2009 Awards/Critical List Discussion Thread

[Spinal]

2010 Independent Spirit Nominations

The complete list of nominations (http://www.indiewire.com/article/spirit_awards_the_nominees/pem):

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
“(500) Days Of Summer,” Producers: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe
“Amreeka,” Producers: Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan
“Precious,” Producers: Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness
“Sin Nombre,” Producer: Amy Kaufman
“The Last Station,” Producers: Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meuer

BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, “A Serious Man”
Lee Daniels, “Precious”
Cary Joji Fukunaga, “Sin Nombre”
James Gray, “Two Lovers”
Michael Hoffman, “The Last Station”

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
“A Single Man,” Director: Tom Ford, Producers: Tom Ford, Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz
“Crazy Heart,” Director: Scott Cooper, Producers: T Bone Burnett, Judy Cairo, Rob Carliner, Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall
“Easier With Practice,” Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Producer: Cookie Carosella
“Paranormal Activity,” Director: Oren Peli, Producer: Jason Blum, Oren Peli
“The Messenger,” Director: Oren Moverman, Producers: Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zach Miller

Awards Guide JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)
“Big Fan” Writer/Director: Robert Siegel; Producers: Elan Bogarin, Jean Kouremetis
“Humpday” Writer/Director/Producer: Lynn Sheldon
“The New Year Parade” Writer/Director: Tom Quinn; Producers: Steve Beal, Tom Quinn
“Treeless Mountain” Writer/Director: So Yong Kim; Producers: Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy
“Zero Bridge” Writer/Director: Tariq Tapa; Producers: Josee Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Tariq Tapa

BEST SCREENPLAY
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman, “The Messenger”
Michael Hoffman, “The Last Station
Lee Toland Krieger, “The Vicious Kind”
Greg Mottola, “Adventureland”
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, “(500) Days Of Summer”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Sophie Barthes, “Cold Souls”
Scott Cooper, “Crazy Heart”
Cherien Dabis, “Amreeka”
Geoffrey Fletcher, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”
Tom Ford, David Scearce, “A Single Man”

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Maria Bello, “Downloading Nancy”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Gwentyth Paltrow, “Two Lovers”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”
Nisreen Faour, “Amreeka”

BEST MALE LEAD
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “(500) Days Of Summer”
Souléymane Sy Savané, “Goodbye Solo”
Adam Scott, “The Vicious Kind”

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Dina Korzun, “Cold Souls”
Mo’Nique, “Precious”
Samantha Morton, “The Messenger”
Natalie Press, “Fifty Dead Men Walking”
Mia Wasikowska, “That Evening Sun”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Jemaine Clement, “Gentleman Broncos”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christian McKay, “Me and Orson Welles”
Raymond McKinnon, “That Evening Sun”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, “A Serious Man”
Adriano Goldman, “Sin Nombre”
Anne Misawa, “Treeless Mountain”
Andrij Parekh, “Cold Souls”
Peter Zeitlinger, “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
“Anvil! The Story of Anvil” Director: Sacha Gervasi
“Food, Inc.” Director: Robert Kenner
“More Than a Game” Director: Kristopher Belman
“October Country” Directors: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri
“Which Way Home” Director: Rebecca Cammisa

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
“A Prophet” (France), Director: Jacques Audiard
“An Education” (UK/France), Director: Lone Scherfig
“Everlasting Moments” (Sweden), Director: Jan Troell
“Mother” (South Korea), Director: Bong Joon-Ho
“The Maid” (Chile), Director: Sebastian Silva

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast)
Robert Altman Award
“A Serious Man”
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Casting Directors: Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner
Cast: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Karin Chien, “The Exploding Girl,” “Santa Mesa”
Larry Fessenden, “I Sell the Dead,” “The House of the Devil”
Dia Sokol, “Beeswax,” “Nights & Weekends”

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Kyle Patrick Alvarez, “Easier With Practice”
Asiel Norton, “Redland”
Tariq Tapa, “Zero Bridge”

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
NNatalia Almada, “El General”
Jessica Oreck, “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo”
Bill Ross, Turner Ross, “45365”

[ledfloyd]

i find the best feature noms really disappointing. no a serious man? no goodbye solo?

[Kurosawa Fan]

In no known universe is Sin Nombre a better film than Goodbye Solo. That's just incomprehensible. And I liked Sin Nombre.

[Raiders]

Hope you don't mind Spinal, but I changed this to the general awards/critical lists discussion thread.

[Spinal]

Hope you don't mind Spinal, but I changed this to the general awards/critical lists discussion thread.

Good idea.

[Winston*]

Colin Firth over that A Serious Man guy? I haven't seen nor heard of the movie, but it's Colin Firth.

[Sycophant]

Guys, I didn't watch, like, any of these movies. This'll probably be my least-informed awards season since like 1999.

[Spinal]

Guys, I didn't watch, like, any of these movies. This'll probably be my least-informed awards season since like 1999.

Yeah, now that you mention it, I haven't seen a single one of these either.

[Sycophant]

Yeah. I just reviewed the list in depth. I have seen A Serious Man and Adventureland. That is all.

[Stay Puft]

I've seen Mother, Goodbye Solo and the Herzog. Which accounts for a total of three single nominations.

[Boner M]

Blech, Amreeka.

And Paltrow for Two Lovers but not Phoenix? Double blech.

[Watashi]

Didn't Slumdog and Juno sweep these awards in the past?

Yeah.

[balmakboor]

I've seen (500) Days, Paranormal, Treeless Mountain, Adventureland, and Goodbye Solo. The only two that I consider truly award worthy are Treeless and Goodbye, both of which should be in the running for best picture imo.

[Boner M]

Import/Export tops John Waters' always delightful top ten of the year (http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=24234) in ArtForum.


The most sorrowful movie of the year is also the best. The miserable lives of Ukrainian immigrants in Vienna make this agonizing but brilliantly directed opus the cinematic equivalent of slitting your wrists. A new genre? Depression porn? Hey, I got off.

[Ezee E]

I think a lot of people will like The Last Station when it arrives.

[Sxottlan]

Sight & Sound's top ten of 2009:

1. A Prophet – Jacques Audiard
2. The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow
35 Shots of Rum – Claire Denis
4. The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke
5. Let the Right One In – Tomas Alfredson
6. Up – Pete Docter
White Material – Claire Denis
8. Bright Star – Jane Campion
Antichrist – Lars von Trier
10. Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino

[Boner M]

OK, I liked The Hurt Locker fine, but c'mon.

[Raiders]

OK, I liked The Hurt Locker fine, but c'mon.

I quite like its placement. Certainly more than Up placing at #6.

[dreamdead]

Avclub's top 50 films (http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-films-of-the-00s,35931/) of the decade.

Meanwhile, a blogger's personal top 100 (http://mainlymovies.blogspot.com/2009/11/personal-top-100-of-decade.html). I love, love, love this list and will be spending much of my time next year tracking down those I haven't yet seen.

[balmakboor]

Avclub's top 50 films (http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-films-of-the-00s,35931/) of the decade.

Meanwhile, a blogger's personal top 100 (http://mainlymovies.blogspot.com/2009/11/personal-top-100-of-decade.html). I love, love, love this list and will be spending much of my time next year tracking down those I haven't yet seen.

Some things I've learned from these lists:

I should probably get around to The 25th Hour soon.

I should probably give Eternal Sunshine another chance.

I should probably give Memento another chance.

I wasn't alone in finding The Squid and the Whale to be pretty great.

As painful as I expect it to be, I should finally watch United 93.

Together looks like it might be my favorite Moodysson.

A lot of people disagree with my evaluations of The Incredibles, Wall-E, and Up.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence is still hanging in there -- yay!

No way does The Dark Knight belong on these lists.

[Hugh_Grant]

National Board of Review
From Awards Daily


Best Film:
Up In The Air

Top Eleven Films (In alphabetical order):
An Education
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Up In The Air
Where The Wild Things Are

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood, Invictus

Best Actor:
Morgan Freeman, Invictus and George Clooney, Up In The Air (tie)

Best Actress:
Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor:
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Supporting Actress:
Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air

Best Foreign Film:
A Prophet

Best Documentary:
The Cove

Best Animated Feature:
Up

Best Ensemble Cast:
It’s Complicated

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor:
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress:
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:
Duncan Jones, Moon, Oren Moverman,
The Messenger and Marc Webb, 500 Days of Summer (tie)

Best Original Screenplay:
Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

Special Filmmaking Achievement Award:
Wes Anderson, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

William K. Everson Film History Award:
Jean Picker Firstenberg

NBR Freedom of Expression:
Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country,
Invictus,
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellseberg And The Pentagon Papers

Top Ten Independent Films (In alphabetical order):
Amreeka
District 9
Goodbye Solo
Humpday
In The Loop
Julia
Me And Orson Welles
Moon
Sugar
Two Lovers

Top Six Foreign Films (In alphabetical order):
The Maid
A Prophet
Revanche
Song Of Sparrows
Three Monkeys
The White Ribbon

Top Six Documentary Films (In alphabetical order):
Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country
The Cove
Crude
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers

[Watashi]

lol precious

[Pop Trash]

OK, I liked The Hurt Locker fine, but c'mon.

Word. I liked it fine too but serio.

[Ezee E]

The Messenger? I never even heard of that movie until now.

[balmakboor]

National Board of Review
From Awards Daily

Top Eleven Films (In alphabetical order):
An Education
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Up In The Air
Where The Wild Things Are

What's with the list having eleven films? Have they been talking to a certain MC poster?

Anyway, pretty crappy list for the most part, it is.

[Boner M]

Meanwhile, a blogger's personal top 100 (http://mainlymovies.blogspot.com/2009/11/personal-top-100-of-decade.html). I love, love, love this list and will be spending much of my time next year tracking down those I haven't yet seen.
Easily the best list I've seen yet; Master & Commander at #2 nonwithstanding.

[Boner M]

The Messenger? I never even heard of that movie until now.
Apparently, Ben Foster has Oscar Buzz for it. EXTREEEME!!!

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/RickGershman/dog.jpg

[Sxottlan]

Wow. I'm happy to see Star Trek listed by the NBR. I'm starting to wonder if it'll really have a shot at a nod.

[Adam]

The love for Star Trek makes no sense to me. Can someone explain to me why that movie is any smarter than, say, Transformers 2? I'm almost thinking I preferred Transformers 2 now, because at least there's some trace elements of knowing winkage going on there. Star Trek was just stuffy and lame

[Eleven]

What's with the list having eleven films? Have they been talking to a certain MC poster?

Anyway, pretty crappy list for the most part, it is.

A board after my own heart.

Even though I could easily do without (500) Days and Star Trek. So really, it should be a Top 9, just to keep with this year's random love of that number.

[Watashi]

Washington D.C. Film Critic Winners:

Best Actor
George Clooney, Up in the Air

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique | Precious

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker

Best Screenplay, Adapted
Up in the Air | Paramount

Best Screenplay, Original
Inglourious Basterds | Weinstein Company

Best Film
Up in the Air | Paramount

Best Breakthrough Performance
Gabourey Sidibe | Precious

Best Ensemble
The Hurt Locker | Summit Entertainment

Best Animated Film
Up | Walt Disney

Best Foreign Film
Sin Nombre | Focus Features

Best Art Direction
Nine | The Weinstein Company

Best Documentary
Food, Inc. | Magnolia

[Ezee E]

So, Up in the Air VS. Precious?

[balmakboor]

So, Up in the Air VS. Precious?

That's what I'm thinking.

[dreamdead]

Reverse Shot has begun their top twenty of the decade (http://reverseshot.com/26/decade). Thus far, it's been House of Mirth and Children of Men. The former has a gorgeous write-up as well.

[lovejuice]

i'm hoping someone wil post the time's list. it seems quite controversial with The Princess and the Frog at its #1. (i want to do myself, but the net in my apartment is too slow.)

[Watashi]

i'm hoping someone wil post the time's list. it seems quite controversial with The Princess and the Frog at its #1. (i want to do myself, but the net in my apartment is too slow.)
1. The Princess and the Frog
2. Up
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Up in the Air
6. The White Ribbon
7. A Single Man
8. Of Time and the City
9. District 9
10. Thirst

I like the list a lot mainly because it finally recognizes that this year has been great for animation.

[Sven]

I should probably get around to The 25th Hour soon.

It would go on my Most Overrated Films list.


I should probably give Eternal Sunshine another chance.

If you didn't like it, you should.


I should probably give Memento another chance.

Meh.


I wasn't alone in finding The Squid and the Whale to be pretty great.

This should not be news to you by this point.


As painful as I expect it to be, I should finally watch United 93.

It is painful because it is so tacky and bad.


Together looks like it might be my favorite Moodysson.

He's still a blind spot for me. Have seen nothing.


A lot of people disagree with my evaluations of The Incredibles, Wall-E, and Up.

Yes. Yes they do, you crazy crazy man. (I like your evals.)


A.I. Artificial Intelligence is still hanging in there -- yay!

Totally boss.


No way does The Dark Knight belong on these lists.

Rep for you!

[dreamdead]

1. The Princess and the Frog
2. Up
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Up in the Air
6. The White Ribbon
7. A Single Man
8. Of Time and the City
9. District 9
10. Thirst

I like the list a lot mainly because it finally recognizes that this year has been great for animation.

Time's list does not make me more invested in trying to find these films, since they largely look like middle-ground fare, save for Davies' film. Granted, I've only seen Up and Thirst here, but too much ambivalence here disturbs me. Maybe it's the lack of great filmmakers putting something about there this year, or it's just that so much has been met with indifference, or that nothing revelatory seems to have been found yet. Whatever the case, this year feels lackluster.

[lovejuice]

Time's list does not make me more invested in trying to find these films, since they largely look like middle-ground fare, save for Davies' film. Granted, I've only seen Up and Thirst here, but too much ambivalence here disturbs me. Maybe it's the lack of great filmmakers putting something about there this year, or it's just that so much has been met with indifference, or that nothing revelatory seems to have been found yet. Whatever the case, this year feels lackluster.
i must say their putting The Princess and the Frog on #1 spot is really daring. i like that.

[Fezzik]

I like the list a lot mainly because it finally recognizes that this year has been great for animation.

And yet, where's Coraline? That was the best animated film of the year.

[Boner M]

My own top 100 of the decade is completed (http://sydneyfilmhappenings.blogspot. com/2009/12/cos-everyones-doin-it.html).

[Melville]

My own top 100 of the decade is completed (http://sydneyfilmhappenings.blogspot. com/2009/12/cos-everyones-doin-it.html).
Stupendous list; I didn't know you were such a fan of Capturing the Friedmans, one of my favorites, and in my opinion one of the best depictions of family dynamics in any film. Here's something like my top 50 (I got bored while trying to whittle it down):

1. The Son
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. The Aviator
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. The New World
9. Capturing the Friedmans
10. The Good Girl
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. Lost in Translation
13. Two Lovers
14. The Royal Tenenbaums
15. Werckmeister Harmonies
16. Winged Migration
17. A Time for Drunken Horses
18. Synecdoche, NY
19. Bright Star
20. Love Exposure
21. The Forsaken Land
22. Time Out
23. Nobody Knows
24. George Washington
25. Hunger
26. Spirited Away
27. Oasis
28. Waltz with Bashir
29. Mysterious Skin
30. Let the Right One In
31. The Wayward Cloud
32. Grizzly Man
33. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
34. Inglourious Basterds
35. Spider-Man 2
36. Inland Empire
37. Paprika
38. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
39. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
40. Trouble Every Day
41. My Love
42. Dogville
43. Ghost World
44. Tropical Malady
45. Marie Antoinette
46. Flight of the Red Balloon
47. The Black Book
48. Jesus Camp
49. You Can Count on Me
50. Kung-fu Hustle
51. Burn After Reading
52. Once
53. Three Times
54. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
55. Pusher II

[Boner M]

Stupendous list; I didn't know you were such a fan of Capturing the Friedmans, one of my favorites, and in my opinion one of the best depictions of family dynamics in any film. Here's something like my top 50 (I got bored while trying to whittle it down):

1. The Son
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. The Aviator
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. The New World
9. Capturing the Friedmans
10. The Good Girl
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. Lost in Translation
13. Two Lovers
14. The Royal Tenenbaums
15. Werckmeister Harmonies
16. Winged Migration
17. A Time for Drunken Horses
18. Synecdoche, NY
19. Bright Star
20. Love Exposure
21. The Forsaken Land
22. Time Out
23. Nobody Knows
24. George Washington
25. Hunger
26. Spirited Away
27. Oasis
28. Waltz with Bashir
29. Mysterious Skin
30. Let the Right One In
31. The Wayward Cloud
32. Grizzly Man
33. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
34. Inglourious Basterds
35. Spider-Man 2
36. Inland Empire
37. Paprika
38. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
39. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
40. Trouble Every Day
41. My Love
42. Dogville
43. Ghost World
44. Tropical Malady
45. Marie Antoinette
46. Flight of the Red Balloon
47. The Black Book
48. Jesus Camp
49. You Can Count on Me
50. Kung-fu Hustle
51. Burn After Reading
52. Once
53. Three Times
54. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
55. Pusher II
I haven't seen Capturing the Friedmans since its theatrical release, but yes, it's absolutely riveting and inspired the most heated and memorable post-screening debate I've experienced, between me, a friend and a few strangers clogging up the exits on the way out. It's absurd and devastating at once. Should really revisit it at once...

I like your list, though I'm still not sure what you see in The Good Girl. Granted, it's been a while for that one as well.

And gasp, Time Out's a glaring omission from my own list. Might even crack the top 50.

[Watashi]

My own top 100 of the decade is completed (http://sydneyfilmhappenings.blogspot. com/2009/12/cos-everyones-doin-it.html).
I see Final Destination 2 and Superbad in there.

Have you gone mainstream on us, boner?

[Boner M]

I see Final Destination 2 and Superbad in there.

Have you gone mainstream on us, boner?
I've seen both of those films more times than any Apichatpong, Tsai or Denis.

[soitgoes...]

My own top 100 of the decade is completed (http://sydneyfilmhappenings.blogspot. com/2009/12/cos-everyones-doin-it.html).


Stupendous list; I didn't know you were such a fan of Capturing the Friedmans, one of my favorites, and in my opinion one of the best depictions of family dynamics in any film. Here's something like my top 50 (I got bored while trying to whittle it down):

1. The Son
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. The Aviator
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. The New World
9. Capturing the Friedmans
10. The Good Girl
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. Lost in Translation
13. Two Lovers
14. The Royal Tenenbaums
15. Werckmeister Harmonies
16. Winged Migration
17. A Time for Drunken Horses
18. Synecdoche, NY
19. Bright Star
20. Love Exposure
21. The Forsaken Land
22. Time Out
23. Nobody Knows
24. George Washington
25. Hunger
26. Spirited Away
27. Oasis
28. Waltz with Bashir
29. Mysterious Skin
30. Let the Right One In
31. The Wayward Cloud
32. Grizzly Man
33. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
34. Inglourious Basterds
35. Spider-Man 2
36. Inland Empire
37. Paprika
38. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
39. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
40. Trouble Every Day
41. My Love
42. Dogville
43. Ghost World
44. Tropical Malady
45. Marie Antoinette
46. Flight of the Red Balloon
47. The Black Book
48. Jesus Camp
49. You Can Count on Me
50. Kung-fu Hustle
51. Burn After Reading
52. Once
53. Three Times
54. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
55. Pusher II

Good lists, the both of you. It amazes me that even after seeing over 1000 films this decade, I still see a number of films pop up on these lists that I haven't seen yet, but still want to see.

[Melville]

I like your list, though I'm still not sure what you see in The Good Girl. Granted, it's been a while for that one as well.
Yeah, I suppose that despite repeatedly praising it, I've never written anything about it. The main thing I like about it is the way it finds the humor in the serious and vice versa. That's especially true of its treatment of its characters: it sees the humor in their ridiculous and pitiful natures even as it sympathizes with them (the creators actually talk about that in the DVD commentary). All the characters are tragically comic and comically tragic, and the actors do a superb job of capturing that. In particular, I love the character of Holden. He's a caricature of the romantic, alienated youth yearning for a love that goes beyond the everyday. That description describes me pretty well too—I was even left a blubbering mess of despair for many months after an ill-fated romance with an older woman (though only a few years older in my case)—and one of the reasons I love the film is that it perfectly captures some of my own traits and experiences in this character and then exaggerates them until they become hilarious, while maintaining great sympathy for the character's real suffering. It does what good comedy should: puts a fun-house mirror up to my own faults and troubles and lets me see the humor in them.

I also think it does a pretty good job of exploring a pretty fundamental existential issue: how human existence consists of the engagement with others and with the concrete facts of life, and the ideal of absolute freedom, the running away into the unknown frontier and making of oneself whatsoever one desires, is a falsehood; absolute freedom is nonexistence, because one is perpetually bound to the facticity of one's existence. The romantic (or maybe Romantic) ideal of love largely revolves around this issue, because in it, the lovers exist only for one another, free from all other entanglements. The Good Girl captures this issue beautifully near its conclusion, when the protagonist arrives at a crossroads (literally) representing the entanglements of the everyday and the ideal of absolute freedom, and says "How it all came down to this, only the Devil knows. Retail Rodeo is at the corner on my left. The motel is down the road to my right. I close my eyes and try to peer into the future. On my left, I saw days upon days of lipstick and ticking clocks, dirty looks and quiet whisperings. And burning secrets that just won't ever die away. And on my right, what could I picture? The blue sky, the desert earth, stretching out into the eerie infinity. A beautiful never-ending nothing." The one choice is ugly and frightening, but it is the real, the fullness of existence; the other option is an alluring emptiness. Anyway, I've talked about those things at length with regards to Into the Wild, It's a Wonderful Life, and probably a bunch of other movies, and I'm too lethargic to go into it any further now, but I think you get the idea.

I also think it has some of the sharpest dialogue around. It's funny as hell, and it captures the essences of the characters and sets the tone for the film deftly and precisely:
Holden: I've never wanted anything so bad, and I have wanted many things. I'd given up long ago on being gotten by someone else, and then you came along. The idea that I could be gotten but because of circumstances never get got is the worst feeling I've ever felt, and I have felt many bad feelings.

Jack Field, Your Store Manager: Holden was a thief and a disturbed young man and what happened was a sad thing. Perhaps we can learn a lesson from this tragedy, like don't steal and don't be disturbed.

And perhaps my favorite bit of dialogue in any film:
Holden: I'm starting to think...that you don't get me.
Justine: maybe I don't get you.
Holden: You do! You do get me! You just don't wanna get me because I'm too intensified for you!

"Too intensified"...That's gold!

[Qrazy]

I see Final Destination 2 and Superbad in there.

Have you gone mainstream on us, boner?

Every arthouse film buff is required to include a couple of mainstream favorites on their top 100 lists. This adds an air of diversity. Didn't you get the memo?

;) Just Kidding Boner

[Raiders]

Sorry Boner...

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS 2009 AWARD WINNERS

PICTURE: "THE HURT LOCKER"
Runner-up: "UP IN THE AIR"

DIRECTOR: Kathryn Bigelow, "THE HURT LOCKER"
Runner-up: Michael Haneke, "THE WHITE RIBBON"

ACTRESS: Yolande Moreau, "SÉRAPHINE"
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, "AN EDUCATION"

ACTOR: Jeff Bridges, "CRAZY HEART"
Runner-up: Colin Firth, "A SINGLE MAN"

ANIMATION: "FANTASTIC MR. FOX"
Runner-up: “UP"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "SUMMER HOURS"
Runner-up: "THE WHITE RIBBON"

NEW GENERATION: Neill Blomkamp, "DISTRICT 9"

MUSIC/SCORE: T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton, "CRAZY HEART"
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, "FANTASTIC MR. FOX"

PRODUCTION DESIGN: Philip Ivey, "DISTRICT 9"
Runner-up: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, "AVATAR"

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Christian Berger, "THE WHITE RIBBON"
Runner-up: Barry Ackroyd, "THE HURT LOCKER"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mo'Nique, "PRECIOUS"
Runner-up: Anna Kendrick, "UP IN THE AIR"

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz, "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS"
Runner-up: Peter Capaldi, "IN THE LOOP"

SCREENPLAY: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “UP IN THE AIR"
Runner-up: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, "IN THE LOOP"

DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM: "THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS" and "THE COVE" (tie)

DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: Anders Edstrom and C.W. Winter, "THE ANCHORAGE"

[Adam]

THE EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY AWARDS

EUROPEAN FILM 2009
DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon)

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2009
Michael Haneke for DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon)

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2009
Tahar Rahim in UN PROPHETE (A Prophet)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2009
Kate Winslet in THE READER (Der Vorleser)

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2009
Michael Haneke for DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon)

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2009
Anthony Dod Mantle for ANTICHRIST & SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX D’EXCELLENCE 2009
Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier & Marc Doisne for
the Sound Design, UN PROPHETE (A Prophet)

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2009
Alberto Iglesias for LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces)

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2009
KATALIN VARGA, Romania/UK/Hungary
written & directed by Peter Strickland

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2009
MIA ET LE MIGOU (Mia and the Migoo)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2009
POSTE RESTANTE by Marcel Lozinski

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Ken Loach

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA
Isabelle Huppert

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2009
THE SOUND OF INSECTS - Record of a Mummy

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD for Best European Film
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, UK

[soitgoes...]

The White Ribbon FTW! I would love it if the Academy gave Christian Berger a nomination.

[Boner M]

Sorry Boner...
Oh, I'm fine with the idea of THL being this year's awards frontrunner considering most of what it's up against (plus I think I owe it a second viewing; 'twas another casualty of both festivalitis & sitting in the very front row corner in a packed screening), I just feel that it's being graded on a curve since it's a Hollywood Iraq war movie that doesn't suck.

[Watashi]

Slant's 2009 Year in Film.
(http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/2009yearinfilm.asp)
Eh.

[Watashi]

Oh, I'm fine with the idea of THL being this year's awards frontrunner considering most of what it's up against (plus I think I owe it a second viewing; 'twas another casualty of both festivalitis & sitting in the very front row corner in a packed screening), I just feel that it's been graded on a curve since it's a Hollywood Iraq war movie that doesn't suck.
At least it's not Precious.

[Watashi]

I'm very surprised to see Sherlock Holmes on Ed and Nick's honorable mentions.

Guess they didn't like Avatar that much.

[Boner M]

At least it's not Precious.
I haven't seen Precious, but it feels like I have & hate it.

[Watashi]

Here's AFI list:

* CORALINE
* THE HANGOVER
* THE HURT LOCKER
* THE MESSENGER
* PRECIOUS
* A SERIOUS MAN
* A SINGLE MAN
* SUGAR
* UP
* UP IN THE AIR

[Boner M]

Slant's 2009 Year in Film.
(http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/2009yearinfilm.asp)
Eh.
Eh? That's a hella solid list, if rather predictable. 9 are on my decade's top 100. Got Julia checked out, can't wait.

w00t, The Box

[Boner M]

I'm very surprised to see Sherlock Holmes on Ed and Nick's honorable mentions.
I'm pretty pumped for it now, the trailer brings mad grinz.

[Boner M]

I'm disappointed to see Somer's Town absent from nearly every list I've encountered. Shane Meadows seems disproportionately underrated stateside.

[Melville]

Slant's 2009 Year in Film.
(http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/2009yearinfilm.asp)
Eh.
Why "eh"? I've only seen 8 of the 25, but 7 of those were terrific.

Also, I didn't realize Sokurov's The Sun was released just this year; I saw it like 4 years ago at TIFF, and I always assumed it was released shortly thereafter.

[Watashi]

I just like to dissent.

It's a very Slantish list.

[Raiders]

It's a very Slantish list.

"Metamorphosis... it's very Kafkaesque."

[Pop Trash]

I'm calling it now: Kathryn Bigelow will get an Oscar.

[ledfloyd]

i've seen 13 of slant's list and i'll second wats's 'eh.'

to expand on that point:
coraline - eh
antichrist - eh
still walking - excellent
hunger - eh
where the wild things are - not bad
tokyo sonata - excellent
up - excellent
summer hours - sublime
the hurt locker - not bad
inglourious bastards - good
the headless woman - eh
revanche - good
35 shots of rum - not bad

i do however have high hopes for a serious man, bright star and the fantastic mr fox. i really need to see you, the living.

[Ezee E]

BFCA Nominations


BEST PICTURE

Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air
BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges – “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney – “Up In The Air”
Colin Firth – “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman – “Invictus”
Viggo Mortensen – “The Road”
Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker”
BEST ACTRESS

Emily Blunt – “The Young Victoria”
Sandra Bullock – “The Blind Side”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious”
Meryl Streep – “Julie & Julia”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Matt Damon – “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson – “The Messenger”
Christian McKay – “Me And Orson Welles”
Alfred Molina – “An Education”
Stanley Tucci – “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Marion Cotillard – “Nine”
Vera Farmiga – “Up In The Air”
Anna Kendrick – “Up In The Air”
Mo’Nique – “Precious”
Julianne Moore – “A Single Man”
Samantha Morton – “The Messenger”
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Jae Head – “The Blind Side”
Bailee Madison – “Brothers”
Max Records – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Road”
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air
BEST DIRECTING

Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron – “Avatar”
Lee Daniels – “Precious”
Clint Eastwood – “Invictus”
Jason Reitman – “Up In The Air”
Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal – “The Hurt Locker”
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man”
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – “(500) Days Of Summer”
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – “Up”
Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – “District 9”
Geoffrey Fletcher – “Precious”
Tom Ford, David Scearce – “A Single Man”
Nick Hornby – “An Education”
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – “Up In The Air”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Barry Ackroyd – “The Hurt Locker”
Dion Beebe – “Nine”
Mauro Fiore – “Avatar”
Andrew Lesnie – “The Lovely Bones”
Robert Richardson – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ART DIRECTION

Dan Bishop – “A Single Man”
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – “Avatar”
John Myhre, Gordon Sim – “Nine”
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – “The Lovely Bones”
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST EDITING

Dana E. Glauberman – “Up In The Air”
Sally Menke – “Inglourious Basterds”
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – “The Hurt Locker”
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar”
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – “Nine”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Colleen Atwood – “Nine”
Janet Patterson – “Bright Star”
Sandy Powell – “The Young Victoria”
Anna Sheppard – “Inglourious Basterds”
Casey Storm – “Where The Wild Things Are”
BEST MAKEUP

Avatar
District 9
Nine
The Road
Star Trek
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
2012
BEST SOUND

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog
Up
BEST ACTION MOVIE

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
BEST COMEDY

(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland
BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Gifted Hands
Grey Gardens
Into The Storm
Taking Chance
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
BEST SONG

“All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – “Where The Wild Things Are”
“Almost There” – Randy Newman – “The Princess And The Frog”
“Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – “Nine”
“(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – “Everybody’s Fine”
“The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – “Crazy Heart”
BEST SCORE

Michael Giacchino – “Up”
Marvin Hamlisch – “The Informant!”
Randy Newman – “The Princess and the Frog”
Karen O, Carter Burwell – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Hans Zimmer – “Sherlock Holmes”

[Fezzik]

“Almost There” – Randy Newman – “The Princess And The Frog”

I know it's a minor award, but, of all the songs from that movie, that's the one they picked? Really?

Ugh.

[Watashi]

The 2009 New York Film Critics’ Circle Award Winners:

Best Film
“The Hurt Locker”

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”

Best Screenplay
“In the Loop”

Best Actress
Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia”

Best Actor
George Clooney for “Up In The Air” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox”

Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique for “Precious”

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Cinematography
Christian Berger for “The White Ribbon”

Best Animated Film
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”

Best Non-fiction Film
“Of Time and the City”

Best Foreign Language Film
“Summer Hours”

Best First Feature
“Hunger,” director Steve McQueen

Special Award
To Andrew Sarris for his contribution to film criticism

[Melville]

summer hours - sublime
That was actually the one out of eight that I didn't think was terrific.

[Rowland]

Why is Hunger being considered a 2009 release? It received a limited US release in December of '08, which is typically enough to qualify a film's official release for that respective year.

[ledfloyd]

That was actually the one out of eight that I didn't think was terrific.
haha. i think it's easily one of the years best and it keeps improving for me in retrospect.

[Raiders]

Why is Hunger being considered a 2009 release? It received a limited US release in December of '08, which is typically enough to qualify a film's official release for that respective year.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=hunger08.htm

Looks like the actual limited release wasn't really until March. Not sure what really happened in December.

[Melville]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=hunger08.htm

Looks like the actual limited release wasn't really until March. Not sure what really happened in December.
Will we be considering it for our year-end top 20 and/or Matchies? Or did we already consider it last year?

[Rowland]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=hunger08.htm

Looks like the actual limited release wasn't really until March. Not sure what really happened in December.Maybe they gave it a nothing release for one weekend just so that it was eligible for 2008 awards. After all, it did technically gross nearly $2,000 last year, so I dunno. Heads or tails, doesn't really matter I suppose.

[Watashi]

QT's favorite films of 2009:

1. JJ Abrams’ Star Trek
2. Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell
3. Judd Apatow’s Funny People
4. Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air
5. Prachya Pinkaew’s Chocolate
6. Jody Hill’s Observe and Report
7. Lee Daniels’ Precious
8. Lone Scherfig’s An Education

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/14/quentin-tarantinos-top-8-movies-of-2009/

An Edu-fucking-cation? Why do people (even people like QT) like this bullshit?

[Sycophant]

Tarantino's a good guy.

[Boner M]

An Edu-fucking-cation? Why do people (even people like QT) like this bullshit?
Think he just wants to bone Carey Mulligan. Or fondle her feet.

[Ezee E]

QT probably saw a total of ten movies.

[Pop Trash]

I'm surprised QT didn't pick Public Enemies. I thought he was into Michael Mann.

[ledfloyd]

I'm surprised QT didn't pick Public Enemies. I thought he was into Michael Mann.
well, he thought no country for old men was boring and hated it. i imagine his response to public enemies was similar. i'm surprised not to see hurt locker. and i imagine he hasn't seen love exposure.

[Henry Gale]

well, he thought no country for old men was boring and hated it. i imagine his response to public enemies was similar.

When did he say this?

And his list looks about what I expected from comments he's made during the year. But it's also just as all over the place as I would have imagined and maybe even hoped too. In the end though, it was just sort of an off the top of his head sort of thing if you watch the clip.

Also, Golden Globez announcing soon.

[Mysterious Dude]

I like Slant's list because it has movies I've never heard of.

[NickGlass]

QT's favorite films of 2009:

4. Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air
8. Lone Scherfig’s An Education

An Edu-fucking-cation? Why do people (even people like QT) like this bullshit?

Yeah, An Education is awful. Up in the Air is really creaky and terribly lame as well. What an odd list. At least Drag Me to Hell makes sense.

[ledfloyd]

When did he say this?
i don't think he did publicly. a friend of mine saw it at the alamo drafthouse and QT was sitting next to him. he asked him what he thought of it after the film. i can't remember the exact words, but the gist was that he didn't like it at all and it was boring.

[Sxottlan]

QT's favorite films of 2009:
1. JJ Abrams’ Star Trek

Wow.

[Fezzik]

Golden Globe Nominees:




BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• Up in the Air

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
• Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
• Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren, The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan, An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
• Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• George Clooney, Up in the Air
• Colin Firth, A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman, Invictus
• Tobey Maguire, Brothers

BEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• (500) Days of Summer
• The Hangover
• It's Complicated
• Julie & Julia
• Nine

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
• Marion Cotillard, Nine
• Julia Roberts, Duplicity
• Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
• Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• Matt Damon, The Informant!
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
• Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
• Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
• Baaria (Italy)
• Broken Embraces (Spain)
• The Maid (Chile)
• A Prophet (France)
• The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
• Penélope Cruz, Nine
• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique, Precious
• Julianne Moore, A Single Man

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
• Matt Damon, Invictus
• Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST DIRECTOR
• Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron, Avatar
• Clint Eastwood, Invictus
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SCREENPLAY
• Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9
• Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
• Nancy Meyers, It's Complicated
• Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
• Michael Giacchino, Up
• Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant!
• James Horner, Avatar
• Abel Korzeniowski, A Single Man
• Karen O and Carter Burwell, Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
• "Cinema Italiano," Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston (Nine)
• "I Want to Come Home," Music & Lyrics by Paul McCartney (Everybody's Fine)
• "I Will See You," Music by James Horner, Simon Franglen; Lyrics by James Horner, Simon Franglen and Kuk Harrell (Avatar)
• "The Weary Kind," Music & Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
• "Winter," Music by U2; Lyrics by Bono (Brothers)

[Boner M]

Whoa, The Maid for best foreign film? Neat.

[NickGlass]

Slant's 2009 Year in Film.
(http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/2009yearinfilm.asp)
Eh.

I like their list just fine.

25. Coraline: 7.0
23. Police, Adjective: 8.0
22. Antichrist: 6.5
18. Bright Star: 7.0
17. Hunger: 7.5
16. Where the Wild Things Are: 8.0
15. Tokyo Sonata: 8.0
14. Up: 6.0
13. The Fantastic Mr. Fox: 8.0
12. Summer Hours: 9.5
10. The Hurt Locker: 7.0
7. Inglourious Basterds: 6.5
5. A Serious Man: 6.5
4. Revanche: 7.0
3. Julia: 7.5
2. Two Lovers: 8.0
1. 35 Shots of Rum: 9.5

[Watashi]

I hate how stuff like Summer Hours, Still Waking, Revanche, and Love Exposure have no set DVD release dates so far. I refuse to torrent.

[Sycophant]

I hate how stuff like Summer Hours, Still Waking, Revanche, and Love Exposure have no set DVD release dates so far. I refuse to torrent.

You could do what I did and buy the Japanese DVD of Still Walking (region 2 NTSC with English subtitles!) for $45!

And then find out five months later it's playing a block from your apartment in January 2010!

I regret nothing!

[Melville]

I hate how stuff like Summer Hours, Still Waking, Revanche, and Love Exposure have no set DVD release dates so far. I refuse to torrent.
Love Exposure is on YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMJMSCqmW8) (in reasonably good quality)...which I guess you'd refuse even more heartily than you do torrents. But still, it's worth seeing any way you can.

[Mysterious Dude]

I had a chance to see Revanche, but I saw Il Divo instead.

Every time the international film festival comes to Minneapolis, I seem to make the wrong choices.

[Stay Puft]

Summer Hours is on DVD. I even saw it at Blockbuster the other day.

[ledfloyd]

Summer Hours is on DVD. I even saw it at Blockbuster the other day.
yeah, it's ONLY at blockbuster. part of that IFC deal. but criterion is supposed to release it sometime soon.

[Henry Gale]

i don't think he did publicly. a friend of mine saw it at the alamo drafthouse and QT was sitting next to him. he asked him what he thought of it after the film. i can't remember the exact words, but the gist was that he didn't like it at all and it was boring.

Oooooh, Quentin. :rolleyes:

I just thought it was weird because the only connection I knew he had to the movie was making Brolin's first audition tape for it with Rodriguez.

Globes nominations are pretty boring. I did enjoy having Bigelow and Cameron announced side-by-side, Tarantino getting in and JT's comments to Krasinski when Emily Blunt was announced. Animation nominees are nice as well.

[ledfloyd]

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/12/my-best-of-2009-special-i-havent-seen-up-in-the-air-yet-edition.html

glenn beck reminds me why i love him.

edit: i obviously mean glenn kenny, but i'm leaving the typo, cause it's so absurd. freudian slip?

[Stay Puft]

yeah, it's ONLY at blockbuster.

Huh. Well, don't tell that to the guys who operate my local video store. I saw it there a few weeks ago.

(I forgot about that IFC deal. Lousy thing, indeed. But now I'm wondering how the hell the local place got it?)

[ledfloyd]

Huh. Well, don't tell that to the guys who operate my local video store. I saw it there a few weeks ago.

(I forgot about that IFC deal. Lousy thing, indeed. But now I'm wondering how the hell the local place got it?)
dunno, but more power to them.

[Stay Puft]

dunno, but more power to them.

Oh, wait, I know what happened. It was released in Canada by Imavision, a Quebecois distributor. Amazon.ca is even carrying it for sale.

[Yum-Yum]

My own top 100 of the decade is completed (http://sydneyfilmhappenings.blogspot. com/2009/12/cos-everyones-doin-it.html).

70. Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, 2007)

"Never sneak up on a man who's been in a chemical fire."

[Raiders]

I don't know anyone who liked Hot Rod and I would find it remarkable if I considered it better than many of the films I have seen on Boner's list ranked below it (House of Mirth... Two Lovers... really?).

[Boner M]

I don't know anyone who liked Hot Rod
I think Derek is the only person here who outright dislikes it. Granted, I gave it a low score at first, but like Wet Hot American Summer, it's improved upon repeat group viewings and I've completely warmed to it's goofy, ramshackle sensibility. Many people I know consider it one their favorite stupid comedies as of late. And dammit, it's way more interesting and original than a pandering, witless 'instant cult classic' like Zombieland or something.

As for its high ranking above admittedly more edifying films... "Barney's film was moving, but football in the groin had a football in the groin"

[Raiders]

Hm, I did indeed hate Wet Hot American Summer on the first viewing. I have not had much inspiration to try it again.

[Eleven]

SAG noms (http://www.sagawards.org/nominations)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
AN EDUCATION
THE HURT LOCKER
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
NINE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPPHIRE

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges, CRAZY HEART
George Clooney, UP IN THE AIR
Colin Firth, A SINGLE MAN
Morgan Freeman, INVICTUS
Jeremy Renner, THE HURT LOCKER

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock, THE BLIND SIDE
Helen Mirren, THE LAST STATION
Carey Mulligan, AN EDUCATION
Gabourey Sidibe, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPPHIRE
Meryl Streep, JULIE & JULIA

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon, INVICTUS
Woody Harrelson, THE MESSENGER
Christopher Plummer, THE LAST STATION
Stanley Tucci, THE LOVELY BONES
Christoph Waltz, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz, NINE
Vera Farmiga, UP IN THE AIR
Anna Kendrick, UP IN THE AIR
Diane Kruger, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Mo'Nique, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPPHIRE

[Boner M]

Diane Kruger, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Zuh?

[NickGlass]

I wonder if Sandra Bullock is going to try to adopt Gabby Sidibe on the red carpet.

I blame the deafening Oscar prognostication for Bullock's nomination. Do they realize they are not analyzing the buzz, but creating it from the press releases they receive?

[Ezee E]

Zuh?
Nice!

[B-side]

I wonder if Sandra Bullock is going to try to adopt Gabby Sidibe on the red carpet.

Amazing.

[balmakboor]

If The Blind Side gets any Oscar nominations, I'm gonna have to kill some people.

[Adam]

The greatest thing about The Blind Side is that I know when I go home next week, I'm going to have at least one relative tell me how wonderful it is. It'll be like "Oh, Adam, you watch a lot of movies, right? Have you seen The Blind Side? It was very, very good. I love Sandra Bullock, don't you"? And then I'll have to decide on the spot whether to a) just say I haven't seen The Blind Side yet and smile it all off or b) condescendingly tell my relative how The Blind Side isn't, in fact, a good movie; which would come off like I was insulting their intelligence and implying that they have bad taste

This happens every Thanksgiving/Christmas

[ledfloyd]

The greatest thing about The Blind Side is that I know when I go home next week, I'm going to have at least one relative tell me how wonderful it is. It'll be like "Oh, Adam, you watch a lot of movies, right? Have you seen The Blind Side? It was very, very good. I love Sandra Bullock, don't you"? And then I'll have to decide on the spot whether to a) just say I haven't seen The Blind Side yet and smile it all off or b) condescendingly tell my relative how The Blind Side isn't, in fact, a good movie; which would come off like I was insulting their intelligence and implying that they have bad taste

This happens every Thanksgiving/Christmas
i'm looking forward to this as well. i plan on responding 'you mean the one where sandra bullock gets a pet negro?'

also, i would be surprised of the oscar noms for best actor aren't the same as SAGs.

[Ezee E]

So, Adam, you're saying you have seen The Blind Side?

[Watashi]

Love the Kruger nom. I thought she was fantastic.

[Adam]

So, Adam, you're saying you have seen The Blind Side?

Nah, I'm saying I make snap judgments about things based off 30 second tv spots and barely-skimmed reviews

[balmakboor]

The greatest thing about The Blind Side is that I know when I go home next week, I'm going to have at least one relative tell me how wonderful it is. It'll be like "Oh, Adam, you watch a lot of movies, right? Have you seen The Blind Side? It was very, very good. I love Sandra Bullock, don't you"? And then I'll have to decide on the spot whether to a) just say I haven't seen The Blind Side yet and smile it all off or b) condescendingly tell my relative how The Blind Side isn't, in fact, a good movie; which would come off like I was insulting their intelligence and implying that they have bad taste

This happens every Thanksgiving/Christmas

I was in this very situation at church last week. I took option b) while trying to avoid the condescension as much as possible. The woman sincerely looked surprised, almost harmed, that I didn't like it.

[balmakboor]

i plan on responding 'you mean the one where sandra bullock gets a pet negro?'

That's what I should have said.

[Watashi]

To be fair, not even Michael Oher liked the way he was represented in the movie.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I don't know anyone who liked Hot Rod and I would find it remarkable if I considered it better than many of the films I have seen on Boner's list ranked below it (House of Mirth... Two Lovers... really?).

Hot Rod is hilarious. Such a great send-up of 80's films. Gets funnier the more I see it, which is often because each time I see it playing on the movie channels I stop there and watch at least 15-20 minutes, if not the rest of the film.

[Winston*]

I, too, am a fan of Hot Rod.

[Derek]

Yeah, Hot Rod is fucking awful, but I can only take Andy Samberg in 5-minute stretches. His mugging got old real quick - he certainly doesn't have the charm and comic timing of, say, Jesse Eisenberg.

BTW, love the list otherwise boner.

[Ivan Drago]

So, Adam, you're saying you have seen The Blind Side?

I've seen it. It's okay, but Bullock is good.

[Watashi]

Manohla Dargis's best of 2009 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/movies/20dargis.html?_r=2)

[balmakboor]

Manohla Dargis's best of 2009 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/movies/20dargis.html?_r=2)

"In March, President Obama gave the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, 25 American DVDs that Mr. Brown couldn’t watch at home apparently because he didn’t own a region-free machine."

The poor guy just can't get anything right.

I like that she put Avatar on her Top 12. I can't wait to see it, hopefully on Sunday.

[Boner M]

A bunch of lists at Indiewire's in progress year/decade poll (http://www.indiewire.com/survey/). Here's Armond's contribution:

1) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
2) Femme Fatale
3) Broken Sky
4) War of the Worlds
5) Munich
6) Together
7) George Washington
8) Happy-Go-Lucky
9) The Darjeeling Limited
10) Everlasting Moments

[ledfloyd]

film comment's list (http://www.filmlinc.com/b/?p=1492)

1. The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, U.S.
2. The Headless Woman Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Spain/France/Italy
3. Summer Hours Olivier Assayas, France
4. 35 Shots of Rum Claire Denis, France/Germany
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson, U.S.
6. Police, Adjective Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania
7. Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino, U.S./Germany
8. A Serious Man Joel & Ethan Coen, U.S./U.K./France
9. The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda, France
10. Lorna's Silence Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy/Germany
11. 24 City Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong/Japan
12. The White Ribbon Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy
13. The Limits of Control Jim Jarmusch, U.S./Japan
14. The Sun Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia/Italy/Switzerland/France
15. Bright Star Jane Campion, U.K./Australia/France
16. Two Lovers James Gray, U.S.
17. In the Loop Armando Iannucci, U.K.
18. Tulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany/Switzerland/Kazakhstan/Russia/Poland
19. Coraline Henry Selick, U.S.
20. Antichrist Lars von Trier, Denmark/Germany/France/Sweden/Italy/Poland

[Adam]

These are the ten best-reviewed movies of the decade (http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/the-best-movies-of-the-decade/), according to Metacritic

1) Pan's Labyrinth
2) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3) Ratatouille
4) Spirited Away
5) The Hurt Locker
6) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
7) Sideways
8) Wall-E
9) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
0) 35 Shots of Rum

[eternity]

A bunch of lists at Indiewire's in progress year/decade poll (http://www.indiewire.com/survey/). Here's Armond's contribution:

1) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
2) Femme Fatale
3) Broken Sky
4) War of the Worlds
5) Munich
6) Together
7) George Washington
8) Happy-Go-Lucky
9) The Darjeeling Limited
10) Everlasting Moments

Such a frickin' hipster

[Rowland]

Reverse Shot's Decade list is still ongoing, and so far it's pretty spectacular:

20. House of Mirth (n/a)
19. Children of Men (****)
18. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (****)
17. No Country for Old Men (****)
16. Summer Hours (n/a)
15. The Royal Tenenbaums (***½)
14. Werckmeister Harmonies (n/a)
13. Yi Yi (***½)
12. Kings and Queen (n/a)
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (****)
10. There Will Be Blood (***½)
9. The Son (****)
8. Flight of the Red Balloon (***½)

[ledfloyd]

ooh, like seeing the hou show up. i guess i should see the son, as it's the only one on there i haven't seen yet.

[Rowland]

Walter Chaw has a fascinating project going on at the Film Freak Central Blog, wherein he is reassessing every one of his Top Ten lists from the last decade and editing them in retrospect.

http://filmfreakcentral.blogspot.com/

His 2000 list has Red Planet at the #10 spot. You know, the Val Kilmer one. :|

[soitgoes...]

Walter Chaw has a fascinating project going on at the Film Freak Central Blog, wherein he is reassessing every one of his Top Ten lists from the last decade and editing them in retrospect.

http://filmfreakcentral.blogspot.com/

His 2000 list has Red Planet at the #10 spot. You know, the Val Kilmer one. :|Cool read, and one I'll continue to follow.

It still bothers me that some people regard this decade as '01-'10. Really Walter?

[Mysterious Dude]

CriticsTop10 (http://criticstop10.com/) has finally started their composite thing.

Still waiting on Movie City News, but they're got some of the lists (http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2010/top_ten/critics_01.html) up.

[B-side]

ooh, like seeing the hou show up. i guess i should see the son, as it's the only one on there i haven't seen yet.

It's great. I think you'd like it a lot.

[angrycinephile]

I look forward to the announcement of the Oscar-nominees. Although something is telling me they'll be more cringe-worthy than usual.

For instance... with 10 nominees now, I wouldn't be surprised if The Blind Side was nominated for Best Picture.

Plus I'm pretty certain Precious will win Best Picture.

[ledfloyd]

I look forward to the announcement of the Oscar-nominees. Although something is telling me they'll be more cringe-worthy than usual.

For instance... with 10 nominees now, I wouldn't be surprised if The Blind Side was nominated for Best Picture.

Plus I'm pretty certain Precious will win Best Picture.

if either of these things happen i will swallow a frisbee.

[baby doll]

ooh, like seeing the hou show up.I dunno, along with Millenium Mambo it's probably the weakest Hou movie of the decade (which is to say, it's spectacularly awesome, but not quite in the same league as Café Lumière or Three Times).

[Boner M]

Film Comment's Top 150 (http://www.filmlinc.com/b/?p=1490) of the decade list. Probably the most comprehensive one I've seen yet, and thank god In Praise of Love isn't in the top ten.

[Melville]

Film Comment's Top 150 (http://www.filmlinc.com/b/?p=1490) of the decade list. Probably the most comprehensive one I've seen yet, and thank god In Praise of Love isn't in the top ten.
Good list. I've seen almost two-thirds, which is more than I would have expected.

[balmakboor]

There's something kinda poetic about A.I. and In Praise of Love being side by side at nos. 30 and 31.

[Melville]

Ebert's top 20 of the decade. (http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.h tml) Very eclectic. Lots of stuff I don't like, but some interesting choices.

[Ezee E]

Ebert's top 20 of the decade. (http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.h tml) Very eclectic. Lots of stuff I don't like, but some interesting choices.
It'd be neat if him and Scorsese did a tops like last decade.

[Pop Trash]

Ebert's top 20 of the decade. (http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.h tml) Very eclectic. Lots of stuff I don't like, but some interesting choices.

Woo for Synecdoche, NY. I can also understand why Ebert loves it. He is also an intellectual who is dealing with the aging process, time slipping away, his own mortality, and his body betraying him much like Caden in SNY.

[Mysterious Dude]

Does anyone else like Chop Shop as much as Ebert does? I mean, it was good, but one of the ten best of the decade?

[ledfloyd]

Does anyone else like Chop Shop as much as Ebert does? I mean, it was good, but one of the ten best of the decade?
i think it's a fantastic film. i personally don't think it's ten best of the decade good. but with juno on there, i'm not going to single him out for giving ramin bahrani some much deserved props.

[balmakboor]

Does anyone else like Chop Shop as much as Ebert does? I mean, it was good, but one of the ten best of the decade?

I haven't seen it yet, but did actually just add it to my instant watch queue tonight. But isn't Goodbye Solo generally more highly praised?

[ledfloyd]

I haven't seen it yet, but did actually just add it to my instant watch queue tonight. But isn't Goodbye Solo generally more highly praised?
it is, but i would have no problem understanding why someone would prefer chop shop.

[Watashi]

Walter Chaw and Co.'s Top 10. (http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/toptens/top102009.htm)

[Raiders]

National Society of Film Critics (U.S.)

Winners
*Best Film:
The Hurt Locker

*Best Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

*Best Actor:
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

*Best Actress:
Yolande Moreau – Séraphine

*Best Supporting Actor (tie):
Paul Schneider – Bright Star
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds

*Best Supporting Actress:
Mo'Nique – Precious

*Best Screenplay:
Joel & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man

*Best Foreign Language Film:
Summer Hours

*Best Film - Non-Fiction:
The Beaches of Agnes

*Best Cinematography:
Christian Berger – The White Ribbon

*Best Production Design:
Nelson Lowry – Fantastic Mr. Fox


I can just feel the inevitable backlash against Bigelow's film rising and rising. I almost feel like creating a thread.

[balmakboor]

I so hope that Bigelow wins best director.

Actually, I haven't even seen The Hurt Locker yet. But I still hope she wins.

[Watashi]

A lot of people are comparing this three-headed race of The Hurt Locker, Avatar, and Up in the Air to the race of 1997 with LA Confidential (which won the NSFC), Titanic, and As Good as it Gets. I think its an apt comparison considering how Titanic didn't have any pre-buzz before it steamrolled the box-office forcing it to become the unstoppable favorite at the Oscars. I think history will repeat itself.

[ledfloyd]

if up in the air wins... ugh. the hurt locker is definitely my favorite of the three. aside from the episode where he goes looking for the kid it's pretty flawless.

[Adam]

For me, 2009 was a vaguely average year in film, but it's becoming a groin-grabbingly horrible year in terms of the movies that are going to be competing for Oscars. The Hurt Locker should just go away already

[Ivan Drago]

For me, 2009 was a vaguely average year in film, but it's becoming a groin-grabbingly horrible year in terms of the movies that are going to be competing for Oscars.

I agree. This was a bad year to go to 10 Best Picture nominees.

[Boner M]

Got this from another board; it's the Cahiers du Cinema decade top tens, with lists from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Joon-ho Bong, Asia Argento, Jia Zhang-ke, and more.

01 Mulholland Drive
02 Elephant
03 Tropical Malady
04 The Host
05 A History of Violence
06 The Secret of the Grain, Abdellatif Kechiche
07 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Wang Bing
08 War of the Worlds
09 The New World
10 Ten

Special Mentions:
Birth
Frownland
Tarnation
Sin City
The Brown Bunny
Steak
Be With Me
The Taste of Tea
Waltz with Bashir
Peau de cochon, Philippe Katerine

Individual lists:

Jia Zhang-ke:

01 Colossal Youth
02 Elephant
03 Millenium Mambo
04 Nobody Knows
05 Yi Yi, A One and a Two
06 Secret Sunshine
07 Uzak
08 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
09 Summer Palace
10 Syndromes and a Century

Kiyoshi Kurosawa:
01 War of the Worlds
02 A History of Violence
03 Mystic River
04 Notre Musique
05 L'enfant
06 Eureka
07 Death Proof
08 Platform
09 The Host
10 The Bridesmaid (Chabrol)

Nanni Moretti:

The 25th Hour
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Good Night and Good Luck
The Incredibles
Million Dollar Baby
The Pianist

Bong Joon-ho:
Zodiac
A History of Violence
No Country for Old Men
Still Life
Jellyfish
Woman on the Beach
Punch-Drunk Love
The Class
Hunger
A Brand New Life

Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley):

The Host
Yi Yi : A One and a Two
Blissfully Yours
Kaïro (Pulse), Kurosawa
Dancing, Trividic + Bernard + Brillat
Games of Love and Chance , Kechiche
Esther Khan
Saraband

Shinji Aoyama:

Jean Bricards' Itinerary, Huillet & Straub
Our Music, Godard
War of the Worlds, Spielberg
Death Proof, Tarantino
Woman on the Beach, Sang-soo
Merde, Léos Carax
Gran Torino, Eastwood
The Darjeeling Limited, Anderson
Four Nights with Anna, Skolimovski
Romance of Astree and Celadon, Rohmer

Asia Argento:

Irréversible
Werckmeister Harmonies
The White Ribbon
Baise Moi
Visitor Q
Tarnation
Zodiac
There Will Be Blood
Elephant
Apocalypto

Miguel Gomes:
Eurêka
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
In Vanda's Room, Pedro Costa
La Livertad, Lisandro Alonso
Gerry
The New World
Mein Stern, Valeska Grisebach
Toutes les nuits, Eugène Green
Tropical Malady

Bertrand Bonello (the director of Tiresia, Cindy: The Doll Is Mine, The Pornographer and On War):
Mulholland Drive
Origins of the 21st Century, Jean-Luc Godard
Ten
The Brown Bunny
Steak, Quentin Dupieux
The Wire, David Simon
Donnie Darko
Tropical Malady
Apocalypse Now Redux
The Sun, Sokurov

Philippe Grandrieux:
Mulholland Drive
Alexei and the Spring, Seiichi Motohashi
Saraband
The Sun
Material, Thomas Heise

Quentin Tarantino:
01 Battle Royale

Then the rest in alphabetical order:
Anything Else
Audition
Before Sunset
Cabin Fever
Lost in Translation
Shaun of the Dead
Team America
There Will Be Blood
Unbreakable

[B-side]

What's with the love for A History of Violence and War of the Worlds? I mean, I enjoy them as well, but come on.

[Hugh_Grant]

Producers Guild nominees:

AVATAR
Producers: James Cameron, Jon Landau

DISTRICT 9
Producers: Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson

AN EDUCATION
Producers: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

THE HURT LOCKER
Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Producer: Lawrence Bender

INVICTUS
Producers: Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lori McCreary , Mace Neufeld

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
Producers: Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness

STAR TREK
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof

UP
Producer: Jonas Rivera

UP IN THE AIR
Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.

[NickGlass]

Bong Joon-ho's list--which includes Jellyfish, Woman on the Beach, and The Class--makes me think I should enjoy his films a lot more than I do.

[Adam]

Here's the Cahiers du Cinema top ten for 2009

1. Les herbs folles
2. Vincere
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Gran Torino
5. Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
6. Tetro
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Le roi de l'évasion
9. Tokyo Sonata
10. Hadewijch

[Bosco B Thug]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa:
01 War of the Worlds
02 A History of Violence
03 Mystic River
04 Notre Musique
05 L'enfant
06 Eureka
07 Death Proof
08 Platform
09 The Host
10 The Bridesmaid (Chabrol)
Yes! The rest of his list, though... It always leaves me a bit sore seeing lists from filmmakers you admire and seeing they have bad taste. :P jk Kiyoshi.

[Raiders]

Yes! The rest of his list, though... It always leaves me a bit sore seeing lists from filmmakers you admire and seeing they have bad taste. :P jk Kiyoshi.

Tarantino's film is the worst on that list (haven't seen Eureka or L'enfant).

[Bosco B Thug]

Tarantino's film is the worst on that list (haven't seen Eureka or L'enfant). The Host and A History of Violence are excellent films, but naaah.

I haven't even seen Mystic River, though (and literally half the list), so part of my comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek - evaluating someone's taste more for what isn't on a list more than actually having an opinion on what actually is.

Anyway, Death Proof is my reigning master. I have no doubt it will remain #1 even as #2s and #3 of the aughts are shifted and filled and replaced. I know.

But speaking of filmmakers I admire: Tarantino. His taste is pretty depressingly blah, IMO. I'm pretty sure this thought about seeing filmmakers' "Best" lists first emerged back when someone posted his "Best of the 2000s" video here. Dogville's even been omitted now.

[Adam]

Yes! The rest of his list, though... It always leaves me a bit sore seeing lists from filmmakers you admire and seeing they have bad taste. :P jk Kiyoshi.

Doesn't it leave you even more sore when you see someone with bad taste loves a movie you love?

[ledfloyd]

asia argento <3

[Spaceman Spiff]

Mystic River is pretty crappy. War of the Worlds is good, but certainly not top 10 material, and I'm beginning to think that History of Violence is the most overrated movie of the last decade.

[Ezee E]

What a shock. The best music candidates of the year have no chance of being nominated for Best Score. Where the Wild Things Are is declared ineligible.

[Adam]

...scores assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible...

That's just dumb

[Bosco B Thug]

Doesn't it leave you even more sore when you see someone with bad taste loves a movie you love? Not at all, actually. It's common to think a mediocre movie is great, but it's no skin off the back off great movies they recognize as great. There's no necessary relationship between the former and the latter. Disliking the great movie would be the greater telling point about Kurosawa.

If a person had great taste in films, and then stuck in a movie I think is mediocre, that would be harder to come to terms with for me.

That was difficult for me to formulate. Hope it kind of makes sense.

[ledfloyd]

I'm beginning to think that History of Violence is the most overrated movie of the last decade.
i agree completely.

[Boner M]

I think AHoV is overrated by the critical cognoscenti and underrated by everyone else.

[Sxottlan]

Producers Guild nominees:

STAR TREK
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof


I was pretty much thinking this film was done, but now I'm starting to hope again that there's a slim chance it'll get a nod.

[Eleven]

|
|
<----- is not amused.

[ledfloyd]

test
test
<----- is not amused.
awesome possum.

[Ezee E]

I'm one of the many that guessed all the DGA Nominations on Awards Daily (http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=17568#more-17568)

Kathryn Bigelow
James Cameron
Lee Daniels
Jason Reitman
Quentin Tarantino

[Boner M]

Reverse Shot's Offenses of the year (http://www.reverseshot.com/article/reverse_shots_11_offenses_2009 ). Spot-on about An Education, Cold Souls, and certain aspects of District 9 and 500 Days of Summer.

[Watashi]

Yawn.

Like the many years before, it seems the only audience reverse shot writes for are themselves.

[ledfloyd]

i agree with them about the hangover, up in the air, an education, 500 days of summer and district 9. and i probably would agree on precious and the lovely bones if i made myself watch them.

[Pop Trash]

Yawn.

Like the many years before, it seems the only audience reverse shot writes for are themselves.

Word to your mother.

[Ivan Drago]

What a shock. The best music candidates of the year have no chance of being nominated for Best Score. Where the Wild Things Are is declared ineligible.

Because of the "no multiple composers" rule, I'm assuming?

The same thing happened to The Dark Knight but it ended up becoming eligible after all. Still didn't get nominated, but just saying that you never know.

[Adam]

Reverse Shot's Offenses of the year. Spot-on about An Education, Cold Souls, and certain aspects of District 9 and 500 Days of Summer.

Bah, Reverse Shot is bogus

How are they spot-on about An Education, for instance? Anti-feminism? Anti-semitism? If anything, An Education should have been a bit more offensive. That movie never takes anybody's side except reality. The point of the whole memoir is that you need to experience certain things to be prepared for life and not told them outright by blustery Alfred Molina types. There is literally nothing offensive about that sentiment. And Saarsgaard's accent was fine. That was an especially cheap shot, Reverse Shot

Voice-over at the end was a weird and lame choice, though, I agree

[ledfloyd]

i didn't take that from the film at all. it seemed that attempting to flout the authority of her father and principal and experience something real with saarsgaard only hurt her. she found out that the life she envisioned was illusory and returned back to where she started out. she needed to experience that it's bad to question your parents and teachers? find out why they're right? i still don't like that message.

[Watashi]

WGA nominations:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

(500) Days of Summer, Written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Fox Searchlight

Avatar, Written by James Cameron; 20th Century Fox

The Hangover, Written by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore; Warner Bros.

The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark Boal; Summit Entertainment

A Serious Man, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; Focus Features

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Crazy Heart, Screenplay by Scott Cooper; Based on the novel by Thomas Cobb; Fox Searchlight

Julie & Julia, Screenplay by Nora Ephron; Based on the books Julie & Julia by Julie Powell and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme; Sony Pictures

Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher; Based on the novel Push by Sapphire; Lionsgate

Star Trek, Written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman; Based upon Star Trek, Created by Gene Roddenberry; Paramount Pictures

Up in the Air, Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner; Based upon the novel by Walter Kirn; Paramount Pictures

[Henry Gale]

Considering how many screenwriters and films don't qualify for various rules with the guild, that's about how I expected the nominations to look. Only Hangover is a complete surprise to me because I would have instead guessed for them to go for Apatow again, if any wild card dick-joke comedy, after Virgin and Knocked Up got nods in past years.

I can hope for A Serious Man to pull through for Original Screenplay and hopefully let that help its overall Oscar chances, but that Adapted list has nothing too special at all. Like I haven't seen Crazy Heart, but out of those I'd say Star Trek is the one with the most realized screenwriting. And even that I just like because it's a lot of fun.

[Sxottlan]

With PGA and WGA nods, I'm trying not to assume that anything is a given with Star Trek, but at this point I'd be surprised if it didn't get a Best Picture nomination.

And that would really be something.

[Qrazy]

With PGA and WGA nods, I'm trying not to assume that anything is a given with Star Trek, but at this point I'd be surprised if it didn't get a Best Picture nomination.

And that would really be something.

I doubt both Star Trek and Avatar would get a BP nom.

[Henry Gale]

I doubt both Star Trek and Avatar would get a BP nom.

But... Avatar is the more or less the front-runner to win it at this point.

They'll give Bigelow Director, Boal and Reitman/Turner each Screenplay award and the acting will be split a bunch of ways, but pretty much anything outside of those is going to Cameron's movie.

[Ezee E]

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Best Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds
Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air
Best Acting Ensemble: Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges
Best Actress: Meryl Streep & Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Young Actress: Saoirse Ronan
Best Documentary: The Cove
Best Foreign Language Film: Broken Embraces
Best Animated Movie: Up
Best Comedy Movie: The Hangover
Best Score: Up
Best Song: The Weary Kind
Best Costume Design: The Young Victoria
Best Make-Up: District 9
Best Action Movie: Avatar
Best Cinematography: Avatar
Best Visual Effects: Avatar
Best Art Direction: Avatar
Best Editing: Avatar
Best Sound: Avatar

[Ezee E]

That's like picking the current favorite in each category. How boring.

[Spinal]

I'm not a huge fan of Bullock's acting, but her acceptance speech was pretty funny and endearing. She did a take towards Streep (who tied her in the category) and said "This is bullshit!"

[Watashi]

The only funny part of last night's show was when Sarah Silverman saying how much she loves penis and they cut to the little boy from The Blind Side laughing his ass off.

[Mysterious Dude]

But... Avatar is the more or less the front-runner to win it at this point.
I doubt it. In 82 years, the academy has NEVER given Best Picture to a science fiction movie.

[Henry Gale]

I doubt it. In 82 years, the academy has NEVER given Best Picture to a science fiction movie.

But they have given Best Picture to Titanic and Return of the King, which I'd say this is right in between in terms of scope, tone, financial success, cultural impact and its Cameron/WETA factors.

[Ezee E]

Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Drama - Avatar
Best Comedy - The Hangover (one of the toughest categories to predict)
Best Director - James Cameron
Best Screenplay - Up in the Air
Best Actor - George Clooney
Best Actress - Sandra Bullock
Best Actor (Comedy) - Matt Damon
Best Actress (Comedy) - Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique
Best Animated - Up
Best Foreign Language - Broken Embraces
Best Score - A Single Man
Best Song - Crazy Heart

Who really thought Sandra Bullock had a chance at an awards nomination a month ago? If anything, I thought it was a Razzie potential based on the trailer. I haven't seen the movie, but the Blind Side love baffles me. It didn't even seem well-liked amongst critics, yet it tied the BFCA. Meanwhile, Mulligan and Sidibe, who both were raved about, seem to have disappeared as it's Bullock VS. Streep now.

[thefourthwall]

What the heck is Michael C. Hall wearing on his head?

[Silencio]

What the heck is Michael C. Hall wearing on his head?A hat?

He has cancer.

[thefourthwall]

A hat?

He has cancer.

:eek:

ah.

oops.

I was unaware.

[Adam]

Ha, Michael Haneke wins a Golden Globe

He was smiling and dancing around tables and everything

[Adam]

James Cameron is now speaking the made-up Avatar language and it's absurd

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James Cameron is now speaking the made-up Avatar language and it's absurd

Depends on what he said. I hope it was juicy.

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;234015']Depends on what he said. I hope it was juicy.I'm pretty sure whenever a grown man speaks in a made up sci-fi language IRL it will always be considered absurd.

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I'm pretty sure whenever a grown man speaks in a made up sci-fi language IRL it will always be considered absurd.

If I came up there, I'd definitely speak in my language, which might as well be Na'vi to everyone. Absurdity be damned.

[Skitch]

:lol:

I'm thrilled to discover RDJ is genuinely funny. Hilarious.

[Barty]

James Cameron is now speaking the made-up Avatar language and it's absurd

Why do you hate blue people?

[Skitch]

James Cameron is now speaking the made-up Avatar language and it's absurd
It was embarrassing when he was screaming he was king of the world too, but boxofficemojo don't lie.

[Adam]

"Give it up for yourselves" - James Cameron

because the one thing the golden globes needs more of is rich and famous people patting themselves on the back

and avatar blew

[Fezzik]

"Give it up for yourselves" - James Cameron

because the one thing the golden globes needs more of is rich and famous people patting themselves on the back

and avatar blew

While I dont agree with the "Avatar blew" part, him doing that right now, when there's a disaster going on in Haiti, is gonna get him some backlash.

[Raiders]

He was talking about the creativity in the room, not go and treat yourself to a new gold necklace. What the heck does Haiti have to do with it? Plus, they already mentioned the disaster, and George Clooney, about five times. We're good.

Also, Ricky Gervais was awesome in the brief amount of time he was given. The Mel Gibson intro was brilliant.

[Adam]

Nah, Gervais was off his rhythm tonight, even if he did have some nice moments

And I actually don't think Avatar out-and-out blew as a movie, but I still hate it

[Raiders]

Nah, Gervais was off his rhythm tonight, even if he did have some nice moments

What rhythm? He had about ten total minutes, and he made the most of it without derailing the show into uncomfortable silence.

[Mysterious Dude]

Son of a dick. I am so tired of Avatar.

[Adam]

What rhythm? He had about ten total minutes, and he made the most of it without derailing the show into uncomfortable silence.

He just stumbled over words a bit and his timing was off and, yeah, he never had the time to get on an extended roll. He was fine, but I don't think having a host added anything to the show

[Raiders]

He just stumbled over words a bit and his timing was off and, yeah, he never had the time to get on an extended roll. He was fine, but I don't think having a host added anything to the show

Don't remember him stumbling, but yeah, the Globes have no real need for a host. I do agree he was superfluous, but the ratio of funny-to-airtime was very good for Gervais, in my opinion.

[megladon8]

And I actually don't think Avatar out-and-out blew as a movie, but I still hate it


What the hell does that even mean?

You don't mind the movie, but hate it for political reasons? Or...what?

[Fezzik]

He was talking about the creativity in the room, not go and treat yourself to a new gold necklace. What the heck does Haiti have to do with it? Plus, they already mentioned the disaster, and George Clooney, about five times. We're good.

Also, Ricky Gervais was awesome in the brief amount of time he was given. The Mel Gibson intro was brilliant.

It has nothing to do with it, but when does that stop pundits? They'll say something about how he was all about himself and his craft when people are dying/suffering, etc.

It will get called inappropriate, poorly timed, etc.

I wont agree, but Im cynical when it comes to the media.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I decided to avoid the Golden Globes again, as I have for the past couple years. Ever since I read about the Hollywood Foreign Press, I lost all interest.

[Malickfan]

Ever since I read about the Hollywood Foreign Press, I lost all interest.

What have they done?

[Spinal]

Unless you are the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards, you should be embarrassed to be declaring Avatar the year's Best Drama.

[Watashi]

Unless you are the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards, you should be embarrassed to be declaring Avatar the year's Best Drama.
AVADAR!!

[Watashi]

By the way Spinal, Up won, so nyah!

[Ezee E]

Well, Avatar will be winning the Oscar methinks.

[Skitch]

What the hell does that even mean?

You don't mind the movie, but hate it for political reasons? Or...what?

It means its an insanely popular movie, so read my stuff because I'm the weirdo being negative to get attention.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Well, Avatar will be winning the Oscar methinks.

It will be nominated, but it will not win. My money's still on Bigelow and Hurt Locker.

[Adam]

AVADAR!!

The best was when he started making lame jokes about how Cali was completely ruined under his watch


What the hell does that even mean?

You don't mind the movie, but hate it for political reasons? Or...what?

Nah, it's fine, I actually probably even agree with the movie's politics, such as they are. Like a lot of contrarian assholes on the internet, though, I resent it because it's a very silly film that everybody's taking way too seriously and telling me how great it is. More power to the Avatars or the Gladiators of the world for making a gabillion dollars, but don't let them win oscars and whatnot. Much ado about blah and Cameron seems like a real jerkoff, anyway

[chrisnu]

Unless you are the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards, you should be embarrassed to be declaring Avatar the year's Best Drama.
Indeed.

Of course, Sandra Bullock won a Globe also.

Also, The Lovely Bones better be mind-blowingly awesome for Max Records to have lost the Critics' Choice Award.

[Malickfan]

So what's so bad about the Hollywood Foreign Press?

[Dead & Messed Up]

So what's so bad about the Hollywood Foreign Press?

They are nobody.

Literally.

The entire Hollywood Foreign Press is made up of 95 members (http://www.goldenglobes.org/hfpa_members/) of the "foreign press," a nebulous group that is notoriously difficult to get into. They've been in a number (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/movies/MoviesFeatures/20glob.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1) of controversies (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/11/opinion/oe-waxman11) over the years regarding the "buying" of their awards (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,84878,00.html), and their way of solving the problem was reworking their awards show into a spectacle for Hollywood glamour and partying.

The awards show is a farce designed to draw attention and make money.

[number8]

Which is why it was amazing that Ricky Gervais insulted Phillip Berk to his face.

[NickGlass]

The Golden Globers voters didn't even bother seeing the films. They just trotted over to boxofficemojo.com and found their evidence of "quality" there.

Nonetheless, here are the nine finalists for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar:

“The Secret in Their Eyes” (Argentina)
“Samson & Delilah” (Australia)
“The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner” (Bulgaria)
“A Prophet” (France)
“The White Ribbon” (Germany)
“Ajami” (Israel)
“Kelin” (Kazakhstan)
“Winter in Wartime” (Netherlands)
“The Milk of Sorrow” (Peru)

And here's the list of the 65 that were initially submitted. (http://incontention.com/?page_id=14447)

[Ezee E]

Samson & Delilah for the Foreign Film upset. Seems like that's happened a lot.

[number8]

Check it. Quentin Tarantino's top 11 films of 2009. Kind of weird, but it's really "him."

Avatar
Star Trek
Drag Me To Hell
Funny People
Zombieland
Chocolate
Observe and Report
The Hurt Locker
Julie And Julia
Up In The Air
District 9

[Ivan Drago]

When are the Oscar nominees announced?

[Henry Gale]

When are the Oscar nominees announced?

Feb. 2nd

I only remember because it's the same day as Lost.

[Henry Gale]

SAG Awards were literally the exact same winners as the Golden Globes (only one difference with TV in Tina Fey in place of Collette), though Bullock beat Streep here, only noteworthy because they were split between categories with HFPA's awards.

But Hurt Locker won Producers Guild. So that's something.

[Pop Trash]

But Hurt Locker won Producers Guild. So that's something.

I feel like with ten nominees now, the votes will be so splintered that Avatar will win simply by being seen the most.

[number8]

Christoph Waltz is a lock for an Oscar.

[Ezee E]

I feel like with ten nominees now, the votes will be so splintered that Avatar will win simply by being seen the most.
Yup.

[NickGlass]

Christoph Waltz is a lock for an Oscar.

And I cannot wait to hear his existential, cleverly metaphoric acceptance speech.

[balmakboor]

Well, I just dug up this Oscar nominee prediction list:

Avatar
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

I've seen the ones in bold and I think it was actually a pretty decent year. I think the movies fall into these categories:

Classic
-The Hurt Locker
-Inglourious Basterds

Flawed but will still become a classic anyway
-Avatar
-District 9
-Up

Pretty good but will disappear in a puff of smoke
-Up in the Air

Crap
-Invictus

[balmakboor]

Christoph Waltz is a lock for an Oscar.

God I hope so.

[number8]

And I cannot wait to hear his existential, cleverly metaphoric acceptance speech.

I liked his SAG one better than his Globes one. How many people thank the projectionist when they accept an award?

[Ezee E]

Could Avatar be such a lock now that voters won't vote for it out of spite?

[balmakboor]

Could Avatar be such a lock now that voters won't vote for it out of spite?

I think so. I also think that lots of voters will feel it has already been rewarded enough by making so much money.

While I've made no secret that I didn't like Up very much -- unless I think of it as being the old man's dying hallucination -- I do think that it could be the true spoiler here. Just about everyone liked it, it made good money, it's undeniably very well made, and it has that X-factor of potentially being the first animated best picture winner.

[NickGlass]

Could Avatar be such a lock now that voters won't vote for it out of spite?

Where did you get the idea that it's a lock? It's possible, yes, because box office seems to be such a force this awards season; other than the Globe (voted on by 62 easily-wooed "journalists"), however, it hasn't won anything. It may possibly win another award, but I don't like how any victory for Basterds or The Hurt Locker is considered a direct snub of Avatar. Stupid media--how about some perspective.

[Ezee E]

Kathryn Bigelow takes the DGA.

[Qrazy]

I hope that everything loses and they vote that nothing deserved to win this year.

[angrycinephile]

Heh.

Worst Picture
All About Steve
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of the Lost
Old Dogs
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Worst Director
Michael Bay, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Walt Becker, Old Dogs
Brad Silberling, Land of the Lost
Stephen Sommers, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Phil Traill, All About Steve

Worst Screenplay
Kim Barker, All About Steve
Stuart Beattie, David Elliot & Paul Lovett, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Chris Henchy & Dennis McNicholas, Land of the Lost
Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman & Ehren Kruger, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Melissa Rosenberg, Twilight Saga: New Moon

Worst Actor
Jonas Brothers, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
Will Ferrell, Land of the Lost
Steve Martin, Pink Panther 2
Eddie Murphy, Imagine That
John Travolta, Old Dogs

Worst Actress
Beyoncé, Obsessed
Sandra Bullock, All About Steve
Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Megan Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jennifer’s Body
Sarah Jessica Parker, Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hugh Hefner, Miss March
Robert Pattinson, Twilight Saga: New Moon
Jorma Taccone, Land of the Lost
Marlon Wayans, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Worst Supporting Actress
Candice Bergen, Bride Wars
Ali Larter, Obsessed
Sienna Miller, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Kelly Preston, Old Dogs
Julie White, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Worst Screen Couple
The Jonas Brothers, The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience
Sandra Bullock & Bradley Cooper, All About Steve
Will Ferrell & Any Co-Star, Creature or 'Comic Riff', Land of the Lost
Shia LaBeouf & either Megan Fox or Any Transformer, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Kristen Stewart & either Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner, Twilight Saga: New Moon

Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of the Lost
Pink Panther 2
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Twilight Saga: New Moon

Worst Movie of the Decade
Battlefield Earth
Freddie Got Fingered
Gigli
I Know Who Killed Me
Swept Away

Worst Actor of the Decade
Ben Affleck
Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers
Rob Schneider
John Travolta

Worst Actress of the Decade
Mariah Carey
Paris Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Jennifer Lopez
Madonna

[Philosophe_rouge]

I don't approve of the Miley Cyrus hate.

[Henry Gale]

Every year it feels more and more like 12-year-olds put together the Razzies.

Land of the Lost has enough great elements to it for me to be a defender of it, but most of that probably stems from my enjoyment of watching $100 million being blown on pseudo-stoner humour with decent visuals as it unfolds. It's a shame the overall impression of it is that it's a terrible Will Ferrell kids flick with no discernible edge to it.

The rest just seems too easy... Jonas Brothers? Miley Cyrus? New Moon? A Hugh Hefner cameo from Miss March? Okay, that last one probably took some digging.

[Ezee E]

It's obviously more of a tabloid, fun gig. It'd be a waste of time to actually seek out worthy nominations.

[angrycinephile]

It's obviously more of a tabloid, fun gig. It'd be a waste of time to actually seek out worthy nominations.

Of course it is but all of those are worthy nominations IMO. Just like any award ceremony they're only going to nominate the theatrical releases. No point in going after the latest Steven Seagal direct-to-video dreck or Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.

I hold Transformers 2 as the worst movie of the year (and one of the worst of the decade) so needless to say I hope Bay 'wins'.

The history of the Razzies is a little shaky though. I mean, the first year of the ceremony they nominated both Kubrick and De Palma. Not cool.

[Ezee E]

Kubrick's movies always came out as "major disappointments" only to later be classified as masterpieces.

Shelley Duvall, that doesn't mean you're forgiven.