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wertz

THE OSCAR POST - PART TWO

Feb 24, 2008 04:15

Okay, onto the awards people actually care about - the ones that score four and five points in our annual competitions here. (The other nominees and my preferences, and predictions regarding them can be found in The Oscar Post - Part One.) As I'm so totally disappointed in this year's lackluster nominees, for some of these I'll be adding a "Should ( Read more... )

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anonymous February 24 2008, 23:20:12 UTC

Got the ballot - fired up and ready to go! :P

Kev

wertz February 25 2008, 00:30:24 UTC

Good luck, biatch.

rickyboy February 24 2008, 23:34:33 UTC

okay i filled out my thing before lookin at your predictions. did you hear from whatsisname ryan?

now i'm gonna go look at your posts and see how wrong i am !

wertz February 25 2008, 00:32:23 UTC

Heh - I wouldn't count on my being all that accurate this year. There are a lot of tough calls. I just got an email from Ryan a little while ago - he was in Tampa and will be calling when he gets back in (around 8:00).

G'luck. :)

jiveturky February 25 2008, 06:21:26 UTC

Hey, how about The Bourne Ultimatum getting three awards! That was pretty spiffy, and accurate, too.

I was surprised to see you pump up Zodiac so much - I found that film to be overwrought and filled with uninspired acting (save for Downey Jr.). Not horrible, I suppose, but not Oscar-worthy.

I did take your recommendation and rented Michael Clayton today; in fact, I watched it right before the Oscars started. And yes, it was rather good, especially Clooney and Wilkinson. And I mean especially Wilkinson, who is just damn good in everything he does.

wertz February 25 2008, 19:06:50 UTC

Yeah - though I thought Tilda Swinton's award was deserved (and usually I can't stand her - heh, maybe it was just seeing her get her comeuppance that I liked).

Zodiac wasn't brilliant (Sean loathed it, in fact - one of our few disagreements this year), but compared to the films that were being honored - well, it was relatively worthy.

jiveturky February 25 2008, 21:15:06 UTC

The scene at the end in the ballroom where Clooney completely serves Swinton was brilliant.

And as far as Zodiac is concerned, artistic merits aside, it was probably "punished" for being released right after the '07 Oscars. It seems like the Academy consistently rewards those movies released in the fall of the previous year. Agree/Disagree?

wertz February 26 2008, 00:45:15 UTC

Agree entirely. Unless it's a huge summer blockbuster that also has some class of artistic merit, look to films released in September or later for Oscar contenders.