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FINALLY saw the Hobbit 3. While the final scene with the white orc drags on for ages, this flick was the best by miles. This one felt like a LOTR flick. I'm pleased with the final wrap.
 
Fiftypound's latest ultra-quick reviews:

Selma--Must see and after seeing it yesterday, I can't believe it wasn't nominated for best picture.

Boyhood--Bought the DVD. Tremendous and inventive film-making from the most interesting director working today. See it.

The Imitation Game--Nice historical drama with excellent work from Cumberbatch, Knightley, and your basically solid British supporting cast. More about Turing (and supposedly not totally accurate) than about The Bletchley Circle.

The Interview--Watched it on pay-per-view and it's full of some great laughs. James Franco is really hilarious as Dave Skylark.
 
50PoundHead said:
Fiftypound's latest ultra-quick reviews:

Selma--Must see and after seeing it yesterday, I can't believe it wasn't nominated for best picture.

Boyhood--Bought the DVD. Tremendous and inventive film-making from the most interesting director working today. See it.

The Imitation Game--Nice historical drama with excellent work from Cumberbatch, Knightley, and your basically solid British supporting cast. More about Turing (and supposedly not totally accurate) than about The Bletchley Circle.

The Interview--Watched it on pay-per-view and it's full of some great laughs. James Franco is really hilarious as Dave Skylark.
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I believe Selma actually was nominated, but it's not Best Picture, anyway. It's still really good, though.
 
I think it has more to do with this year than things really being competitive. How many years do you get a Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, and add in the highly creative Boyhood and Birdman and you have a lot of high powered movies the academy should love. Last years director class doesn't even come close to this years. As someone who loved Wolf of Wall Street it wasn't Marty's best directed film.
 
bravesnumberone said:
I believe Selma actually was nominated, but it's not Best Picture, anyway. It's still really good, though.
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You are correct on both counts. I saw a headline about Selma being snubbed and thought it was the whole shebang.

It probably isn't the best movie, but, like you say, it is very good. Very moving.

I have now seen 6 of the 8 nominees for Best Picture. I really want to see "Whiplash" and I'm lukewarm about "American Sniper," but Eastwood is such a great director and Cooper is such a fine actor I don't see how I could avoid it. "Boyhood" is simply so revolutionary that it is probably the favorite (and Linklater has been overlooked for his previous work so there is the "long overdue" angle which often influences voters). Of the eight nominees, I'll admit I enjoyed "The Grand Budapest Hotel" the most, but it is so quirky I doubt it has a chance.
 
50PoundHead said:
You are correct on both counts. I saw a headline about Selma being snubbed and thought it was the whole shebang.

It probably isn't the best movie, but, like you say, it is very good. Very moving.

I have now seen 6 of the 8 nominees for Best Picture. I really want to see "Whiplash" and I'm lukewarm about "American Sniper," but Eastwood is such a great director and Cooper is such a fine actor I don't see how I could avoid it. "Boyhood" is simply so revolutionary that it is probably the favorite (and Linklater has been overlooked for his previous work so there is the "long overdue" angle which often influences voters). Of the eight nominees, I'll admit I enjoyed "The Grand Budapest Hotel" the most, but it is so quirky I doubt it has a chance.
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I've now seen all eight. Boyhood is No. 1. Whiplash is probably No. 2 for me, and Grand Budapest Hotel follows that. American Sniper is also well worth the watch for Cooper's performance alone.

It still irritates me 10 weren't nominated when there are probably 12-14 that deserved it. Can't understand why no Foxcatcher.
 
bravesnumberone said:
I've now seen all eight. Boyhood is No. 1. Whiplash is probably No. 2 for me, and Grand Budapest Hotel follows that. American Sniper is also well worth the watch for Cooper's performance alone.

It still irritates me 10 weren't nominated when there are probably 12-14 that deserved it. Can't understand why no Foxcatcher.
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Yeah. Foxcatcher needed 5% of the vote to stay on the ballot for next year.
 
Saw Kill the Messenger -- not bad at all, top notch acting from Renner, although I felt it could have been done much better in terms of being a period film.

Also watched Taken 3, and it's amazing to me that Liam Neeson can repeatedly turn utter drivel into mildly entertaining cinema.
 
Saw "Still Alice" yesterday. Awesome performance by Julianne Moore. Movie was good, but not great. You see exactly where it is going at all times. Moore's performance is the only thing that makes it worth seeing.
 
This is going to be huge in the future of movie theatres.

Game of Thrones” raked in $1.5 million in the opening weekend of its weeklong, IMAX-only run, despite debuting in only 205 theaters. That’s just under $7,323 per theater – not far off the pace of the weekend’s traditional film box office winner, “American Sniper,” which netted $31,505,000 in 3,885 theaters for $8,109 per theater. The success of the theatrical release could make “Game of Thrones” a game changer yet again as it proves the marketability of popular television shows on the big screen.

“This is the first time HBO has taken one of their series episodes and released it in IMAX,” Jeff Goldstein, executive vp of distribution for Warner Bros. – which handled the release – told Deadline Hollywood. “We see this as a future, and not just with HBO.”
 
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