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2008 Oscar Round Table

geeksofdoom.com — The biggest awards show of the year -- the 80th Annual Academy Awards -- will air this Sunday, February 24. Assembled here at Geeks of Doom for this Oscar Round Table to tell us who they want to win this Sunday night are three trusted movie geeks.

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  • BuzzDiggity, on 02/23/2008, -2/+15There Will Be Blood!... If it doesn't win... well... there will be blood.
    • robotosaurus, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2YOUR. MILKSHAKE!

      Daniel Day-Lewis was robbed, his performance as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York deserved better.
      • aceakm, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINNNNNNNAAAAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
  • filmfanatix, on 02/23/2008, -1/+3i'd honestly like to see viggo win, but i'll take DDL.
    • bthug7, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3How about that guy in Meet The Spartans, he was pretty good right?
  • AuburnTigers, on 02/23/2008, -4/+15If Ellen Page wins, I'm going to lose all the Oscar voters. She played herself for *****'s sake! That was about as tough of a role as Jessica Simpson playing Daisy Duke.
  • decepticrat, on 02/23/2008, -0/+8As far as I'm concerned, if Daniel Day Lewis didn't act in There Will Be Blood, he channeled another being. The last time an actor went through such a a disconcerting transformation for his art was Christian Bale in the Machinist, and that it nearly killed him.
  • cinemajunkie70, on 02/23/2008, -2/+3It is all about There Will Be Blood this year.
  • hexx54, on 02/23/2008, -3/+5I can see Viggo Mortensen winning 'Best Actor'

    His role in Eastern promises was one of the finest in a 'godfather' type movie
    • TheBigBad, on 02/23/2008, -2/+5How was Eastern Promises a "Godfather" type movie, just because it involved organized crime in some form? That's like saying Finding Nemo was a "Jaws" type movie.
  • tnatharik, on 02/23/2008, -2/+6No Country For Old Men VS There Will Be Blood!
    • bthug7, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1There Will Be Blood should win everything it's nominated for except best picture.
  • thehuskerfan, on 02/23/2008, -6/+13Very True... Juno is overrated.
    • vsujohn2, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3Right, but its not TERRIBLE. I mean, they're pretty much saying it should be given a razzie and not an Oscar, which is not fair at all.
      • kriminalintent, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1You could hate Juno all you want, but its doing something no other indie film has done. Making 110 million dollars in profit on a 7 million budget is amazing. Juno is not as high as no country and there will be blood are in greatness value, but its as good if not better the sweeney todd. It also deserve honor for being an original film, not basted on a novel.
  • luskin, on 02/23/2008, -2/+3No Country For Old Men was the best movie of the year. Brilliant acting, production, score, and ending. It was also more darkly funny than most people realize.
    (BTW, I just watched the Conan thing, and it was pretty awesome.)
    • bthug7, on 02/23/2008, -1/+1Your entitled to your own opinion, but it seems you haven't seen There Will Be Blood. The results of this year's Oscars are gonna be debated no matter what happens.
    • t.toe, on 02/23/2008, -1/+2There was a score in No Country? I don't remember hearing any music at all...
  • wordfish, on 02/23/2008, -4/+8Finally, someone speaks honestly about Juno. Despite how 'oh so cute' and sassy the movie was, there's no goddamn way it deserves any sort of nomination, in any category...ever. If Juno wins best picture, I'm done, it's over, tell my mother I love(d) her.
    • kriminalintent, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1It wont win best picture. Its going to end up winning best original screenplay because its the only award they are not in the same class as No country for old men, there will be blood and atonement.

      * Juno - Diablo Cody
      * Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
      * Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
      * Ratatouille - Brad Bird
      * The Savages - Tamara Jenkins
  • bthug7, on 02/23/2008, -2/+2No Country For Old Blood will take it all, mark my words.
  • sravkum, on 02/23/2008, -2/+1http://discover.wittysparks.com/search/?dissh=2008 ...
  • HotDogBun, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4The Oscars are to movies what fashion shows are to clothing... a goddam joke that only the snobbiest of people take seriously.
  • bthug7, on 02/23/2008, -1/+1Denzel Washington should have atleast been nominated for American Gangster. The movie itself should be in the best picture running as well.
  • tgc1, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2Nobody gives a ***** about the Oscars. I'd rather watch grass grow.
  • Dignin, on 02/23/2008, -1/+2The Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is among the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremonies in the world...and I care WHY?
  • ufia, on 02/23/2008, -3/+4I'm outraged Ron Paul was excluded from the Oscar. The big media is silencing him again. When will you naive sheeples wake up about the New World Order?
  • neptunebk, on 02/23/2008, -1/+3YES AWARD SHOWS FOR PEOPLE WHO READ ***** OF A PAPER THEN ACT FOR 2MINS THEN READ IT AGAIN.
    AMAZING *****...SO AMAZING i had to write in caps lock.
  • MrsButtersworth, on 02/23/2008, -1/+4Buried for giving a ***** about the Oscars. There are dozens of better movies/actors/actresses than whats being recognized. It's just another societal popularity contest. It's all irrelevant.
  • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 02/23/2008, -1/+2man i am drunk right nowk.
  • madwelshacre, on 02/23/2008, -1/+3God, reading all three of these reviewers comments on Juno and seeing them ***** all over it made my night.
  • Hutson, on 02/23/2008, -2/+0uck who cares?!
  • kriminalintent, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1Depp was great as todd, but he does not even hold a candle to Daniel Day-Lewis in "There will be Blood".
  • drybleeder, on 02/23/2008, -3/+2Sweet. I'm obviously not the only person that hated Juno. I thought it looked promising, then saw it and wanted to kill it with fire. I warned all my friends about how bad it sucks, they all loved, and now I'm the one everyone's calling a fag. What's the world coming to?


    ...and how did I end up with these friends?
  • shawnanigans, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1Where the ***** does Daniel Day-Lewis live? I think he comes out of a hole every 5 years to win an Oscar. You never see him in anything that doesn't get Oscar consideration.
  • Spamcan, on 02/23/2008, -0/+5The Academy Awards: Every year the stars come out for Hollywood's biggest circle jerk. Yes, you are invited to watch as America's acting elite pay tribute to themselves by dressing up, gathering together and blowing the proud few who make the movies designed specifically to win ***** little golden statues of a naked man as if it means something. Stare and drool in awe as the film industry sucks it's own ***** while completely forgetting that 90% of what they make is absolute ***** recycled from old material simply to make a buck off the gullible idiots that still make their way to the theater on a weekly basis only to be raped out of their hard earned cash to watch ***** like "Meet the Spartans" and "One Missed Call". It's all the self congratulatory ***** and sucking you can handle THIS SUNDAY NIGHT. Are you ready? I know I am!
  • influenceuh, on 02/23/2008, -0/+0"I'm the third revelation Eli!" -- that monologue gives Baldwin's in Glen Garry Glenross a run for its money. I might say it is equal.
  • aceakm, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1I'm still pissed that Zodiac is absent. Sigh.
  • Anth, on 02/23/2008, -2/+1Whats with all the Juno hate. I mean yea, I agree that there is the occasional dumb line but its a good movie. And besides, haven't you heard 16 yr old girls talk? Its not exactly the most intelligent.

    Plus, Ebert gave it his movie of the year. You might think its bad, but its certainly a good movie if it gets oscar nods...
  • mynameisjonas, on 02/23/2008, -1/+1whats with all the Juno hate? Earlier last year digg was all about the Juno buzz and everyone was praising it. Now probably because it got popular and all these people are praising it, so many people on digg are acting like a teenager who thinks their favorite band sold out. Its not the Godfather but its still a good movie.
  • gbro, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1"I really want Cate Blanchett to win simply because she can play a man better than most men can. But I am pretty sure she won’t win."

    Why is that?
  • Greybird007, on 02/23/2008, -1/+0I've watched the Oscarcast every year since 1972, when I was 13 and was rooting for the first film I'd ever seen more than once in a theater, "Fiddler on the Roof."

    It's been compelling ever since. Not necessarily "entertaining," but fascinating, from the clothing mores to the film montages to the inevitable spontaneous moments that belie all planning and preparation. I've settled back for the red-carpet coverage, ordered two pizzas and a bucket o' wings for delivery, and had a good time.

    This is the first year, though, that I've had no desire to watch it, after 36 times in a row. I've seen NONE of the films that were nominated, for anything, and have nothing to root for. No previews have been persuasive, and the Coen brothers have become boring. So what's the point?

    Well, there's one exception. I saw "Enchanted." But NO film deserves THREE nominations for Best Original Song. Not when the Music Branch is so parochial about the home-town boys, and excludes brilliant work from abroad — such as Take That's song "Rule the World," for "Stardust."

    For that matter, the criminally under-publicized, brilliant, evocative "Stardust" got no nominations at all ... one less than even "Norbit" received, for makeup. That's just too sad for words, as a commentary on the state of our civilization.

    The short films on YouTube have more life than Hollywood does, in the aggregates, and perhaps that's as it should be. Every art form needs a revolution now and then, as Jefferson once prescribed for nations as a whole.

    So, for the first time in three dozen years, I really do have better things to do on this particular Sunday night. Hollywood should be worried. They really don't want to lose middle-of-the-culture viewers like me, but they already have.
  • hiplibrarian, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2dugg for trashing ellen page
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