The snubs just keep on coming....

What a *beep* joke. It's obvious that the artistic merits of this film for whatever reason have been lost on the award givers this year. I suppose Bright Star's distributers didn't grease enough of the already apparently slimy hands of the elite. If it doesn't get recognized at all by Oscar, then *beep* the Academy! I won't be watching it this year!



I think she's the saddest girl ever to hold a martini.

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Oh, pendergast, I'm aghast. As learned as you appear to be, I really must tell you that it is not just I who violently disagree with you about the quality of this film, it is a vast majority of critics.

"The movie was snubbed, probably, because it did not settle well with viewers." Also not true. Many, most, people who have seen it agree with the critics. It didn't have a huge paying audience, but that is not the same as saying it wasn't well received, just overlooked.

"...it seems like the kind of film that high brow drama lovers would hail. I wanted to, I really did, but in the end I realized that the movie did not deserve my praise and the ending just pissed me off. Not because of how he died but because of how it played out." That is so rich. REALLY, Mr. Keats, the circumstances surrrounding your death do not please the aesthestic of pendergast.

"You have love being denied or walked away from or forced into exile, but this movie failed in how it resolved or canceled the love. The ending left a bad taste that completely burned most of the beauty from the minds of viewers." Well, perhaps it did with you, but for me and everyone else I've discussed with and written about this film, the ending only underscored the beauty of Fanny's and Keats' love.

Perhaps I am a product of modern paranoid times, but the marked neglect of this film by the awards societies has the whiff of a smell of preordained planning. That's the only way I can resolve the injustice.



"I'd never ask you to trust me. It's the cry of a guilty soul."

Give me a break pendergast. This was a critically acclaimed film. The majority of critics praised it up one side and down the other. Of course no film is absolutely perfect and there are heaps of films that are much better than those that were nominated for awards out there that did not get nominations. Obviously the film did not sit well WITH YOU and you act like in your reply that you have all the answers and you don't. How did you expect reality to 'play out'? Indeed the film ended the way it should have. Did you want the film to continue on to show how Fanny mourned for years like a widow or what? You don't really explain how you felt the film might have ended. As far as the ending completely burning the beauty, I frankly don't know what the hell you're talking about. You act like you speak for everyone who saw this movie and you most certainly do not. Leave your pretentiousness somewhere else because it doesn't belong on this board.

I think she's the saddest girl ever to hold a martini.

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Pendergast 7,

"The main character . . . wasn't exactly the deepest pool of acting ability.""

I'm not sure what you are referring to here, but if it's Whishaw's talents as an actor, you must research him more deeply . . .