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i agree with the golden globe awards on all except one category: best picture. although Atonement was a fine picture in its own right, the award should've gone to either no country or blood. while blood had the finest performance of the year with daniel day lewis, no country in my opinion worked better as a whole. where-areas blood sometimes meandered and got lost in its characters intertwining stories and internal emotional struggles, no country maintained its riveting pace and solid storyline from beginning to end, with top notch editing and a performance by javier bardem that rivaled lewis'. Paul Thomas Anderson's gift lies in his ability to intimately convey his characters emotional depth, and create a deeply personal relationship between them and their audience. The Coen brothers are undisputed master storytellers however, and this is perhaps their greatest strength. an always superb script lends itself to movies that are completely engrossing and wholly believable, if not sometimes fantastical (see Oh Brother, Where Art Thou),and which only seem to get better with time as they fine tune their craft. also, i'm glad Juno got snubbed, not since napoleon dynamite have I been more irritated by a character in a movie, ellen page should stick to age appropriate scripts and stay away from movies that offer little more than a half-hearted life lesson and sarcastic one liners.