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Post by katryna on Jul 30, 2004 22:40:18 GMT -5
Just wondering what you guys thought about this...
As most of you know, movies released in the summertime are *usually* ignored by the time Oscar season rolls around in the fall. do you think that if the notebook had been released later in the year like, in october/november, it would have a chance to get some Oscar nominations...or generated a larger audience? I dunno, it just seems like in the summertime, great, emotional, potential oscar worthy movies are overshadowed by big huge blockbusters (ie, Spidey, Harry Potter, Shrek 2) and less emotional movies that everyone goes to see instead.
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Post by memorylane on Jul 30, 2004 22:56:51 GMT -5
Just wondering what you guys thought about this... As most of you know, movies released in the summertime are *usually* ignored by the time Oscar season rolls around in the fall. do you think that if the notebook had been released later in the year like, in october/november, it would have a chance to get some Oscar nominations...or generated a larger audience? I dunno, it just seems like in the summertime, great, emotional, potential oscar worthy movies are overshadowed by big huge blockbusters (ie, Spidey, Harry Potter, Shrek 2) and less emotional movies that everyone goes to see instead. You have a point that movies released later in the year have a better chance for Oscar nods, but a summertime romance movie being released in the sumner makes perfect sense to me. When was "Titanic" first released? It got some Oscars, including best director. Alot of the sumner action blockbusters do not even get nominations. How much money a movie makes is not usually equated to what wins at the Oscars. Sometimes, I think it is all politics and something unmentionable here.
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Post by Kwin on Jul 30, 2004 23:58:16 GMT -5
titanic was released, i think about october/november? not sure.. i could be making that up if there's something special there that they see, the notebook might just see get an award or two.
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Post by jujulicious on Jul 31, 2004 4:16:01 GMT -5
I imagined this movie to be released during fall/winter season...but I guess since it's about a summer romance they wanted to release it during the summertime..but who knows...
btw, titanic was released december...i think it was almost christmas...around that time...
there hasn't been a movie recently that has such a powerful story like in the notebook...and the performances of Ryan, Rachel, James & Gena as said by the critics are just excellent....i think the cinematography and movie score is also beautiful...i hope the movie will get some attention from award giving bodies somehow...for me, the movie is truly deserving.
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Post by ThoseSummerNights on Jul 31, 2004 14:57:59 GMT -5
titanic was released, i think about october/november? not sure.. i could be making that up if there's something special there that they see, the notebook might just see get an award or two. Yes, Titanic was released late- December 19th 1997 I believe. So it could be possible that The Notebook is overshadowed a bit by "bigger" movies, which is a shame though b/c it's got so much more heart and depth than any other movie I've seen this summer so far. I mean, I just saw Catwoman (didn't want to, but was forced to) and it was HORRIBLE! So, I feel dissapointed that The Notebook hasn't taken off as well as I would have hoped.
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Post by Kwin on Jul 31, 2004 21:23:05 GMT -5
yeah, i know what you mean. i was hoping this movie would do really really well. now, it's only playing in like 2 theaters here. it's sad.
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Post by jujulicious on Aug 1, 2004 13:50:03 GMT -5
The Notebook is out of the Top 10 this week But at least it's already made $65 million.....The movie already made a lot of profit but I still think it could have done so much better if it was promoted better? I'm really hoping that even though it was released during summer that award giving bodies will still give recognition to the movie. It's really also up to the movie producer(s) as well though...if they want the movie to have some type of recognition, New Line Cinema would send in those dvds and write ups to the Oscars/Academy Awards that says something like "For your consideration"..and put out Ads for the movie or actors to be recognized for the awards...I'm trying to be optimistic but seeing how they promoted the movie..I dont know if they'd give that kind of support for the movie...I'm still hoping that they do though...I don't think they have a Lord of the rings to promote come Oscars time.
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Post by ThoseSummerNights on Aug 1, 2004 15:25:52 GMT -5
I agree, I mean there is a lot you can nominate The Notebook for, besides performances and director, there's also art and costume awards, and technical awards as well, for the look and the feel of the film. I think it should be recognized in some way!
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Post by grkANGEL85 on Aug 1, 2004 18:43:48 GMT -5
I never really thought about that - Oscar nods going to movies released later in the year. It is true though. Mystic River, Lord of the Rings, Something's Gotta Give, and Monster were all released between October and December.
This year though, I think The Passion is going to rule the Oscars and that came out last March.
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Post by katryna on Aug 1, 2004 19:20:18 GMT -5
I can't tell you how upset i was that the movie wasn't promoted better I mean...i was seeing commericials for A CINDERELLA STORY before i even saw previews on TV for the notebook! and i never saw previews on really big networks too often either. its a shame, had more people heard about it, it would've done soooo much better. i think i said this before- but some people i know that have read the book (and loved it) didn't even know that it had been turned into a movie until i told them!
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Post by grkANGEL85 on Aug 1, 2004 19:26:36 GMT -5
but some people i know that have read the book (and loved it) didn't even know that it had been turned into a movie until i told them! me too! my friend had no idea either. And we wanted to go see it with our other friend and she was like, "what is it? I've never heard of it." and this was 2 weeks after it opened!
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Post by trueloverawks on Aug 1, 2004 20:46:26 GMT -5
Yea i know.. some ppl never even knew what the movie was.. I mean I remember i was telling two of my friends that im obbessed with the notebook.. and their like the notebook whats that? I was like its a love story didnt you see it on previews? they were like no... but it sounds like its good if your liking it that much... i was like its very good... let me go on thenotebookmovie.com and show you the preview... so my friends saw the preview.. they were like OMG they looks like a good movie.. i want to see that soooo bad! im like i know!! but the thing is the notebook was already out of the theaters when they first heard about it... they were so upset.. i felt bad... they need to show some previews more on tv... bc that was a good movie!
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Post by missunshine on Aug 2, 2004 20:59:46 GMT -5
Yeah... none of my friends knew or even heard about the movie, so I had to advertise 'The Notebook' myself. LOL.
Even IF The Passion steals all the Oscars next year, it'd still be nice if The Notebook gets some nominations - it certainly deserves some.
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Post by Kwin on Aug 2, 2004 22:12:34 GMT -5
if not the oscars, how about the teen choice awards? it is nominated right? if it is, i hope it wins.
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Post by iLuVrYaN on Aug 2, 2004 23:11:27 GMT -5
O awesome its nominated?! wow! Even if this movie dosen't make it all the way to the academy awards it deserves some good recognition.
Ya The score for this movie was fantastic. I'm a musician in an orchestra, and I was very impressed by the senority of the music and the quality and the emotion in it. I think the music made me cry more than once too! Like the part at the end when Allie runs into Noahs arms and they ahve the cymballs crash and everything? I totally broke down. This movie totally deserves a nomination in score.
As for the passion-not sure guys. the media was incredibly biased against it cause it was supposedly "anti semitist" I don't agree with them, but I'm not sure hollywood gave this movie enough respect to make it to the oscars.
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