81st Oscar Nominations
edith head
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http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?pn=nomineesWeird that Robert Downey Jr got a supporting actor nod for Tropic Thunder. I thought the movie was funny, but I really don't see what's so great about his performance
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I didn't see the movie. Isn't he in blackface? Was there a soulstrut thread?
yeah, several. he plays an actor who gets surgery to portray a blackmerican as tracy jordan would say
I thought Cruise was better.
Oh Shit... SDM all up in there. Waiting on O to lead the charge on the bullshit O-meter.
See, white guys walk like this.... but black guys, they walk like this.
[uproarious laughter]
I think the academy was amazed that he could break out of the accepted paradigm above in a way that only RDJr can
it was much more like "white guys think black people walk like this...." It was more a parody of dude trying to act black (with the real black actor as convenient foil).
on a more basic level (eyeroll c'mon dude it was a PARODY! yeah right whatever) I actually thought the black rappeur-turned-actor was the more questionable of the roles in the movie.
really it was just a collection of pretty blatant stereotypes (vietnam vet, flamboyantly ignorant black musician, sleazebag Jewish producer, etc.), but with this weird twist (Downey-as-white-actor-playing-black-man) that busied people with arguing whether THAT was offensive and thus distracted them from the more actually perhaps maybe offensive shit.
that said it had some hilarious moments. when the younger black dude clowns the Crocodile Hunter (or maybe it was Paul Hogan), RDJr says in his Australian accent "pump your breaks little dude; that man is a national hero." that was funny.
I do hope either Rourke or Penn win.
I thought SlumDog was incredible, what didn't you like about it?
Edit: I'm having fun there. But I'm more surprised with Doubt. That film was DRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Maybe you should try Hip Hop
I prefer Barbershop Trios
He's a little too busy right now
Yeah, dude... Straight GRAMMY/RR HOF horseshit status to these statuettes.
You disagree??
It has always been thus....
20 GREAT MOVIES THAT DIDN'T WIN AN OSCAR
1) Taxi Driver
2) The French Lieutenant's Woman
3) Dr Strangelove
4) 12 Angry Men
5) The Maltese Falcon
6) The Shawshank Redemption
7) Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
8) Rebel Without A Cause
9) Deliverance
10) The Birdman Of Alcatraz
11) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
12) Brief Encounter
13) Psycho
14) Angels With Dirty Faces
15) Marathon Man
16) Blade Runner
17) Serpico
18) Easy Rider
19) Das Boot
20) Empire Of The Sun
20 GREAT MOVIES THAT WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED
1) Metropolis
2) King Kong
3) High Sierra
4) Freaks
5) Mean Streets
6) Frankenstein
7) Once Upon A Time In America
8) Touch Of Evil
9) Kind Hearts And Coronets
10) The Innocents
11) The Servant
12) The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp
13) Repulsion
14) The Searchers
15) The Haunting
16) His Girl Friday
17) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
18) Kiss Me Deadly
19) Dracula
20) The Others
20 GREAT PERFORMANCES THAT WEREN'T EVEN NOMINATED
1) Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar
2) Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
3) Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
4) Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men
5) Anthony Perkins in Psycho
6) Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
7) William Holden in The Wild Bunch
8) Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
9) Robert De Niro in Mean Streets
10) Kathy Bates in Dolores Claiborne
11) Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
12) Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther
13) Toshiro Mifune in Throne Of Blood
14) Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts And Coronets
15) Kirk Douglas in Paths Of Glory
16) Gene Hackman in The Conversation
17) Marlene Dietrich in A Witness For The Prosecution
18) John Wayne in The Searchers
19) Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
20) Eric Stoltz in Mask
ACTORS WHO NEVER WON FOR ACTING
1) Richard Burton (7 nominations)
2) Peter O'Toole (7)
3) Montgomery Clift (4)
4) Robert Redford (1)
5) Kirk Douglas (3)
6) Richard Harris (2)
7) Morgan Freeman (3)
8) James Mason (3)
9) Cary Grant (2)
10) Steve McQueen (1)
11) Albert Finney (5)
12) Sean Penn (3)
13) Tom Cruise (3)
14) Harrison Ford (1)
15) Donald Sutherland (0)
ACTRESSES WHO NEVER WON FOR ACTING
1) Glenn Close (5 nominations)
2) Gena Rowlands (2)
3) Kathleen Turner (1)
4) Greta Garbo (4)
5) Deborah Kerr (6)
6) Catherine Deneuve (1)
7) Michelle Pfeiffer (3)
8) Gloria Swanson (3)
9) Liv Ullmann (2)
10) Ava Gardner (1)
DIRECTORS WHO NEVER WON FOR DIRECTING
1) Robert Altman (5 nominations)
2) Ingmar Bergman (3)
3) Sidney Lumet (4)
4) David Lynch (3)
5) Alfred Hitchcock (5)
6) Martin Scorsese (4)
7) Stanley Kubrick (4)
8) Akira Kurosawa (1)
9) Orson Welles (1)
10) Federico Fellini (4)
What did you like about it? Everyone keeps talking about how it's this "best movie!!!" but all I saw was a pleasant, stylish but pretty damn thin fairy tale using a really laughable conceit and featuring adult actors who have zero chemistry or real depth.
The kids were cool though.
To me, "Slumdog" was a less bleak, more candy-ass version of "City of God."
I'm confused - City of God was a coming of age movie. What more "plot" do you want, exactly? I mean, shit wasn't "Godfather 2" or anything.
As for "Slumdog" the plot you just named would be about the same for that movie except Slumdog also has "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" deeply incorporated into said plot. If that strikes you as corny...it should.
The best summary of the movie was that it was "Salaam Bombay" meets "Serendipity." Which is to say, it mixes scenes depicting abject poverty and intersperses it with a love story taken out of a bad romantic comedy.
I guess City of God struck me as a similarly hyped movie that was visually stylish and had a hip cultural aspect to it, like Slumdog. and yet it left me with the same empty feeling you seem to be describing Slumdog as having left you.
Well, I didn't think "City of God" was a masterpiece. But believe me, it will seem like one compared to "Slumdog" which so much more saccharin.