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Post by flatandy on Jan 15, 2015 18:07:50 GMT
Lots of very po-faced serious docudrama type films about crippled Cambridge scientists or gay Cambridge scientists or civil rights bollocks or traumatised American soldiers. Also, the excellent Grand Budapest and the interesting Birdman and the exceptionally dull sounding Boyhood and the fascinating sounding Whiplash. www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30828035But, in lieu of those mostly dull films, I give you this lovely, lovely little nomination for Best Animated Short, tangentially about one of Britain's greatest bicycle designers. (Bugger - doesn't seem to work as embedded video here, even though it does on Facebook) www.nfb.ca/film/me_and_my_moulton |
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Post by Marshall on Jan 15, 2015 19:18:51 GMT
"Everything is Awesome" being nominated for best song is - awesome.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 15, 2015 19:32:11 GMT
The Lego Movie isn't nominated for best animated feature, amazingly. Yet it should have been nominated for best film.
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Post by hammerhead on Jan 15, 2015 19:51:10 GMT
'Trees, Frogs, Clogs - They're Awesome!'
Yeah, deserves to win. For a piss-take of 90's Europop, it's surprisingly good.
The Lego Movie is fantastic. One of the few films you can watch with your kids and enjoy just as much, if perhaps not for quite the same reasons.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 15, 2015 19:54:06 GMT
Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable.
The Lego Movie is excellent. Very well done and plenty of genuinely funny dialogue for the adults.
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Post by voice on Jan 15, 2015 20:02:27 GMT
not see the Lego movie, but my youngest was singing Everything is awesome beyond the point of reasonableness.
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Post by hammerhead on Jan 15, 2015 20:07:58 GMT
The video is funny too, it's on youtube. Kinda palls after your kids hit replay all fecking day though!
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Post by voice on Jan 15, 2015 20:10:43 GMT
glad I'm not the only one suffering is all I can say...
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 15, 2015 20:44:39 GMT
I don't think I watched any Oscar worthy films this year (except 12 years a slave which already won.)
I have watched the Lego movie but I don't get all the hype. I found it rather average to be honest.
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Post by hammerhead on Jan 15, 2015 20:52:57 GMT
Didn't appeal to your sense of humour then, which is not a crticism.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 15, 2015 21:03:03 GMT
In fairness, I'm not sure I've seen an Oscar-worthy film this year. I enjoyed Chef, but it's fluff. I enjoyed Gone Girl, but it the last half hour was just redundant and silly. I sort of enjoyed Interstellar, but it's basically a sh*t film shot beautifully.
The best bets would be Birdman, which is at least genuinely interesting and artful. And Grand Budapest Hotel, which is both lovely and appeals to my taste for interwar Mitteleuropa stuff and really watches like some sort of adaptation of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travelogs (and so far is the film I want to win). So I can't say the academy got it wrong this time. There hasn't been a lot of quality this year.
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 15, 2015 21:09:03 GMT
Didn't appeal to your sense of humour then, which is not a crticism. It just wasn't what I was expecting I guess. As for Gone Girl, after reading the book I didn't bother with the film. |
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Post by hammerhead on Jan 15, 2015 21:17:55 GMT
I sort of enjoyed Interstellar, but it's basically a sh*t film shot beautifully. Bah, got that downloaded but haven't watched it yet. What you said is what I thought about Gravity, wonderful cinematography (and soundtrack, to be fair) but a crap film. There's nothing to it, it could be told in two minutes flat. |
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Post by flatandy on Jan 15, 2015 21:23:23 GMT
Oh, there's a lot of story to Intersteller. It's just a little incoherent in places, and a little schlocky and mawkish in places. As others have said, it's a Spielberg film channeled through M Night Shmalamanamayaman. Filmed by Chris Nolan.
It definitely worth watching. Just try not to think too hard. Or, maybe at all.
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Post by hammerhead on Jan 15, 2015 21:29:50 GMT
Feck, I hate mawkishness.
Will give it a go anyway.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 15, 2015 22:40:54 GMT
Just got back from watching Birdman at the Reigate Everyman.
Great film. Great script; Fantastic acting - loved it - just a tad too long.
I'll tell you how good it was...we talked about it over dinner.
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Post by rick49 on Jan 16, 2015 8:32:50 GMT
"Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees""The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday." "The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon." "Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue." "I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said. tinyurl.com/lpqfdt5Looks like The Baiter finally got bored with Ferguson. So I guess now the oscars must be awarded on a quota basis?
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Post by Eric on Jan 16, 2015 8:38:17 GMT
"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon."
That is a brilliant sound byte.
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 16, 2015 8:49:26 GMT
"Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees""The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday." "The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon." "Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue." "I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said. tinyurl.com/lpqfdt5Looks like The Baiter finally got bored with Ferguson. So I guess now the oscars must be awarded on a quota basis? I don't get why you get so mad at other people's prejudices while happily indulging your own. |
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 16, 2015 9:29:27 GMT
"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon."
That is a brilliant sound byte.
It is also totally vacuous. Along the lines of "there are none so blind as those that will not see". And countless "Inspirational" posters you see on the walls of Middle Management.
The Oscars celebrate Actors, Directors, Films, Scriptwriters etc. they do not celebrate Race.
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