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"After watching the Golden Globes tonight I have an eerily similar feeling as I did in early 2006 when I watched Crash gaining undeserved steam as it rocketed toward an eventual Best Picture win at the Academy Awards. This year, I am beginning to resent multiple-Golden Globe winner Slumdog Millionaire in much the same way. Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie a lot, I just feel like its getting all the notice because its so different than the normal Hollywood award fare. Slumdog is definitely worthy of a top 10 listing this year, the same as I felt for Crash in 2006, but I truly don't believe it is the best picture of the year. Certain elements of Slumdog definitely deserve recognition, including editing, direction, and score, but I don't think they should be a lock in any of those categories either. I haven't even made my way through half of the nominees for this year's Golden Globes, and I have already seen 3 other great films in the last week alone (Milk,
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"It’s only a couple of short weeks before the 2008 Oscar nominees are announced, and the internet is abuzz with prognostications. One hotly debated topic is whether or not Wall-E can pull off a Best Picture nomination, or even a win. It would be the second animated film to be nominated in the category, after Beauty and the Beast, which got the honor before the Animated Feature prize existed. Will the stodgy old Academy seat Wall-E at the kid’s table, giving it an easy win in the animation category, or will it be allowed to play with the big boys? A best pic nomination for Wall-E would be a rare honor for animation in general, but it would also be a long over due rarity for another reason: Wall-E would only be the second best pic nominated film in the history of the Oscars to be set in the future. The only one to date is A Clockwork Orange. When you consider how many nominees are period pieces "
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Martin Scorsese Is a Film God
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"Everything I love about Marty's films is depicted in his latest crime caper. All of the characters are great, even the bad guys and the plot is thick with story. From frame one I was sucked into this world and even though the film is almost three hours long I never got bored and I never stopped caring about the characters. Leo is developing into a fine performer and I was surprised by his acting in this film. I think Scorsese may have found the the new De Niro as he has already worked with Leo twice and every time they work together his performance improves. Matt Damon is also in fine form playing the all around golden boy that doesn't seem capable of the things he does on screen. As always Jack Nicholson shines as the questionalbly sane villain. The film isn't as simple as labels though as one quote from Nicholson proves "We could play cops or criminals, what I am saying to you is this when your facing a loaded gun what's the difference?" The film is fierce violent and beautiful a ... "
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"Though I first buzzed about an Academy Award nomination for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight more than a month before his death, I now want to take it all back. I feel all the talk of Ledger’s posthumous Oscar chances will cloud my mind when I finally do see it, and it will probably also cloud the Academy’s judgment, too. Six months from now, when the nominations are announced on January 22 (coincidentally the one-year anniversary of Ledger’s death), if Ledger is not recognized for his role as The Joker, there will surely be an uproar — actually, Hollywood might just up and self-implode. I’m not the only one annoyed by all the Oscar buzz. Terry Gilliam, who directed Ledger in The Brothers Grimm and the upcoming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is ca "
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The Departed (2006)
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"Before we start, this review of "The Departed" is going to attempt to stay away from spoilers of any kind. There will be a lot of "himself", "this character" and other similarly vague terms in order to sustain the surprises of the film for the audience. That being said, some plot points are going to be discussed. Proceed with caution. Police dramas are a dime a dozen, especially on the television screen. As good as those shows might be, they can´t hold a candle to Martin Scorsese´s newest, "The Departed". This film is really two different stories: the first is about a cop in bed with a criminal out of some sense of loyalty the other is about a cop in bed with the same criminal with the express intent of bringing him down. With an all-star cast and a narrative that could have run another half hour past it´s already long-sounding 2 ½ hour running time, "The Departed" is the reason we go to the movies. As a child, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is befriended by ... "
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Can get very gory but great movie!
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"A lot of my friends didn't like this movie because there was so much blood (especially with Jack Nicholson), but I loved it so much I watched it twice. A must if you like the stars; they're all incredible in The Departed. "
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"You guys! You guys! You guys! I've just seen the most amazing move! It's called The Departed, and I'm telling you, it's almost as cool as Snatch! I never thought that a seasoned vetran like Martin Scorsese would follow the trend and make a movie that is all plot and says absoutley nothing, but whatdaya know? I was wrong. Since the whole movie is about plot and coincidence, I will (and maybe cannot) reveal much of the plot here. But the central Earth-shattering premise revolves around Leonard DiCaprio as an undercover policeman trying to infiltrate Jack Nicholson's crime orginzation. Unbeknowst to him, Nicholson has placed a mole of his own in the police department (Matt Damon) and the rest of the film consists of a cat-and-mouse game the two plays as they try to figure out who they are. Probably the best thing that I can say about the movie is that it's two hours long and never boring, and is generally well acted, even though Leo still seems fake at times. But what is the p ... "
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"…of my list. I’m keeping the blurbs short on this one. 11. The Godfather Part 1 & 2 As close to perfect as films get. There is not much to be said about these films that hasn’t already been said. Completely timeless classics. 12. The Fisher King Another great Gilliam film. Robin William’s performance is amazing, as are Jeff Bridge’s and Mercedes Ruehl’s. The emotional power of this movie is phenomenal. 13. Children of Men "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown round #2”. Read more about that here.Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs)This is a solid Hong Konk police vs. crime boss action movie, but I think the only reason it has reached such acclaim and praise (it's on the IMDB top 250!!) is due to it's being remade into The Departed (which I still haven't seen).I'm not surprised that it was remade though. I kept thinking about all of the actors that I knew were in The Departed while watching this movie and thinking that it's probably something really amazing. Well I should probably stop talking about a movie I haven't seen.I'm not sure why I'm nitpicking this movie that actually has some quite good acting, but I was rather confused at first by the fact that multiple actors play the main characters. Both of the moles are portrayed by "younger" actors as younger versions of themselves. The actors playing them are only slightly younger, ... "
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INFERNAL AFFAIRS
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"Ok, I'm probably the only retard who forgot Infernal Affairs 1-3 was the basis for the Departed. That aside, this movie was fantastic. I've seen Departed - enjoyed it. But Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai have acting chops galore. Actually, the entire cast is 100% believable. It's an amazing crime drama exploring moral shades of gray in the context of undercover police work. Michael Mann's Miami Vice did that very effectively, also. But Infernal Affairs is the best undercover drama I recall seeing on DVD -- ever. (I will admit that I'm still a sucker for the undercover action flicks like Bad Boys).If you haven't had the priviledge of picking up this DVD, don't watch the trailer yet!!! I haven't seen parts 2 & 3 (which I assume won't be as "
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