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A thousand Quatloos on the newcomer!

I dunno, I can still tell what the hell is going on. More shakycam and running through hallways, please.

245 reviews on rottentomatoes.com

234 positive.

11 negative.

So, David, what does it feel like to be apart of the mighty 4%?

'More shakycam and running through hallways, please.'

hey, i rather adore the new 'strek' but fuck me if there wasn't a shitload of running thru hallways, what was all that about? tres bizarre

Just thought I'd let people know the trailer for Precious is out (it's all over the net including at Oprah's and Tyler Perry's sites and you can view it at my blog if you click my name or any other number of blogs/sites) and it looks like a doozy. In ten months (or so) Mo'Nique will be an Oscar winner, right?

It doesn't feel like anything, Tofu. I'm not in 3rd grade.

Tofu - I won't answer for David, but...

It's not easy being right.

Uh, not a chance, Kami.

But given the system, she could well be nominated.

You really think the Academy that gave a statue to an American Idol runner up is gonna have an issue with giving it to a former host of Charm School? What's really the difference? And they have recently shown that, on the male side of things anyway, they are more than willing to give statues to actors portraying monsters (Bardem, Ledger).

And considering she is going to be winning critics awards left right and centre (well, from what we've all heard it certainly sounds like a reasonable assumption) I don't see why it's so unfathomable. Plus, everybody who has seen this movie says she is truly brilliant and that she'll be in. EVERYBODY. And for someone such as Mo'Nique in a movie such as Precious to have such unanimous praise sure is something. Besides, she's African American. I'd be interested to know why you're so skeptical.

Also, the trailer for Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzB79_gkZY Judi Dench is another one who seems like she's on a path to the Kodak Theatre. Interesting that Fergie is the one person heard performing here. Chucky will love it though. No fame whoring OR Oscar whoring whatsoever except for Rob Marshall's name at the start. And for a movie that has a cast of six Oscar winners that's quite a temptation they resisted.

Wrong, Kami. Nine is based on a play. Audiences haven't forgiven Rob Marshall for name-checking in Memoirs of a Geisha. Finally, it isn't playing at the Regal multiplex in Newington, NH, according to the calls I've been making to it all week.

Three strikes, and you're out.

Rob Marshall's Nine, the animated "nine," and Blomkamp's District 9.

Couldn't ONE of them have changed titles?

The difference, Kami, is that this not a movie star slumming... and her character is not remotely uplifting.

Monique is very good in this film. So are a half dozen others. She has the showiest role... as the evil bitch mother from hell. Who wins Oscars playing that? Movie stars. Not Monique.

Apparently my last reply didn't post?

It's Mo'Nique and fair enough. Although I still think it's very plausible with it being a "breakthrough" and all.

LYT, it isn't a coincidence that these projects were greenlit for '09 releases.

It doesn't feel like anything, Tofu. I'm not in 3rd grade.

Can't quite say the same of those who commented on your review, but you were given a fairer shake than Ebert or White.

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