82nd Academy Awards... Sunday, March 7, 2010

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Miles Edgeworth		#2361	[-]
Posts: 2720 (11/15/09 5:36 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	tell me how to do spoiler tags and I shall do so. Id look it up myself but Im feeling a bit lazy tonight sorry.
cginspace		#2362	[-]
Posts: 9707 (11/15/09 5:57 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Just glad it was not hugh Jackman hosting. He is very milquetoast. Gave it the old college try, but his hosting was the least impressive thing, and the musical number was dreadful. I need ot see Precious.
bradwalk		#2363	[-]
Posts: 555 (11/15/09 6:03 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	damn I wish this had a delete button. Last Edited By: bradwalk 11/15/09 6:05 PM. Edited 1 times.
bradwalk		#2364	[-]
Posts: 555 (11/15/09 6:04 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Did that girl in Precious audition for American Idol? She reminds me of one of those sad cases that did.
bradwalk		#2365	[-]
Posts: 555 (11/15/09 6:04 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	fuck, sorry Last Edited By: bradwalk 11/15/09 6:07 PM. Edited 1 times.
SardonicallyIrrelevant		#2366	[-]
Posts: 22177 (11/15/09 6:08 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	She looks like Ruben Studdard. Is that what you're thinking about?
cindidindi76		#2367	[-]
Posts: 20496 (11/15/09 6:40 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Miles Edgeworth wrote: tell me how to do spoiler tags and I shall do so. Id look it up myself but Im feeling a bit lazy tonight sorry. [spoiler ] Racial crap here [/spoiler ] Just don't leave a space between the bracket and the word spoiler.
Wildcat612		#2368	[-]
Posts: 707 (11/15/09 7:27 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	It might be nice of someone on the last page put a spoiler tag around that bit about the final scene of "Precious." I really hope it didn't spoil the movie for me.
LKMOSCAR		#2369	[-]
Posts: 8154 (11/15/09 8:12 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The lead actress of Precious, Sidibe, is probably the third most likely to get a Best Actress nomination (Streep and Mulligan are the two in front of her). The film currently has a score of 78 on metacritic and will no doubt be a Best Picture contender because of its acclaim and great box office. Nominations for screenplay and direction are also likely.
Carboys Desire		#2370	[-]
Posts: 11834 (11/15/09 8:13 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Dang, I missed it. From imdb.com: Spoiler [+] Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it. From Wikipedia: Spoiler [+] In 1987, Obese, illiterate 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with her dysfunctional family; she has been impregnated twice by her father, Carl, and suffers constant physical and mental abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary (Mo'Nique). The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and subsists on welfare. After a visit from her high school principal, Mrs. Lichtenstein (Nealla Gordon), Precious is invited to an alternative school where she hopes that her life can change direction. Precious fights to find a way out of her taunting world through her imagination and fantasy. While she is being raped, she looks at the ceiling and imagines herself in a music video shoot; in the video, she is the superstar and the focus of attention. While looking in photo albums, the pictures begin to talk to her. When she looks in the mirror she sees a pretty white blonde-haired girl. In her mind there is another world where unlike the real one, she is loved and appreciated. But what about the last scene. Someone spoil it, please.
reggierules		#2371	[-]
Posts: 2822 (11/15/09 9:45 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	As excited as I am for Precious, anyone else annoyed that there is pretty much NOTHING else even being talked about? I may just not be listening, but I've heard little besides Precious. But then again, Slumdog hit big circa Christmas..
SurvivorGuy24		#2372	[-]
Posts: 1174 (11/15/09 9:46 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Sometimes it's good not to be the early frontrunner. I think Nine will make a big splash.
cginspace		#2373	[-]
Posts: 9709 (11/15/09 9:46 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	It's the same as Slumdog, really. I just pray that this is better. I saw Slumdog before the huge blast hit; but oy was I still disappointed.
Carboys Desire		#2374	[-]
Posts: 11837 (11/15/09 10:14 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I'm banking on NINE to win a slew of awards but that's just based on a quick preview I've seen, and the star power. Day-Lewis...are you kidding me? <3
cginspace		#2375	[-]
Posts: 9711 (11/15/09 10:32 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I am likely in the minority: I was SO underwhelmed by Chicago. CZJ was by far the best thing about it.
Carboys Desire		#2376	[-]
Posts: 11839 (11/15/09 10:36 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I enjoyed it more on Broadway.
sun surfer		#2377	[-]
Posts: 496 (11/15/09 10:50 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I think the main buzz about Precious is for Mo'Nique, and she's the reason it keeps coming up. Yeah it might get some or plenty of other nominations, but it will likely lose most of the others, who knows that's all up in the air right now. But Mo'Nique man, people may get tired of hearing about Precious and maybe she's being a diva not wanting to promote the movie or whatever, but she flat out deserves all kinds of awards for her performance regardless. It's sort of like the transformation of Charlize Theron in Monster, but more intense and way more evil. She makes this absolute monster believable and realistic and even human at times, and even though I knew she was in the movie I didn't even realize that was her for the first ten or fifteen minutes, that's how deep into character she was. I honestly didn't even know people were talking about her winning awards for this before I saw it (I hadn't read this thread recently until now), and after the movie was over one of the first things I said to my friend was that Mo'Nique needs to win all kinds of awards for her performance. I eventually thought about this thread and decided to post about it and then read back and saw others had already talked about it. Let me put it this way - I posted in this thread all last awards season and I don't think I was this certain of who should win - especially before even seeing the other performances - in any of the categories. I think this performance would've beat any of the other Best Supporting Actress winners in probably all of the last ten years if not more (I looked at the nominees for the last ten years and none struck me as better) - that's how good I think it was. Yeah I'm sure her performance won't be everyone's cup of tea and I'm sure there'll be plenty of people saying it wasn't all that or complaining about hearing too much about it between now and then, but I think most people that see it will agree it deserves to win awards. And that's what I got to say about that. :p Last Edited By: sun surfer 11/15/09 11:02 PM. Edited 1 times.
Blueberry.celebprowresting		#2378	[-]
Posts: 2571 (11/15/09 11:16 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	SurvivorGuy24 wrote: I don't think it will be due to racial issues. I just think the subject matter is so bleak that it may turn off some voters. I could see this being a case where the actress is rewarded but not the movie. I'm fine with that, Monique better win :)
Blueberry.celebprowresting		#2379	[-]
Posts: 2572 (11/15/09 11:20 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	cginspace wrote: I am likely in the minority: I was SO underwhelmed by Chicago. CZJ was by far the best thing about it. QUEEN LATIFAH<3333 CZJ<3333 MYA!!!!!! Yea Carboys take that :)
Blueberry.celebprowresting		#2380	[-]
Posts: 2573 (11/15/09 11:22 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	sun surfer wrote: I think the main buzz about Precious is for Mo'Nique, and she's the reason it keeps coming up. Yeah it might get some or plenty of other nominations, but it will likely lose most of the others, who knows that's all up in the air right now. But Mo'Nique man, people may get tired of hearing about Precious and maybe she's being a diva not wanting to promote the movie or whatever, but she flat out deserves all kinds of awards for her performance regardless. It's sort of like the transformation of Charlize Theron in Monster, but more intense and way more evil. She makes this absolute monster believable and realistic and even human at times, and even though I knew she was in the movie I didn't even realize that was her for the first ten or fifteen minutes, that's how deep into character she was. I honestly didn't even know people were talking about her winning awards for this before I saw it (I hadn't read this thread recently until now), and after the movie was over one of the first things I said to my friend was that Mo'Nique needs to win all kinds of awards for her performance. I eventually thought about this thread and decided to post about it and then read back and saw others had already talked about it. Let me put it this way - I posted in this thread all last awards season and I don't think I was this certain of who should win - especially before even seeing the other performances - in any of the categories. I think this performance would've beat any of the other Best Supporting Actress winners in probably all of the last ten years if not more (I looked at the nominees for the last ten years and none struck me as better) - that's how good I think it was. Yeah I'm sure her performance won't be everyone's cup of tea and I'm sure there'll be plenty of people saying it wasn't all that or complaining about hearing too much about it between now and then, but I think most people that see it will agree it deserves to win awards. And that's what I got to say about that. :p She's not promoting it? Why?

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