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About User Name: sandshark Rank: Member Real Name: IagoX Location Occupation: Interests: Gender: None Specified	Statistics Joined: Thursday, July 19, 2007 Last Visit: Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:25:15 AM Number of Posts: 29 [2.71% of all post / 0.03 posts per day]
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Last 10 Posts Topic: Sandshark's 2009 Oscar Picks Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:30:27 PM I had to update these predictions after I saw all of the nominees for more obscure catergories. Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Supporting Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Heath Ledger (I can't decide) Best Actress: Ann Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (Doubt) Best Animated Feature: Wall-E Best Art Direction: The Duchess Best Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire Best Costume Design: The Duchess Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) Best Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire Best Visual Effects: The Curious Case Of Benjaman Button Best Make-up: The Curious Case Of Benjaman Button Best Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire Best Original Screenplay: In Bruges or Milk (I can't decide) Best Short Film(Live Action): Spielzeugland (Toyland) Best Short Film(Animated): La maison en petits cubes Best Documentary Short: The Conscience of Nhem En Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire Best Sound Mixing: The Dark Knight Best Sound Editing: The Dark Knight Best Music(Original Score): WALL-E (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman Best Music(Original Song): "O Saya" Slumdog Millionaire Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire I guess we'll find out Sunday Topic: Sandshark's 2009 Oscar Picks Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:50:36 AM Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Supporting Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Heath Ledger (I can't decide) Best Actress: Anna Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (Doubt) Best Animated Feature: Wall-E Best Art Direction: The Duchess Best Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire Best Costume Design: The Duchess Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) Best Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire Best Visual Effects: The Curious Case Of Benjaman Button Best Make-up: The Curious Case Of Benjaman Button Best Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire Best Original Screenplay: In Bruges Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire I guess we'll find out Sunday Topic: The Dark Knight - as good as "Begins" Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:23:52 PM Sorry Mister Nicholson - Heath Ledger makes a Joke out of your Joker. (pun intended) Hell, if Batman can be arrested they can give an Oscar to a dead person. Sandshark Topic: Sandsharks Oscar Picks! Posted: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:55:21 PM My predictions for Oscars 2008! Best Picture: "No Country For Old Men" - Although "There Will Be Blood" and "Juno" were just awesome!! (wouldn't it be cool if, for the first time, maybe there was a 3 way tie? - kinda like Wallace Berry and Frederic March tied for Best Actor in 1932?) Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood Hands down. Best Actress: Ellen Page - Juno This girl will go places fast!! Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men Totally creepy - I loved it! Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett - Bob Dylan Androgenous and totally believable! Director: Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood Although the Coens always make an awesome story! These are my picks, but what do I know!! Time will tell if Im right or not - this is posted at 2:55pm Sunday afternoon Topic: BLU-RAY DEFEATS HD-DVD IN TECHNOLOGY WAR!! YAY!!! Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:44:59 AM Sorry all you HD-DVD people who ran out and bought an HD DVD player because they were cheap! Reuters reported today that Toshiba is pulling the plug on HD-DVD and has been defeated in the newest technology war against Blu-Ray High Definition discs. Read the report here: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAN1451010520080215 I work in consumer electronics - and I am always asked that question. "Which is better - who's going to win?" And I told them all - over and over and over - but foolish people always buy whats cheap rather than whats good or in Blu-Rays case - FANTASTIC!! So here's the skinny folks: THEY BOTH GIVE A 1080P SIGNAL. IN TERMS OF PICTURE QUALITY THEY ARE THE SAME! BUT I TOLD PEOPLE AGAIN AND AGAIN - BLU-RAY WILL WIN FOR ONE REASON ONLY - THERE IS MORE MEDIA AVAILABLE TO BLU-RAY THAN TO HD DVD. Its the MEDIA which is available - not the picture quality. If 70% of the Hollywood studios have exclusively signed to release titles in Blu-Ray high def, there will be more titles available to blu-ray. Heres what you SHOULD buy in high def 1080p flat panels: Pioneer, Panasonic, Hitachi, Sony Bravia, Samsung, Sharp Aquos - they've done the r+d needed to create a quality panel. Heres what NOT to buy - for your own sake: LG, CITIZEN, DAYTECH, PRIMA, KONKA, and any other name you've never heard of, assembled by child labor around the world. You get what you pay for. If you buy shit (LG), you're going to get SHIT!! Spend the extra dollars and be happy with your purchase. Fuck! sometimes I wish people would just LISTEN instead of going for a quick fix. Topic: BLYU-RAY DEFEATS HD-DVD!!! YAY!!! Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:41:20 AM Sorry all you HD-DVD people who ran out and bought an HD DVD player because they were cheap! Reuters reported today that Toshiba is pulling the plug on HD-DVD and has been defeated in the newest technology war against Blu-Ray High Definition discs. Read the report here: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAN1451010520080215 I work in consumer electronics - and I am always asked that question. "Which is better - who's going to win?" And I told them all - over and over and over - but foolish people always buy whats cheap rather than whats good or in Blu-Rays case - FANTASTIC!! So here's the skinny folks: THEY BOTH GIVE A 1080P SIGNAL. IN TERMS OF PICTURE QUALITY THEY ARE THE SAME! BUT I TOLD PEOPLE AGAIN AND AGAIN - BLU-RAY WILL WIN FOR ONE REASON ONLY - THERE IS MORE MEDIA AVAILABLE TO BLU-RAY THAN TO HD DVD. Its the MEDIA which is available - not the picture quality. If 70% of the Hollywood studios have exclusively signed to release titles in Blu-Ray high def, there will be more titles available to blu-ray. Heres what you SHOULD buy in high def 1080p flat panels: Pioneer, Panasonic, Hitachi, Sony Bravia, Samsung, Sharp Aquos - they've done the r+d needed to create a quality panel. Heres what NOT to buy - for your own sake: LG, CITIZEN, DAYTECH, PRIMA, and any other name you've never heard of, assembled by child labor around the world. You get what you pay for. If you buy shit (LG), you're going to get SHIT!! Spend the extra dollars and be happy with your purchase. Fuck! sometimes I wish people would just LISTEN instead of going for a quick fix. Topic: Sandshark's Top Directors of ALL time Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:15:43 PM Hello folks, Sandshark here. How can you tell an excellent film? Partly because of the Captain that steers the ship. I'm going to give a list of 40 of the most influential and exceptional directors of ALL time. (in my opinion) Chances are - if these directors were involved - greatness is just a 'play' button away. These are in NO PARTICULAR ORDER - but if these men directed the film, chances are excellent, the film is worth watching...Here goes...dispute if you want: Jean Jacque Annaud Alfred Hitchcock Oliver Stone David Lynch Francis Ford Coppola Terry Gilliam David Cronenberg Akira Kurosawa Steven Spielberg John Huston George Romero James Cameron Paul Thomas Anderson The Coen Brothers Sydney Lumet David Fincher Stanley Kubrick Ingmar Bergman Orson Welles Sam Raimi Gaspar Noé Martin Scorcese Sergio Leone Peter Jackson Luc Besson Charles Chaplin Fredericco Fellini Robert Altman Milos Foreman William Wilder Quentin Tarantino Roman Polanski Bernardo Bertolucci Fritz Lang Frank Capra Woody Allen Michael Mann Larry Clark Ridley Scott Browse through your own personal film collection - chances are excellent that these men are a part of it. If not, turn off the ump-teenth season of 'Survivor - The Moon' and get in touch with some really awesome stuff!! These guys are the SHIT! These guys are the bomb!! They don't know how to make BAD film - Enjoy!! Ciao - Shandshark Topic: POLL: Who's your favorite character on 'Lost'? Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:07:48 PM 'Lost' in my opinion is one of the best and most original programs on television - FULL of depth, intrigue, mystery, spirituality, character, and originality. Who's your favorite character and why? I assume your favorite will be the one you identify with most. Personally? My favorite character is 'Sawyer' - because I like a person of sly wit - with a darker nature - but redemptive qualities. Who's yours? Sandshark Topic: 'Eastern Promises' Posted: Sunday, December 23, 2007 5:44:23 PM Sandshark here: Directed by David Cronenberg - easily one of my top 20 directors. Within the first 5 minutes we are shocked, horrified and disquieted by some beautifully filmed and intensified violence in its rawest form. From a simple trip to the barbershop, to standing in line at the pharmacy -the introduction is notorious. By the twenty fifth minute - I ask you: Have you ever seen a frozen corpse thawed with a hair dryer, the teeth and fingers removed with pruning sheers, then thrown into a river? Get ready - for David Cronenberg. Get ready - for 'Eastern Promises'. Cronenberg delves - this time into the peripherals of the Russian Mafia. Intrigue for the film lay within a diary - which when translated, reveals truths, lies, fiction and fact. I say peripherals, because this is not an Expose of the Russian Mafia - if Cronenberg did that, I would be disappointed - but it is a simple suspense tale, wrapped in the middle of a world we know little about. It is presented as 'matter of fact'. (as a good film should be). It doesn't attempt to explain the under-world of the Russian Mafia, its history, or motivations, but simply drops you in the middle. This is the world 'they' live in, this is what is happening, if you don't understand it - Fuck You - THATS THE POINT! YOU - as a viewer - don't understand this world, but all of a sudden, you are in possession of something that you don't understand (the diary) but 'they' understand FULLY! You find yourself hating a simpleton, Russian alcoholic, so-called 'badman' for his deeds, who hides behind his Fathers power - but somehow are intrigued, and even liking, a brilliant, vicious, and even WORSE, transport driver - and you begin to question which is which? Is black actually white? Is down up? Is grey full of color? Who is this guy? And WHAT THE FUCK do I know about anything?? THIS is the purpose of an excellent thriller - the essence of good writing, and the reason for going to see a Cronenberg film. There is intense violence in this film (which is brutal and grotesque - especially the scene in the bathhouse, where a naked and vulnerable Nickolai has to defend himself from two murders with carpet cutters) - but understand the reason for it - understand symbol - understand intrigue, and understand hope - respect the hunt, the find, and the kill - even though the kill will never be what we want, and hope is as illusive as water through a broken cup. Some promises are kept, and some are broken - especially Eastern Promises. My favorite quote from this film is from Nickolai (Viggo Mortensen) when Nickolai says - "Stay alive - just a little while longer..." as if to say: "Watch what I can do next..." If you dont see this film - watch another retread of 'I Love Lucy' in the form of sitcom vomitus, or another reality TV toiletbowl adventure, and forget what your brains were meant for - This is a THINKING persons thriller. If you cant think - dont watch it. 4 out of 4 -Sandshark Topic: Sandsharks' Top 20 Directors of ALL Time Posted: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:18:28 PM Hello folks, Sandshark here. How can you tell an excellent film? Partly because of the Captain that steers the ship. I'm going to give a list of 40 of the most influential and exceptional directors of ALL time. (in my opinion) Chances are - if these directors were involved - greatness is just a 'play' button away. These are in NO PARTICULAR ORDER - but if these men directed the film, chances are excellent, the film is worth watching...Here goes...dispute if you want: Jean Jacque Annaud Alfred Hitchcock Oliver Stone David Lynch Francis Ford Coppola Jean Luc Goddard David Cronenberg Akira Kurosawa Steven Spielberg John Huston George Romero James Cameron Luis Benuel The Coen Brothers Sydney Lumet David Fincher Stanley Kubrick Ingmar Bergman Orson Welles Sam Raimi Gaspar Noé Martin Scorcese Sergio Leone Peter Jackson Luc Besson Charles Chaplin Fredericco Fellini Robert Altman Milos Foreman William Wilder Quentin Tarantino Werner Herzog Roman Polanski Bernardo Bertolucci Fritz Lang Frank Capra Woody Allen Brian De Palma Larry Clark Ridley Scott Browse through your own personal film collection - chances are excellent that these men are a part of it. If not, turn off the umpteenth season of 'Survivor - The Moon' and get in touch with some really awesome stuff!! These guys are the SHIT! These guys are the bomb!! They don't know how to make BAD film - Enjoy!! Ciao - Shandshark

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