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by Dennis Bee
Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:41 pm
Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
Topic: Rotten Tomatoes Best Best Pictures
Replies: 7
Views: 739

The list has been updated post-Feb. 25, with The Departed inserted at No. 30, and other various other tweakings amid the rankings. It's still the most arbitrary ranking I've ever seen. We could all go on and on--Marty at 6, It Happened One Night at 23? It's obviously a flawed formula they used.
by Dennis Bee
Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:59 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Worst Possible Choice
Replies: 23
Views: 1380

I challenge any depiction of Driving Miss Daisy as a bad film. It's sweet, poignant and relevant. It features top-notch performances and is well paced. I'm sure Driving Miss Daisy would be remembered as all the things you say--if it hadn't won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and especially not ...
by Dennis Bee
Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:01 am
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Worst Possible Choice
Replies: 23
Views: 1380

The problem with this is that it lets the Academy off the hook for the many years when it made absolutely abomonable nominations: Thus Driving Miss Daisy is one of the worst BPs, but it's almost good in comparison to Dead Poets Society. American Beauty is not as unwatchable as Cider House Rules. Ev...
by Dennis Bee
Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:16 am
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Best Picture
Replies: 72
Views: 3366

I'm so glad Jack got it right this year.
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:46 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Best Film Editing
Replies: 10
Views: 795

Haven't we learned that we can never call BP until that last envelope is opened?
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:35 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Best Original Song
Replies: 36
Views: 2149

They've always been suckers for rock stars--Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Springsteen. Look at this as in that line.
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:31 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Best Original Song
Replies: 36
Views: 2149

Well, folks, the Dreamgirls meltdown that began Oscar morning is now complete.

I was hoping for #2 for Randy Newman
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:10 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Best Original Score
Replies: 38
Views: 1841

Pan's Labyrinth really did deserve this. When was the last time a composer won two years in a row? Mancini in '61 and '62 is the last I can think of, and one of those years was for song.
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:02 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Ennio Morricone Tribute
Replies: 13
Views: 814

Clint has to be reading Morricone's translation off a teleprompter. He does not know Italian, unless he learned it since the Leone films.
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:39 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Best Supporting Actor
Replies: 41
Views: 2224

A fine actor winning for an embarrassing role. Anybody still think Norbit didn't make a difference?
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:36 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Scattered Thoughts
Replies: 14
Views: 970

Tee, What a brilliant, elegant piece. I don't think we're in 1952, because the end-of-the-studio era panic started to resolve itself the following year and stayed that way as Hollywood through the fifties found its way in the new entertainment business as it began to shape up. (In fact, we're now i...
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:07 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Interesting thought...
Replies: 3
Views: 428

I think the ubiquity of the LMS DVD, released over the holidays in the US, was part of the film's campaign. Similarly, the renewed attention to The Departed, in reviews and great sales in the week before ballots were due might have been smart strategy, especially for a movie some were saying peaked...
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:27 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Confirmed Presenters
Replies: 53
Views: 2330

Do any of you give any credence to the report by Nikki Finke of a super-secret plan (though not anymore) for a troika of Francis Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg to hand out best director? If Scorsese wins, this would be the movie brat reunion for the ages. This would be the photo on eve...
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:09 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: 79th Academy Awards Winners
Replies: 104
Views: 5753

Picture: The Departed (Babel) Director: Martin Scorsese (Alejandro Gonzàlez Iñárritu) Actor: Forest Whitaker (Peter O'Toole) Actress: Helen Mirren (LOCK: Forget It) Supp. Actor: Eddie Murphy (Mark Wahlberg) Supp. Actress: Rinko Kikuchi [NGNG choice; really, none of the five would shock me] (Jennife...
by Dennis Bee
Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:43 pm
Forum: The 8th Decade
Topic: Last Minute Premonitions
Replies: 23
Views: 1400

Since bringing up 1985 earlier this morning, I'm haunted by it. Come to think of it, the Steven Spielberg snub--and the unprecedented "Snub this, Academy!" choice by the DGA to give it to him anyway--resulted in Oscar predictions as unsettled as this year's. After the Oscars, I figured th...

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