what was the last movie you watched?

GoGoGadget

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HndsmCelt said:
Baggin on the Oscars is easy (espcially since the year Titanic won a slew) But once one realizes that it is the movie industries way of recognizing it's own most of the percived injustices become understandable. Certinally very good and even great films get missed while lessr works get recognized, but why should Hollywood recognize filmmakers who are not part of Hollywood? The oscars is NOT a film festival, it is recognition for SUCCESSFULL films and a 3-5 hour advertisment for the Hollywood film industry. So when actors who rarely do big budget films get a shot like David Stratharin last year, who can blame the Hollywood crowd for recognizing a guy like Philip Seymour Hoffman who has been paying his dues in mainstream fillms for years AND who turnd in a dam good performance in Capote?

Politics IS part of the Oscars BECEAUSE the industry is so sensitive to public perception. It's allways good to remember that Citizen Kane did not win best picture in 1941 loosing to How Green Was My Valley. The influence of WRH on Hollywood was only partly to blame, the fact that the young Mr. Wells was percived as an outsider had even more to due with this decision of the Academy.

My point is it is not only futile, but dam near childish to look to the Oscars as some sort of yard stick of "BEST WORK" or too expect "Justice" in the little envelopes. It's just a show. Hollywood film fans love it and it is after all thier show. No one is required to watch or even pay attention.
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I agree 100%.

But I still LOVE watching the Oscars every year, and I still LOVE bitching about how wrong they got it. :p
 
KingKong

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Stick to the Cannes or Venice or Toronto Film Festivals. The Oscars are a joke, whether it's a yardstick for "bestwork" or a show for Hollywood "Celebrities" to flaunt their new Dolce & Gabbana costumes. This is just my humble opinion ofcourse.
 
RoyalDiva

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I absolutely loved 'Crash' and was so happy to see it win Best Picture. It was the first time in years that I felt that the academy had finally gotten it right.
 
Jerryaki

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RoyalDiva said:
I absolutely loved 'Crash' and was so happy to see it win Best Picture. It was the first time in years that I felt that the academy had finally gotten it right.
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I thought it was interesting, but not nearly as powerful as the media made it out to be. It was like Lost in Translation, I just don't get what's so "critically acclaimed" about them. I did thoroughly enjoy Ludacris' performance in it.
 
RoyalDiva

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Gargamel said:
Last one I totally approved of was American Beauty. What did you think about that one?
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Hmm....can't remember what other movies it was up against. I liked American Beauty a lot and thought it was a very well-made and creative film. But I'd have to remember what other movies were nominated that year before I can say it deserved it's award.
 
RoyalDiva

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Jerryaki said:
I thought it was interesting, but not nearly as powerful as the media made it out to be. It was like Lost in Translation, I just don't get what's so "critically acclaimed" about them. I did thoroughly enjoy Ludacris' performance in it.
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I loved 'LIT' too, but I can see where some didn't. The slow pace probably turned off a lot of people, although I thought it wasn't a boring pace because there was depth in it. 'Brokeback Mountain' is a film where I don't understand the critical acclaim and the whining about how it should of won. I thought it was a good movie, but not as good as 'Crash'.
 
Gargamel

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RoyalDiva said:
Hmm....can't remember what other movies it was up against. I liked American Beauty a lot and thought it was a very well-made and creative film. But I'd have to remember what other movies were nominated that year before I can say it deserved it's award.
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Cider House Rules, Green Mile, The Insider, Sixth Sense
 
pdxKingsFan

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American Beauty was a good film with some great acting and I don't think it was a poor choice for Best Picture but in retrospect it doesn't hold up as well as some of the other films in 1999 which was a solid year for cinema. There are quite a few movies from 1999 that weren't nominated that are probably more deserving than most of the list.
 
bibbinator

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I liked LIT a lot, but the writing was weak. I can see how some wouldn't like it.

We saw Jackass II yesterday, needless to say it is possibly the greatest film ever made; it really reached me at a gut level. I was nauseous for over an hour after watching it.
 
HndsmCelt

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Padrino said:
watched bubba ho-tep last night with some friends. bruce campbell is amazing...
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Funny movie! It's a real shame the studio decided not to market the film only gave it a limited release. I mean when your basic story line is Elvis and JFK (Black) have to leave the rest home they are hiding out in to save the world from the Mummy, you can't go worng! ;)
 
pdxKingsFan

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Being a HUGE Elvis fan, a HUGE Bruce Campbell fan and a HUGE genre fan I was completely underwhelmed by Bubba Ho-Tep.

I tried to get through Narnia the other day but was a little sleepy. Will probably try again tomorrow. It was the last movie I worked on before escaping LA and I still haven't seen it.
 
Padrino

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HndsmCelt said:
Funny movie! It's a real shame the studio decided not to market the film only gave it a limited release. I mean when your basic story line is Elvis and JFK (Black) have to leave the rest home they are hiding out in to save the world from the Mummy, you can't go worng! ;)
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did ya know that they're workin' on a prequel called bubba nosferatu? we get bruce campbell as a younger elvis fighting off she-vampires in louisiana. can't wait!
 
KingKong

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GoGoGadget said:
That's my second favorite film of all time. Benigni, John Lurie and Tom Waits are all pitch perfect in that one.
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The criterion release of this film was really telling. Benigni really couldn't speak much English at the time, and most of his scenes were improvised (as one might predict). The rest of the cast and crew played a lot of tricks on Benigni with his broken English. Seems like they had a lot of fun making that film.

The Rabbit scene in the marshes has to be one of the funniest of all time.

I really want to see Broken Flowers, have you seen that one yet?
 
GoGoGadget

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KingKong said:
The Rabbit scene in the marshes has to be one of the funniest of all time.
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Agreed.

KingKong said:
I really want to see Broken Flowers, have you seen that one yet?
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I have, and it's hilarious. Bill Muray and Geoffry Wright are both just brilliant in that one.

Jarmusch is one of my very favorite directors, and I'd recomment seeing any/all of his films.
 
RoyalDiva

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Concur with 'Broken Flowers'. Beforehand, I had heard people complain that it was sooo boring, but I really liked it and thought that it kept pace and attention throughout. Very intriguing film, I wouldn't mind seeing it again sometime.
 
pdxKingsFan

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I watched Thank You For Smoking last night, really enjoyed it.

The night before I watched Derailed. I didn't hate it, but I would have liked it if I didn't see every twist coming from a mile away.
 
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