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| lissa |
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| Taping the rest - got a phone call & will watch the rest soon. But I'm thrilled about Colin! |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:54 pm |
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| Mrs. Mendes now jumps to The One To Beat in either category. Although the SAGGYS are rather more predictive (the Globules can scarcely autoreflect the Racso nods, the AMPAS nomination ballot deadline is tomorrow 5 PM, but there aren't any actors in the Aclademy actors branch who aren't also SAG members), can only imagine how happy willybeeds is with the Actor outcomes. A night of upsets, and good on Sally Hawkins. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:04 pm |
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inlareviewer wrote: Mrs. Mendes now jumps to The One To Beat in either category. Although the SAGGYS are rather more predictive (the Globules can scarcely autoreflect the Racso nods, the AMPAS nomination ballot deadline is tomorrow AM, but there aren't any actors in the Aclademy actors branch who aren't also SAG members), can only imagine how happy willybeeds is with the Actor outcomes. A night of upsets, and good on Sally Hawkins.
I can only speak for one. Obviously over the moon that Colin won. Billy has to be thrilled with both Colin and Mickey Rourke.
I haven't read or seen The Reader. But how could Kate be a supporting actor? My mind is boggled!!
PS. YEA for MAD MEN. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:32 am |
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chillywilly wrote: Thanks, Mo. I will go check out that link to the details behind the story. It should shed more light for myself on why NONE of the short story is contained in the movie.
chilly -
The link is the short story itself. It doesn't take long to read. There is no New Orleans (Button hails from Baltimore), no foster mother, no Daisy (Benj. does have a wife), no Tilda (no voyage to Russia at all), and Benj. was born in 1860 and has a bit of an adventure in the Spanish-American War. There is also all the Ivy League business - the Harvard/Yale rivalry which seems very Fitzgerald to me.
Now what story are _you_ talking about?
[The only similarity between Fitzgerald's story and the movie is the idea of a person aging backwards.]
P.S. On the imdb.com , Fitzgerald's name only appears in "Trivia," not on the actual credits.
P.P.S. IMO the biggest reason to throw out the Fitzgerald story was that the movie would not be able to come up to the present day. Baltimore was the orig. choice for the location, but Louisiana gave a tax credit...also perhaps Pitt _wanted_ to do something to help the hurricane-ravaged state. |
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| Syd |
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| Now could we please have Slumdog Millionaire showing in more than 601 theaters? Or are they waiting for the Oscar nominations? |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:52 am |
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billyweeds wrote: IMO, and I realize I'm probably in a minority about this, Kate Hudson was not even any good in Almost Famous, her "career breakthrough" and first and only Oscar nomination. She was ever-so-slightly better in The Skeleton Key, but she'll never be anything to me except Goldie Hawn's daughter who was carried in on mom's coattails.
I haven't seen it, but people I trust say she was terrific in About Adam. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:57 am |
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Had to miss the Globules. I'm trying to catch up on photos on the internet. So far, JLo seems to be wearing the most amazing dress.
Any others I should check out? |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:03 am |
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Befade wrote: Jude Law stood out for me in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Stood out is right: He was horrible. The only time I have to say that about him. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:28 am |
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Just finished watching the GGs. Didn't even look at the forum before watching cause I didn't want to be spoiled in advance.
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I almost plotzed when Colin won and Mickey won and Kate won her second. This was a night that topped any Oscar ceremony I can remember. Haven't seen The Reader, but Winslet is worthy in Revolutionary Road, and as for Mickey and Colin, yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!!!
And I was so sure Streep and Penn would win, and probably Bardem. As inla said, a night of upsets--and all of them thrilling! |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:36 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Just finished watching the GGs. Didn't even look at the forum before watching cause I didn't want to be spoiled in advance.
But...
I almost plotzed when Colin won and Mickey won and Kate won her second. This was a night that topped any Oscar ceremony I can remember. Haven't seen The Reader, but Winslet is worthy in Revolutionary Road, and as for Mickey and Colin, yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!!!
And I was so sure Streep and Penn would win, and probably Bardem. As inla said, a night of upsets--and all of them thrilling! |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:38 am |
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But someone pleeeeeze tell me. Why was Jon Hamm's victory not on the show? Or did I miss it? Or what? Please inform ASAP.
And, oh, also, why was Damages not nominated for a single thing? |
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billyweeds wrote: But someone pleeeeeze tell me. Why was Jon Hamm's victory not on the show? Or did I miss it? Or what? Please inform ASAP.
And, oh, also, why was Damages not nominated for a single thing? |
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| billyweeds |
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whiskeypriest wrote: billyweeds wrote: But someone pleeeeeze tell me. Why was Jon Hamm's victory not on the show? Or did I miss it? Or what? Please inform ASAP.
And, oh, also, why was Damages not nominated for a single thing? I think they were refering to last year's non-ceremony when they mentioned Hamm winning. Gabriel Byrne won the award this year.
Then why wasn't Byrne's win televised? I saw no Best Actor award given for television. If it was on, please tell me when it occurred. |
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billyweeds wrote: whiskeypriest wrote: billyweeds wrote: But someone pleeeeeze tell me. Why was Jon Hamm's victory not on the show? Or did I miss it? Or what? Please inform ASAP.
And, oh, also, why was Damages not nominated for a single thing? I think they were refering to last year's non-ceremony when they mentioned Hamm winning. Gabriel Byrne won the award this year.
Then why wasn't Byrne's win televised? I saw no Best Actor award given for television. If it was on, please tell me when it occurred. |
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Byrne's award was the 5th of the night, and it was televised, it just didn't have much punch or take very long because he wasn't there.
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/news/env-ff-live-blog-golden-globes-link,0,6287249.storylink
Slumdog now moves to Populist Film To Beat status, though Button's continuing high grosses, Doubt's unexpected high grosses, Dark Knight's long-established higher grosses, Frost/Nixon's prestige cachet and Milk's unavoidable timeliness cannot be underestimated. Either Revolutionary Road or The Reader are suddenly in play again, though am not sure how much Big Importance/Serious Subject matter the whole of Racso will be up for, and am uncertain enough of the organization have actually seen the Demme, Leigh or McCarthy films, they don't go for Woody on high for the longest time, and my conviction that fans and critics are more gung-ho for a WALL-E Best Pic nod than the rank-and-file amid the organization are holds. Rourke now moves past Langella to become Principal Threat to Penn, relegating Frank to Logjam Spoiler; Streep moves back to Hepburn Memorial Late-Life Return Award behind Kate, Kate, Fairest Kate in Winsletdom, with La Belle Anne the Ingenue Breakout Spoiler (Mrs. Mendes is unlikely to get two Best Actress nods, or a double win if split category noms occur again -- many locals think her Reader work superior and the film's lead, even if Ralph's character is the one doing the remembering, no matter how much the studio is trying to get her the supphose nod she took tonight -- the Timothy Hutton Downgrade gambit didn't take for Keisha Dearest in Whale Rider or Mrs. Tim Robbins in Atlantic City), and Sally Sunniest is once again a Dark Horse Possibility.
As ever, all now depends on how many Aclademites pick whom and what as #1 and #2 on their nomination ballots in whatever area of professional expertise they nominate in. The Globules are great P.R., obviously give the marketing machinery fodder to advert with, and could conceivably affect final voting, but they're not automatically representative of what Nomination Morning will bring. No way they could be, since very few of these peeps will rush back to their due-tomorrow AMPAS ballots and change them; in fact, more early ballots apparently went in this year than in quite a while, no doubt a holdover from the early voting that influenced that other little electoral whoop-up last November. The SAGGY noms are still the closest way to gauge what the actor's branch is thinking, just as the DGA, the WGA, the editing and cinematography guilds, etc.., speak to those disciplines, since only Best Picture is a whole-membership-nominated category. Traditionally the Producer's Guild is a fairly good indicator of what the best pix are likeliest to be... but there are always surprises. |
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