Best picture Oscar nominations 2014

[BikerDude]

These are the official nominees for best Picture Oscar. Not sure what I'd pick.
http://oscar.go.com/nominees

Best Picture

    American Sniper
    Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan
   
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Alejandro G. I??rritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
   
    Boyhood
    Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland

    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson

    The Imitation Game
    Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman

    Selma
    Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner

    The Theory of Everything
    Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten

    Whiplash
    Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster

[jgiffin]

Birdman was the best of the five I've seen. Kinda hope one of the other three was more worthy. The Imitation Game looks quite promising.

Best thing I can say about Birdman is that it didn't feel like I hadn't seen the movie 20 times before. Interesting concept, great staging/cinematics, solid lead by Keaton, and an even better supporting performance by Norton. Grand Budapest was a fun film, and larger in scope than most of Anderson's, but just doesn't feel right as a best picture. American Sniper was all hype, no substance. It was like The Hurt Locker only with less effort and more fake babies. Boyhood was long on premise, short on delivery. The Theory of Everything struck me as Austin Powers meets Sleepless in Seattle. Oh, and Hawking hasn't been right about fuckall since the late 70s.

[BikerDude]

Birdman was the best of the five I've seen. Kinda hope one of the other three was more worthy. The Imitation Game looks quite promising.

Best thing I can say about Birdman is that it didn't feel like I hadn't seen the movie 20 times before. Interesting concept, great staging/cinematics, solid lead by Keaton, and an even better supporting performance by Norton. Grand Budapest was a fun film, and larger in scope than most of Anderson's, but just doesn't feel right as a best picture. American Sniper was all hype, no substance. It was like The Hurt Locker only with less effort and more fake babies. Boyhood was long on premise, short on delivery. The Theory of Everything struck me as Austin Powers meets Sleepless in Seattle. Oh, and Hawking hasn't been right about fuckall since the late 70s.

Speaking of Grand Budapest I will take the opportunity to bitch.
I am officially beyond sick of Wes Anderson's schtick.
Bottle Rocket I liked. It was original and unique.
I liked Rushmore a bit less.
I admired the unique style of the Royal Tenenbaums.
After that I have begun to just loath his "style".
The feeling I get is "enough already".

[meekon5]

Speaking of Grand Budapest I will take the opportunity to bitch.
I am officially beyond sick of Wes Anderson's schtick.
Bottle Rocket I liked. It was original and unique.
I liked Rushmore a bit less.
I admired the unique style of the Royal Tenenbaums.
After that I have begun to just loath his "style".
The feeling I get is "enough already".

See I'm the other way round.

I really liked The Life Aquatic (just for it's sillyness), and really liked Grand Budapest Hotel again for  it's sillyness. But have no time for the Royal Tenenbaums.

I'm interested in Birdman.

[Reverend Al]

I'm "hit and miss" with Wes Anderson's movies; some I like, some I don't.  My particular favorite is The Life Aquatic, but that might be because I spent a lot of time on and around fishing boats in my youth and I love the ocean, so the setting resonated with me more so than with his other movies.

Of the nominated movies I've only seen Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.  Between them, Birdman would definitely get my vote, for pretty much the reasons stated by jgiffin above.