how sad

[lauralh]

Oscar Nominations this year. I'm feeling marvelously out of touch with the common industry voter.

In better movie news, Orgazmo's finally coming out this March on DVD.

Comments

[skiplogic.livejournal.com]

Yeah I dont know what happened, the academy and I have just grown so far apart over the years...

[chris.livejournal.com]

I see Fahrenheit 911 didn't get shit

that's b/c MM is a cunt

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

He didn't submit it to the Documentary section!

Re: that's b/c MM is a cunt

[erik.livejournal.com]

No, it's because he couldn't. There's some rule about a doc being ineligble if it plays on television, and Michael Moore opted to show it on TV, thus ousting himself from contention.

Besides, there are bigger upsets than that this year! "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" - one of the most visually stunning films in years and done almost entirely with CGI - wasn't even nominated for Visual Effects.

But then there were sweet little gems, too, like the lead actress in "Maria Full of Grace" being nominated for Best Actress, or Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy being nominated for Adapted Screenplay with "Before Sunset".

I'm SURE he knew that.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

do you know why it was adapted?

Re: I'm SURE he knew that.

[erik.livejournal.com]

Um... he just wanted to offer it free of charge before the election so as many people could see it as possible. I think it was done in the style of pay-per-view, but you didn't actually have to pay.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

no, BEFORE SUNSET

[erik.livejournal.com]

Oh, that, yeah.. no idea. My understanding is that Linklater started an email thread with Delpy and Hawke and said "here are the subjects I would like to touch on in the sequel... let's start generating some dialogue and see what it looks like". So, unless adapted means "adapted from the brains of three people", I don't see how it qualifies in that category.

Re: that's b/c MM is a cunt

[chris.livejournal.com]

sky captain was done without cgi? i thought it looked about 90% cgi, but i guess they can do a lot with odd filters and models. The look of that film really bothered me actually.

Re: that's b/c MM is a cunt

[erik.livejournal.com]

I said "with", not "without", yo. It's too bad you didn't like the look of it... I thought it was really visionary, and a great tribute to some of the films of the 30's and 40's. Especially to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", which is perhaps the most important (and most influential) sci-fi film of all time.

Re: that's b/c MM is a cunt

[chris.livejournal.com]

whoops, guess I read wrong. that makes more sense. I understood the homages to that style, but I just think they overdid it a bit.

Re: that's b/c MM is a cunt

[chris.livejournal.com]

Yeah i heard he was going for best picture. looks like he got owned.

[cpf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but those dorks pushed back the release date on Orgazmo to match up with Team America. It was originally slated for mid-February. So much for giving it as a Valentine's Day gift.

The extras look promising, especially the "making of" documentary (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315308/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9b3JnYXptb3xodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=2;ft=21;fm=1).

[ashlin519.livejournal.com]

For the first time over I have not seen I single movie nominated for well, pretty much everything. This is the first year too. I need to catch up.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

you never ever catch up

[fritz-da-kat.livejournal.com]

At least some kind of justice has been done: neither the passion of the bleeding piece of pulp nor that celsius 9-11 movie were nominated.