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(01-03-2011 06:15 PM)2qewl4u Wrote:  My sister and I were talking about that yesterday. Why does HP very briefly participate in the Oscars every year? With the quality of the films, they should be nominated for way more Oscars imo.

It's a kids film, and kids films always get shafted at the Oscars.

Look at Spielberg, who did "Schindler's List" partly as a swipe at Hollywood pretensions.

Do a movie everyone loves with fantastic effects, and you are treated as low brow.

Do yet another Holocaust movie like the hundreds before, and you might as well start writing that acceptance speech (unless the story is as silly as John Boyne's "The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas"). As one sarcastic critic put it, "if you want to be a shoe-in, do a Shoah."

(That's not to say they're all like that, "Life Is Beautiful" is pure genius, rip-roaring hilarious and mouth-clutching horror in equal turns)

To be honest, since the first movie the Potter series has been downhill all the way, with changes of directors and the whole thing starting to look setwise like the sets of Resident Evil. A lot of the charm of the whole magicians world set out in the books was lost for the sake of being "dark" for the sake of it, and Goblet Of Fire was a disgrace with Rowling interfering in the script in order to relive her teen years through Emma Watson to the point Harry Potter was just another meat-head he-man character who was nothing without a clever woman behind him.

I didn't even bother to go and see Deathly Hallows. After so many crushing disappointments I'd sooner stick to the books.

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(04-03-2011 10:11 PM)Cassie Wrote:  Posting on the Gaiaphage. It's so sad, I have like 30 posts on that place, what a noob... I have no cred in that place WHATSOEVER. xDD Plus I'm a little older than most of them. xP

If you have no cred on Gaia, you have cred. The converse also applies.