
http://tinyurl.com/ybqg7w6
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Because they all seem to have their heads all the way up their dumb asses. Can't even nominate quality films anymore let alone point out the 'best' ones. Stupid American Army terrorist supporters. 2nd worst outcome for best film since SHAKESPEAR IN LOVE beat ELIZABETH & SAVING RYAN'S PRIVATES (I would have been happy with either winning). Even CRASH was better than THE HURT (TO WATCH) LOCKER. And CRASH was only mediocre. For an organization that dissed CITIZEN KANE, one should never believe The Academy is even capible of credibility. It's just bullshit wrapped up in material excess & corporate greed.
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The Cove is a fucking great film. Even if the movie was fictional it still works as an amzing thriller piece. Yeah the movie is about animals, but its also about a human problem. Mercury. Go rent it and find out, and watch the special feature about mercury. Plus the movie is actually doing something and had a fucking ending and stood up to the problem. Unlike 99% of docs out there that just present 1,000's of questions and then go...OH WELL they are big corporations what can we do? Go to our web site and sign up! (Food Inc.). I'm not saying thats bad, because yes Food Inc tackles a much bigger and broader problem. But its very rewarding to see there effort pay off in the end.
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$526,247, they were like fuck dealing with that. Still more then what The Hurt Locker made.
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... yeah, right you are. But then why not commission a score from someone else? Sorry bro, I'm just one of those of the opinion that Q.T. totally lost his shit after Jackie Brown. Yes, I despise - and I mean DESPISE - Kill Bill.
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one more bit of hating and im done! up displays how most adults are bitter children. i mean, up was a generic wacky kids movie that had a 5 min sad montage. so what? do most people have such a bitter view of others they need to be reminded of sweetness to care? yawn. take out that tiny montage and what do u have left. i dont hate on kids for liking it, its a kids movie. no one is talking about public enemies. how is up getting more credit than public enemies. like i said, grown children.
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Mar 08, 2010 9:54:31 AM CST
prague23, did you just call the American Army terrorists?
by coughlins laws
Your sentence structuring makes it very hard to understand what exactly it is you're trying to say. I just want you to clarify for me what is you feel about the U.S. Army...
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First off this year was really lack luster in terms of emotional female performences. The Oscar bait shit was very very fucking weak, Up In the Air? Give me a break. But get this....Sandra Bullock just won a fucking Oscar...for best female actor, her career is fucking DEAD NOW! We should all be happy about this. If you don't like Sandra Bullock then be happy she just got a fucking Oscar because hopefully it'll kill her career like it has done to so many in the past. Streep is the obvious exception.
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Probably because James didn't give a fuck so they didn't push as hard and maybe he got to cut down on alimony payments if she won.
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Mar 08, 2010 9:58:35 AM CST
Fareal, everyone knows it except for the millions that
by coughlins laws
love Sandra Bullock. Anyway, how can you even care who wins? It's rarely ever the most deserving. Actors who are nominated all the time are taken for granted. Look at Jack Nicholson getting robbed for A Few Good Men. Also, after last year's robbery of Mickey Rourke, giving it to Sean Penn who'd just won 3 years earlier, how can anyone take the Academy Awards seriously?
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Over the Wrestler. That was an amazing performence, the wrestler was just Mickey with some weave on. For Sean Penn to play someone that doesn't make you want to puch him in the face the second you see him is pretty outstanding.
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Mar 08, 2010 10:01:49 AM CST
Avatar didn't win Best Picture because it wasn't even
by coughlins laws
close to the Best Picture put out last year...
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just playing himself. Did he usually have guys stapling him?
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Mar 08, 2010 10:22:28 AM CST
THE COVE hyper-activist Roc O'Barry made an ass of himself...
by badwaldo s revenge
...unfurling "Text Dolphin to 44144" on the ceremony stand. The producers cut away from him quickly and focused on a couple of old farts in the audience as the winning director speaks in voiceover. I liked THE COVE, it moved me, but really, pulling an "environmentalist/animal rights activist" grandstanding at the Oscars is damn political and isn't the proper route. Do the audience really care to text for information during the Oscars unless they've seen the doc? Kathryn Bigelow seems genuinely shocked. She neglected to mention her ex-spouse James Cameron...who told her to film THE HURT LOCKER script instead of THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY. Really, she owes him profuse gratitude for finally clinching the Oscars that have eluded her over the years. Although I think THE HURT LOCKER could be better served with tighter editing. I hate "race relations" in the movie, so tacky and annoying. Ben Stiller's Na'vi makeup and stumbling to speak shitty dialogues (much to Cameron's barely concealed embarrassment) was pretty hokey as hell. I think Jim's actually relieved to lose his Oscar chance to his ex-wife. I've never seen a Hollywood big shot support a former spouse so much as Jim did for Kathryn. Let's hope Jim's fifth wife (once a hot model 3 decades back) is the keeper.
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It was nice that he brought Gollum. I guess Gollum heard that Precious was nominated.
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All the wrestling stuff was added, but the fucking character outside of wrestling was Mickey Rourke. Him just walking around mumbling not understanding how relationships work. Just saying its not a big stretch. Sort of like Clooney playing Clooney in Up In the Air...good for you, you played yourself.
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It was Cameron that convinced his ex wife to do Hurt Locker. So it's her that must be grateful to Jim.
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Mar 08, 2010 10:38:56 AM CST
Really? I thought Jackie Brown was better than Kill Bill
by coughlins laws
and Death Proof...
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I read your review of The Hurt Locker, and you did indeed love the movie you lying sack of shit. The Hurt Locker sooo deserved all its awards. Next time dont be so contradictory.
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I read your review of The Hurt Locker, and you did indeed love the movie you lying sack of shit. The Hurt Locker sooo deserved all its awards. Next time dont be so contradictory.
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Don't be a retard. The FX in JJ's Startrekwars were shit compared to Avatar.
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When I saw the SAS guys go out of character, it diminished the film. No way the bomb squad guys would take over. That's like the SAS guy taking over disarming the bomb while Renner stood to watch. However, I liked the ending, and not browbeating the audience with any political leanings.
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i had that same impression, like just leave alone, i've been here and done this before and it's all bullshit unless your up and coming and need the Clout. Which he does not, why? Beacause he's "KING OF THE FUCKIN WORLD"!!!
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Mar 08, 2010 11:08:38 AM CST
Avatar looked like a video game. AbramsTrek looked realistic.
by royston lodge
But I woulda given the Oscar to District 9, in recognition of what they accomplished on a smaller budget.
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large - I contain multitudes." Harry is larger - and contains more multitudes - than most. So stop busting his chops for having conflicting or evolving opinions of a movie.
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get over it. I thought The Hurt Locker was very good, but BEST OF THE YEAR? Not in my opinion. But, it was an Iraqi war movie that for once didn't politicise the war. It was soldiers. Doing their job. And a lot of soldiers stated it got a lot right. I think that definately helped.Alec Baldwin, who is normally so loose and casual on Letterman and other talk shows, looked like a deer in headlights half the time. Anyone else notice his left arm dangling at his side, slowing banging against his leg as though it was made of plastic.Robert Downey Jr with those shades and hair style was the spitting image of mid '70s Peter Bogdonovich.Hey Sam Worthington! You're at the Oscars! Take the gum out of your mouth before you hit the stage!
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What about the 28 million Afghanis that have been freed from the raping, mass-murdering, torturing, women-supressing, terrorist harboring Taliban that the U.S. Military freed them from? Do you think that it's better for the Afghani people to be exposed to the Taliban? Are you pro-rape and mass-murder by the Taliban of the Afghan people?
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Mar 08, 2010 11:14:42 AM CST
kells: Totally agree that cinematography should be split.
by royston lodge
How can you give an award for cinematography to the DP of Avatar when virtually everything was done in post-production?
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Can you please take it somewhere else. It's annoying.
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Mar 08, 2010 11:20:08 AM CST
I didn't steer it towards politics. Some jerk-off called the
by coughlins laws
American Army terrorists. Why don't you get mad at that guy? I hardly EVER start political discussions here. I respond to stupid and ignorant statements from people like, oh, I don't know, you. Anyway, what do you want to talk about? How ridiculous it was that Up was nominated for Best Picture or how it was stupid to have 10 Best Picture nominees?
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AREN'T TERRRORISTS a political statement? Are you saying that it's the liberal point of view that the military are terrorists and it's the conservative position that they aren't terrorists? I'm confused...
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gorgeous gown, you imbecile. It may have been a little over the top but she rocked it. Personally, I prefer her with a much lighter shade of lipstick because she has such a natural beauty.
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And that whole ceremony was weak sauce. The Oscars jumped the shark back in 1927 when they got rid of the "Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production" Oscar so they could stear firmly in the middle of the road.
D'Academy is probably now just about as legit as the Teen Choice Awards. Although at least you can be certain those kids actually like the movies that end up winning. I know it was stupid of me getting my hopes up for Inglourious Basterds, District 9 and Avatar, but I guess I've watched too many Oscar bait movies where everything worked out all right in the end and everyone learnt a valuable lesson. Except in the actual Oscar ceremonies there's always a sad ending and no one learns anything, as they'll only go and pick the same forgettable movies next year. -
Mar 08, 2010 11:32:32 AM CST
Series 7, if you look at it like that, then we can ONLY give
by coughlins laws
Oscars to people that play someone with a hanicap, mental or physical, or who play a character of an opposite sexual preference than you. Look, like I've said before, how was it fair to the other Actors who were nominated against Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot? You can't just give awards to people because it's the biggest stretch. How much do they contribute to the movie? How much do you believe their character? Based on your assessments about Rourke being too close to the character he played, then Angelina Jolie shouldn't have won for Girl, Interrupted because she played a mentally unbalanced slut...
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if Jason Reitman didn't act so entitled. A little humility goes a long way. Vera should've won over Mo'nique. I'm not saying this out of objective judgement, as I've not seen either movie, but come on. It's Vera Farmiga.
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Nice. I love a statement that tosses out 80 years of award shows. Brilliant! :)
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And I tell you, (500) Days swept every category.
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Cameron: So, uhm, we're not married?
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Just adding gasoline to the fire.
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One of the finest pieces of propaganda ever filmed. Leni Reifenstahl would have been proud.
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Expectation: Avatar wins
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good that the Oscars were rewarding talent instead of politics? Was she talking about Halle Berry winning? Was she talking about Sean Penn winning last year? Was she talking about Crash winning Best Picture? Or Shakespeare in Love? Who was she talking about?
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Do like seeing Bridges win his, even though I haven't seen that movie. Rockwell should've been nominated, at least.
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What a legacy.
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Precious Based On The Ring By Gollum
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Yeah but that was the thing about The Wrestler the whole movie is really about him, as is Milk. And Milk is a much MUCH better film. Also the fact that The Wrestler sort of mimics Mickeys actual career doesn't help either. I see what you are saying, but Milk being gay had nother to do with Sean's performence. He had to become that guy, who was a real guy. I don't think he had a great performence because he played a gay man, he had a great performence because he became Harvey Milk. Just like DDL became Christie Brown. So your pretty much saying that just because those two were SO good its not fair that they even compete. Have you seen My Left Foot? Its an amazing and moving movie. You tend to forget that Brenda Fricker won and Oscar as well for her role as his mom. And that lady was playing the kindly gentle english lady...like she always does. But the work she and DDL had together was so good, thats what made the movie and they both got recognized.
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Thanks once again to YOU, a bland, mediocre fodder got picked over a gamechanger which resonated to all. Read : Star Wars would never have been made in your little reactionary, anti-thought world....
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she was criticized for not playing the game by doing the rounds and politicking for the award that is what she was talking about
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Hollywood got scared of the teabaggers, and capitulated. Hence this non-event 'movie' winning...
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If they weren't they'd greenlight my proposed sequel to Milk -- Milk 2: Hot and Milkier
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Glad to see "Hurt Locker" and Bigelow win. Thought the Oscar ceremony itself never really found its rhythem and Martin/Baldwin were mostly forgettable.
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Well instead of making half ass comments maybe anyone complaining here should for starters see the movie and the subject matter that made some uncomfortable. But I am forgetting it's a black thing that most here didn't know anything about until the mainsteam entertainment media started covering.
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Then we could have more Oscars going to Army films instead of anything resembling a 'breakthrough' and 'art'!
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Leave the acceptance speeches to the backstage camera where they can thank as many people as they want with NO limit, which I think they do already backstage...no one likes the speeches because A)they're either boring or preachy, or both and B)there's always that tension that they'll never get everything they want to say in. Just make it like award ceremonies in school where they go up, get the award, shake hands, go off the stage. Then instead of just reading the nominees, show MORE clips of the actors doing their thing--that's what we really want to see. And NO dance numbers, this is about the movies, we don't go to movies to see dance numbers so what place does it have during the Oscars? As for hosts, just get Tom Hanks because he can pull of 'scripted humor' naturally. If people REALLY wanted to hear the acceptance speeches, have them download the backstage clips--those might actually be more entertaining if they are uncensored.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:26:38 PM CST
Do you think that Rourke would've won if The Wrestler
by coughlins laws
came out this year or the year before Penn?
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The British characters in The Hurt Locker weren't SAS, they were mercenaries. Big difference.
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I didn't want the segment to end, it was so good.
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YES!
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She deserved it cause she is a stand up comedian that played a role that was outta of the norm for her. I actually saw the film. Yeah I had problems with it but it doesn't take away from her performance. It's funny the racist intents that go on here like "she played a hysterical black woman", well doesn't all actors play a character or type from their race for the most part? Sandra Bullock played a southern upper middle class white woman, ohhhh or Anna Kendrick played a typical young white college grad making her way up the ladder in Corp America, ohhh. Give me a break, it's about the performance and not the race of the chracter. Monique did a good job and it's something that no one had see her do based on what we know of her.
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From the sands of Iraq to the jungles of New York, nothing rehydrates like a cold pack of the Sun.
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...when they whined about The Dark Knight last year. Enter the 10 Best Picture nominees and the new ranking system. So instead of voters just following the money, the movies they actually liked had a better chance of winning. Avatar had great hype and an even greater gimmick. Now Alice in Wonderland is racking up with only one of the two. The real reason for the stunning success of all our modern blockbusters isn't because they're all culturally important: The audience just keeps growing every year. Unlike previous generations, the kids from the 80s and 90s didn't have to give up movies once they graduated high school and entered the real world. The internet made it easy to stay as passionate and informed as ever. So now every year, they help some new cgi fest shatter box office records and fanboys act like it's the most important thing to ever happen to society. Sorry, but no.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:36:48 PM CST
Are you kidding me Academy? A Black woman stealing some chicken?
by the founder
A nearly two hour long film with a lotta good scenes of merit and they show that BS scene of the fat girl running off with a bucket of chicken. Are you fucking kidding me. Hollywood can really do better. I know the director and company had to be furious over that. As a black person I know I was.
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PRECISELY because of people like Precious.
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the producers picked on a small fishing village japan kills tons of dolphins each year...that village kills only a small portion of the total but they do it in a way that makes it more visible they were unfair to that village, and come on, lets all be honest, fisher stevens just wants to bang one of the hot chicks that appeared in the doc
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How fast can a 500 pound girl run FFS? Are there performance enhancing drugs in the chicken?
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while it was an amazing visual and technical achievement, it's story was nothing special. Seems to me that's what it was all about.
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Probably would've won if it came out this year. No way would he have beatn Plainview. It would've made for a more interesting Oscars if there was some compitition in the acting. At the same time Rourke may have just swept everything.
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If you saw Food Inc. and read Alicia Silverstone's new book you'd never touch a chicken again, except to pet one.
That said, there is no reason to steal it. Precious could've just bought some chicken and shake n' bake and been in fried chicken heaven without resorting to criminality. Just takes a little effort. -
Mar 08, 2010 12:53:51 PM CST
brabon300, I hadn't heard that. Guess I wasn't paying
by coughlins laws
close enough attention. That is a good point, though. I thought that sort of thing usually only happened for the movie itself, not the individual actors. I guess if I lived in Hollywood, I would see all trade mags and the ads that go into it. I do remember hearing about how the Weinsteins constantly pushed their best art-house movies and it resulted in upsets like Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan. Well, I didn't see what she did so I don't know if she deserved to win. I also didn't see all of the performances for the men, but I'm glad Jeff Bridges won (maybe because I'm a Jeff, too). All in all, a pretty dull, non-controversial Oscar ceremony, that went a half hour too long, mostly because of the questionable decision to make the Best Picture Category 10 choices. Personally, I don't think any of the categories should necessarrily be set in stone at 5. If it's more than 5, make it so, if it's less, make it so. I understand why they do it, but if anything, the acting categories should be increased. Alot of great performances never get recognized: Jim Carrey got screwed for Man on the Moon, even The Truman Show. Tom Cruise got screwed for A Few Good Men, maybe Vanilla Sky. Clint Eastwood for Gran Torino. Rober De Niro for Mean Streets. Sam Rockwell for Moon. George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove. Paul Giamotti in Sideways. John Goodman in The Big Lebowski. The list can go on and on...
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Oh wait, Hurt Locker didn't have one...
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In an ideal world.
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I just looked her up on wikipedia. I didn't know she was directing for so long. I knew about Point Break but not much else. I thought for sure she was early 40's and looks like she is mid to late 30's. She is SMOKIN HOT for someone who will be 60 next year!!! She's a GILF. Anyway, congrats to her. I have to see this movie now to see if it was worthy. Most Oscar Winners I don't normally agree with but I at least expect them to be worthy of the nomination. The only Oscar winner I've seen lately I don't even think deserved a nomination was that train wreck Crash...
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Damn you Brannon Braga- it's all your fault
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Damn you Brannon Braga- it's all your fault
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and others complaining about the fried chicken in Precious. You do realize that the director, screenplay writer AND author are all 3 black. This is not the white man painting a picture of black people here.
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For comparing The Hurt Locker to that piece shit called Crash. Now, if you were comparing it to the real Crash, that's a different story and confusing.
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Right? It's the collective opinions of people most of us don't even know. Is a movie the 'best' when it's enjoyed by many people? Is it 'best' when it's enjoyed by a few 'enlightened' people? Is is 'best' because of the reviews. Is it 'best' because of quality? NO. It's none of those. Best Picture is only best because a miniscule protion of the movie going public who are members of the academy voted for it. In fact, none of these awards really mean diddly shit. I don't even know why people watch the Oscars because none of us have any control or say over what wins. It's so subjective that any award is pretty much meanlingless. Personally, I did not see The Hurt Locker, it's really not my kind of movie. However, my brother and his buddies really like a good war movie and went to see it and they were unimpressed. Now ask them about District 9 or Inglorious Basterds and you'll get some enthusiasm. There's a reason not many people went to see The Hurt Locker and it's not because they didn't know about it.
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really good film within it's genre. Best Film of the Year--hardly. The award was likely more politically motivated: push back against cgi by actors afraid that sorta thing will put them out of work eventually, and push for a woman winner, and the Cameron vs. Cameron's Ex probably played into it.Hurt Locker had good moments, and it was slice of military action we hadn't really seen before. But it had the veneer of "important" and "relevant" without the substance inside.I'd certainly recommend Hurt Locker as a good movie to see. I wouldn't consider it Best Film or Best Directed etc etc.
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Mar 08, 2010 1:32:11 PM CST
Avatar didn't win film & director - have faith in films now!
by scriptgirl_nipples
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Mar 08, 2010 1:35:05 PM CST
Avatar DIDN'T DESERVE to win for Best Film or Director!
by scriptgirl_nipples
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dilluted the votes for Best Picture. I've only seen 6 of the movies on the list. Of those six, I'd say Up In The Air was the best. Avatar is a mish-mash of 20 other movies with better graphics. Up is a cartoon. The Blind Side was entertaining, but without Sandra Bullock, it is a Lifetime movie. Inglorious Basterds was entertaining but I don't think anyone would ever call it best movie of the year. And District 9, once you get past the gimmick, is really not a good movie and does not stand up well to repeat viewings. Leaving Up In The Air, which wasn't that great, but wins by default. Something similar probably happened with The Hurt Locker...
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All 10 oscar nominated movies?
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I don't know... I think we'll be watching D9 many years from now and not remembering much else from this year besides Moon. I loved Avatar, but already I can see myself being kinda bored with it. Like with LOTR, only the first one can really hold my attention these days.
Also, these nominations do not bode well for sci-fi that actually lures good actors who put in strong performances. The academy basically said, "If it's in a sci-fi movie, we don't give a fuck if it's DDL, not gettin' nominated" And I liked Avatar, but for Cameron to actually suggest Zoe Saldana deserved to be nominated when Rockwell and Copley weren't for two of the best performances EVER in a sci-fi movie... I mean, give me a fucking break. No matter what you think of D9 and Moon, (I have my criticisms of both), they took the acting/character part seriously. -
Was an apology for not giving the oscar to brokeback mountain, which should have won over crash. Much like giving the oscar to pacino for scent of a woman was an apology for godfather 2. It's all politics and bullshit.
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God... the anti-Avatar crowd is the biggest bunch of tools on this site. Do they think people who liked Avatar seriously give a shit whether it took home a fucking OSCAR? Give me a break. These people are so insecure with themselves their only joy comes from disparaging movies other people like. So pathetic. What's funny too is when a movie they don't like wins, they're the first to say "the Oscars mean jack shit", but of course when it's the other way around the Oscars are suddenly worthy. But the Oscars do mean jack shit...they award the wrong people every fucking year. But who cares? It's all politics and we all know it.
Honestly I'm happy for Bigelow, shes made some great films... but let's be honest - she won because shes a chick. A lot of directors could have directed The Hurt Locker. On the other hand, no one but Cameron could have made Avatar. And yes Avatars dialogue sucked compared to The Hurt Locker...but it's pacing and structure were superior, and it's narrative was superior - well, at least it had one. And it made up for that in the fact that, you know, it is a turning point in the history of cinema - for better or worse. It's sheer effect on the world can't be ignored either.
But at the end of the day, Avatar is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, revolutionary sci-fi film, that is also the highest grossing film of all time, and the only to cross 700$ mil and 2$ billion. Nothing will EVER change that...so hate on haters, your just feuling my laughter. -
Damn you Founder for even mentioning the delectable bird.
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equate dollar gross with quality. If that were the case then the transformers franchise would win best picture year after year after year...
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I've heard several of Bigelow's interviews and read up about her style and to her credit, THL was a product of her particular vision. She had the balls to cast relative unknowns as the leads, while killing off Pearce and Fiennes in short order, and give a strong minute cameo to the great David Morse. Anybody else would have produced a wildly differently film, I'm certain.
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Can we all just recount how the months until Avatar release...the haters were 110% positive it would be the biggest bomb of all time. Like Heavens Gate status. Hahahahahaha...
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That would be gone with the wind
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You would be as outraged as I that it was snubbed by the incompetents at the "Academy". Not only did this movie have THE best soundtrack of the past, oh, 20 years, but it had the best score too.
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There have been 3 previous female nominees for Best Director. How come they didn't win, since by your logic a woman getting nominated would automatically win.
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Im surprised you can type that fast with Navi cock in your mouth. jk buddy
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How hilarious is it that the same crowd who posted incessantly that Avatar would bomb and be panned and Cameron would be laughed out of Hollywood now have resorted to, "HAHA, it didn't win Best Picture! PWNED!" Answer: pretty goddamned hilarious. -
Avatar is highest gross only if not adjusting for inflation. Star Wars is still on top for that. GWTW is still tops for most tickets sold tho.
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But when a film based on NO source material that almost no one even knew about until a week or two before release goes on to gross over 2 billion dollars, you cannot ignore that. Transformers is a hugely popular franchise. However the movie sucked, that's why it made a shitload of money on the front end and dropped like a rock. That is the mark of a SHIT movie. Avatar however stayed at #1 for two months, and had shockingly small drops each week. You cannot ignore the connection it had with film audiences around the world. Obviously plenty of people went to see it time and time again because they connected emotionally to it, which is the goal of any film. It's like Star Wars...it's wildly popular over 30 years later for a valid reason.
I think people only claim Avatar is shit because A. it had questionable dialogue, and B. it had some cliche plot points. But the fact of the matter is, the sensory experience was so unique that if audiences didn't feel comfortable with the narrative, the film would have been a failure. Personally I think the narrative choice was a brilliant move - not to mention this is a story that deserves to be updated for every generation. Sure Dances With Wolves did it...two decades ago. Hasn't been anything too similar since. Obviously Avatar 2 won't be able to coast on it's experience as much, so it should be interesting to see where it goes. We all know Cameron is capable of great storytelling. -
GWTT is still ahead of Star Wars after inflation on boxofficemojo. I could have sworn I saw something recently that still showed Star Wars ahead on that chart. Avatar sits at 14 when adjusting for inflation
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was a fun movie to watch with impressive graphics. However, it was nowhere near the Best Movie of the year. I wouldn't even put it in the Top10 for the year. It rightfully didn't win an Oscar. However, Cameron should've won for Best Director
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Sure it beat Avatars opening weekend 3D record. But then again...it's ALICE IN WONDERLAND directed by TIM BURTON, starring JOHNNY DEPP...also coming on the heels of AVATARs success. Is anyone surprised? Guarantee most people will not connect emotionally to the film, and it will drop off pretty quickly.
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It pisses me off when people use the argument that success doesn't equal quality like it's always the case. While that's certainly true in many cases, don't completely undermine the human species. Some of the best things are incredibly successful. I mean, The Beatles? Most famous band ever...rightfully so. Louis Armstrong, one of the most famous jazz musicians/singers, rightfully so. Even using a modern day example...Apple computers are so popular because they are quality (I don't own one, so no I'm not an apple fanboy - but it's true). Yes I agree that SHIT becomes popular too - Jonas Brothers, Transformers, Twilight, but with all those instances it's mainly young kids who don't know any better.
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Mar 08, 2010 2:44:08 PM CST
The court of public opinion has rendered their Judgement!
by ganymede3001
Hurt Locker 21 million. Avatar 2.5 Billion. And yes motherfuckers box office gross means a lot, it doesn't mean everything but it holds a-lot more weight than your unsubstantiated subjective opinions. Avatar has catapulted hollywood into the next epoch. Just when piracy was staring to gain the upper hand, Cameron has given the audiences a reason to go to the movies again. And to not reward the man, who was responsible for the oscars being the most watched in 5 years, the least he deserves is your fucking snooty worthless golden statue.
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when people say that success doesn't equal quality, the unspoken word is AUTOMATICALLY. Some people believe that simply because something makes more money that it is better, full stop, no argument.
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it was re-released 6 or 7 times, almost every 5 years over the decades. There was no watching it on TV until the 60's and no VHS or DVD. If you go by tickets sold and VHS tapes and DVDs, etc, I'm sure Star Wars wins hands down as the movie the most people paid to watch since the invention of cinema...
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The funny thing is that they announced her name when they presented the award, so she should be allowed to go up there and talk. I'll bet nobody in the academy even knew about the lawsuit.
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She got up there and praised the disabled girl and the musicians. The director was all about stroking his own ego. The verdict is in. Elinor FTW.
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It had good graphics and it made alot of money. It had great marketing. However, taking into account for inflation and the fact that tickets cost 2 extra dollars for the glasses, it's really not the top grosser of all-time. But, even if that's the case, that doesn't mean it deserves an Oscar. Kiss sold more albums than any band during the 70's, but would anyone say they're a better band than Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd?
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Anybody know what the ratings were like for this year's Oscar telecast? Because it sucked.
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But Inglourious Basterds will be remembered in 50. Mark my words. It is too far ahead of the curve to get the recognition it deserves right now. I think it was a cinematic leap on par with Pulp Fiction, and will also take the average twit 10 years to recognize its importance. Plus, I love the concept of "revenge through film". Brilliant!
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was the most entertaining part of the show. Her bizarre speech, and Baldwin slapping Bigelow's ass made it all worthwhile.
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The director never had a chance to get into his speech before she interrupted him. There is an article with both of them telling their sides: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1633402/20100308/story.jhtml
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She didn't go up there to champion someone else. She went up there so she could talk and be in the spotlight.
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Seriously. Comparing it to Crash? Repeatedly referencing Point Break? What is the basis for this? The movie has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It is clearly a great film more than deserving of the honor. The only explanation I can come up with is that you were rooting for Avatar to win. Which would have been nauseating. Avatar was the Best 3-D Spectacle of the year, not the Best Picture of the year. Personally, I was rooting for Up and Inglourious Basterds, but The Hurt Locker was great. Aren't you the manboy endlessly thrilled by movies? So much so that you liked the Godzilla remake and The Phantom Menace? Yet you don't feel an ounce of excitement about one of the best movies of the year winning Best Picture? Whatever, dude. Get over CGI. Oh, and James Cameron directed Piranha 2. You might want to bring that up sometime, if you're in the business of denigrating talented film directors. Or is it just talented female film directors? Curious. And guess what? If you take the 3-D out of Avatar, Point Break is better. The End.
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Its a good movie and deserved the Best Original Screenplay award, but I don't think there's anything really innovative about it that makes it "too far ahead of the curve".
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Mar 08, 2010 3:13:57 PM CST
Sigh...most of you don't know what you're talking about
by hotblackdesiato
It isn't about historical/factual accuracy, genre, faithfulness to the source material, etc. It's about FILMMAKING. Using filmmaking tools to tell a story. If you don't like HURT LOCKER, fine. But anybody who claims it's undeserving because it's "inaccurate" doesn't know the first thing about filmmaking. Bigelow had not responsibility to be 100% accurate. She was responsible for making a tight, suspenseful action movie. And for my $$ she did that in spades, using a very difficult setting. It is not a documentary. It is not about a real person. It is about an idea. Renner acts crazy because that is what the story is about: addiction. he is an addict. It doesn't matter that real troops laugh at this. He isn't meant to be them. They know as little about storytelling as Bigelow does about being in a warzone. THE HURT LOCKER is an action movie set in a very difficult time period, with a very specific aim. As someone else said, artists use lies to tell the truth. It's not about the facts and the accuracy, it's the ideas. How can so many so-called film buffs, gathered on one web site, be so collectively dumb? It's ok to dislike or disagree, but know what you're talking about before sending out more retardation into the ether.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:13:58 PM CST
Here's my Kanye parody pic of Short Doc Lady Elinor...
by badwaldo s revenge
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James Cameron's thought at the sight of Ben Stiller's Na'vi schtick
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Of course it didn't win anything, nor did I expect it to, but Coraline was the only 2009 movie I saw that had any rewatch value to it.
As for Bigelow, of course she won because she's a woman. Every story I heard, leading up to the Oscars, was about how she has a real chance because she'd be the first woman to win. And then I heard they played "I am woman, hear me roar," during her acceptance speech. They were about as obvious about it as they could be. The Oscars have always been a political popularity contest. It amazes me anyone takes them seriously. -
Try reading my post. But I'll say it again. The movie was about 2hrs long with a lot of scenes of merit and touching moments perfect for the Academy and they pick out of all of them a scene with a fat black woman running off with a bucket of fried chicken. Come the phuck on. It's like how the news skips over ever black person with intelligence and find the most non talking broke down negro that can string a sentence together to interview.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:34:44 PM CST
Annie Hall has been and always will be "the movie that beat Star
by axelfoley
And this year's broadcast was terrible. I'm no television producer, but my god, what was with those bad camera shots. Who fucking produced this, a college tv production instructor's aide?
The goods: Waltz winning. That was a given. The Hughes Tribute. I did love his movies, but you have to admit it was a little long. But he did deserve a tribute and I'm glad the Academy gave him his due.
The bad
The speeches, the fat woman who was channeling Kanye West and took away that guys moment after he practically danced to the stage.
George Clooney looked like a fucking asshole. Oh wait! He is!
I do want to see Hurt Locker, but thanks to Ms. Bigelow I reminded myself of why I'm attracted to older women. Most good looking best director I've ever seen....
Not to shit on someone's misfortune, but Cameron losing so I wouldn't have to hear that ego-tistical pap "I'm king of the world". Come on lightstormer, sock your pseudo-intellectual bullshit to me baby! Prick....
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Mar 08, 2010 3:41:30 PM CST
I stand by what i said about the Academy and racial problems.
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No one can tell me that the people who decides what scenes to show to represent the movie on the show thought that it would be cute or funny to put that one scene for the world to see of a black woman stealing fried chicken. I've watched enough Oscar shows where every other nominated actor is placed in scenes from their film that showcase the reason they were nominated. You get no idea what so ever about that woman playing Prescious if you didn't see the film why she is even nominated. In most cases a lot of the Oscar nominated films arent mainstream hits and a lot of moviegoing public have seen them.
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I don't care who don't like it. Yes I'm making a stink about the representation and dipictyion of blacks in a lot of cases in by Hollywood.
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From what I recall they showed several minutes of footage of the film over the course of the Oscars. It was part of the movie, it helps provide information about her character, it got used *shrug*
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But she's not the only one who got shitty clips that showcased the "Acting" ability. I don't think there's any racial problem there, aside from the already established stereotype of blacks and fried chicken. Shrug here too.
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And I would say "Well why was it in the movie?"
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The woman got up there to STEAL the spotlight and that's exactly what she did. Despite what she talked about, it was a selfish act, bc for all we know, he was going to say the exact same things but he never got the chance.
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...after she returned to the ceremony platform to snatch Best Picture Oscar. Two things Kathryn should consider: Slap Alec across the face hard for sexual harassment after she won one-for-history Oscar for Best Director. Never cast Alec Baldwin in her future movies. Damn, a one-time feminist (Columbia U film school grad) turned a cougar only to be slapped on the ass by aspiring New York governor. Since Kathryn is a laid-back California native, she can expect New Yorkers to be tactless, obnoxious assholes, as Alec demonstrated his boorish behavior. And I thought New York Italians are badly stereotyped. Kathryn's best movie is ahead of her...not with THE HURT LOCKER, which needs tight editing to eliminate extraneous "race relations" roughhouse bullshit. Her worst movie so far was the laughably implausible BLUE STEEL with obnoxious gun control message. Where's Eric Red, her partner-in-crime? I guess she would rather distance from Eric after that freak vehicle accident which killed an innocent bystander in 2000. Kathryn might get better movie offers to direct more movies after the dry spell of past movie bombs that placed her in movie jail for some years. What she really needs is an excellent, kick-ass script that will need proper editing to prove she's still in her prime despite almost hitting 60. Agreed about talkbacker's complaint about Barbara Streisand's obnoxious political attitude on the soapbox, these liberals are nuts when it comes to the French Jacobin creed of "liberty, equality, fraternity." Who cares about women and minority crap? Let's focus on celebrating the art that ought not to be politicized as a pinewood soapbox for some misguided views the majority of American audience loathe in the heartland. I'm glad the Academy decided to cancel Sacha Cohen's appearance, otherwise Oscarcast rated TV-MA and influx of complaints to FCC.
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When you only say three harmless words.
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Amazing how fucked up the memorials are. I wish they'd stop the tacky "miss-you-most"-o-meter.
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Or maybe they have been friends a long time and his slap on the ass was a "good job" and she knew wtf he meant? Do football players file charges on the guy who slaps them on the ass after they do something right? I'm sure if she hada problem with it she could take him out, she had some fuckin arms on her. She's more than equipped to handle herself.
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Total assclown.
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Looks like some emiciated thing out of Tales from the Crypt - with AIDS. Must be like fucking a sandpit.
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Ass-slapping on the football field is a separate issue - who cares whether it's complimentary to congratulate a team member for a good job or inferring homosexuality? The question is that since Kathryn Bigelow allowed Alec Baldwin to slap her ass and gets away with it, Kathryn would be perceived as a sex object. Self-professed "feminists" should strike back verbally (a polite but angrily firm retort will humiliate Alec) or physically instead of being "helpless". Maybe Bigelow should do a film on rape - oh wait, that's already done in BLUE STEEL and STRANGE DAYS. By allowing a male chauvinist pig to molest her with a slap on the ass, in public and at the prestigious award ceremony, it indicates public humiliation (that is, if any eagle-eyed viewer spots it) and degradation of women as less than equal to be treated as sex objects.While I concede Ms. Bigelow is an attractive woman even in her middle-age, she should have taken a firm position to disallow such patronizing act that may constitute sexual harassment, however brief with a complimentary slap on the ass, designed to induce embarrassment and degradation of a female sex, even after having achieved "historical first." Alec is a pig who should behave, or lunatic feminists will want him tortured with their pointed high heels pinning his scrotum as he's bound and gagged with his hairy, naked body laid straight on the concrete ground. I do not defend nor subscribe to feminism, but there should be a degree of respect granted to women, especially Ms. Bigelow, who deserve proper treatment rather than be treated as an 'inequal' gender that permits and condones ogling and lecherous comments at the attractive female being. Ms. Bigelow shouldn't have to be subject to a perverted male chauvinist asshole who was born and bred in New York, where the juvenile mentality of a metropolitan New Yorker is "anything goes without little consequences."
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You guys could make jumping to conclusions an Olympic sport.
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based on my criteria, which means if dea grea t film. of Bridget fonda getting rammed, you just made a great film.
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Which is understandable because the guy is such a complete asshole. I mean i love his work but It's hard to support someone who seems so in love with himself.
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Story, characters and dialogue = shit.
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So much Butthurt
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Fact.
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I disagree, Manzilla. I don't think Cameron is a "complete asshole," as you put it, I just think he hates dealing with lowest-common-denominator posers who think they know everything and don't. At all.
And why is it so hard to support someone who's so fucking good at something? Here's my guess: because he makes you and everyone else feel so pedestrian?
This is my theory.
Anyway, bravo to "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker." Both excellent films, "The Hurt Locker" more so.
Great to see Kathryn Bigelow win these awards. She and her film deserved every one of them this year.
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ie, Trannyformers there. People with opinions worth listening to don't declare jihad on a movie.
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What an average film. Average average average! There was more tension in the first 2 minutes of Basterds than the whole of The Hurt Locker! Innacurate, plotless, pointless, ludicrous and bulging with tedious hollywood action film stereotypes (Renner's "I don't give a damn about anyone or anything, I'm keraaazy see?" character is laughable and unbelievable). How can you take a concept (the war in iraq) that we are exposed to 24hrs a day in every media form imaginable (and thus even the most uninterested party has at least some knowledge of) and expect us to suspend our belief to the point where a whackjob casually yanking around IED's by their fuses and cables becomes tense and entertaining? It doesn't! Because I know that's not what bomb disposal teams do in Iraq because I've seen them at work on my TV countless times. This film seems to have pulled a Charlatan's trick somehow convincing the academy and whoever else that it's strengths lie in it's realistic and accurate potrayal when that couldn't be further from the truth. Yawn.
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I'm sorry, but how the hell are people supposed to separate the topical issues and imagery of the ongoing Iraq war from The Hurt Locker so they can see it as a film about "addiction". Is it a fantasy film, like Basterds then? Has it been marketed as such? Or have words like "realism" regularly been attached to it? And if Bigelow had no intention of being accurate to her setting why bother setting it there in the first place? Did she think none of us had seen what goes on Iraq? Surely she's fighting a losing battle if she's asking people to unforget what they've been seeing on the TV for 7 years so she can tell us a story about a laughable war junky who would never have got past a recruitment building! Compare this film to something like Born On The Fourth Of July or Platoon or even the recent TV series Generation Kill and you can see how unbelievably weak it is. Defend it as a well shot work of fiction with an aquired taste by all means, but as the best film of the year? Gimme a break.
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So if the Hurt Locker is not qualified for BP, why is Avatar the replacement? It would seem IG and D9 are better films in all the ways that matter to the Academy and critics. Maybe even Up in the Air, which I thought was thoroughly entertaining, much to my surprise. And they all made a decent profit I believe. I swear Avatar wasn't on the BP radar until the B.O. numbers started rolling in, then it became a top 2 contender? Based on popularity and tech? Entertaining film and JC is one of my favorites, but I admit the massive popularity escapes me.
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it's spelled "Citizen Kane"...I guess all those times you've watched it, you skipped the credits, yeah?
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I blame Eisner, myself. Is there anyone called Disney working at Disney now?
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Guys, guys. Not only did the director run down to the stage, but he had his mother caneblock Elinor. That, coupled with the fact that BOTH their names were announced and he didn't wait to give her a chance to speak, is clear evidence that Elinor was the victim in this case. The verdict stands!
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no geek hates james cameron he is one of us, no matter how hard he tries to push away the mantle and i dont think anyone "hates" avatar...disappointed is a better word most people expected that after over a decade of work, this film would not only blow everyone away with the visuals, but the story...but the story was weak we dont want cameron to become michael bey...he is better than that whats even more disappointing is that his taste in women is shite...how anyone wouldnt stay with bigelow for the rest of his life is beyond me
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being inappropriate. But in Alec's defense, he may very well have slapped Cameron's ass too. That's his style.
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jesus, were not texting, can't any of you be bothered to write even HALF a title?and IG for Inglorious Basterds isn't even right!!!
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IDK Y it matters 2U. And Inglorious for Inglourious B isn't even right, AFAIK.
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A first in 50 years. I watched because I heard that the acceptance speeches would be short. I really did not have a dog in the fight, since of all the films, I have only seen INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. It seems they spread the wins around this year, even though THE HURT LOCKER won six awards. I laughed at the sight gag of the two hosts backstage sharing a SNUGGIE. Steve and Alec seemed funny as co-hosts, especially Steve. The worst part of the show was the 5 interpretative dances to the music/score. All in all, not a bad show. Finally, with 10 films nominated for BEST PICTURE, it is quite possible the winner only had to have gotten approximately 11% of the votes, down from roughly 21% needed to win for 5 films. That is why they keep the vote totals a SECRET.
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As Trantino spelt it. (Spelled)
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Damn typos.
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Reason why Jim Cameron may have shite taste in women, especially when he once wedded Kathryn Bigelow only to break up a couple years later, is because he was a workaholic. Linda Hamilton hinted at Jim's trait in an interview not a long ago. Other than that, who knows what caused the breakup? Opposites attract and Jim is still on friendly terms with Kathryn despite the divorce. Bring on Point Break: Padding to New Zealand...oh, Patrick Swayze's dead. Point Break (which Jim ghost-wrote) and Near Dark retain cult status after 2 decades, unlike her recent films. Kathryn owes Jim her weight in Oscar gold because Jim is the best ex-husband adviser a woman could ask for, and HURT LOCKER collected a bunch of Oscars as an outcome of Jim's genius alternating as a script reader/critic when he's not busy tinkering with new toys.
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...goes to special clubs, dressed in women's clothes.
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http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/
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actually the voting is much more complicated than that. they switched to a Single Transferable Vote system with the 10 nominees. and it's pretty much why The Hurt Locker was able to win, in my opinion.read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/yz255p5
basically, everyone was going to rate The Hurt Locker pretty high, but the people that didn't like Avatar (or just wanted it to lose) REALLY didn't like it (or REALLY didn't want it to win)...so they put it way down.
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(ie IN MEMORIUM) didn't go for as long as I thought it would. Noticed they used multiple screens instead of one montage per person to save time. Clever eh?
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Can't we all just get along?
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And screw the fucktard Avatar haters, Hurt Locker sucks !!! Let me repeat.
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Glenn Beck as Kathryn Bigelow.
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3d will be in everyones homes soon.
by StonedWriter88 Mar 7th, 2010
11:56:39 PM
i am on disability pay, living with my mom, below the poverty line. my sister is married and lives in a trailer and works at wal mart overnight stocking with her husband. and they are buying a brand new large 3d compatible tv, and i'll be watching avatar 3d over there by the end of the year. my family is below the poverty line in america and we will be watching 3d tvs in our homes by the end of the year. -
Damn Na'vi racists! BLUE POWER!!!
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I said best, not most popular among the geekry.
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I didn't bought it, i rented it. I'm not that of a fool. And i'm still feeling the effects from exposure to such radioactive trash.
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Ok, I know this is way late. I'm so sick and tired of you fucking fanboys crying every year that their fucking film didn't win best picture. Boo-fuckin'-Hoo! Hurt Locker won - deal with it. Should it have won? Maybe not. I didn't see all 10 BP noms. But many of you are saying Avatar should win because it's so groundbreaking. If that were the case, then many films before Avatar should have won BP. Let's go back to the early days of CGI. Should Jurassic Park won BP for using CGI the way it did? Should Terminator 2?, Abyss, The Last Star Fighter or even Young Sherlock Holmes? Give it a fucking rest. Avatar has made more money than God but it doesn't mean it should be BP. Same with TDK. It was great but get a grip. I really tired of hearing Christian Bale talk with rocks in his mouth. Heath Ledger was the movie. Independence Day made a shit load of cash but IMO it was a shitty movie.And as for Harry - you have such a revisionist attitude. You praise Hurt Locker all Summer and now bash it because it didn't make you cum like Avatar did. I'm just happy Avatar got what it deserved. A visual effects Oscar because that's what it was - one big fucking effect!
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And Avatar lost. Quit crying.
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I see a patern emerging now. Back then, when The hurt Locker was just this little known movie, it was cool to like it. But as the movie gained more and more accolades, and now that it won the oscar, AS IF BY MAGIC, the movie is not good anymore. It's not kewl now to like it. Is that it? What fucking bullshit! All those who think The Hurt Locker is not good anymore because it gained popularity and recognition can go fuck themselves. What fucking asses! You don't deserve a movie as good as THE HURT LOCKER. Pathetic fucking losers!
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Sorry, but based on the way she acted at the Oscars...and based on the other news reports I've read...I'm gonna vote for the woman being a raving, egotistical asswipe.At one point during production of the film, she sued Williams (the director and co-producer) claiming the film was entirely her idea, and likewise sued over the creative direction of the film. That dispute was settled out of court -- according to her "amicably" -- however, it should be noted that she did remove herself from the role as an active producer more than a year before PRUDENCE was released. Still, as part of that settlement, she did retain that "silent partner" producing credit, hence the reason WHY she qualified to be a co-recipient for the Oscar.So, with that in mind, you're right that they actually announced her name at the Oscars, but the rules for shorter films like MUSIC FOR PRUDENCE state that (due to time constraints) only ONE person can make the acceptance speech. And again, according to some news articles I read today, the Academy contacted Burkett personally SPECIFICALLY to make her aware of that fact, even though Burkett tried to deflect that fact by running around and saying Williams never shared any info with her.However ultimately, the biggest reason WHY Burkett is a clown to me goes back to the whole REASON that she sued Williams, which also goes to the heart of the reason WHY she stormed the stage -- namely she never wanted the movie to focus on Prudence! She thought Prudence was only part of the story, and Burkett wanted the film to focus LESS on Prudence and MORE on the other kids who were performing music. And ultimately that's WHY she shoved Williams aside -- it's because she was determined to get on stage and before a global audience, she wanted to rattle off the names of these other kids.With means that being the clueless clod that she is, Burkett stormed the stage and essentially dissed a girl who is in a wheelchair, who was there at the ceremony too (as we saw from cut away shots) -- which means Burkett not only shit on Williams' moment, she not only shit on the final film which the Academy was rewarding, but sort of shit on Prudence as well. In fact, in the midst of her rabbling, it took WILLIAMS to speak up and to at least refocus the tail end of the acceptance speech back to Prudence.Finally, it's fucking hilarious that Burkett sued Williams over the artistic direction and vision that he had for the film -- a battle he won in the end -- which means she is NOW trying to take credit...right up to accepting an Oscar...for a movie that WASN'T made the way she envisioned, and which was actually the OPPOSITE from anything she wanted. So, sorry, I have to disagree with you on this one and point out what a lame stunt Burkett pulled and how ridiculous she came off.But aside from all that, hope you're doing well, BSB!
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What a jackass! You like The Blind Side. You like Precious. You like Alice in Wonderland. You hated Hurt Locker?? And you have the audacity to compare it to CRASH!!! The Hurt Locker was more frightening and intense than any so-called horror film that you are peddling, cough, cough, FROZEN, HOSTEL, HATCHET
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Fuck it infinity to the infinite power. Seriously, that had better be a jaw dropping heart stopping oh my fucking god of a movie. I haven't seen it yet, but I simply don't believe it can be that good. It's academy politics as usual.
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You are a fucking moron. First off, if you HAVENT seen The Hurt Locker then you're no fan of film. You're just some douche on a talkback. Second, I bet you saw Avatar and you think it should have won. Seeing Avatar and not seeing The Hurt Locker makes you an idiot. Get off this site.
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cameron is not very well liked in hollywood.
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in talks to do us version of The girl with the dragon's tatoo.
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from one of the oscar parties after his ex-wife came up to him with one of the hurt locker producers who robin wright is dating, allegedly there was a minor altercation. so penn hasnt lost the ability to be pissed off at the drop of a hat. miserable bastard.
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but from what I hear. a prophet is really hands down the best foreign film and best film of the year. gritty, tense, no holds barred prison film.
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he made his ex-wife Kim basinger life a nightmare beating her up. controlled her completely to the point where she had to make up a story that she had a weird illness. he verbally assailed his own daughter. as we know. he is an asshole.
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we get the highlights. If you have sky movies you can see the whole thing. I am going to let off a little steam here. I am outraged at the sheer affrontary of Rupert Murdoch and BSKYB. the pacific deserves to be on tv. sky one even. but no the only way to see The pacific in the UK is if you are a subscriber to sky movies plus. it is an outrage. You wont be able to see it anywhere else. except in the us if you have HBO. Murdoch the toad has possibly already bagged the rights to GAME OF THRONES. WANKER.
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Sounds like McDonalds edgy new burger.
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but c'mon! he also did the shwetty balls thing on SNL! that was a riot.
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So I dont what the shwetty balls thing. To us Saturday night live was a thing created ben elton in the 1980s.
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Orcus is losing track
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I said Alec baldwin was an asshole and someone agreed and pointed out that his shwetty balls skethc on SNL was very funny. As we dont get SNL over in the UK/Ireland. I dont know what the shwetty balls sketch was. in the UK Saturday Night Live was a show devised by ben elton author and playwright and hater of thatcher. He more than anyone in uk comedy forced and fought to get the conservatives out of office and get blair in.
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by broadcasting legend Gay Byrne. She showed no empathy during the interview and it was obvious who was in charge. she was in town to promote her wretched movie The beloved which was carved up everywhere like a turkey on Christmas. That was the only word she used during the interview. So take oprah winfrey out of her comfort zone and she is unbeliavably frosty.
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Mar 20, 2010 11:37:49 PM CDT
Way late for this, but Avatar was robbed. Annie Hall/Star Wars
by pennsydeux
this was. Hurt Locker will be forgotten before the year is out; Avatar will be remembered for the next 50 years.
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BTW, every time Orcus tries to watch the Schweddy Balls sketch on Youtube, it is always yanked. Kinda like the Fart song from Family Guy
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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 Harry live oscar thread in every subsequent year until they grow a sack and back up their words with actions.
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