Comments on: Who’s gonna win?

By: lane

lane — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:27:42 +0000

ok angry 8th grader, fair enough.

i was visiting at an art school earlier this week and some of the students were trying to convince me to see Avatar just for the spectacle of it.

although i love terminator 2, and respect titanic (just for madness of it) avatar, to me, is just so unappealing. i have no interest in. i’m not sure why, i liked the lord of the rings movies, basically. i just really have no desire to see avatar.

By: trixie

trixie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:30:50 +0000

also, why were there so many movies referencing the number 9 this year? really? three movies with 9?
i thought that was weird.

and rach, thanks for that link. i forgot about that cover. i love that TF has KK’s earlobe in his teeth.
and your post today, which was awesome, as usual. i love the new album too.

By: Rachel Berkowitz

Rachel Berkowitz — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:01:51 +0000

What more do you expect from Tom Ford, the man who gave us this?

By: LP

LP — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:19:45 +0000

2: I loved Up, partly because it was unlike usual animated fare. The beginning has one of the sweetest, most wrenching evocations of love and loss I’ve seen in any film. And then it takes off from there. Also: kia kaha, bro to you to too. Ya.

3: Fassbinder was indirectly responsible for a terrible breakup in college for me, though in retrospect it was the best thing. So, my feelings about him are mixed.

4: Lane, this sounds like film criticism as practiced by an angry 8th-grader. Come on, dude! Give Avatar the love!

5: RB gets screeners because she votes on WGA awards. So we have all the contendahs at home, in DVD form. Makes it easy to see everything!

6-9: What is the deal with Nine? It sank without a trace, and I still can’t figure out what it is, beyond a weird blend of Chicago and, um, Ishtar?

10-11: Agreed on both counts re: Single Man. Colin Firth gave a devastating performance. But the movie, as good as it was, did feel like a Vanity Fair cover come to life.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:57:10 +0000

I’ve seen nine out of the ten movies nominated for best picture. I clearly have no life.

This being America, I’m afraid Avatar is going to win. When a film wins a bajillion dollars (actual figure), we like to reward it with a gold statuette, even if it is not the best film out there. I don’t really understand why. It’s not like we’re using the award to boost awareness of the film because clearly, everyone and their grandmother saw Avatar. So why reward it further? Why not reward a superior film that far fewer people saw like The Hurt Locker? Or A Single Man? People keep saying that Avatar is “unlike anything you’ve ever seen in a movie.” This is true. But there’s more to a movie than what you see. Give it the technical awards, the special effects awards. I don’t think anyone’s going to disagree that Avatar had better special effects than A Single Man.

I apologize. Unlike most of America, I put my grumpy pants both legs at once.