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All is not well in Oscar- land. Halle Berry can win an Oscar but someone like Annette Benning hasn't. That Sean Penn now has two oscars is the only reason I can forgive them not giving it to him for Dead Man Walking. They gave it to Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas! Sooner or later Cheadle will get an oscar. So will DiCaprio.

@JS
I haven't seen Traitor. Why didn't you like him?

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Don Cheadle is tooooooo underrated jare. I hope he wins one soon.[/color]

So do I. Forrest Whitaker performance in Last King of Scotland wasn't as good as his and Whitaker got an oscar. Cheadle is an extremely good actor.

@JeSoul
LMAO!
Wetin Foxx do na?

You and Norbit.
White Chicks in the 'Book of Laugh'?  
Isn't Beverly Hills Cop funnier than Norbit? Only found those Wayans funny in Scary Movie.Little Man I couldn't stand.

They won't be forgiven Shawshank even if they repent.It was voted the best movie in film history that never won Best Picture. It hurts.  

You didn't think Foxx should have gotten it that year? All the nominees that year were fantastic. They should have just tossed a coin. I was rooting for Don Cheadle (HOTEL RWANDA).

Hers was the best performance in the movie. Tragedy, from such inauspicious beginnings.

ThiefOfHearts:
if spike wont, I will

I bet.

@Vesc
Ah. Saint Vescucci returneth. I'm glad you're feeling better,baby. Beast Vescucci kicketh ass, though.
Mebbe I've caught your bug, cos I've been in bed all day and can't keep anything down. Laughing at your movie description's costing some serious energy but I can't help myself. The 'amidst an atmosphere of unsavoury copulation' part just kills me. Yup, it's the very same sicko movie o, and apparently true,since the Marquis is a real character. You ever read any of his books? Please don't.

JS!  
I've seen everything on your list except the Chocolate Factory original. How did you feel when Goodfellas didn't win that Best Picture oscar? Isn't that movie just fantastic?
Aladdin. Classic!
I'm guessing DiCaprio's performance nailed Blood Diamond for you? Or is it Djimon Hounsou?

House of Sand and Fog        
So beautiful.

Jenifa.
Di-fi-O, e tu mi sile ke mi na tu 'in sile
Oush!
Sulia ken, Aiyeto'o ken  

8 year old Haley's performance in the Sixth Sense was just unbelievable. That boy should have won that oscar. Even the winner said as much. M Night thought he had to deliver a surprise ending for the rest of his film-making life. Made everyone on the Village sign non-disclosure agreements,so everyone knew a surprise ending was a-coming. It did. A lame one. I liked the film's tender love story, though.

Will be checking out Jennifa after House of Sand and Fog today. So much noise about the darned movie. Hope it's as funny as they say.

Oh. Okay.

You want to go back and watch Quills? Too depraved for my blood. Didn't really like it. Is Rush retired from making movies or what? A lot of them have theatrical companies and stick to acting only on stage.  

Spiked, you've seen it abi?

Hmmm. Intriguing storyline.

spikedcylinder:
The first time I saw it, my heart was pounding furiously towards the end of each part. I would literally pause, get my heart beat back to normal before continuing.Abeg, that kain thing na once in 5 years biko.

Coward. Shebi you know what happens now na. I mean,5 years!

iice:
[color=#9900ff]For real oo It's the only movie that i can watch over and over and over and over [/color]
[color=#9900ff]Captain barbosa? PoTC?[/color]

Quills. About the life of Marquis de Sade, that writer who wrote the novel Justine and the other unbelievably depraved books. The film was sick,sick,sick.Once was enough for me.

No, I haven't. Same theme? Psychos?

You actually kept away from that movie for five years?
I have DVDs, and back-up DVDs in case the original gets lost. It's a serious Top Twenty.

Well,
You could do humanity a great service and go find out personally.
As you go forth know that it's for World Peace. We dey kampe-gidigbi behind you.

Any of them since 2004? Blanchet was Brad's love interest in TCCBB. There's just something about her.Craig was in Elizabeth, that's where he first caught my eye with his cold charisma. And Rush was just fantastic. Him I haven't seen in a while. Not since that sick film with Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix.Quills.

JeSoul:
 you guessed it   _{btw i got ur holla on the religion board}  

JS you don't post in movies enough. And you've got such great taste.

JeSoul:
I am officially scared of iice . . .  remind me never to get on your bad side  

Oh iice's been weaned. No more human flesh. She's on a diet. Harmless puddy cat now.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]The horrors that went on in that mind Then the part he was sitting on this throne and the curtains attached to the flesh of his back It was great! [/color]

I know. Stunning. Every time Ms HipsSpanic got out of there I was bored. Perked up whenener she got back in.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Yeah but everytime it gets to the end, i go 'Oh no! it's ending'

I so know what you mean. Amazing movie.

Blanchet just came out of the blue into superstardom. No 'struggling' years while she 'paid her dues' or anything. She graduated, was on stage, Geoffrey Rush saw her performance, loved it and got her cast in Elizabeth. Just awesomely talented.

You probably do. That thing is ten freakin hours long. I just loved Grima Wormtongue's lines.
Late is the hour at which this conjurer chooses to appear

Everyone was 'dying' for Legolas, and hailing him even if all the guy did was sneeze. Me I was checking out Gandalf. Until the King's banished nephew,Eomer, appeared.

I drove everyone crazy when we were watching it on DVD (it just has to be at home) playing back Blanchet's temptation. You know, where she goes

In place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen
Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn
Treacherous as the sea
Stronger than the foundations of the earth
All shall love me and despair

So freaky I got goosebumps.
At least Smeagol died happy.

Lawd save us she has all of LOTR freakin memorised!

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Do they? Funny i seem to think good guys win too much
Now a real psycho i liked was the guy in the Cell. . .his mind was just vunderful [/color]

Not the bad guys. Psychos like Lecter and co.
Lol! That mind wasn't boring. Terrifically creepy. Just your type.

What did Smeagol say?
Dummmmp
Deeeepp and
marry me
iice
myyyyyy
precioussssssssssssssssss

spikedcylinder:
Chineke!!!! Wetin Femi whatshisface pack inside im pata so?

ThiefOfHearts:
feedng bottle

Boy has a nice body naw. Look at those abs. Ramsey,Lyke and the rest of those pot-bellied imbeciles would k-k-k-kill for those.

noetic:
How come that was the only thing u deduced from the story? This is called hypocrisy.

Maybe.

vescucci:
I was wondering how long you'd take before you defended Fight Club. Nicely done too

Don't mind me. I just LOVE that movie. JK should go and watch Mummy 3 jare.

JeSoul:
The ending was crazy and completely unpredictable . . . just the way I like 'em

You managed to tear yourself away from some horror gore-fest long enough to watch this one?
I disliked the real 'culprit' from the beginning but I never suspected it was him.Don't you just hate it when the psychos win? They seem to win a lot.

@Spiked
It's downloaded but yet unseen. Will be hooking it up to the big screen today.

ThiefOfHearts:
It was Max who tried to escape til I finally caught her and she didnt even give me as mcuh love as she did Spike for In Bruges which is not nearly as good as Pan's

IN BRUGES was great. I absolutely loved it.
But PAN'S LABYRINTH is Unforgettable. It took my breath away. I actually had to kick something away to make room for it in my TOP TWENTY. That's very, very hard for a movie to do to me. That's real luv baby.

vescucci:
@Max. I feel like breaking some china from ur kitchen. Go see the Dracula film with OLDMAN and co. And hey, guess who played van Helsing in d film. My main man. The other main man. Memento isn't an oriental but it's great. Truly memorable. You can't be disturbed watching it. Be advised. Since you like good orientals like I do, be sure to watch The Banquet, if you haven't already. Exquisite ending. Plus House of flyin daggers. That goes 4 everyone

You are one Major League GROUCH when you're sick. Get better soon! Man!
I've seen House of Flying Daggers, and for no other reason than it's great title. It wasn't bad. I haven't seen The Banquet though. I've seen the Oldman Dracula film, tho I didn't know it was Oldman. Who played Val Helsing in it? Keanu Reeves? I thought he was just Winona Ryder's love interest in the movie.

m_nwankwo:
I am simply posting scientific papers on evolution. Let each person draw their own conclusions. Of course I can paint a very comprehensive picture of how biological evolution is the manifestation of the will of God. However I will not do that on the pages of  nairaland. Besides such a picture will run into thousands of pages.  God did not use evolution as a means to create physical bodies, rather evolution is a manifestation of the will of God. If you are seriously seeking for clarification in these matters, you will have the answers even without my explanation.What you are convinced or not convinced is your God given right. Nobody can convince another. You are correct, the human body and indeed all creations of God did not just happen. All creations came into existence and develops by the power of God. Evolution in my view is a manifestation of the omniscience of God. As I said above, I can explain but wish not to do so. Stay blessed!

I beg to differ. One person[i] can[/i] convince another. It happens every minute of every day. You've written a lot and said nothing at all. I proferred ONE possibility. I can only speculate; I wasn't there at the beginning. How did God create the world by evolution? Your opinion might have shed more light on the issue for me. I was watching a documentary wherein scientists recreated the conditions of 'pre-life' earth in a lab. Volcanic lava,lightning, no oxygen, other stuff. After a while, amino acids were created. The world apparently wasn't all heat then, and they recreated conditions in frozen, pre-life earth. One of the four components of DNA emerged. Inter-stellar molecules revealed this same chemical, in space. So if I ask how you think God might have created the world by evolution, it's because I really wanted to know. "God did not use evolution as a means to create physical bodies'.(?) 'Evolution is a manifestation of the will of God'.(?) Of course you can paint a picture of how biological evolution is the will of God, but you can't do that on nairaland. Besides merely giving your opinion on the subject would run into thousands of pages. But you apparently have no trouble posting links to article after article on evolution on nairaland, none of which run into thousands of pages. There's a word for everything in that post of yours. I can spell it out for you but wish not to do so. Stay blessed!

To those saying what was he waiting for to marry the lady, the post said the girl's family objected to the union on religious grounds. Now the girl is dead, they don't want to lose the girl and lose the girl's children as well.

Poster, the lady died two weeks ago, so her family's probably still reeling and can't be expected to be reasonable.They'll hold on to anything of the girl's. But those kids aren't theirs; they're the man's. Advise your friend to take things easy and not collect his kids just now. The girl just died na. He should try and be a rock, albeit a rock with an ulterior motive,for the girl's family. No arguing about marriage to a corpse and any other barbaric RUBBISH they may propose.They want him to marry the corpse but wouldn't agree to the marriage when the girl was alive,even when she got pregnant. Make dem go siddon. Be constant at the family house,offering support and taking on responsiblity,acting like a member of the family AND THE FATHER OF YOUR CHILDREN. If they want a bride price and other traditional stuff like yams and salt or whatever their culture wants in exchange for a daughter,give it to them (accompanied by your family). Then take your children. But let the girl's family know they'll have access to them and they're not 'losing' the kids to you.

If they insist on marriage rites with a corpse after your family has paid the bride price and stuff,haul their unreasonable asses to court and collect your kids.

Hmmm. Ben Kingsley. You won't find him in anything wishy-washy.House of Sand and Fog promises well,

@mwankwo

I can't read all those articles. You're saying God created man (and everything else) by evolution. Could you furnish an exoteric glimpse into the process? If you were rewriting the part where God made man Genesis in plain English, what would it say?

The physical universe and nature itself teaches that creation begins from the minute, which increases in complexity over a timespan until the final product is finished. We all began as a single cell in a womb. The cell divides into a seething mass of millions of cells, each specialising, over a period of months. And then the human baby is completed. It's possible the first humans were created this way, and given the facility to do the same. Afterall, the Bible says God made man but says nothing about how long it took him to become MAN. I don't think he created a full grown male all at once. He probably made him the way all things are made; from the minutest ingredients into a complex,finished product. Perhaps He then equipped his creations with the ability to reproduce their own kind, to 'create' exactly the same way.

However, I don't think in terms of millions of years,but the normal,ordinary period it takes for human beings to be born and to grow. So I guess I'm not convinced by 'human evolution' and 'transitional fish'. Like other species we might have evolved all sorts of biological mechanisms and responses to better adapt to our environment over extended periods of time, but I don't think man just happened to happen. Not 'think'. I'm certain we didn't just happen.

So God created man by evolution exactly how? Explain, not in metaphysical language, but simply.

Nolan? I'm definitely checking it out.

vescucci:
You know I just noticed MadMax posted earlier. Her head go dey swell now.I've totally lost the cool that makes me. I'm now a beast of sorts who doesn't require much prodding. A grouch with no fuse. Max, try not to implode with too much muffled glee

I tried not to implode,but I didn't try too hard.  

vescucci:
(Daniel Craig is not GOD! She's just playing)

He didn't mean that, Craig darling.

Hare Daniel  Krishna Daniel  
Daniel Daniel hare hare

The guy thinks he needs signs and portents to herald his birth. Apparently you can't be born like everyone else and be a prophet.

Dead Like Me (DVD)
Damages (not liking this much,so far. So formulaic)
LOST
BOSTON LEGAL
HOUSE
24.

Well, I only got introduced to Gary Oldman proper on this thread, remember? I saw Dracula a long time ago so I couldn't have known who it was. I'm reading Winslet in a magazine. About her Oscar win and all. I'm glad she won. I mean, she's a great actress, and is the only actress in history to have been nominated for an oscar 5 times before the age of 30. She never wins. I guess this is for all those near misses. I haven't seen her performance in The Reader but I will. But, based strictly on performance, Taraji should've won for her mindblowing performance in TCCBB. First half was really great, but it started to get a little lost by the middle. SLUMDOG deserved Best Picture and Boyle,Best Director.

What's Memento about?Who's in it?