Comments on: 2008 Oscar Noms - So What Do You Think?

By: brian

brian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:34:10 +0000

Juno and Reitman dont belong.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:33:30 +0000

To respond to an early post Blood was an epic. No Country was not. Interesting, suspensful and weird. Blood had more wow factor, Country had more weird factor.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:31:23 +0000

Snubbing Into The Wild was inexcusable across the board. Typcial Hollywood Bs politics

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:37:50 +0000

I can’t believe Robert Downey Jr. wasn’t nominated for supporting actor in Zodiac, he was perfect!

By: Dylan McAvenia.

Dylan McAvenia. — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:59:11 +0000

Ellen Page did a pretty great job in a role like that, being nineteen and all. I thought the writing was pretty solid, but I’m not exactly sure about the strength of those nominations. writing and actress are a definate…if I worked for the academy, I might even mention those two. But picture/director may seem a little obsurd. it’s this years Little Miss Sunshine. imagine if Zodiac got a best pic nom…it would be the darkest oscars in years…they had to throw one “feel-gooder” in there somewhere.

worst snubs:
before the devil
zodiac

and ROBERT:
your script > juno? anychance I can read?! :)

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:44:24 +0000

Viggo said he won’t cross the picket line.

He rules :)

By: kiko

kiko — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:59:30 +0000

Looks like this time i wont turn the tv on…Lowered expectations!

By: I Love Substance

I Love Substance — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:44:55 +0000

Taxi to the Dark Side Movie Poster…

So far this is my favorite poster of 2008. The Dark Knight poster is pretty hot but this has so much more meaning. It has a great colors and texture that give the posted some feel. I think the shadow of the detained person that makes up part of the US…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:44:00 +0000

Tim Burton is overrated in my opinion.

By: larry

larry — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:08:24 +0000

I loved DDL in There Will Be Blood, don’t get me wrong. But can someone tell me why TWBB is better than NCFOM? I mean, the directing, cinematography and acting were all absolutely top notch in TWBB, but I felt like there was some unnecessary sequences that didn’t add to the film (but didn’t subtract, either)… like, I get that Plainview was fucking crazy about oil, two-faced, etc… but it seemed like it was too long simply for the sake of being too long. Like I said, it’s not that there were any bad scenes… just not needed.

To contrast, I felt like every scene in NCFOM was needed, and important to the plot, etc. It didn’t feel like there was anything left out, or that there was too much fat around the edges. It was perfect. And I can’t see TWBB beating it out for best picture. Best director, sure. PTA was fucking great. But I don’t think that TWBB’s overall story arc, if you will, is better than NCFOM’s.

Also, Ellen Page and Juno FTW in actress and original screenplay.

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:59:49 +0000

the academy is insane, snub zodiac and american gangster but give michael clayton and atomenet the nods. i want to punch the academy in the face.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:49:49 +0000

@reezy: Yeah it wasn’t. I know that “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is a really great movie. But I can live with that, because they traded the “Best Foreign Film” nomination for the amazing number of four other, high-profile nominations.

In the same way they traded the “Best Foreign Film” nomination from “Persepolis” for a “Best Animated Film” nomination, but “Persepolis” would have deserved both.

But I already complained about the Foreign Film category a few posts above. Last year “The Lives of Others” was an amazing choice. One of the greatest movies I have ever seen, but this year the category is really strange.

By: reezy

reezy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:35:56 +0000

i’m confused… so ‘the diving bell and the butterfly’ wasn’t nominated for best foreign film?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:32:32 +0000

Films left out or have less attention:
Reign Over Me
The Simpsons (come on. We DON’T need a nother penguin film)
Across the Universe
Grindhouse

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:53:11 +0000

The Academy nominations are pretty good this year (of course they are better than the Golden Globe nominations). I’m really glad that they awarded “There Will Be Blood”, one of the best pictures of the year, with a stunning 8 nominations. I was positive surprised after the movie was so underrepresented at the Golden Globes.
With “There Will Be Blood” and “No Country for Old Men” we have two really great movies as the top runners. What do you want more?
And I also think it’s right that they left “American Gangster” out. It’s still a very good movie, but it’s not as good as last years “The Departed” and , as usual, Ridley Scott has a problem with the final cut.
But the “Best Foreign Film” category is a bit strange this year. Where is the critically acclaimed “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”, winner at Cannes and Best Picture at the European Film Awards? Then Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution” was not permitted because of arbitrary formalities. The Austrian movie “The Counterfeiters” is good, but not good enough (another WW2). I would have preferred the German movie “The Edge of Heaven” instead.
All in all I agree with most of their choices in the major categories and I’m looking forward to the award ceremony press conference.

@Smoltz: “Norbit” got a Oscar nomination for “Best Makeup”. That’s just one of the pretty unimportant technical categorys. And, of course, that is absolutey NO statement about the quality of the movie or the acting. They just think that somebody put enough rouge on Eddie Murphy’s face. That’s all…nothing to worry about.

By: Kirk Faber

Kirk Faber — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:29:26 +0000

Where’s Zodiac?

By: Kashif Pasta

Kashif Pasta — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:27:52 +0000

Juno was waaay too overhyped for me - but i think i’ll enjoy it on DVD. A great movie, but def. not a best screenplay winner. That said, I don’t know first-hand what it really takes to write a full screenplay and get it made, which is why I’m not the one calling the shots here.

By: Kode

Kode — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:23:52 +0000

God dammit!

By: Smoltz

Smoltz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:15:30 +0000

Norbit - 1
Zodiac - 0

This has to be a joke.

By: Kode

Kode — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:14:24 +0000

It is so painful seeing some.. thing.. like Norbit in the Oscar noms.
I hope Persepolis beat the crap out of the Rat (sighs.. yeah right)