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02-26-2007, 06:30 PM
| | dune coon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fiorina 161
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Originally Posted by girlfriend in a coma I know! I hate the Academy for this so much. I don't care how good Forest Whitaker was (and from what I've heard his role was supporting and one-note anyway), O'Toole is a fucking acting treasure. I think this just about tops Gwyneth's 1998 win over Cate in the suckiness stakes. 
Ok, focus on the positives - yay for Marty and Helen. | Whitaker deserved the Oscar, O Toole should have been lucky to have been nominated. Venus was a terrible film and was a piss poor british attempt at the whole old man/young girl angle that worked for Lost In Translation.
I hate make up Oscars, they have cost some of the best performance on film to be unacknowledged. Like when they gave a make up to Geraldine Paige in 85 instead of Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple. Sure, they gave Whoopi a make up Oscar for Ghost but all that did was cost the better performances from Annette Benning and Loraine Bracco their deserved Oscars.
Oscars should go to the most deserving performance, not the best body of work. O Toole already has his honorary, he'll be fine.  |
02-27-2007, 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by ltripley Whitaker deserved the Oscar, O Toole should have been lucky to have been nominated. Venus was a terrible film and was a piss poor british attempt at the whole old man/young girl angle that worked for Lost In Translation.
I hate make up Oscars, they have cost some of the best performance on film to be unacknowledged. Like when they gave a make up to Geraldine Paige in 85 instead of Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple. Sure, they gave Whoopi a make up Oscar for Ghost but all that did was cost the better performances from Annette Benning and Loraine Bracco their deserved Oscars.
Oscars should go to the most deserving performance, not the best body of work. O Toole already has his honorary, he'll be fine. | exactly that's bullshit just award a guy for being an old actor. He didn't deserve it. Get over it. |
02-27-2007, 01:30 AM
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| | | was anyone else totally charmed by Leo last night? He seemed like such a sweetheart and such a great guy. I got excited whenever they cut to shots of him or Kate Winslet. 10 years later after Titanic these two are hollywood legends in the making. Gorgeous, charming, adorable and super talented. Gotta love those two. |
02-27-2007, 01:50 AM
|  | THRILLHO | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by Casey was anyone else totally charmed by Leo last night? | I realized last night that I no longer dislike Leo. In fact I like him. Maybe a lot. Around the R&J and Titanic era I became dissapointed and snooty about his acting and totally sneered at his roles in the first two Scorsese movies he was in...
Wait, I'm going too far into this.
Yes, he completely charmed me last night. I think I even beamed a few times  . |
02-27-2007, 03:29 AM
|  | glance, don't stare | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: vancouver area rug
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| | | leo has since admitted that the 'Titanic' fame went to his head. he was younger then, and it just made his ego spin out of control. im glad he's back down here at earth, because he's a good actor when he gets down to it.
i think someone implied that scorsese's awards the other night were sypathy or 'make-up' oscars. i think he earned those though. its not like the departed is a piece of crap. he's an excellent film-maker. i know a few people have some qualms with how abruptly the film ends, but it still works. for me, it was between the departed and babel. it seemed like a toss up and why not the departed? |
02-27-2007, 05:11 AM
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| | Go Marty!  |
02-27-2007, 01:00 PM
|  | Berlin | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Bat out of hell |
02-27-2007, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by sassbot i think someone implied that scorsese's awards the other night were sypathy or 'make-up' oscars. i think he earned those though. its not like the departed is a piece of crap. he's an excellent film-maker. i know a few people have some qualms with how abruptly the film ends, but it still works. for me, it was between the departed and babel. it seemed like a toss up and why not the departed? | I agree. No way it was a sympathy Oscar. Neither one was. I think that's what made the award even better; everyone knew he deserved this one more than, say, when The Aviator was up. The Departed was an example of what a certain kind of movie should be. Quite a few people I know who saw this movie told me they couldn't stop thinking about it or telling other people to see it they enjoyed it so much. It, like some other movies awarded Sunday night, got people excited to go to the movies again. I mean, ok, it was no Goodfellas, but nothing since really is.
And I thought the ending of The Departed was appropriate for the movie. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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