There will be no sandbox Detrius 2011 thread.

I was mainly thinking of the A.O. Scott review. I mean I thought it was a crisply efficient thriller, and it struck the right

i thought there was a lot of tell, a lot of bluster. the intro jeremy irons gets before we meet him - he's sharper than you, quicker than you, will blow up like that - kinda running counter to the guy we actually got, the kinda thinness that pervaded the rest of the thing. i see why it was important to have those guys & that story put up on screen but it felt perfunctory to me.

take shelter was intense, sure. just a little clunky to me, too direct, and then sorta freewheeling at the end

meryl woulda nailed the lady fwiw

wonder with what manner of death Armond is threatening Clooney and Dujardin voters.

Wonder if he stumped for Sandler for best actress.

if he was still chair he could have Sandler MC the dinner

xp!

OK, I am done complaining about how uninteresting Brad Pitt is in Moneyball.

(I say that because I suspect I won't be actually doing the Oscar articles on THND this year.)

at least TOL got mentioned.

In this case, tho, it was smuggled in.

Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.

Killer to killer.

You're too short for that gesture.

p sure Pitt in ToL is best American male perf I've seen this year. They got one right!

I believe they are pushing him as Supporting for Oscars, hoping he will get 2 nominations.

yeah Pitt is really really great in TOL, v. evocative of my own ex-Navy dad.

I don't think we've heard the last of ToL today, unless they pull The Artist out of their ass.

my dad was in the Navy. Not remotely Pittlike.

Anyone seen A Separation?

We had this discussion in the regular ILX thread: no big star has bored me more in the last twenty years than Pitt, so two performances of this caliber in one year is an achievement of something or other.

I guess I skipped his megaboring work.

yes, A Separation, v fine.

When we get gay married, Alfred, I predict a happy 50 years of just reciting you know what.

Really loved Pitt in TOL, for the record. Wish he was in the running for lead actor in that to head off his boring "I'm Brad Pitt" perf in dor dumbedownball.

btw, minor awards are for such as the writer and director, since their function is merely to construct a tower so that the world can applaud a light which flashes on top of it.

Pitt is not uninteresting in Moneyball, just much less interesting than Billy Beane.

Oh, somehow the Indie Spirit nominations snubbed Clooney in Descendants and Midnight in Paris for almost everything.

well done, Indies!

ditto

When we get gay married, Alfred, I predict a happy 50 years of just reciting you know what.

There should be a new word for happiness!

clearing a spot at the piano bar here for you two.

Some snowy night, in front of the fire.

Never thought I'd be typing this, but:

Clooney acting > Pitt not acting

For Payne, Clooney close-ups are like fellatio.

NYFCC goes with Hazanavicius.

I saw plenty of emoting about on-base percentage. xxp

I fully approve of John C Reilly's Spirit nomination for Cedar Rapids, probably the funniest performance of the year. Their doc category also had room for The Interrupters and General Butt Naked:

http://www.spiritawards.com/nominee_category/best-documentary/

I fully approve of John C Reilly's Spirit nomination for Cedar Rapids, probably the funniest performance of the year.

Word? I saw his name on the list and initially assumed the nomination was for Terri.

I fully approve of John C Reilly's Spirit nomination for Cedar Rapids, probably the funniest performance of the year.

This is detrius thread's "blue moon" moment between you and me.

you exaggerate!

we also agree on Pitt in ToL, for starters

Reilly was also the best thing in Terri and Carnage.

And Tim and Eric.

Can't make up my mind which one I'm going to hate more between The Artist or The Iron Lady.

Oh wait, I'll hate A Dangerous Method more than either.

that last is a weird addition. Pissed at Cronenberg for picking real horror over the funhouse kind?

re The Artist, I wonder how many Guy Maddin films Rex Reed has seen.

Pissed at Cronenberg for making boring movies instead of ones worth watching.

And NYFCC just served you up some karma for that one, bitch.

Pissed at no tongue action between Fassbender and Viggo.

Movie critics not knowing shit about baseball shockah. Also, what's your problem lately? xp

They have Animated and Cinematography yet to do...

Shortest pause ever in the Twitter feed to announced Lubezki for cinematography.

That they're going to try to give something w/ Sorkin's name on it a screenplay award whenever possible is a sign of devolution from the Ben Hecht era.

special cemetery award to Raul Ruiz, highlight of the day

Best Picture to The Artist

Yep, it's official. I'm going to hate that one.

me too, bitch