comment #1

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

Hell yeah @ the IB wins, esp. best original screenplay. Totally deserving, IMHO. Diggin' The Hurt Locker love, as well.

comment #2

BurmaShave says ...

Tarantino should reap his second Original Screenplay Oscar. Saw the film again the other night, sensational work. So many of the scenes were brilliantly tense suspense scenarios. So many quotable lines. He should win the Oscar for the scene in the Tavern alone.

comment #3

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

Absolutely, Burm. I find a lot of people that are shredding the movie (and admittedly, I don't think it's perfect or anything, just damn good in a way that hardly any major studio pictures are anymore) don't give nearly enough credit to how quickly Tarantino has become a legit master of suspense basically over the course of ONE movie. That tavern scene is one seriously tense, extended "bomb under the desk" moment, and I dare say I haven't seen that technique used so effectively in YEARS, if not a full decade.

Boy, he really does ratchet shit up in that movie. I love it.

comment #4

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

Absolutely, Burm. I find a lot of people that are shredding the movie (and admittedly, I don't think it's perfect or anything, just damn good in a way that hardly any major studio pictures are anymore) don't give nearly enough credit to how quickly Tarantino has become a legit master of suspense basically over the course of ONE movie. That tavern scene is one seriously tense, extended "bomb under the desk" moment, and I dare say I haven't seen that technique used so effectively in YEARS, if not a full decade.

Boy, he really does ratchet shit up in that movie. I love it.

comment #5

dogcatcher says ...

Here comes the steamroller...

Critics will now be jumping all over the "Up In The Air" bandwagon just like they did "Brokeback Mountain," "No Country For Old Men" and last years terrible "Slumdog Millionaire" (the latter which is already utterly forgettable), with nary a voice of opposition to temper their knee jerk reactions. The web sites, and bloggers, which dedicate their lives to this stupidity will fan the flames and declare "UITA" the "obvious frontrunner" and all other films will be railroaded by the process that follows.

The internet is what I blame mostly. We live in a smaller world now because of it, where ideas are shared by everyone instantaneously. There is no more "our side" or "your side" and various points-of-view to be discussed and debated, instead there is only ONE SIDE fits all now.

Awards season has become a gigantic bore because of it and the Oscars are not surprisingly anti-climatic when it's all over.

comment #6

markj says ...

I still can't fathom how Slumdog, a perfectly good, if instantly forgettable, Sunday afternoon movie won the Academy Award for Best Film. Mental. Still, the award isn't what it used to be.

comment #7

Chicago48 says ...

Did Monique accept in person?

comment #8

Dan Revill says ...

Yeah, I am starting to think that IB could be up for more awards than previously thought. Tarantino could be up for Director and Screenplay...and Picture is starting to look more of a sure thing at this point.
I'd be really surprised if it doesn't happen. But then again, I was really surprised Kate Winslet didn't get nominated for Revolutionary Road, so what do I know?