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Posted: Jan 22 2009 11:57 am

http://events.ca.msn.com/oscars2009/Gallery/Default.aspx?cp-documentid=858277

Well, Syd, looks like you have another, perhaps even greater reason to hate David Fincher.

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

Aw, c'mon, who's really surprised this happened?

A well-made action movie getting snubbed at the Oscars? INCONCEIVABLE!

Posted: Jan 22 2009 12:26 pm

Benjamin Button was fucking retarded.

I liked it the first time when it was called Forrest Gump. Speaking of which, Brad Pitt is the new Tom Hanks. There was a time when Hanks could have filmed himself shitting on a plate and it would have gotten 10 Academy Award nominations and 5 wins. That's the way Brad Pitt is now. Both actors are overrated and overpraised.

Posted: Jan 22 2009 12:34 pm

Is there anything Fincher's done that you don't hate?

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Button was just a gimmick, plain and simple. I doubt there's much real substance to it, and the reviews I've read say the same.

Hopefully, at least Ledger will win and sweep the technical awards.

Posted: Jan 22 2009 12:44 pm

I believe he directed Aerosmith's video for "Janey's Got A Gun", that was pretty awesome.

I like Seven and Fight Club. And I love The Game. Zodiac was okay.

Honestly, only things he's done that I hated were Alien 3, Panic Room, and Benjamin Button. And Alien 3, I can't blame him for. It was a terrible fucking script and it was his first movie.

Posted: Jan 23 2009 01:33 am

The short story is awful. In fact, I don't really get the fascination with the great gatsby. The last two short stories I've seen in movie form I failed to finish. One of which was the Illustrated Man, written by an author I genuinely like.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

It's more of a logic thing.

I mean, seriously, what the fuck, who would think a short story where things are usually left unexplained to focus on character details specifically, translate to a two hour film?

Posted: Jan 23 2009 09:07 am

DarkMaze wrote:

Aw, c'mon, who's really surprised this happened?

A well-made action movie getting snubbed at the Oscars? INCONCEIVABLE!

It's not just an action movie, it's a superhero movie. That's even less respected than straight action movies.

I still can't believe the fucking movie adaptation of "Mork and Mindy" is getting so much damned praise.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Wait a minute....they're making a movie out of Mork & Mindy? Shocked

Posted: Jan 23 2009 01:50 pm

I don't even know what Mork & Mindy is!

Posted: Jan 23 2009 02:17 pm

It was a TV show where Robin Williams was an alien, Mork from Ork, and he aged backwards.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

It was also the worst spin off of Happy Days.

Laverne and Shirley forever.

Posted: Jan 24 2009 12:52 am

joshwoodzell wrote:

It was also the worst spin off of Happy Days.

Laverne and Shirley forever.

mork & mindy was a spin off from happy days?! i had no idea

Posted: Jan 24 2009 02:33 pm

Hey now Mork & Mindy was better than Joanie Love Chachi.

Yeah, Happy Days had 3 spin-off shows.

And, there will be no change in the Academy's horrible choices until they get some voting members that are under the age of 50.

Posted: Jan 25 2009 12:11 am

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And, there will be no change in the Academy's horrible choices until they get some voting members that are under the age of 50.

...or made up of completely pretentious art snobs.