Oscars 2013 — Best Picture |
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| By: Elliott Monday February 18, 2013 9:09 am | |
The Oscars are this Sunday, and as usual, Lisa Derrick will be hosting our gala. In anticipation, here are the nominees for Best Picture. Which movies have you seen, which movie is the best?
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I’ve seen Argo, Jdango, ZD30, and Lincoln.
Lincoln was flat-out terrible on every level, ZD30 was “meh”, and Argo and Django were both great, Dgando being the slightly better of the two, if I had to choose.
I’ve seen Argo and really liked it. Looking at all the other trailers just now, I’m not motivated to go see any of them.
To start at the bottom, you couldn’t pay me to see Les Mis and Silver Linings.
Amour – very good, very depressing, very sanitized version of decline.
Argo – better than most Ben Affleck flicks. How’s that for faint praise?
Beasts of the Southern Wild – incredible. I hope it wins. It won’t.
Djaango – Inglorious Basterds in the Old West. Tarantino needs a new shtick.
Life of Pi was oddly unmoving, Lincoln screamed “Best Picture”, which detracted from a good film, and ZDT was, propaganda aside, basically a fairly stupid Hollywood movie.
Beasts of the Southern Wild-One of the best movies I have ever seen.
Life of Pi was just dumb.
Djaango was violent and not funny. The violence was supposed to be excused by the humor. Didn’t work.
I didn’t see the others.
Lincoln was really well done – well writen, well acted, etc.. It must be the best picture. (I haven’t seen the others.)
I liked Les Mis alot; also Amour. Thought Lincoln was
fantastic. Actually, as a production, I thought Les Mis
was the most complex. The choice would be very difficult
for me. Thanks for the thread. Sorry I have not seen Southern;
no interest in Djaango.
I was so looking forward to the movie version of Les Mis, but have been put off by the lack of actual good singers. It is not an easy score, so I thought having good singers would be, well, of paramount importance.
I’ll probably enjoy it, but haven’t been moved to go out and spend a high proportion of my non-assigned income to it.
I liked “Silver Linings Playbook” a lot, but I don’t see it as Best Picture material.
With great reluctance, I allowed myself (take responsibility for my choice) to be dragged to see “Zero Dark Thirty.” Other than the fact that it was a total suck up to NeoCon BushCo bullshit, filled with a TON of already debunked lies (esp about WMD, for heaven’s sake), and utterly *glorified* & *romanticized* torture – which some movie critics had the nerve to call “taunting the enemey” – it BLEW big time strictly as cinema. I don’t get the hype, really. It was a horrible production. Jessica Chastain sucked in the lead role. The film was ham fisted and all over the place. A giant sucking thumbs down, but I suspect that the PTB – who managed to ensure it got all these Oscar nominations – will probably see to it that this propoganda will win the Oscar. It shouldn’t.
“Argo,” although lacking in versimillitude, and equally a propoganda piece, was actually good cinema. I happen to like Ben Affleck, and I think he did a good job with this film, even though it plays like a recruitment video for the CIA. That aside, it was a well-made film, IMO, and as long as you realize that it’s not really truthful, it’s fun to watch. It won’t win, though, bc it doesn’t glorify torture. If anything, it shows torture in a bad light. That’s not how we roll anymore in Team USA.
I haven’t seen any of the others, although I plan to see “Amour.”
I hear that “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is fantastic, but it won’t win. Would also like to see it. I’m not a fan of musicals, so I won’t see Les Mis and would not be the one to provide an honest critique. It looked interesting in terms of it was filmed. Lincoln simply didn’t look interesting to me, except that I can believe that Daniel Day-Lewis probably deserves the Oscar for his performance. Will try to see this sometime mainly for that. Not interested in Django. I liked Inglorious Basterds, but I’ve had enough of that.