The 84th Academy Awards --> 2012 Awards Show Discussion
02-26-12, 08:03 PM
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Re: The 84th Academy Awards --> 2012 Awards Show Discussion
Did they just show Adam fucking Sandler in an actor's montage !??
02-26-12, 08:05 PM
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Re: The 84th Academy Awards --> 2012 Awards Show Discussion
So what are the odds of Dujardin closing out his acceptance speech with as my character would say... and then mouthing a bunch of words? (that never gets old!)
02-26-12, 08:06 PM
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Re: The 84th Academy Awards --> 2012 Awards Show Discussion
Sorry to disrupt the scheduled live commentary, but:
Then again, quite a few people consider Lord of the Rings, The Departed, and No Country for Old Men masterpieces. I don't necessarily agree with those assessments, but I would say that they have just as much of a chance of holding up over time as any of the four you name. Then again, as someone who has seen almost all of the Best Picture winners and many of the nominees since the beginning of the Oscars, I don't really buy that there's been much of a decrease in the quality of their choices. I do think there has been a slight slump in the quality of American filmmaking over the past decade (though the increase in quality of the cinema of certain parts of the world has more than made up for it), but the Academy has always gravitated towards certain kinds of films, and there have always been great films that won and really mediocre (or worse) films that won. (And if I had seen those films when they came out I might have thought differently about them than I do watching them as a 21st century viewer.)
The Artist may be forgotten in ten years. On the other hand, it may be a beloved classic in fifty years. Times change, as do people's expectations and worldviews, and predicting how people will react to something in the future has always seemed a bit pointless - as do declarative statements like "x film will be forgotten in 10 years" - especially since those "predictions" are generally just based on what the predictor currently thinks of the film, the assumption being that he (or she) has a better feel for the movie tastes of future audiences and therefore his current minority opinion will be the default opinion of the future.
I liked a few of the Best Picture nominees, but none of them are all-time greats. A probable win for The Artist just means yet another Best Picture winner that nobody will even remember in 10 years. Looking at the Best Picture winners over the past 10 years, I'm not sure many, if any, would be a movie that you look at and think that, in the future, it will be looked back on as a classic.
If you go back to even just as recently as the '90s, there are a lot of winners that are still considered masterpieces by many (Braveheart, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, to name a few).
If you go back to even just as recently as the '90s, there are a lot of winners that are still considered masterpieces by many (Braveheart, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, to name a few).
The Artist may be forgotten in ten years. On the other hand, it may be a beloved classic in fifty years. Times change, as do people's expectations and worldviews, and predicting how people will react to something in the future has always seemed a bit pointless - as do declarative statements like "x film will be forgotten in 10 years" - especially since those "predictions" are generally just based on what the predictor currently thinks of the film, the assumption being that he (or she) has a better feel for the movie tastes of future audiences and therefore his current minority opinion will be the default opinion of the future.
02-26-12, 08:06 PM
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Re: The 84th Academy Awards --> 2012 Awards Show Discussion
They inserted Justin Bieber into a Woody Allen movie. Worse crimes have been committed tonight.
02-26-12, 08:06 PM
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02-26-12, 08:07 PM
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02-26-12, 08:08 PM
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Folks in Isreal are pissed right now.
02-26-12, 08:08 PM
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Re: The 84th Academy Awards --> 2012 Awards Show Discussion
'Here Iran, take an Oscar....don't get too attached though, we'll be over on a few months with a few tanks to pick it back up'
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02-26-12, 08:10 PM
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Well they got this one right, "A Separation" is a brilliant film. Now I don't need to watch the rest of this crap. 
02-26-12, 08:12 PM
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02-26-12, 08:12 PM
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Let's hope Octavia doesn't have a nip slip.
02-26-12, 08:15 PM
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