Oscars 2014

Allright, then.

Sorry to annoy you, but do you mean it as in "Alright, You've made your point of view clear even if I disagree" or as in "Alright, will continue in the movie's thread"?

edited 16th Jan '14 6:09:02 PM by IFwanderer

Posted in the Wolf of Wall Street thread.

Anyway, how about we laugh at the fact that the Jackass movie is in Best Makeup?

I really raised an eyebrow at that one.

It had the only makeup that was literally good enough to fool actual people, so it's not that strange.

I'd rather see it win than Lone Ranger. Lone Ranger has no reason to even be here, let alone be in two categories.

edited 16th Jan '14 9:35:43 PM by Mort08

I just realized Pacific Rim isn't in the effects category but Lone Ranger is. The fuck is wrong with the people making these lists?

Alzheimers?

edited 16th Jan '14 10:08:07 PM by Canid117

The steam trains remind them of their childhood.

I'm pulling for Gravity, that being the only one of the Best Picture nominees I've seen. But the movies I want never win. Not Lincoln, not The Dark Knight, not even Beauty and the Beast, and I hadn't even been born yet!

TLR certainly reminded me of my childhood. It reminded me of watching the original Lone Ranger on VCR at my grandparents' house and it reminded me of how much the original ruled and the new film sucked.

To be honest, if 12 Years A Slave doesn't get either Best Actor or Best Picture it will say a great deal about the Academy.

Pacific Rim should've been nominated for best picture.

Anyway, not interested this year, call me when all the old guys die and it stops being so snooty.

If it was, they'd have to build it a giant Oscar statue for a Jaeger to hold. Which itself is a Jaeger.

It's amazing how many problems can be solved with a death note

The Death Note cannot make the victim do something that is virtually impossible... and I believe that building something so massive, in such a short amount of time, would fit that.

I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about the old and out of touch academy members

Oh, in that case... go on! Do it! Once you do that you will become... just a murderer. -Dramatically crushes fingerpuppet-

If we're gonna have one of the CG creations from Pacific Rim accept an Oscar, I'd rather it be done with that Kaiju suit that was made for the Japanese premiere.

I haven't seen either film, but Gravity sounds more like Oscar Bait than {{12 Years A Slave}}. As in a film that is more geared towards winning awards than being a good film.

edited 17th Jan '14 10:08:44 AM by C0mraid

Gravity's quite good, and not just in terms of effects.

It's okay, but I didn't find it overly impressive. Granted, I saw it in a small theatre with no 3D, but a really good movie is good regardless of venue. The main thing that hit me about it wasn't the character's struggles, but crap, we could lose the whole internet from one minor accident?

12 Years a Slave was far better, and didn't strike me as being Oscar Bait - I don't think you can call a movie that just for portraying slavery. The acting was excellent, as were the music and the plot development.

Time magazine have decided to make "The Random Oscar Winner Generator", which combined elements from the 242 nominees since-1970 for a new Oscar-winning pitch. I got:

Try for yourselves!

I've got:

...That's the main idea you took away from it?