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Why no nominations???!!!!

posted 11 years ago by Felonious-Punk
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Okay, I can understand why this might not be as successful as Avatar or Star Wars- actually, I can't. But what's even harder to understand is why this movie hasn't even gotten any award season recognition. Have the award committees been completely compromised by ticket sales and middle of the road fare, as opposed to forward-pushing, on-the-edge, grippingly emotional cinema? I would be satisfied to see one ensemble nomination, or one for its direction, or one for its writing at least!!

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[–] The Movieman 11 years ago

I agree. I think especially Christopher Walken deserved a Best Supporting Actor nomination.

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[–] supernova_painkiller 11 years ago

I agree 100%. The film industry is sold long ago. Shame.

[–] limmitedgravity 11 years ago

I find it incredibly frustrating that there are none. This film is perfectly just as powerful as the others "with" nominations.

Yes, it pisses me off. But, in the back of my mind, I fully understand that sometimes that is just how it has to be.....wrong.

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[–] Atdheu90 11 years ago

The answer is "that the capitalist system has become the base of film industry these days"... you can't see the light of the day without getting a push first, and with getting a push i mean putting some more effort on awards campaign, throwing some more money to show it around to more people, but if you don't have "the boss" (The Weinstein dude) around you will end up exactly as Late Quartet did...

And another example to elaborate what i said above is that "The Late Quartet" was produced by "Opening Night Production" and "RKO" and was distributed by "RKO" and "Entertainment One" in U.S. which have "zero" experience in this kind of game (awards campaign), none of 'em has never had a movie on the "season" which by all means is a bunch of bullsh*t... every year a couple of good movies end up being snubed or unnoticed...

and i also have to agree with that dude that said that art doesn't get appreciated anymore... anyway cheers

[–] buff-29 11 years ago

I agree that this movie deserved more recognition than it got, but it deserved better box office, too, I thought. All the ideological/conspiratorial crapola that pretends to explain why this film got no Oscar nods is just that--crapola. The fact that it was released very early in the year (and thus forgotten by the time awards season rolled around) is probably more significant than any other "reason" mentioned.

[–] Atdheu90 11 years ago

That's what i said above dude, i don't know which part of it was "Crapola"...
- The Movie needed a push, let's say the same thing that was done for Moneyball (which was released even earlier, back on September)... A movie that is meant to compete (on awards season) always can get a push no matter when it was released, it just needs a push from the "big guy" who's responsible for it...

[–] rrflank 11 years ago

I think that it didn't garner any nominations because unlike Adrien Brody in the Pianist, there was no attempt by the actors to actually learn to play. Adrien Brody performed on set, and his playing is used (in part) on the final edit. These actors not only didn't actually learn to play Beethoven Op. 131, they made little attempt to learn the techniques of playing their instruments OR of operating as a quartet. The Academy was likely advised of this; and while their acting was admirable, the script not only failed to communicate realistically the life of a professional musician, it dramatized aspects of being a musician that really are not an issue. I am a working, professional classical musician and I found this movie to completely misconstrue the life of classical musicians. Instead, we should have a film that depicts how vicious string players must be in the US in order to get even a half-decent job, not the over-dramatized lives of the infinitesimal number of profoundly successful/famous players.

[–] benman46 11 years ago

Did you really expect the actors to learn how to play what is known as one of the most difficult string quartets to master for classically trained musicians let alone the actors. I thought the miming was exceptional. As for Adrien Brody, he played solo not as part of a group of musicians, and his playing was only a small part of the final edit, and you can't expect the actors to learn how to play as a quartet. For the Academy it is the acting that is important not how well they can play a particular instrument, and it is for the acting that AB was nominated. The film is a drama not a documentary, though the film did have a tendency to descend into melodrama.

[–] sellis1 10 years ago

I disagree about the miming. They weren't even doing vibrato at the right times. The only good miming was done by Nina Lee, which is not surprising.

[–] debniak 11 years ago

It's obvious why it garnered no nominations: it does not have wide appeal. It's an "actor's movie"... meaning it's primary focus is acting, not story. It's actors acting for other actors and not for "the masses". It never went into wide release. Only small limited release and film festivals.

I enjoyed parts of it but wide swaths of it just had me yawning as if I were watching "As The World Turns" or some other slow soap where adults act like children and overplay absolutely everything to the point of being annoying. I don't care about actors and I don't care about musicians' petty rivalries and egos. I care about story and there really wasn't much of a story here... just a lot of whiney over-reacting to everything and everybody in boring, muted tones of *yawn* NYC elitist musician clique-crap that no one outside that circle gives a hoot about.

I'm sure those aspiring to a career as a classical string player think it's just a fantastic movie but, like 99% of the world, I'm not one of those.

[–] Felonious-Punk 11 years ago

I have heard this perspective before, that a strong story is the most important thing for a movie. Unfortunately, that seems to be incorrect since we might as well read a book if that's all we needed. Same with acting, strong acting alone doesn't make a good movie or else we might as well visit the live theater. A movie should be strong in everything it offers: camera placement, movement, story, acting, sounds, etc. And this movie does have a strong story, it's about a band that is losing one of its members and they're all freaking out before the end of their world. It's heart-breakingly beautiful to see how much one person can be to such a group. By the way, I'm not a musician.

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