"May I inquire about your opinions on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? Other than what you said in your Oscars post."

I think it’s a marvelous book. I haven’t seen the film yet though. From the trailer it looks like, “Let’s half-heartedly make a film adaptation from a great novel and make it pure Oscar bait with actors that we know will appeal to the Academy and pick the seemingly whiniest kid in the universe.”

Also Stephen Daldry’s films just gets nominated for anything, regardless of how good or bad they are.