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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 02/27/2007 : 12:19:33 PM
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Oops, sorry. I glanced through the wiki article a bit too fast. It was only nominated.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 02/27/2007 : 2:43:21 PM
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| I don't care much about the Oscars these days, but I'm glad at least two of my favourites won. Those are Forrest Whittaker, one of those actors who should get more (and better) work and Happy Feet, if not the best animation film of the year at least the most daring. |
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/28/2007 : 10:52:05 AM
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I actually stopped watching the Oscars in high school.
However, there's a lady in the house now, and she's keen on awards shows. (We all have our foibles.) I generally pull out a book or an art project or something, just so I can still have some time with her, but I do glance at the TV when someone/something I like is up for a particular award. Forrest Whitaker's win would be one of them.
I usually care about the best animated film award, but I haven't seen any of the nominees this year, and frankly didn't find any of them to appeal to me much. I suppose I'll be most likely to see Monster House based on what I've seen and know of them. Happy Feet just does not look appealing at all. Penguins dancing to "popular" music...what appears to be a typical "ugly duckling" story about how different is awesome...meh.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 02/28/2007 : 4:18:51 PM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
Towering Inferno never won Best Picture.
Also, CASABLANCA was beaten for "Best Picture" by WATCH ON THE RHINE.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 02/28/2007 : 4:34:37 PM
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Originally posted by The Rev. D.D.
I usually care about the best animated film award, but I haven't seen any of the nominees this year, and frankly didn't find any of them to appeal to me much. I suppose I'll be most likely to see Monster House based on what I've seen and know of them. Happy Feet just does not look appealing at all. Penguins dancing to "popular" music...what appears to be a typical "ugly duckling" story about how different is awesome...meh.
Oh, it's more than that, much more, but explaining that in detail would ruin the experience, so you'll have to trust my word. Monster House is every bit as good, you won't be disappointed if you end up watching any of both. |
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 03/03/2007 : 6:59:26 PM
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The Departed is a great film--not as good as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, or Goodfellas, but definitely the one that deserved to win out of the nominees. There were several films this year that could seriously compete with or surpass it for "Best Movie of the Year"--United 93, Brick, Children of Men, Casino Royale and Pan's Labyrinth being the main ones--but since I consider Scorsese to be the greatest living American filmmaker, I'm hardly going to be disappointed that he got the award he's apparently been wanting for decades now. I just wish he didn't actually want it, but whatever.
By the way, after he makes his next movie, which is apparently about missionaries in Japan, he's apparently looking at doing an epic movie about rock and roll from the 60s to the present. I AM EXCITED.
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Triviachamp
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 3:29:52 PM
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Originally posted by Greenhornet
Also, CASABLANCA was beaten for "Best Picture" by WATCH ON THE RHINE.
Actually Casablanca did win. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 8:15:06 PM
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 8:28:28 PM
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Originally posted by Triviachamp
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Originally posted by Greenhornet
Also, CASABLANCA was beaten for "Best Picture" by WATCH ON THE RHINE.
Actually Casablanca did win.
I checked, you're still champ.
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Triviachamp
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 11:28:35 PM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
What the heck was Watch on the Rhine?
"Anti-fascist" (read: Stalinist) play by Lillian Hellman |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/20/2007 : 09:55:24 AM
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Haven't seen that one, but I can't see why an anti-nazi film should automatically be labeled as "Stalinist".
Sure Hellman was a "radical" for American standards, but Americans should learn that commies were part of the good guys in western Europe at the time. They did fight the Fascist regimes (and sometimes lost, like in my country), and took part in the democratic governments of western Europe after WWII.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/20/2007 : 7:02:20 PM
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The commies stole our planes when they landed in Russia durring WW2. Don't get me started, that's only a SMALL part of it.
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/20/2007 : 10:47:23 PM
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Hellman wasn't a "radical" (scare quotes) she was a dyed-in-a-wool Communist who publicly supported Stalin's show trials.
And the "commies" were not the good guys in WW2. Don't make me puke. The U.S.S.R., for all practical purposes, was one of the Axis powers. Having allied with Germany in 1939, the U.S.S.R. promptly invaded Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Try telling them what good guys the communists were. Meanwhile Stalin used comintern in a (thankfully) failed attempt to thwart American support for Great Britain, which was already under siege by Nazi Germany, and also to counter the policies of Roosevelt, who comintern now claimed was not that much better than Hitler.
The only reason Stalin switched sides was because Hitler double-crossed him and invaded Russia. Otherwise Stalin would likely have remained Hitler's ally for the duration of the conflict.
As for the movie itself:
I just looked up Watch on the Rhine. It was written for the screen by Dashiell Hammett (who may have been a communist at one time, too, I don't recall), based on a play by Hellman. That being said, I agree, that doesn't necessarily mean the movie was Stalinist. After all, Hellman wrote These Three, a great '30s movie loosely based on her play The Children's Hour, and that movie had no discernible political content whatsoever. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/21/2007 : 04:28:53 AM
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I was speaking of the communists and socialists on western Europe, people, not defending the U.R.S.S. nor Stalin. You don't need to convince me of their dictatorial methods or their expansionist ambitions.
I just feel sometimes that Americans inmediately relate anything more leftwing that the Democrats with the U.S.S.R. It ain't so, at least on western Europe.
And this is all I'm saying in favour of a film I have yet to see. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/21/2007 : 8:10:32 PM
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Appreciate the clarification. Let's leave it at that. :)
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