Just because I'm a big nerd, here's our all-time overall standings:
- Heather 120
- Servant 113
- Ricky 94
- Pablo 52
- Stocker 48
- Feev 45
- Matt 45
- T-Dogz 36
- Lurker 33
- Shannon 26
- Mattrick 23
- George Monkey 19
- Merlin 18
- Randall 16
- Mystima 14
- Path 14
- Turtlex 14
- Thorin 10
- Odetta 9
- Cody 8
- Garrell 8
- Seymour 8
Thanks, Pablo! That's great. Although I can never beat Heather, it's nice to know I'm usually pretty close to her.
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Hey, third place! Maybe if we combine our totals, we can take out Heather.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I pretty sure Fernando would be a lot higher if, you know, he actually remembered to submit his guesses.
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Seems like I should have more points than that. I missed one or two, but still. :/ It's probably right, but it seems so low.
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Recent reviews suggest that Jackie and La La Land will hitting the carpet in a had way too.I'm currently putting together my lists and Hell or High Water #1 a well.
I'm thinking Fences is well represented as well come Oscar night.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/afi...on-their-list/
AFI Movies of the Year for 2016:
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Silence
Sully
Zootopia
The Golden Globes are being announced live: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...htmlstory.html
Hacksaw love.... wicked! Deadpool nom??? LOVE IT MORE.
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I enjoyed Zootopia, but I don't think it belongs with those other films.
I totally forgot about Globe nominations this morning.
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Not cool:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/1...squalification
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released a list of 145 films that will be eligible for this year’s Oscar for Best Original Score. That list doesn’t include Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Arrival, which has an original score by Jóhann Jóhannsson.
The decision to disqualify Arrival was unanimous, Variety reports, due to the fact that it contains some borrowed music, including pieces of Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight,” that are played at pivotal moments at the start and end of the film. The Academy’s music branch says most voters can’t be expected to differentiate between these unoriginal pieces and Jóhannsson’s work. That decision is in keeping with an eligibility guideline that says a score can be disqualified if it’s “diluted by the use of pre-existing music.”
While the decision is understandable, it’s a bit of a shame — Arrival has a stunning score that’s also integral to the film’s broader sound design. Jóhannsson has been nominated for the Academy Award twice before, for his work on Villeneuve’s Sicario last year and James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything in 2014.
Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea, which has a mostly original score composed by Lesley Barber, also features several classical music compositions and was disqualified on the same basis. When reached for comment via email Barber told The Verge, “In the making of this film, our director decided early on to use certain pieces of music from the classical repertoire as part of the music blend in the film. While I understand that this might be confusing to Academy members in their consideration of what is mine, it was obviously not the basis upon which music was chosen for the film. While I accept the Academy's decision, I also support my director’s decision to use these pieces and I’m also very proud of the substantial contribution (referenced correctly in many reviews) that the original score made to the film as well.”
The Verge is among the group of publications that Barber references here, and in his review of Manchester by the Sea, Chris Plante noted that “Lesley Barber’s operatic score supports the cast’s performances, mercifully turning up the soundtrack dial to cover a couple excruciating scenes that would otherwise play out as a cacophony of bloodcurdling, scenery-chewing screams.”
Martin Scorsese’s Silence, the score for which was written by Kim Allen Kluge and Kathryn Kluge, was also disqualified.
Jóhannsson was reached for comment, but had not responded at the time of publication.
Top Films of 2016 so far
Moonlight
Midnight Special
Nocturnal Animals
Arrival
Loving
Hell or High Water
10 Cloverfield Lane
I just noticed that my top three films all involve nighttime.
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Moonlight
La La Land
Midnight Special
Nocturnal Animals
Arrival
Loving
Hell or High Water
10 Cloverfield Lane
The Lobster
Under The Shadow
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I'd love to see them nominate 10, but they won't. Is it true that Under the Shadow is kind of like The Babadook?
Also, Oscar nominations come out next week.
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Who do think deserves an Oscar nomination this year, but probably won't get one?
Ben Foster - Hell or High Water
John Goodman - 10 Cloverfield Lane
Jonah Hill - War Dogs
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Of the three I'd go with John Goodman. But all three were great.
Wasn't War Dogs atrocious tho?
Where did you hear that? I thought it was really good. It was like a poor man's Wolf of Wall Street.
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I remember it getting shit on over at Rotten Tomatoes. I was actually planning on catching it in theaters before I read all those reviews.
Yeah I liked it toWhere did you hear that? I thought it was really good. It was like a poor man's Wolf of Wall Street.
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I would love it if John Goodman got a nomination, but no matter how good his performance is, that's just one of those movies that will not got any nominations. I really do wish the academy would broaden their minds and include performances like this even though its not from an "awards type" film.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I hope this gets a Best Original Song nom:
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