# Which of these fall and Oscar season movies are you interested in seeing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542 "2014-09-05T03:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/21 "2014-09-10T01:11:42Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I read the list and thought “The only one I know I won’t see is Gone Girl.” 😃 > > (HATED the characters with a profound hatred.) This for me, too. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/22 "2014-09-10T01:29:35Z")
How come? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/23 "2014-09-10T01:43:29Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > IMDb says these are coming out in January. American Sniper is getting a limited release starting on Christmas Day. I’ve been following the reviews from Toronto, and some of these look fantastic. Nightcrawler for sure, Birdman absofuckinglutely. Not on your list is Phoenix, which also looks great. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/24 "2014-09-10T01:44:07Z")
Thanks for this great thread. I was unaware of most of these films. Definitely _Birdman_, _Gone Girl_, _Interstellar_, _The Judge_, _Automata_, and _Mockingjay._ Also, thanks so much for: _Instead of kisses we get kicked…_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/25 "2014-09-10T06:23:28Z")
I’m posting from my phone, and don’t know how to link. But I’m anxious to see \* Cake \* with Jennifer Aniston. Dark comedy about her as a chronic pain sufferer, also has Anna Kendrick and Felicity Huffman. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/26 "2014-09-10T17:12:02Z")
No mention the animated movie The Book Of Life? It’s a love story centered around the Mexican Day of the Dead. The characters are designed to look a bit like Mexican wooden dolls. It looks very striking visually and the story sounds pretty intriguing. Otherwise, I’m pumped for Paddington (hope they release a new trailer with Whishaw’s voice, a different feel, and some scenes with Peter Capaldi), Into the Woods, and Big Eyes. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/27 "2014-09-10T17:17:04Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > No mention the animated movie The Book Of Life? It’s a love story centered around the Mexican Day of the Dead. The characters are designed to look a bit like Mexican wooden dolls. It looks very striking visually and the story sounds pretty intriguing. I was absolutely smitten with the animation in the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/28 "2014-09-10T18:38:22Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I’m posting from my phone, and don’t know how to link. But I’m anxious to see \* Cake \* with Jennifer Aniston. Dark comedy about her as a chronic pain sufferer, also has Anna Kendrick and Felicity Huffman. [Here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3442006/?ref_=nv_sr_2) is the IMDB listing for _Cake_ ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/29 "2014-09-10T19:48:32Z")
In addition to those major films already mentioned in the thread (_Big Eyes, The Book of Life, The Boxtrolls, Foxcatcher, Inherent Vice_) not listed in the poll, other conspicuous absent movies are: **Black and White** - race-related custody battle w/Kevin Costner & Octavia Spencer **Jimi: All Is By My Side** - Hendrix biopic, with Andre Benjamin **Selma** - MLK biopic **Tracks** - Like _Wild_, but in the Australian outback and farther **Whiplash** - Sundance hit about a young drummer and his intense mentor, with J.K. Simmons I’ve been fortunate to have seen some of these listed already (though my job) and there are quite a few that I’m very excited about as well. This is awards season coming up, and while some films do end up coming across as shallow vehicles to bait a trophy or two, I think they all have potential if handled well so go into each with high hopes and an open mind. We’ll see! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/30 "2014-09-11T14:52:49Z")
Wish I’d read the descriptions before voting. There are several others I’d vote for now too. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/31 "2014-09-11T15:45:09Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > \*\*Birdman \*\*for sure, it looks [fucking incredible](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-efiEOb2qEU) and should get **Michael Keaton** an easy Oscar nod. > > Same with [Foxcatcher](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100089/)(not on the list to vote for). It should definitely earn **Steve Carrel** a lot of awards attention. If you’ve seen the trailer, he’s almost unrecognizable [playing John du Pont](http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/-816d9954-a014-43e1-a050-62799bfa003b.jpeg?width=2500&height=1600). Carrel ever been in a drama before? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/32 "2014-09-11T17:11:46Z")
Some of the titles you folks have mentioned as not being listed are titles I haven’t even heard of! Others are titles that somehow I didn’t think Dopers would be particularly interested in such as _Boxtrolls_ and _Book of Life_ or just didn’t seem to have a broad appeal generally, such as _Cake_. I was going for Big! Oscar! Woo! like _Mr. Turner_ and _The Theory of Everything_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/33 "2014-09-11T18:17:06Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Some of the titles you folks have mentioned as not being listed are titles I haven’t even heard of! Others are titles that somehow I didn’t think Dopers would be particularly interested in such as _Boxtrolls_ and _Book of Life_ or just didn’t seem to have a broad appeal generally, such as _Cake_. I was going for Big! Oscar! Woo! like _Mr. Turner_ and _The Theory of Everything_. Well, I would consider **Foxcatcher** a definite Oscar heavyweight–almost a slam dunk Best Picture nominee from Bennett Miller, whose last two films (_Capote, Moneyball_) were major Oscar contenders. Ditto _Inherent Vice_ from Paul Thomas Anderson, whose actors have received 7 Oscar nods in the past (and 4 for himself, too). And I wouldn’t be surprised if either of the animated films you mention take away the Animation Feature prize too (which, without Pixar in the equation, is a real toss-up) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/34 "2014-09-11T18:20:42Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Carrel ever been in a drama before? Nothing like this. Best Actor is turning into an incredibly competitive race (w/Keaton, Spall, Redmayne, Murray, and Cumberbatch already in the mix), but the buzz around him is incredibly strong after Cannes and Telluride. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/35 "2014-09-11T19:07:10Z")
_Fury_ - Brad Pitt World War II story; Fury is his tank. **Maybe.** _St. Vincent_ - Bill Murray plays the cranky, misanthropic old war vet next door, Again, go check out the trailer. \*\* Bill is always good.\*\* _Big Hero 6_ - animated action comedy about a boy and his inflatable robot. You’ve already seen the trailer. **Sounds fun.** _The Homesman_ - Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones in a period Western. Looks interesting. Go check out the trailer. **Maybe.** _The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1_ - Oh, you know, or you couldn’t care less. **Almost certainly my other half will want me to see this.** _The Penguins of Madagascar_ - Benedict Cumberbatch an an arctic fox. **Could be fun** _Wild_ - Reese Witherspoon takes a 1,100 mile trek. **I read the book.** _The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies_🆒🆒🆒🆒 **Must see!** ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/36 "2014-09-12T18:49:39Z")
Here are this week’s movie releases: **89%** for _The Skeleton Twins_ with Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as twins reunited after cheating death; **81%** for _The Drop_ with Tom Hardy as a lonely bartender who finds a pit bull puppy in a garbage can, and tries not to get sucked in to a life of crime; **80%** for _Honeymoon_ with Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as newlyweds whose honeymoon ends up being ruined by a series of strange events; **79%** for _The Green Prince_ about the son of a Hamas leader becoming an Israeli spy; **70%** for _Dolphin Tale 2_, about a baby dolphin; **68%** for _The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them_ starring James MacAvoy and Jessica Chastain playing a happily married couple whose relationship suffers in the wake of tragedy; **61%** for _My Old Lady_ starring Kevin Kline, Dame Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas; **55%** for _Bird People_ starring Josh Charles as an American starting his life over in Paris; **22%** for _At the Devil’s Door_, a horror movie **20%** for _No Good Deed_, a thriller with Idris Elba as an escaped convict. Then I have “No Score Yet” for _Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?_ Have a great weekend, everybody! ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/37 "2014-09-13T02:57:06Z")
_Hobbit_ is the only one I recognised, though I guessed that _Paddington_ was about the bear. After reading thedescriptions, I vored _Fury_, _Homesman_ and _Hobbit_. _Hobbit_ is probably the only one I’ll actually see, though, unless the base theatre gets one of the others as a preview. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/38 "2014-09-19T15:46:02Z")
Here are this week’s movie releases: **98%** for _20,000 Days on Earth_, in which Nick Cave marks his 20,000th day of life (that means he’s 54 years old); **93%** for _The Guest_, in which a man who may not be what he claims to be is welcomed into the home of a family grieving the loss of their son in Afghanistan; **87%** for _Art and Craft_, a documentary about art forger Mark Landis; **83%** for _Tracks_, with Mia Wasikowska, about a woman who treks 1,700 miles across the Australian desert; **63%** for _A Walk Among the Tombstones_, another Liam Neeson bang-bang revenge thriller; **61%** for _The Maze Runner_, based on a YA novel, about a group of teenage boys forced to run a maze and try not to get killed; **56%** for _Pump_, a documentary about America’s addiction to oil; **50%** for _Space Station 76_, a deadpan black comedy about “a 1970s version of the future.” No CGI, just miniatures. The [website](http://spacestation76.com/) looks pretty awesome. **45%** for _This Is Where I Leave You_, about four grown siblings forced to spend a week in their childhood home to sit Shiva when their father dies. **42%** for _Tusk_, a Kevin Smith horror comedy about a man tortured into becoming a walrus; **25%** for _Hector and the Search for Happiness_, about a psychiatrist (Simon Pegg) who leaves home to find out what makes people happy; **0%** for _Reclaim_, thriller about an American couple traveling abroad and bad things happen. I have No Score Yet for _Dr. Cabbie_, about a young Indian doctor who comes to America and has to drive a cab. _Pride_ has been pushed back to the 26th. Have a great weekend, everybody! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/39 "2014-09-19T16:57:47Z")
Not a movie goer in general, but I know I’ll be seeing the Hobbit, if only to find out how they manage to compress the roughly twenty remaining pages of book into 2 1/2 hours of movie. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542/40 "2014-09-26T18:40:48Z")
Here are this week’s movie releases: **93%** and Certified Fresh for _Pride_ with Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, about gays and lesbians supporting striking coal miners; **88%** for _'71_ about a British soldier accidentally abandoned by his unit in Belfast at the height of the Troubles in 1971; **82%** and Certified Fresh for _The Two Faces of January_, in which Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst are con artists and things start to go wrong; **75%** for _Jimi: All Is By My Side_, a fictionalized biopic about Jimi Hendrix (unfortunately the filmmakers didn’t get permission to use his music in their film – ouch); **73%** for _What We Did on Our Holiday_, starring David Tennant and Rosamund Pike, and Billy Connolly as his dad, about a family who travel to Scotland for a family birthday and bad things happen, I think. It’s a comedy, though. **71%** for _White Bird in a Blizzard_, starring Shailene Woodley, Eva Green and Christopher Meloni and based on a book, about a teenage girl whose mother disappears. **70%** for _The Boxtrolls_, a stop-motion animated fantasy about a boy raised by boxtrolls, little trolls who live in (and wear) cardboard boxes. **60%** for _Maps to the Stars_, starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack and Robert Pattinson, and directed by David Cronenberg, about a fading movie star living in the shadow of her much more successful actress mother, who hires a mysterious, troubled young woman as her personal assistant. **59%** for _The Equalizer_, starring Denzel Washington as a gentle man with a violent past and Chloe Grace Moretz as a young woman in trouble; **38%** for _Two Night Stand_, a rom-com about two young people who impulsively hook up for a one night stand and then get trapped in his tiny apartment by a snowstorm; **25%** for _Believe Me_, about four broke college students who try to scam churchgoers with a fake charity; **13%** for _Good People_, starring James Franco and Kate Hudson as landlords who decide to keep the money they found in their dead tenant’s apartment, and bad things happen; **10%** for _Plastic_, about a group of young people running an elaborate credit card scam, who run afoul of the wrong man, and bad things happen; **0%** for _Days and Nights_, based on Chekhov’s _The Seagull_, about a large eccentric family getting together on Memorial Day weekend, and bad things happen, I guess. Have a great weekend! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-fall-and-oscar-season-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/697542.md?page=3)