It's ok... I also wanna try that Rock Opera, but the trailers seems CHEESY... that's why...

well no i havent seen many movies this year cuz i have been helping money wise for my sisters wedding ... so ive been short... i only see what i can when i can and usually if someone else pays 4 me....

i wask kidding about those realllllly being nominated for best pic. i was just thinkin that there wernt many good movies... so what movies did i enjoy most this year that i thought should be recognized ... (and about the caplocks, i was on my friends key bord...and he broke it lol... so it is stuck on caps)

but i reallythink that people should see repo.... they had like no money and no back up... and with the sources they had, i thought it was great!

...Eagle Eye? Wow. Sorry, that movie was mediocre at best.

I don't think Wall-E is deserving of a Best Picture nomination, it has the Best Animated Feature category for that, and will probably win. Let The Right One In is certainly deserving of a Best Foreign Language nomination, it's one of my favorites of the year for sure. And I have not seen Repo so I have no opinion on that.

My favorite movies of the year (so far) are The Dark Knight and Milk. Yes, I've seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire. They are both good movies, but I don't think either of them should win Best Picture if they are to be nominated. Benjamin Button's main flaw is it's length - it is way longer than it should have been. Well done movie, with good acting and a good story, but it didn't deliver as much as I hoped it to. I'd still recommend it, though.

Judging from all kinds of buzz going around, the final 5 people seem to think will end up as Best Picture are going to be:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Milk

Other Possibilities: The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon

I hope TDK and Milk get the awards and recognition they deserve. Sometimes I worry that Academy members aren't going to mark TDK on their ballots because of the fact that it is a superhero movie, but in other ways I think it is almost a lock, considering how big it is. It's made the top 5 grossing films of all time, only behind Titanic, which no other movie has ever done in film history. All the other films in that top 5 have also been nominated for Best Picture, but Titanic is the only one to ever win. It would be ridiculous not to honor one of the year's most critically acclaimed, and certainly biggest movie.

I still need to see Revolutionary Road, Frost/Nixon and The Wrestler.

I definitely think that the movie has all the elements that are needed to deserve an Oscar, i mean it takes 2 and a half hours to wath it but one never feel bored of it, it a has an interesting plot, makes you think that amazing things could happen and the special effects, screenplay, music and escenaries are wonderfull, plus the interpretations of Ledger, Caine, Oldman, Bale, Eckhard and Freeman are superb, all the cast and crew did an awsome job. Specially Nolan but the way. I mean the movie restablished the credit and turn the eyes of people back to comic books, and now we know that they are not jus for kids but for adults. Could you imagine what Shoemaker would have done with a character like the Joker creeps me out, cuase it would make me feel seek, instead i can´t wait to see if Nolan (i hope) ever made his version of Mr. Freeze. And that´s the point. he took a franchise that was dead because people at wb tought tha Batman was for kids and turn it into a brigthspot in the today`s cinema. TDK deserves an Oscar period.
But the way soor for my English but i haven´t rehearse it for a long time, i´m writting form Ecuador South America. You see the movie rokced the entire world

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It definitely deserves a nomination and a win. TDK was a film that reminded me of the older days of filmmaking, when more filmmakers were focused on making good, solid movies with good characters and stories that keep you involved, rather than super CGI explosions. WALL-E did the same (as pretty much all of Pixar's films do). If ROTK (also an excellent film) can sweep all those awards, then TDK should be able to. I doubt it would be nominated for 11 like ROTK, but I sure hope it does. If neither TDK or WALL-E is nominated for Best Picture, then I'm not watching the Academy Awards. I MEAN that.

haha you're gonna invoke the wrath of obsessive TDK fanboys... LMAO

It was good, and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say it was the best picture.

It's funny how everyone is saying TDK won't win, but in the Wall-E version for "For Your Consideration" everyone said it had a chance. I believe TDK has a bigger chance than Wall-E to be honest, and I'm Pixar obsessed!

Trudat on TWBB; that film will be referenced in the future far more than No Country, witch I loved as well.

I strongly disagree with your saying this film fell apart in the middle. Just because the director/writer decided NOT to go with a traditional three part story structure does not validate what you say by any means....sorry you have the attention span of a 2 year old, and therefore can't appreciate The Dark Knight for what it is. :c

Agreed, TDK has been my favorite movie of the year, but I can't say that I feel that it has been the best. However, Heath Ledger deserves to win something, not just because of his death but because of how he actually became 'The Joker'. I was reminded of how Daniel Day Lewis became Daniel Plainview, and while i'm not comparing him to D. D. L. I am saying that without knowledge of either's methodology they are the two performances in my recent memory that have completely engrossed me.

everyone has to be honest about this. the movie was great, the best batman movie ever. thats only true because of heath ledger though. i never really liked him before, but his preformance in this movie was incredible. his death didnt affect my opinion of his performance, because i was never a fan. TDK might not get best picture, but heath should win a bunch of shit. they should make up some new shit just to award to him, like best on screen magic trick.

lay off the caps dude

it will be nominated, but it won't win

repo lol.

Christian Bale's expression in the ad matches mine exactly. Dark Knight for best Picture? WTF?

I'm just excited at the idea that two of the strongest contenders for a nod are an animated film about a robot and a Batman movie. It's time the Academy looks beyond labels like these and recognizes good filmmaking when they see it.

I think it will win and the flip side to that will be the end of most shitty comic book movies. And one for the history books. You can't shy away from a great film plus great performances that everyone has seen.

The news flying around that TDK had been Disqualified for the Best Score...

& we're soo f*ckin crazy abt that...

REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA ???, EAGLE EYE ???


OMG... O.. M... G....

Thank god U're not a judge frm Oscars...

C'mon seems like U dun watch Movies alot, Eagle Eye is reli reali badd.. m'mkay..?

This is why The Dark Knight WILL be a Best Picture nominee...

http://entertainmentblur.wordpress.com/2008/11/17...


... though I don't believe it's going to win.

I'm always a TDK fan but I don't think it's gonna make it to the nomination for Best Picture. It could win the award for Adaptation screenplay or Film Editing or Costume Design, but not Best Picture. Sorry.

If The Dark Knight wins there will not be a Batman 3 for a long time..if ever. Chris Nolan seems he would be that way. I just don't think another Batman film could top this one but Gotham City has many story's. ...?...

Oh, I think Slumdog will win, by the way.

Oh, the movie will definitely get a nomination for ratings, no doubt. Win though? Very unlikely. Oh, and nice new comment system Peter.

I think it deserves a nomination, but probably not a win.

Heath Ledger, though...that's another story.

TDK is imo the best movie of the year so far and yep i also lost faith in the academy when forrest gump (9/10, i liked a lot) beat pulp fiction ( best movie of 94) and shawshank.

o_O

ha! good this you aren't a judge.

no i disagree I think that's just going from one extreme to another. you don't have to be 'fair' and 'nice' when you give out awards. you have to be true. and nominating the dark knight is such a bad decision. there are so many flaws in that movie, and i'm talking about story flaws. i'm just going to point out that the movie fell apart in the middle. and pathetically picked it's own pieces up and pushed them through the finish line. it started pretty good and just ended so lame. people at the moment just don't see the flaws because it was marketed so well, heath ledger died and they're pulling out the pity card, and... well it's the new batman movie and it's more 'realistic' and that's what people want now a days. give it a few years, after everyone metaphorically cums and stops jacking off to it, then they'll realize all the flaws. and they'll actually watch the movie. not see it. One thing that always made me laugh when the movie came out, is that everyone (and i mean everyone) said "the problem about Tim Burton's Batman is that it should have been called 'The Joker' because it was more about him then batman". and now, the only thing anyone seems to point out in the Dark Knight is the joker. nothing else, as if two face, batman, or alfred exist.

okay... i realised this has gotten too long and i totally strayed from the topic. i'm shutting up now.

the only thing worthy of an oscar in TDK was Heath Ledgers performance.

I know voters who have say in the Oscars would like to see this get nominated. It'll shake things up in the industry, give REAL ratings for the actual show, and prove that Oscar means Best Picture, not Best Picture That Is In The Meryl Streep/Russell Crowe Genre. Lets pass up the Oscar candy and get down to the nitty gritty. The Dark Knight deserves to be up there with any film this year.

Note, I said "Not necessarily in the 'Best Picture' category". I would love for The Dark Knight to win, but all this talk about Slumdog Millionaire is making me worry. In that case, it's a deadly combination of an unheard of movie, with a rags-to-riches "cultural" plot. Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, and Frost/Nixon are all expected - because they have politically/socially energized plots.

The Academy Awards have been horrible in the ratings the past few years. What better way to rejuvenate them by 1. Allowing trailers to be shown during the commercials and 2. Nominating The Dark Knight and having thousands upon thousands of fan boys tuning in to hopefully watch their film win. It's a no brainer it will get nominated. Will it win? It should....but probably won't.

i think tdk is the best film of the year, by far. if it came out last year, however, i would reserve that designation for there will be blood. and i definitely think *that* should've won over no country.

it most likely will anyway, for Best Score or Best Cinemateography, Best Sound or Best Editing or something anyway, if not "Best Picture." and hopefully Best Supporting Actor for good ol' Heath Ledger

There have been ads like this running in variety for awhile now:
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i think that with the road pushed back to 09, it's going to open a spot, and if the dark knight wasn't already in it'll make a strong push to be nominated.

I hope it at least gets nominated

THESE ARE MY TOP 5 NOMINEES

5.REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
4. WALL-E
3.THE DARK KNIGHT
2. EAGLE EYE
1.LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

(NOT IN ANY ORDER OF FAVS OR ANYTHING JUST WHAT CAME TO MIND...)

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE REPO GET NOMINATED... ITS AN AMAZING MOVIE. BUT I DONT HINK IT WOULD WIN.... WALL-E WAS GREAT, JUST IT WILL WIN BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS CHANGING THIS YEAR... THE DARK KNIGHT I BELIEVE SHOULD WIN, EAGLE EYE WAS GREAT, BUT ISNT AT THE TOP OF THE WINNERS LIST IN MY EYE, AND LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, THAT WOULD BE COOL TO SEE AT LEAST GET NOMINATED...

i'm testing out the comment here... I guess it's nifty

Amen to that Delta.

The Dark Knight is my best picture of the year, I don't need the Academy to validate that.

I lost faith in the Oscars the year Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in Love anyways.

It would be a major leap for comic book movies, that's for certain.

I really think that this year is lacking the 'indie cred' punch that the movies from last year had. I saw The Wrestler..it's not "OMG, I need win Best Pic". I haven't seen Slumdog yet, however.

nameless films like Return of the King (And the other two LOTR that were nominated)? Please, if ROTK could win it, The Dark Knight can as well.

so lude, what five films that you've seen at this point in the year do you think should be the final five best picture nominees?

The Dark Knight is a great movie..
but as far as Best Picture goes, I dont think it should be in there.

Needless to say I agree with Angry Broomstick