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A Serious Man [Coens]
Johnny C:
It would be excellent if this won Best Picture - it's an unconventional period piece, it's a contemporary reworking of a Biblical tale, and it's extremely idiosyncratic.
sean:
im looking at the best picture nominations for this year, this movie actually looks like it has a chance. theres a lot of unusual choices (would not of expected district 9 or inglorious basterds to be nominated. and why is avatar nominated what the hell). im gonna try to watch it this weekend to see how it is.
Scandanavian War Machine:
oh man, I'm so glad this thread popped up. I literally just watched this last night. It was pretty great.
It wasn't quite as "funny" as I was expecting it to be, but I still enjoyed it a great deal. It looks really cool sometimes, almost like CGI (particularly when he's smoking a joint with his hot and possibly blind[?] neighbor).
I was a little shocked when it ended. It made me think that maybe they came up with the most horrible, random, and depressing way to end a movie and then wrote the rest backwards from that point. I dunno.
Anyway, I thought it was awesome.
RallyMonkey:
SWM, have you seen any other Coen comedies? The "abrupt, seemingly unfulfilling but after thinking it through all of those loose ends were tied up" ending is really common in their comedies, and quite a few of their serious films.
KvP:
--- Quote from: sean on 17 Feb 2010, 12:42 ---im looking at the best picture nominations for this year, this movie actually looks like it has a chance. theres a lot of unusual choices (would not of expected district 9 or inglorious basterds to be nominated. and why is avatar nominated what the hell). im gonna try to watch it this weekend to see how it is.
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Best Picture category's up to 10 choices now, not that it changes anything. Anyway, A Serious Man is an outside shot at best.
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