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Author: sean wookie
Time: 25-Jan-2005 10:39 AM
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so what do you think about the noms

Author: Bossk
Time: 25-Jan-2005 10:52 AM
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I'm pissed that Paul Giamatti wasn't nominated for Sideways. That blows.

And while I didn't really expect it to happen, I would've been pleased if the Academy had nominated Paz Vega for Spanglish.

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 25-Jan-2005 11:01 AM
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the academy is fucked up

Author: Bossk
Time: 25-Jan-2005 11:08 AM
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Well, many of their nominations were pretty on target with some pretty impressive surprises (Thomas Haden Church, sup actor, Sideways). I can't say I'm entirely upset save for Giamatti.

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 25-Jan-2005 11:10 AM
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SOMTIMES THEY ARE

Author: Bossk
Time: 25-Jan-2005 11:21 AM
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THAT'S QUITE TRUE YOU DAYV WANNABE!

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 25-Jan-2005 11:32 AM
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bossk, AND wookie, PLEASE LET US ALL QUIT IMITATING DAYV.:

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Author: Warbler
Time: 25-Jan-2005 3:23 PM
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There is one Dayv.

Author: sean wookie
Time: 25-Jan-2005 3:45 PM
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no i just type it and forget i have the caps on

Author: GundarkHunter
Time: 25-Jan-2005 6:48 PM
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I wasn't terribly surprised, but I am expecting an Aviator sweep, just like the ROTK sweep last year.

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Author: Bossk
Time: 26-Jan-2005 3:57 AM
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I don't think Aviator will sweep, though. Foxx has the actor cat all but locked up. That's one loss. And I'm hoping that many members of the Academy remember how horribly they f'd it up last year by giving the best director award to Peter Jackson when both Clint Eastwood and Sofia Coppola deserved it more. Maybe then they will give it to Eastwood this year for Million Dollar Baby as a sort of penance. There is an outside chance of that happening. I hope it does.

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Jan-2005 6:27 AM
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how is sideways

Author: GlopOfGrease
Time: 26-Jan-2005 7:21 AM
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I'm not suprised by the nominations, except for Giamatti. He was the best thing about Sideways.
Aviator is a great movie directed by the greatest living director.
Sideways and Million Dollar Baby are both good character studies that stumble in their third acts.
Ray was a good, if not great bio. Jaime Foxx was superb in it.
Finding Neverland was a boring retread of Shakespeare in Love except with no nudity and a cancer subplot.
They did a good job with Best Actor(except Giamatti deserves to be there over pretty boy Depp), Actress, and Supporting Actress(except for Portman who reminded me of a department store mannequin in Closer. She was better in Garden State.)
Also, a few of my favorites(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Incredibles, and Hotel Rwanda) got nominations for writing.

Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 26-Jan-2005 7:36 AM
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Opinion: sometimes the academy seems to busy worried about promoting an agenda to award/nominate movies that deserve it.

Although, I am glad to see that Incredibles got a nomination for best writing, because that was hilarious.

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Jan-2005 1:00 PM
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like titanic

Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 26-Jan-2005 1:21 PM
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Good example, or the fact that nobody got a nomination for acting in The Passion.

But seriously, the Titanic was a mildly entertaing film, but the hype was ridiculous. If she had just jumped at the beginning, she would have saved people a bunch of time and the point would have been the same: Being rich makes you suicidal.

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Author: TheSessler
Time: 26-Jan-2005 1:23 PM
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Yeah, I agree. It was okay, but not what it was made out to be.

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 26-Jan-2005 1:26 PM
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That whole scene was great until LeoDeCapRiO tried to save her. It would have been better if he let her fall, and then a magical Narwhal saved her.

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Jan-2005 3:27 PM
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Quote
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Good example, or the fact that nobody got a nomination for acting in The Passion.

But seriously, the Titanic was a mildly entertaing film, but the hype was ridiculous. If she had just jumped at the beginning, she would have saved people a bunch of time and the point would have been the same: Being rich makes you suicidal.

i did not know what was going to happen at all

Author: ricarleite
Time: 27-Jan-2005 12:37 AM
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Passion of the Christ was robbed. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was robbed, and so was Jim Carrey. Paul Giamatti was robbed. What can I say, other than "I'll not be watching the oscars this year."?

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 27-Jan-2005 4:00 PM
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was soo robbed