Star Trek up for Best Picture

[startrekrcks]

I hope Star Trek does get some appreciation

 

[barnaclelapse]

It will never happen, not even a nomination.

With this opened Oscar field a nomination is more possible now than it's ever been before, but I'll admit it's certainly a bit of a long shot.

We'll see. It'd be nice to see movies like Star Trek going up against the standard Oscar pictures.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I have no delusions that Star Trek will WIN Best Picture, but even being nominated will give me great pleasure.

This.

 

[Starbreaker]

The Ten Nominations for Best Picture, You Heard It Here First:

Avatar
Star Trek
500 Days of Summer
Up in the Air
Up
An Education
Precious
Inglorious Bastards
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker

 

[seigezunt]

Obviously, the Academy are part of those lesser masses who only like 'splosions and 90210 Trek.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Well, hey, it's a step up from the stuff they nominated last year--that NOBODY saw until after the nominations....

Except for Heath Ledger. HE deserved his Oscar.

 

[Starbreaker]

All those movies last year came out in December, I think.

 

[MvRojo]

The Ten Nominations for Best Picture, You Heard It Here First:

Avatar
Star Trek
500 Days of Summer
Up in the Air
Up
An Education
Precious
Inglorious Bastards
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker

You're probably about right. I've seen all of the ones you listed except Precious and An Education and I think they're pretty much all very worthy films.

Not sure about A Serious Man though. I thought it wasn't that great, and it failed to get nominations from three of the major indicators (PGA, SAG Ensemble, and Golden Globes).

^Well, hey, it's a step up from the stuff they nominated last year--that NOBODY saw until after the nominations....

Except for Heath Ledger. HE deserved his Oscar.

I saw three of the five nominees before the nominations last year, except the two I intentionally avoided and ended up hating - The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Lo and behold--Slumdog won.

 

[Cyke101]

^Lo and behold--Slumdog won.

My worry is that if Star Trek wins, it would be equated to Titanic or Gladiator winning -- something to appease the masses while passing up more superior films in the process (like LA Confidential or the Insider, respectively. Damn, that Russell Crowe was on a streak, wasn't he?).

Don't get me wrong, I love Star Trek and a nomination would be sweet, but to outright win seems wrong on some levels to me.

 

[Sci]

BTW, I think Avatar, with its PC-message, stands a better chance of getting it. *sigh*

Telling a story about how greed and selfishness can lead some people to attempt to invade and conquer other people's communities -- which has happened plenty of times in real life -- is "PC" now? Usually something that's considered "PC" is a topic of legitimate disagreement in real life, with one particular side being "PC" and the other being "un-PC."

I had no idea that the issue of whether or not it's okay to invade and conquer other cultures for money was a topic of legitimate disagreement.

Sci, there's a discussion to this effect on the SciFi and Fantasy forum, wherin they discuss exactly what I mean by PC.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=111018

My beef with the film has nothing to do with what you said. It has everything to do with "white guilt", or more appropriately, America guilt.

But as has been said, this is a discussion for that thread, not this one.

Then why did you bring it up in this one?

 

[barnaclelapse]

The Ten Nominations for Best Picture, You Heard It Here First:

Avatar
Star Trek
500 Days of Summer
Up in the Air
Up
An Education
Precious
Inglorious Bastards
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker

I could live with that.

 

[Starbreaker]

And if it's not A Serious Man, it'll be Invictus just because it's Clint Eastwood.

 

[MvRojo]

DGA Nominees:
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Jason Reitman - Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Kinda funny since this is probably the first time ex-spouses were in competition against each other.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Telling a story about how greed and selfishness can lead some people to attempt to invade and conquer other people's communities -- which has happened plenty of times in real life -- is "PC" now? Usually something that's considered "PC" is a topic of legitimate disagreement in real life, with one particular side being "PC" and the other being "un-PC."

I had no idea that the issue of whether or not it's okay to invade and conquer other cultures for money was a topic of legitimate disagreement.

Sci, there's a discussion to this effect on the SciFi and Fantasy forum, wherin they discuss exactly what I mean by PC.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=111018

My beef with the film has nothing to do with what you said. It has everything to do with "white guilt", or more appropriately, America guilt.

But as has been said, this is a discussion for that thread, not this one.

Then why did you bring it up in this one?

Because, in that case, it did have to do with the topic--namely, why I thought Avatar would beat Trek.

 

[Sci]

Sci, there's a discussion to this effect on the SciFi and Fantasy forum, wherin they discuss exactly what I mean by PC.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=111018

My beef with the film has nothing to do with what you said. It has everything to do with "white guilt", or more appropriately, America guilt.

But as has been said, this is a discussion for that thread, not this one.

Then why did you bring it up in this one?

Because, in that case, it did have to do with the topic--namely, why I thought Avatar would beat Trek.

So, you're saying it's on-topic for you to bring up your opinion of a political topic, but it's off-topic for anyone to criticize your opinion on that same political topic?

Sounds to me like you're trying to rig the game so you get to make a dig against a political topic you disagree with but no one else gets to call you on it.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Sci...I merely made a comment on PC and Best Picture.

You replied to it. That was fine.

And I explained what I meant by Avatar being PC, by referring to another thread.

I never said you couldn't comment on it. I'm not a mod. I'm just saying as we continue on this train of thought, we go futher off topic--and run the result of ruining the thread.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'd prefer that political topics be avoided in this forum altogether, unless said topic figures importantly in a Star Trek story (episode, movie, novel) which has direct bearing upon the thread's topic. I think we're reaching here, just a bit, and would recommend moving on. If you wish to discuss the political aspects of Avatar, there are places where you can do that, but this really isn't one of them.

 

[JBElliott]

Star Trek wasn't listed in any category for an Oscar in the predictions of film critics given in the NY Times last Sunday.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Well, I tend to take whatever the NYT says with a considerable lump of salt, so...I wouldn't read too much into that....