HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2009?
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Hangover and it's not really close.
GrundleStiltzkin
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Strong year. Inglorious Basterds got better & better for me over tim. Hangover is a triumph. Love Mr. Fox. Star Trek was very good as reboots go. And I love Blind Side, treaclely as it may be. Avatar fucking sucks tho.
Not listed, Moon. Tremendous movie. Watch it.
Not listed, Moon. Tremendous movie. Watch it.
Bastards is probably QT's best work outside of Pulp in my estimation. For whatever reason, the absurdity of the plot and gratuitous violence just works better in this film than most. Brad Pitt nailed it and Waltz does a villainous Nazi better than anyone in the history of cinema.
GrundleStiltzkin
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TYFYS fixing the poster. Up belongs in convo too, imo.
1to392831weretaken
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My favorite three movies from this year were Moon, Ink, and The Road.
Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.
It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.
Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.
For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.
Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.
It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.
Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.
For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.
GrundleStiltzkin
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The Road is my wheelhouse, dystopian sci-fi. However, I have a real hard tim with kid-in-peril stuff so I've deliberately never seen. Maybe one day.
Funny, I never once noticed the lack of low G effects in Moon. I love that movie.
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I read the book. I don't do well with kids in peril stuff either. 2020 was enough of heartbroken yoots for me.
Normally I'd go Harry Potter on your soc peter puffing lanky ass but Half Blood Prince may be my least favorite of the genre, and left more questions than answers.
Other movies not listed:
Sherlock Holmes
Up (I'm not crying you're crying)
Taken
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Zombieland
Avatar might have been the most overhyped movie I've ever seen.
Other movies not listed:
Sherlock Holmes
Up (I'm not crying you're crying)
Taken
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Zombieland
Avatar might have been the most overhyped movie I've ever seen.
greenblood
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Avatar was/is a gigantic overrated POS
BennyBeaver
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It’s a little baggy at times but one of my favorite Tarantino movies.
Hangover- might have been the hardest I’d ever laughed at a movie.
I’m a huge Wes Anderson honk and FMF is one of his best.
Hangover- might have been the hardest I’d ever laughed at a movie.
I’m a huge Wes Anderson honk and FMF is one of his best.
GrundleStiltzkin
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#MeToo, I prevented others from enjoying the movie fully.
1to392831weretaken
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That's what I mean with The Road. It was really, really disturbing in a way that was believable, unlike run of the mill horror or most suspense.
The writer/director of Moon even talked about the lack of low-G effects in interviews after the movie's release. There's an unfortunate Hollywood convention that if there's an atmosphere, there's also gravity. In the past, it was probably just an oversight, but I think it keeps being done largely for how difficulty it is to film zero/low-g indoor scenes--and how impossible it is to do it cheaply. The makers of Moon decided early on that they were just going to ignore it. It actually confused me on first viewing, so I looked up whether I was missing something or what. Nope, just an intentional oversight for budgetary reasons. For those same reasons, they shot with models instead of CGI, and they even reused a set from a different movie for the main living quarters to save money.
1to392831weretaken
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Pumpydoubleshitpost:
Seriously, though, watch The Road. You're right, it's a tough watch. It just occurred to me that it was a lot like watching Manchester By the Sea. There's nothing "fun" about watching either of them. You finish the movie, and it's like, "Well... that was fucked up." But they were both so well done that it was worth watching. Have zero intention of watching either a second time.
I mean, Schindler's List is totally fucked up and awful, and I'm not going to watch it again, but I'm really glad I saw it once.
Seriously, though, watch The Road. You're right, it's a tough watch. It just occurred to me that it was a lot like watching Manchester By the Sea. There's nothing "fun" about watching either of them. You finish the movie, and it's like, "Well... that was fucked up." But they were both so well done that it was worth watching. Have zero intention of watching either a second time.
I mean, Schindler's List is totally fucked up and awful, and I'm not going to watch it again, but I'm really glad I saw it once.
BennyBeaver
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The Road book was enough, I tried the movie but it didn't grip me like the book did. I know that sounds like the old book > movie cliche, but it was true for me in this case.
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1to392831weretaken
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Good call on Up. Another rare animated kids movie that I had no problem watching (AND watching AND watching AND watching...) with my kids when they were little. And Zombieland is my favorite zombie movie/show by far. Never seen a zombie movie that isn't a comedy that I like.
Taken was a great action flick. Know what my favorite part was? The end, where he knows his daughter is on the boat, and he's trying to catch up to the boat in a car. The whole time I'm watching that scene, I'm thinking, "That car is jumping onto that boat. There's no way that's not happening." And then it didn't. That they didn't take that low hanging ridiculous fruit was pretty impressive to me.
Never seen the others.
BennyBeaver
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Up and A Serious Man...Good chit.
Avatar was a cool visual experience, but like we say, No.
The Blind Side cuz I want to give Sandy all 3 inches of my thunder.
Avatar was a cool visual experience, but like we say, No.
The Blind Side cuz I want to give Sandy all 3 inches of my thunder.