Great performance.

[Snake]

I was reading a post when I noticed King of whats his name signature, it was from Pirates of the Carribian, the part where theyre stranded on the Island and whats her name torched the rum. Now I saw this movie at the cinemas as was amazed of
Jonny Depps performance.

You gotta admit, he plays one great junkie pirate.

 

[Murdoch]

Well, after his 'addled' performance in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, what did you expect?

 

[King of Creation]

Yeah, Johnny Depp is an amazing actor. He should get an Academy Award nomination, but probably won't.

Here's the quote, cause I change my sig a lot:

Jack: No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You've burned all the food, the shade, the RUM!
Elizabeth: Yes, the rum is gone.
Jack: Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth: One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me; do you really think that there is EVEN the slightest chance that they won't see it?
Jack: But why is the rum gone?

 

[Snake]

Its helarious, just a few years ago I thought Depp was nothing speciall, now hes a world class actor.

No matter how good you are in a movie you wil never get an oscar if its either a Sci Fi/Fantasy, Acadamy board is filled with old pricks thats still think the black and white movies where the best ones.

 

[Malky]

The Academy gives the award to whoever gives them the most money. That's basically how it's always been, and probably how it always will be.

This is also the reason Katherine Hepburn never attended an Oscar ceremony.

 

[Snake]

Really? So how come the matrix (One of the biggest selling movies there is) didnt get an oscar for anything other than effects and best movie I think, I seriously doubt oscar for best actor is decided by how good the movie sells.

 

[[PCE]el_Prez]

The Oscars are all screwed up. They give awards to movies that are (or try to be) 'groundbreaking' instead of the best overall, most enjoyable movie.

On the other hand, it kind of sucks at awards when the fans vote, like the MTV movie awards because their are fucking billions of LoTR fans and those movies sweep up every damn award their nominated for.

 

[Malky]

el_Prez]On the other hand, it kind of sucks at awards when the fans vote, like the MTV movie awards because their are fucking billions of LoTR fans and those movies sweep up every damn award their nominated for.

It's because those movies pwn. I mean, come on, in terms of entertainment value, they're unparallelled.

 

[King of Creation]

The great thing about LOTR: ROTK, though, is that it's the frontrunner in the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and a crapload of other nominations right now. It will obviously be nominated for a bunch of awards, but its being predicted right now that it will actually take home the big prizes this year.

 

[Malky]

Ehh...I don't know about that. I'd love to see ROTK take home all of those awards...I mean the people involved definately DESERVE it...but who knows. The Academy do like to be pricks.

 

[Brother None]

You gotta admit, he plays one great junkie pirate.

That's because he was inspired by Keith Richards, the greatest junkie junkie ever.

The Academy gives the award to whoever gives them the most money. That's basically how it's always been, and probably how it always will be.

Simply not true. The Academy doesn't take money.

Thing is, the idea of a mass-film award is flawed. Why? Well, to be this big they need to be popular with the masses, people need to think "wow, I really liked that movie too" when they hand out the awards. It needs recognition value, which is why Eminem won the best song oscar...

This brings the selection way down. To be this big, the Academy needs to be recognisable, to be recognisable, they need to go for the dumb apeshit movies that make the mass idiot cry (like Braveheart (which is a good film) and Titanic (also a good film))

However, people also need to think the Oscars are worth a shit (which they're not), so the Academy has to filter out what the moronic masses consider to be non-artsie (the same masses that consider the Pianist artsie), which is basically all science-fiction films and all fantasy films.

Why do you think Star Wars lost to Annie Hall (Annie fucking Hall)?

If Lord of the Rings had been a non-fantasy epic, it'd have walked away with at least 10 oscars.

The oscars have basically been degraded to an insult, especially since they completed skipped over the brilliant underrated Gangs of New York (no best movie or best director award, ok, but giving the oscar to Adrien Fucking Brodie over Daniel Day Lewis? Ugh)

Oscars? No. Golden Globe? No. Cannes? No

If you want to know about really good movies, don't shoot for the high-profile awards, look at the small ones. The Golden Lion at Venice is one of the better semi-big ones. Dutch Film Festival in Rotterdam's very good too. And the smaller British award pick brilliant films.

But beware of those awards that feel they have to go artsie because they're small. They suck.

The great thing about LOTR: ROTK, though, is that it's the frontrunner in the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and a crapload of other nominations right now. It will obviously be nominated for a bunch of awards, but its being predicted right now that it will actually take home the big prizes this year.

Which is typical, considering how the movie was brainless entertainment-for-the-masses crap

If we start giving awards for brainless entertainment, we might as well start giving oscars to Freddy vs. Jason or Terminator 3.

Puh-leese.

 

[quietfanatic]

Johnny Depp was one of the highlights of film last year and it is a shame the movie, although good, did not match the quality of the acting.

 

[Mohrg]

To this very day Pirates is my favorite movie of all time.

But, I must admit if Depp wasn't in it, it would be a whole different story.

Mohrg

 

[Roshambo]

Depp was born for that role, he played it so perfectly and it helped that the lines were well written.


Jack throws a bucket of water on sleeping Gibbs]
Mr. Gibbs: It's bad luck to wake a man when he's sleeping!
Jack Sparrow: Fortunately, I know how to counter it; the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink, the man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from a man who did the waking.
Mr. Gibbs: Aye, that'll about do it!
[Will throws more water on Mr. Gibbs]
Mr. Gibbs: Blast I'm already awake!
Will Turner: That was for the smell.

 

[Zoe]

So many topics

1) I *love* Johnny Depp. Period. He always make outsiders, weird characters that are nevertheless captivating due to his charisma.

2) Pirates is a nice movie that *could* be excelent. Nice movie anyway


3) LOTR is already a classic movie that deserves to be seen many times, that deserves all credit. Its a great trilogy, with great messages , amazing images, good music, great acting, an amazing story very well told. That, IMHO.

4) The "Academy Awards"(aka "Oscars") are voted by people who won Oscars, in case you dont know. Yeah and they do stupid things (such as awarding Gwinnet Paltrow and Marisa Tomei
but they also award with justice now and then (such as the well-deserved awards to Braveheart, to Titanic, such as Silence of the Lambs receiving the 5 main awards (best scritp, director, movie, actress and actor) (which is not a common feat) and so on. But its obvious the deserved and fair awards are the exception. Else Sean Connery would haev won Best Actor years ago, and so on.)

 

[welsh]

Johnny Depp has done some great roles, and some not so great. Jack Sparrow was Keith Richards turned pirate. Pirates was a good popcorn flick, fun and enjoyable and, for what it was, well done. But some of Depp's other performances have been much better.

As for the Academy- yes they screw up a lot. Zoe, my wife is still hating Gyneth Paltrow after she beat out Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station. I am still pissed of that Gladiator beat Pollock some years back, or that Ed Harris hasn't gotten the nod.
They make a lot of bad choices, and sometimes go with the artsy choices.

 

[Zoe]

Yeah, Mrs. Montenegro deserved that award, would be the cumination of a brilliant carreer of a great actress. As for Gwyneth, it was just an undeserved prize she received,

I heard Gwyneth is retiring from acting, tough.

 

[Dove]

NOO! Gwyneth can't retire, she just can't. I love her movies.

Johnny Depp is my favorite actor, somehow he seems to be the only person that can make a movie that actually makes me cry. Keep in mind I haven't seen Pirates, or Once Upon a Time yet.

Did I mention Edward Scissor Hands is my favorite movie of ALL time.

Also the Academy makes far too many mistakes, mostly on Best Actor/Actress, and best movie. Most times their decisions are on target.

 

[Brother None]

1) I *love* Johnny Depp. Period. He always make outsiders, weird characters that are nevertheless captivating due to his charisma.

Yes

3) LOTR is already a classic movie that deserves to be seen many times, that deserves all credit. Its a great trilogy, with great messages , amazing images, good music, great acting, an amazing story very well told. That, IMHO.

Go crawl in a hole and die.

4) The "Academy Awards"(aka "Oscars") are voted by people who won Oscars, in case you dont know. Yeah and they do stupid things (such as awarding Gwinnet Paltrow and Marisa Tomei
but they also award with justice now and then (such as the well-deserved awards to Braveheart, to Titanic, such as Silence of the Lambs receiving the 5 main awards (best scritp, director, movie, actress and actor) (which is not a common feat) and so on. But its obvious the deserved and fair awards are the exception. Else Sean Connery would haev won Best Actor years ago, and so on.)

This year's are still a bit of a race, depends on what the Acadamy feels like

Popular vote: Lord of the Rings

"Everyone likes Lord of the Rings but we like tearjerkers and Tom Cruise should really get an oscar by now. I mean come on...poor guy" vote: Last Samurai

"Hey, guess what, we're artsie too. Look at us lewl we're really non-Hollywood" vote: Dunno. Some stupid badly done artsie flick. I'd say Elephant, but that has too much of a political message in it

Oscars, pah. Them making good choices is usually because those good choices are painfully obvious or just good chance. If you really think they know anything, remember this: Bowling for Columbine got the best documentary oscar. Bowling for fucking Columbine, AKA "lie-fest galore"

 

[MrMarcus]

Oscars, pah. Them making good choices is usually because those good choices are painfully obvious or just good chance. If you really think they know anything, remember this: Bowling for Columbine got the best documentary oscar. Bowling for fucking Columbine, AKA "lie-fest galore"

It was obvious Michael Moore had an agenda when he filmed that.