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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Shasta542 on February 08, 2008, 11:56:00 pm ---Look what's on the worst Oscar picks:
http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2008/photos/worstoscars?gt1=7701
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3. "Crash," Best Picture, 2006
Another raging example of Hollywood's intense desire to reward itself for "saying something." Only this time, they forgot to notice that the winning picture actually said nothing about race and class in America that you couldn't learn from reading a bumper sticker or wearing a ribbon on the lapel of your tux. Yes, Virginia, mean people do suck, and there is a vast inequity between white people and black people in not just America but the world. It's worth remembering, but is it worth dramatizing? Worth letting good actors sink their whiter-than-white teeth into roles that never rise above archetypes? Worth converting into a script that makes every situation an Important Moment? Worth watching? Worth nominating? Worth a Best Picture Oscar? Just for caring? I vote no. (Lionsgate Films)
Love it, love it, love it. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Meryl on February 09, 2008, 01:31:17 am ---Love it, love it, love it. ;D
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Wow, that is brilliant writing.
serious crayons:
I saw There Will Be Blood last night. Like Leslie, I have to think about it some more. I came out of it and told my husband, "I don't think I get it." It seemed like it marshalled a lot of powerful elements -- powerful acting, impressive sets and costumes, an epic plot -- to say ... well, what exactly?
I'm still not sure. Although as we talked about it over dinner, it started to feel a bit more cohesive.
And today I'm still thinking about it. It's like it works on an almost unconscious level.
Shasta542:
If you're like me, you might have to watch it again to take it all in! :P ;)
oilgun:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 10, 2008, 12:01:01 pm ---I saw There Will Be Blood last night. Like Leslie, I have to think about it some more. I came out of it and told my husband, "I don't think I get it." It seemed like it deployed a lot of powerful elements -- powerful acting, impressive sets and costumes, an epic plot -- to say ... well, what exactly?
I'm still not sure. Although as we talked about it over dinner, it started to feel a bit more cohesive.
And today I'm still thinking about it. It's like it works on an almost unconscious level.
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Am I the only one who laughed at the "bowling with God" scene?
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