Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Film Comment review aside (which I can't speak to), how has this part of the film been misinterpreted by board members in our discussion of the film thus far? I don't think it has been misinterpreted on this board. I know it's meant to bring us into her disassociation but some of the attempts are c...

but even the big confrontation scene between Precious and Mary after she comes home with Abdul, felt like Lee Daniels desperately trying to NOT show us what was going on (with slow-motion, odd camera angles, just general confusion). That is such a big money scene, why draw away from it? UGH! That s...

I'm pretty sure that save for the producers of Brokeback Mountain you hate Crash more than anyone else on the planet. Precious coasted on goodwill for me throughout the first two thirds of it. It does come from a real place that just happens to be benign in intent but ruinous in execution. They're ...

Very sage, Original BJ. I do not like this movie. At. All. Sometimes a red flag kind of goes up during the course of a film one or two times and it takes a moment to recognize it. Precious bitch slaps you in the face with a red flag so hard ten minutes into the movie. I won't mince words: the minut...

I haven't heard of Battle for Terra, The Dolphin, Mary and Max, The Missing Linx, The Secret of Kells, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, or a Town Called Panic. Anything is possible but the year is proving to be very strong so I don't see them happening. Likewise, I think Alvin and the Chipmunks: ...

You've seen it? I just mean in watching films like Tokyo Sonata or Summer Hours, you can make a case for them being deeper. Fantastic Mr. Fox has nothing of terrible importance to say, unlike Ratatouille and WALL-E which are more thematically resonating animated films. Fuck that: films. Ratatouille...

I don't know if Fantastic Mr. Fox is the best movie of the year but there hasn't been a filmgoing experience I've had like it all year. I loved every minute of this film and it began with the first minute. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a glorious moviegoing experience that takes everything I love about Wes ...

Owen Gleiberman loves it. GRADE: A Who'd have guessed it? Wes Anderson, creator of the rascally stop-motion fable Fantastic Mr. Fox, turns out to be born to make animated films. I say that with a bit of mischief, because I'm not a big fan of Anderson's work (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited). What ...