It's That Time Again

[charliepanayi]

It's obviously going to win. How To Train Your Dragon is meant to be very good though, I'd like to see it at some point.

[Miriel]

I sincerely hope that "How to Train Your Dragon" bests Toy Story 3. The latter was good, but not exceptional, and "How to..." is just a better movie.

How To Train Your Dragon was awesome, but I think it was a much easier film to do than Toy Story 3. One of the most impressive things about Toy Story 3 was just how perfectly this final film finished the story that began 2 films and 15 years ago.

It's one thing to make a funny, touching, adventurous film. It's another thing to do all those things AND be one of the most cohesive, poignant and pitch-perfect ending to a movie series, ever. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 = great animated movies. But Toy Story + Toy Story 2 + Toy Story 3 combined makes for one of the best film trilogies of all time. Lord of the Rings is still my favorite trilogy, but it had it's bad total "wtf?" moments whereas the Toy Story trilogy has been consistently amazing from start to finish. How many film series can say that?

[Laddy]

Best Picture
Will Win: Social Newtork
Want to Win: Black Swan
Could Win: Black Swan, Toy Sotry 3, Inception, The King's Speech
Snub: The Town

Best Director
Will Win: Tom Hooper
Want to Win: Darren Aronofsky or Tom Cooper
Could Win: David Fincher
Snub: Lee Unkrich

Best Actor
Will Win: Colin Firth
Want to Win: Colin Firth
Could Win: James Franco
Snub: None

Best Actress
Will: Natalie Portman
Want to Win: Natalie Portman
Could Win: None
Snub: None

Best Original Screenplay
Will Win: Inception
Want to Win: Inception
Could Win: The Kids Are All Right
Snub: Black Swan

Best Adapted Screenplay
Will Win: The Social Network
Want to Win: Toy Story 3
Could Win: True Grit
Snub: None

Great nominees. I think The Social Network is slightly overatted, and do truly think Black Swan will be known as one of the great Psychological Horror Films in due time. I think it was that good.

[Shiny]

Let me start by saying I have never watched the Oscars ever. This is the only year that I've actually watched a few recap clips online and then I just look at IMdb for the winners. So, my opinion will be a bit different after actually seeing it. So, it looked okay, and I don't have very much complaints about what got chosen. I've only have three huge upsets and they were:

Randy Newman winning Best Original Score though not surprising, still disappointing.
Nolan not winning for Best Original Screenplay. You've gotta be kidding me....I don't even. Oscars always snubbing Nolan.
David Fincher getting snubbed. He's made Fight Club, Panic Room, Se7ven. Tom Hooper has made The King's Speech and...I have no idea what else. Plus, he's British. And to be frank, most British films suck. Let's be honest.

Biggest yays:
James Franco in a dress. I dunno why.
Alec Baldwin. Nuff said.
Bale, Portman, and Leo winning their much deserved awards. I haven't seen the King's Speech because it looks like a boring old people film (perfect for an Oscar win) so I don't give a smurf about Firth. He was good in A Single Man though which was also kinda boring.

Biggest lol:
Melissa's Leo's speech.
James Franco.

Biggest surprise:
Tom Hooper winning Best Director over Fincher. Even though best director and best film often coincide at the Oscars as it did last year, this is still a huge shock. I can't remember the last time Americans liked a British film so much until now.

[McLovin']

Either James Franco was really tired...

or really high hahaha.

But if I had to wear a pretty pink dress and a wig, I'd get high too. So I salute you James Franco.

[Shiny]

He is perpetually high I guess.

[charliepanayi]

Would have preferred The Social Network or Black Swan to win but The King's Speech is a very good film so no real complaints. And Trent Reznor winning an Oscar has to be worth some plus points.

[Shlup]

I only guessed the last three, but I got them all right. Go me.

The Oscars are so boring.