Movies People Won't See Because They Think They Know What it's About

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I may never truly know if I should have watched those.

I didn't want to see Moonlight because it didn't look interesting. Knowing what it's about now really hasn't changed anything, still don't want to see it.

Being completely honest, I haven't seen the vast majority of Best Picture nominees lately, and the last Best Picture winner I've seen was Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

I think this has more to do with the kind of movies that are being lauded as great movies and nominated for Best Picture. I don't think it has as much to do with politics or agenda as a lot of people believe. Best Picture nominees I've seen:

2016
None

2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

2014
None

2013
The Wolf of Wall Street

2012
Django Unchained
Life of Pi

2011
None

2010
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit

2009
Avatar
The Blind Side
Inglourious Basterds

2008
Slumdog Millionaire

2007
No Country for Old Men
Juno
There Will Be Blood


From 2007-2010 I saw 12 Best Picture nominees. From 2011-2016 I've only seen 5. The movies that are getting the highest praise the last few years just haven't been that interesting to me.

Right. And it's not about having "superior" taste in movies because it's all subjective. But if you enjoy movies and want to spend your money viewing them, you generally want to see movies you are interested in that you think will be entertaining. I think Transformers sucks but damn if they don't make several hundred million dollars a pop. Apparently there are plenty of people who like them.

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didn't want to see Moonlight because it didn't look interesting.

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the last Best Picture winner I saw was Slumdog Millionaire

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Did you enjoy Slumdog?

It's interesting that you mention these two together, because they are actually very similar.

They are both coming of age movies about kids growing up in abject poverty, albeit on different sides of the planet.

Sure, one of them happens to tell the story of one that may or may not be questioning his sexuality, but that honestly shouldn't turn off any potential viewers if "it isn't about politics".

There is really only one scene that would be uncomfortable for those people anyway, and I will put you ease by spoiling that at least you don't really "see" anything. Don't get me wrong, it is an intense scene, but this isn't Brokeblack Mountain, as I've heard it described.

Both are fully clothed, and it ultimately is just a few seconds at the end of an otherwise important scene for a kid that found a momentary escape from the truly suffocating neighborhood that he's been born into. The scene is as much about him physically leaving the ghetto and the release that brings than the other "release".

Honestly, if you like coming of age stories, this is just a really good one. It is one that isn't told often, and never with as much subtlety.

And if you like The Wire, this is basically Season 4 if you just focused on one kid. The two kids that play the younger chapters of his life are outstanding, as well.

Like I said, this isn't Brokeblack Mountain. It feels much more like Mud than anything else.

That said, not everyone will love this movie obviously. It's a low budget, pretty grungy feeling production, which is perfect for the setting they are trying to show.

But anyone that enjoyed or found Slumdog or The Wire Season 4 "interesting" has very little ground to stand on if they say Moonlight doesn't "look interesting" as well, other than politics.

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People don't want to see Moonlight because they assume a movie about a gay black guy will just be your run of the mill liberal agenda, we hate white people and black people are great type movie. While it's actually not at all

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What is it actually about?

The plot summary on Wikipedia says it's about a crack baby who jacks off his friend and grows up to be a crack dealer

I sort of get that City of God (which this board loves) vibe when reading and seeing the previews about Moonlight. That dark, gritty, inner-city slum full of struggle. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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I sort of get that City of God (which this board loves) vibe when reading and seeing the previews about Moonlight. That dark, gritty, inner-city slum full of struggle. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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That's actually a great call.

I used Mud as an example, but City of God is a better one

And I do think The Wire Season 4 is a solid parallel as well.

Omar comin yo

I never saw The Village because I knew what the twist was. I had friends that went to a midnight screening and talked to them the next day and I said I think this is the twist (I guess I won't say in case someone wanted to watch it all these years later and still doesn't know) and I was right.

I also think I might know the twist to Get Out but I still want to see it.

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another white guilt movie in Get Out

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and yet from everything coming out about this movie...it isn't