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In descending order:

A Serious Man
Inglorious Basterds
The Hurt Locker

Saw 7/10. A Serious Man.

Basterds 10th, including the ones i didn't see.

In descending order:

A Serious Man
Inglorious Basterds
The Hurt Locker

Ditto, with a bone tossed Up's way for 4th.

Basterds is possibly the most evil, regressive thing i've seen in the current century.

Yes, but did you see The Blind Side?

no; i barely could tolerate the film of the Michael Lewis sports book i read.

A Serious Man ftw

i've seen all of these, 5 are good (basterds, serious, up, hurt locker, district 9), two are blah (up in the air, an education), and two are actively terrible (blind side, precious).

Basterds is possibly the most evil, regressive thing i've seen in the current century.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), T

what, couldn't spell Up in the Air right?

up is eliminated from consideration just because it's a hair below the previous two pixar films, even when you account for that opening montage and those cute dogs.

final three of basterds, serious man, and hurt locker. i think hurt locker is the champ, tho.

Pretty good year. Inglourious Basterds is great. Was positively surprised by Precious when I saw it, it's quite aesthetically accomplished and Mo'Nique deserved every award for her final scene alone, but damn, is it hard to watch (based on the novel stone cold bummer). Lone Scherfig is as always pretty good, though An Education is not her best. Up has that great first sequence and The Hurt Locker that great final one in the supermarket. It loses points for pushing Bigelow in the wrong direction, though.

Pixar films are the most evil, regressive things I've seen in the current century.

Voted Basterds. Serious Man is undoubtedly the more perfectly formed movie, but I like the messiness and all-over-the-placeness of the Tarantino - I think it's a sign of him actually thinking about things - language, cinema, genre (so it's like a 1970s issue of Screen!) And he almost pulls it off imho, he almost re-invents the war film - something he didn't manage to do at all w/ the western, afterwards.

Up in the Air is very bad. The only thing that makes it remotely watchable is that Clooney and Farmiga have excellent movie star chemistry in this. Everything else about it is exceedingly stupid and pretentious.

I've unfortunately never caught A Serious Man, so might go with Up despite agreeing with voodoo chili. Morbs is otm about IB, which is also an absurdly bad movie in multiple ways.

I remember liking District 9 a lot but I've never felt moved to revisit it. I'd forgotten it went up against Avatar lol

the auteur's "thinking" on display in IB is Trumpian

Wow, didn't realize/remember that the expanded BP category came back nearly a decade ago. A Serious Man will walk with this, and deservedly so.

the auteur's "thinking" on display in IB is Trumpian

Pixar films are the most evil, regressive things I've seen in the current century.

lots of saying, not a lot of explaining

I'm haunted by Sarsgaard ever so delicately asking Carrie Mulligan "Can I see them?" in AE.

I have way, way less time for the moronic parts of IB, i.e. anything Christoph Waltz is smirking and twinkling.

man what a lousy actor, which is why he deserved two Academy Awards

Liked at the time, will rewatch one day: Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up

Liked at the time, but no desire to see again: District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker

Can't believe I sat through once: Avatar, The Blind Side, Up in the Air

Terrible, but not unwatchable: Precious

serious man definitely

district 9 was great but subsequent career took a dovetail of richard kelly proportions - tho his online material recently has been pretty cool

Supporting actor race that year didn’t leave Oscar voters any other viable choice, ultimately.

Voted immediately for A Serious Man, but think I rate Up In The Air much more than everyone else so far, not nearly enough to consider voting for it though.

xp i like waltz's performance, but yes that is a ridiculously brutal slate.

inglorious is not as evil as Hostel tho, probably the most offensive movie ive seen in years

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS; Lawrence Bender (The Weinstein Company)
A SERIOUS MAN; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Focus Features)

these are the only two contenders imo and while A Serious Man is peak Coens idk IB just does so much (also I know others won't vote for it so...)

An Education is nice enough, lightweight fluff, don't understand it being nominated for BP at all.

It was a Sony Pictures Classics thing about vintage Britishers, that's why.

Yes. Annoying that there are four or five kinds of films that always end up getting nominated these years with apparently no regard to originality, quality or importance, probably been over this enough though I guess.

Waltz's hamming v much reminds me of Martin Short in a sketch (only not funny... well, he reminds me completely of Short after 1990)

OOH DAT'S AH BEEN-GO -- incinerate him, please.

lmao

I've somehow never seen a Pixar film all the way through (seen most of WALL-E, I think).

I would've voted for Synecdoche, New York if it was nominated that year, but from the ones that were, I've rewatched A Serious Man multiple times so I'll go with that.

YUP

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OOH DAT'S AH BEEN-GO -- incinerate him, please.

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:48 PM

now that I've seen more films with Waltz I have serious doubts about his acting ability, but I thought Basterds was thrilling

wasn't Synechdoche the year before? would definitely have voted for that

Synecdoche was '08, yes.

I guess I just happen to enjoy Waltz's particular brand of ham. He even manages to bring life to that one nü-007 he was in.

i like Waltz well enough and he was one of three decent things about Spectre (Bautista and...ok two things.) He was perfect for a Bond film.

i agree w/Alfred's top 3, probably in that order.

xp
didn't see it, thought his shtick worked in Inglorious Basterds

have to watch A Serious Man again. the first time it seemed unfinished to me

(maybe it's just that I could have watched it for twice as long and was disappointed when it ended)

avatar jk lol

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don't think A Serious Man was better than Inglorious Basterds

i thought waltz was terrible in spectre but i mostly blame the script

up is probably my favorite pixar film, never thought there was a huge gap in quality between the opening sequence and the rest of the film

wall-e is a pretty evil film admittedly

I guess I would rate Inside Out, Up, Ratatouille, and especially Coco as my favorite Pixar films

and the one with the billion dollar sequels gets 0 votes

those Alvin & the Chipmunks movies are better than Inglourious Basterds

xp fully SIX movies got 0 votes, which must be a record for these polls

billion dollar sequels?

alvin and the chipmunks?

not sure what you all are talking about

jackie brown the best tarantino movie is him somehow circumnavigating most of his dumbass tendencies. basterds is him employing all of them at once but somehow getting the balance right, it’s a powerful movie that is also... fun?

after which he totally lost it imo, at least for the moment

somehow circumnavigating most of his dumbass tendencies

this is all thanks to elmore leonard imo