academy awards

I don't care much for Oscars personally but this year was a particularly interesting one considering all the great productions nominated. Care to discuss what you think about the winners? Was your favorite movie of 2007 among the Oscar nominees?

i always try to watch as many of the nominated movies as i possible can before the oscars. i thought No Country For Old Men was the best movie (altho i didn't see atonement). There Will Be Blood was a very dark movie, even tho most of the movies had serious subects, Blood made me feel creepy after it was over. Daniel Day Lewis is AMAZING, when you consider what he is like in real life and then you see him in the movie and you cannot believe it is the same person. He transforms himself completely. I hated him at the end of the movie that's how much i believed the character. The supporting actress category i cannot comment too much about other than i thought Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton was overrated. Michael Clayton was overrated overall; the ending felt tacked on and wasn't very satisfying.

Juno was entertaining but way overrated. i heard a critic say it was this year's Little Miss Sunshine. It was good but not as good as Little Miss Sunshine. Altho the ending of Little Miss Sunshine was a tiny bit lame-o.

My only disappointment was with Eastern Promises: I think very highly of Cronenberg's cinema and everything was so tight and beautifully crafted with this movie but it got nothing right??? Viggo Mortensen was phenomenal. But even that haunting musical score went unnoticed

And I too think that Juno was overrated, and very problematically so.

yes, i agree Eastern Promises was VERY good ( i watched it a bit earlier than the others so i sort of forgot about it). i personally love viggo so i thought my opinion was a bit biased, but it was my fav of his perfomances so far. he was really believeable (sp?) as well. It should have been nominated for best picture at least, even if it might not have ended up winning anyway. i don't know if you saw There Will Be Blood but it would be tough to beat Daniel Day Lewis' performance in that, it was just so good. Like i said, i almost started hating the guy after that and had to tell myself, hey it's just a character in a movie!

I was glad that Juno won for best screenplay and nothing else. While I enjoyed the movie, the acting and other categories were not on the same level as some of those that actually won. It was cleverly written though so it was good that it could win there.

I must see No Country For Old Man. I MUST!!! I saw both Juno and Michael Clayton. I enjoyed both. Juno was better then Little Miss Sunshine IMO. Little Miss Sunshine had me laughing once. The ending "Funny Scene" was cheesy and un-original. Arrested Develepment is the king of all Disfunctional family stories. So Little Miss Sunshine to me was boring and felt and had lots of unessicary R rated content that wasn't funny.

Michael Clayton the ending really left me smiling alot. I thought it was a really interesting really together movie.

There Will Be Blood doesn't appeal to me.

Attonment...Please no.

08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by pchee

i don't know if you saw There Will Be Blood but it would be tough to beat Daniel Day Lewis' performance in that, it was just so good.

I haven't watched There Will be Blood yet, but read a number of critics saying that Lewis' performance was hard to beat, making it a very though competition for other nominees in the Best Actor category. That seemed to me the reason why Bardem received that "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar- Bardem got to have an award for his performance no doubt, but was his role a "supporting one" in that movie, I am not sure..

Juno was a huge disappointment to my viewing pleasure. Screenplay and character building wise, it was quite underdeveloped... Every character in the movie seemed to me a facade decorated with elements of comedy and charm issued in most predictable tones. I was also disturbed by its portrayal of pregnancy and motherhood which seemed like some uber-liberal fantasy for indie male audience (that it was directed by a female director doesn't necessarily make a difference) My criticism is nothing moral or religious, I am not claiming Juno lacked realism either. It rather made me feel like the natural as well as all too human elements of psychology that would be expected to be part of a teen pregnancy story were curiously untouched and all we were left was some sugar coated grenade that we know won't explode.

I didn't watch because the whole production is just too much. Hours of pre-show just to show us what gown or diamond earrings everyone is wearing... really? Critizing people because they wore the wrong shoe or hairstyle. I'll pass. I don't mind people being awarded for good work -in fact they should be, but all the pre-award stuff is silly to me.

i agree flaneuse, i thought juno was too flippant and unaffected to be a real character. i'm not commenting either on the rightness or wrongness of her situation, but she lacked the depth, the shame, the growing disallusionment that a person in her situation i believe would possess. the only time she showed emotion i believe was when she realized that the adoptive couple was going to break up. i don't understand what the message of the movie was supposed to be: was it about teen pregnancy epidemic or the growing worldliness of teenagers in our overstimulated society or her lack of weighty emotion in face of the circumstances or just that in her unrealistic universe everyone skippped down the yellow brick road until they reached a trite and perfectly unrealistic ending?

ahem*.... careful what you say about yellow brick roads.... *wink*