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Anyone watching the Oscars 2nite? (pg. 11)
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Nevermind =/ |
It was a good album.
I'm going to bed :o |
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| Lews |
Damn right it was.
Cya |
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| bARTovsky |
| I didn't watch them, but they were . |
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| igottaknow |
| Looks like the critic's predictions came true. The only mild upset was the hurt locker beating avatar, but even that of recent most critics had said the tide had changed in favor of hurt locker. |
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| R!CH |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
Looks like the critic's predictions came true. The only mild upset was the hurt locker beating avatar, but even that of recent most critics had said the tide had changed in favor of hurt locker. |
everyone loves the hurt locker...... except for actual iraq and afghanistan war veterans... http://www.newsweek.com/id/234064 |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I really shouldn't bother here, but...
Kevin, do you think that corporate large-scale mining and logging are bad for this planet? I understand that it's very good for the corporations that do that stuff, in terms of income, but I'm curious to know your opinion on an environmental subject (like this has become). |
I don't know man... I'm sure there are pros and cons that can be equally argued. Sure its good for corporations profit line, but if logging and mining were shut down what do you think would happen to the world economy? We'd be back in the stone age. I'm sure ther are ways that it can be more responsibly done, and I bet there are a lot more that are doing things responsibly that don't get the credit they deserve. The misconception being propogated here by rabid lunatic fringe people like R!CH are that because I'm railing against James Cameron's portrayal of Avatar, than I must be FOR what the atricities they're committing in the film. Quite the contrary; I'm not a proponant of greed, ethnic clensing, or unethical self-serving business practices as shown in Avatar... I just don't appreciate seeing a mulit-gazillionaire who lives in a mansion, has servants, and is a corporation unto himself planting the seed in the minds of kids that we should all live off the land and make a caracature out of corporations, Marines, and CEO's. Like I said earlier, it's no accident that he made those figures so polarizing in his movie. He WANTS those young impressionable people to walk out of the movie with a negative perspective on the military and corporations. Until he gives away all his money to charity and becomes an example of what he projects on film, he's nothing but a hypocrite. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
Jeff Bridges ftw! |
the Dude abides. |
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| Esiotrat |
I need to see The Hurt Locker and District 9 soonish.
I wanted Best Actress to go to someone other than Sandra Bullock, primarily because The Blind Side was actually an interesting look at the evolution of the importance of the Left Tackle position when it was a book and seems to have been turned into a "Jesus saves everything" sort of thing. I haven't seen it, though, so that might not be fair.
Good on Mo'Nique for winning Best Supporting Actress. |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatik
I need to see The Hurt Locker and District 9 soonish.
I wanted Best Actress to go to someone other than Sandra Bullock, primarily because The Blind Side was actually an interesting look at the evolution of the importance of the Left Tackle position when it was a book and seems to have been turned into a "Jesus saves everything" sort of thing. I haven't seen it, though, so that might not be fair.
Good on Mo'Nique for winning Best Supporting Actress. |
I don't see many movies now a days at the theater, but I do like to read reviews and watch the good ones when they hit dvd. Very few quality movies were released in 2009. One thing to be careful of getting movies that have won an award your expectation can be too high. Either the great performance of one actor doesn't equal a good movie. Some movies are critically good and break ground but are disturbing and generally not good entertainment. I've seen District 9 and its an odd movie that mixes genres. I'm not trying to discourage you just adjusting your expectations. It also might ruin your appetite especially for shrimp. |
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| boris_the_bear |
| quote: | Originally posted by yukii
:stongue: deserves own thread |
Does-not-do-anal of the year |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by R!CH
depending on the quality of your news sources, you could argue that message is just as cliche. it's nothing new that combat veterans have a hard time adjusting to life back at home, that many of them come back detached from society and distant from their own families, that some even yearn to return to active duty so they can be around those who understand their struggle. i swear i've read and heard that story a million times already. it's even in a book called "they fought for each other". great book btw. in the end that's the only redeeming quality of that movie, but it didn't affect me like it did you because i was all too familiar with the story as it exists in the real world. hurt locker in my view was incredibly lacking in execution just to deliver that "back at home" scene. any film that tries to portray reality, but falls on its face in the opening scene doesn't deserve best picture. |
Thats not the message I got from it at all. I think the true meaning of the film is the juxtaposition of what is normal one place and what is normal another place and that ones normal can seem so much more significant compared to the other. I think that was the main point of the story. The normal felt when he was doing his job as an EOD member was much more real and significant than the normal he had at "home" even though it was with his child and his wife. I really didn't take any sort of feeling of "struggle" away from it. Yes, there was struggle, but it was still part of the over all normality. For these guys death, destruction, and danger are normal, and taking them out of that is almost a surreal experience that they can't handle. Its not a struggle being there, its a struggle not being there because that is their life.
The phrase quoted at the start of the movie I think is what sets the tone over all. |
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