And some commentary:
Best Animated Feature: HORRIBLE choices. Surf's Up? Over Tekkon Kinkreet? Over Paprika? Over Beowulf???? At least Persepolis was nominated but it probably won't win, it'll probably just go to Ratatouille because more people saw it, even though Pixar's won it SO many times already. Freakin' a.
Art Direction: American Gangster??? There Will Be Blood? Why were those even NOMINATED? Part of me hopes that The Golden Compass will win this one just because I love Linda Bergkvist and she did some design for the film, but I didn't actually like the film itself at all. The other part of me hopes Sweeney will win because I do love the art direction for that, but I don't know if it will because some people get put off by the Burtony look. As for Atonement...wtf? A Very Long Engagement had a similar setup and way better visuals and it wasn't even nominated when it came out! Atonement just got nominated 'cus critics liked it; that doesn't mean it deserves art direction. AND WHERE THE HELL IS 300?
Cinematography: I reiterate: WHERE THE HELL IS 300?
Costume Design: Better go to Sweeney.
Best Editing: No Country For Old Men? Hell no, on the account of a decent ending being left on the editing room floor. (Oh, that's right, a good ending wasn't even in the script, or the novel it was based on....)
Best Makeup: Seriously, what the f**k is Norbit doing there? Norbit should not be nominated for a single award, EVER, unless it's a razzie.
Best Music Original Score: Ratatouille??? WTF??? OK, it was a good movie, but the score wasn't good at all. And I reiterate: WHERE IS 300??? THIS...IS...NOT WINNING ANY AWARDS!
Best Music - Original Song: Once should win, methinks.
Best Picture: Juno? Uh, I haven't seen it but my impression has been that it's this year's Little Miss Sunshine--an indie flick that really isn't THAT great, but is pretty good, and critics go all hyperbolic on its ass and BOOM, a fun little movie, but nothing more, gets nominated for Best Picture. As for No Country For Old Men, don't get me started on that movie. THE FIRST HALF WAS SO, SO, SO, SO, SOOOO GREAT. But the last 40 minutes? HORRIBLE! It built up to an ending that never happened, and what we instead get is an unsatisfying resolution that happens off-screen, and a half hour of mostly-boring aftermath. You can say that's how the book was, but if you're going to adapt a book, and the book has a sh***y ending, THEN GOD DAMN IT MAKE THE ENDING DECENT IN THE FILM.
Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing: Again, I fail to see how Ratatouille was all that great in this regard. AND WHERE...IS...300?????
Best Visual Effects: The Golden Compass had good designs but the actual visual effects weren't that good--they were quite blurry. As for Transformers, I wasn't really impressed by its effects so much. I think that, out of the nominees, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End should win just because of Davy Jones. BUT DO I EVEN HAVE TO MENTION 300 AT THIS POINT? s**t, the film may not be THAT good as a whole, no, but you gotta give it credit where it's due! The Academy is less interested in giving special achievement awards to the films that deserve it and more about giving those awards to films that they liked overall even if they didn't really deserve the special achievement award in that area. (That said, I'll admit 300 had some bad monster make up on the hunchback, but that's MAKE UP, not effects.)
Adapted Screenplay: No Country For Old Men? f**k NO. And where's Sweeney Todd???
Original Screenplay: Ratatouille???? Ummm. No. It had good storyTELLING but the plot itself really wasn't that strong. I mean, come on, a rat that cooks? That's not brilliance. And where's Hot Fuzz??
22 Jan 2008, 1:08 pm
