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re: Oscar Nominations have been announced (yes, Black Panther was nominated for Best Picture)
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:14 pm to Ssubba
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:14 pm to Ssubba
There might be no clear favorite, but there are substantial underdogs. (ie, Black Panther)
My post was meant to imply that if a totally undeserving film was ever going to win, the conditions this year might just be ideal for that upset.
My post was meant to imply that if a totally undeserving film was ever going to win, the conditions this year might just be ideal for that upset.
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:29 pm to GetCocky11
What a giant bucket of meh. I mean, the Oscars will never be a cutting edge award show, and I'm actually in favor of them honoring big budget Hollywood prestige pictures. Too many people are too snobbish to enjoy a good ol fashioned middlebrow film made for the masses. And hell, I'm willing to spot them a few boring noms, so long as they throw us a few weird noms just to keep us interested... I mean, the defending Best Picture movie is a sci fi movie with a mute woman as the lead. Oh yeah, and she fricks a fish. Say what you will, but that is profoundly weird movie to win a mainstream award, and I salute them for moving from the same old, same old.
It's not that they chose from the standard buckets: big budget crowd pleaser, activist movie, biopic, Hallmark special, remake of a classic, political film... they seemed to choose the weaker of their options. BlacKkKlansman is fine, but its no Sorry to Bother You. Black Panther is a good comic book film, but it isn't the form-busting Into the Spider-Verse. Bohemian Rhaposody is a nice biopic, but it ain't First Man. Green Book is... how the frick did Green Book get nominated? Was Driving Miss Daisy out of eligibility? Even Roma, which is a really good film... it ain't Cold War or Shoplifters, the best foreign films of the year. Vice was critically savaged then ignored at the box office, they couldn't have nominated Death of Stalin? Or something weird and great like Hereditary or Annihilation? Hell, they couldn't throw a bone to First Reformed? Or Eighth Grade?
The only genuinely great film that is nominated is The Favourite, so it will of course win nothing. But it is nice that it got nominated.
The nominations aren't bad, really, they are just boring. Just give Spike Lee the statue he should have won for Do the Right Thing.
It's not that they chose from the standard buckets: big budget crowd pleaser, activist movie, biopic, Hallmark special, remake of a classic, political film... they seemed to choose the weaker of their options. BlacKkKlansman is fine, but its no Sorry to Bother You. Black Panther is a good comic book film, but it isn't the form-busting Into the Spider-Verse. Bohemian Rhaposody is a nice biopic, but it ain't First Man. Green Book is... how the frick did Green Book get nominated? Was Driving Miss Daisy out of eligibility? Even Roma, which is a really good film... it ain't Cold War or Shoplifters, the best foreign films of the year. Vice was critically savaged then ignored at the box office, they couldn't have nominated Death of Stalin? Or something weird and great like Hereditary or Annihilation? Hell, they couldn't throw a bone to First Reformed? Or Eighth Grade?
The only genuinely great film that is nominated is The Favourite, so it will of course win nothing. But it is nice that it got nominated.
The nominations aren't bad, really, they are just boring. Just give Spike Lee the statue he should have won for Do the Right Thing.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:36 pm to GetCocky11
Surprised Cooper didn’t get a directing nomination. Think he should be in McKays spot
First Man not getting an best original score nom is also surprising
Also don’t think Rockwell was all that great in Vice. Felt like I was watching him do an SNL skit
First Man not getting an best original score nom is also surprising
Also don’t think Rockwell was all that great in Vice. Felt like I was watching him do an SNL skit
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:38 pm to GetCocky11
If one superhero movie was to be nominated, it was Infinity War.
BP was good, but not even top 5 MCU film, let alone Superhero film.
This SJWing at its finest
BP was good, but not even top 5 MCU film, let alone Superhero film.
This SJWing at its finest
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:42 pm to Baloo
I'm leaning towards Green Book as the kind of paint by numbers Best Pic winner this year.
This would be a great year for BlacKKKlansman and Spike to both win. Would at least provide something memorable, but otherwise, this will be as forgotten a ceremony as 2012 (every good movie snubbed for a very dull, safer pick) or 2008 (one of the best years for popcorn flicks ever, one of the worst years for "Oscar bait" ever).
This would be a great year for BlacKKKlansman and Spike to both win. Would at least provide something memorable, but otherwise, this will be as forgotten a ceremony as 2012 (every good movie snubbed for a very dull, safer pick) or 2008 (one of the best years for popcorn flicks ever, one of the worst years for "Oscar bait" ever).
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:47 pm to Muthsera
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I'm leaning towards Green Book as the kind of paint by numbers Best Pic winner this year.
Peter Farrelly not getting a best director nom lowers its chance
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:50 pm to Muthsera
No Country for Old Men beat out There Will Be Blood for the Oscar in 2008. That was sort of one of the best Oscars in recent memory. Or did you mean the 2009 ceremony for the 2008 film year? Yeah, Slumdog hasn't really held up, even though I love Danny Boyle.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:04 pm to Baloo
[quote]No Country for Old Men beat out There Will Be Blood for the Oscar in 2008.
Do idiot hipsters still think Once was the best film that year?
Do idiot hipsters still think Once was the best film that year?
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:17 pm to 1999
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roma bored me to tears. but i guess i'm not sophisticated enough to enjoy it.
This. My God that was a chore to get through
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:33 pm to VinegarStrokes
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there's a movie idea out there about a retarded, homosexual, black female just waiting to clean up at various awards ceremonies.
Leslie Jones as the lead???
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:34 pm to Baloo
I thought Spider Verse kicked arse but how was it form busting? Alternate realities colliding is nothing new.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:42 pm to Dr RC
Spider-verse is literally a comic book. There's even times color saturates the screen from bleed from the ink. There's "pages" that are misprinted and you get the old red/green colorization issues. It's a radical film from a production standpoint, and genuinely cool.
it also leans into the ridiculousness of comic books like no comic book film has ever dared. They've always tried to ground it in reality, even if just a little bit. There's always been the fear of audience rejection, but here's Spider-verse, going full bore into alternate realities and the concept of multiple Earths, culminating in a climax with a runaway train loose in laboratory. It's a comic premise, that the film doesn't in any way soften for its mainstream audience. It's probably the first "true" comic book brought to screen.
it also leans into the ridiculousness of comic books like no comic book film has ever dared. They've always tried to ground it in reality, even if just a little bit. There's always been the fear of audience rejection, but here's Spider-verse, going full bore into alternate realities and the concept of multiple Earths, culminating in a climax with a runaway train loose in laboratory. It's a comic premise, that the film doesn't in any way soften for its mainstream audience. It's probably the first "true" comic book brought to screen.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:43 pm to Dr RC
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I thought Spider Verse kicked arse but how was it form busting?
Artistically.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:03 pm to Fewer Kilometers
If Black Panther wins I will melt. It will to a disservice to Logan which is waaaayyyyyyy better.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:07 pm to Damone
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Vice should win, but what an overall terrible year in film.
Vice would be one of the worst best pictures of all time. That movie was a mess.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:19 pm to Dire Wolf
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Vice would be one of the worst best pictures of all time. That movie was a mess.
I agree. It was entertaining is a way, but it felt like they just had a list of bullet points from Cheney’s life and just went down the list while making the movie. It never settled down or focused on anything. It’s a joke that McKay got best director nom and Bradley Cooper didn’t. Bale was phenomenal tho
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:30 pm to jg8623
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McKay
Honestly one of the worst people in Hollywood. Hateful, egomaniacal douchebag.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:34 pm to Muthsera
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Honestly one of the worst people in Hollywood. Hateful, egomaniacal douchebag.
Might have the most punchable face in Hollywood. He’s up there with Johnny Galecki.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:36 pm to GetCocky11
Bit of a down year.
I know someone else in here mentioned First Man.
That was my favorite film of the year, though I haven’t seen The Favourite and a couple others yet.
I’m a bit miffed about First Man. No one really went to see it, and was not at all recognized during awards season (big awards, not technical). I though it was outstanding, but it was universally meh according to everyone else.
I know someone else in here mentioned First Man.
That was my favorite film of the year, though I haven’t seen The Favourite and a couple others yet.
I’m a bit miffed about First Man. No one really went to see it, and was not at all recognized during awards season (big awards, not technical). I though it was outstanding, but it was universally meh according to everyone else.
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:45 pm to Sasquatch Smash
Olivia Coleman is outstanding. Pulling for her even though I haven’t seen The Favourite.
Watch her in Broadchurch on Netflix, or, better yet, go find Tyrannosaur. Powerful stuff.
Watch her in Broadchurch on Netflix, or, better yet, go find Tyrannosaur. Powerful stuff.
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 3:48 pm
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