Academy Awards discussion thread

[Squiggy]

I haven't seen the awards for a while. Do they still do the Dead Reel?

The "In Memorium". Yes.

 

[Kira's Mom]

There are no true giants in Hollywood these days. There are great actors, but not many who will stand the test of time.

That's probably true of the old ones as well. Do young people (God that makes me sound old) really know Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis? And the new ones, I'm not sure if we will know without the test of time.

I do. I'm 23. I watch a ton of old films, and most are WAY better then today's.

Plenty do. I grew up watching classic films- and I knew who Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and others were long before I knew who the big stars of my generation were. My seventeen-year-old nephew likes to watch classics with his parents on Turner Classic Movies. He loved Manchurian Candidate and various Hitchcock films, among others.

 

[indianatrekker26]

wow dark knight won a tech award

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Heath just won for his role in The Dark Knight-amazing! His family gave a very gracious acceptance speech about their famous member. High-fives all around!!!!!

 

[Amaris]

The Dark Knight over Wall*E?! What?

J.

 

[DeafPoet]

Nice to see The Dark Knight get some more love but that Oscar was practically stolen from Ben Burtt.

 

[timmay2411]

Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Over Iron Man for VFX?

Pfft.


J.

Ya man!

Iron man blew in vfx. Nothing special.

Button's ENTIRE face was a CG head, and sometimes the entire character was CG. Bet you never noticed.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Gee, I'm suprised Benjamin Button didn't have a category in sound.

 

[DarthPipes]

That's probably true of the old ones as well. Do young people (God that makes me sound old) really know Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis? And the new ones, I'm not sure if we will know without the test of time.

I do. I'm 23. I watch a ton of old films, and most are WAY better then today's.

Plenty do. I grew up watching classic films- and I knew who Bette Davis, Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and others were long before I knew who the big stars of my generation were.

Same here.

Nice to see Dark Knight take another award. Though I wouldn't have minded Ben Burtt taking another one home for Wall-E.

 

[Amaris]

Ya man!

Iron man blew in vfx. Nothing special.

Button's ENTIRE face was a CG head, and sometimes the entire character was CG. Bet you never noticed.

Iron Man's VFX were spectacular.

J.

 

[indianatrekker26]

yeah, and dark knight wasnt really an effects heavy movie. Come to think of it i cant think of any big special effects movie from 08 other than Ironman, Indy 4, Hancock and Hellboy 2

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Here we go. Button will take anotherone away from TDK. Okay, I'm shocked. It didn't.

 

[indianatrekker26]

lol i did like will smith's line about how action movies have fans lol

 

[timmay2411]

Ya man!

Iron man blew in vfx. Nothing special.

Button's ENTIRE face was a CG head, and sometimes the entire character was CG. Bet you never noticed.

Iron Man's VFX were spectacular.

J.

No way. The CG character was decent at best. And I could see the VFX shots miles away.

Button had EXCELLENT CG creation and compositing. Especially the compositing.

 

[Amaris]

No way. The CG character was decent at best. And I could see the VFX shots miles away.

Button had EXCELLENT CG creation and compositing. Especially the compositing.

I was thoroughly unimpressed by the CG for Benjamin Button.




Slumdog Millionaire over Wall*E?
Oy.


J.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I do. I'm 23. I watch a ton of old films, and most are WAY better then today's.

Plenty do. I grew up watching classic films- and I knew who Bette Davis, Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and others were long before I knew who the big stars of my generation were.

Same here.

Nice to see Dark Knight take another award. Though I wouldn't have minded Ben Burtt taking another one home for Wall-E.

Hmm, I never knew they were so big with the younger generation, so are they all watching them on Turner Classic or renting (downloading?) them?

 

[Kelso]

Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Over Iron Man for VFX?

Pfft.


J.

... and deservedly so.

 

[timmay2411]

yeah, and dark knight wasnt really an effects heavy movie. Come to think of it i cant think of any big special effects movie from 08 other than Ironman, Indy 4, Hancock and Hellboy 2

Actually there were a ton of VFX shots in Dark Knight.

When the Bat Cycle comes out of the Batmobile.......it's entirely CG.

Plus they were working on 8k plates for imax, instead of the standard 2k.

 

[indianatrekker26]

I think the last movie i've seen that won the best picture was Titanic.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Bill Maher rocks. I still have to see Religilous.

Yeah, me too. I think I'll rent it this week.

Yeah it was funny and relevant! I loved it. Glad he mentioned it, it was very ballsy for him to that.