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I’d agree with most of that. No Country should win. The people who think the last fifteen minutes are aimless and draggy probably think Michael Bay directs arty films because he points the camera at the sun. Bastards.

When I was coming out of the cinema one stupid old bat said – in as many words – that she didn’t like it because Tommy Lee Jones didn’t beat the bad guy up at the end and that she doesn’t like films were the bad guy gets away with it.

People like this deserve no sympathy.

Juno was amusing but not oscar material. No one speaks like that true – but it is funny listening to impressionable teens try!

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Why I stopped watching the Oscars: Because Forrest Gump took the Oscar for Best Special Effects over The Mask and that kind of bitter just don’t go away.

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Not seen There will be Blood yet. I really want to – but do you know what puts me off? The font of the title. Petty I know.

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To be fair, after seeing FORREST GUMP for the first time, me and my dad where like “so, did they hire an actual amputee and get some kind of prosthetics for the scenes where he had legs- no, no, that can’t be it, he walks normally, and-”

It was sort of a surprise to find out that they could use computers to remove something like a guy’s legs so seamlessly.

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No Country went off the rails *long* before the last 15 minutes. I can’t recall ever being so enthusiastically engrossed in a movie only to have it to a complete 180 in the third act. “Here’s 90 minutes of expert pacing and masterful application of tension andddddddddddd….oh, you wanted a punchline? There’s no punchline.” I’ve never seen a Cohen Bros. movie I haven’t loved (yes, i loved The Ladykillers), and the third act of NC just drove me crazy. Obviously, I’m tip-toeing around spoilers, but I think anyone who has seen it can assume what I’m referring to.

The movie really got me thinking about how great the disconnect has become between Critics/The Academy and the moviegoing public. When people wonder aloud how something like Meet the Spartans can make money while modern-day classics like Million Dollar Baby make no cash, I’m going to remember this.

There Will Be Blood deserves it, no contest.

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“Why I stopped watching the Oscars: Because Forrest Gump took the Oscar for Best Picture over The Shawshank Redemption and that kind of bitter just don’t go away.”

Fixed that for ya.

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“Why I stopped watching the Oscars: Because Forrest Gump took the Oscar for anything other than Best Special Effects and that kind of bitter just don’t go away.”

Fixed that fix for ya.

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Charlotte Ashley said on February 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm

This is one of the first years ever where I feel I might actually want to watch some or all of the nominees. I’ve seen No Country, and that’s it. While I liked it, I wasn’t overwhelmed with its awesomeness. Juno and Atonement seem like lightweight nods to me, but all of them look worth watching…

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James McAvoy, not James Purefoy. One N in Paul Dano.

It’ll go to No Country.

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I’m seeing them all on Saturday, though I have already seen Juno. Juno is a great movie, and even though I don’t think it will win, I didn’t think Little Miss Sunshine would win either, and this has a lot of the same things going for it.

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Is it wrong that I assumed that There Will Be Blood was a Saw spinoff?

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James McAvoy.

*sigh* I loved Atonement. As much as I loved the novel. And the adaptation was done so cleverly. The opening shot with the dollhouse? Putting the constructed nature of the setting in the forefront? Clever! The score, not just the typewriter sounds, but the bits where the score bled into the action of the film (Briony playing it on the piano, Cecilia plucking a final note) underscoring, once again, the constructed nature of the action? Clever! Oh, how I loved that movie.

It won’t win, but if it does, you’ll hear my shouts of joy throughout Toronto.

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IslandLiberal said on February 21st, 2008 at 9:54 pm

I’ve only seen Atonement, Juno and No Country For Old Men so far; There Will Be Blood arrives this weekend in my area. Of the two I’ve seen so far, I’d vote for Atonement, I guess; NCFOM was a great thriller for most of the run, but the ending isn’t good for a thriller, and I’m not really sure I see much deeper meaning in the film to compensate for that, beyond “the bad guy gets away with it” (although I did enjoy the subversion of the title by showing how the country’s always been tough).

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IslandLiberal said on February 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Oh, and I’d disagree about Cody winning, at least; I think she’ll win the screenplay award, since that has a long history as a consolation prize for a popular newcomer.

In the adapted screenplay category, I expect that will go to whichever one of Anderson or the Coens doesn’t win the Picture/Director honours.

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This is pretty much why I won’t see There Will Be Blood and why it will win an oscar:

The first 15 minutes have no speech.

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I really want “No Country For Old Men” to win. It was by and far one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, even if you include the last 15 minutes of the movie.

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“This is pretty much why I won’t see There Will Be Blood and why it will win an oscar:

The first 15 minutes have no speech.”

You won’t even notice it.

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“The first 15 minutes have no speech.”

Worked for The Molly Maguires.

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This is pretty much why I won’t see There Will Be Blood and why it will win an oscar:

The first 15 minutes have no speech.

I wanted to be nice, but I can’t be. That is retarded reasoning.

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I haven’t seen any of these movies. At all. It’s been a bad movie season for me– all I’ve seen has been “Meet the Spartans”.

My 11-year-old sister went to her 11-year-old friend’s movie birthday party and watched Juno. I was a bit stunned, because I live in the Southeastern US and all. General pre-teen consensus was that the movie was “too long”.

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I watched all five in a row yesterday. Juno’s my favorite by a long shot, but I don’t really think it will win. There will be Blood relied entirely on Lewis, and he’s really the only good thing about it. Michael Clayton and Atonement were both OK, but not really gripping or anything. No Country was just flat-out weird. Good, but DAMN was it fucked up.

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