"..libtards doing my Castro imitation when it pulls in an award"
Posted on 01/17/2015 10:17:15 AM PST by NKP_Vet
LOS ANGELES – In November, the Hollywood Reporter quoted an anonymous industry insider predicting that the “lefty crowd isn’t going to gather around a Navy SEAL best known for killing people” when it comes Oscar time.
The insider was talking about "American Sniper," which walked away with six Academy Award nominations on Thursday, including Best Picture.
Which means the insider was wrong.
“Big surprise of #Oscarnoms was Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper,’” wrote the Wall Street Journal.
“I was very surprised and pleasantly so,” said James Williamson, retired U.S. Special Forces colonel and co-founder of OPSEC, a non-profit organization that seeks to stop politicians from capitalizing on national security operations and secrets. “I hope this may mark a big change in sentiments from Hollywood."
Veteran publicist Glenn Selig of Selig Multimedia says it’s all about timing.
“Any other year it may not have been politically correct to support a movie like this," he said. "But given these crazy times, it may seem un-American not to. Americans want to believe that good will triumph over evil and this movie exemplifies that.”
Director Clint Eastwood did not receive a nomination, however, and few think "American Sniper" can pull off a Best Picture upset win.
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Clint Eastwood was ignored as Best Director because of his politics. Speaking to that empty chair as the GOP convention was his kiss of death. Katherine Bigalow won for the Hurt Locker because she's a liberal democrat. Bradley Cooper would have ignored been as Best Actor but he's a liberal democrat, like 99% of Hollywierd. The chances of American Sniper winning anything is next to none. It was nominated to please the liberal producers and actors that starred in it, nothing more.
AMERICA loves the movie, the plot, the screenplay, the acting etc.
THIS is JUST the movie for our time ... and I haven't seen it yet.
Saw it last night. Good movie, but it will win nothing because it was directed by a republican.
Sean Hannity dedicated his program to AMERICAN Sniper last night. He was interviewing the guy who interviewed Bradley Cooper. They were talking about Coopers portrayal of Chris Kyle and how dedicated he was to getting it right. Hannity made a comment, “ even though Cooper was a HW liberal”. The guy said, “oh I don’t know Sean, you have more friends out there than you know”. (Paraphrasing)
The Academy will be bullied into voting for Selma. But I think Cooper will still win.
"..libtards doing my Castro imitation when it pulls in an award"
It was GREAT!
My brother and I saw it last night.
Very real, very human, very sad.
I have seen all the nominees and believe Imitation Game should win. Boyhood will probably win just because of the scope of the project and how well it was pulled off. American Sniper is great, and deserves the nomination, but it is not going to win and it should not win, in my opinion.
I'm a big fan of Alan Turing. He's a very significant figure in the history of computer science. However, for most of the people who know of him, and admire him, his overwhelming importance is simply his secret perversion.
It’s already won what matters.
The movie was great and really did not stray to far into Turings personal life until the epilogue.
Cumberbatch was excellent in the role.
Directing a movie is very physically, mentally, and emotionally demanding. What is amazing is that Eastwood is doing this at age 84. Kudos to Clint Eastwood!
“Letters from Iwo Jima” was a masterpiece.
Clint already has two Oscars for “Best Director,” and while I’m sure he wouldn’t mind a third, he can cry all the way to the bank. “American Sniper” is on it’s way to the best open ever for a January release, and may take in $80 million during its first weekend in wide release.
If these trends hold, it would also mark the best opening ever for any Clint Eastwood film, whether he is in front of or behind the camera.
I always find it slightly amusing that Clint, in his 80s, is turning out better work than the film school grads who would do anything for a “Best Director” nod. Clint admits that everything he learned about directing came from watching Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. Supposedly, Clint never says “action” to start a take; he just nods to the camerman and the actors and lets them work; it results in performances and scenes that are much more natural.
I’ll also give Bradley Cooper his due. Being old and out of the demo, I don’t go to the movies very often and I stopped reading People magazine years ago. So, the first time I paid any attention to Mr. Cooper was in his role as Chris Kyle. The transformation was amazing; probably the best example of an actor “disappearing” in a role since DeNiro in “Raging Bull.”
"Imitation Game" is a great movie with an tremendous performance by Cumberbatch. If it wins then it's because it deserves it.
"Twelve Years A Slave"? Not a classic. It's already been forgotten. It didn't win awards because it was good, or bad, or indifferent. It won because it was about suffering blacks.
It's nice that Imitation Game is a good movie. But the Academy may barely notice that. They're focused on the homosexual character.
12 years a slave was well done.
Eastwood also famously works very efficiently, shooting a very low ratio of film to final print. He works with the same crew and knows exactly what he needs to shoot to make the film he wants to make, with only a few takes and with little of that “finding the film in the editing room” crap. Asked about directors who shoot more, he said a line I quote often: “That’s not directing. That’s guessing.”
Sure, and his pictures are always at least a half-hour too long. Maybe “finding the film in the editing room” is something Clint should consider.
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