Coincidence?

[3pipeproblem]

Every movie beechball and I saw together this year (and one we almost saw) got a Best Picture nomination.

However, I must say...I liked Superbad more than Juno.

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[beechball.livejournal.com]

Woo! That is totally totally bizarre. And damn, I still need to see Michael Clayton. Juno seems like a strange pick to me for Best Picture, but I've never pretended to understand the Academy and I really shouldn't now.

Clearly we can never see more than five movies a year now. Alas.

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Michael Clayton was really good, though it felt like they deliberately messed with the structure to make it more interesting (though a lot of movies do that, so I'm not sure it's even a valid complaint). George Clooney plays a pseudo-legal badass (I think he could practice law, but his firm instead has him running around intimidating people and cleaning up messes) and Tom Wilkinson is awesome, as always.

Juno's nomination is the Academy's way of saying it misses Arrested Development. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.