Movie Thread

[Krgrecw]

Game of Thrones is coming to IMAX at the end of January. It will be the last two episodes of last season remastered and the trailer for the upcoming season.

[gilesfan]

American Sniper any good? The trailer makes me want to watch, but I read the book and the book was awful.

[Tapate50]

American Sniper any good? The trailer makes me want to watch, but I read the book and the book was awful.

Trailer looks good. Book was ok, but it wasn't a page turner for me either. Didn't hate it or love it.

[zitothebrave]

American Sniper any good? The trailer makes me want to watch, but I read the book and the book was awful.

It's Clint Eastwood directed, it should be at least worth the cost of admission.

[jpx7]

I'm pretty damn excited for Inherent Vice. Paul Thomas Anderson adapting Pynchon is extremely promising.

[bravesnumberone]

Liked American Sniper pretty good. Definitely a strong turn by Bradley Cooper. Can't go wrong with Eastwood-directed movies usually.

[zitothebrave]

Liked American Sniper pretty good. Definitely a strong turn by Bradley Cooper. Can't go wrong with Eastwood-directed movies usually.

I haven't seen a bad one, but I missed whatever the last one or 2 he did. I think people were too harsh towards J Edgar.

[bravesnumberone]

Oscar nominations out. Little surprised Selma didn't rack up more. It seemed like Academy candy.

[Krgrecw]

Oscar nominations out. Little surprised Selma didn't rack up more. It seemed like Academy candy.

I thought the same thing. See The Butler, 12 years a slave etc

[zitothebrave]

I thought the same thing. See The Butler, 12 years a slave etc

Lol. You would go there.

I'm more surprised it's not in there because it's a universally praised movie, but maybe they didn't want to put them into categories that were easy losses. IIRC most of the actors in the film are relatively new to the game. I'm really shocked Exodus didn't make it for Production Design, I'm guessing the PC police are to blame for that. Same thing with costumes.

I think the biggest snub was Interstellar. It was hands down the best movie experience I had all year and didn't get a best director or cinematography nod.

Also how did Lego Movie not get a nod?

[bravesnumberone]

I thought the guy that played King was the best part about it. I think a few people may have taken exception to the way LBJ was presented. Some historians saying it unfairly depicts him as being an obstructionist to the Voting Rights Act so he could gin up more Southern support for his War on Poverty initiatives.

Either way, I thought it was pretty good, but honestly not even in the top five.

Agreed on Interstellar. It's rather annoying they can pick 10 nominations and have gone under 10 four years in a row now. There's almost always at least well-deserving ones.

[The Chosen One]

12 years was a good movie. Deserved any nominations it received.

[Krgrecw]

I thought the guy that played King was the best part about it. I think a few people may have taken exception to the way LBJ was presented. Some historians saying it unfairly depicts him as being an obstructionist to the Voting Rights Act so he could gin up more Southern support for his War on Poverty initiatives.

Either way, I thought it was pretty good, but honestly not even in the top five.

Agreed on Interstellar. It's rather annoying they can pick 10 nominations and have gone under 10 four years in a row now. There's almost always at least well-deserving ones.

What I don't get is how the family wouldn't let the movie use Kings speech.



Academies hate Sci-Fi movies.

[zitothebrave]

I thought the guy that played King was the best part about it. I think a few people may have taken exception to the way LBJ was presented. Some historians saying it unfairly depicts him as being an obstructionist to the Voting Rights Act so he could gin up more Southern support for his War on Poverty initiatives.

Either way, I thought it was pretty good, but honestly not even in the top five.

Agreed on Interstellar. It's rather annoying they can pick 10 nominations and have gone under 10 four years in a row now. There's almost always at least well-deserving ones.

Living in bumble**** new hampshire I can't get a true movie going experience with most of the films nominated. Of course I can pirate them but that's not the same.

One thing I will say. I hated Gone Girl. I hated it a lot. I think from a story perspective it was bad, and none of the acting performances were very memorable. I don't get why Rosamund Pike was nominated.

Going with early guesses.

Boyhood takes directing, probably best picture, I have no guesses for actor aside from it's between Redmayne and Keaton if you use the Golden GLobes as your indicator and usually drama winners win so I'd guess Redmayne. Moore should win best actress by all indicators, Simmons and Hawk would be my guess for front runners in supporting actor, I expect Arquette to win supporting Actress. Cinematography will probably be Birdman though could be Grand Budapest, I hope Grand Budapest gets costume design, I'm guessing BOyhood for editing. I think Gaurdians takes makeup. Having not seen them all can't comment on score but Zimmer's score in INterstellar was fantastic. Interstellar has my pick for production design. It was a visually stunnign film. And I would take it for Sound too both mixing and editing. It was truly a fantastic experience from a film goer perspective. Visual effects, I think Guardians or Captain America may steal that one from INterstellar, but it would be awesome to see it take the sound and visual effects because it was a truly stunning movie. I'm guessing Theory of Everything gets adapted screenplay. I'm excited that there are actually multiple contenders for original screenplay, all too often you can pick the original from a lineup but there are 4 strong candidates.

[bravesnumberone]

I thought Gone Girl was fine, though the best parts were score and screenplay and neither got picked. Didn't really understand what was all that great about the actress.

Interstellar should take most of the technical ones and score in my opinion.

My personal favorites from the year: Boyhood, Whiplash, American Sniper, Foxcatcher, Grand Budapest Hotel, Nightcrawler, Interstellar.

My predictions:

Best Picture: Boyhood
Director: Boyhood
Actor: Redmayne from Theory of Everything. Pretty remarkable performance. Just a decent movie; I wouldn't have nominated it. Would have liked to see Jake Gyllenhaal from Nightcrawler here.
Actress: Julianne Moore from Still Alice. Nobody wants to even consider anyone else.
Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons in Whiplash and will be well-deserved. Just incredible.
Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette in Boyhood.
Original screenplay: Grand Budapest Hotel or Birdman. I think either would be deserved, but I like Nightcrawler, too.
Adapted screenplay: Maybe this is where they throw The Imitation Game a bone, though I'd go with Whiplash.

[BRule]

12 years was a good movie. Deserved any nominations it received.

Agreed, really powerful movie, not sure why it gets any hate other than racist crap.

[The Chosen One]

I'm stunned Grand Budapest got a lot of nominations.

Either the academy thinks the field is weak this year, or they're finally getting over their elitist sense of Anderson's movies being "quirky" and actually being a respectable form of filmmaking.

I'd have a few beers if Anderson actually wins Best Director or the movie wins Best Picture.

[The Chosen One]

FYI, Best Buy's Deal of the Day is The Grand Budapest Hotel for $5.99 (Blu-Ray + Digital Copy).

It was $11.99 yesterday. This is a fantastic deal.

[bravesnumberone]

I'm stunned Grand Budapest got a lot of nominations.

Either the academy thinks the field is weak this year, or they're finally getting over their elitist sense of Anderson's movies being "quirky" and actually being a respectable form of filmmaking.

I'd have a few beers if Anderson actually wins Best Director or the movie wins Best Picture.

It definitely is quirky but there's nothing wrong with that.

[zitothebrave]

FYI, Best Buy's Deal of the Day is The Grand Budapest Hotel for $5.99 (Blu-Ray + Digital Copy).

It was $11.99 yesterday. This is a fantastic deal.

I generally don't buy movies anymore because of HBO, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. I may rent a movie on Amazon occasionally but if I didn't want to pay to see it in theater, I'll usually wait til I get it on Netflix or HBO.

THough movies I intend to obsess over and watch over and over again I will buy. See Dark Knight trilogy (though I need to get Begins on BluRay to have it all on bluray), Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit (though I'm waiting for the extended edition bluray trilogy which will be some time), Inception and when it comes out INterstellar. And some stuff like Life, Planet Earth, etc.