i think martin scoreses was robbed for best director.. mainly because after watching million dollar baby i didnt see anything special.. the movie was very good but it didnt seem like there was any stand out directing it was pretty straight forward to me.. and i felt many directors deserved this more.. And i still think natalie portman had one of the top performances of the year in closer and got screwed by not having "the lead role"
Hmmmm..........
Well, Silence of The Lambs is good, but it no way deserved the Oscar over Beauty and the Beast. Just NO WAY!!!!
Today, all over the world, people remember Beauty and the Beast, everyone recalls the HEARTWARMING EMOTION, THE SPELLBINDING SCORE and the way the movie simply transported us to another world of INNOCENCE and TRANSIENCE. ITS AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC, something which Silence of the Lambs IS NOT!!! Its good, but not even the best of the genre. I can name better psychological thrillers any day! (take Dead Again for example) The Academy has NEVER been just.
Dont agree with me? Personal opinions vary and I would NOT like to change what anyone thinks. Thats not my principle. But just to mention, MOST MAJOR MOVIE REVIEW SITES SEEM TO THINK WHAT I JUST SAID. As an Example, You might want to check out this site
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/s/silence_lambs.html
Well, again I shall say, its my personal opinion. I shall not influence anyone's taste. But to me, Beauty and the Beast remains a far better movie than The Silence of the Lambs and should most definitely have won the Oscar.
i tell you what was a total travesty...that "21 grams" never swept up in the oscars a couple of years ago...the acting is utterly magnificent...sean penn, benicio del torro and naomi watts put in career defining performances....the only thing penn has done better is i am sam and dead man walking
the film was crafted to try and repel the cinema going audience with very high pitched noises at parts as well as shifting between very dark scenes to overly exposed and very bright scenes which hurt the eyes
the non chronological order of the film made it confusing to the very end when all the pieces of the puzzle fitted together
i was very disappointed when it failed to even get nominated in any of the main catagories
as for the previous debate...beauty and the beast over silence of the lambs...i think that hannibal and red dragon have tainted silence of the lambs...to me silence of the lambs only failed in one aspect and that was the pace of the movie...it seemed to drag on forever and then zoom to the end in the last 15 minutes
hannibal was just crap and so was red dragon...
personally i would still go for silence of the lambs over beauty and the beast...
Originally posted by botankus
Last time I checked Silence of the Lambs was a thriller. Unless, of course, the final scene was too frightening for you.
Not for me but that is not the point.The point is that there is alot of great movies out there that deserve ocars.and to give a horror movie an award over a great movie that is not horror is wrong.JM 😎
Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
Not for me but that is not the point.The point is that there is alot of great movies out there that deserve ocars.and to give a horror movie an award over a great movie that is not horror is wrong.JM 😎
So what was the horror movie then???? Maybe you're thinking of The Exorcist.
Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
Not for me but that is not the point.The point is that there is alot of great movies out there that deserve ocars.and to give a horror movie an award over a great movie that is not horror is wrong.JM 😎
I get the feeling that you don't read anyone's posts but your own.
Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
I am talking about any horror movie.JM
Did you even pay attention to Botankus' response to your comments
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As for undeserving of an oscar? There are so many. The oscars are just popularity contests within the academy often voted for reasons other than the performances mentioned.
One's that pop to mind are Marisa Tomai (sp?) and Halle Berry's wins. They are mediocre actresses at best, and neither of these performances were worth oscars.
Originally posted by KharmaDog
As for undeserving of an oscar? There are so many. The oscars are just popularity contests within the academy often voted for reasons other than the performances mentioned.
I agree and I believe it's widely known. About a week of so before Oscars you start hearing rumors about who's "due" for one and what trend the Oscars will follow this year. And the work that's "due" is hardly ever their best work.
Come on, what is the problem with horror movies? There are so many masterpieces in this genere as in any other genere, think on the universal classics, the german expressionist classics, the hammer classics, the exorcist, the omen, jaws, alien, the shinning, carrie, poltergeist, first halloween, texas chain massacre, first friday the 13th, evil dead, first nighmate on elm stree, etc, etc. I dont know what is the problem with a horror movie winning an oscar. There are good and bad movies, not good and bad generes.
By the way, the silence of the lambs ISNT a horror movie, its a thriller.
By the way, the silence of the lambs ISNT a horror movie, its a thriller. [/B][/QUOTE] yes ok i will give you some of that fact. It isnt meant to be a horror movie. But to some people, that is the most horrific thing that can happen. To me Seven is a horror movie. As with Breakdown. Yes they are a crime thriller and thriller, but i cant help look at the true horror behind both of them. I would consider them to be horror.
This year was angering, to say the least. My mother agrees that the Oscars went to undeserving people (along with a lot of other people I talked to the day after). Personally I think movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, and Closer all got ignored thanks to the Aviator and it's huge budget. I can't believe a movie like that was nominated for so much. It wasn't anything spectacular. It was not a good example of the art of filmmaking. The Academy is forgetting that filmmaking should be an art. They focus on the business side I guess.
Personall, the most angering of them all was when Charlize Theron won best Actress last year. Keisha Castle Hughes was way better. She did an amazing job.