I am seeing this film this week, but there is NOTHING indicating anywhere her on AD why this should not win best picture. It sounds like such a big, huge AMPAS tickle that one wonders why Harvey didn't buy it before eveybody else.
I am seeing this film this week, but there is NOTHING indicating anywhere her on AD why this should not win best picture. It sounds like such a big, huge AMPAS tickle that one wonders why Harvey didn't buy it before eveybody else.
7. Or six.
8.
A slight piece. It deals with turbulent subjects, but never tries to be weightier than it is. Perfectly tense as a thriller. Crafts are admirable. Affleck, as an actor, is as dull as ever.
This would merit a much higher score if it weren't for that laughably hilarious scene with the jeeps chasing after a jet aircraft departing down a runway at hundreds of miles per hour.
There's a very fine line between the truth and complete idiocy and I think the film crossed that line right there. (Also, the Jimmy Carter monologue was a little...much. Could you imagine Obama narrating the end of Zero Dark Thirty? LOL.)
A lot of the other screenwriting devices used in the film are really fun, though. I loved the callback at the end about knowing they were free after the announcement that they were now allowed to drink in the cabin. That was the perfect button to the hostage segment of the film.
You can do it, Naomi! You're...
ONLY 10 EASY STEPS AWAY FROM OSCAR!
1.) Bankrupt small, independent distributor via massive Oscar campaign. Failing that, proceed to...
2.) Cash in King Kong residual checks to pay for FYC advertisements from Kinko's.
3.) To avoid getting sent straight to VOD, attach entire film as a "trailer" to another film people actually want to see. And then...
4.) Try to do it Lahti-style and win Academy Award for Best Short Film.
5.) Avoid telling a story that everyone already knows by adding exciting details and/or gratuitous editing.
6. Carefully and patiently weather the wrath of film critics/the royal family/the tabloids/Diana-maniacs for trying to add said details. (Good luck!)
7. Find all of the boxes with "August: Osage County" screeners and slip in self-made cam bootleg from premiere screening at Lowes...the hardware store.
(Not Loews, the movie theater -- too expensive!)
8. Trick octogenarian Oscar voters into thinking that you are, in fact, a real princess. (Hey, it worked on Eva Marie Saint!)
9. On Oscar night, have camera crews come to Nicole's house, Joan Crawford-style, so you can win and keep your day job.
10. OSCAR!
A good thriller relying especially on its ending though. 7, not BP winning material to me...
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