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Another 12 years a slave thread...
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:26 pm
Hoy did Lupita win an academy for that movie? She acted well, but was a fairly minor character all things considered. I felt like I kept waiting for her part...
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Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:31 pm to Sam Waterston
She won that award before anyone even saw the movie
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:32 pm to Sam Waterston
I feel that the movie won awards not necessarily on merit, but on perception.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:34 pm to fr33manator
Glad I'm not the only one
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:34 pm to Sam Waterston
I don't even know who Lupita is, and the only really memorable performance in the movie was the actor who played Solomon Northup, as well as the first slave owner whose moral ambivalence struck a cord.
The film was without question the best film made in the last two years. Definitely deserving of the best picture.
The film was without question the best film made in the last two years. Definitely deserving of the best picture.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:39 pm to runningTiger
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The film was without question the best film made in the last two years. Definitely deserving of the best picture.
What exactly made it so stellar?
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:41 pm to Sam Waterston
I thought it was an amazing film. I thought everyone did an stellar job acting, and I feel Lupita and the other cast members gave us a very small, intimate, and un-sensationalized story. Much as it pains me to say it, my boy Benedict Cumberbatch was probably the weakest performance IMO. The success of the film was how understated and everday things appeared, no grand flailing(no pun intended) of the actors or overwrought sentimentalism from the director.
This post was edited on 4/27/14 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:43 pm to BigAppleTiger
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I thought it was an amazing film.
Loved the movie so much that I immediately downloaded the book to my Kindle after leaving the theater.
I've got to say that I can't recall a movie ever being truer to its source material.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:45 pm to fr33manator
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What exactly made it so stellar?
What did you dislike so much about it?
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:46 pm to Rex
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Loved the movie so much that I immediately downloaded the book to my Kindle after leaving the theater.
I've got to say that I can't recall a movie ever being truer to its source material.
I did the opposite. I read it twice in the lead up to the movie coming out.
I thought it was pretty true to the material, although one or two of the changes left me really puzzled.
It's an outrage that the book has languished mostly in obscurity over the years - particularly for Louisiana school children who should have been doing field trips to the various sites, lo these many years.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:49 pm to Rex
I suppose my prejudice towards the book is partly to play with my nonchalance at the movie. I've always felt the book was overrated (not to say it wasn't good) and that there were better books out there on the subject matter (although these don't have as compelling a story and are more an amalgam of the multitudes of experiences in the antebellum south.)
This post was edited on 4/27/14 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 4/27/14 at 6:17 pm to Tiger1242
quote:Like Ejiofor?. . .
She won that award before anyone even saw the movie
N'yongo was great in the movie, and the movie itself was great. Both were very worthy of their Oscars IMO.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 6:18 pm to Sam Waterston
Fantastic movie. Seriously, it is a great movie worthy of re-watching. The Roll, Jordan, Roll scene was incredible.
The only performance I didn't really care for was Brad Pitt's minor role.
The only performance I didn't really care for was Brad Pitt's minor role.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 6:30 pm to GetCocky11
I agree it's a really good movie, not overdone like it could've been, but outside of her soap speech, she was merely a passing character. I just imagined based on the award, she would've had a more prominent role...
Posted on 4/27/14 at 6:44 pm to Sam Waterston
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N'yongo
That's the one that was voted People magazine's "most beautiful woman", despite the fact that she resembles Arsenio Hall, right?
Posted on 4/27/14 at 7:00 pm to Sam Waterston
So who gets the award? Who would you give it to? I see controversy if this was best actress but this was best supporting actress. Also I am sure she had more screen time than Anthony Hopkins did in Silence of the Lambs.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:09 pm to LSUJuicer
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So who gets the award?
I'm still making my way through last years films, so to crown another would be moot, and to be honest, I can't remember the other nominees. However, I'd like to believe that in their supporting roles, they saw more screen time and had more lines than what I just watched. Again, not taking anything away from her performance, it was just a limited role.
This post was edited on 4/27/14 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:33 pm to Sam Waterston
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Hoy did Lupita win an academy for that movie? She acted well, but was a fairly minor character all things considered. I felt like I kept waiting for her part...
You do realize it was for a supporting role, right? There have been Oscars won for supporting roles that had far less screen time.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:34 pm to Tiger1242
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She won that award before anyone even saw the movie
That's such predictable nonsense on this fricking site that it's not really worth responding to, but, nonetheless, you're really full of shite.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:36 pm to fr33manator
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That's the one that was voted People magazine's "most beautiful woman", despite the fact that she resembles Arsenio Hall, right?
I'm sure they all look alike to you.
She's actually a pretty young woman.
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