It helps if Hangover is nominated in one of the screenplay categories.

Now that Shutter Island is out of the aquation, that’s one movie The Hangover has leapfrogged.

Drag Me To Hell may end up being this year’s Exorcist

Nine may end up being this year’s Chicago

There’s always some britshit movie nominated.
They don’t stick with AFI.

The Reader didn’t make the American Film Institute lists because it was British financed.

I think that “The Hangover” was one of the funniest films that I have seen in a long time. However, I agree with you that it shouldn’t get a nomination for best picture. To me this film has the exact same model as “The Wedding Crashers” both of which are hilarious , but they both wrap up fairly quickly.

Now with the expansion of 10 films being considered for best picture, i”m afraid the field will get watered down to the point where they may seriously consider this movie.

Not to take anything away from the film but it just needed more to recieve a nomination for best picture

Fair enough. But once again, I said “looked like” a lock-in. You’re probably right about Mann’s prior repetoire influencing me though. What can I say, he’s an awesome director.

Mr. Beast,
Good point, but I think your assumption of the lock-in must be somewhat based on your impression of Michael Mann. As John says, two critics doesn’t equal a lock and I would assume your opinion is not based solely on reviews. You also think Michael Mann is easily one of the best, which he is. But I acknowledge you weren’t using his resume to justify your opinion.

“Mr. Beast” – Lol, awesome!

I think you may have been confused. I brought up Mann’s repetoire as an indication of how he can’t be considered “hit and miss”, not in relation to his upcoming film Public Enemies.

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Yeah but only one of the movies in that list’s top five got a nomination last year. in fact two of the nominees aren’t even on the list, Critics tend to throw stuff like that in to round out their top tends, but the odds of something like that emerging from a vote are less likely.

Mr. Beast,
I love Michael Mann as well, great director. But no matter how good one’s resume is, you cannot assume their next picture is a lock. For Ezell to bring up Miami Vice is a good point although I don’t think that movie makes Michael Mann a hit or miss director.

On a related note, Variety did not give Public Enemies the most favorable review although I am not a big fan of their reviews in general.