85th Annual Academy Awards (2013) - Part 1

[kvz5]

I laughed the most at Amy's and Anne's.

 

[AnneFan]

I laughed the most at Amy's and Anne's.

Yeah. When Anne came in and sat on Zach's lap instead of the chair I knew it was going to be great fun. Her quotes at the awards have been good too. People need to lighten up.

 

[jmc]

Last line of that skit made me piss myself laughing.

 

[kvz5]

Last line of that skit made me piss myself laughing.

That was definitely the best one.

This is amazing (although I don't get some of them):

Here are the close-ups of each one - http://oscar.go.com/photos/themed-galleries/special/oscars-best-pictures-tribute/media/1_113-copy

 

[Liam_H]

Way things are going its gonna be Lincoln or Affleck that becomes a statue.

 

[Boom]

That's gotta be one of the best posters the Oscars have ever had.

 

[jmc]

That's pretty unique, although some of those statues look hilarious.

 

[redhawk23]

All of that art is by Olly Moss btw.

Are any of the rest of you somewhat ashamed of how few of the winners prior to 1970 that you have seen?

Also I feel the winners from prior to 95 are so are far more deserving in their particular year than in more recent times. A lot of the winners these days are kind of ridiculous and are movies no one even particularly cares about or talk about even a year later.

 

[redhawk23]

All of those remind me of the Metropolis poster.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I've seen pretty much all of them past 1950. There are a handful before that I haven't seen. Sadly, I recognized most of those pictures right away. My favorite is the Platoon one. One of the most iconic images in film history. I also like the blank space for A Beautiful Mind.

 

[terry78]

I actually wouldn't mind having that poster framed. The Oscars one.

 

[Drizzle]

Also I feel the winners from prior to 95 are so are far more deserving in their particular year than in more recent times. A lot of the winners these days are kind of ridiculous and are movies no one even particularly cares about or talk about even a year later.

There are a few since then that have become instantly iconic, but only a few. Those are Titanic, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (really the LOTR trilogy as a whole), and maybe Gladiator, since it kind of redefined the sword-and-sandals epic that kind of took Hollywood by storm in the 2000s. The Departed is great, but that doesn't get the same love as Scorsese's other films like Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. At least not yet.

The rest, though? Nobody cares. Nobody talks about The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire or No Country For Old Men anymore. Hell, people didn't care that The Artist won two days after last year's ceremony.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

The Oscars have always been like that.

Just look at the decade before redhawk mentioned. Who talks about Out of Africa, The Last Emperor, or Driving Miss Daisy (in a non humorous or sarcastic way)?

I'd say the only decade that didn't have any forgettable BP winners are the 70s.

EDIT: Also, just because they aren't talked about all the time doesn't mean they're not memorable in the public conscious. I'd argue that No Country For Old Men (and even though I don't think that highly of it, Slumdog Millionaire) are both considered memorable movies in the public conscious.

 

[dark_b]

Between Two Ferns
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/40...-buzz-edition-part-1?playlist=featured_videos

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part 2
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=100241

 

[Kane52630]

Emmanuel Lewis.


"....I'll call you later."

 

[redhawk23]

The Oscars have always been like that.

Just look at the decade before redhawk mentioned. Who talks about Out of Africa, The Last Emperor, or Driving Miss Daisy (in a non humorous or sarcastic way)?

I'd say the only decade that didn't have any forgettable BP winners are the 70s.

EDIT: Also, just because they aren't talked about all the time doesn't mean they're not memorable in the public conscious. I'd argue that No Country For Old Men (and even though I don't think that highly of it, Slumdog Millionaire) are both considered memorable movies in the public conscious.

Maybe it's just because the Cohens themselves generate discussion but No Country for Old Men still comes up from time to time.
Chigur's hair at least continues to be a punchline.

Plus it gave us the implied facepalm!

But yeah, many of the winners are pretty much a joke.

 

[Evil Twin]

I kind of think that the Oscars are divided into thirds. A third that are really memorable, a third people are somewhat aware of, and a third that are instantly forgettable.

It's always been that way. When was the last time, even talking about films of that period, that Around the World in 80 Days, Gigi, and The Greatest Show on Earth, came up in conversation? Or All the King's Men, Gentleman's Agreement, and How Green Was My Valley? Or Cimarron, Cavalcade, and The Great Ziegfeld? The 70s are the big exception, but it's hard to find a decade where 3 or 4 winners don't look really questionable in hindsight.

 

[redhawk23]

I agree, but being somewhat forgotten after 60+ is quite a bit different than 10 years or less.

 

[Evil Twin]

I agree, but being somewhat forgotten after 60+ is quite a bit different than 10 years or less.

I'm not sure any of the movies I cited lasted 10 years either.

I couldn't disagree more with No Country for Old Men being forgotten. It showed up on a lot of critics best of the decade lists and it's part of the Coens' filmography.

And, really, I'm not worried about Gladiator, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, and possibly even Slumdog Millionaire disappearing from memory any time soon either as they're all associated with notable directors that will be studied for years to come. I'm not much worried about Return of the King for obvious reasons as well.

Honestly, that seems pretty consistent with historic patterns. I think there are some rose colored glasses being applied to the so called "golden age" of the Oscars. Not every Best Picture winner of the golden age is a Casablanca or Gone With the Wind.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I finally finished watching all the BP nominees, so here's my personal ranking:

1. Life of Pi
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Argo
4. Lincoln
5. Les Miserables
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Amour
8. Django Unchained
9. Zero Dark Thirty

What I wish was nominated: Moonrise Kingdom; Brit Marling for Best Supporting Actress (Arbitrage)

 

[Doctor Jones]

Jason Clarke from Zero Dark Thirty deserved an Oscar nom over Chastain. Switch him out with Alan Arkin.

 

[JonnyQ]

Saw ZDT last week, thought it was a great film. Glad someone else thought that Jason Clarke was good in it!

 

[Pink Ranger]

Zero Dark Thirty was good in parts, and was nicely suspenseful (the compound raid sequence was awesome), but had too many flaws in it, particularly in the writing, that knocked it to the bottom of the list for me.

 

[Fenrir]

Zero Dark Thirty was good in parts, and was nicely suspenseful (the compound raid sequence was awesome), but had too many flaws in it, particularly in the writing, that knocked it to the bottom of the list for me.

With all the glowing reviews it got, I was expecting Zero Dark Thirty to be more along the lines of an intelligent geopolitical spy thriller like Syriana that was not only gripping and dense, but also contained remarkably insightful social commentary. Instead, what I got was an unnecessarily stretched and pointless plot (seriously, it was all about just that one lead? ) with a cool action sequence in the end thrown in as reward for our patience. Ridley Scott's Body of Lies was a much better movie and that film got hammered by critics. Go figure.

 

[Kane52630]

^Couldn't agree more.