Craig, Ryan and I talk Producers Guild and SAG predictions and also what it means to become too personally involved in the Oscar race, as in “personalizing it.” Have a listen!
Craig, Ryan and I talk Producers Guild and SAG predictions and also what it means to become too personally involved in the Oscar race, as in “personalizing it.” Have a listen!
Great podcast! Very funny.
Question: when you guys say that people don’t like Spielberg, or that he’s too rewarded …. Do you mean in the industry?
Because the public has spoken at large with $160 million. And I don’t know one person in my life who doesn’t equivalate Spielberg with greatness. All the people I know in all walks of life who love movies would say that Spieberg is awesome.
Don’t feel bad Sasha. Silver Linings is somehow escaping the criticisms that a flick of it’s kind would normally get. I get why the Academy loves it since Weinstein can turn water in to whine. Why the film’s script issues aren’t bothering more critics, bloggers, and cinefiles……I will never know.
Sometimes films like this work for me but I wish I had been prepared to something so safe and occasionally sweet, but oh so dishonest and hollywoodish(for an indie flick funny enough). It feels calculated. Pat never does anything that’s too alienating for moviegoers. It’s not exactly a challenging flick. I got no problem with it being a dramedy, but my problem is that it shies away from anything honest or real. Nothing wrong with a happy ending, but how they get there…..oh man. Wow. Russell is talented to be wasting his time on a flick like this. This could have been released any time of year and generally speaking it would be dismissed. Somehow it’s not.
Shame about Lincoln too. I wasn’t a fan of War Horse, but I was pleasantly surprised by Lincoln. It’s one of his best films in sometime. Not perfect, but yea the “boring argument” is too obvious. This is a relatively restrained flick that is certainly less sentimental than some of his other work.
I totally agree with Sasha’s thoughts from about 23-24 and I think that the Academy also deliberately changed their date to give their votes some distinction from the other honors and make their voters not just vote in sinc with what’s being nominated by everything else.
I honestly think that with the scheduling changes, this year is going to be one of radical change as the nominations have already proven it to be. I really don’t think we can count on the guilds to be the precursors they’ve been in past years anymore…