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[azza33]

Personally I hope inglourios basterds gets the nod - it's a good movie and stands up well under multiple viewing. Chris walz is a Monty for best supporting actor - an amazing role!!

[deepthroat]

I'll give you Chris Welz for BSA, but the movie definitely won't win best picture or direction. Welz's a shoe-in (probably my favorite acting performance of 2009) but the film itself was like "Tarrantino light" IMO.

It felt like he had 20 hours worth of backstory, but chose to only film 60 minutes of it and drug that 60 minutes out to 165 minutes. I've never seen a Tarrantino film I didn't like, but this was down there with Reservoir Dogs at the bottom of my list. Still better than 90% of what other directors pump out though.

Just rewatched Boogie Nights and Magnolia on blu-ray before leaving USA. Paul Thomas Anderson is the master.

Um.... what were we talking about?

[azza33]

boogie nights rocks - snuff said

[JaiDee]

(azza33 @ Feb. 03 2010,04:38) Personally I hope inglourios basterds gets the nod

Great movie, a classic really.

 I thought they shouldn't have had Hitler and Goebbels at the movie finale though..... if it was just a buncha unknown generals and germans then the movie could have *almost* been believable!  I do hope it gets best picture nod, it deserves it.

 Never saw Avatar, never will ...... I don't get children's movies.

Never saw Titanic either, never will ...... I don't get chick flicks. And, ummmm...I already know the ending

[azza33]

(azza33 @ Jan. 27 2010,10:01)

who gives a shit - still a shite movie - just shows you how gullible people are.  
Guarantee no acting or directing or script oscars for this one

Well to quote myself... hmmm is that acceptable

Hurt Locker got all the nods... a fine movie no doubt and i enjoyed it much more than Avatar.

Whilst i enjoyed HL... i think it is not in the same class as most of the movies listed below.


2009 - "The Hurt Locker"

2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"

2007 - "No Country for Old Men"

2006 - "The Departed"

2005 - "Crash"

2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"

2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

2002 - "Chicago"

2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"

2000 - "Gladiator"

1999 - "American Beauty"

1998 - "Shakespeare in Love"

1997 - "Titanic"

1996 - "The English Patient"

1995 - "Braveheart"

1994 - "Forrest Gump"

1993 - "Schindler's List"

1992 - "Unforgiven"

1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"

1990 - "Dances with Wolves"

1989 - "Driving Miss Daisy"

1988 - "Rain Man"

1987 - "The Last Emperor"

1986 - "Platoon"

1985 - "Out of Africa"

1984 - "Amadeus"

1983 - "Terms of Endearment"

1982 - "Gandhi"

1981 - "Chariots of Fire"

1980 - "Ordinary People"

1979 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"

1978 - "The Deer Hunter"

1977 - "Annie Hall"

1976 - "Rocky"

1975 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

1974 - "The Godfather Part II"

1973 - "The Sting"

1972 - "The Godfather"

1971 - "The French Connection"

1970 - "Patton"

1969 - "Midnight Cowboy"

[Snick]

And Sandra Bullock picked up an Oscar and a Razzie, now that's a record that will stand for a LONG time.

[Lefty]

(JaiDee @ Feb. 06 2010,12:11)

(azza33 @ Feb. 03 2010,04:38) Personally I hope inglourios basterds gets the nod

Great movie, a classic really.

 I thought they shouldn't have had Hitler and Goebbels at the movie finale though..... if it was just a buncha unknown generals and germans then the movie could have *almost* been believable!  I do hope it gets best picture nod, it deserves it.

 Never saw Avatar, never will ...... I don't get children's movies.

Never saw Titanic either, never will ...... I don't get chick flicks.  And, ummmm...I already know the ending  

I didn't mind the inclusion of Hitler and Goebbels at the theater. The movie was a fantasy more or less anyway. The one thing that QT messed up on though IMO, was with his having all the German high command there, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goring, Martin Bormann, that he left out Heinrich Himmler. To have included him would have seemed more complete and he certainly was higher up the Nazi hierarchy than Bormann was. Even so, I love this movie. I wish it had been longer with a little more back story, especially regarding the Basterds and their "Apache Resistance" operations against the Nazis.

The only QT directed movie I like any better is Pulp Fiction. If movies he wrote are included, True Romance would also rank ahead of it. I love all his stuff and to really try to rank them in an order isn't really necessary to me.

I don't care what the Oscar voters said with their votes, it was Best Picture for me of 2009.

[Lefty]

(Snick @ Mar. 08 2010,13:07) And Sandra Bullock picked up an Oscar and a Razzie, now that's a record that will stand for a LONG time.

She was good natured about receiving the Razzie, even though she did not deserve the award and I think at the time she did not know yet she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side.

She ranks pretty high up the list of 40 something white women I'd like a roll in the hay with.