movies

[jim]

I'm just going to say it - it's the elephant in the room that nobody is talking about. I was pissed off at the baseball scene in Boyhood. That kid no more wanted to be at that game than the man on the moon. After that I just didn't like the kid, and once you don't like the kid the movie loses something.

[go birds]

i thought it was kind of odd that Ellar Coltrane wasn't nominated for best actor.

[jim]

I havent seen Birdman but i find it hard to believe it was as good as the amount of awards it won would suggest.

It's good. The cinematography is great, and Michael Keaton is great. But the concept of the movie itself, well, the movie thinks it is more clever and original than it is. Oh, theater is an art to be passionate about, and making movies is hard? Neat.

The Academy loves movies about movies/theater...

I still need to see Whiplash, that looks amazing.

I do believe that the plot resonates with them more than say a American Sniper. Out of the gate Birdman is a lap ahead of a story like American Sniper. Birdman was a good movie, I'm not saying it wasn't, but that and Boyhood are going to be the types of movies that the voters relate to more.

Whiplash was absolutely amazing, I thought. I really didn't know what it was about when I went to see it, my wife kind of drug me there. When I left I was kind of stunned.

[MrSaigon]

i thought it was kind of odd that Ellar Coltrane wasn't nominated for best actor.

I believe protocol is for kids to only get supporting noms.

[go birds]

i thought it was kind of odd that Ellar Coltrane wasn't nominated for best actor.

I believe protocol is for kids to only get supporting noms.

or that!

Also, i feel like when i see Whiplash, I'll agree with jim and be left wondering why it didn't win

[MrSaigon]

i thought it was kind of odd that Ellar Coltrane wasn't nominated for best actor.

I believe protocol is for kids to only get supporting noms.

or that!

Also, i feel like when i see Whiplash, I'll agree with jim and be left wondering why it didn't win

But he was the lead actor. If Ethan Hawke was the lead, Coltrane would have been nom'd in a heartbeat, I bet.

[The Third Man]

Boyhood is closer to Jimmy Wynn than Willie Mays.

[33anda3rd]

Birdman probably skews toward the high end of quality compared to other best picture winners of the last 10-15 years. The Artist, Crash, The Departed, Slumdog, King's Speech--none of these is nearly as good as Birdman.

I hated Boyhood. Hated it. If you take away the device, it's not interesting at all. If you take away Birdman's device--the unedited thing--it's still a good movie with an idea or two full of really great performances.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I haven't seen Boyhood, maybe because it just looks like a movie that would bore me to tears. That's not entirely fair to it, I know, but it's the truth. As such, I can't really say that it did or didn't deserve to win.

Same I suppose with Grand Budapest Hotel, but I'm not a Wes Anderson fan, so it was a sucker bet for me.


But Birdman was my favorite of the nominated movies that I saw this year, so I am happy it won. Didn't see Theory Of Everything, but I have a hard time believing he was better than Keaton, Cumberbatch, or Jake G. for that matter.

Ranking what I saw this year from Oscar-bait type movies (at least, from what I can remember going to see in theaters):
-Birdman
-Nightcrawler
-The Imitation Game
-Gone Girl
-American Sniper
-Foxcatcher

[go birds]

yea i think its criminal that Nightcrawler wasn't even considered