samsplace:

thethirdshift:

I don’t ever think I’ve seen a movie as savaged as Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close critically earn Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor.

Also, I don’t care that Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer could win Oscars in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories — The Help

Stephen Daldry (Director of “Extremely loud…”) is an emotional pornographer of the basest kind. Exploitative, reductive, manipulative and a bit of a hack to boot. It’s disgusting that this film was nominated for Best Picture. I’m not surprised, however, as I was recently discussing it with a fellow I know who is a member of the Academy. He is a pompous, arrogant, out-of-touch jackass of the first order. Of course he loved the film. Don’t get me started on “The Help” as that conversation ends with me beating Sandra Bullock to death with Jessica Tandy’s corpse.

Whenever I haven’t seen a movie, I just default to Sam’s opinion because it’s probably right.