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SFEnnisSF:
From Boxofficemojo:  'Epic,' 'Aces' Smoke Oscar Nominations
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2242&p=.htm
"Two lowbrow pictures, Epic Movie and Smokin' Aces, topped the weekend box office, overshadowing the highfalutin ones nominated for Academy Awards. Overall business dipped eight percent from the same frame last year when Big Momma's House 2 dominated." (And when Brokeback Mountain was selling up a storm!)

This only goes to prove my theory that the Academy tries to nominate movies that are doing poorly at the box office to increae box office sales (i.e. Munich, Babel, Venus, etc.) and it ain't working, the public still ain't buying tickets to those movies.  Hey Academy, try nominate movies based on Merit, not this industry pat on the back business crap, and maybe you'll instill the integrity into the Awards that is sorely missing and corrupt.  What a charade.

Scott6373:
How do you REALLY feel Eric?  LOL   :laugh:

ednbarby:
Actually, I just saw Venus yesterday, and it was pretty damned good.  In fact, here's my newly-revised list of what *should* have been nominated:

United 93
Pan's Labyrinth
An Inconvenient Truth
The Last King of Scotland
Venus

None of these did very well at all at the box office, but each one is far superior, IMO, to every movie actually nominated.

To me, it should never be about box office sales, because, let's face it - if it were, these are what would be nominated this year:

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest
Cars
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Da Vinci Code
Night at the Museum

Do these really represent the best Hollywood has to offer?

I know you're talking about going for a happy medium, but I don't think any of these is worthy, nor is any of the next five:

Superman Returns
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Happy Feet
Casino Royale
Over The Hedge

I *loved* Casino Royale.  But Best Picture?  I think not.

Sorry to be a film snob, but it should be about quality and artistic achievement.  Unfortunately, they totally missed on that count this year, too.  My five nominees will stand the test of time.  Will any of theirs?  I can't think of a single one of them I'd ever want to watch again, as much as I enjoyed a couple of them.

By the way, it's starting to look like Little Miss Sunshine might just win it this year.  And nobody here should be happy about that - that studio got it there in the first place by sheer marketing savvy, not based on any artistic merit.  And now they just won the SAG as well as the Producers Guild Award.  Good grief.  I mean, I liked it, but REALLY.

(And you thought Eric was the outspoken one.)

Scott6373:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on January 29, 2007, 01:54:17 pm ---(And you thought Eric was the outspoken one.)


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I have NO illusions about your ability to speak your mind...LOL

SFEnnisSF:
If Da Vinci Code had been released in December, it probably would have been nominated...  ::)

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