Atonement leads the pack of nominations?!? Seriously?! Seriously?! Saw this movie here in London a few months ago and found it extremely underwhelming. Keira just poses in pretty period costumes, smoking in beautiful rooms. I swear she has maybe 20 lines of dialogue. James McAvoy is a bit better, but the whole film is just this big long style over substance thing. And don’t get me started about all the snubs of other much more worthy pics. Where is the love for “Once” or “The Savages” (just one for Philip S Hoffman), or “Grace is Gone” (hello, Cusack’s best performance ever).
Glad the Marion Cotillard scored one for “La Vie en Rose” (girl better get an Oscar nod as well, it is hands-down the best performance on film I’ve seen all year), but why isn’t it also up for others, such as best foreign film? I was full-on weeping in the theatre at the end of it. LOVED! Here’s a taste of it. Oh, and hello, what about the wonderful “Waitress!” Wake up and smell the independent movies Hollywood Foreign Press! As far as tv, have they not ever heard of a little show called “Heroes!” No nominations? Seriously?!
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