Juno and other recent flicks

No Country for Old Men started strong then fizzled. Such a shame.

I can't believe Micahel Haneke is making a shot-for-shot remake of "Funny Games." That's SUCH a disturbing movie. I just watched the trailer for the 2008 version and it may have the strangest tone I've ever seen for a movie. "Shot-for-shot" means they didn't change anything. If you saw the original, you know exactly what's going to happen in this version. Such a disturbing, unfunny film.

Brian

oscar monimations are in… ratatouille got 5, and "Once" got a nod for best original song. even Transformers got 3 noms (unfortunately, they have yet to create a "hottie of the year" category, otherwise it would have 4)

Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War"
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie in "Away from Her"
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney in "The Savages"
Ellen Page in "Juno"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"

Achievement in directing
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Julian Schnabel
"Juno", Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton", Tony Gilroy
"No Country for Old Men", Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood", Paul Thomas Anderson

Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis": Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille": Brad Bird
"Surf's Up": Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia

Adapted screenplay
"Atonement", Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
"Away from Her", Written by Sarah Polley
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
"No Country for Old Men", Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood", Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Original screenplay
"Juno", Written by Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl", Written by Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton", Written by Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille", Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
"The Savages", Written by Tamara Jenkins

Achievement in art direction
"American Gangster": Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
"Atonement": Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"There Will Be Blood": Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Achievement in cinematography
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford": Roger Deakins
"Atonement": Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men": Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood": Robert Elswit

Achievement in costume design
"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
"Atonement" Jacqueline Durran
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" Alexandra Byrne
"La Vie en Rose" Marit Allen
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Colleen Atwood

Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight": Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience": Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko": Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side": Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance": Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld": Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"La Corona (The Crown)": Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
"Salim Baba": Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
"Sari's Mother": James Longley

Achievement in film editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum": Christopher Rouse
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling
"Into the Wild": Jay Cassidy
"No Country for Old Men" Roderick Jaynes
"There Will Be Blood": Dylan Tichenor

Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose" Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit": Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement" Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner": Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted": Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush": Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted": Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted": Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best animated short film
"I Met the Walrus": Josh Raskin
"Madame Tutli-Putli" National Film Board of Canada, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
"Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)": Alexander Petrov
"Peter & the Wolf" Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film
"At Night": Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)" : Andrea Jublin
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)": Philippe Pollet-Villard
"Tanghi Argentini": Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
"The Tonto Woman": Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Achievement in sound editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum": Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"No Country for Old Men": Skip Lievsay
"Ratatouille": Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
"There Will Be Blood": Matthew Wood
"Transformers": Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Achievement in sound mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"No Country for Old Men": Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
"Ratatouille": Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
"3:10 to Yuma": Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
"Transformers": Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Achievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass": Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
"Transformers": Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
I can't believe Micahel Haneke is making a shot-for-shot remake of "Funny Games." That's SUCH a disturbing movie. I just watched the trailer for the 2008 version and it may have the strangest tone I've ever seen for a movie. "Shot-for-shot" means they didn't change anything. If you saw the original, you know exactly what's going to happen in this version. Such a disturbing, unfunny film.

Brian

I. CANT. WAIT.

The original was one of the best movies I've ever seen, and this reimaging is going to be pretty damn great. Haneke said he wants to bring it to a wider audience and that the tone of the movie would be relevant today.

Also, Juno was such a disappointment. Could've been great, but Knocked Up was WAY better.

I liked Cloverfield - good escapist blockbuster.

Could have been a lot better. I didn't care for any of the characters because there was little character development. I would have liked all of them to get slaughtered in the end.

Originally posted by callat703:
I liked Cloverfield - good escapist blockbuster.

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Go see The Orphanage, pretty good psychological horror movie, totally recommended

Once - great movie out on DVD and incredible soundtrak….Glen Hansard from The Frames is in it.

My apologies if this is old news, we aren't big movie watchers and just happen to grab this one on Sunday evening…

Am I the only person that though the music from Once was frigging horrible? The movie was fine, but the music, ugh.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Am I the only person (…)

probably, but i'm assuming that you're used to be alone in your opinions. in fact, i suspect that you like it :p

Well it's made by the guys from the Frames. What do ya expect? :)

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Am I the only person that though the music from Once was frigging horrible? The movie was fine, but the music, ugh.

The music in Once was OK, I thought the movie was a bit dull and seemed much longer than it actually was and it's not that long to begin with. Most of the story was pretty unbelievable unless it's treated like a fairy tale…

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was intense. I hope the dvd has some sort of making of video. I'd love to see that.

Originally posted by lagas:
I saw AVPR, its better than the first one, but its a pretty bad movie still

Made the mistake of shelling out $10 to see this one, what a mistake. I'm a sucker for all those Alien and Predator movies, but they just don't work together.

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
No Country for Old Men started strong then fizzled. Such a shame.

Couldn't disagree with you more. I walked out of the theater feeling similar, but then it kind of sunk in overnight and the next day I realized just how brilliant the ending was. It's like they were saying that no matter what you do sometimes shit is just going to be fucked up. The good guy doesn't always win and everything isn't always going to be wrapped up nice and tight with a pretty bow. Life can be terrible and the decisions you make will directly effect what happens. The moment he decided to take that money forces were set in motion that he couldn't control.

Agreed. I haven't seen the movie, but the book's ending is fantastic. You're right…the world isn't a nice place, and bad things happen to good people, unfortunately.

Still, I can remember Joe posting about how great Surf's Up was, so you kind of have to take it with a grain of salt. Like his show reviews.

Originally posted by Shadrach:

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
No Country for Old Men started strong then fizzled. Such a shame.

Couldn't disagree with you more. I walked out of the theater feeling similar, but then it kind of sunk in overnight and the next day I realized just how brilliant the ending was. It's like they were saying that no matter what you do sometimes shit is just going to be fucked up. The good guy doesn't always win and everything isn't always going to be wrapped up nice and tight with a pretty bow. Life can be terrible and the decisions you make will directly effect what happens. The moment he decided to take that money forces were set in motion that he couldn't control.

SPOILER

I just wish the directors showed how the main character was killed. There was a big build up leading to it, then bam, he's already dead. That was the most disappointing part to me. They had no problem showing psychoboy's car accident in the end?? (what was the point of that anyway?).
Still, it's a good movie and psychoboy really freaked me out!

Originally posted by Shadrach:

Couldn't disagree with you more. I walked out of the theater feeling similar, but then it kind of sunk in overnight and the next day I realized just how brilliant the ending was. It's like they were saying that no matter what you do sometimes shit is just going to be fucked up. The good guy doesn't always win and everything isn't always going to be wrapped up nice and tight with a pretty bow. Life can be terrible and the decisions you make will directly effect what happens. The moment he decided to take that money forces were set in motion that he couldn't control.

I loved that it was subtle and they didn't make a big scene about how the main character was killed.