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AlaskanAssassin said:
The Lego Movie was a major snub, but to me the biggest snub was Nightcrawler. Did anyone see this? I think the movie should have been up for best picture and Gyllenhaal should have been up for best actor. It's only nomination was for best original screenplay.

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I really liked it but I don't think its best picture material. Too dark , too weird, too Nightcrawlery. I loved it but theres no way it would get a best picture nomination.
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
Carrell has zero shot IMO. So that leaves the two you mentioned, Cumberbatch (haven't seen the movie, you?), and who else? Who's the last guy I'm forgetting?
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Cumberbatch was great. Probably my favorite movie of the year. Bradley Cooper was great in AS. Carried that movie for sure. I would probably put those as my top 2.
 
Beer said:
I really liked it but I don't think its best picture material. Too dark , too weird, too Nightcrawlery. I loved it but theres no way it would get a best picture nomination.
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Really? It seems to me like dark and/or weird and unique movies get nominated all the time. Are Birdman and The Grand Budapest Motel not weird & unique? American Sniper and Whiplash not dark? I've only seen 4 of the nominees (enjoyed them all) but I just can't believe there are 8 moves better than Nightcrawler. Even more of a snub was Gyllenhaal not getting a best actor nomination.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Really? It seems to me like dark and/or weird and unique movies get nominated all the time. Are Birdman and The Grand Budapest Motel not weird & unique? American Sniper and Whiplash not dark? I've only seen 4 of the nominees (enjoyed them all) but I just can't believe there are 8 moves better than Nightcrawler. Even more of a snub was Gyllenhaal not getting a best actor nomination.
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Birdman is weird, but not nearly as dark. Grand Budapest is cute weird. American Sniper is a blockbuster. Whiplash was a surprise but isn't nearly as dark. I would probably put Nightcrawler in my top 3 but I can also see why the academy didnt choose it. I totally agree with Gyllenhall not being nominated for best actor.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Also, I know the Oscars usually shy away from these types of movies, but Edge of Tomorrow was very enjoyable.
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Dude, that movie was mediocre at best. The third act was butt awful. I am probably the biggest Cruise fan on the board but he hasn't done a great movie in a decade, Collateral being the last in 2004. I'm not sure what his problem is but he's become completely unnatural, inhibited, and full of badly uncomfortable scenes rife with overacting or overexpressing in parts. Maybe great directors simply no longer want to work with him (his run of directors for about 20 years was stellar) and that's the difference in his product.
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
Dude, that movie was mediocre at best. The third act was butt awful. I am probably the biggest Cruise fan on the board but he hasn't done a great movie in a decade, Collateral being the last in 2004. I'm not sure what his problem is but he's become completely unnatural, inhibited, and full of badly uncomfortable scenes rife with overacting or overexpressing in parts. Maybe great directors simply no longer want to work with him (his run of directors for about 20 years was stellar) and that's the difference in his product.
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I disagree. He's had a strong decade-ish of work. Nothing extraordinary like his run in the late 80's and 90's (Rain Man, 4th of July, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, etc.) . Last Samurai, Minority Report, Collateral, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible (3&4), Jack Reacher, Oblivion, Edge of Tomorrow. Not that many actors can pump out that many above-average to really good movies over a similar time frame.

I know Rotten Tomatoes only tells a sliver of the whole picture, but it has a 90% approval rating.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
I disagree. He's had a strong decade-ish of work. Nothing extraordinary like his run in the late 80's and 90's (Rain Man, 4th of July, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, etc.) . Last Samurai, Minority Report, Collateral, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible (3&4), Jack Reacher, Oblivion, Edge of Tomorrow. Not that many actors can pump out that many above-average to really good movies over a similar time frame.

I know Rotten Tomatoes only tells a sliver of the whole picture, but it has a 90% approval rating.
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Last Samurai and Minority Report were not within the last decade. The first is good a movie, the latter is a masterpiece imo.

War of the Worlds is God awful. MI3 and 4 are what they are. Fairly entertaining, nothing more. Jack Reacher was pretty darn good. I liked it. He sold the fights scenes very well. But it wasn't some great movie. Oblivion was another piece of unoriginal garbage full of some awful acting from him which is ashamed because Melissa Leo crushed it and the hot chick was solid. Cruise was just totally mediocre and I'm not sure why Freeman was even in it. In short, that decade doesn't come close to comparing to his earlier catalogue which is full of many, many great movies.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed Edge of Tomorrow. I agree the ending was crap, but it still worked for me if nothing else than just for the premise and the first 3/4 of the film. It was great fun watching her shoot him in the head while he tried to beg her not to. Good stuff really. The ending just struck me as a lot of sci-fi stories do: they get a good idea, run with it, and can't find a good way to end it (even Stephen King has done this a few times....I am looking at you Crimson Loser). Although if you think about the ending and the point in time when they start back up again after defeating the big alien it makes sense.
 
I am not much of a movie guy. Maybe 4 or 5 a year at the theater. I just don't give a rat's butt about 95% of what is out there.

So now that you know where I am coming from and that I am completely unqualified to critique, I will go ahead anyway. I found American Sniper to be a bit underwhelming and I tend to give the war genre wide latitude. I do think Cooper was brilliant and worthy of a nomination. The rest of the movie felt totally disjointed, as if it were simply individual scenes spliced together. I get that Eastwood was trying to cover a lot of ground and perhaps was trying, to some extent, capture the gravity of deploying, going home, deploying, going home etc., but it felt like it was edited together as an afterthought.

The main criticism I have is that the movie failed at what is at the heart of any war movie and that is to bond the main character to his squad/platoon brothers. There was absolutely zero attempt on this front. A couple of his buddies get shot and I am like "Who the hell is that guy?"

I also wanted to punch Sienna Miller in the face by about 45 minutes into it.

There are some more minor quibbles, but that is enough for now.
 
The Pearl said:
I am not much of a movie guy. Maybe 4 or 5 a year at the theater. I just don't give a rat's butt about 95% of what is out there.

So now that you know where I am coming from and that I am completely unqualified to critique, I will go ahead anyway. I found American Sniper to be a bit underwhelming and I tend to give the war genre wide latitude. I do think Cooper was brilliant and worthy of a nomination. The rest of the movie felt totally disjointed, as if it were simply individual scenes spliced together. I get that Eastwood was trying to cover a lot of ground and perhaps was trying, to some extent, capture the gravity of deploying, going home, deploying, going home etc., but it felt like it was edited together as an afterthought.

The main criticism I have is that the movie failed at what is at the heart of any war movie and that is to bond the main character to his squad/platoon brothers. There was absolutely zero attempt on this front. A couple of his buddies get shot and I am like "Who the hell is that guy?"

I also wanted to punch Sienna Miller in the face by about 45 minutes into it.

There are some more minor quibbles, but that is enough for now.
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But what did you think of Snowpiercer?
 
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