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If your best rationale for an alternative win is for the "surprise factor", that's pretty telling.

Personal preferences. From an objective standpoint, however, agreed. SLP or LoP winning would be shocking. Lincoln is textbook Academy material.

BP race is over. Lincoln is going to win that handily. SLP is a wonderful story and I realize a lot of people are rooting for it, but the chances of it pulling off this upset are slim to none.Shocked at the Affleck snub...that's a complete travesty. Same for Bigelow, but I'm over it. Thought the film was overrated. Really glad that Hooper didn't get in.

Not seeing any reason for the continued LM love. Unless I'm missing something, the reviews aren't particularly great; it should lose momentum over these next few weeks. Lincoln assumes the position of favorite, with Argo and ZDT playing the possible spoiler.

[*]The Shawshank Redemption - Overrated. So overrated. [*]The Godfather - Not deserving. Top 25 or so for me, however. [*]The Godfather: Part II - YES. Properly rated. Complete masterpiece. Better than the first. [*]Pulp Fiction - Standard Tarantino worship by the Internet. Not deserving. [*]The Good, the Bad And the Ugly - Deserving. Fitting conclusion to one of the best trilogies ever. [*]12 Angry Men - Great movie. I don't know if it's top 10 material. [*]Schindler's List - Deserving. Barely. [*]The Dark Knight - No. Just no. A fun superhero movie and not much more. Place isn't surprising given how overrated Nolan is by the current generation. Worst film in the top ten by far. [*]The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King - I'm a huge LOTR fan, so this is completely biased and I say yes. [*]Fight Club - Top 10 in the "cool" metric. Not top 10 in the "best" metric.

Irrelevant considering the audience. No one is saying BD2 won't have a huge opening. Don't understand why Twilight advocates are getting butthurt over the fact that there isn't a significant overlap between the core audience of that film and Skyfall.

Not sure if serious...but completely false.On the topic of this discussion, it would be Thor in terms of overall power. People are confusing brute strength for power.

I suppose I am one of the few that is really hoping it doesn't go to Fassbender. Please don't give him the license to kill. I love most of his work. I don't see the Bond parallels.

That's an odd collection to group together.1. LOTR: The Two Towers - 972. WALL-E: 963. Up: 954. How to Train Your Dragon: 945. Ratatouille / The Incredibles: 936. Catch Me If You Can / HP: 927. Incredibles / Finding Nemo: 908. Toy Story 3: 87

Avatar. Watch JP again. I think it's another case of nostalgia overriding the truth. It's a decent film, but the sense of wonder it once held is gone. Beneath the amazing VFX (for the time), it's really not that great of a movie at the filmmaking level. Same applies for Avatar, but it at least still blows my mind with the ridiculous visuals presented. I actually tried watching JP a week ago...couldn't get through more than an hour. Differing tastes, I guess.

1. Craig2. Dalton3. Moore4. Connery5. Brosnan6. LazenbyConnery is incredibly overrated. Sue me.

ITT: People using personal convictions to judge movies they have not yet seen. Excellent.

It's not needed whatsoever, with the GOP shooting themselves in the foot. Between the stupidity of the legitimate rape and birther comments and gems like "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers", this entire campaign has been a disaster. Obama's position wasn't strong, as he had failed, though admittedly not by his own fault in some cases, to live up to the promises of his first election. Seize on that. Attack with rational facts, but instead, the GOP chooses a rich buffoon who shifts his position on every major topic if he believes it will land him the job. It won't. The current political stance of the GOP is so far removed from the ideals of a true republican party. It's frightening. I lean sharply to the right with most economic issues and sharply to the left for social thoughts. If this campaign has been built around anything other than attacking Obama's viewpoints and revealing your own backwards, religion-driven stances on the relevant social topics of today, I would have voted for the GOP. Show some common sense with the abortion issue. Doesn't happen. Show some common sense with the gay rights, aka human rights, issue. Doesn't happen. Bible thumping in an increasingly secular world is not going to cut it and for some odd reason, these people don't get it. The party hasn't showed me their plans to continue moving this country in the right direction, and the radical nature of the modern GOP is being slowly revealed. There is no chance they win this election. None. The US political system is just in shambles. It's incredibly disappointing that the election of one of the most powerful men in the world is highlighting the ignorance of a large group of Americans. When one of the most listened-to political authorities in your country is Rush Limbaugh, who alleges things like Obama administration tampering on Hurricane Isaac's path to cancel the GOP convention, it's just embarrassing. Rant aside, expected numbers. Carry on.

Incredible TA numbers, and yet, I can't help but just stare at Avatar's final OS numbers for comparison purposes. It's almost incomprehensible.

It is sad, but to be fair, looking at the slate of crap that viewers are being offered, I can't say I blame them for staying home.