Has the world gone mad or is the "Academy" a bunch of morons. There were so many great movies that can out last year that I (and probably some of you thought deserved to at least be nominated! 300,Zodiac,Beowulf,I am legend. Look I am not asking for the award just some recognition from the old stuffy academy who is probably going to vote Juno for every award. Makes me sick!!!!
shareJuno will not win many awards- probably just screenplay.
Anyway, your argument is slightly flawed- if the Academy was really old and stuffy, they wouldn't have picked Juno, which has been hailed (unjustifiably, in my opinion) as some great new indie-spirit revolution in Hollywood. I hated that movie.
Anyway, yes. Zodiac, for sure. Reward the good, and ignore Juno.
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theres a difference between entertaining and actually good.
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I'm alot more surprised that Zodiac, Hairspray, Lust, Caution, and The Orphanage didn't get a nomination for anything. Makes me sick.
Zodiac - At least Best Art Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay
Hairpsray - Costume Design, Original Song (seriously, did Enchanted NEED that many nominations?) and art direction.
Orphanage and Lust, Caution - Foreign Language Film.
It's pretty sad to think that Norbit got more nominations than Zodiac.
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Seriously? I'm really surprised Juno got 4 Nominations, and I liked the movie a lot. However, 300 and Beowulf? No, my friend, I hardly think cheesy action films will ever deserve recognition. Zodiac was a great movie, but I'm not surprised that it wasn't nominated. It didn't really have much of an impact.
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Really? 300 has a great message about freedom? Thats like saying that Arrested Development, which is my favorite show, is entirely about preserving family values. 300 is one of the most entertaining movies probably ever made, but that does not make it Oscar worthy. Come on, all that movie had was awesome fight scenes and cheesy one liners. Neither of those really deserve Oscars. Juno on the other hand, was a quirky and witty film with one of the most entertaining soundtracks ever produced. I'm not saying that 300 deserved its shutout, visual effects seemed like a lock to me, but Juno is the better movie.
shareAnyone arguing 300 should be nominated for an Oscar (other than possibly visual effects), needs to take a look at what type of films get nominated and win academy awards, this is the oscars not the MTV awards. Look at the past Ocsar nominees LOTR was enough of a stretch for them, and that had a massive following, and were reasonably good films. 300 is a straight up action fare. Your argument as to a "great message about freedom" stands up as well as saying Rambo should be nominated for an Oscar next year, (standing up to injustice, dealing with personal demons, etc.). It's all crap to link together sequences of action. It's like saying Michael Bay should have gotten best director for The Rock (which I hold to be one of the best action films of all time, but that is beside the point). While the film may be a great film on the level of what it sought to accomplish, and did accomplish (a fun action film), it cannot even be remotely compared technically to the movies that were nominated. There is a big difference between a movie being entertaining, and a movie being a Oscar worthy film.
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Message about freedom, you say? How about "Live Free or Die Hard", it's in the title.
I would agree that 300 could MAYBE qualify for something like "Best Art Cinematography", but since it was all done on a green screen, it's kind of unfair to movies like Atonement that actually created sets with Oscar-worthy cinematography in mind.
Here is the thing about the Oscars, they are for critics and the critically minded movie-goer. I watch them every year and wonder why, as I shake my head. Used to, Oscars didn't go to the most popular movie, but at least most of them were movies that many people had seen. I have not seen one movie on this years Best Picture list and had not even heard of many until the candidates were announced. Some of them I would like to see, some I guarantee I will not see, which could hurt my credibility at this claim I guess but so be it. Of course in my opinion, the academy loses credibility by nominating these no-one-watched movies. Juno is not my type of thing I am sorry. I can't believe some of the things that make it.
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