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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    03/11/09

    In reply to Saturn Award Nominees Announced
    I don't get it. I thought these were sci-fi/fantasy awards. WTF is Valkyrie, Breaking Bad and Changeling doing on here?


    And wtf, Jericho? I thought that ended five minutes after it started.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    In reply to Saturn Award Nominees Announced
    Dexter is Sci-Fi? 24 is Sci-Fi? Shia LaBeouf is an actor?
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    03/11/09

    In reply to Saturn Award Nominees Announced
    Who wants to hear a in bad taste Joker joke?
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    Scotland was starred Scotland was unstarred
    Image of Scotland Scotland
    03/11/09

    @Scotland: It's quiet in here... can you hear the echo?
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    Scotland was starred Scotland was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Scotland: If you have somethin', just say it!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: @Scotland: Yeah, go ahead and get it out of your system. I do applaud your good sense not to put it at the head of a thread.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    03/11/09

    @Scotland:

    What's that Joker? (Heath Ledger)

    You'll be back!

    You know somehow,

    I don't think you will be.

    :(

    SORRY
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    Scotland was starred Scotland was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @Scotland: Oooookaaay.

    Not really bad taste.
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Scotland Scotland
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area:

    Three tampons were walking down the street.

    Which one said hello?

    None cos they are all stuck up cunts.
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    Scotland was starred Scotland was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @Scotland: My mom loves that joke!
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    In reply to Saturn Award Nominees Announced
    I'm all for the softening of genre boundaries but this is silly. It appears to be just a list of high-profile productions.
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Sigh... yeah, this list pretty much softens the boundaries like Ducolax.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    In reply to Saturn Award Nominees Announced
    Haha. Jumper. I loved the book when I was in middle school because it contained ladies and bewbs, but I read the relatively recent sequel and thought it was incredibly derivative and boring.
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    Image of mikumiku mikumiku
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    Couple of Yays and Nays while watching thru Oscar this year, accompany with beers.


    Yay!

    - Heath Ledger won the Best Supporting Actor

    - Hugh Jackman as the host

    - Wall-E

    - Domo Arigato Mr Roboto!

    - Jack Black betting on Pixar using Dreamworks money

    - Set design


    Nay!

    - Wall-E screenplay lost to Milk

    - Moving/panning cam work during memoriam


    Anymore?

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/23/09

    @mikumiku: Ben Stiller's Joaquin Pheonix spoof - the wacky Frenchman's magic riddled speech - the Apatow segment w/ Seth Rogen and James Franco. I really enjoyed the show overall and HUGE-Ackman did a darn good job with all that singing and dancing.
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    ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ was starred ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ was unstarred
    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    i love all the shit they gave 'the reader' (which i loved btw - the movie and the book) w/ the opening number and the judd apatow sketch. i'm glad the academy knows that hardly anyone sees these lofty, esoteric films they nominate every year.
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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    02/23/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex:


    I think they just couldn't figure out how to get a bouncy musical number out of Holocaust movie . . . :)

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/23/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: good point, though I consider 'the reader' Holocaust-lite.
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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    I'm just happy that Vampira (alias Maila Nurmi) made the "In Memoriam" montage.


    How often do you see footage from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE on the Oscars?


    Somewhere Ed Wood is smiling . . . .

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    Image of jamesryan jamesryan
    02/23/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: I'm glad Vampira made it in the 'In Memoriam' section too. So why did Patrick McGoohan not get noticed during the necro-roll, though? What, did Howard Hughes playing ICE STATION ZEBRA in his room on a 24/7 basis break some big Oscar taboo?
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    02/23/09

    @James Ryan: He died in 2009. For Oscar eligibility, the film has to have been released in the previous calendar year. Same goes for deaths.
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    The "on the cheap" number was mildly amusing: good for Anne H being able to get that high note and kudos to Jackman for sounding winded in his mic. (Yes, dancing and singing at the same time is tough work.)


    The big production number with Bouncy (whatsername?) lip-syncing while everyone else sang their guts out was embarrassing. Baz Lurmann, your visa has been canceled. Please report to LA-X for immediate deportation.


    Rough for TDK - Hollywood loves the money movies like that make but hates to be seen with it (like your cousin who makes a fortune selling Amway.)


    And the cynic in me feels, if Heath had been eating M&M's that night and woke up the next day with a hangover, Hollywood would have been more than happy to pass him over last night too.


    Before anyone throws a brick, I'm not saying the Oscar went to a sub-standard performance. I'm saying his untimely passing forced Hollywood to grudgingly recognize a good one they'd rather have ignored because it wasn't for "a serious piece of work."

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    Image of Mav Mav
    02/23/09

    @Officer Jim Pantsoffski: I'll definitely agree with that last bit. Had Heath not passed away earlier I doubt that he would have been up for an academy award. Also agree that its not undeserved, but... The Academy often likes to be pretentious and go for the movies that don't make any sense.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    I'd totally turn gay, or at least bi, for Hugh Jackman.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/23/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: that's legit - i don't think anyone could fault you for that.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    This is the first time I've EVER watched the Oscars the whole way through and I actually enjoyed it - Hugh did a good job and there were some funny moments - the Frenchman and his magic tricks, the domo arigato speech, deniro's mini-tribute to sean penn, etc etc.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    The Oscars are like the concept of an SF story -- an arcane institution, arbiter of culture for generations, finds itself irrelevant and besieged as an interconnected, opinionated society emerges through new technologies.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    Who can really begrudge Slumdog Millionaire's wins?


    Everyone I know who's actually from India.

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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    02/23/09

    @tetracycloide: That's too bad, because it was a great film.


    And this is from someone whose sat through HOURS of bad Bollywood.

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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    02/23/09

    @tetracycloide: Anyone who believes:


    A) Pulp Fiction was better than Forrest Gump


    B) Brokeback Mountain was better than Crash


    C) Anything was better than Shakespeare in love


    D) Star Wars is more classic than Annie Hall (highly debatable)


    E) All of the above


    The sad part? I can't say any of the movies in the best picture category were better than Slumdog Millionaire. It was a good movie. Just not best movie material. Neither were any of the others in the category. The Dark Knight or Wall-E both deserved that over generic "feel-good uplifting movie of the year #367."

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    Image of NotArthurPDragon NotArthurPDragon
    02/23/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: I love Star Wars as much as any crazed fan, but to even think you can compare it to Annie Hall is geek hubris run amuck. Similarly, Shakespeare In Love only had that no-talent hack, Tom Stoppard contributing to the screenplay. How dare it triumph over the painfully contrived, utterly illogical Saving Private Ryan which was ripped apart by none less than William Goldman for being so. Elizabeth might have stood a chance if it bore the name of its real main character, Walsingham. The Thin Red Line is an overly long lesson in how books and movies are different mediums and what works in one doesn't work in another. And Life Is Beautiful winning anything much less being nominated remains an Academy disgrace. The movie that deserved to win, won.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02/24/09

    @NotArthurPDragon: a cursory glance at modern culture would reveal the massive impact star wars has had, and continues to have, on modern culture. star wars is by any objective metric a classic. the fact that it was a summer blockbuster and a science fiction epic should not preclude it from being compared favorably with other films. just because it was popular or geeky doesn't mean anyone that thinks it did something no other movie did before it is a 'crazed fan' whose 'hubris [has] run amuck.'
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    Image of Gaambit Gaambit
    02/23/09

    In reply to 2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman
    I particularly loved his ending, singing "I'm Wolveriiiiiiine!" I laughed, in a good way.


    I don't get the hate on the show. I actually watched the whole thing, and I haven't done that in years. Not perfect, but at least Hugh wasn't trying to be funny. He was just charming.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    02/23/09

    @Gaambit: He was utterly charming, and giving it his all. And singing "I am Wolveriiiiiine!" was awesome.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    01/31/09

    In reply to The Curious Lawsuit Against Benjamin Button
    I wrote this story too. Except it was about a talking lobster and his imaginary friend trying to save the rainbow forest from the evil King Vicious III.
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    01/31/09

    @OW-Holmes: What!? you totally ripped off my story about a talking crab and his imaginary friend trying to save the rainbow jungle from Queen Malicious III!
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