I'm going to make my "pitch" (hardy har) here for you to see "Moneyball." I'm not a huge Brad fan, I HATE Jonah Hill, I know NOTHING about the Oakland A's...and yet my father persuaded me. And it was SO GOOD. You don't have to give a damn about baseball or anything of the sort to really enjoy it. And Philip Seymour Hoffman was so amazing. See it if you can, seriously.
I'm thoroughly horrified that Rooney "Spoiled Bitch" Mara got nominated for ripping off Noomi Rapace and yet Tilda Swinton got the shaft. That's whacked. Having said that, I saw "The Iron Lady" and would have no problem with Meryl winning, because she was the only good thing about the film (it's too bad - the movie was too messy to make much sense of history), and when I say "good" I mean "OMG GOOOOOOD!"
And what's up with the total ignorance of/for Ryan Gosling?? He carried "The Ides Of March" and kicked serious ass in "Drive," but yet again he gets nothing?? Why does the Academy not love Ryan??? EVERYONE LOVES RYAN.
The fact that Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross got passed over for their "Dragon" score? WTF. The opening sequence to that movie rivals only "Se7en" in its jaw-dropping amazingness, and the music is a big key to that. No idea why the Academy thought "Social Network" deserved it but this didn't. Baffling.
I've seen "My Week With Marilyn" and thought Michelle Williams did an incredible job, as did Kenneth Branagh - I actually forgot sometimes that they weren't their characters! But I'd be surprised if either won, sadly.
I'll be seeing "The Artist," "The Descendants," "Tree of Life," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Help" before Oscar Day, and I'm going to try to track down "Beginners" and "Albert Nobbs," too. No interest at all in "Hugo," and I find a lot of what I've heard about "Extremely Loud" (the backwards flipbook of Falling Man?!?! Ew!!!) really distasteful (plus I don't like Tom Hanks - I know, I know, I'm an alien! I do love Max von Sydow, though...), and "War Horse" is just so incredibly emotionally manipulative that I'd never get through a film version of it. (It's on stage in Toronto right now, so I know the story well & it's...just...no.)
And yes, I think Uggie should get all the awards in honour of his retirement, and YAY BILLY CRYSTAL! :D
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I'm thoroughly horrified that Rooney "Spoiled Bitch" Mara got nominated for ripping off Noomi Rapace and yet Tilda Swinton got the shaft. That's whacked. Having said that, I saw "The Iron Lady" and would have no problem with Meryl winning, because she was the only good thing about the film (it's too bad - the movie was too messy to make much sense of history), and when I say "good" I mean "OMG GOOOOOOD!"
And what's up with the total ignorance of/for Ryan Gosling?? He carried "The Ides Of March" and kicked serious ass in "Drive," but yet again he gets nothing?? Why does the Academy not love Ryan??? EVERYONE LOVES RYAN.
The fact that Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross got passed over for their "Dragon" score? WTF. The opening sequence to that movie rivals only "Se7en" in its jaw-dropping amazingness, and the music is a big key to that. No idea why the Academy thought "Social Network" deserved it but this didn't. Baffling.
I've seen "My Week With Marilyn" and thought Michelle Williams did an incredible job, as did Kenneth Branagh - I actually forgot sometimes that they weren't their characters! But I'd be surprised if either won, sadly.
I'll be seeing "The Artist," "The Descendants," "Tree of Life," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Help" before Oscar Day, and I'm going to try to track down "Beginners" and "Albert Nobbs," too. No interest at all in "Hugo," and I find a lot of what I've heard about "Extremely Loud" (the backwards flipbook of Falling Man?!?! Ew!!!) really distasteful (plus I don't like Tom Hanks - I know, I know, I'm an alien! I do love Max von Sydow, though...), and "War Horse" is just so incredibly emotionally manipulative that I'd never get through a film version of it. (It's on stage in Toronto right now, so I know the story well & it's...just...no.)
And yes, I think Uggie should get all the awards in honour of his retirement, and YAY BILLY CRYSTAL! :D