Best Film of the Year - Nomination

[L0ngsh0t]

This is true, but I take how good a movie is made and written into account in this as well. You are right, Knocked Up is excellently written and acted with endearing and memorable characters in a realistic situation, but with comedic events. I completely agree. I'm just saying some movies that are popular may not be that, but get many votes. When I see Transformers get more votes than Atonement, Juno, The Assassination of Jesse James and Into the Wild for example...it strikes me as odd, but I accept those movies' popularity. I was simply commenting on it.

I think part of the reason is might be that Jesse James, Into the Wild, Atonement, and Juno have not gotten big releases, I mean I try to literally see every movie I can in the theaters (cause I am a busy ass student and have to read 3 books at any given time, so on the weekends that is how i get out) but out of that lot I have seen one of those movies, being Juno, I have really wanted to see all of them, but as far as I know Jesse James is the only other to come to the theaters by dorm.

But also Transformers didn't just give us a CGI spectacle, In all honesty it gave us actual robots, like that was by far the best CGI I have ever seen, I think Davy Jones is the best single character, but the constant CGI in TF makes it no. 1 and like the visualization of that magnitude has to be worth something in terms of the best movie of the year race (certainly not no. 1 though I would put it in my top 15 somewhere though)

And you know I can read books that have better characterization than movies like Atonement, but what I can't read is something like Transformers which still blows my mind.

Anyway, I'd safely argue the bloodletting in Sweeney Todd was neccessary as it was an act of theraputic catharsis for the main character and as much an aspect of the film and personality asa the set design, costumes and cinematography. I personally liked Halloween, but that was gratuitous for the sake of violence like torture porn with Hostel II and Saw IV.

But that is just my opinion.

I think Halloween is a step up from Hostel and Saw in the gratuitous category, but A-I don't think excessive violence is at all a problem in horror movies, or any movie for that matter, B-I don't think Sweeny Todd should be given a break just because it is a musical that may or may not be up for best picture, its still excessively violent. The case same case can be made for Michael Meyers in real life when kids kill their family it normally isn't neat and clean, it is normally their pent up rage being unleashed etc. But I hate it how movies like Little Miss Sunshine can have excessive cursing (again I could careless about excessive cursing but the point is the same) and not hear anything because its up for best picture where a movie like SuperBad will be put in the raunchy category just cause it is a teen sex comedy (and a brilliant one at that, imo better than LMS).

 

[Drizzle]

Am I the only one who went for Alvin?

You need to see more movies, buddy. After seeing "Sweeney Todd", I've completely forgot about "Alvin".