General Movie Thread

[apsham]

I don't even have to watch that to know that I am going to absolutely adore that friggin' movie.

[Benjamin]

Oh wow was I disappointed with Catching Fire. I nearly fell asleep during the second act.

[LL!]

Nah. Catching Fire was great and completely blew the first one out of the water.

[Benjamin]

I think it was because I had hyped it up so much in my head, plus I had just finished all my assignments for this term and was running on no sleep for two days, but I felt the Capitol stuff really dragged it down.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Alright people suggest!

http://letterboxd.com/larziej/list/acaduari-challenge-best-picture/

[livid]

Crash and The Hurt Locker. Everybody criticizes those choices as Best Picture so it'd be interesting to see how you like them.

[GoGo Yubari]

The Hurt Locker. ... Everybody criticizes those choices as Best Picture

Who's "everyone?" I've never really heard that.

[TKz]

People shouldn't think that, Hurt Locker was great! Way better than Zero Snore Thirty.*

*I liked Zero Dark Thirty. Didn't think it was as good as Hurt Locker, despite Jessica Chastain being wonderful.

[Jimmy]

The Lost Weekend

The Apartment (and because it's my favourite film!)

Annie Hall

[livid]

The Hurt Locker. ... Everybody criticizes those choices as Best Picture

Who's "everyone?" I've never really heard that.

I'm struggling to come up with specific examples but I could have sworn that there was pushback after it won.

[Jimmy]

it's cos Avatar should've won it :/

[EddieG]

I loved both Crash and the Hurt Locker.

[GoGo Yubari]

By the time Hurt Locker won the bloom had come off the Avatar hype rose, really.

[EddieG]

Weird fact: The oscar win was the first time I heard of the Hurt Locker.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Added all those movies

[Benjamin]

Chicago (2002)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

The Last Emperor (1987)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Tom Jones (1963)

Those are all great movies I think would be awesome to see as I skimmed through the Best Picture list.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Am I crazy to think that Elizabeth Banks should get an Oscar nomination for Catching Fire? Because she was just fucking fantastic, she stole every seen she was in.

[TKz]

That is a totally untrue statement. I mean, she was good. But she was in like, four scenes... and she was only really the star of one, I'd argue.

[livid]

First trailer for the Wachowskis' new film, Jupiter Ascending!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoCyL_Pqzu8

Certainly looks interesting. 2014 will be the year of the "Could Go Either Way" film.

[LL!]

Just saw it. Looks like Mass Effect as if it were made by Square Enix.