OMG!!!!!! PICKS! RED CARPET! ELLEN! Moment of silence...zmg!!

I will allow this thread, but you will need to drop your man cards in the beer keg at the door and pick them up on the way out

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Who the fuck cares? I bet 90% have seen less than 35% of these movies?

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I used to watch this for cleavage shots. Lately,you don't see much of that either.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

This years patronizing award goes to giving the Somali Pirate guy a nomination. This is similar to that fat broad a few years back. No dues paid,just a couple of shmoes picked up off the street for their unique "look".

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Not unlike the axiom cited when someone says "nobody is talking about ...", generally "who the fuck cares" means a great number of people do, in fact, care about the subject in question. Having pointed that out, allow me to state that I care relatively little ... and have seen 0% of the following movies nominated for best 'pitcher'*:

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

*-people that pronounce 'picture' this way should be sterilized if not immolated

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

i was surprised to see "nebraska" playing at the theatre down the street from me but i chose to see "robocop" instead. movie snob fail.

0% for me, I am on a 100% COMCAST release schedule

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Ok Don care if you like but really I always recall even if I wanted to watch the show I have not see 2/3 of the shit awarded.

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I saw Gravity & thought it was "meh" at best. I guess Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Tony Stark is not as good as the Somali Pirate guy.

Downey has put the SuperHero genre in the stratosphere,but no one would dare give him shit. He even made a crack about it on the Oscars last year.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I've seen -

Gravity
Her
The Wolf

I enjoyed The Lego Movie, Frozen, and Despicable Me 2 more than all of them.

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Which of course means that since you likely didn't see many of the movies therefore nobody anywhere cares about it.

I'm just saying "who cares" is generally a poor choice to open with (for example, if someone were to say "who cares what chas says", I think the clear answer is most people even though most would step all over themselves to 'prove' it false). "I don't care" is more a more likely (and thus possibly more honest) assessment.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

it'd be nice if major distributors would pick up oscar bait indie films sooner so that people would have a chance to form their own opinion on a lot of these movies before they're being told how great they are. i think that's where the oscars have been for the past 15 years. it's a shame because films like "her" and "american hustle" are very good pictures, very well written and directed--but by the time you've heard of them, they're already being labeled "classic" and that naturally bugs the shit out of people because we don't like to be told what to think. unless we're russian.

Back to the movies themselves .... as much as anything I found it very off-putting by all the "you have to see this very important movie" treatment a number of these seemed to get .... which one can say isn't necessarily the movies' faults .... except a lot of it actually is even if it's not identified up front as marketing and award-jockeying.

Not that it probably matters, but the only one I would think one would need to see in a theater to appreciate it would seem to be 'Gravity' ... otherwise, as BF intimated, there's nothing compelling enough to expend the time, money, and energy in going to see these outside of your home.

Z - which one would you recommend to dullards like me if I were only going to see one and why?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Need for Speed opens in a few weeks!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Dallas Buyers Club is the only Best Pic nominee I have any interest in seeing.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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it's the marketing, it's not the filmmakers. filmmakers are just trying to make films.

seriously...go see "robocop". the best picture films are great but they're not mass appeal films. i mean, do you wanna see a black guy get the passion of the christ treatment for 2 hours? knock yourself out with "12 years a slave". do you want an existential and visual gymnastic sci-fi yarn? "gravity". do you want to be reminded how lonely you are? "her".

"american hustle" would be the most accessible out of all of them, and i believe the film's going to sweep. it's the least "important" of them all...

Most years I will watch this show. However, Ellen is too much of a phony softball. Just can't stand her. Seems like a big fake who is a bitch to people behind the scenes. With her as a host I'm certain the humor will be bland and the jokes will be safe. She's so perfectly tame. Hey and pick a gender why don't you? She's like some kind of a futuristic test human, with mixtures of man and woman. It's freaky. She isn't even dressing like a dyke. She's looks like a nerd going to prom whenever I see her on television in those outfits.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

Golden Globes > Oscars, both as a show & as an award. The Globes try to cover all fields when picking their winners, while the Oscars seem formulaic. Every film fills an Oscars trope.

12 Years A Slave- "Inspirational"
Dallas Buyers Club- "Guy gets aids, guy dies of aids"
Nebraska & Her- "off-beat indies"
American Hustle & Wolf of Wall Street- "who's who of Hollywood"
Captain Phillips- "Self righteous Tom Hanks"
Gravity- "Self righteous George Clooney"
Philomena- "Historical Melodrama"

You're just jealous that her wife's hot.

I thought I kind of apologized and said it is important to you. Sorry not me. I like to see if people I like win?

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It doesn't mean anything here, but I cannot express - even in 'n' words for Terry Bradshaw's sake - how happy I am that you made that exact comparison.

Back to my "point" ... I recall being interested in Am Hustle for awhile before it even came out but by the time it came out and I had the means to go see it, I had been burned out by the over-exposure to how great this movie was as though it had re-invented the industry, and then more and more I became attuned to the opposite side of the coin (well, it's really rather pedantic and pedestrian, etc.) and finally avoided the whole thing like the plague.

And I'll try to get around to Robocop since it received your blessing as well!

Zizou --- I have no idea how you get that vibe from Ellen, but each to their own ... though I find the "phony softball" charge to be particularly odd given the event in question ... I mean, they're not going to resurrect Bill Hicks to host it so I have no idea what in the hell you would expect in reality.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Man I thought most channels just threw in the towel on nights like this ... 7pm viewing choices include all sorts of shit incl'g

Return of the Jedi (already on actually)
Ancorman
Cap't America
Talladega Nights
ET
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Kung Fu Panda 2
Mulan
Star Trek VI
In the Line of Fire
Dances w/ Wolves
The Matrix
Goodfellas (on IFC so no editing)
Caddyshack II (okay someone threw in the towel)

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I'm goin with the xbox for an hour til true detective comes on.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

yeah. i mean that's the thing...is that i saw "american hustle" before the explosion of accolades so i just appreciated it for what it was. i'd give it a few years when people have forgotten about it. it is a solid film. i really enjoyed it.

i honestly think "robocop" is going to go unnoticed because it came out at such a shitty time (feb is a horrible month for new releases) but it is legit. it could've been better, it's not as sharp as the original was...but as i said in the thread, it's not the same movie. it's going for something different. but it's still damn entertaining.

I have 2 comments.

1. who the is this hipster shitbag that is on the red carpet? You can take your sneer and your glasses and shove them up your already worked over ass.

2. You know its going to be a good night when jonah hill's neck fat covers up his tie.

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hey this ain't yo daddy's oscar red carpet coverage. fuck that heineken shit. PABST BLUE RIBBON!

Wz...i forgot to mention to you that I was at a bar a few months ago and had mead on tap. It was AWESOME.

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Saw Gravity and American Hustle, and that's it.

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if there was a like button, i'd mash the shit out of it right now.