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Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

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Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

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Did the Academy get the Oscar nominations right? Sound off on their picks and tell us which were your favorite — and least favorite — films of 2011. And be sure to check out our 2011 Movi

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posted at February 4, 2012 3:42 AM EST

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Extremely Loud and Incredibily Awful was nominated as one of the Best Pictures of 2011! You have got to be kidding! If ever the ads and previews for a movie were deceptive, it was this one. Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are in the movie about 20 minutes and we go on and on and on in a search for what a key will open with meaningless results. If we are going to make movies related to the events of 9/11, we certainly deserve something a lot better than this mess.
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To say a movie abut a boy that comes to terms with the loss of his father on 9/11 is meaningless is totally insensitive. Every ad I saw made it clear Hanks was a victim early in the movie and the fallout from the personal experience of hearing his father's last words was the theme. His search for his father's legacy to him is very meaningful, but you have to stop looking for Hanks and Bullock to understand it. Buy a magazine next time. The young man and his Grandfather were excellent. It is one of the better movies in the past 18 months.

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 5:51 AM EST

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In Response to Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011 : I agree it was a terrible year for movies. The biggest mistake was The Descendent.....what a mess of a movie. To be nominated for an Oscar shows how low the expectations were
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You thought "The Descendants" was a "mess of a movie?" Wow.

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 7:07 AM EST

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I thought Contagion was a pretty good movie. It made you think. We are not nearly as secure a country as we once believed we were. The world is more vulnerable than we believe it is. The beginning and the end was not too entertaining but the story was well done. Worth the price of a rental.

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 9:48 AM EST

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THE ARTIST! No contest

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 9:50 AM EST

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THE ARTIST. No contest

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 10:22 AM EST

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If one is disappointed in the nominations for the Oscars, one needs to remember the process. It is at its root a process of self-congratulation that the members of the "industry" who decide. In this day of blog after blog where each of us gets to be consumer, advocate, and critic we might more appreciate the (fictitious) "Viewers Choice Awards". Many awards pass over more deserving recipients. That said, for sheer enjoyment I loved "Tin Tin". I don't understand why "Hugo" isn't a blockbuster, but it seems to be struggling to make its production costs back. A big win at the Oscars will likely change that. Of the "serious" movies I saw I thought both "Melancholia" and "The Meaning of Life" were overblown even if the acting ensembles did magnificent work. I thoroughly enjoyed the action movie "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol": it's what movies are about......escapism. "The Artist" was full of fresh talent and wonderful acting......its length could be half as long as it was and still be just as effective as a short.

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posted at February 4, 2012 10:51 AM EST

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TIME Magazine picked THE ARTIST, but if not that, they, too, said HUGO should get the nod

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 11:17 AM EST

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tinker tailor soldier spy was terrific, i thought, challenging and fascinating... and j edgar hoover simply terrific, leonardo dicapria was amazing and deserved more acclaim.

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 12:01 PM EST

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I was in part of the nominating process for the SAG awards, so I got to see most everything, forty five movies. I think the oscar list is pretty good. I loved The Descendants, but I think The Artist will win best picture. Although I'm a Woddy Allen fan, I hated Midnight in Paris (I thought the extreme obnoxiousness of Rachel Adams and her parents ruined the message of the film) and was angered by Extremely Loud...and its exploitation of 9/11. I'm happy they recognized Tree of Life..

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Re: Share Your Picks for the Best Movies of 2011

posted at February 4, 2012 12:39 PM EST

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Leonardo DiCaprio has been passed over too many times....such as titanic

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