79th Acadamy Awards is a pile of crap

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P.S.T.

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I'm not sure if someone already posted a thread like this but I don't care.

First, I'd like to say that Scorcese can shove 'The Departed' up his ass. 'The Departed' was such an over-rated, far fetched, typical hollywood movie. I just don't understand how that movie achieved Best Picture,Best Directing,Best Writing, and Best Editing. There was nothing impressive as far as the technical aspects of it. The directing was your standard, "cop drama" flick . There was nothing special in the editing and the story had the stupidest ending ever. I just think they felt sorry for Scorcese.Children of Men and Babel were by far, the most impressive as far as editing. Babel had three events happening at once! The way they lay it out was genius! Children of Men had those impressive long takes. The Departed had your most bland and typical "good guy/bad guy" switches throughout the whole movie. And I don't even understand why 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'Children of Men' weren't nominated for Best Directing OR Best Picture. It's a conspiracy! They're trying to opress the mexican directors. Screw them all to hell!:Drogar-Angry(DBG):
 
P.S.T. said:
I'm not sure if someone already posted a thread like this but I don't care.

First, I'd like to say that Scorcese can shove 'The Departed' up his ass. 'The Departed' was such an over-rated, far fetched, typical hollywood movie. I just don't understand how that movie achieved Best Picture,Best Directing,Best Writing, and Best Editing. There was nothing impressive as far as the technical aspects of it. The directing was your standard, "cop drama" flick . There was nothing special in the editing and the story had the stupidest ending ever. I just think they felt sorry for Scorcese.Children of Men and Babel were by far, the most impressive as far as editing. Babel had three events happening at once! The way they lay it out was genius! Children of Men had those impressive long takes. The Departed had your most bland and typical "good guy/bad guy" switches throughout the whole movie. And I don't even understand why 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'Children of Men' weren't nominated for Best Directing OR Best Picture. It's a conspiracy! They're trying to opress the mexican directors. Screw them all to hell!:Drogar-Angry(DBG):
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Have to agree with that Pans and Children of Men were best films I saw all year.
 
I think Scorsese deserves his Oscar, but I also agree with you that The Departed simply does not deserve its Best Picture. Ridiculous. Babel should have won.
 
Actually, Letters from Iwo Jima should have won. Or Pan's Labyrinth. I'd put Babel 3rd last year. Agree about Scorsese though.
 
P.S.T. said:
Are you kidding me? Did you understand it? Iñarritu is a genius.
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There isn't much to get out of Babel.


The biggest pile was that Eddie Murphy left after he didn't win. Also Beyonce didn't clap for Arkin winning supporting actor. Now that is CRAP!
 
The Academy panders to its own politics. Is anyone really that surprised? Its always been like that.
 
Isaac_Brody said:
The Academy panders to its own politics. Is anyone really that surprised? Its always been like that.
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So if I've got a film about a saintly black man from L.A. who wins $20,000 in the lottery to get the sex change she's always wanted so she can be a beautiful model to help the children with cancer from Iraq... you think I'll win?

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P.S.T. (on the subject of me not liking Babel said:
Are you kidding me? Did you understand it? Iñarritu is a genius.
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No, you're right. I didn't understand it.
 
triplej96 said:
Have to agree with that Pans and Children of Men were best films I saw all year.
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Haven't seen Pan, but Children of Men was really well done and incredibly impressive from a technical standpoint.

Babel: what is the big deal about this film? It seemed like a storyless two hours of very poor writing and mediocre acting. Same thing with Crash, only Crash was much, much worse. As a writer, I have to say it's not very challenging to take some controversial issues and one-dimensional characters with separate stories, and then have them all meet in some absurd unrelated situation at the end. Single-sided characters, caricatures, are very easy to write.

People criticize me about Babel, saying that the connections between the stories made it so moving. In actuality, the connections being 'revealed' were just the subjects of poor storytelling and not clever in the least degree. Imagine I tell you two different stories: the first about a stereotypical rich man and the second about a stereotypical poor man who robs him. Suddenly, at the end of the two-part tale of hardship, I tell you they are twins from a cloning experiment separated at birth. Am I really so crafty? It's called a plot twist, or more commonly in this context, a copout. You see them a lot in soap operas and episodic tv shows...

The Departed had a little bit of this, but it was done well enough within the context of the story that it worked. I don't agree with best picture, but I understand that it was an overall good effort with a good result. Though, the rat at the end was one step too far.
 
Agree with P.S.T that The Departed was over produced, over edited and just plain boring. One of the worst movie I've ever seen; when the lines doesn't get any more creative than having the word "f**k" inserted in every other words, the movie is in serious trouble.
 
Loved Ellen. But I'm outraged that Clint is playing both sides of the fence. He stuck "Letters" in Foreign category at the Golden Globes (it was produced by Warner Bros, for Pete sake!) and then had it up for Best Picture at the Oscars. Client, give me a break!
 
two things to help you sleep at night...

1. the category is best foreign language film.
2. clint eastwood doesn't get to pick and choose what categories his films are nominated in.
 
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