Friday OT #2 - Shoulda Been A Contender

[cyhiphopp]

I'm going to let my geek flag fly here a bit...

Says the girl with the Lord of the Rings meme for an avatar.

Yeah, we knew you were a geek.

 

[cyhiphopp]

Threads like this make me realize how few movies I've really seen.

There are a LOT of Oscar winning movies I've never seen nor ever will. Many Best Picture winners are dramatic and have some far reaching importance. I prefer just being entertained by movies.

 

[3GenClone]

Lost in Translation is a slow movie and I know it's not for everybody. That being said, the relationship in that movie just seemed so realistic and genuine (and the fact that I could've totally seen my wife sending carpet samples to Japan) that I was totally charmed by it.

Gionanni Ribisi's character is clearly a portrayal of Spike Jonze, who was Sofia Coppola's husband at the time. Ribisi and Johansson's interactions in the film are Coppola's personal accounts between her and her husband, who was dealing with his own success after directing Adaptation. They divorced the same year that film came out.

 

[VeloClone]

Lost in Translation is a slow movie and I know it's not for everybody. That being said, the relationship in that movie just seemed so realistic and genuine (and the fact that I could've totally seen my wife sending carpet samples to Japan) that I was totally charmed by it.

I fell in love with Charlotte right along with Bob when watching that movie.

Here's my man card - take it.

 

[VeloClone]

I thought Sean Astin should have been at least nominated for Return of the King.

Or this gem:

 

[ca4cy]

There are a LOT of Oscar winning movies I've never seen nor ever will. Many Best Picture winners are dramatic and have some far reaching importance. I prefer just being entertained by movies.

Well said. If I watch a movie, it's usually to get a chuckle and over the past decade or so, most of what I watch is with my kids so I've pretty well removed myself from anything too hard hitting.

 

[VeloClone]

Want to know a simply crazy year in the film world? Try 1939. The 10 films nominated for best picture were:

• Dark Victory
• Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Love Affair
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Ninotchka
• Of Mice and Men
• Stagecoach
• The Wizard of Oz
• Wuthering Heights

In addition these classics came out in 1939:

• Beau Geste
• Gunga Din
• The Little Princess
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The Flying Dueces

 

[jcyclonee]

I fell in love with Charlotte right along with Bob when watching that movie.

Here's my man card - take it.

I need it. I fully admitted to being "charmed".

 

[BCClone]

Margot Robbie for anything. Only reason I kept watching wolf.