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by matthew
Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:54 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: 81st Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Replies: 370
Views: 16488

I'm glad it was The Reader, which is my choice of the year's fourth best film behind Button, Slumdog and Milk with Frost/Nixon narrowly besting Doubt. ...What's always surprising to me is how Americans seem not to understand the way American minds work - and the Academy is a VERY American instituti...
by matthew
Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:22 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: 81st Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Replies: 370
Views: 16488

Just curious...who thinks this is quote is a tad racist? "...What's always surprising to me is how Jews seem not to understand the way Jewish minds work - and the Academy is a VERY Jewish institution, in many ways very easy to "guess". At least those on this board should have known b...
by matthew
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:38 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: 81st Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Replies: 370
Views: 16488

Zahveed wrote:I think I remember my little brother getting into this same argument. He's growing up at least...

He turned nine a few days ago.
lol
by matthew
Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:23 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: 81st Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Replies: 370
Views: 16488

Nominations will be announced around 10:00 tonight where I live. Can't wait!
by matthew
Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:09 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: Best Supporting Actor
Replies: 25
Views: 1610

Was it as critically acclaimed in the UK as his previous movies? I've been under the impression that it was actually very tepidly received in Europe at large. Didn't actually have any desire to see it at all until it started really stiffing up the ranks in U.S. critics' awards and top 10s. There's ...
by matthew
Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:03 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: Best Actress
Replies: 25
Views: 1956

Cate Blanchett's predictably chilly non-performance in The Curious Benjamin Button This is ridiculous. She gives one of the best female performances of the year. Especially in her character's elderly years. Am I the only one who thought the older Blanchett got, the more she resembled Olympia Dukaki...
by matthew
Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:22 am
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: PGA, DGA, WGA, and ACE predictions
Replies: 12
Views: 863

i wonder if letting madonna-ritchie remake her most popular movie blew her chances. ??? I think that it actually made the original movie famous again all over the world (in Italy by then it was already considered a "classic"), and, by comparison, seem like a masterpiece - which it isn't, ...
by matthew
Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:12 am
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: Chicago Film Critics
Replies: 12
Views: 747

I could easily see this best picture line-up mirrored come Oscar nomination time...
by matthew
Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:14 am
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: The New Oscar Host?
Replies: 33
Views: 1732

Reports abound that Hugh Jackman is hosting this year??
by matthew
Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:27 pm
Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
Topic: Golden Globe Award Nominations
Replies: 166
Views: 8834

Even though TDK was snubbed at the GG's, I still get a sort-of Gladiator-type feel to this movie. And it is certainly no more infantile than that film...
by matthew
Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:55 am
Forum: 2008
Topic: The Dark Knight
Replies: 343
Views: 46535

My God...it makes you realise just how extraordinary Titanic's box office run was. Could you imagine a film making 900 million at the North American box office these days?
by matthew
Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:13 pm
Forum: 2008
Topic: Box Office Predix - What will be the blockbusters of 08?
Replies: 280
Views: 31207

Looks like TDK is tracking fairly closely to Shrek 2 (adjusted for inflation.) It will have to make more than 503 million (or thereabouts) to surpass it...
by matthew
Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:26 pm
Forum: 2008
Topic: Box Office Predix - What will be the blockbusters of 08?
Replies: 280
Views: 31207

Gone With the Wind had over 40 years when the only way to see it was in the cinema. That's a hell of a long time to build up ticket sales.
by matthew
Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:50 am
Forum: 2008
Topic: Box Office Predix - What will be the blockbusters of 08?
Replies: 280
Views: 31207

My point is if tickets cost the same amount back in 2004 (or whenever Shrek 2 came out) as they do now, would it have made more than TDK? My hunch is it probably would have.
by matthew
Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:20 pm
Forum: 2008
Topic: Box Office Predix - What will be the blockbusters of 08?
Replies: 280
Views: 31207

I'd like to see how many tickets were sold in Shrek 2's second weekend compared to TDK. I'm not saying that it would necesarily be more, but I think it would be interesting to know. Afterall, TDK only made about 3 million more over the period.

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