In other news, the Academy Awards were last night. Doesn't look like anyone's saying anything here, though.
Admittedly, I believe I watched, what, two films all year: PotC2, and Happy Feet? Yeah, I didn't watch much (although I'm fuzzy on the first half of the year, so if there were any notable films BEFORE PotC, feel free to jog my memory). Thus I can't say, with any conviction, as to how good movies were last year. But I know there are people who are better at watching movies than I am*, and those people can voice their opinions better than I can.
So? Thoughts?
(* Can you believe I still haven't watched Jurassic Park? Indiana Jones? It's a Wonderful Life? Casablanca? The Godfather? E.T. (well, I might've seen that ages ago, but I sure don't remember it very well)? Hell, I only RECENTLY, as in within the last year, first watched The Matrix!)
(PS: My postcount is a palindrome)
.....LIttle Miss Sunshine should have won Best Picture.
That's all.
*walks off, a storm cloud over her head*
Finally, the right guys win both Best Director AND Best Picture. I bet you green money that Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci were in the orchestra pit with a couple baseball bats during Marty's speech in case the orchestra tried to play him off too soon.
Ugh.
While I'm glad he won an oscar finally, I have to say I think he got this one on his merit's rather than the film's.
This was not one of his better pictures.
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This was not one of his better pictures.
Your statement sounds damning until you consider that for Martin Scorsese, "better pictures" includes Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Last Temptation Of Christ and Goodfellas. It's a 9.5 to the other's perfect 10s. No shame in that, really.
Yeah, but still- not winning an Oscar for his frigging amazing movies and then doing so for a good one sort of seems unfair, in a way.
...people watch the awards?
Some of them do, SX. I get bored and switch between that and Family Guy. =D
.....LIttle Miss Sunshine should have won Best Picture.
Yay for Scorsese. <3 The Departed.
I'm bummed Cars didn't win best animated... Was Happy Feet really that much better?
And did anyone else like the silhouettes?
I'm disappointed that Peter O'Toole lost out on Best Actor yet again, but Venus was in no way one of his greatest performances.
Then again, I still think that he should've gotten the award for The Ruling Class - it just so happened that he was up against Marlon Brando in The Godfather that year. 🙁
In an ideal world, Pan's Labyrinth would have won best picture, Children of Men best director and Tideland best actress.
United 93 would be an acceptable alternative.
Yes, I liked The Departed, but a remake that is nontheless lacking compared to the original (the superb Infernal Affairs) is no best picture or director in my book.
I dunno, Departed just seems like a better movie than IA. IA had too many problems going for it: pedestrian direction (especially whenever action was involved), two useless female roles (nicely condensed into one semi-useful female role in Departed) and crappy overwrought music (attention directors: you do not need to slap me in the face with overwrought epic music whenever something meaningful happens. I'm a grown man, I can figure it out for myself). IA was saved only by the amazing acting of Lau, Leung and Wong. Everything else was sadly pedestrian.
Scorsese took the IA trilogy, took out the flotsam and jetsam and made one of the best crime dramas of all time. He kept the acting level high while rising everything else in the movie up to the same level.
So yeah, Departed, while a remake, is the Best Picture of 2006. IA is good, but Departed is just better.
I;d disagree entirely. Deaprted has many high points, but it's a sprawling emss of a film. IA has vastly better structure, plottting and ending.
Plus, the direction in IA is excellent. Maybe the cinematogrpahy was too subtle for you to pick on easily, but I'll take understated over messy any day.
That said, there were several films (mentioned by my last post) in 2006 that were just plain better than either, so it didn't deserve best picture either way.
I think it's amusing that that's the third time I've seen Cyc link that picture.
I hated the ending of The Departed... Up until about 20 seconds before it ended. Then it was aaaall good N_n
I've never seen it.
