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Carlyle would like to congratulate The Dark Knight on its stunning Oscar...victory
Woo hoo! Pop the corks. It's time for some celebration. The Dark Knight encountered an incredible snub from this year's Oscar nods, and I for one couldn't be HAPPIER. Break out the champagne, boys. This is incredible news, news so grand that words can't quite describe it.
You fanboys pissed yet? You fired up and ready to call me a lameass dipshit fucktard? Don't. You've got me all wrong. The Dark Knight ABSOLUTELY deserved the nod, if not the win. So why am I so happy? Because this gargantuan snub, this blatant assault on pop culture driven filmmaking as opposed to more literary (and far less watched or liked) films...this always leads to one thing. Immortality. Every time a film this financially successful, this critically acclaimed and this beloved by fans (both by cinephiles and ordinary folk alike) gets ignored, it ALWAYS lends an incredible amount of street cred to the film. Had the Dark Knight won awards, it would have occasionally been referred to as overrated and eventually considered just another GREAT film. But when a rebuke like this happens to a film like TDK, the film gains immortality. It becomes Star Wars. It becomes Pulp Fiction. It becomes that film that was robbed.
And whatever film wins Best Picture will forever be known as undeserving by fans and often referred to as the clearly lesser film. That film is screwed of its place in history. Forrest Gump is a great film - but one often remembered as undeserving next to the highly influential Pulp Fiction. In fact, the only film that I can think will hold its own against TDK backlash is Slumdog Millionaire - if the academy has the balls to vote for it. Benjamin Button would be ripped apart by historical context. The Reader? Are you kidding me? Milk? Great films one an all. But not better than TDK - not to the fans. The MULTITUDES of fans. And their worldwide boxoffices don't even ADD UP TOGETHER to be a solid fraction of TDKs gross.
So fear not, dear readers. Put down the torches and pitchforks, my fanboy brethren. If it pisses you off, just don't watch. The results and highlights will be posted and written about later. The Oscar's have suffered a large drop off in viewership in recent years. They NEEDED an influx of young viewers tuning in to root for their favorite movie OF ALL TIME. But they said "Fuck that movie." So say "Fuck them," in return. They clearly don't want you Batman fans to watch. Which is the dumbest move they could have made.
And the best thing that could have happened to Nolan. He's got cred now. A tremendous amount of street cred with zero solid backlash - only quickly shouted down whiners who can barely get out the sound OVER, before the RATED gets drown out by a thousand snarling fans. You guys, the fans, you won today. You earned and will continue to earn TDK its rightful place in history. It will endure as the greatest comic book movie ever made, as the first one to do it so well it conquered all others - even if Hollywood wasn't ready to embrace it. You did.
And they will wince at their decision forever more. The academy made no friends today - only repaid favors to old ones. THAT is what will go down in history. THAT'S how the 2009 Oscars will be remembered.
You fanboys pissed yet? You fired up and ready to call me a lameass dipshit fucktard? Don't. You've got me all wrong. The Dark Knight ABSOLUTELY deserved the nod, if not the win. So why am I so happy? Because this gargantuan snub, this blatant assault on pop culture driven filmmaking as opposed to more literary (and far less watched or liked) films...this always leads to one thing. Immortality. Every time a film this financially successful, this critically acclaimed and this beloved by fans (both by cinephiles and ordinary folk alike) gets ignored, it ALWAYS lends an incredible amount of street cred to the film. Had the Dark Knight won awards, it would have occasionally been referred to as overrated and eventually considered just another GREAT film. But when a rebuke like this happens to a film like TDK, the film gains immortality. It becomes Star Wars. It becomes Pulp Fiction. It becomes that film that was robbed.
And whatever film wins Best Picture will forever be known as undeserving by fans and often referred to as the clearly lesser film. That film is screwed of its place in history. Forrest Gump is a great film - but one often remembered as undeserving next to the highly influential Pulp Fiction. In fact, the only film that I can think will hold its own against TDK backlash is Slumdog Millionaire - if the academy has the balls to vote for it. Benjamin Button would be ripped apart by historical context. The Reader? Are you kidding me? Milk? Great films one an all. But not better than TDK - not to the fans. The MULTITUDES of fans. And their worldwide boxoffices don't even ADD UP TOGETHER to be a solid fraction of TDKs gross.
So fear not, dear readers. Put down the torches and pitchforks, my fanboy brethren. If it pisses you off, just don't watch. The results and highlights will be posted and written about later. The Oscar's have suffered a large drop off in viewership in recent years. They NEEDED an influx of young viewers tuning in to root for their favorite movie OF ALL TIME. But they said "Fuck that movie." So say "Fuck them," in return. They clearly don't want you Batman fans to watch. Which is the dumbest move they could have made.
And the best thing that could have happened to Nolan. He's got cred now. A tremendous amount of street cred with zero solid backlash - only quickly shouted down whiners who can barely get out the sound OVER, before the RATED gets drown out by a thousand snarling fans. You guys, the fans, you won today. You earned and will continue to earn TDK its rightful place in history. It will endure as the greatest comic book movie ever made, as the first one to do it so well it conquered all others - even if Hollywood wasn't ready to embrace it. You did.
And they will wince at their decision forever more. The academy made no friends today - only repaid favors to old ones. THAT is what will go down in history. THAT'S how the 2009 Oscars will be remembered.
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Comment by OUTLANDER!!! on April 22, 2009 at 3:28am -
fuck yea carlyle, fuck yea.
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Comment by Señor Chaken on January 27, 2009 at 3:45am -
fuck yea!!!
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Comment by Micku on January 27, 2009 at 12:48am -
Didn't Titanic won best picture despite it doing well in the box office? I thought TDK would get a mention for best picture.
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Comment by slevin117 on January 26, 2009 at 4:26pm -
it is DESERVING of best motion picture, but with how stupid the academy is it it is far better this way.
Ledger stil lbetter win for supporting actor. (i wish he wasn't supporting though, he had as big a part as bale in it.)
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Comment by GorTheMovieGod on January 25, 2009 at 5:59pm -
Your right Carlyle....thats all i have to say.
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Comment by Andrew on January 25, 2009 at 4:59pm -
You know you've just opened up the pandoras box of new dark knight questions on ACOCO...
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Comment by Right Click on January 25, 2009 at 4:53am -
Lets not forget Star Wars Ep 1-3 made tons of money, but those are nothing more than CGI laced bowls of shit. While TDK was probably the most entertaining movie of 2008, it was, by far, not the best of 2008. In my opinion, Waltz for Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) was the best movie of 2008. Milk comes in 2nd, but thats influenced by my personal experiences concerning Prop 8 in California.
If it weren't for Aron Eckheart and Heath Ledger and Gary Oldman (Maggie Gyllenhall did way better than Katie Holms to boot), it would be seen for what it was; an entertaining joy-ride with a strong start but seemingly borderline malfunctioning brakes when it comes to a conclusion.
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Comment by Captain Useless on January 24, 2009 at 5:54pm -
It's funny but I remember movies which wasn't nominated better than movies that won.
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Comment by Zgamer on January 24, 2009 at 2:51pm -
Totally agree with you dude. I also found this article supporting this opinion if you want to check it out:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/winslet-oscar-query-solved-and-the-dark-knight-probably-wasnt-snubbed
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Comment by david chalker on January 24, 2009 at 4:27am -
i think the dark knight was great but it wasnt the best film of 08 in my mind slumdog is better havnt seen button frost/nixon milk or the reader but i will see them all before the ocars hit. caryle has a point if tdk was given the same treatment as titanic on oscar night my view is it would have been torn apart over time but without all the awards to its name i think it will become the peoples movie like pulp fiction did.
on the other hand i do understand the studios standing on the snub, if movies like the dark knight actually won it would change everything. think about this if movies like frost nixon, the wrestler, slumdog. the reader, revolutionary road, milk, doubt, rachel gets married, vicky cristina barcelona and changeling didnt have the awards season to dump awards and noms on there door most of these movies would get a limited release and die out in 2 or 3 weeks those movies need these awards dark knight doesnt need and will never need awards to get people to go see it because when it comes down to it,its a summer blockbuster its just that it was so well made that it could also work as a oscar season film too. all it really means now is summer movies comic book movies esecially will have to lift there game because they cant use the its 'just a popcorn film" anymore because dark knight will be what everything gets compared to as far as the summer blockbuster is from now on
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