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Originally Posted by DaMovieMan
I found it a bit more than just watching someone die for 2 hours because it had dreams, the pigeon, the paintings, the daughter and the ex-student-turned-master all in the mix to reveal things about marriage, life ambition, passion and family values.
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I just felt that it was all a little obvious, which is something I don't come to expect from Haneke. I will obviously be pleased if he is recognized by the Academy (he's a great director and Amour is pretty good), but in an ideal world he should be recognized for his other (better) work.
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Originally Posted by DaMovieMan
You really hate her huh? She's super political and can get a little too biased for my tastes, but apart from that I love that she champions films she thinks are important and deserve Academy rights and she does it all with a fuck-off-if-you-don't-like-it attitude. Plus I like her writing style. Jeff Wells is the one that pisses me off, HE is the biggest embarrassment.
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She's an idiot. Instead of recognizing that there are a ton of great films this year (something people like Tapley and Thompson frequently discuss) she just picks one film and treats it likes it's that film against the world. Django screened the other day to rave reactions and she puts up this big defense of "you guys shouldn't be talking about Oscars with this movie" when she hasn't even seen it. She's just always trying to protect her baby, which this year is Lincoln. Even when she says good things about other movies, it always just feels like she's saying it to cover up the fact that her life revolves around trying to get Lincoln to win. She also makes proclamations that make absolutely no sense. There's no way in hell that Lincoln is some cerebral movie where audiences have to "do the work" to understand it. Lincoln is about as straight forward as a film can get and is in no way "cerebral". I've seen 15+ films this year more complex than Lincoln. She is the equivalent of a child who vomits an argument and then puts her fingers in her ears while she jumps up and down and says "lalalalalalalala" whenever someone provides a good counterargument.
Wells pisses me off because he's just a pig, but I think his no bullshit attitude is much more amusing that Stone's. Stone's articles are all way too overlong and serious, whereas Wells is very to the point.