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jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1050
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 9:40 pm: |     |
First I hated The Aviator and it got nominated for a bazillion awards. Well, I thought, at least Million Dollar Baby won best picture. That must be great.
Anyone else think, "Good, not great. Heavy-handed. Looked like it was written by someone who writes Westerns"?
What ever happened to good writing with characters that were realistic and subtle and not so predictable?
Or have I just lost touch with what's good and bad?
I did like Sideways but didn't think it was Best Picture caliber. Well, I still have Hotel Rwanda. |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5643
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 10:00 pm: | |
I'm betting on this one:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808570534&intl=us |
jeffl
Supporter
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1051
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 10:31 pm: | |
Dave, what did you like this year? I mean really like? |
Andrea Weisbard
Citizen
Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 134
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 12:10 am: | |
I thought Million Dollar Baby was a great movie, not only did it explore the relationship between fighter and trainer, it also explored the relationship between a father and a doughter. I say a lot of my dad and I in that movie. Not that I wanted to be a boxer, but how hard it was for Clint Eastwood's character to let Hillary Swanks character "go" and become the fighter she wanted to be.
I also thought Morgan Freedman was excellent as well. |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 394
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 4:15 am: | |
I loved De-Lovely |
jeffl
Supporter
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 1:07 pm: | |
I found my movie, Motorcycle Diaries. It gets my Best Picture 2005. Ah, at last. |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5658
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 1:08 pm: | |
The Incredibles |
howardf
Citizen
Username: Howardf
Post Number: 292
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 3:42 pm: | |
The Hotel Rwanda. |
gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 671
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 8:19 pm: | |
Downfall |
Andrea Weisbard
Citizen
Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 143
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 8:38 am: | |
I also liked Sideways, the humor in it was just they type of humor I have. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1220
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 8:41 am: | |
Saw Ray last night on DVD. Really, really liked it and thought Jamie Foxx and it deserved whatever awards it received. All of the actresses were wonderful, too.
Motorcycle Diaries is next up. |
Valentine Michael Smith
Citizen
Username: Umbert
Post Number: 105
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 1:37 pm: | |
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
it's best picture since adapation.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5935
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 1:47 pm: | |
Ray was wonderful, though I think Sideways was better, even though it was sure to have a narrower appeal. |
Pippi
Supporter
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 708
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:42 pm: | |
Valentine - while I loved Adaptation I just didn't "get" Eternal Sunshine. I wanted to, but I didn't....
I loved Finding Neverland |
Pippi
Supporter
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 709
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:44 pm: | |
Then again, I should note: Finding Neverland and the Incredibles were the only nominated movies I've seen....
I still need to see Hotel Rwanda, Sideways, Ray, Motorcycle Diaries & Million Dollar Baby. I don't care to see the Aviator. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1223
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 5:04 pm: | |
I liked Eternal Sunshine and Adaptation though for me they were a little fringey, a little Napolean Dynamite, a little Garden State. I think those sorts of movies mostly don't end up with the big awards given narrower appeal.
I liked Finding Neverland a lot, but it was kinda small. 'Bout the only sort of thing I'm not good with is the Quentin Tarrantino genre. Not good any more with those slices of life.
I'm kind of escapest. Looking forward to Bride and Prejudice as much as Motorcycle Diaries. |
Andrea Weisbard
Citizen
Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 150
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:20 pm: | |
Cynicalgirl,
OMG, I loved Napolean Dynamite and I also love Garden State, I am a huge Zach Braff fan, I have seen every episode of Scrubs.
Cally me totally insane, but I have every Tom Cruise movie on DVD, have been a fan since I saw him in Top Gun and it's my favorite movie. Top Gun is in my DVD player and has been for the last week, I have seen it about 1,000 times it's the movie I watch when I am board, when I am depressed and when I just want to see a sexy man in a flight suit(lol) |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1226
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 5:37 am: | |
Hey, I liked those movies, too. I thought ND was an awful slow start, though.
My favorite movie -- which I no longer own and isn't on DVD -- is a weird British movie by Lindsay Anderson called "O, Lucky Man." Closely followed by Babe, The Ruling Class, and American Dreamer. |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 407
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 10:11 am: | |
I "got" Eternal Sunshine, I just think it dragged on and tried to hard to do what it was trying to do. If anyone can 'get' what that means... lol.
Good stuff, definitely no Being John Malkovich. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 291
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 10:28 am: | |
Just saw Vera Drake over the weekend - really well done. |
dave23
Citizen
Username: Dave23
Post Number: 208
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:14 am: | |
Cynicalgirl, I don't know if you trust this sort of thing, but this guy says he has a "perfect" DVD transfer of O Lucky Man from laserdisc.
http://www.geocities.com/malcolmtribute/olm.html
Scroll down to see info on a deleted scene. |
Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1454
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 2:01 pm: | |
Collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Riveting. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1228
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 3:51 pm: | |
Dave, I just wrote that guy. I have owned several copies of the album over time. I adore it. I saw it like 20 times in my hometown when it came out. I went and saw Alan Price and band play in Philly (the Bijou Cafe), illegally (I was 19)_.
Thank you SO much! I have -- or did as of about 5 years ago -- all of Alan Price's albums, and many of the Animals.
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Andrea Weisbard
Citizen
Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 154
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 6:00 pm: | |
Mark,
Tom Cruise finally playing the bad guy, it was a total turn on for me . I thought Jamie Foxx was excellent as the cabbie.
Tom Cruise and I share the same birthday, but he's a year younger than I am |
steel
Citizen
Username: Steel
Post Number: 651
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:51 am: | |
saw saw.
was surprised.
at end. |
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