hentropy said:
In film school we were taught that things like makeup should be unnoticeable/realistic/believable looking if they're meant to be human. Did anyone with makeup on in Cloud Atlas look like it could actually be a human being? There's you answer. It should have been snubbed and it was snubbed.
Agreed. It looked ridiculous and was actually kind of distracting.
OT: I actually agree with a lot of their nominations. There are a large number of movies that I haven`t seen up there but for the most part, I like their choices. The only one I don`t really agree with being up there in any of the major categories is Life of Pi. I`m with Bob that the message was pretty much shouted at the audience (not to mention that I don`t even agree with the message). But hey, when is anyone ever going to agree with EVERY nomination?
I do agree with Christopher Waltz being nominated over the other supporting characters in Django. Dicaprio was amazing and really stole the scenes that he was in (except for the end on between him and Waltz. There they were pretty much equal I thoughy) but he was only in about a quarter of the movie. Jackson was hilariously amazing too but again, he was barely in the movie. Waltz on the other hand probably had the most lines (even more than the main character) and was fantastic throughout the whole film. In my mind, he was more of a main character than Django until near the end. Also, winning an Oscar recently shouldn`t mean that you get exempted from the ones in the near future...
As far as best picture goes, I am hoping for Django. One of the few years where my favourite movie of the year is actually nominated for best picture (although my second favourite: Skyfall, wasn`t nominated but oh well). I`m betting that Lincoln will win though and that`s okay because the movie was great and Day-lewis was phenomenal as usual. Not as good as he was in There Will Be Blood but that was the best acting I`ve ever seen so it`d be pretty hard to top it. I`ll be pissed if Bradley Cooper wins...
I`m hoping that Brave doesn`t win best animated film. I love Pixar but this is their worst movie IMO. It was just mediocre. Still, I can't say I liked the others in the category much more so I guess I'll understand if it wins.
Also, even though this is a pretty minor category, I feel like I need to say that Django had brilliant sound editing and should definitely win that category.
Overall, I`m actually pretty happy with the Oscars this year. I know a lot of people are upset about Bigelow`s snub but I haven`t seen Zero Dark Thirty so I can`t really comment. I will say this though, I didn`t think The Hurtlocker was all that amazing. It was good and tense but I didn`t think it was even close to best picture (no I didn`t think Avatar was either) so going off of that, I`ll just say that maybe her snub has more to do with the actual quality of the film rather than the controversy (probably a bit of both).
Edit: Why is everyone so butthurt over Cloud Atlas? It's one movie that other people had a different opinion of than you. I completely agree with it being absent but if it was up there I wouldn't be whining. People have opinions, if yours don't align, it's not the end of the world and it doesn't mean the other people's opinions are bad. I swear people on these forums are so quick to remember this on most things but award shows are probably the one area where they forget.