Best Picture Marathon
AMC theater is Cherry Hill is having a marathon of all the movies that are nominated for the Best Picture Oscar this year on Sat. Feb. 21st. 5 movies in 13 hours for $30.
http://www.amctheatres.com/promos/showcase/
I went last year and it was really cool. Went alone but still managed to enjoy it, especially since I had only seen one of the movies beforehand. Already bought 2 tickets to try and force some friends to go, maybe I’ll see some fellow Scrabbled folks there.
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I don’t think he needs a ticket, Matt.
John said:I don’t think he needs a ticket, Matt.
not sweet, haha
This is like what i went through with Phillies’ tickets last year. Until the playoffs when everyone was knocking on my door.
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That is all.
unfortunately i have read/heard nothing but bad things about The Reader. like i said, sounds like this years “English Patient”, for which i have no patience. there is a tiny tiny chance that i may stay for it, but probably not. breffest!
also, if we leave do we lose our seats to some other jerks? that would suck. i guess i’d stay if that’s a possibility.
i say we order Forno – i miss them!
I texted John and Gosia simultaneously before hopping into the shower. Only Gosia responded.
Show of hands: Who’s surprised?
It was 8:30_! Why the fuck would I be up at *_8fucking30* to see a movie that starts at 10:30. I just said right up there that I wanted to be in the theater no later that 10:15. So why on earth would you think to text and wake us both up at 8:30.
see ya there
Matt, we’re third row from the back to the left of the screen
Well Harvey Milk was outstanding. Absolutely great from start to finish.
good for you guys – one down. milk WAS outstanding. sean penn – phenomenal. all of my man loves are in that movie.
Just finished The Reader and I absolutely, unequivocably hated it. To say that it was a series of forced, completely convoluted scenes with little to no emotional weight (either in spite of because of the actors’ occasionally laughable overdramatic performances) is an understatement.
It was, quite simply, unwatchably bad.
Benjamin Button was alright. Seemed promising, really drug on. Could have been an hour shorter.
Wow, fuck the Weinsteins. To know they bought The Reader a nomination over something I would’ve actually liked to have watched or is at least interesting like The Wrestler, The Visitor, Doubt, or In Bruges which was fucking cool (and to see Ralph Fiennes used perfectly).
I guess if I had to rank them:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. by a hair under Slumdog, Frost/Nixon. Maybe low expectations, but that film was great.
3. Milk
4. Ben Button 5. The Reader
Frank Langella was the best performance too. I was blown away. Loved that line at the end of the movie. “..those sons of whores. I would call them sons of bitches, but Manolo is a dog lover and finds that degrading to dogs.” or something along those lines.
Yeah, and it’s a shame to know that Kate Winslet is the favorite to win best actress. She deserved it in the past, but not for this film, it was bad, she was bad. Best parts of that movie was when people were laughing at it when it wasn’t supposed to be funny, and the loud boo as the credits rolled.
My rankings of the day are:
- Milk – a subject that hit close to home for me, and every actor in it was incredible. the only film that made me cry and laugh genuinely.
- Frost/Nixon – surprisingly good and at times, frustrating when Nixon wouldn’t shut the hell up. that made me love it.
- Slumdog Millionaire – excellent film with a great soundtrack. reminded me a lot of City of God, which i loved. Milk just happened to affect me more.
- Benjamin Button – far too long and mild for me to end up caring much for it. the best part was the small side-story of the guy getting hit by lightning 7 times.
- The Credits for the Four Studios backing Slumdog Millionaire
- The Lame Looped Trivia We Were Forced to Watch All Day
- The Chess Game the Two Guys in Front of Us Were Playing
- Avoiding Sitting in Pee on the Toilet Seat in the Ladies Room
- The Reader – fuck that film.
5/5 films had naked butts (male, to be exact) which ended up being one of the funniest things i had ever seen by the end of the night. i nearly squealed out loud in Frost/Nixon when it happened. also, Josh Brolin drunk in Milk was hilarious – “i didn’t even see that guy – he came outta nowhere!”
Fagun said:Yeah, and it’s a shame to know that Kate Winslet is the favorite to win best actress. She deserved it in the past, but not for this film, it was bad, she was bad. Best parts of that movie was when people were laughing at it when it wasn’t supposed to be funny, and the loud boo as the credits rolled.
I KNOW, RIGHT? that was so funny. some lady behind us was like “oh, stop it! you people are awful!” to which i responded “so was that movie.”
she had nothing to say in response.
Kate Winslet just ended up looking overly offended and appalled in every scene, like someone just shoved a hangnailed finger up her ass.
Yeah, Nazi pedophiles who can’t read aren’t exactly a good person to build your film around.
Yeah, and Button was long. The only thing that really stuck out for me when I was going to comment was how Jason Flemying sounded weird with an American accent, like he was dubbed by someone else. (all movies are dubbed after the fact, but that movie you could tell it was done, especially by the girl who played Cate Blanchett at her youngest)
My rankings:
1. Milk: Totally unexpected. I didn’t know much about this movie and, as such, didn’t expect much. Totally took me by surprise and floored me. And yes, Brolin’s drunk “where’d that guy come from” moment was perhaps the best part of the movie (next to the incredible performances, the candle-light vigil, and the all-too-real shooting scene).
2. Frost / Nixon: Absolutely loved every second of it. I quite literally spent the last 40 minutes on the edge of my seat. Langella was perfect, and I love that Oliver Platt has continued his streak of being in every good political movie made in the past two decades. I really want to go find the original interviews and compare/contrast. The whole build up to the final day… I mean, we all knew what was coming. But good christ. I was so into it.
3. Slumdog Millionaire: I was actually expecting this to be my favorite by a long shot. It was the one I was most looking forward to. And I really enjoyed it. But I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I thought it would. While I was enthralled by the cultural tourism, I didn’t find myself caring about or understanding the characters as much as I thought I would. Their decisions and motivations often seemed secondary to the scenery.
4. Benjamin Button: Like I said, I enjoyed it. It could have been a lot shorter. I think we missed the 7th lightning strike (the first 6 of which were the best parts of the movie and had me audibly cheering every time we knew one was coming). I wanted to make sweet man love to Cate Blanchett while she was dancing and Brad Pitt in his James Dean phase. But mostly that was what the film felt like; like Red Shoe Diaries. Unreasonably beautiful people being unreasonably beautiful (and not really saying much of substance). Button’s soliloquoy about starting over was the highlight, though.
5. The Reader: Fuck this movie. I still can’t put into words how much I absolutely hated it, how laughably bad it was (I was one of the people laughing). So many cliched, gratuitous, or forced and false moments. I have absolutely nothing good to say about this movie. At all. Nothing.
Man, I’m sick, I got home and I’m still watching movies. Last half of Gone Baby Gone and now the end of Michael Clayton. Last year was a better year for movies.
The only one of these I’ve seen is Slumdog and I agree with John’s assesement. As a cultural snapshot it was amazing. And for unknowns the acting was really good, even the kids. But yeah, the decisions and motivations and actions of the characters often times elicited unbelievable “What the fuck?” reactions from me. I think I’m just not as much of a hopeless romantic as I may have once been or thought I was.
I agree: I believe we did miss the seventh lightning strike.
I wanted to watch Zodiac last night when we got home, but it was too long. That and I started to fall asleep. And then I had to drive someone around in my car to find a gas station. And then drive home. Actually, being a scout/recon car was pretty damn fun that late at night.
They should’ve held There Will Be Blood out til this year. It would have swept the awards.
i hope Slumdog wins for the music. i can’t get it out if my head.
I hope M.I.A. will perform, since she had a baby a week back.
Yea I went looking for the soundtrack on the Internet and this one track was missing. Naturally, it drove me crazy and I deleted the whole thing. If anyone finds it in full, let me know.
Paris said:Yea I went looking for the soundtrack on the Internet and this one track was missing. Naturally, it drove me crazy and I deleted the whole thing. If anyone finds it in full, let me know.
i just bought it on itunes. see new post.
I hope you bought the DRM-free version.
It’s all DRM-free now, dum dum.
Nipple eater.