Richard Roeper's Reviews - Roeper's Best Picture Oscar Prediction

[chilipepperfan11]

WRONG

[hLofA14]

Haha fail

[jayshock89]

Whats with all the boxing movies being so special? Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, now this?

[JokerFan1138]

actually the top 3 are the king's speech, the social network (which, hate mail in 3....2....1....I HATED THE SOCIAL NETWORK) and true grit (my personal favorite) not the fighter. i hope true grit wins, but the king's speech will probobly win, and to be honest, i'll be happy with that. as much as i want films like toy story 3, incneption, the fighter, or again, true grit, a bit more, i'll be fine with king's speech winning.

[lakairunner21]

i hope 127 hours will win

[ryannijakowski01]

You're and idiot, Richard Roeper, and that's MY critical opinion.

[OddOneOut665]

Hey, where's "Black Swan" and "The Kids Are All Right"? Did Roeper think they had no chance at all, so weren't even worth mentioning?

[789123456789]

The Social network Should win, but The Kings Speech will win. I mean come on, the academy loves movies like this.

[SneakyThunder]

Don't say Toy Story 3 has NO chance of winning it was a Fantastic Film it had every bit as much emotion as any of the live action films the only reason it's not gonna win is because the Academy added the dumb Best Animated Film section.

[louiejack6]

@SneakyThunder Toy Story 3 has NO chance of winning. Great film, but he was just being honest.

[JonyMcAwesome]

lol Black Swan and Kids are all right were not even mentioned

[DJGOLFVR6]

i really wish INCEPTION could win it! NOLAN is the real no matter what

[MikeDiastavrone3]

The Academy is too predictable. As much as I loved Inception, i knew from the moment I saw it that it had no chance of winning Best Picture.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 thank god inception didn't win, that would ahve been a tragedy. just like i said. avatar should not have been nominated at all last year, and while i think inception deserved a best pic nom, it shouldn't win it. i mean who cares about frivalous blockbusters. i admit they are fun but come on....... they have a very low message about the human condition. i mean as fun as inception was, it was a puzzle box, which at the end of the day meant nothing. its like a james bond film...

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Well, I respect your opinion, although I found more emotional depth in the plot and thought it was more than just a "puzzle box".

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 well come on though, that was shit quality for nolan. nolan is a way better director then what he is doing. i meaan the guy who made memento and insomnia...... now he is making fking comic book movies and some silly action blockbuster about dreams......... like wt the hell is that all about that. i have never seen a director fall to such lunacy in 10 years..... he has to get his shit togather. originality and genius of memento> anything else nolan ever will and did make.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Um...okay. Don't really want to argue because I love Memento, Inception, and The Dark Knight and really Nolan is one of my favorite directors currently making movies.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 wow do you have any pride or respect comparing a completely original work of art with couple of summer blockbusters? so let me get this striaght, you like memento but you also like inception and dark knight. seems to me like your a dumass movie-goer who likes to drool watching fight scenes and explosions, while the other half of your brian has a craving for great cinema. question is which one will you listen to? the smart side or the stupid side that likes blockbusters?

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Okay, there's no point in insulting a guy over the internet, it's just stupid. Plus, I do not just like explosions and fight scenes (Transformers 2 was all that and that movie sucked) but I like a film that can tell an engaging story, as all three of those films did. Saying that all summer blockbusters suck is saying that Star Wars sucked and saying fight scenes make a movie suck is saying The Godfather sucks. I am not a dumbass movie-goer, but rather one that enjoys a good flick.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 come on i just need you to admit it, cause i know its inside of you man, i can feel intelligence within you, dont fall for the popular thing, trust me i can tell from your words you dont appreciate blockbusters..... and dont ever compare transformers 2 to dark knight......... in that case dont compare transformers 2 to any movie ever made..... cause well yeah......

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yeah, Transformers 2 and every other stupid run-of-the-mill blockbuster is stupid (got stuck with friends into seeing Battle: LA, wish I could have that money back). I don't just fall for the popular thing, but I will admit I liked Inception for its interesting plot points and emotional depth and like The Dark Knight for its themes, performances, and questions of how far someone (Batman) will go to help others and how far others (the Joker) will go just to watch the world burn.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 bro frankly man i wish blockbusters would just die, i know you say there are good ones and stuff, and your right, but seriously man some of them are SO HORRENDOUSLY bad, like god dam chrsit. if someone gave me 200 million dollars, i could make a more awesome movie. man blockbusters cheapen cinema. maybe inception and dark knight are more classy. but i a talking about shit like avatar, transformers, and GI joe. its pathetic that people actually think avatar is the great movie..

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Oh hell yeah and I agree with you completely on that. Transformers and G.I. Joe were stupid as hell 2-hour fight scenes based on toys I played with when I was a kid in the '80s. Avatar is a cheap CGI rip-off of Dances With Wolves (which was overrated for its time and people are just now realizing it), Pocahontas (yeah, James Cameron should feel high and mighty copying a Disney film), and Ferngully (another cartoon). God, I hated all the stupid hype around Avatar...

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 ok your a reasonable guy, your not out here calling inception the greatest film of all time, but you just think its a great film, i thought it was good film too, i can live with people liking it, and geuss what your going to love this f---ing video i promise you will love it lol.

watch?v=lFAwmhY5Qd0 just tell me how you feel about that lol.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 lol oh wow, comparing how "smart" Avatar was to Inception? lol I used to like James Cameron with Terminator 2 and all, but I cannot take him seriously when he says Avatar has some sort of deep philosophical message when it's just Dances With Wolves in 3D with large blue indian cats. Thanks for sharing that, I got a good laugh out of his answer lol.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 here is why spielberg is way more awesome he makes blockbusters, but he admits it when he just made a popcorn flick, and then makes serious flicks when he feels serious about a subject. James cameron makes shit and thinks its profound shit....... i find that so hilarious man, like him sitting there talking about his movie's message. i wish titanic and avatar didn't make so much money, cause he thinks he really is king of the world. why the fuck do so many people go see it?

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yeah, Spielberg knows when he's doing just a casual popcorn flick (Indy 4) and when he's making serious movies (Schindler's List) while Cameron thinks just too highly of himself. I mean, Titanic was just Romeo and Juliet on a boat and Avatar is a rip-off of too many stories to name. He makes these dumb clichéd movies, but he hypes up a special effect and a love story and they make billions of dollars. It really is a disgrace to film that Avatar is the highest grossing film ever.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 it really is, because those who dont know much about cinema like people who dont know masters like kubrick and scorsese think the highest grossing is the greatest. i had guy ask me if i liked it, and i said no and he said isn't it the greatest movie ever made. so the sad thing is the main stream population is to uneducated to know that people like scorsese kubrick, and sorry to say this, but not many mainstream people know nolan exists.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yeah, I completely agree. Nowadays it seems like it isn't "cool" to see the true masterpieces, but rather "cool" to see the movie made completely of CGI and action scenes that would've been much better as a 3-minute vid on YouTube, but not a 3-hour movie in theaters. Kubrick and Scorsese are great examples as they had excellent films that still attracted an audience back in its day and now people don't look for those great directors, but they look for someone like Michael Bay sadly.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 i hear nolan is taking up a howard hughes biopic, and as you know martin scorsese already made a howard hughes biopic, i mean it won oscars and all that stuff and blah blah. But man, as talented as nolan is, i think he wont be able to make a character study better than scorsese, and espeicially not one about a self destructive man. i mean scorsese biult his name on character studies (raging bull, taxi driver) i am kind of scared for nolan man. hope he pulls it off.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Oh man, Nolan better bring his A-game if he's going to attempt to do a character study on a man that Scorsese already succeeded at. I don't really think Nolan can do it either since all his movies are focused on events happening, not a specific character arc. If he can pull it off, then it'll be an impressive feat but yeah I'm a little worried to see how this will turn out.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 ya lol, it's hilarious how POLAR opposites scorsese and nolan are. like nolan is so much more like a kubrick/lynch director, like he is all about ideas, and he is like kubrick in the way they both use their characters like tools to portray their ideas, whereas scorsese is all about the characters, and the morality of the characters, i mean uhh.... yaaa. no point in comparing nolan and scorsese, cause they are as different as you could be, but ya nolan better eat some steroids.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 The fact that Nolan really has an interest in making this movie shows he's got some balls. This would be like Scorsese now trying to remake Memento, it's just something that's not in his field. Nolan better know what he's doing.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 i geuss i was extremely harsh about nolan. fact is he tries to expand his canvas. unlike cameron. did you notice, how in titanic and avatar, the aliens or (Leo and kate) have kinky sex right before catastophe strikes (ship sinking, the military killing the tree of greatness or watever) he is so dam predictable lool. i mean its ok that he was semi predicatable in titanic, avatar... but ya i think nolan will be done with blockbusters, he is obviously making a biopic,

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yeah, Cameron also did the whole sex before disaster thing with The Terminator also where Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor had sex right before Kyle died that night. James Cameron: predictable since '84. lol And yeah, Nolan is probably going the Spielberg route and expanding his horizons as much as he can...let's just hope it doesn't result in another Hook. lol

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 ya nolan shouldn't be compared to cameron . but i think nolan has one flaw, and its the same flaw that has plauged talents like paul thomas anderson. i feel like both paul and nolan both try to reach beyond their grasp and fail sometimes. nolan in prestige tries to make the whole movie feel like a magic trick, but the ending just doesn't work naturally. paul thomas anderson in there will be blood(best film of the decade) tries to be too ambitious and the ending doesn't come off

[malows1234]

@malows1234 now both these directors are the best of their generation (they are the same generation technically). but they try so hard, and sometimes fail, but the cool thing is that there will be blood is still an absolute masterpeice. and prestige is sooooo well made.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yeah, I can see where you're getting at. The Prestige is, in my opinion, one of Nolan's weaker films as I do think he tried to hard and so everything feels rather forced than natural. Even with that though, it was still a very good movie. Paul didn't reach so much with There Will Be Blood but yes, the ending is a bit of a reach. Both are still incredible directors though.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 man i think there will be blood is possibly the greatest film of the decade, i mean the way he uses his characters so everything that america was biult on. greed, capitalism, religion.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 I haven't completely thought about the greatest films of the 21st century so far, but There Will Be Blood definitely has to be up there.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 i mean ok man, look i think you will agree when i say nolan is as talented as Paul anderson, maybe paul anderson is very slightly better, but for the most part they are both talents to behold. paul anderson made there will be blood, which i wont even try to explain to you how great it is. i mean there will be blood is a masterpeice that comes once in a while, now here is my question to nolan, WHY THE FUCK IS HE NOT MAKING FILMS LIKE THAT, he sorta did with memento but....

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yes, I think in terms of directorial talent those two are both about as talented as they come. Nolan, I think (and this is just a guess), might actually be trying to make thinking films or films that would otherwise just be considered Oscar bait into the mainstream. Since the success of Memento, Nolan sees he has an audience in these movies and seems like he tries to salvage blockbusters by making movies like The Dark Knight and Inception that are both intellectual and mainstream.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 correct me if i am wrong here. i feel like paul anderson is the scorsese of our generation, while nolan is taking more like the spielberg route. now look i dont want to bash spielberg, cause the man is a legend, but frankly i think everyone will agree that scorsese is a better filmmaker, .... .....and i dont think nolan should go the spielberg route, i feel he can be like in the kubrick route, think about films of kubrick and nolan. so many simalarities. just think about it.

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Nolan does all that while Paul Anderson really doesn't care for that (and really doesn't need to, There Will Be Blood was a success anyway) and so he feels free to make any kind of movie he wants while Nolan tests audiences and sees what he can get away with both critically and commercially.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 man i geuss in a way i think paul anderson is more uhhh like risky ambitious, and nolan i just feel he is been making good movies, i mean he made great movies in the begening, i mean following is so..... like...... daring. i mean the following shows a director unafraid about telling the story he wants and saying "FUCK COMMERCIAL SUCESS" and memento is the same way, and insomnia, oh man i love insomnia. especially following, is so much genius and daring right there.

[malows1234]

@malows1234 and i dont even want to ask why the fuck he is wasting his time producing a superman reboot, or directing a sequel to the batman movies, i mean there is no reason for him to waste his time with batman 3. i mean they could EASILY find some other director to do it. i mean its such a fking waste of his talent, i want him to make his biopic so badly. i mean god watever...... seriously we all know batman 3 is going to be worse than the second one, we all know with ledger missing .......

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Yeah, Nolan really does not need to make a Batman 3. Really, The Dark Knight had a great cliffhanger and if that was it, then fans would've been happy with that. Nolan should stick with original movies and creative works rather than a comic book movie sequel that can't live up to what he's already done.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 your the fucking greatest person i met, . everytime i ever there is no need for batman 3. people wanna kill me. thank god your logical. man your a smart man. you understand that there is no way, , that nolan will make a better film, and i say that just because ledger wont be in it. secondly, there will be no way he will recreated the hype of dark knight, sorry to say that ledger dying did help the hype of the movie. so even if he made a better movie, people wouldn't think it is

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 Oh hell yeah, people will always have The Dark Knight up on a high horse because of the circumstances around it with Ledger's death and all his Oscar hype. I mean, nobody was thinking "oh man, the sequel to Batman Begins will be awesome!" They were all thinking, "I hear Heath Ledger's really great as the Joker in the new Batman flick." There will always be a mystique around The Dark Knight because of Heath Ledger, kinda like The Crow with Brandon Lee.

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 dude i should not have bashed steven speilberg. so i just have as little grudge on spielberg i geuss, because i WAS SO IMMERSED in schindler's list you had no idea. but then came the ending, which obviously went back to the spielbergian sentimentality, it's like he resisted his urge to be overly sentimental like in his other movies, and then at the last 10 minutes of the film gave up, it like riuns a practically flawless film. tell you didn't think schindler crying wasn't chees

[malows1234]

@MikeDiastavrone3 oh ya i remember going there one opening day to see dark knight, and like the first scene when you dont even see the joker, cause they are wearing masks, people started like smiling and gettin all excited just at the anticipation of the joker, i think his death had an affect on the mentality of audience (subconciously) wierdly enough i dont ever think nolan nor any other director can recreate that hype, it was just something that just happen.... can't even explain why it happen

[MikeDiastavrone3]

@malows1234 It makes sense they would be so hyped since it seems that whenever someone dies, it only makes people further appreciate what they did. In Heath's case, they went to appreciate his last complete performance.

[LATiNAMAMi369]

INCEPTIONNNNN. gosh dang i'm tired of the social network winning. it won all those other awards, give another movie (preferably inception) the award! it's so much better. the acting, the score, the landscape, the plot, ack!! i loved the king's speech and the fighter as well, toy story 3 cracked me up! i loved it

[Aqquila89]

Hey, Black Swan is also nominated. It won't win, but he could've mentioned it.

[Gawaine687]

@Aqquila89 well he wasnt crazy about black swan, so i didnt think he would've mentioned it.

[napalman21]

if social network win the oscar, that will be one of the most biggest FAIL of the academy history

[imikey123]

@napalman21 really why? its really good. who do you think should win?

[imikey123]

i think the kings speech will win but it will be forgotten really quickly. where as inception, black swan, and the social network will be remembered and live long after the kings speech is forgotten.

[equestriansheridan]

@imikey123  have you seen all the movies you have mentioned?

[imikey123]

@equestriansheridan yeah 

[ErikaResponding]

I don't think anyone would disagree if every award went to Inception because years from now Inception will be the only thing people remember from 2010.

[equestriansheridan]

@ErikaResponding hmm, i disagree. "the kings speech" was just as good, if not better. i found "inception" to be not as good as all the hype.

[expIorer5148]

fuck the Academy. People should have the final say. Not some douche bag rich movie critics smoking pipes all day. People's Choice is not really fair because anyone can vote as many times as they like..

[Mrx2848]

@expIorer5148 Movie critics don't vote for the Oscars, you moron. The Academy is composed entirely of people in the moviemaking industry. Actors vote for the acting nominees, directors the directing nominees, screenwriters for contending screenplays, etc. Who better than filmmakers to decide whether or not a film is the best of the year?

If "The People" had the final say, Adam Sandler would have twenty Oscars by now. "The People" are largely idiots.

[delovelybelle]

@Mrx2848 Who votes on Best Picture?

[Mrx2848]

@delovelybelle Everybody.

[malows1234]

@Mrx2848 wait i hope you were bashing a guy who said that inception should have won inception. CAUSE i am frankly so fucking sick of that fucking movie inception now. one more muther fucker says anything about it, i am going to take my shotgun to assassinate christopher nolan. god dam christ, people it was a good movie.... but come on stop with the masterpeice bs, cause its no masterpeice. lol i think i started to despise the movie just cause of all the retards calling it a masterpeice.

[lukebccb]

@expIorer5148: people have their say and we get fucking garbage like transformers and twilight as the best picture of the year.

Hope you're fucking happy.



[pathofoblivion]

I'm going to look at it like this: The last film to win Best Picture with an acting Oscar was 'No Country For Old Men' in 2007 and because the Academy like to tie acting Oscars in with Best Picture 'The King's Speech' will probely win, but David Fincher will win Best Director.

[perfectangel579]

thats a tragedy!

[civilwarfare101]

I think the social network will win but that's very far from a bad thing.

[DAmicoJohnny]

I wouldn't be surprised if The Social Network could still pull it off. I definitely want it to.

[DAmicoJohnny]

True Grit would have gotten in if there were only five. It got ten nominations including Best Director.

[lunaticcalm29]

Kings speech will probably win it, although i would like inception to win it. The social network was good but not the best movie iv'e seen

[InkeyeTV]

eh personally I think the social network was a piece of crap. everybody seems to think zuckerberg actually stole the idea for facebook from those brothers after seeing the movie... and it had justin timberlake in it. nuff said

whereas Inception is one of the best movies ever made. now thats the movie that should win an oscar.

[thewall1179]

@InkeyeTV it won't. too many political components involved. nuff said

[thewall1179]

@InkeyeTV also, historically do you know how many sci-fi films have won best picture? 0. I think that adequately conveys how the academy regards science fiction.

[AwesomeKingRex]

inception was soooooo boooooooring and The King's Speech should/will win

[Reborn8303]

Toy story 3 has no business being in the best pixture category !

[JackkAttack09]

Completely agree Richard, good choice.