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  1. 06-26-2009, 03:08 AM #1
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    Amelia (Mira Nair, 2009)

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    Alright, Nick, this is where you can post your "Soon-to-be Oscar Best Picture nominee" slogan.
    Sure why not?

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  2. 06-26-2009, 03:21 AM #2
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    Boring.
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    Was hoping this was an Amelia Badelia adaptation.

    Vaguely interested, I guess, because it's a Mira Nair film, but I can't imagine what would inspire me to actually go watch it. This made the Darwin movie trailer look interesting.

    But seriously. Soon-to-be Oscar Best Picture nominee.
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  4. 06-26-2009, 03:50 AM #4
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    Awesome. Another biopic.

    Nair's visual eye might interest me enough. Otherwise, meh. I expect nothing other than a couple inspired shots.
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    Yawn.

    Probably will get nominated for BP, but Swank is already a shoe-in to win Best Actress.

    EDIT: Does anyone else find it odd that the recent green band trailers are saying "appropriate audiences" instead of "all audiences"?
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    Gag. Keep this shit in Night at the Museum.
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    Swank will continue her trend of snagging an Oscar once every five years, and doing nothing but crap in between.

    Sunshine music should be banned from movie trailers.

    Mira Nair? Hmm.
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    Swank isn't playing a woman getting her ass kicked. So no further than a nomination.

    Doesn't look awful though.

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  9. 06-26-2009, 05:27 AM #9
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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Swank isn't playing a woman getting her ass kicked. So no further than a nomination.
    At least one winner of the acting categories the last 5 years has played the lead in a bio-pic and won an Oscar. I won't be surprised if she wins.
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    Quote Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
    At least one winner of the acting categories the last 5 years has played the lead in a bio-pic and won an Oscar. I won't be surprised if she wins.
    Audrey Tautou for Coco Chanel instead?

    As it appears, there's no "big Oscar-y" movies so far. Outside of Nine. But at this point, who had Slumdog, Cruz, and Winslet (for The Reader) even mentioned?

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Audrey Tautou for Coco Chanel instead?

    As it appears, there's no "big Oscar-y" movies so far. Outside of Nine. But at this point, who had Slumdog, Cruz, and Winslet (for The Reader) even mentioned?
    Um, Invictus?

    The Clint Eastwood film about Nelson Mandela played by Morgan Freeman?
    Sure why not?

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    It'll be nice to look at, but it looks so safe and uninteresting.
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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Um, Invictus?

    The Clint Eastwood film about Nelson Mandela played by Morgan Freeman?
    Of course.

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    Quote Quoting dreamdead (view post)
    Awesome. Another biopic.
    At least they caster her correctly.
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    What...accent...is that particularly?

    Eh it looks pretty and pretty standard. Par for the course.
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    This movie is so fucking boring kill me now THERE' STILL AN HOUR LEFT? where the fuck did I keep my heroin.
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    The movie theater I work at had a standie for this movie that was in one of the two hallways. And yet, in the end the movie was not actually shown there, which I took as a sign that it was indeed either not properly backed, or it sucked something awful. More than likely its both.
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    Quote Quoting number8 (view post)
    This movie is so fucking boring kill me now THERE' STILL AN HOUR LEFT? where the fuck did I keep my heroin.
    I've purged most of it from my memory, but this seems an apt descriptor of my experience of the film. It's like it was directed by a parking meter.
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    And lo, I gave it a smackdown.
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    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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