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Star Trek nominated for Best Picture?
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Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
For the past year, everyone said that widening the BP field to 10 would allow Star Trek to be included as a way to make up for The Dark Knight being snubbed in the field of five last year, as if the two were somehow connected. But the oldes and retards who continually misuse the words "family" and "wholesome" voted in The Blind Side instead, because it made them feel good.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Star Trek made ME feel good and that's an achievement!
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Avatar was the best movie experience of my life. Well... the best one where I was looking at the screen, anyway.
Star Trek was great at the time and I still love it, but I think a lot of my enjoyment came from being a Trekkie who was proud to see the franchise getting well received and having money thrown at it. It wasn't a masterpiece.
Star Trek was great at the time and I still love it, but I think a lot of my enjoyment came from being a Trekkie who was proud to see the franchise getting well received and having money thrown at it. It wasn't a masterpiece.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Any movie where everyone is saying "You HAVE to see it in the theater!" automatically raises a red flag with me. I just might deliberately wait to see Avatar as a HQ computer file or on TV for this very reason. If the only way the movie is awesome is through special glasses on a screen the size of Rhode Island, then it may be a cool popcorn movie, but it can't be a great film.
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
Well many people have said that the 2D version is still very good.
And you do have to see it at the theatre.
Because, y'know, it's how films are supposed to be seen.
But of course what do I know! I've seen the film so obviously I don't know what I'm talking about compared to people who haven't!
And you do have to see it at the theatre.
Because, y'know, it's how films are supposed to be seen.
But of course what do I know! I've seen the film so obviously I don't know what I'm talking about compared to people who haven't!
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
IIRC whisky said something about having seen it in 2D at the cinema, so I can see from that perspective it'd be a big letdown, after hearing everyone go on about how amazing it was. As a work of art, though, you have to see it in the context it was intended to fully enjoy it. You're not going to appreciate Guernica fully if it's printed on a postage stamp and you're not going to appreciate Avatar fully if it's displayed in 2D on your laptop screen. That doesn't mean it's bad art.
If you wait to see it on the small screen, then your suspicions will probably be "confirmed", because I'm sure you'll be underwhelmed by it in that format. When I see the adverts on tv it looks like a completely different movie to the one I watched in the cinema.
As for whether it should be "best picture" or not, well, no, probably not. It's revolutionary in terms of how it looks and how it was accomplished, but as lots of people have said, the story isn't particularly original.
If you wait to see it on the small screen, then your suspicions will probably be "confirmed", because I'm sure you'll be underwhelmed by it in that format. When I see the adverts on tv it looks like a completely different movie to the one I watched in the cinema.
As for whether it should be "best picture" or not, well, no, probably not. It's revolutionary in terms of how it looks and how it was accomplished, but as lots of people have said, the story isn't particularly original.
Avatar was beautiful at the theater, and I'm glad I made the effort to see it there. I hardly ever EVER see films in the theater. While you are watching the movie, you are sort of in awe of how lovely it all is.. it's only afterwords that you start to think about the dumb stuff. The forced conflict over unobtainium, the over the top military guy (he has some of the stupidest dialog EVAR), the Bushisms made me roll my eyes and took me out of the OH HOW PURTY feeling.. then jumping into that mech suit and pulling a giant knife made me lol.
Come to think of it, my entire problem with the film was how they portrayed the military.
Come to think of it, my entire problem with the film was how they portrayed the military.
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Well, it was a mercenary group, so that excuses some of it. I laughed a bit at the mech having a knife as well (reminded me of the progressive knife from NGE). I think a lot of the Bushisms and parallels to stuff involving Native Americans would have gone over my head, as I've obviously been exposed to all of that less, living here. Still picked up on the general analogy, of course.
My problem with the mercenary group is the same problem I have with a lot of movies/TV shows.. I don't like it when they make the bad guys SUPER BAD, like they have no compassion, or goodness at all. When they are so overwhelmingly bad they'd kill kittens with their teeth, just for pleasure, lol.
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Mmm. Giovanni Ribisi's character was almost played for laughs he was so lacking in compassion and the army guy was just psychotic. He liked watching things go boom.
Still, they made some arguments ("don't know bout you, but I see a lot of trees on this planet", etc) which stopped them from descending into total cardboard cutout villainy.
Still, they made some arguments ("don't know bout you, but I see a lot of trees on this planet", etc) which stopped them from descending into total cardboard cutout villainy.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
AKB should get a best supporting alien oscar nom.
whisky
Boobie inspector
I openly admitted at the time that if I had seen the film in 3D I would probably have enjoyed it more, but that kind of proves that its only the 3D that makes it.
Because everyone that's seen it in 3D goes "woo best film ever!" and everyone that's seen it in 2D goes "is that what all the fuss is about?"*
Its like if there was a crappy film, but in some shows it came with a free blow job, and in other shows it didn't, generally speaking the ones getting the blow job would enjoy the film more.
* not everyone obviously, but you have to generalise sometimes
Because everyone that's seen it in 3D goes "woo best film ever!" and everyone that's seen it in 2D goes "is that what all the fuss is about?"*
Its like if there was a crappy film, but in some shows it came with a free blow job, and in other shows it didn't, generally speaking the ones getting the blow job would enjoy the film more.
* not everyone obviously, but you have to generalise sometimes