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This best picture montage is so stupid.

the best of a weak lot wins

Audio of King's Speech over every other movie helped. lol.

tavernier wrote:the best of a weak lot wins

Black Swan and Social Network?

knives wrote:

tavernier wrote:the best of a weak lot wins

Black Swan and Social Network?

Social was OK, Black Swan, not so much

Fuck I hate singing kids.

Ugh, why do I watch these things

I'm not disappointed, but I'm just sad that more people didn't realize just how great Black Swan and 127 Hours were.

Ah well, Best Pic is yet again another swing and a miss. Will stand proudly with A Beautiful Mind in the collective shrugconscious as the years pass

I have to wonder if Fincher's own reductionism of The Social Network had any influence on this debacle. I think it such a better film than The King's Speech in every department.

Selections aside, this year's Academy Awards ceremony sucked compared to the Golden Globes' imo.

How very 90s.

With The Departed, No Country for Old Men, and The Hurt Locker winning in recent years, there was plenty of talk about this no longer being your father's AMPAS, that the stereotypes about the Academy didn't hold true anymore, etc. Supposedly, the number of genuine movie lovers in the Academy who appreciated and understood cinema outweighed the number of stodgy, old fucks who were suckers for any period piece with British accents that Harvey Weinstein thrust in front of them.

This out to put the kibosh on that talk for a while.

Way to pile on the tacky schmaltz P.S. 122. Randy Newman just gave a "can you believe this shit?" look.

In a year like this, I wouldn't mind an Inception-type winning. I mean, atleast people would remember it.

Well, except for No Country, Hurt Locker and (sort of) Departed and LOTR this decade sucked as bad as the 90's.

I second the "Jennifer Lawrence looked hottest" vote.

mfunk9786 wrote:I'm not disappointed, but I'm just sad that more people didn't realize just how great Black Swan and 127 Hours were.

Black Swan was one of the worst films I have seen in years that gets any acclaim.

FUN FACT: It wasn't a comedy. So all of those people laughing in the theater was unintentional. That should be red flag number 1.

I'll give you No Country, but the rest of the decade doesn't have anything I'm likely to return to.

At least The King's Speech didn't have the clean sweep many expected it to. It ended up tying with Inception for the most awards.

mfunk9786 wrote:I'm not disappointed, but I'm just sad that more people didn't realize just how great Black Swan and 127 Hours were.

On the one hand, I agree with you about Black Swan. But on the right hand, 127 Hours kind of pissed me off. "Celebrate life! Lose an arm!"

aox wrote:

mfunk9786 wrote:I'm not disappointed, but I'm just sad that more people didn't realize just how great Black Swan and 127 Hours were.

Black Swan was one of the worst films I have seen in years that gets any acclaim.

FUN FACT: It wasn't a comedy. So all of those people laughing in the theater was unintentional. That should be red flag number 1.

*like*

Jennifer Lawrence walked off a Special K box

The 80th Academy Awards was the only one this past decade worth looking back on, though PTA should of won director.

aox wrote:

mfunk9786 wrote:I'm not disappointed, but I'm just sad that more people didn't realize just how great Black Swan and 127 Hours were.

Black Swan was one of the worst films I have seen in years that gets any acclaim.

FUN FACT: It wasn't a comedy. So all of those people laughing in the theater was unintentional. That should be red flag number 1.

LOLZ

*CG* wrote:The 80th Academy Awards was the only one this past decade worth looking back on, though PTA should of won director.

That year was such a tease, because it was the greatest group of nominees in my lifetime and it implanted this false hope that things would get better

aox wrote:Black Swan was one of the worst films I have seen in years that gets any acclaim.

FUN FACT: It wasn't a comedy. So all of those people laughing in the theater was unintentional. That should be red flag number 1.

Grand Guignol is bound to elicit titters. Also, you must keep in mind that 95% of all people in movie theater are mouth-breathing morons who are there for the air conditioning. Judging movies by their reactions is a truly Barmy thing to do.

domino harvey wrote:

*CG* wrote:The 80th Academy Awards was the only one this past decade worth looking back on, though PTA should of won director.

That year was such a tease, because it was the greatest group of nominees in my lifetime and it implanted this false hope that things would get better

+1 Prob the last, best group of films there will be for a long time.