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Oscar Predictions: Yours
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"With a few more days left before the Oscar nominations are revealed, it is time to look at what the non-professionals anticipate will be among those contenders announced Thursday morning. Last Monday, we posted our own predictions for the Academy Award nominees and invited readers to weigh in with their own forecasts. A lot of comments concentrated on what shouldn’t happen, like The Dark Knight shouldn’t be nominated for Best Picture and Dustin Lance Black shouldn’t be nominated for his screenplay for Milk. And apparently The Curious Case of Benjamin Button could be this year’s Dreamgirls. However, there were some interesting trends among the many who chimed in. Check out some highlights after the jump.
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"We’re less than two weeks away from receiving this year’s Oscar nominations, and though none of the major categories are completely predictable just yet, each has at least three or four certain favorites. Meanwhile, the final slots for Best Picture, Best Director and the acting and screenwriting categories may be simply a random grab from small handfuls of rotating contenders. As of now, it doesn’t appear we’ll be seeing any huge surprises come the morning of January 22nd, when the Academy announces the nominees. The Dark Knight is sure to become the first comic book film up for Best Picture, and it won’t even be a shocker if animated feature Wall-E is listed alongside it in the same category. But the ballots don’t need to be mailed out until Monday, so I’m taking one last chance to reach out to the procrastinators within the Academy membership. If you still don’t know who and what to write in, and you’re unwilling to go the safe route and nominate the expected bunch of films and t ... "
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Penn serves up warm 'Milk'
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"I'm not sure what is more sad: politician Harvey Milk's life being cut short by an assassin's bullett, or the recent passing of the California's reprehensible Prop 8 Bill, making it seem this man's death may have been in vain. Sean Penn inhabits the lead role in 'Milk', and through him we can see just how magnetic a man the San Francisco candidate was and how easy it must have been to warm to his cause. But Penn does not lionize the man, unafraid to show his fears, doubts and flirtation with hubris as his voice begins to reverberate across the state and the nation. To see Penn, who often appears pensive and prickly on talk shows and in public of late, return to the type of performance that is sweet, sensitive and thoroughly endearing is rewarding enough. But he is surrounded by thoughtful, passionate performers who all seemed so moved by Milk's legacy, they were determined to do him justice. Milk arrives in San Fran at the start of the swingin' 70s, frustrated and ready to start hi ... "
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"It’s more difficult to be convincing as a real person when acting on film than on the stage. The camera can get closer and your image ends up projected many times larger than life size. So, despite giving a Tony Award-winning performance as Richard Nixon in the theater version of Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella was not initially thought of as worthy to reprise the role in Ron Howard’s movie adaptation of the play. Part of it was that he’s not a big name, but another reason was that he looks nothing like Tricky Dick. Ultimately, Langella did get the part, and while he doesn’t resemble the former president, he apparently does a bang up job in the role. But the transition could easily have been as awkward as Ralph Bellamy’s reprisal of his Tony-winning portrayal of Franklin Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. In the film version of that play, Bellamy’s vocal impersonation comes off more like a Scottish brogue (he sounds exactly like Sean Connery, in fact) than FDR’s signature “Locust Valley "
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"It happened last year for Cate Blanchett. The actress starred in a biopic that critics ripped to shreds, a film that basically bombed at the (American) box office, and yet she managed to score a Best Actress nomination for her reprised performance as the titular monarch of Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Additionally, Blanchett earned another nomination for Best Supporting Actress the same year, for her portrayal of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There. Now Josh Brolin could achieve a similar feat this year, not just by earning separate nominations for playing the titular president of W. and portraying politician-turned-assassin Dan White in Milk, but also by overcoming the difficulty of earning recognition in a lead category for a film that otherwise is not very well regarded. Are Brolin’s hurdles higher than Blanchett’s, though? With all the praise he’s rece "
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"Oliver Stones W is a weird kettle of fish, it took me a few days after seeing it to get my head together about how I felt about it. My gut reaction was somewhat ambiguous and whenever I thought I had settled on an opinion it was countered by something else in the way the film played out. Stone is getting complex. First and foremost the cast do an incredible job. Josh Brolin is fan-freakin’-tastic as Dubya himself - mannerisms and motivation are superb. Richard Dreyfuss is perfectly underhand and sinister as Cheney, Condoleezza Rice is played to a T by an almost unrecognizable Thandie Newton, I could go on and on, the casting features no obvious weak link. I think what it was that confused my morals was the humanization of Bush, yes he is made out to be a giant buffoon, but also just as a man who has no real idea the impact of the fuck ups he’s making - his entire motivation being gaining approval from his mean ol’ Dad. The early part of t "
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"When it was announced that David Wain would be directing Role Models — taking over from The Girl Next Door’s Luke Greenfield — there was room for disappointment. After all, for Wain to follow up his anarchic cult favorites Wet Hot American Summer and The Ten with a seemingly mainstream man-child comedy — one more suited to the talents of Todd Phillips or, well, Greenfield — was to crush his fans’ hopes for something more along the lines of his wacky web series, such as Wainy Days and Stella, or the old MTV sketch comedy show, The State. But Role Mo "
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W.’s Factual Backup
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"It’s debatable whether it’s one of the film’s major strengths or its fatal flaw, but there’s no denying that Oliver Stone’s W. is loaded with actual quotes and dramatizations of documented events. But as if they were anticipating an argument over the film’s factual basis anyway, Lionsgate has set up a companion web site called the W. Film Guide, which essentially breaks the movie down into 83 footnotes. These notes basically serve three purposes: There are the Look It Up, Smart Guy notes, like 80. W Loved “Cats“, which pegs a scene from late in the film, in which Laura Bush tries to cheer up a despondent George by suggesting they go see his favorite musical, to a passage in Frank Bruni’s book, Ambling Into History. A particularly interesting note in this category is 2. Bush and Nicknames, which offers a reference for each of the pet names used in the movie. Though some critics heard Bush’s shorthand for "
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"It’s debatable whether it’s one of the film’s major strengths or its fatal flaw, but there’s no denying that Oliver Stone’s W. is loaded with actual quotes and dramatizations of documented events. But as if they were anticipating an argument over the film’s factual basis anyway, Lionsgate has set up a companion web site called the W. Film Guide, which essentially breaks the movie down into 83 footnotes. These notes basically serve three purposes: There are the Look It Up, Smart Guy notes, like 80. W Loved “Cats“, which pegs a scene from late in the film, in which Laura Bush tries to cheer up a despondent George by suggesting they go see his favorite musical, to a passage in Frank Bruni’s book, Ambling Into History. A particularly interesting note in this category is 2. Bush and Nicknames, which offers a reference for each of the pet names used in the movie. Though some critics heard Bush’s shorthand for "
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Entertaining, but...
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"After watching, I really began to wonder where the writers/director(s) took their liberties. I'm by no means a Bush supporter, but, I wouldn't call myself a Bush-basher either. The movie *may* have been insightful, if the lines between fact/fiction/heresay were more clear. Otherwise, it was entertaining. "
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