'Whiplash' - 5 Academy Award Norminations for a film about jazz drumming - DIG THAT!

[charles t]

Calum: Yes, I think that the Telegraph's Ivan Hewett speaks to the ambivalent feelings a typical jazz'r might feel, viewing Whiplash.

The intensity of the two character's interactions comes out of former drum-student Damien Chazelle's own life-story.

Yea, the J.K. Simmons portrayal is based upon Chazelle's actual university instructor. It's all too-close-to-home in the writer/director's psyche. Making the viewer of same just a trifle uncomfortable (excl'm mark assumed)

But, that's a small price to pay to vicariously experience what it might be like to sit in the drum seat.

And at length...no convenient cut-away's from the toil involved (for Miles Teller).

There's never been a jazz-flick quite like it.

[charles t]

Three awards last night:

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
Whiplash
Tom Cross

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Whiplash
Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

And ... what else could you expect?

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
J.K. Simmons in Whiplash

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... well that's Hollywood ...

[Serial_Apologist]

... well that's Hollywood ...

Anyone want to see a movie about a person's life that it took his lifetime to make but is not about his life?

[Ian Thumwood]

The Oscars usually go to films that you wouldn't want to watch! They are always liberal, worthy films as opposed to something original. The best winner recently was "Gravity" which was amazing.

I tend to go to the cinema about once every three -four months and the most recent films I have seen have been a bit of a mixed bunch. "Shaun the sheep" was good but nowhere as near as funny as "Pirates in an adventure with scientists" where "Fury" was amazingly brutal and realistic until the final part of the film when all credibility was thrown out of the window. The one film that really impressed was the Dardenne Brother's "Two days, one night." I don't know how that faired last night but I thought this was a great film. Marion Cotillard should have won best actress. The Dardenne Brother's films have been getting increasingly more accomplished.