OK. I’ll go back and watch it again.
Unless I missed something, I think you mean Jeff Bridges. 
No Jeff Daniels - what an actor. Fooled you too.
Actually Rooster Cogburn was played by Beau Bridges as Jeff Daniels as Jeff Bridges with Joaquin Phoenix as stunt double.
How much $ did “The Illusionist” make? None. The Illusionist cheated Tangled out of a Oscar nod by a cheap timing trick, one Oscar shouldn’t even allow. I am going to boycott The Illusionist becuase of this.
If The Illusionist had a correct date, it would not be considered until next year, and 11 months after it got released it would never would have got a nomination.
What do you mean?
The film is in general release today, at least in the USA. It’s no secret that even excellent films that were released early in the year are often forgotten by Oscar time.
But it was released on Dec. 25th. It is harldy the only movie released very late in the year to ever get nominated for an Oscar
I just saw a commercial touting 127 Hours opening tonight, January 28th.
Do you feel the same way about Blue Valentine, Biutiful and other movies?
I saw The Illusionist a few weeks ago and I’m happy for its nomination. I wouldn’t have minded seeing Tangled get a nomination, but I liked Megamind and Dispicable Me more. But really, My Dog Tulip deserved a nomination too, and it made very little at the box office. Since when is a nomination supposed to be determined by box office returns?
Yes. IMHO, they get nominated ONLY for the year in which they had General release.
I never said that a Nomination should have anything to do with Box Office returns.
That’s not how it works. A film only has to open within the calender year and then play for at least 7 consecutive days to allow it to be able to be considered for an Oscar nomination. General release doesn’t have anything to do with it. This is nothing new. For many years the studios have waited until December to open their Oscar bait films, often times in limited release within the last two weeks of the year and then going wide in January when there is less competition and they can capitalize on any nominations.
And anyway, there aren’t enough screens to have all films that are trying to get Oscar nominations out in general release at the same time. And how many cities would you want “General release” to be anyway, before it could count for a film getting a nomination? Just the big cities? Every city? Many smaller films don’t open everywhere no matter what they get nominated for.
Yes, I know that’s not how it works,:rolleyes: but that’s how it *should *work.
There are about 40,000 movie screens in the USA. They could release 100 movies all at once and still have each covered by 400 screens.
That’s for them to work out the details.
That can’t be right. Beau Bridges couldn’t convincingly play Beau Bridges. Are you thinking of Lloyd Bridges?
Yeah, that’s a re-release. I saw it in a suburban multiplex on Thanksgiving last year.
Good to know.
400 screens is nothing. A movie on 400 screens is still showing only in the major urban centers, typically.
Just saw it today and can’t understand the love for her performance. It’s certainly a great role but the large majority of the first hour and a half consisted of her alternating between a confused/befuddled expression and soft porn panting.
This is a terrible nomination. Direction, yes. Acting, yes. Adapted screenplay? HUH?
If the people who nominate movies for Oscars thought Tangled was a **better movie **than the Illusionist, it would have been nominated. What a bizarre concept of “cheating” you have.
Just saw the Illusionist last night, by the way, and it was a pretty good movie. Very thought-provoking. I’m still not sure what I think about it, but it definitely deserved an Oscar nomination. Beautiful animation, fascinating use of language, amazing depiction of Scotland (particularly the accuracy with regards to Edinburgh). Characterization and plot were not as strong, but still 100% worth watching.