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I’ve just finished watching tha BAFTAs… and Big Fish got exactly 0 out of the 5 it was nominated for! Lost in Translation did very well – got about 3 or 4, if my rubbish memory serves. Unfortunately, ROTK overshadowed just about every nomination. I understand it’s an outstanding movie, but I’ve become quite fed up with the LOTR series smashing the competition to smithereens all the time! The only category I remember it NOT actually winning in was for the music (Gabriel Yared, Cold Mountain won)… Howard Shore actually looked quite pissed off about it, too! He’s won enough – he can take the back seat, now. hehe. Altogether a reasonably dissapointing turnout (by the way… can you believe Uma Thurman was nominated for best actress in a leading role for Kill Bill!? – It’s a great, dumb, movie, but her role didn’t need good acting – it needed months of sword training!). But it’s certainly made me want to watch lost in translation that little bit more.
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The JLost in Translation is a pretty good movie.
LOTR was good, but it doesn’t deserve best picture. I can name at least 10 or more movies I saw in the theater last year that I thought were better than LOTR.
“I can name at least 10 or more movies I saw in the theater last year that I thought were better than LOTR.”
Wow, can you tell me what those films are, so I can go see them?
Lost in Translation
American Splendor
Kill Bill
The Cooler
Cold Mountain
Mystic River
In America
Big Fish
House of Sand and Fog
The Last Samurai
Master and CommanderJust to name a few. I didn’t not like LOTR, it just wasn’t one of my faves for the year. It was just a great year for the movies, I guess. Oh yeah, and these movies effected me in ways LOTR failed to. Yeah, great production value and all that, a lot of heart, blah blah blah, but not….ya know….what I was looking for, I guess. I dunno. That’s how I feel.
You can go ahead and throw Whale Rider up there too.
I didn’t like in America all that much… only slightly touching, but not amazing. What’s the cooler about, sleepy? I still haven’t got round to seeing the trailer.
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The JThis is all opinion of course.
What isn’t merely opinion is that RETURN OF THE KING is a much more emotionally satisfying film than THE LAST WHITE SAMURAI SAVES JAPANESE CULTURE: ALL HAIL THE WHITE AMERICAN MAN!
Ryan
Hmm… I haven’t seen it, but I must agree… I’m also wondering how a white american guy could possibly be the last samurai – how does that work!?
SleepyHello certainly showed you Bodhi!
Shame on me. The more I think about it, the more you’re right, Ryan. Go ahead and take The Last Samurai off of that. But yeah, it all is a matter of opinion. I was gonna put that, but assumed you’d all be mature enough to realize that.
My Top Ten would look somthing like this (in no paticular order):
Finding Nemo
A Mighty Wind
Intolerable Cruelty
Hulk
American Splendor
Big Fish
Kill Bill Vol.1
LOTR: Return Of The King
X-Men 2
Gigantic: A Tale Of Two Johns“SleepyHello certainly showed you Bodhi!
“He did show me, he showed a helpful top ten movies to see, and for that I say: Thank-you. I don’t, however, feel Cold Mountain, The Cooler, Mystic River, In America, The Last Samurai is even on par with Return of the King, but, you know, different strokes, for different folks.
Does that sound dirty?
The best movie of the year: Dirty Pretty Things
Others:
American Splendor
Big Fish
Kill Bill – Vol. 1
Matchstick Men (completely forgotten by the Academy)
Mystic RiverRyan, loved the commentary. It’s not from 2003, but I just got around to seeing “City of God.” Great film – it has indeed usurped “Dancer in the Dark” as my favorite.
-E (who also likes “Pieces of April” and “Bubba Ho-Tep” So shoot me…)
Pretty much none of the movies I dig are ever on any lists to win an award and all. So, I snub them. That’s right–I snub them like the movies they ignore. Pish!
“different strokes, for different folks.
Does that sound dirty?”
Yes, yes it does, but only because you pointed it out.
Also, thanks goes to Nat for reminding me of Finding Nemo, X-2, and Intolerable Cruelty: 3 more movies I saw in the theater that I liked more than LOTR.
And E, my god man, I am dying to see City of God. And it’s also good to see someone else who has as much if not more admiration for the brilliance that was Dancer in the Dark.
Wow, better than “Dancer in the Dark”, I WILL have to see “CIty Of God”.
I want to see “Bubba Ho-Tep” but it didn’t play around here. I’ll have to wait until the DVD is out; same for “The Triplets of Belleville”.
I did get the score for “Bubba Ho-Tep” however, and I love it’s rock-a-billy tone (it makes me want to see the film even more). I was lucky enough to get a copy of it signed by the Director and the Composer (Brian Tyler), but alas, not by Bruce.
Speaking of Bruce, I did recently see him play himself in “Comic Book: The Movie” a mockumetary directed and starring Mark Hamill (fun DVD for comic book, and cartoon voice-over fans). Also, did anyone else see Bruce’s uncredited cameo in “Intolerable Cruelty”?
Nat
Hey, I think it’s about time the Lord of the Rings movies GOT their due. I mean, FOTR and TTT were both shafted during awards seasons… so it’s finally time that ROTK DID win all the awards!! It certainly deserves it a lot more than any other film this year, especially if you count it for ALL three films.
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