Well, there's a difference between "being depressed" and "having depression".  One is a mood that can come and go, the other is a chronic and debilitating emotional problem.   

When Bullock has three minutes of oxygen left and Clooney gets her talking about her dead kid, she gets a bit depressed.  But I don't think her character "has depression", which as Brian pointed out would have kept her out of the astronaut program, and likely would have stopped her from even trying to be an astronaut.

What Bullock's character is is sad and the movie is about letting go of the past and rebirth and moving on etc.    I still maintain it's not literally about "overcoming depression" which takes a long time and usually requires pharmaceuticals.

Well, we were giving them the benefit of the doubt but you've stuck a pin in our little charade. 

So we're back to just having to admit that the screenwriting in Gravity isn't always that great.   NICE.

Actually, nearly all the movies mentioned in that song are worth seeing and some are true classics: The Day The Earth Stood Still, King Kong, Day of the Triffids, The Invisible Man and Forbidden Planet certainly have merit.  Flash Gordon is also noteworthy, though of course it looks pretty campy nowadays.

It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, Night of the Demon and Dr. X I've never seen.  Maybe I should, just to complete the set. 

Hulk calls The World's End "thematically complex", Mike called it "confused".  Which are the same thing, depending on whether or not you like the movie.

Aaaand McConaughey wins Best Actor at the SAG Awards... the train keeps on a'rollin...

Deadline says if anyone's going to steal the Oscar from Mac, it's diCaprio.  I guess it's possible but I'm not betting that way.

Yeah, it's pretty much a two-horse race for Best Actor between McConaughey and Ejiofor (and there's a sentence that needs more spellcheck than most).   

Dern's there for being in something decent and not being dead yet, Bale and diCaprio are there because if it wasn't them it'd be Hanks or one of the other stalwarts.  So it comes down to the Battle of The Important Topic movies between Slave and Dallas.

Haven't seen Slave yet but I'm sure Ejiofor is great, I have seen Dallas and I know Mac is great.   Personally I give the edge to Matthew for doing the weight-loss thing and playing something outside his normal range: two things that so often work.  Plus the overall "Mac is back!" wave he's riding.   In Academy thinking Ejiofor is comparatively the "new guy", honor just to be nominated etc.   If he's that good, he'll be back, is the conventional wisdom.

So my money's on Mac, but it won't shock me if Ejiofor wins.  It will shock me if it goes to one of the other three.

That does sound familiar, now that you mention it.

I do know that until recently the Oscars were always held on Monday nights, as a "gentleman's agreement" by all the studios.  Because in any given year, any studio might find themselves unhappy that the Oscars overlapped the opening weekend of their release of _____.  But they've let that go and now the Oscars are on Sunday, maybe because of the decline of Oscar ratings in general.

So if there is or was a moratorium on buying trailer ad time during the Oscars, that'd make some sense. The Oscars is the one night a year when Hollywood dresses up and pretends everybody loves each other and is all classy and stuff, I can see them not wanting to let the telecast turn into a pissing match where everyone's trying to get their trailers on the air.

Also like the Superbowl, the Oscars are a bunch of people who do a thing competing to decide who did that thing the best in a given year.

I was about to say the decision process is different between the two... but now that I think about it, maybe not so much.

Pretty much every aspect of human endeavor has something like this - there are awards for everything from playing Magic the Gathering to being the best plumber in Phoenix, Arizona.   The Oscars didn't originally have the attention of the entire world, it started as just movie people getting together to give each other awards and have a party.

Well, if the "movie that made the most money wins the FX Oscar" rule holds true this year, then congrats in advance to the Iron Man team...     However, Gravity made a pile of cash as well, and has all the buzz, I still think they're in.

Pretty decent year for nominations.  Would have liked All Is Lost to have gotten more love.  And count me among those who doesn't see what's so great about American Hustle (just like I didn't "get" Silver Linings Playbook last year).

It's like the cops always say: there's never a theater employee around when you need one.

True enough, except those are books and not movies.   

The screenwriting adage "becoming is more interesting than being" is a corollary to "a movie should tell the story of the most important thing that ever happened to the main character".   And in most cases, that's the origin story.  The most interesting and important thing that ever happened to Batman is that he became Batman.   

Or it should have been.  But I agree that - in a rare case - Batman Begins isn't very interesting.

Although Jimmy B thought we'd ignore it
It's not that hard being a poet
When planning a stunt
With Oscar winners named Hunt
You can just go to Helen Hunt for it