Who's Going to Watch the Academy Awards?

[Woodsprite]

Tron: Legacy was snubbed beyond belief. They were nominated for one thing: sound editing. And lost. Still though, Inception as the visual effects choice was pretty fair, considering how the majority of the effects were physically created in reality, which is quite rare today in a world of CG tech.

Daft Punk not being nominated for "Best Score", I can understand. Hans Zimmer was the main consultant for the orchestral department (pleh), and Daft Punk in charge of the electronics. The two meshed together to create yet another blend of electronic madness that fits well into the film, but sounds like a rehash of all sci-fi 80s scores, updated with better sound, and stuffed with a horn or two with maybe a few synth strings on the side. But that's just my take; I don't know what the Academy was thinking...

And the Oscar goes to... "The Social Network"?! Really? You've got to be kidding. I would've had Tron win over "The Social Network" ANY DAY, as well as any of the other scores nominated. Inception's score was interesting while watching, but not original, very simplistic and sometimes outright annoying, and the main theme was an extremely slowed down version (albeit verbatim) of "Non, je ne regrette rien". Good God... The Oscars are frying my brain with many, many examples of "FAIL".

[Isard]

Woodsprite, that's exactly what I was saying. They took 80's style electronics, and meshed it with more regular music to create something unique.

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by icu

This is almost the definition of dismissive, considering you probably haven't seen most of the films that were nominated, yet proceeded to judge them anyway.

Dismissive-"Feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration."

They might not have been your style of movies, but that doesn't make them bad.

you're right - I didn't watch most of the films that were there, so I don't see why I would be interested in watching for them. Note that I said there was one good film and one OK-ish film there (HTTYD and Inception, respectively) - I did not state that any of the others were necessarily particularly bad. I also did see The Social Network, and thought it was average - the point is, I don't massively care for any of the films that were likely to win.

[Woodsprite]

Ok, just finished watching "The Social Network" for the first time. How did this win "Best Score"?


...How did this win best score? HOW, in God's name did this win best score? HOW? HOW?! HOW?!

[Isard]

Because social networking is "hip" and "in".


In a word, hollywood.

[Human No More]

Exactly - because they want to avoid being seen as as out of touch as they really are (see: last year's ) and mistakenly think that randomly mentioning social networking etc. will rectify that (a mistake many companies also make).