Jake Gittes

Hunger >> 12 Years a Slave >>>>> Shame, imo.

I'm only rooting for Nyong'o really. Ejiofor and Fassbender were both excellent but not the greatest performances I saw last year.

No, not yet. Not gonna forget about it though.

Fixed.

Before Midnight is fantastic, but you should absolutely see the previous two films if you haven't. They are just as great if not better. Lone Ranger is heavily flawed and not always fun, but also ambitious and weird and unlike most summer blockbusters that usually get released. Wolverine is decent for the first two thirds, then becomes yet another entirely forgettable comic book CGI fest. Elysium is near-complete shit, but hey, at least it's rated R and Sharlto Copley gets to chew some scenery. But that's just my opinion

I finally saw Llewyn Davis yesterday and it deserved all three noms this forum gave it and the Academy didn't (BP, BD, Screenplay)

I'll post my list in the next few days. Just finished a marathon of almost all Coen brothers' films, several of which (Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, O Brother) I'd actually never seen before, and now I'm thinking of putting them, not Leone or Polanski, in my #3 spot. They are just so consistently great, not that I was shocked, but it's another thing when you see it with your own eyes.

I'm guessing Inherent Vice and Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars will both be there.

Great use of his dialogue from Happiness.

SM2 for sure.

The Academy has made some ridiculous decisions in the past, but there are cases where you just have such an obviously, inescapably towering achievement on your hands that, even for the Oscars, it would be inconceivable under any circumstances to not reward it. Think The Godfather winning BP and Actor, Chinatown and Pulp Fiction winning Best Original Screenplay, Days of Heaven and Apocalypse Now winning Cinematography, The Matrix and Avatar winning VFX, John Williams winning for Jaws and Star Wars, DDL winning for Daniel Plainview. I feel like Lubezki, with what he did in Gravity, belongs in that group. Not that I wasn't shocked when he lost for The Tree of Life - I was convinced he'd win there, too - but this is a different level even from that one. And if he somehow loses, well, it'll be a whole new level of fucked-up, mind-boggling and inexplicable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDswLtrhsQ

The most recent episode might have been the best one since Remedial Chaos Theory.

I wouldn't doubt you Tele

The Grandmaster in Cinematography and Production Design is one thing the Academy got right and we didn't. I understand not many saw it though. On the other hand, we've got James Franco, Brie Larson, Redford, The World's End and Short Term 12 so overall we still win, as far as I'm concerned

Yep. And Titanic, *the* *most* ambitious film ever made? It's incredibly ambitious, but still, Gone with the Wind, War and Peace (the Soviet version), Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, LOTR all say hello.

C. I'm feeling generous.

And anyone who hasn't seen The French Connection, put that on your list ASAP, too.

Yawn.

Part II >> Part I.

So I guess we're left with 2 Godfathers, Schindler's List and Casablanca... right?

Slumdog and TDK. The latter I'm fine with, the former is ridiculous.

Taxi Driver.

The best film to show up so far, imo. (edit: talking about NCFOM).

One week, I don't think so. Not in the past 20 years. Two weeks apart - that's happened a few times (Forrest Gump and Lion King, Batman Forever and Apollo 13, Twister and Mission Impossible, Spider-Man and Episode II, Spider-Man 3 and Shrek 3).