Author Topic: AVATAR LOSES, ACADEMY REDEEMED!!!! (Read 30832 times)

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #120 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:51:54 PM »

Apparently, in the future, nobody has heard of tinted fucking windows.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #121 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:52:43 PM »

Goddamn it, Willco.

Diunx · « **Reply #122 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:53:31 PM »

great my stream fucking died.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #123 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:54:02 PM »

That's how you know I'm a real Hollywood fat cat now - I can steal material before you even post it.

Can't touch this!

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #124 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:55:04 PM »

:'(

Himu · « **Reply #125 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:56:26 PM »

haha cajole.

owned by hollywood.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #126 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:57:55 PM »

Woo hoo, Triumph is 2 for 2.

Wonder how long Maggie Gyllenhaal is gonna have to wait for a pity Oscar. The roles she takes are each just a liiiiiiitle bit worse than the last. Oh well.

Himu · « **Reply #127 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:00:23 PM »

Maggie used to be so hot.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #128 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:02:56 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 09:57:53 PM

Mo'nique strikes me as the type to eat her husband.

Fixed.

Himu · « **Reply #129 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:04:09 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 10:01:54 PM

Quote from: Himuro on March 07, 2010, 10:00:23 PM
Maggie used to be so hot.

I don't believe you.

Watch Donnie Darko.

Diunx · « **Reply #130 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:11:34 PM »

Seriously, another Victorian era film winning costume design

Himu · « **Reply #131 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:14:57 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 10:05:21 PM

Quote from: The Fake Shemp on March 07, 2010, 10:02:56 PM
Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 09:57:53 PM
Mo'nique strikes me as the type to eat her husband.

Fixed.

I laughed really loud. Good job.

Also, Sorry but The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was ROBBED. ROBBED.

Quote from: Himuro on March 07, 2010, 10:04:09 PM
Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 10:01:54 PM
Quote from: Himuro on March 07, 2010, 10:00:23 PM
Maggie used to be so hot.

I don't believe you.

Watch Donnie Darko.

Only one Gyllenhaal is hot in that movie and she ain't it.

Well, she's far more attractive.

Robo · « **Reply #132 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:22:52 PM »

I'm not streaming it so I dunno where the footage was from, but he was (awesome) in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

Himu · « **Reply #133 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:24:09 PM »

The Hurt Locker

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #134 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:27:20 PM »

I'm liking this "Fuck avatar" thing going.

Himu · « **Reply #135 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:28:12 PM »

Quote from: WrikaWrek on March 07, 2010, 10:27:20 PM

I'm liking this "Fuck avatar" thing going.

cool breeze · « **Reply #136 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:32:32 PM »

has anything happened so far?

I just turned on and Avatar won something

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #137 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:32:58 PM »

Lol, let's award a cinematographer who didn't even had to manage any kind of physical camera.

It's like awarding an animated movie.

Diunx · « **Reply #138 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:33:59 PM »

Hell yeah Avatar!!!

Ichirou · « **Reply #139 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:40:22 PM »

Glad Reitman lost. By all accounts, dude is a complete asshole.

GilloD · « **Reply #140 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:42:25 PM »

Quote from: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 10:40:22 PM

Glad Reitman lost. By all accounts, dude is a complete asshole.

His movies are horrible. I'm convinced he's never been in an adult reltionship. I'll never understand the adulation.

Himu · « **Reply #141 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:43:57 PM »

Avatar's cinematography and direction were really good, but not the BEST.

Ichirou · « **Reply #142 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:46:32 PM »

Quote from: GilloD on March 07, 2010, 10:42:25 PM

Quote from: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 10:40:22 PM
Glad Reitman lost. By all accounts, dude is a complete asshole.

His movies are horrible. I'm convinced he's never been in an adult reltionship. I'll never understand the adulation.

He's a Hollywood Kid with an undeserved sense of ego. By all accounts he didn't even write the screenplay but made very minor changes to what Sheldon Turner had already done and then petitioned the WGA to take Turner's name off the movie.

Total douchebag.

Ichirou · « **Reply #143 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:47:35 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 10:46:52 PM

George Clooney's Up in the Air is an awesome film, fuck anyone that disagrees.

You can fuck me...anytime.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #144 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:47:56 PM »

What is this dancing bullshit

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #145 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:48:05 PM »

Quote from: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 10:46:32 PM

Quote from: GilloD on March 07, 2010, 10:42:25 PM
Quote from: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 10:40:22 PM
Glad Reitman lost. By all accounts, dude is a complete asshole.

His movies are horrible. I'm convinced he's never been in an adult reltionship. I'll never understand the adulation.

He's a Hollywood Kid with an undeserved sense of ego. By all accounts he didn't even write the screenplay but made very minor changes to what Sheldon Turner had already done and then petitioned the WGA to take Turner's name off the movie.

Total douchebag.

I enjoyed both Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air but Jesus this is massive douchebaggery.

Ichirou · « **Reply #146 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:50:37 PM »

What's more, when interviewed he says he got the idea for adapting the book (BTW, he didn't even get the author of the original book tickets to the Oscars, dude has to watch it at home, lol) when he saw it in a bookstore.

When actually, the studio already owned the rights, and Sheldon Turner had already written a screenplay which Reitman did a minor rewrite on before shooting. This has been discussed in a lot of the film blogs, but if you went from just the mainstream press, you would think the whole movie was Reitman's idea from concept to filming.

cool breeze · « **Reply #147 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:51:30 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on March 07, 2010, 10:48:05 PM

Quote from: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 10:46:32 PM
Quote from: GilloD on March 07, 2010, 10:42:25 PM
Quote from: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 10:40:22 PM
Glad Reitman lost. By all accounts, dude is a complete asshole.

His movies are horrible. I'm convinced he's never been in an adult reltionship. I'll never understand the adulation.

He's a Hollywood Kid with an undeserved sense of ego. By all accounts he didn't even write the screenplay but made very minor changes to what Sheldon Turner had already done and then petitioned the WGA to take Turner's name off the movie.

Total douchebag.

I enjoyed both Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air but Jesus this is massive douchebaggery.

co-signed

Diunx · « **Reply #148 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:52:18 PM »

Wow those dancers where horrible.

Diunx · « **Reply #149 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:53:49 PM »

Micheal Bluth!!!! awesome!!!

Clooney has been awesome tonight

Ichirou · « **Reply #150 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:56:13 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 10:54:36 PM

Man, I totally want to sex up Anna Kendrick.

Agreed, she's a cutie.

Ichirou · « **Reply #151 on:** March 07, 2010, 10:58:31 PM »

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Though Reitman has claimed in countless interviews that he wrote the parts specifically for George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny McBride, Melanie Lynskey, Amy Morton, Sam Elliott and Zach Galifianakis,[19][20] some of his actors have publicly stated their confusion in Reitman's assertion, if only because they knew he was meeting other actors all along including for his choice to fill his last lead role with Ellen Page for the part that Kendrick ended up ultimately playing.

lololol, even his actors know he's full of shit.

Ichirou · « **Reply #152 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:01:08 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 07, 2010, 10:58:06 PM

Once I become a big time actor, I'll star in one of those Twilight flicks and use that as an excuse to get close to her and maybe even steal a hairbrush or two.

You'll be Edward Cullen when they reboot the Twilight series in about ten years.

Hey, they rebooted Spider-Man like two years after the last movie, so this is definitely within the realms of possibility.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #153 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:01:24 PM »

Jason Reitman is an asshole.

Thank you for smoking was cool though.

Diunx · « **Reply #154 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:03:54 PM »

God I hate this guy.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #155 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:04:48 PM »

Sam Raimi

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #156 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM »

Man this is gonna make it all the more painful when the blue cats win.

cool breeze · « **Reply #157 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:05:10 PM »

yep, Hurt Locker is totally winning director, movie, or both.

Ichirou · « **Reply #158 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:05:29 PM »

Thank You For Smoking was really good. Aaron Eckhart gave a great performance. If you liked him in that, I would recommend you watch In The Company of Men.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #159 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:05:38 PM »

shots fired at Avatar

no pre-screening required

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #160 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:05:49 PM »

Preach it KEANU

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #161 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:06:48 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 07, 2010, 11:05:38 PM

shots fired at Avatar

no pre-screening required

Maybe if they'd pre-screened it, they could have fixed it up enough to win an Oscar.

Bloodwake · « **Reply #162 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:06:53 PM »

If Avatar wins, I will lol and then not watch the Oscars ever again.

Although I'm not watching this year and I didn't watch last year either.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #163 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:07:03 PM »

I wonder what the Coens think about Avatar

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #164 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:07:22 PM »

You roll da dice

cool breeze · « **Reply #165 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:10:19 PM »

http://twitter.com/ebertchicago

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No Farrah Fawcett in the memorial tribute? Major fail.

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WTF? Cinematography for "Avatar" and all that CGI and green screen? Not for Basterds or White Ribbon?

first time twitter has been worth it

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #166 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:10:29 PM »

Roger Erbert spitting truth like a cobra

http://twitter.com/ebertchicago

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WTF? Cinematography for "Avatar" and all that CGI and green screen? Not for Basterds or White Ribbon?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #167 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:12:41 PM »

A Serious Man should have been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Doesn't Yiddish count?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #168 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:14:34 PM »

More shots fired at Avatar

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #169 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:15:36 PM »

Damn the music is no longer violin orchestral stuff.

Now it's straight to Lady Gaga disco stick "Get da fuck out of the dance floor" music.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #170 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:16:43 PM »

Quote from: Green Shinobi on March 07, 2010, 11:13:10 PM

It would be a pretty big travesty if the most visually impressive film of all time walked away with only Visual Effects. It had to win either Cinematography or Director (or both). Had to.

Both of those of the awards has nothing to do with visual effects. What you just described merits a visual effects award. Bigelow ran circles around Cameron.

cool breeze · « **Reply #171 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:16:59 PM »

Kathy Bates presenting Avatar

where is Arnold and ABADAH

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #172 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:18:42 PM »

Bigelow's job was arguably much harder. Cameron had a ridiculous budget at his disposal and a gigantic crew. If you think he was manning the cameras and doing the CG and stuff

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #173 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:18:49 PM »

Quote from: The Fake Shemp on March 07, 2010, 11:16:43 PM

Quote from: Green Shinobi on March 07, 2010, 11:13:10 PM
It would be a pretty big travesty if the most visually impressive film of all time walked away with only Visual Effects. It had to win either Cinematography or Director (or both). Had to.

Both of those of the awards has nothing to do with visual effects. What you just described merits a visual effects award. Bigelow ran circles around Cameron.

Maybe you didn't hear that it was the highest grossing movie of all-time, Wilco.

Ichirou · « **Reply #174 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:18:58 PM »

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Four for THL, three for Avatar, two for Precious. And now it's Hurt Locker the rest of the way

Ebert

SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #175 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:19:40 PM »

Quote from: The Fake Shemp on March 07, 2010, 11:16:43 PM

Quote from: Green Shinobi on March 07, 2010, 11:13:10 PM
It would be a pretty big travesty if the most visually impressive film of all time walked away with only Visual Effects. It had to win either Cinematography or Director (or both). Had to.

Both of those of the awards has nothing to do with visual effects. What you just described merits a visual effects award. Bigelow ran circles around Cameron.

But you don't understand, it's gotta be more than that. Even Transformers could win Visual Effects ya know

Quote from: Green Shinobi on March 07, 2010, 11:17:43 PM

Quote from: The Fake Shemp on March 07, 2010, 11:16:43 PM
Both of those of the awards has nothing to do with visual effects. What you just described merits a visual effects award. Bigelow ran circles around Cameron.

She didn't have a third as much on her plate as Cameron did. In terms of degree of difficulty, it's no contest.

Yeah, shooting on location, with a 10 dollar budget, is a lot easier than being on a soundstage with hundreds of cameras, and have a bunch of artist over at WETA doing all the work for you.

SO HARD WHEN YOU HAVE ALL THE BUDGET YOU WANT

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #176 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:20:02 PM »

What did Precious win. Also Willco did you see it, if so what did you think

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #177 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:20:39 PM »

Did I see Precious? Hell no.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #178 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:21:54 PM »

I saw it, gets way too much hate.

It's a good movie, try not looking too hard at it.

Quote from: Green Shinobi on March 07, 2010, 11:21:48 PM

He had a high budget, but every dollar of that ended up on the screen. Making Avatar was still a ridiculous challenge. Denying this is pretty foolish, IMO, even if you didn't like the film.

Knowing cameron, he probably wasted a good 30 million dollars on production that didn't end on the final flick. It was a big technical challenge yes, but you keep trying to shoe horn it into categories it doesn't belong.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #179 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:24:14 PM »

George Clooney should win every Oscar ever. forever

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Author Topic: AVATAR LOSES, ACADEMY REDEEMED!!!! (Read 30832 times)