I'll tell you right now the life-affirming nature of 127 Days will jive better with the Academy then a film about entitled 20-somethings in the digital age who are not at all likeable characters.

Think of the voters, not meta-critics.

I'll bet you again. The Social Network is NOT winning Best picture. It will get nominated up the wazoo, but it any gonna win anything super major. AND it's strong enough to win the editing award and yet, still won't take best picture.

I'll expand on the Best Director prediction by looking at the competition. Danny Boyle for 127 Hours…well the guy won just two years ago and defeated none other than David Fincher, so that's that. The Coen Brothers for True Grit…they too won only three years ago, and let's face it, there's no way this film will top No Country For Old Men. Clint Eastwood for Hereafter…yes, the Academy does love them some Clint but to his fault, he's already won twice and his last three films didn't seem to win them over. So who else is Fincher's competiton?

is it affirmative aaction or something? cause the new york press looks dumb

Also, usually when it says "posted by The Playlist," that means one specific guy. Barnaby T. Playlist, a mustached villain with genital warts and a wardrobe of seersucker suits. My wife left me for him.

I am not getting the need to bash this film at all. Last year we all were dissapointed by the failure of big contenders like Amelia or Nine. This year the films are actually good yet the bloggers can only focused on the negative or flaws.

Honest to God, cant you at least let the film opens before staring your stupids lists?

Obviously I don't come here expecting ridiculous, Ain't It Cool News-like characters that stick their aliases in the headline of every review they write, but some your reviews have no mention anywhere of who actually wrote it (like your MacGruber review,"Posted by The Playlist," for example).

It can get confusing.

The movie for all its themes is very shallow thus in my opinion not the movie of the year or a movie of our times. I can't see any film teacher 10, 15 years from now putting this in the DVD for students to watch and decipher.

As it stands now, "Animal Kingdom" and "Inception" are the best movies of the year I've seen.

Again, I loved The Social Network, but the EIC and others make some good points above. I don't think it's the film that defines a generation, at all, but I think it's the first film to deal intelligently with my generation

Happy to have him around. Glad he exists, rarely agree with him, but he's spot-on about dissent. Same thing happened with Dark Knight, Toy Story, etc.

how DARE he stop it from being 100%? A mob mentality does crystalize around films like this and its unfortunate.

fincher/reznor/the cast/rudin

sorkin is a hack. but i'll give him props for a nice script. not revolutionary. but overall excellent work.

he liked resident evil/grown ups/ the list goes on and on.

From a personal perspective, it stands a chance of being one of the ten vital films of the year when I look back, but 2010 has produced stronger, more interesting films that haven't received the king's welcome awarded to "Social Network."

Also, Justin Timberlake is scary-good at playing an obnoxious, superficial dickbag.

One person wrote that review. another person wrote most of this piece.

Why can't this blog just stand by movies when they like them? Seriously, your review was VERY positive and now with all the accolades you're changing your tune. Embrace a good movie and don't try and pull it down from the podium before it's even released.