Posted by zeta at dialup-65.56.215.137.dial1.raleigh1.level3.net on March 23, 2002 at 11:12:04:
In Reply to: OT: Oscars tomorrow... posted by phone monkey on March 23, 2002 at 10:56:46:
AWESOME! Ok you don't like musicals-that's fine. But let's not overlook the fact that they made a MUSICAL today and did a fantastic job of it. The cinematography was outstanding, the music was great...Nicole Kidman's acting was wonderful...I say this one will win best picture. Although I did LOVE Lord of t R.
Zeta
: Ok, it's a crock - the studios push a list without regard to who is truly deserving...but ya can't win if you don't play.
: Who would you pick? I've got:
: Best Actor: Denzel Washington (but it should be Tom Wilkinson)
: Best Actress: Haley Barry
: Best Supporting Actor: Ben Kingsley
: Best Support Actress: Marisa Tomei (tough pick - Jennifer Connelly rocked)
: Best Screenplay: Memento
: Cinematography: A.I.
: Best Director: Peter Jackson
: Best picture: Lord of the Rings
: WHY:
: Moulin Rouge - I don't get it.
: I still don't get it.
: I'm really trying, but I don't...
: ... oh, ok. Peter Greenaway does an episode of the Monkees. Yeah, ok. That's different. But do you really have to make me listen to these guys sing? Really, I'd even prefer Peter Tork.
: For environmental reasons, I can't go with anything Robert Altman does - way toooooooo long. Gosford Park would have been a great PBS miniseries. Two and a half hours and one murder - sorry, that's just inefficient.
: A Beautiful Mind was a brilliant film, but I didn't think it was innovative. I still think the current rap is ridiculous - He said antisemitic things? I think he had a messiah complex... something about even the paranoid...? Please, hate the message, but don't blame the schizophrenic messenger.
: If only In the Bedroom had any other ending... the biggest disappointment I had in film since I heard Silent Bob won't be back.
: Any thoughts/debates/rages?