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Oscars Suck Donkey Balls

th3midnighter

Shared on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 10:51

The Academy has sucked balls for years but this year, this is especially true. I'm a pretty big movie fan and try to watch as many good flicks as I can and to see so many good movies get ignored this year while a snoozefest like Benjamin Button get 13 nods is just pathetic. I realize that the Oscars are just a political game and you have to play by "their" rules to win the big awards. How else can you explain that Martin Scorsese doesnt win an Oscar for Good Fellas or Casino but he wins one for The Departed, a good but not great film. This year we have some of the same old bullshit. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which had some great aging special effects but a weak narrative with some terrible accents gets 13 nods, and an epic like Dark Knight which by the way grossed over 600 million gets shut out of all the major categories sans the Best Supporting Actor. I suspect Heath is a shoe in for that but outside of that cateogry, Chris Nolan gets shut out of Best Director, the movie gets shut out of Best Picture. Even Wall-E only got nominated in the Best Animated Picture category. These are the Top 7 movies I saw last year... I couldnt think of 10 really good movies.

1.) Dark Knight - Best Comic Book Movie....ever.

2.) Wall-E - Best Animated Movie from Pixar...thats saying alot.

3.) Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle never dissapoints

4.) Frost/Nixon - I suspect Frank Langella will win Best Actor for his portrayal of Nixon.

5.) Defiance - Daniel Craig does brooding better than anyone on screen right now. Its an Ed Zwick flick so you know it'll be good.

6.) The Wrestler - Rourke was great as was Tomei's ass. If Langala doesnt win, then its Rourkes.

7.) Tropic Thunder - I'm so glad Robert Downey Jr. got nominated. He was spectacular in this movie.

Any on your list that I missed?

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Markus's picture
Submitted by Markus on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 11:00
I would like to see Anne Hathaway win. I never saw 'Rachel Getting Married' and I never will. She is just so damn hot. If not her then Kate Winslet. Again I didn't see her movie and I won't; I just have a thing for her since the episode she did of 'Extras'. And I see Iron Man is up for visual effects. I did think they were a bit better than Batman, so that gets my vote.
darth_chibius's picture
Submitted by darth_chibius on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 11:58
Toy Story and Nemo are better "Pixar" movies than Wall-e, but since its a tree hugging movie, i can see why you like it
TANK's picture
Submitted by TANK on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 12:49
I used to watch those award shows but have lost any and all interest in all of them over the past years. It's just easier and more time efficient to read a results list and i can still get the same level of disappointment when my favorites don't win but i didn't have to waste 3 hours watching it drag on.
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Submitted by lostsupper on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 13:36
I just don't understand the appeal of Slumdog Millionaire. After watching it at the behest of some friends whose tastes I apparently once shared, I couldn't remember a movie in recent history the protagonist of which I wanted more to be burned alive in an electrical fire.

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