Best Actress, 2008 - HABSY nominees

[Syt]

Have heard of those movies but not seen any of them, because no one I know wanted to see them, too.

Ditto

Take that Syt!!

[Sheilbh]

Anyway I'm surprised Mme Streep wasn't mentioned for her role in "Doubt". 

Dreadful film.  Oscar baiting middle brow artiness

[crazy canuck]

Whether a movie is good or bad has little to do with whether I'll enjoy watching it. A lot of the movies I've enjoyed have been objectively bad.

I would have guessed that.

[jimmy olsen]

Whether a movie is good or bad has little to do with whether I'll enjoy watching it. A lot of the movies I've enjoyed have been objectively bad.

I would have guessed that.

I just saying you shouldn't act like "did you enjoy the movie" and "was the movie good" are the same question, they're not.

[crazy canuck]

I just saying you shouldn't act like "did you enjoy the movie" and "was the movie good" are the same question, they're not.

Again, I would have guessed you would give that kind of answer.

[Neil]

Why do you ask?

Just trying to assess what you might consider good quality since you dont agree with the standards set by Oscar.

It just seems that these days that they've figured out the formula for winning.

[crazy canuck]

It just seems that these days that they've figured out the formula for winning.
[/quote]

I agree.  Its a lot like Wine.  If you like wines that dont conform to the consensus taste you have to look a bit harder to find what you like.

[Martinus]

Anyway I'm surprised Mme Streep wasn't mentioned for her role in "Doubt". 

Dreadful film.  Oscar baiting middle brow artiness

You are dead to me. 

[MadImmortalMan]

Why do you ask?

Just trying to assess what you might consider good quality since you dont agree with the standards set by Oscar.

It just seems that these days that they've figured out the formula for winning.

And Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are trying to collect as many as possible on that formula. Either of those two women being in a film is an automatic veto for me personally. They're good at what they do, but my personal distaste for them has reached the point where I'm not willing to give them a couple hours of my time anymore.

[garbon]

I've only seen The Reader and Changeling. I suppose Kate acted well but then the male lead was quite wooden in his role so anyone would have come out looking good.  Angelina was good in her role but without having seen the others, I'd be quite hesitant to say her performance was best.

[jimmy olsen]

I've only seen The Reader and Changeling. I suppose Kate acted well but then the male lead was quite wooden in his role so anyone would have come out looking good.  Angelina was good in her role but without having seen the others, I'd be quite hesitant to say her performance was best.

That isn't the internet way!

[garbon]

That isn't the internet way!

If I voted Angelina, I'd be rightfully told that I did so simply because I have a crush on her.

[Habsburg]

I agree. Never heard of those movies except for The Reader, which I was told it was anti-semitic.

Dude no.  And don't listen to whomever told you that ever again.
The Reader deals with many things, however the primary theme is collective German guilt for the Holocaust.

[Habsburg]

Anyway I'm surprised Mme Streep wasn't mentioned for her role in "Doubt". 

Dreadful film.  Oscar baiting middle brow artiness

Which is why she, nor anyone from Doubt (save the awesome Viola Davis) received HABSY nominations.  Thank you.

[garbon]

The Reader deals with many things, however the primary theme is collective German guilt for the Holocaust.

The primary theme is the plausibility of being so embarrassed that one is illiterate that one decides to jail Jews and then take the fall for ordering them to be killed.