Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Recount (Roach) - 4/10 Big missed opportunity but works as a nostalgia piece. Roach is clearly the wrong man to helm this thing. You can tell he has the wrong sensibility for the film whenever an (O.S.) voice of Gore, Bush, or Lieberman is heard. The emotional timbre of the 2000 Election boiled dow...

No Anvil. No clear front-runner. Perhaps The Cove or Food, Inc.. Here's hoping we're going to be able to say Academy Award-nominated Agnes Varda. Academy announces 15-strong documentary shortlist 19 November, 2009 | By Jeremy Kay Fifteen documentaries have made it on to the Oscar shortlist and will...

I agree with this. I, for one, wasn't watching Precious strolling on down the street with a gleam in her eye at the end of the film as some sort of triumph. Sure, she was finally getting away from that monster of a mother, but with two children in tow, a raging case of illiteracy, little money and ...

No, because I don't think it's a very good joke. This reviewer brings up a very good point about the tonal disaster that is the entire movie. Sidenote: I think that where Lee Daniels decides to end the film, Lars von Trier would opt to begin it. Say what you will about von Trier but the real movie ...

There should be a club: BLACK PEOPLE WHO FUCKING HATE PRECIOUS. Some SPOILERS. A film as lost as the girl it glorifies By Courtland Milloy Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Now that I have seen the movie "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," I'm all the more bewildered by its enth...

/The Brothers Bloom/ (Rian Johnson) 8.5/10 Watching the deleted scenes on the DVD confirms to me that much of the third act was edited out for streamlining resulting in discord. Also, The Brothers Bloom becomes the kind of con film where the con is a more symbolic thing rather than having any true ...

Well, she needs to work her fat ass out. Leave me alone. I'm still right. FROM MIKE D'ANGELO Precious ('09 Daniels): 18. Reluctantly, I will admit that Mo'Nique home-runs her big monologue. But it's still part of a garish freak show. @jerocrowe TRASH HUMPERS got a 2. CRASH an 11. I think SOUTHLAND ...

Bronson The best film of Guy Ritchie's career that he will never do. I saw Pusher and this couldn't be farther from the realism established there. This is essentially a live action cartoon about a total sociopath who must fight to feel anything. It's ultimately a little tedious but a dazzling achie...

Last Orders (Schepisi) - 8/10 Lovely evocation of life, death, and memory through Irish laughter. Could've used a stronger visual stylist. Schepisi excels at flashbacks and unity in joyous performance but the film to me is slightly lacking in pause. Hard to knock it though. It's a resonating, lovel...

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...