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  1. 02-27-2012 10:18 AM #46
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    I saw The Artist the night before the Oscars. It was very well done and very entertaining. I have no problem with it winning the awards that it won.

    I enjoyed seeing Woody Allen win for best screenplay and be nowhere to be found. Best acceptance speech of the night.
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    I re-watched There Will Be Blood and The Departed yesterday since it was Oscar day. It reinforced how weak this year was for movies.

    IMO, Drive and Beginners were the best movies of the year...and it wasn't close. Glad to see Christopher Plummer win for best supporting actor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frobby View Post
    I saw The Artist the night before the Oscars. It was very well done and very entertaining. I have no problem with it winning the awards that it won.

    I enjoyed seeing Woody Allen win for best screenplay and be nowhere to be found. Best acceptance speech of the night.
    Do you think it was the best movie of the year? Do you think people will remember in a couple of months? Look at the King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, etc...no one remembers or talks about those kinds of movies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ledzepp8 View Post
    Do you think it was the best movie of the year? Do you think people will remember in a couple of months? Look at the King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, etc...no one remembers or talks about those kinds of movies.
    Not a strong year for movies, as I have said several times. The best movie I saw in 2011 was Win Win, and it wasn't nominated. The only movies that were nominated that I saw were The Artist, The Descendants, Midnight in Paris and Moneyball. I don't think The Artist was head and shoulders above the others, but it was certainly different and I don't mind that it won.
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    Life is Beautiful, redux.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucky Jim View Post
    Life is Beautiful, redux.
    Are you saying The Artist is similar to Life is Beautiful? I don't think they are in the same class. The latter is a better movie by a good margin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NewMarketSean View Post
    Glad to see Christopher Plummer win for best supporting actor.
    same, great speech too. I fell asleep before the last three awards and didn't really care. I'd rather have seen The Tree of Life win, I think it'll be the movie people think of for 2011 in ten years. Like Frobby my three favorites weren't nominated (win win, drive, and take shelter).

    Billy crystal wasn't as bad as I expected but get someone else next year...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frobby View Post
    Are you saying The Artist is similar to Life is Beautiful? I don't think they are in the same class. The latter is a better movie by a good margin.
    The latter is pretty much execrable, in my opinion. It mis-understands (and underestimates) totalitarianism so badly that it's as if the historical context were a mere vehicle for Benigni's self-love parade. If you want a "triumph of the human experience via imagination," don't use the Holocaust to make your point. I tend to disagree with Adorno when he said that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," but that doesn't mean everything is permitted.

    So, in that sense, The Artist is in a different, much higher class.

    I would rank Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy above most of what I've seen this year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucky Jim View Post
    The latter is pretty much execrable, in my opinion. It mis-understands (and underestimates) totalitarianism so badly that it's as if the historical context were a mere vehicle for Benigni's self-love parade. If you want a "triumph of the human experience via imagination," don't use the Holocaust to make your point. I tend to disagree with Adorno when he said that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," but that doesn't mean everything is permitted.

    So, in that sense, The Artist is in a different, much higher class.

    I would rank Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy above most of what I've seen this year.
    Watched The Descendants this week. I enjoy small-scale films like this, and I think Payne is very good at finding the intimacy in awkwardness and the awkwardness in intimacy. He's very generous behind the lens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucky Jim View Post
    The latter is pretty much execrable, in my opinion. It mis-understands (and underestimates) totalitarianism so badly that it's as if the historical context were a mere vehicle for Benigni's self-love parade. If you want a "triumph of the human experience via imagination," don't use the Holocaust to make your point. I tend to disagree with Adorno when he said that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," but that doesn't mean everything is permitted.

    So, in that sense, The Artist is in a different, much higher class.

    I would rank Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy above most of what I've seen this year
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