Your 10 Movies For the Oscar

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[videoheadcleaner]

1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Avatar
3. Moon
4. Watchmen
5. District 9

[Boogn1sh]

My fav's and what I hope wins awards
1. Up
2. Crazy Heart (Pretty much just for Jeff Bridges)
3. The Cove
4. Where The Wild Things Are
5. Up In The Air

[RaineyWins]

The only 3 worth mentioning;

1)Inglorious Basterds
2)Avatar
3)UP

[badfaith]

Purple alluded to the fact that the films this year have not been the most inspiring they've ever been. Did the writers strike have anything to do with that?

But with such a dearth of good stuff (depending on your opinion of course) Why is a great film like Moon not even mentioned (only Harkan on this thread mentioned it)- surely Oscar fodder, regardless of genre, subject matter, or even if you like it or not, one bloke acting two parts and carrying the whole film by himself is usually lapped up by the Academy.

[Freddie55]

[badfaith]

Yeah, that would explain it.

I've always thought a good idea would be to have a BIG film like Avatar which you know is gonna make oodles of cash 'adopt' a small budget film so it gets seen, maybe a two for one deal or something... see Avatar get Moon ticket free- and Cameron could recoup the money by taking a slice of the increased DVD sales of a film like moon that would come from the cinema exposure- Everybody happy.

...and there was that Swedish Vampire flick That everyone says is good (which I confess I haven't gotten round to seeing yet)- Let the Right one in is it good does anyone know?

[cartoken]

i've seen Moon , and i'm really sorry to say that, but it's far from being a good movie, but sure not bad... even if 2009 was not a super movie year, but it's not that bad to include Moon in its top 10.

[purple]

I just saw Inglorious Bastards and I hope to Jesus that this wins best picture; it should have won over Avatar in the Golden Globes. It is a return to genius for Tarantino since Pulp Fiction, and its more mature; for all the praise everyone gives Pulp Fiction, I can't believe this movie didn't make those same critics gasm.

But, I still have not seen Crazy Heart and Moon :(

[purple]

[quote="badfaith"]But with such a dearth of good stuff (depending on your opinion of course) Why is a great film like Moon not even mentioned (only Harkan on this thread mentioned it)- surely Oscar fodder, regardless of genre, subject matter, or even if you like it or not, one bloke acting two parts and carrying the whole film by himself is usually lapped up by the Academy.[/quote]

I haven't seen this yet, but in general the oscars don't pick artsy films: they pick popular films that have quality in acting, directing, etc and (maybe) play with film tropes. You could hold the greatest experimentation and execution in and of film in front of their faces and they won't give a damn if it isn't popular. Taxi Driver lost to Rocky; Raging Bull lost to Ordinary People; every decent movie of 2008 lost to Slumdog Millionaire (very good movie, but come on).