Comments on: Prediction time: Little gold men http://www.absurdintellectual.com/2009/02/22/prediction-time-little-gold-men/ ... since 'aught-eight. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wynston http://www.absurdintellectual.com/2009/02/22/prediction-time-little-gold-men/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Wynston Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:07:27 +0000 http://www.absurdintellectual.com/?p=1606#comment-517 A lot of you picks are probably correct, though I predict that Frost/Nixon will be shut out. I kind of had the opposite feeling from you that it's going to be the film that ages the least well. I mean it was good, but the whole fiction/documentary style of storytelling irks me to no end and kind of just seems lazy. I'd say that Best Director is more likely going to be Danny Boyle. Also I feel that Slumdog Millionaire probably has best picture locked up, though I think that Milk is the one that deserves to win (and that would really show that Hollywood is as pro-gay/anti-prop 8 as they think they are, though I think the academy already kind of showed that they don't really care about gay people when they picked a mediocre piece of trash like Crash as best picture over Brokeback Mountain). The real tragedy will be any awards won by the reader which was pretty mediocre (especially for a movie involving the holocaust), but just goes to show how much influence the Weinsteins have. Kate Winslet seems like a lock for best actress, but if there was any justice then either Anne Hathaway or Meryl Streep would take it (or in a better world Kate Winslet would have been nominated for Revolutionary Road which was far superior to the Reader). Waltz with Bashir is the only one of the foreign films that I have seen, and it was great but I've heard some pretty great things about the Class so that would be my pick there. Also Viola Davis will probably take best supporting actress over Amy Adams who was more just window dressing in Doubt. A lot of you picks are probably correct, though I predict that Frost/Nixon will be shut out. I kind of had the opposite feeling from you that it’s going to be the film that ages the least well. I mean it was good, but the whole fiction/documentary style of storytelling irks me to no end and kind of just seems lazy. I’d say that Best Director is more likely going to be Danny Boyle. Also I feel that Slumdog Millionaire probably has best picture locked up, though I think that Milk is the one that deserves to win (and that would really show that Hollywood is as pro-gay/anti-prop 8 as they think they are, though I think the academy already kind of showed that they don’t really care about gay people when they picked a mediocre piece of trash like Crash as best picture over Brokeback Mountain).

The real tragedy will be any awards won by the reader which was pretty mediocre (especially for a movie involving the holocaust), but just goes to show how much influence the Weinsteins have. Kate Winslet seems like a lock for best actress, but if there was any justice then either Anne Hathaway or Meryl Streep would take it (or in a better world Kate Winslet would have been nominated for Revolutionary Road which was far superior to the Reader).

Waltz with Bashir is the only one of the foreign films that I have seen, and it was great but I’ve heard some pretty great things about the Class so that would be my pick there. Also Viola Davis will probably take best supporting actress over Amy Adams who was more just window dressing in Doubt.

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