ot: is it just me or what?
RickyBobby
Slumdog Millionaire and Hurt Locker and Precious? Is a movie supposed to be
incredibly sad and depressing and about ugly, unpleasant subjects to win
some Academy Awards?'
What happened to The Sound of Music being the best picture? Or The
Godfather or Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid or Star Wars or something that
does not want to make you hang yourself?
I guess if somebody made a bold movie about emaciated people being forced to
dig latrine ditches in Somalia at gunpoint that would be a shoe-in for Best
Picture next year.
The three big heat movies this year seemed to be Precious, Avatar, and Hurt
Locker. Netflix will never have to mail me any one of those. I want to see
something along these lines....
Something About Mary
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Notting Hill
Silverado
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars XIV
Star Trek XXI
Oceans 11,12,13,14
Batman
Superman
Spiderman
Shooter
Nancy2
> What is up with these Academy Awards these days? What is it with the
> Slumdog Millionaire and Hurt Locker and Precious? Is a movie supposed to be
> incredibly sad and depressing and about ugly, unpleasant subjects to win
> some Academy Awards?'
>
> What happened to The Sound of Music being the best picture? Or The
> Godfather or Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid or Star Wars or something that
> does not want to make you hang yourself?
>
> I guess if somebody made a bold movie about emaciated people being forced to
> dig latrine ditches in Somalia at gunpoint that would be a shoe-in for Best
> Picture next year.
>
> The three big heat movies this year seemed to be Precious, Avatar, and Hurt
> Locker. Netflix will never have to mail me any one of those. I want to see
> something along these lines....
>
LOL - the Godfather and Butch Cassidy weren't depressing? You want to
rent Pulp Fiction? Shooter? Tombstone or Wyatt Earp? Take your
meds, dude.
FYI, The Hurt Locker was really good - it made me appreciate what our
troops are up against. I'm with you on Precious - who needs that kind
of reality when it stares us in the face from the news every day.
N.
Brad
I agree that Precious sounds too bleak for me to enjoy, but Hurt Locker was
far more entertaining than upsetting, and Slumdog Millionaire is a joyful
movie in many respects.
--
Brad
dead-guy-3
> On Mar 10, 12:45 pm, "RickyBobby" <nasca...@cox.net> wrote:
>> [17 quoted lines suppressed]
>
> LOL - the Godfather and Butch Cassidy weren't depressing? You want to
> rent Pulp Fiction? Shooter? Tombstone or Wyatt Earp? Take your
> meds, dude.
>
> FYI, The Hurt Locker was really good - it made me appreciate what our
> troops are up against. I'm with you on Precious - who needs that kind
> of reality when it stares us in the face from the news every day.
>
> N.
hurt locker blows,its a documentary. appreciate your war heroes in the
movie inlgorius basterds.
Nancy2
Inglourious Basterds was a rewrite of history and therefore, fiction.
The Hurt Locker was based on a conglomerate of real-life bomb squad
troops in Baghdad.
N.
dead-guy-3
> On Mar 10, 10:34 pm, dead-guy-3 <b...@pilul.ru> wrote:
>> [16 quoted lines suppressed]
>
> Inglourious Basterds was a rewrite of history and therefore, fiction.
> The Hurt Locker was based on a conglomerate of real-life bomb squad
> troops in Baghdad.
>
> N.
should have won for best documntary
Nancy2
But it wasn't a documentary. It was a story. But it was a better
movie to inspire admiration for our troops than Inglourious Basterds
was.
N.
RickyBobby
"Nancy2" <nancy-...@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
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Yeah, but, with the billion dollars worth of infrastructure and unlimited
amount of talent they have in movieland, this is the best they could come up
with in an entire year? I am not saying that "Hurt Locker" is a bad movie
because I never saw it and most likely never will.
As a society, we regard Tom and Angelina and Brad and Jennifer and Angelina
and Johnny and all the rest as the best we have in terms of escapist
entertainment. And the directors and the writers and so and and so forth...
So they give us a movie about bomb disposal? WTF is that?
I guess it must have been a very good movie about bomb disposal. But when I
go to the movies I want to see a good story. I do not care if it is The
Sound or Music or The Music Man. I would rather see Bridges of Madison
County than Hurt Locker if I was forced to see one of them.
But people who know a lot more than me say that Hurt Locker is the best
movie. So I suppose it must have been. Makes me sad for the movie industry
and the audience both.
Rick
The story about the planet warming and the polar bears
stranded on the melting ice bergs while the world's leading
environmentalist flew to Copenhagen in their million
dollar learjets won best documentary.
PaulMofATL
I guess some need a movie to have admiration for the troops. I don't.
I used to be one and I know a lot that have been.
Having said that, I didn't find the movie entertaining at all. I know
it wasn't supposed to be a feel good movie, but to me it seemed to be
about 30 minutes too long.
It was well done and directed I will give it that. I don't know what
story Bigelow was trying to tell. Was it to admire the troops or to
show what a freakin mess we have in Iraq? Maybe both. Arond the
middle I kept looking at the counter on the DVD player to see when it
would be over. That isn't a good sign.
dead-guy-3
> On Mar 11, 1:07 pm, dead-guy-3 <b...@pilul.ru> wrote:
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>
> The story about the planet warming and the polar bears
> stranded on the melting ice bergs while the world's leading
> environmentalist flew to Copenhagen in their million
> dollar learjets won best documentary.
how can fiction, be a documentary?
F S
Nancy2
I thought "Cove" won for documentary - was that a documentary short?
Apparently, there are feature-length docs and short docs in the
categories.
N.
Nancy2
Tell the polar bears it's fiction. Did you not ever see the
comparison photos published by Time last year?
N.
Nancy2
> But people who know a lot more than me say that Hurt Locker is the best
> movie. So I suppose it must have been. Makes me sad for the movie industry
>
> - Show quoted text -
Variety is the spice of life.
N.
PaulMofATL
We are merely between two ice ages. The time man has been around is
next to nothing in geological time. The planet has warmed and cooled
at least 18 times in the past 1.5M years.
Nancy2
Did I say this period was unique in the planet's history? I don't
think I did. Nor did I mean to imply it. I know it's cyclical. That
doesn't mean we should be blase about it, eh?
N.
PaulMofATL
No you didn't imply that Nancy. Now the Gorian faction does like to
ignore that fact. The fact that he is working for a venture capital
firm that plans on making billions by scaring the crap out of people
tells me what his motivation is.
armpit
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Fear mongering? From a democrat? Naaahhhh, can't be.
RickyBobby
"Nancy2" <nancy-...@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
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Not if variety is a steaming pile of you know what.
Nancy2
> "Nancy2" <nancy-doo...@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, dude.
N.