WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

[kungfuwaynewho]

What happened with the Oscar nominations?  I mean seriously, what happened?

• Bigelow and Affleck both get snubbed in Direction.
• I mean the Director lineup just in general.  Fuck David O'Russell.
• Moonrise Kingdom doesn't get a Picture nomination.
• No Looper in Screenplay.
• No John Hawkes in Actor.
• Where the actual fuck did Jacki Weaver come from?  I didn't really think Ann Dowd would get in, but no Ann Dowd and Jacki Weaver instead?
• This isn't a surprise, because everyone knew Alan Arkin would get in, but he would have been the third most interesting supporting performance in Argo, under Bryan Cranston and John Goodman.
• I literally cannot with Editing.
• No Hobbit for Costume?  (But Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman make it in.)  Or for Sound Editing?  Or Sound Mixing?  (Lincoln for Mixing?  Really?  Really.)  No nomination for "Song of the Lonely Mountain?"
• And where are The Avengers' Sound nominations?  Oh right, there are none.
• I literally cannot with Documentary Feature, but I knew that when the first short-list was announced.
• Hitchcock for Makeup over Lincoln?  Anthony Hopkins literally looked like he was melting.
• I fundamentally do not understand Life of Pi getting nominated for Production Design.

Bright spots:

• Christoph Waltz.

I have seriously like been seething this whole morning.  These are the worst.  THE WORST.

In conclusion, GPOY:

Comments

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I do feel bad for Leo, too. I don't really get it. He's not my favorite actor or anything, but he does turn in good, solid performances. I still can't quite figure out how he didn't get nominated for The Aviator.

I resigned myself when the reviews first started coming in that The Hobbit was not going to get the major noms. I don't know why? But it's like everyone agreed to just hate it this year - even though audiences love it. I think it's the 48 FPS thing, and the fact they're making three instead of two. People got butthurt over it before they even saw it, and let it influence their opinions. I just don't understand how Avatar - which was pretty, yes, but not actually good - gets a nomination and is actually one of the frontrunners, but The Hobbit gets nothing.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

I agree. I'm not running into his movies but when I catch them I know he'll do a good job.

All of what you said basically. Everytime I read stuff from people complaining about division into 3 parts I want to scream, because hardly anyone bothers to really get why it will be three parts. They just say 'It was such a small book it's not possible to make three movies' and that's it. I don't get the complaints about the 48 FPS, because from what I gathered you don't have to see it that way. I even saw the movie in plain 2D because I'm not much into 3D.
Looking back I'm sure Avatar just got noms because it was so special at the time, I believe it wouldn't get such a buzz if it would come out now.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the complaints that The Hobbit is a small kids book just proves to me that these people haven't actually read TH in a long time. Yes, it's short, but huge things happen that Tolkien basically just skims by - like the rock giants fight, which was such a cool thing to see up on the screen. There was one review everyone was tearing apart because he whined about all the extra stuff PJ had added in, including Rivendell. He just wanted to stick elves in there! It was just a ploy! And like...duh? They go to Rivendell in the book? Why else do you think Bilbo goes back there in LOTR? So I've just been like "I cannot" over all of it.

I had never seen a movie in 3D before, but we did go for the third time to see it in 3D 48FPS - and it was pretty cool! It took about ten minutes to get used to it, but it did look really pretty. It was not as weird as everyone was saying - just very real, like it was right in front of you. And I don't get the reports that people were throwing up AT ALL. I always have a hard time with movies with a lot of action - I get headaches - and I was completely fine with this. So I would totally recommend it.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

I recently read somewhere that some scenes were dragged out...like the dwarves singing at Bilbos place and the Bilbo/Gollum riddle scene...I had no words on how ignorant that person was.

I have to get into a bunch of other movies firstxD Quite a lot of the nominated movies are just coming out over here so I have a chance to see as many as I can and have a better idea who deserves the award and who doesn'tXD

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

How could anyone think the Riddles in the Dark scene was too long?!?!!

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

People who don't know a thing about the original story I guess. I'm not sure if it was a journalist, but if so I hope he got in trouble for that just because it's so lazy to not even read up a bit about the material the movie is based on.

Btw LOVE your header .)