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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2009?
YellowSnow
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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2009? 25 votes
Inglorious Bastards
44%
11 votes
District 9
4%
1 vote
Get an Avatar, you fucking savages
0%
Star Trek
4%
1 vote
The Hangover
20%
5 votes
Fantastic Mr. Fox
0%
The Blind Side
20%
5 votes
The Secret In Their Eyes
0%
Watchmen
4%
1 vote
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
4%
1 vote
Comments
Not listed, Moon. Tremendous movie. Watch it.
Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.
It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.
Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.
For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.
Funny, I never once noticed the lack of low G effects in Moon. I love that movie.
Other movies not listed:
Sherlock Holmes
Up (I'm not crying you're crying)
Taken
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Zombieland
Avatar might have been the most overhyped movie I've ever seen.
Hangover- might have been the hardest I’d ever laughed at a movie.
I’m a huge Wes Anderson honk and FMF is one of his best.
The writer/director of Moon even talked about the lack of low-G effects in interviews after the movie's release. There's an unfortunate Hollywood convention that if there's an atmosphere, there's also gravity. In the past, it was probably just an oversight, but I think it keeps being done largely for how difficulty it is to film zero/low-g indoor scenes--and how impossible it is to do it cheaply. The makers of Moon decided early on that they were just going to ignore it. It actually confused me on first viewing, so I looked up whether I was missing something or what. Nope, just an intentional oversight for budgetary reasons. For those same reasons, they shot with models instead of CGI, and they even reused a set from a different movie for the main living quarters to save money.
Seriously, though, watch The Road. You're right, it's a tough watch. It just occurred to me that it was a lot like watching Manchester By the Sea. There's nothing "fun" about watching either of them. You finish the movie, and it's like, "Well... that was fucked up." But they were both so well done that it was worth watching. Have zero intention of watching either a second time.
I mean, Schindler's List is totally fucked up and awful, and I'm not going to watch it again, but I'm really glad I saw it once.
Pretty shit year for me, mainly because I must have quit watching movies that year. I've only seen two from the list.
Taken was a great action flick. Know what my favorite part was? The end, where he knows his daughter is on the boat, and he's trying to catch up to the boat in a car. The whole time I'm watching that scene, I'm thinking, "That car is jumping onto that boat. There's no way that's not happening." And then it didn't. That they didn't take that low hanging ridiculous fruit was pretty impressive to me.
Never seen the others.
Avatar was a cool visual experience, but like we say, No.
The Blind Side cuz I want to give Sandy all 3 inches of my thunder.