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Originally Posted by Queenie

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Director:
Jean-Marc Vallée
Writers:
Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack

quote: Rog: Who the hell’s Rock Hudson?

Clint: He’s an actor, dumbass. Haven’t you seen North By Northwest?

Great lines (but not my pick for Best Picture.) Screenplay maybe because it's nominated. Every Best Picture nominee is nominated for writing in each category as original work or as an adaptation, Before Midnight being the exception. I've seen every nominated film for Best Picture and they all have incredible writing and production, but grim and depressing is the theme this year—at full throttle— apart from Philomena and The Wolf of Wall Street, a filthy account from Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, which drops the F-bomb more than any other film in history. On the flip side, they are my favorite collaborators on Boardwalk Empire. I appreciate the impetus behind creating these films, which is varied, along with their meticulous details. But personally, I've had my fill, all year, of heavy in raunchy true stories (Jason Belfort,), gritty realism (Dallas Buyers Club and American Hustle,) brutality (12 Years A Slave), sadness and dysfunction (August: Osage County), ruination (Blue Jasmine.) and scary shit from (Gravity.) Time to crack open a couple of 6-packs, relax and take a break from all the gunk portrayed in movies this year. I'm coming up for air.

Add movies like Halle Barry in the The Call and Side Effects with Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones (which have nothing to do with the Oscars), and you have the straws that broke the camel's back. (I run to Downton Abbey and animal documentaries and fun stories and movies about heroism.)

If you would like to share your vote for the heck of it, please feel free. I've opened the thread The 86th Annual Academy Awards. I hope you'll take advantage of the thread and all information inside. See ya at the movies.