Well, it's not like they didn't know what to expect from Ricky Gervais. He basically pulled the same stuff last year. If you hired him after that, then I think you should just take it like a man.
The best part was when he just kept talking and talking after the music played, and then gave a shout out to Robert DeNiro. LOL.
The King's Speech has kind of evaporated for me after two weeks. To me, it was like that nice feel good movie that was really delightful when you saw it, but after a while, it's just like - well, that was kind of inconsequential. Perfectly good movie, but just too unambitious to really merit lots of wins and the directing was fairly pedestrian (ugh, I would give anything to kick Hooper out of the director's line-up). And honestly, I think that movie is already getting rewarded for its strongest component, Colin Firth.
Best Score isn't a 'best soundtrack' award though and I do think the impact of the music in TSN merits the award because of how it was placed in certain scenes (the facesmash creation for example), even if it doesn't have pretty melodies. I honestly can't remember a single moment in TKS where an original score really enhanced the scene (there were some classical works in there that were memorable, but that's not original). Inception has great music, but I could also see why it lost cause I have heard some commentators complain that it was just too bombastic and OTT in some scenes.
I liked True Grit a lot as well, but it wasn't even nominated here and probably isn't in the Top 5 for Best Picture either. I think what hurts it is that it's nowhere near as good as No Country For Old Men. And the fact that the critics liked it (no 100's on Metacritic even), but didn't love it is another sign that there's not enough passion behind it to really put it in the mix for BP.
The films of 2010 that I consider to be equal to or better than TSN - Blue Valentine, A Prophet, Exit Through the Gift Shop, True Grit and Toy Story 3, all of them weren't nominated at the Globes and none of them have any shot at winning Best Picture. So I already consider it a pretty good year when something's that's actually good is in the hunt for Best Picture and I don't have to deal with some Slumdog Millionaire shit winning ridiculous things like SAG Ensemble or stupid movies like The Reader and Babel getting nominations. This year, I feel like all the likely nominees (except The Town) are pretty deserving at least. There's no Avatar or Blind Side at least, which is nice for a change.
Olivia's was the most obvious 'wow' dress, but I'm a little sick of the obvious Marchesa designs.
That was my thing as well. HFPA knew what they were getting into. To stamp their feet and throw a fit is just immature and ridiculous. I mean, really.
That's how I feel about 127 Hours (and, to an extent, The Social Network). I am on top of the world that Colin Firth is getting the recognition he deserves (and if Christian Bale wasn't around this yea, I'd love for Geoffrey Rush to be winning too because he was fantastic but I love Bale too so I'm happy there). It's all a matter of preference and I thought The King's Speech was flawless and it still does resonate with me but you can't say the same for everyone.
You make a good point there. To be honest, I would have wanted Inception to win over TSN for score. I can understand The King's Speech not winning because, while it was pretty, it didn't enhance any scenes as you said. But I think Inception had an incredible score and deserved that win. Then again, they might also be looking at Zimmer having enough awards for now.
uggghhhh Slumdog Millionaire winning was like a slap in the face, I hated that. I do agree that at least all the nominees are worthy this year. I may have my preferences but I can't say that TSN is like Slumdog or The Blind Side in any regards so that's a fair point.
I'm a sucker for ballgowns and other than hers, Hailee Steinfeld was my other favourite.
And honestly, when you nominate stuff like The Tourist and Alice in Wonderland, you pretty much deserve all the crap you can get. lol
The King's Speech would've been like the obvious 90's Best Picture winner, cause for some reason that's what they were into back then. But I think in the 2000s, the only winner that fit the mold would be A Beautiful Mind and that movie gets so much shit (kind of deserves it though for winning BP in a year full of great movies. ugh 2001 was such a joke). I liked TKS, but I KNOW that if it won, it would get a lot of crap for it and I'd prefer if it didn't get that reputation as like this century's How Green Was My Valley (and that movie was actually good too). LOL.
Slumdog Millionaire was just one of those movies that I was like WTF ARE WE WATCHING THE SAME MOVIE. 2008 was one of the worst Oscar years ever. They just nominated so much crap and left out so many good things. 2009 at least had good winners in the end (other than Sandra).
I didn't even consider TKS getting crap for winning and I guess that is a silver lining. I guess, overall, I still would have liked to see it won but unlike with Slumdog, I'm not devastated and throwing things at my TV or anything so while I would have preferred it, it didn't ruin anything for my by any means which I'm glad of.
ugh 2008 was such a horrible year, I completely agree. I honestly didn't know why some films got nominated. I was literally dumbfounded. Like with the Comedy/Musical category this year, tbh. 2009 was better, much better, and I was overall much happier but as crap as 2008 was, it didn't make me as upset as I was when Tarantino didn't win Best Original Screenplay and I don't know I'll ever get over that.
(Also, LJ apparently doesn't like you. I'm getting notifications from most everyone but you, lol.)
lol, that's so weird. i think your notification came like an hour later for me (cause I saw your comment here waaayy before i got a notice). wtf. this is weird.
I think whenever the critics' choice doesn't match the industry's choice, there's a lot of backlash for the movie that the industry chose (and most of the time, it's cause their choice sucks in comparison lol). There's loads of recent examples even - LA Confidential vs. Titanic, Traffic/Crouching Tiger vs. Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan vs. Shakespeare in Love. At this point, TSN has swept the critics awards more than any film since probably Schindler's List, so I can imagine that if it loses now, it won't be pretty.
2008 was just weird. You had some pretty good films/performances, but then they go and nominate The Reader, Benjamin Button, Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Cate Blanchett for that horrible Golden Age, and god, the supporting actress category was just pure crap (not a single performance in there that deserves an Oscar).
Tarantino already has a screenplay Oscar so I was like, bummer but oh well. And I liked The Hurt Locker screenplay as well. I had a bigger problem with Precious winning Adapted, cause seriously, that was not even good and the other nominees were awesome. lol.
The best part was when he just kept talking and talking after the music played, and then gave a shout out to Robert DeNiro. LOL.
The King's Speech has kind of evaporated for me after two weeks. To me, it was like that nice feel good movie that was really delightful when you saw it, but after a while, it's just like - well, that was kind of inconsequential. Perfectly good movie, but just too unambitious to really merit lots of wins and the directing was fairly pedestrian (ugh, I would give anything to kick Hooper out of the director's line-up). And honestly, I think that movie is already getting rewarded for its strongest component, Colin Firth.
Best Score isn't a 'best soundtrack' award though and I do think the impact of the music in TSN merits the award because of how it was placed in certain scenes (the facesmash creation for example), even if it doesn't have pretty melodies. I honestly can't remember a single moment in TKS where an original score really enhanced the scene (there were some classical works in there that were memorable, but that's not original). Inception has great music, but I could also see why it lost cause I have heard some commentators complain that it was just too bombastic and OTT in some scenes.
I liked True Grit a lot as well, but it wasn't even nominated here and probably isn't in the Top 5 for Best Picture either. I think what hurts it is that it's nowhere near as good as No Country For Old Men. And the fact that the critics liked it (no 100's on Metacritic even), but didn't love it is another sign that there's not enough passion behind it to really put it in the mix for BP.
The films of 2010 that I consider to be equal to or better than TSN - Blue Valentine, A Prophet, Exit Through the Gift Shop, True Grit and Toy Story 3, all of them weren't nominated at the Globes and none of them have any shot at winning Best Picture. So I already consider it a pretty good year when something's that's actually good is in the hunt for Best Picture and I don't have to deal with some Slumdog Millionaire shit winning ridiculous things like SAG Ensemble or stupid movies like The Reader and Babel getting nominations. This year, I feel like all the likely nominees (except The Town) are pretty deserving at least. There's no Avatar or Blind Side at least, which is nice for a change.
Olivia's was the most obvious 'wow' dress, but I'm a little sick of the obvious Marchesa designs.
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That's how I feel about 127 Hours (and, to an extent, The Social Network). I am on top of the world that Colin Firth is getting the recognition he deserves (and if Christian Bale wasn't around this yea, I'd love for Geoffrey Rush to be winning too because he was fantastic but I love Bale too so I'm happy there). It's all a matter of preference and I thought The King's Speech was flawless and it still does resonate with me but you can't say the same for everyone.
You make a good point there. To be honest, I would have wanted Inception to win over TSN for score. I can understand The King's Speech not winning because, while it was pretty, it didn't enhance any scenes as you said. But I think Inception had an incredible score and deserved that win. Then again, they might also be looking at Zimmer having enough awards for now.
uggghhhh Slumdog Millionaire winning was like a slap in the face, I hated that. I do agree that at least all the nominees are worthy this year. I may have my preferences but I can't say that TSN is like Slumdog or The Blind Side in any regards so that's a fair point.
I'm a sucker for ballgowns and other than hers, Hailee Steinfeld was my other favourite.
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The King's Speech would've been like the obvious 90's Best Picture winner, cause for some reason that's what they were into back then. But I think in the 2000s, the only winner that fit the mold would be A Beautiful Mind and that movie gets so much shit (kind of deserves it though for winning BP in a year full of great movies. ugh 2001 was such a joke). I liked TKS, but I KNOW that if it won, it would get a lot of crap for it and I'd prefer if it didn't get that reputation as like this century's How Green Was My Valley (and that movie was actually good too). LOL.
Slumdog Millionaire was just one of those movies that I was like WTF ARE WE WATCHING THE SAME MOVIE. 2008 was one of the worst Oscar years ever. They just nominated so much crap and left out so many good things. 2009 at least had good winners in the end (other than Sandra).
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I didn't even consider TKS getting crap for winning and I guess that is a silver lining. I guess, overall, I still would have liked to see it won but unlike with Slumdog, I'm not devastated and throwing things at my TV or anything so while I would have preferred it, it didn't ruin anything for my by any means which I'm glad of.
ugh 2008 was such a horrible year, I completely agree. I honestly didn't know why some films got nominated. I was literally dumbfounded. Like with the Comedy/Musical category this year, tbh. 2009 was better, much better, and I was overall much happier but as crap as 2008 was, it didn't make me as upset as I was when Tarantino didn't win Best Original Screenplay and I don't know I'll ever get over that.
(Also, LJ apparently doesn't like you. I'm getting notifications from most everyone but you, lol.)
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I think whenever the critics' choice doesn't match the industry's choice, there's a lot of backlash for the movie that the industry chose (and most of the time, it's cause their choice sucks in comparison lol). There's loads of recent examples even - LA Confidential vs. Titanic, Traffic/Crouching Tiger vs. Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan vs. Shakespeare in Love. At this point, TSN has swept the critics awards more than any film since probably Schindler's List, so I can imagine that if it loses now, it won't be pretty.
2008 was just weird. You had some pretty good films/performances, but then they go and nominate The Reader, Benjamin Button, Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Cate Blanchett for that horrible Golden Age, and god, the supporting actress category was just pure crap (not a single performance in there that deserves an Oscar).
Tarantino already has a screenplay Oscar so I was like, bummer but oh well. And I liked The Hurt Locker screenplay as well. I had a bigger problem with Precious winning Adapted, cause seriously, that was not even good and the other nominees were awesome. lol.
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