There was a time when critics and Oscar pundits thought Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours was a lock to nab one of the coveted 10 Best Picture slots — if not in the top three, at least landing somewhere in the comfy middle of the pack. Then came the infamous faintings and those sluggish box-office receipts, and the jaunty amputation biopic started slipping downward in the weekly charts into the dark nether regions of the awards-season landscape, pinned between its rock-solid 93 percent Tomatometer and a very hard place: the outliers of the Best Picture 10.
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Pundit Poll: Can 127 Hours One-Arm Climb Its Way Back into Best Picture Contention?
