comment #1

Phreaker says ...

By citing Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) you defeat your own point.

comment #2

great scott says ...

The Mo'Nique Takedown begins. Maybe Amy Ryan can relate.

comment #3

Flash Gordon says ...

Saw it yesterday. Forget being nominated. If she doesn't WIN then the whole thing is a joke.

comment #4

corey3rd says ...

an actor can scare off voters in too evil of a role: James Woods in the Onion Field

comment #5

Phreaker says ...

Woods should have been nominated for the Onion Field - it's embarrassing that he wasn't. Second, he WAS nominated for the Ghosts of Mississippi - and I'm fairly sure that was an evil character too.

comment #6

Jeffrey Wells says ...

Javier Bardem's Anton Chigur was a perverse and darkly charismatic figure -- there was a winking-at-the-audience thing going on the entire time with him. He was a ghost, a Coen brothers nudge-nudge. Mo'Nique's mom-from-hell is just flat-out cruel and detestable.

comment #7

Flash Gordon says ...

Jeff, it's an AMAZING performance and I'll bet my last buck there won't be a better one in that catagory. If she deserves it, she deserves it.

Enjoy your mineral water.

comment #8

Chase Kahn says ...

I think Mo'Nique is terrific and buzz just seems too big for her to be taken down at this point, but "Precious" just isn't a great film. It's terribly over-directed, the fantasy sequences are distracting -- it's basically a film with one great performance and two good scenes.

comment #9

Jeffrey Wells says ...

Same for Anthony Hopkin's Lecter -- a monster with charm. All the great movie villains have had this -- flair, pizazz, edge. Mo'Nique's character is a blunt tool.

comment #10

Cadavra says ...

But on the other hand, Mo'Nique has heretofore been known only as a comedienne. Never underestimate the Clown Plays Hamlet Syndrome.

comment #11

jbf81 says ...

I think Precious is the most overrtaed film of 2009, have no doubt it will be the new Slumdog. Is pure Misery porn, the girl is raped and impregnated twice, has learning disability, her baby has down syndrome, gets AIDS! And her mother is not only an abuser, she's an chronic enabler. Give me a break, what else?

BUT I dont think you can take away the acting, Monique gives THE BEST performance of the year, so I see no problem in her getting the Oscar

comment #12

Krazy Eyes says ...

I'm still pissed at Mo'Nique for passing on my "Westward Ho" screenplay and putting my baby into turnaround hell. That film would have been awesome -- even better than Blazing Saddles. Now she's gone and got herself all "serious."

comment #13

Sabina E says ...

Her character is an example why people should not be allowed to randomly breed and have children. We have way too many scumbags who are parents, which I find absolutely frightening.

I saw this article yesterday, which made me sick:

http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/11/burrell_edward_mohler_sr_and_h.php

comment #14

Phreaker says ...

This kind of weird twisted shit DeafBrown is almost always (not always) found in white families, interestingly enough.

comment #15

arturobandini2 says ...

How anyone can put stock or have faith in the Academy's taste is beyond me. They didn't even nominate Kristin Scott Thomas last year, remember, and a victory for her shoulda been a slam dunk. And it would've been, if only the Academy had made the Herculean effort to pop the screener into the DVD player. For the life of me, I can't even remember who won Best Actress last year in her place.

Stop expecting logic from the Oscar nutbags. The reality check is in the mail.

comment #16

moviemaniac2002 says ...

Excuse me, but nobody should be using poor old Gorgo as a metaphor for maternal evil. She's just an overly protective mom reclaiming her beloved infant from greedy kidnappers...it's certainly not her fault that every major landmark in London stands between her and her kid...I'm just sayin'...

comment #17

Chicago48 says ...

Come on Jeff, give it a break.

comment #18

Phreaker says ...

"They didn't even nominate Kristin Scott Thomas last year, remember, and a victory for her shoulda been a slam dunk."

Except that the movie was really stupid - the ending, totally unbelievable -- yes, her performance was very good but she's always very good. WAY overrated.

comment #19

arturobandini2 says ...

Disagree by and large, Phreaker. KST wasn't always very good. People like me used to think she was photogenic and that was about it. Check out David Thomson's old entry on her in his Biographical Dictionary of Film: "A very limited actress." 2008 was her breakout year, with two range-bending French blockbusters and a starring turn on Broadway doing Chekhov, no less. How myopic can the Academy be?

And all the people who hated on I've Loved You So Long for its final revelation entirely missed what the story was actually about -- self-condemnation. They reacted like they'd seen a police procedural with a sloppy twist ending. (Not to mention, they dismissed 112 minutes of outstanding filmmaking because of the final 5.) Regardless, KST made the loopy logic work on an emotional level, and that's what great acting is all about. Shame on the Academy if they dissed her over a fucking plot point.

comment #20

Colin says ...

Who is her competition Wells? Penelope Cruz? Showering her with some more undeserved awards is fine with the Academy at this point. The girl from Up in the Air? Julianne Moore?

Mo'nique's only real competition is Marion Cotillard(Public Enemies, Nine) but since Cotillard won two years ago she probably won't be nominated.

comment #21

Bob Hightower says ...

Does it matter who wins an Oscar?

comment #22

Tristan Eldritch2 says ...

No, not in the slightest. But it's something to talk about, I guess.

comment #23

THE MovieBob says ...

I still haven't seen the damn thing, but if it IS just a one-note "satan" part... so what? That hasn't deprived anyone of an award before, nor ought it: Playing a monodimensional character WELL is incredibly difficult.

comment #24

Gordon27 says ...

Ok, you can dismiss Bardem and even Ledger -- I'll even assume you'd bring up the stuff with Saul Rubinek to counter Gene Hackamn -- but you can't tell me that James Coburn has a moment of redemption or positivity or winking to the audience in 'Affliction'.

Louise Fletcher also springs to mind.

comment #25

Phreaker says ...

Exactly true. Daniel Day Lewis I'd add to the list.

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Javier Bardem's Anton Chigur was a perverse and darkly charismatic figure -- there was a winking-at-the-audience thing going on the entire time with him. He was a ghost, a Coen brothers nudge-nudge. Mo'Nique's mom-from-hell is just flat-out cruel and detestable.
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