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Oscar Poll - Best Picture

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:32 pm
by nebulae
Enter your votes

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:35 pm
by ChiDJ
Really dug Benjamin Button. Quite an interesting take on F Scott Fitzgerald's short story. The effects were pretty cool and the over all message actually made me think about living in the moment more.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:36 pm
by nebulae
^ Nothing "short" about that story...I thought it was technically great, but as a story, the worst of the bunch.

Just saw the reader, and loved watching Winslet get boned for like half the movie.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:37 pm
by beats me
Wow, a list of movies I've never seen.

Time to update my netflix queue I guess.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:38 pm
by ChiDJ
Haven't seen the reader, But I'm all about Sexy Time ! :P

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:39 pm
by nebulae
Having seen all 5, I think the best of the 5 is Either Slumdog or Frost/Nixon. But I still think Dark Knights bests them all.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:18 pm
by aburgener
slumdog was amazing...

did the wrestler not get nominated?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:20 pm
by nebulae
^ not for best picture

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:27 pm
by snakedogman
Slumdog was good. Best film though...? I'd have to go with Batman, but I haven't seen any of the other ones yet.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:39 pm
by jonny72
Dark Knight was crap, bring back the spandex and kappows.

I found Benjamin Button boring but I think that was just due to me not being in the mood for it at the time. I can see it winning as it has classic written all over it.

Slumdog I'm not sure about, I enjoyed it (more than Benjamin Button) but I'm not sure about its merits for best picture - its good but not that good. But there again maybe it is.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:53 pm
by Tone Deft
where's The Wrestler?

Slumdog was disappointing, it was the same story over and over and it was totally predictable.

Dark Knight was great, dunno if it's picture of the year.

Milk was very good, Sean Penn is amazing.

Frost/Nixon... who the hell is Nixon? why are people still making movies about that guy?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:55 pm
by nebulae
^ The Wrestler was not nominated for best picture.

Frost/Nixon was about Frost, and about a battle of words and minds.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:00 pm
by pulsoc
Tone Deft wrote:where's The Wrestler?

Slumdog was disappointing, it was the same story over and over and it was totally predictable.

Dark Knight was great, dunno if it's picture of the year.
Wrestler Best Picture, Slumdog gets cheesiest way to ruin a great story about growing up poor in India, Dark Knight gets best supporting for Ledger.

In a just world.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:01 pm
by nebulae
^ Agreed! The Wrestler deserved to be in the top 5!

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:01 pm
by eisnein
write in for Synecdoche NY!