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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2011?

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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2011? 23 votes

Margin Call
0%
X-Men: First Class
4%
chuck 1 vote
Hugo
0%
Crazy Stupid Love
0%
The Artist
0%
Moneyball
13%
DerekJohnsonNEsnake12Fishpo31 3 votes
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
13%
Swayebiak1Joey 3 votes
The Help
13%
dncalumni94FireCohen 3 votes
Bridesmaids
34%
RoadDawg55Mad_SongreenbloodAtomicDawgDooglesGrundleStiltzkinLaocoönYellowSnow 8 votes
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
21%
BennyBeaverhuskyhooliganNeighbor2972BleachedAnusDawg1to392831weretaken 5 votes
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Bridesmaids
    Ugh.

    Despite the implausibility and cornball, I really like Warrior.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Bridesmaids
    Here's an oddball, indie Brit-flick. It's fun.

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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Bridesmaids
    YellowSnow said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Ugh.

    Despite the implausibility and cornball, I really like Warrior.

    This is the point where I start to lose interest in movies. But I will tell you, few movies have made me laff harder than Bridesmaids.


    It's a really good movie.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,187 Founders Club









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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    edited March 2021
    Bridesmaids
    That bathroom scene at the dress fitting competes very well with some of the funniest comedy scenes of all-time in my honest opinion.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    edited March 2021
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Drive
    The Descendants
    Shame

    Love Bridesmaids too.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,342 Founders Club
    Bridesmaids
    1to392831weretaken said:


    I've seen hardly any of these movies including the F.O. nominations. Turning point year for me.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    YellowSnow said:

    1to392831weretaken said:


    I've seen hardly any of these movies including the F.O. nominations. Turning point year for me.
    Same for me, really. At this point, I was in a phase of pretty much only watching weird indie movies. When I finished a movie and didn't have to immediately google what the hell it was about, that was rare.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,687 Swaye's Wigwam
    X-Men: First Class
    I saw this.
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  • Laocoön
    Laocoön Member Posts: 529
    edited March 2021
    Bridesmaids
    1to392831weretaken said:


    I really liked this movie! Another one in the same genre is Another Earth.


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  • Laocoön
    Laocoön Member Posts: 529
    Bridesmaids
    These are very worthy for consideration too:





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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Bridesmaids
    Laocoön said:

    These are very worthy for consideration too:





    Hanna was solid. Not 5*, but good. I kinda got a crush on Eric Bana.
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Weak year. I'll take anal rape with a steel rod over fat funny bridesmaid in a close one.
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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,323 Standard Supporter
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Don't take me at my word because I didn't look this up, but off of my memory I believe this was the final Fast & Furious movie with Paul Walker, as well as The Rock's first appearance in the franchise. Winner.


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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,187 Founders Club
    Fast & Furious 6 is a 2013 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the sequel to Fast Five (2011) and the sixth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Luke Evans, Gina Carano, and John Ortiz. Fast & Furious 6 follows a professional criminal gang led by Dominic Toretto (Diesel), who are offered amnesty for their crimes by the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson), in exchange for helping him take down a skilled mercenary organization led by Owen Shaw (Evans), one member of which is Toretto's former lover Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez).
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,957 Swaye's Wigwam
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 rather easily






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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,342 Founders Club
    Bridesmaids
    huskyhooligan said:

    Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 rather easily






    After you're first complaint, I decided to boycott them completely.

    Plus JK Rowling is really mean and insensitive.
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  • NEsnake12
    NEsnake12 Member Posts: 3,795
    Moneyball
    huskyhooligan said:

    Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 rather easily






    Was well done and is the 2nd best movie adaptation of the series behind Prisoner of Azkaban. Not a worthy “movie of the year” contented like any of the LOTR though
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,148
    Bridesmaids
    The first time I watched Bridesmaids I fell asleep after 20 min and was convinced it was boring and was only funny to corny women. I was wrong. I have seen it a few times since and it's fucking hilarious. Kristin Wigg in the airplane and when she calls the stewardess Stove (you're named after an appliance) is one of the funniest scenes of all time. The dress fitting scene is amazing too. Funny movie.
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,957 Swaye's Wigwam
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    YellowSnow said:

    huskyhooligan said:

    Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 rather easily






    After you're first complaint, I decided to boycott them completely.

    Plus JK Rowling is really mean and insensitive.
    This confirms some suspicions.
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  • Laocoön
    Laocoön Member Posts: 529
    Bridesmaids
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Here's an oddball, indie Brit-flick. It's fun.

    Watched the trailer for this & added it to my Hulu to watch list. This type of movie is right in my wheelhouse!!
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,957 Swaye's Wigwam
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Also shout out to The Inbetweeners movie.






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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840
    The Help
    Bridesmaids is probably the right choice but I gotta go with this one. It checks a lot of boxes that always pique my interest:

    Set in Mississippi
    Portrays race relations
    Has people eat shit
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840
    The Help
    dnc said:

    Bridesmaids is probably the right choice but I gotta go with this one. It checks a lot of boxes that always pique my interest:

    Set in Mississippi
    Portrays race relations
    Has people eat shit

    Plus as a bully (due to self esteem issues obviously), it's always good for me to remind myself.


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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,148
    Bridesmaids
    Fishpo31 said:

    I was completely done with movies by this time. Saw Moneyball because global warming (no AC, no breeze, temps in the 90's). I worked in MLB at the time the book came out, and it was controversial (to say the least) in my circle, and I knew many of the people in the book, and portrayed in the film. Living through it, the effects of and reactions to the movie are as entertaining, if not more, than the film itself, for me. Fairly accurate, some of it Hollywooded it up...

    It’s crazy moneyball took so long for executives to catch on. The same thing happened in the NBA with going small and shooting 3’s. It’s such an easy concept to grasp and it took Ivy League forks to make it happen.

    In both cases, it hurt the game. MLB became a strikeout, walk, or HR game. NBA became dunk, 3’s, and FT’s game.
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,642
    Moneyball
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Fishpo31 said:

    I was completely done with movies by this time. Saw Moneyball because global warming (no AC, no breeze, temps in the 90's). I worked in MLB at the time the book came out, and it was controversial (to say the least) in my circle, and I knew many of the people in the book, and portrayed in the film. Living through it, the effects of and reactions to the movie are as entertaining, if not more, than the film itself, for me. Fairly accurate, some of it Hollywooded it up...

    It’s crazy moneyball took so long for executives to catch on. The same thing happened in the NBA with going small and shooting 3’s. It’s such an easy concept to grasp and it took Ivy League forks to make it happen.

    In both cases, it hurt the game. MLB became a strikeout, walk, or HR game. NBA became dunk, 3’s, and FT’s game.
    This is the origin of the backlash against Beane / Oakland at that time amongst old school baseball people. There were several people / orgs that were doing the same thing the A's were, particularly Earl Weaver and the Orioles, back to the late 60's.

    From the scout's perspective, it was based in risk management...focus on college players with a track record against better competition. Lower risk, lower reward, because they are closer to "who they are" when you get them. High school kids are looked at as "lumps of clay", in that you can shape them into what you want them to be, without the bad habits. The orgs I worked for placed high value on HS arms and bats (greater risk, greater reward). The main beef with the "baseball establishment" was that the book (and especially the movie was that it was a "Look at how smart this guy is / how smart I am" vibe, which was more Michael Lewis than Billy Beane.

    It has played out pretty much as I thought it would, with a blending of the philosophies...
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