The academies hate Tarantino with a passion.

I haven't yet seen a lot of the big movies from the year, but Midnight in Paris was my favorite. I don't expect it to win anything, but it is nice to see it get some recognition.

This is exactly how I felt about Tommy Lee Jones winning Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Fugitive. I mean, he was fine, but there didn't seem to be anything he did to make it some memorable performance. In the meantime, John Malkovich was incredible in In the Line of Fire and Val Kilmer wasn't even nominated for Tombstone.


(I have not seen Moneyball yet and I like Jonah Hill)

Val Kilmer not being nominated seems ridiculous. I'm not saying he should have won, but that was a pretty fantastic little performance.

Thank god flowers of war did not make it past this round of voting.

I don't drink coffee and coffee cake sounds pretty gross. I just mean that the previews make it look very different from the book, and more "human interest"-y, which is fine for casual moviegoer but I don't see what it will add for me. Though I realize many people itt have read the book and also liked the movie. I will certainly see it eventually, esp. the more good things I hear about it, but was in no way gonna rush out to see it in theaters knowing the king of dick jokes played a supporting role.

Man people get MAD when someone says they don't like Jonah Hill. What are you, his brother? I'm not contractually-obligated to go see a movie because you like a guy in it and I don't.

I don't really give a **** whether you like Jonah Hill or not. I do give a **** that you tried to tard up a reasonably intelligent discussion to share the opinion that Hill doesn't deserve an Oscar nomination because you consider him to be "a turd", irrespective of the fact that you did not see the movie.

I did not say he doesn't deserve an Oscar nomination.

Also your post #61 went a long way to 'tarding up this thread, niss.

I say an opinion about an actor in an Oscar thread and then you relate it to a poster on the forum. Seems fair.

In fairness, they didn't give the movies he rips off Oscar nominations either.

yeah i barely saw any 2011 movies last year but i enjoyed this quite a bit. was one of those things for me that feels incredibly pleasant, calm, and comforting kind of.

prob dl it now.

wat?

“War Horse” - DNS
“The Artist” - loved
“Midnight in Paris” - loved, deserves to win imo
“Moneyball” - liked
“The Descendants” - meh
“The Tree of Life” - Beautiful but pretty repetitive towards the end.
“The Help” - MEH
“Hugo” - DNS
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” - not bad

The best picture of the year was not nominated - DRIVE. Also, Melancholia was amazing. Happy to see Young Adult got snubbed. **** that movie.

god I hate the past ~4 years. Utter **** since ncfom. A shame I will have to dignify this travesty by watching the oscars.

I did like Midnight in Paris. I'm not sure if there's more than 5 people between Kentucky and Utah who've seen it though.

That's okay, 80% of Oscar votes live within a 5-mile radius of the ceremony.

seems like hugo may be at a disadvantage because many voters will have only seen it on a screener, missing the great 3D that is an integral part of the movie.

Econophile,
But Hugo is about movie making, which gives it a huge edge.

I can't believe the Drive score didn't get nominated. Eventhough I felt Tree of Life had problems, I am definitely rooting for it to win best picture.

I think The Artist will win BP and I think best director will go to someone else since the academy won't give Hanacazivis [sic] the win over Allen/Scorsese/Malick.

Maybe I went in with too high expectations... but also felt this was meh. (And I am a big Clooney fan.) Genuinely perplexed by the extremely positive reviews the movie received. Great premise imo, but oddly/weakly executed imo. I'm actually having trouble articulating why I didn't like it, maybe it needed to be funnier? (I mean really - did the younger daughter actually say "you got served" at some point?) Older daughter was hot though which held my interest somewhat.

I checked Box Office Mojo for total gross worldwide and below is my top 10 of 2011 listed from #1-#10 Just thought I'd do this for fun, not really trying to prove a point, or am I?? In parentheses are where they ranked among the top box office movies.

(74) Hugo - 83,318,787
(?) Martha Marcy May Marlene - 2,900,625
(83) Drive - 70,640,818
(44) Midnight in Paris - 148,306,801
(10) Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 534,500,131
(191) Shame - 6,951,243
(60) Moneyball - 106,102,951
(95) The Tree of Life - 54,303,319
(123) The Artist - 33,400,928
(21) Bridesmaids - 288,383,523

I'm really surprised people like Ghost Protocol so much. I thought it was wayyyy worse than the others. I did very much appreciate Tom Cruise's Days-of-Thunder-esque hair, however.

I'm shocked more didn't embrace Ghost Protocol (Although the box office tells another story!). The cinematography was outstanding, the Dubai stuff was breath-taking. A decent storyline along with big action scenes made for one of my favorite recent movie-going experiences. I say it's the best action movie in years. Also noteworthy, this was Brad Bird's (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille) first live-action film and he knocked it out of the park.

Renner and Pegg were great in their supporting roles. Obviously Pegg was hilarious, Renner was a bad ass and had some really funny moments. The women won't make any "Miss OOT" lists but they were damn sexy.

My local IMAX theater should be getting GP soon, I'll be there once/week at $4 a shot that's a steal!

I'm partially with PJ about movies this year.

I think there were a ton of great movies this year. Really good, quality film making.

That said, I think this is the worst crop of Oscar films in maybe the last decade. Extremely Loud, LOL. The Help aka Blind Side LOL. War Horse, not a fan. Haven't seen every one of the BP nominees, but none of them seem to be truly GREAT movies, just pretty good or attached to the right names.

This also is a weak field of Best Actors. There were some great performances this year that were better than clooney or pitt or jean D (winner is likely one of those three). fassbender and gosling in particular. I think probably 9 of the last 10 Best Actor winners cruise to a victory over this weak field, and many who didn't win would also cruise here. Best Actress seems pretty weak as well to be honest. Meryl probably gonna Meryl for the standard biopic stuff that almost nobody has seen. I'm convinced literally nobody has ever seen Albert Nobbs (i think like 4 theaters have shown it or something ridic) and they just assumed glenn close deserves it for makeup/man stuff. It'd be nice to actually nominate movies that, you know, have been released to the public rather than arthouses.

Great year for movies, but basically a crappy Oscar field.

i know midnight in paris got a ton of buzz , but im still kind of shocked it made so much money , woody allen movies generally dont gross much and usually fly under the radar ..didnt expect tree of life to make 50 mil either .

Midnight in Paris was in the theaters forever, not sure when it released, but it was still in a few of my area theaters earlier this month.

Midnight in Paris Domestic $56.44m | Foreign $91.86m

I agree with most of this. I saw it in IMAX and pissed myself during the Dubai sequence. Overall best action movie I've seen in a good while.