Comments on: Even if you wanted to see the Best Picture nominees this weekend, you might have trouble finding a theatre!

By: Skeeter Sanders

Skeeter Sanders — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:02:17 +0000

I'm frankly surprised that "Frost/Nixon" was even nominated for Best Picture at all. Who really wants to see a movie about a series of TV interviews with a disgraced former President Richard Nixon from more than 30 years ago whose most memorable line, "When the president does it, it's not illegal!" was the guiding principle of the even more disgraced Bush administration that America just said "Goodbye and Good Riddance' to?

And in the case of "Milk," why would anyone spend their hard-earned money to see a movie about a gay politician — also from more than 30 years ago — whom nobody heard of until after he was assassinated?

Political dramas based on real-life events — with the singular exception of "All the President's Men" — have NEVER been very successful at the box office. They're better off having been made for TV.

By: Louise B

Louise B — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:27:37 +0000

I think if you're looking for a fun comedy, I would recommend Confessions of a Shopaholic. I went with my teenage daughter and and some friends. We were all astonished at how we laughed (in a good way) throughout the show.

By: Fantasmic

Fantasmic — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:19:22 +0000

It is definitely not a movie about failure. It's a movie about a guy who has a place in life where he's loved, but it isn't a traditional one. Family doesn't work for him, but in the ring there are a lot o people who really care about him. It's a movie about triumph, more than anything.

By: Ouida_Garcia

Ouida_Garcia — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:14:29 +0000

I don't get to go to the movies often but I got to see Taken last Thursday. I walked out of the theater thrilled that I finally got to see it. There is nothing so fulfilling as seeing the good guy take out the bad guy and for such a righteous reason too. And I must say that they could have added a lot of junk to that movie to make me nauseated but they didn't. Taken is on my list of to see again movies!

By: Streaker

Streaker — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:02:56 +0000

The truth is… I could download ANY of these movies and have it playing on my big screen TV by this afternoon.

By: Collins

Collins — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:15:06 +0000

But, you know, with a relatively minor rewrite Madea could go to Gitmo.

By: Jules Crittenden » Most Boring Oscars Ever

Jules Crittenden » Most Boring Oscars Ever — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:13:57 +0000

[...] Big Hollywood with some Oscar predictions here. Big Hollywood with what’s hot on Oscar weekend … “Madea Goes To Jail,” and the news that if you wanted to see the nominees, you might have to hunt them down. [...]

By: e king

e king — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:15:56 +0000

In this time of national economic crisis who wants to go to a movie and walk away with depressed, sad, forlorn,tragic, hopeless. etc. etc. etc. feeling. Where are the the comedies, musicals and uplifting movies that will make us smile, laugh and walk away with a positive hope for the future and with a good feeling. Hollywood and its
"powerful" movies can take a flying leap. I agree with Carolyn. Hollywood like Congress has lost its contact with the people and go there own "meaningful" way trying to drag us along. Obviously, they don't pay attention to the box office attendance and continue to grind out the same "meaningful" movies.

By: Individualist

Individualist — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:44:49 +0000

I recently went to see The Wrestler because I thought I had read around four weeks ago that it was an Oscar favorite. That might have just been Mickey Rourke for best picture. At any rate it seemed the libs at Hoillywood all fawned over it.

What amazed me (although it shouldn't) is how depressing the picture is. The movie's star is a loser and the moral of the movie I guess is "Once a Loser always a Loser". It really made no sense. There was a moment when they could have turned it around but that wasn't done. Instead the writers made the movie about celebrating failure.

I am actually upset I wasted the money. Rourke himself was good in his acting. The characters were actually well thought out. The movie had it not taken the ending it did could have been saved but in an attempt to make it "real" and "meaningful" by taking the tragic angle they forgot to make the lead character "human" and "believable".. Sometimes sad is not meaningful it is just sad. That is the problem I think with many liberal Hollywood films.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:35:23 +0000

Steve, Steve, Steve – didn't you get the meme? It's no long about Hollywood asking us what movies we want to see – it's about them telling us. You know, like the NY Times tells us about news.