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I dunno. It's just been a couple years since they gave one to Jean Dujardin who said less.

But I guess I'd have to see it. Guess I'd have to see all the nominees. I'll say this: if anyone was going to get one of those "career achievement" type Oscars like Paul Newman for Road to Perdition or Sean Connery for The Untouchables, Redford would be a guy that a lot of industry people would want to make a gesture towards. Plus, unlike Newman and Connery in those examples, it sounds like Redford really is remarkable in this.

But who knows? I'm not campaigning.
 
just watched "This Is 40"

pretty good, watchable, believable, some nice scenes :up:
I think I remember it getting a bad review from someone, but I don't see much to dislike about it. Maybe moves a little slow and it is long.
It has great couple scenes with Melissa McCarthy (new found respect for her), Philadelphia Flyers, and even Phil Hendrie :clap:
 
The hell is it with putting a bunch of spoilers right at the immediate start of a TV show? Just happened with Masters of Sex and I remember it with Breaking Bad and others.

Coming up on Masters of Sex - and they show a bunch of shit you are about to see.

Not talking about Previously on Masters of Sex - where they have clips that remind you about key stuff that happened that is relevant to the imminent episode.

No. It's spoilers. Immediately before the show. I am already sold. I am watching. I know I can just fast-forward through them or whatever but sometimes it takes me a minute to realize they aren't showing Previously on Masters of Sex. It takes a minute to sink in that, say, these retards are lobbing out actual spoilers seconds before the episode.

:fok:


:retarded:
 
Truly baffling. I've seen major spoilers in theatrical trailers, too. It just shows how clueless marketing people are. Or maybe they're not clueless, and I'm just overestimating the masses and what they want. Maybe they want spoilers.

Whatever. I hate it.

It's a rare special treat when I go to see a movie that I expect to be great and that I know absolutely nothing about.
 
Trailers keep getting worse. I can sort of understand that - they are trying to sell something that some people haven't made a decision on. I'm sure all the research shows that people are retards so it doesn't matter. Show them some shiny stuff - make things really simple - and there is a better chance they will come.

What I don't understand is why reviews keep getting worse for spoilers. Those guys should know better and it's not their job to sell tickets. But they're brutal sometimes. Sometimes they will even acknowledge spoiler concern one second - and go ahead and blab all kinds of key stuff half a minute later.

Pisses me off.


All you hear is people complaining about spoilers. You never hear anybody say they want spoilers.

But I guess it is all an illusion. People are oblivious, drooling idiots and the non-drooling non-idiots pay the price.
 
Mudcat
All is Lost is the next big critical success of the run-up to award season. Getting raves.

A Robert Redford one man show. Who'd'a thunk it at this point?

Personally I have always been a big Redford fan and he was probably that first guy that I really thought had charisma and drew me to the movies - going back to Sundance Kid and The Sting.

Plus I have a great respect for his work as a director - although he did not direct this one.

Anyway, possible Best Actor nom from the sounds of things, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tom Hanks. It would be only his second acting nom - and they would be almost 40 years apart (The Sting). (He did win Best Director for Ordinary People and has another nom in that category).

I look forward to seeing this.
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Huge Redford fan here. :pope:
 
Apparently Keanu Reeves is making his directorial debut with a film called Man of Tai Chi.

That's fine. I don't wish to prejudge. My only question is, are there people out there for whom the concept of "Keanu Reeves directorial debut" is an attraction?

In the trailer I saw, they did not mention that aspect of it until the very end. That seems prudent to me. For me it is not so much of an, "Oh wow!" factor as, ewwwww.
 
Mudcat
Apparently Keanu Reeves is making his directorial debut with a film called Man of Tai Chi.

That's fine. I don't wish to prejudge. My only question is, are there people out there for whom the concept of "Keanu Reeves directorial debut" is an attraction?

In the trailer I saw, they did not mention that aspect of it until the very end. That seems prudent to me. For me it is not so much of an, "Oh wow!" factor as, ewwwww.
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I gotta say I wasn't attracted to Ben Affeck as a director, either, and he seems to be quite good at it.
 
I never had any qualms about Ben Affleck. I always found it weird how he became such a butt of jokes. He has never seemed anything but sharp and pleasant to me, going right back to the beginning. I have always found his acting competent-to-good.

I imagine the Jennifer Lopez connection didn't help him.
 
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