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Oscar Nominations

Tale of Princess Kaguya is the finest piece of animation I have watched in the last few years. There should be no competition in that category.
 
Imitation Game was the best BP nominee I've seen so far. Interstellar remain my favorite movie of the year.


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QuinSnydersHair said:
How good was it?
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Yeah really good. Can't fault it. It probably doesn't make you think as much as other movies nominated and the theme is quite confined/limited. However it is one movie that you can't help but be affected by its pace and direction... and that ending - WOW!!!!
 
This feels like a good time to whip out my old retrospective Oscars idea. For those who are unaware and/or don't remember, this is a hypothetical game I like to play where I look back 10 years at the movies that were nominated and/or should have been nominated now that we have sufficient distance to understand what movies have stuck in the popular consciousness and which ones didn't survive at all. This is a process that tends to reward really well made movies that you wanted to watch over and over again and punish historical dramas that there isn't much reason to revisit. It also has the benefit of hindsight and tends to produce dramatically different results than the original. Got the concept? All right, let's go.

The 2006 Oscars featured the following Best Picture Nominees:

1. The Departed (winner)
2. Babel
3. Letters from Iwo Jima
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. The Queen

I feel confident saying that only two (maximum) of those would make it onto a retrospective Best Picture ballot and the Departed's lock on the #1 slot is not as rock solid as we may have thought at the time as the movie's reputation has aged somewhat poorly throughout the years. The Queen and Babel fall into the "no one ever watched it twice" camp (this is Birdman's future). Letters from Iwo Jima is a movie you forgot existed until right now (and was the American Sniper of its year).

I see a revised 5-movie race looking like this after ten years of letting these movies wear:

I see a revised Best Picture ballot looking like this:

1. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Dream Girls
5. Children of Men

That list looks much better. Keep in mind that this assumes we stick to the old five nominee system. Under an expanded system we might see movies like Monster House (which incredibly lost the animated category at the 2006 awards to ****ing Happy Feet) Casino Royale, Stranger than Fiction, or Half Nelson get a nomination. Personally, I'd love to see us go back after ten years and do these things again. The arguments for Borat would be frankly astonishing with this much time having passed.
 
Sirkickyass said:
This feels like a good time to whip out my old retrospective Oscars idea. For those who are unaware and/or don't remember, this is a hypothetical game I like to play where I look back 10 years at the movies that were nominated and/or should have been nominated now that we have sufficient distance to understand what movies have stuck in the popular consciousness and which ones didn't survive at all. This is a process that tends to reward really well made movies that you wanted to watch over and over again and punish historical dramas that there isn't much reason to revisit. It also has the benefit of hindsight and tends to produce dramatically different results than the original. Got the concept? All right, let's go.

The 2006 Oscars featured the following Best Picture Nominees:

1. The Departed (winner)
2. Babel
3. Letters from Iwo Jima
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. The Queen

I feel confident saying that only two (maximum) of those would make it onto a retrospective Best Picture ballot and the Departed's lock on the #1 slot is not as rock solid as we may have thought at the time as the movie's reputation has aged somewhat poorly throughout the years. The Queen and Babel fall into the "no one ever watched it twice" camp (this is Birdman's future). Letters from Iwo Jima is a movie you forgot existed until right now (and was the American Sniper of its year).

I see a revised 5-movie race looking like this after ten years of letting these movies wear:

I see a revised Best Picture ballot looking like this:

1. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Dream Girls
5. Children of Men

That list looks much better. Keep in mind that this assumes we stick to the old five nominee system. Under an expanded system we might see movies like Monster House (which incredibly lost the animated category at the 2006 awards to ****ing Happy Feet) Casino Royale, Stranger than Fiction, or Half Nelson get a nomination. Personally, I'd love to see us go back after ten years and do these things again. The arguments for Borat would be frankly astonishing with this much time having passed.
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In 10 years Birdman will be replaced with Interstellar. :)
 
I believe if we ran that today Pan's Labyrinth would have a shot to win the whole thing.

Not so sure about Interstellar. But have you heard of Snowpiercer?
 
Bawse Dawg said:
I thought you were trolling. You really liked it that much?
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I was being a little over the top about it, but I loved Snowpiercer (I did not believe it was the best film of the year).

I even bought the French graphic novel and insisted on reading it to my wife while she tried to sleep. She loves me.

Rumble Rumble Rattle Rattle It Will Never Die!
 
'Twould be a toss-up between Pan's Labyrinth and Borat for me. Those were my favorites of 2006.
 
LazyD said:
'Twould be a toss-up between Pan's Labyrinth and Borat for me. Those were my favorites of 2006.
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I liked Punanny's Labia and Whorecats
 
LazyD said:
'Twould be a toss-up between Pan's Labyrinth and Borat for me. Those were my favorites of 2006.
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In all seriousness, Borat should have maybe been up. It's a great, great movie.

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