Golden globe nominations.

avatar for best picture?.... what?.... gran torino / clint eastwood are nowhere. clint should have at least got actor nominee. tormentor313

Gran torino didnt come out this year, well maybe it did in some countries.

[QUOTE="tormentor313"]avatar for best picture?.... what?.... gran torino / clint eastwood are nowhere. clint should have at least got actor nominee. Film-Guy

Gran torino didnt come out this year, well maybe it did in some countries.

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[QUOTE="sammyjenkis898"] Katey Segal deserves a win. Did you finish both seasons?sammyjenkis898

I am half way through the second. It has become my favorite show on tv next to Dexter, and Breaking bad. There is always a show that gets ignored by the golden globes. Always sunny in philadelphia has been ignored for ages.

Most award shows suck. The golden globes pick good choices sometimes. I also sometimes like the BAFTA choices though. I notice my family in england who get sent the BAFTA nominations get some I have never heard of or that dont come out in America like This is england, and Dean Spanley.

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[QUOTE="tormentor313"]avatar for best picture?.... what?.... gran torino / clint eastwood are nowhere. clint should have at least got actor nominee. MrEnvelope

Gran torino didnt come out this year, well maybe it did in some countries.

I thought it was the release date in America that qualifies or disqualifies a film? Ponyo came out 2009 in America I thought.

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Gran torino didnt come out this year, well maybe it did in some countries.

Film-Guy

I thought it was the release date in America that qualifies or disqualifies a film? Ponyo came out 2009 in America I thought.

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[QUOTE="MrEnvelope"] Maybe thats why Ponyo isnt nominated for best animated film.... Ponyo came out last year in Japansammyjenkis898

I thought it was the release date in America that qualifies or disqualifies a film? Ponyo came out 2009 in America I thought.

It is a good film, not great but quite enjoyable. I would give it a 7.5, maybe an 8. My favorite of his is still Princess mononoke.

Hey Sammy and Film-Guy, I'm about to start Sons of Anarchy. Should I expect awesomeness?

Hey Sammy and Film-Guy, I'm about to start Sons of Anarchy. Should I expect awesomeness?

Ultrabeatdown55

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Hey Sammy and Film-Guy, I'm about to start Sons of Anarchy. Should I expect awesomeness?

sammyjenkis898

Hey Sammy and Film-Guy, I'm about to start Sons of Anarchy. Should I expect awesomeness?

Ultrabeatdown55

Like Sammy said, its a slow burner in the first season but it just gets better and better from what I have seen.

[QUOTE="sammyjenkis898"]I've never cared for The Golden Globes. It's laughable that The Hangover and Julie & Julia are on there, yet A Serious Man isn't.biggest_loser

District 9 is the best action sci-fi in years, so of course it's nominated. It's a legitimate genre, that requires even more skill than filming a bunch of dialogue and following The Idiot's Guide To Being a Director. Its best representants should be recognised, and there's no shame in choosing them over Yet Another Intellectual Movie, especially considering the context.

I thought District 9's strength lies precisely in what you criticise - turning into a violent action movie halfway through. Maintaining the "we're talking about aliens, but they're actually black guys you know" attitude would've come off as pretentious and annyoing. It got its point across and has set a great background for a well made, inventive second half. Should they have moved the aliens to District 10 and make them a Jewish or stalinist alegory too?

But I find it odd that it was nominated for best screenplay, since most dialogue was improvised in that first half.

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="sammyjenkis898"]I've never cared for The Golden Globes. It's laughable that The Hangover and Julie & Julia are on there, yet A Serious Man isn't.Baranga

District 9 is the best action sci-fi in years, so of course it's nominated. It's a legitimate genre, that requires even more skill than filming a bunch of dialogue and following The Idiot's Guide To Being a Director. Its best representants should be recognised, and there's no shame in choosing them over Yet Another Intellectual Movie, especially considering the context.

I thought District 9's strength lies precisely in what you criticise - turning into a violent action movie halfway through. Maintaining the "we're talking about aliens, but they're actually black guys you know" attitude would've come off as pretentious and annyoing. It got its point across and has set a great background for a well made, inventive second half. Should they have moved the aliens to District 10 and make them a Jewish or stalinist alegory too?

But I find it odd that it was nominated for best screenplay, since most dialogue was improvised in that first half.

We enjoy movies for different things: I prefer depth, you like the aesthetics.

I just didn't find the second half as thoroughly interesting as the first. Its difficult for me to find action rivetting since we've seen it all before.

I'm very surprised the script was nominated over a much smarter film like A Serious Man because its a really predictable and formulaic film in the second half.