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[trinityvixen]

Okay, Mickey Rourke upset, but still! Benjamin Button didn't win! Kate Winslet got an Oscar! Round these parts, I can comfortably call that victory.


...for about two seconds until I remember everything else that happened. Fuckers.

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[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Kate Winslet? WTF was up with that? Her two moods in that movie were "smileless" and "naked."

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's a making-up-for-not-giving-her-one-yet vote. Like Cate Blanchett winning for The Aviator for doing a good impression of Kate Hepburn. Kate Winslet cannot be denied an Oscar any longer, so we'll find whatever crap she's doing this year and give it to her. See also: Cate Blanchett, Judy Dench, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington...the list goes on and on.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Benjamin Button was never going to win.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Benjamin Button took home more awards than it ought to have been nominated for in the first place. It wasn't entirely paranoid to think they'd hand over the award to Gump II: Gump Harder.

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

I didn't see most of this year's nominated films (though I am absolutely updating my netflix queue today), but I was very happy to see Ms. Winslet win, because I have always been pretty impressed with her ability ("American" accent in The Life of avid Gale aside).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Kate deserved her Oscar on the strength of her ability if not necessarily the performance for which she won. At least she won. Which is more than I can say for half a dozen other actors/films/etc. that were unduly snubbed last night.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you saw the movie, but I hate this criticism. I've heard it everywhere, and I think it's a lazy complaint about the movie that wouldn't be made even if the movie was word-for-word the same by a different screenwriter, and it doesn't require watching the film to make it. Benjamin Button has its share of flaws and problems, but in watching it, one of them is definitely not, as far as I'm concerned, a copy of Forrest Gump.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I do try to see things before I comment on them in general. (http://trinityvixen.livejournal.com/614956.html) If I hadn't I would have prefaced the comment with "It seemed like Forrest Gump II."

The likenesses with Gump though are fair accusations to make as far as I'm concerned. You have the man-child bumbling through the adult world, stumbling upon tremendous adventures with a maintained innocence by virtue of his being "special." You have the high-spirited, sexually liberated love interest who can't quite settle down with the hero. On that score, Gump runs circles around Button because at least Jenny left because she knew she was fucked in the head and would only hurt Forrest if she stayed; Benjamin left Daisy on the presumption that he'd be another child for her to look after and she ended up looking after him anyway.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

The one major similarity is that it takes place over much of the lives of two characters who are destined to be together. Other than that I feel any crossover between the two is superficial, in the details but not the point. Since your full write-up makes lots of other criticisms, it doesn't bug me, but since I missed that when you posted it, I guess I thought its' supposed Gumpiness was the heart of your dislike for it. It bothered me equally that everyone tagged Yes Man as being like Liar Liar, when nobody would have said that if a different comedian had starred in it (and especially since all formula comedies are pretty much identical).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, it's not the Gump-esque aspect I objected to, but it does feel rather derivative. And Gump did it better.

Yes Man and Liar Liar are very similar in outline, but I never saw the former, so it's possible they play out entirely differently.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Yeah, agreed. This was not a major acting triumph.