As I mentioned a while back in the Pacific Rim thread - Hellboy 2 is what gave me such high hopes for Pacific Rim.  The balance between insane action eye candy and interesting characters whose surprising but understandable choices drive the plot was beautifully done in Hellboy 2.   

But then in Pacific Rim the eye candy won.  Was some damn tasty eye candy, though.

Angel asks God why he hasn't visited Earth in a while.

God says "Because the last time I was there I knocked up some guy's wife and they're still talking about it."

Here all week.  Drive safely.

Don't confuse crappy movies with crappy performances.   She's adorable in Speed 2.   And The Lake House.   And was also great in in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Shameless Oscar Bait. 

Also, The Heat is the most successful live-action comedy of 2013 so far.   So she's having a good year.

Ditto.  Who didn't already know Sandra Bullock was awesome?   She's that rare thing we've talked about often on the show - an Oscar-caliber actress who'll do genre movies.   

I bet Streep would be awesome to watch all by herself in a Soyuz capsule too... but she doesn't do that kind of movie.   

Fortunately we have Sandra, Jodie, Naomi, and a few others who will. 

All my PALs are in Europe.

Since almost every movie is now an FX movie, somebody's getting snubbed every year for the foreseeable future. 

Elysium is deserving of attention yes, but Evil Dead?   No way no day.

Yeah, I'm not sure about Iron Man 3, it's just more of the same stuff that's been nominated before.

Gravity (so far anyway) is this year's Life of Pi - a movie that does things with FX that haven't been seen before.  That pretty much always guarantees a nomination. 

I think Pacific Rim has a good shot as well - although we've seen plenty of giant robot movies, it's just so damn gorgeous.

Oblivion deserves a shot, but I dunno if there's enough love there to get it into the final five.

EDIT:  Actually, I suppose All Is Lost is really this year's Life of Pi (just without a tiger).   It might grab a slot if the FX work is really good - the Academy likes to reward "natural" FX whenever they can.  Especially if there's an ocean involved (Perfect Storm, Poseidon, Titanic, Cast Away, Pi...)

Saw it.   Jeezus.

As You Know, there are nitpicks to be made but the only one that really took me out of the movie was the Clooney tether business.   Wish they'd spent just a little more effort justifying that.

But otherwise, cripes. If there's any justice, we got a contender for Most Oscar Nominations of 2013 right here.

Would be happy to have Japanese subtitles too, if you wanted to do them. 

And actually, I am considering some kind of ridiculous subtitle track as well.

If so, I sure hope he manages an American-style restaurant called "The Chicken Brothers".