I dunno...I do think the "Slumdog" worship messed up the Awards pretty bad.

IGotAName

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:09 AM
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I dunno...I do think the "Slumdog" worship messed up the Awards pretty bad.

Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 12:09 AM by IGotAName

Think of all of the great movies and performances that hardly got any kind of recognition because everything got pushed out of the way by a decent but not great, at all, movie.

Did you see Frost/Nixon? Milk? The Wrestler?

So many great things about those and other movies- things, honestly, that I can't say for Slumdog in the least. It's a movie with its good points, but mostly nothing I would call Oscar-worthy. I wouldn't have given it a single award.

Just really disappointed.

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nytemare

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:16 AM
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1. The Reader was amazing as well.

I found Slumdog to be very entertaining, but, as you can probably see from my thread, not oscar worthy.

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begin_within

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:18 AM
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2. Well, "Titanic" won 11 Oscars...

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IGotAName

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:20 AM
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3. Yeah- that was pretty disappointing too.

Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 12:21 AM by IGotAName

Although if I remember correctly there wasn't all that much that was good that was going up against it.

I think that's really my point- when you've got a lot of excellent movies in a year, you really shouldn't be seeing things like this happening.

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EastTennesseeDem

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:21 AM
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4. It went up against Good Will Hunting

which was just stunning.

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begin_within

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:22 AM
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5. I thought "Contact" was far superior to "Titanic" in most of the disciplines,

and had a better story to boot. But "Contact" was released in July and Titanic at the end of the year, during "Oscar season."

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Fire Walk With Me

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:27 AM
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8. Titanic beat "Contact"?

Well, that's all fucked-up.

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begin_within

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:30 AM
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9. "Contact" only received one Oscar nomination, for sound.

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:23 AM
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Inchworm

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:26 AM
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7. you basterd!

I knew it.. I cried a li'l just thinkin about it

I love ya Swede!

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