They've gone too far.

just because you didn't know mumbai was in india before you saw it :p:. It's not a massively patronizing film but you know the industry types got big kicks to nominate something so quaintly exotic and wordly. The film was just meh, watch some Satyajit Ray instead

I'm sorry, but I think it's always annoying and patrionizing when new movies are compared to old ones, when younger filmmakers are compared to older ones.

"Quintin Tarantino ain't bad but he's no Sam Pekinpah"

"Tim Burton ain't bad but he's no Fritz Lang"

Well of course not. Nobody is someone else, so I really hate that phrase "he's no ____"

Danny Boyle is a very talented modern director, I haven't seen Slumdog but I do have high expectations for it, more because it's one of his films than because of the amount of hype surrounding it.

I'm eager to see all of these films, even the much disliked Button.

But I'm drawing the line with The Reader. As soon as I heard "from the director of The Hours" I became completely uninterested.

He also called Dinzel Washington a better actor. :laughing:

Yes, skip The Reader if you can, it was painful. Kate Winslet was nothing special either. She was so much better in Revolutionary Road. I don't understand how that movie got snubbed so badly.

whaddya mean kate winslet did fine, it was the second act where that movie fell off and turned into any holocaust drama

Was Changeling up for anything? That deserved some recognition

That was an excellent film.

Yeah Kate Winslet did fine, but I don't think it was an Oscar-worthy performance especially considering her performance in Revolutionary Road. And Angelina Jolie was nominated for Changeling.

Denzel's a good actor, maybe a little linear, but good. Compared to Penn though? There's no comparison, simply because of Penn's range.

this is true, i really want to see RR

Denzel Washington = teeth

seriously he needs to get them sorted out, they look like they're from a joke shop

I thought Revolutionary road was a watchable but mediocre and forgettable melodrama. Plus both Winslet and DiCaprio couldn't hold a candle to Michael Shannon who stole every scene he was in.

I haven't seen it but I know you're wrong. Sam Mendes ftw.

I've only seen American beauty which was ten times the film RR is, but I figure that was more down to Alan Ball than Mendes. (It's Sam btw).

Oh really? Because that wasn't a typo btw, I totally thought his name was Same. :rolleyes:

Mendes did an excellent job with Road to Perdition too.

I understand where you're coming from with the melodrama and Michael Shannon was amazing. I'm probably just biased because I'm a Richard Yates fan and the movie was surprisingly true to the novel. But still, Leo deifnetly deserved a nomination. The only bad part of that film was the score, it was painfully repetitive, and felt like music from the title screen to a DVD being played over and over.

Boo to Thomas Newman haters.