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Calico Heart posted:I will be absolutely stunned if even you, someone who says the movie is extremely good, will remember it at all in six months. Maybe they should show more violence, nudity and molesting so they could market it as THE MOST SHOCKING MOVIE, show it to the HBO fans and get all the fantasy, science fiction, superhero fans on board. The weirdest complaint is that the movie is too "modest". It's about journalists and newspapers.
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Room was fantastic and if the Academy really didn't want to give Best Picture to a movie that the demographic of people who unironically watch Oscars for reasons other than poo poo-talking them (those monsters) wouldn't rush out and buy the Blu-Ray for because it's not about white people overcoming social issues with polemic-filled monologues, then that's what they should have given it to. Spotlight is a good movie. Maybe even a great one. But it's not the best, and if you're not the best, you shouldn't be getting awards that have "best" in the title. Y'know, kinda like Leo.
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Pirate Jet posted:Room was fantastic and if the Academy really didn't want to give Best Picture to a movie that the demographic of people who unironically watch Oscars for reasons other than poo poo-talking them (those monsters) wouldn't rush out and buy the Blu-Ray for because it's not about white people overcoming social issues with polemic-filled monologues, then that's what they should have given it to. This guy knows what's up.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:27
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I love Room but the entire second half just feels like a comedown from the harrowing first half, even in its tensest moments. I'd put it in third behind Fury Road.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:28
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I mean, the second half is a comedown. That's the point.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:30
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CelticPredator posted:I mean, the second half is a comedown. That's the point. Right but there's such a huge dropoff in momentum and, in my opinion, interesting storytelling that it lost me a little. Obviously it was never going to be as harrowing in the second half, but there was still a lot to mine tension out of and it just didn't quite do it IMO.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:35
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:There is no greater injustice in acting categories than Ellen Burstyn's loss to Julia Roberts. Remember that time Paltrow won best actress for impersonating a high school girl reading Shakespeare for the first time instead of Blanchette's Elizabeth?
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Feb 29, 2016 17:41
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Calico Heart posted:and now a fantasy movie will never be nominate for best picture again There's lots of movies with heavy fantasical elements that are nominated for Best Picture. Sure there might not be a movie with Elves that gets the nomination but the only movie of note to have those in the past decade is the Hobbit films.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:51
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I always thought the most ridiculous acting Oscar decision was in 1975 a year included Al Pacino in Godfather Pt II, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, Dustin Hoffman in Lenny and a not even nominated Gene Hackman in The Conversation the winner of best actor was.... Art Carney in Harry & Tonto
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Feb 29, 2016 17:52
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gently caress Leo, Ennio Morricone finally got his Oscar. 
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Feb 29, 2016 18:36
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Ennio gave a much better speech as well. He was getting choked up and that made me feel a little  .
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Feb 29, 2016 18:38
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John Williams giving him a friendly pat on the back as he struggled to get up.
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Feb 29, 2016 18:44
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Did Tarantino attend? Because I really wanted to see his reaction to Ennio's win.
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Feb 29, 2016 18:49
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Wait, what the gently caress!? I'm reading The Thing's soundtrack got nominated for a Razzie!? 
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I wish they had the orchestra on camera so we could see the exact moment the producer told them time's up and the orchestra kindly telling him to gently caress off because they're not going to play off Morricone.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I wish they had the orchestra on camera so we could see the exact moment the producer told them time's up and the orchestra kindly telling him to gently caress off because they're not going to play off Morricone. For both him and Leo. Cool of them to give the moment
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Feb 29, 2016 19:45
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HOW DID ACADEMY VOTERS CHOOSE THE ENGLISH PATIENT OVER FARGO? DID THEY NOT KNOW THERE WOULD BE A FARGO TV SHOWS 20 YEARS LATER?
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Alec Eiffel posted:HOW DID ACADEMY VOTERS CHOOSE THE ENGLISH PATIENT OVER FARGO? DID THEY NOT KNOW THERE WOULD BE A FARGO TV SHOWS 20 YEARS LATER?
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This is kind of definitely a case of the not best movie winning when there were like 5 movies that were better than Spotlight
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GORDON posted:BTW biopic isn't pronounced like that unless you are a dirty englishman. Biopic is a portmanteau of biographical picture. That said it was silly of me to hyphenate what it already a word. i blame it on the late hour and an mind overtaxed by finding different ways to say science fiction film to avoid repetition. CelticPredator posted:Why does it have to be Mad Max vs Spotlight? Because Mad Max is one of the best of its genre, which happens to be a very popular type of film that gets little to no attention from the Oscars. It really was the underdog film and giving it BP would have been a legitimate surprise because that's just not the kind of film the Academy rewards.
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AHH FUGH posted:This is kind of definitely a case of the not best movie winning when there were like 5 movies that were better than Spotlight Nah, sorry, Spotlight was really great. I wish Vikander had won for Ex Machina, but I'm happy that The Danish Girl didn't win anything more. What an unsubtle hacky piece of crap.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait, what the gently caress!? I'm reading The Thing's soundtrack got nominated for a Razzie!? Some Razzie picks look real stupid 10-20 years later.
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Calico Heart posted:Every year I feel like there's no way the Oscars could be more lame or less surprising, but here you go. It's not as exciting in recent years as most major winners/nominees have already been sitting on the IMDb 250 for at least a few months. A GLISTENING HODOR posted:loving Costner's worst beat loving Scorsese's best. That is the peak of "what the gently caress were you people thinking?" Have you seen The Postman (1997)?
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Feb 29, 2016 23:16
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The Razzies might be the one awards more masturbatory than the Oscars.
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Cacator posted:The Razzies might be the one awards more masturbatory than the Oscars. Bag on the Oscars all you like, the Grammies are far worse.
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Feb 29, 2016 23:25
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Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture was a tie this year. Looking forward to watching Fantastic Four and Fifty Shades of Grey.
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weekly font posted:People openly being pissbabies about Fury Road actually makes it not winning completely worth it. I don't care about Fury Road. Spotlight was a lovely movie though and didn't deserve the win.
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I was talking about this today, but if Spotlight wasn't your pick for best picture, be glad that it won, because the academy is wrong about 95 percent of the time, so chances are if you wanted Room, Fury Road or whatever to win, and it did, you made a terrible mistake.
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CelticPredator posted:Ennio gave a much better speech as well. He was getting choked up and that made me feel a little . That was nice of Harvey and Quentin. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-morricone-star-idUSKCN0W002F
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Some Razzie picks look real stupid 10-20 years later. the 80s alone have a tonne of these 1980: Worst Actress - Shelley Duvall, The Shining - Brooke Shields, Blue Lagoon (WINNER) Worst Director - Stanley Kubrick, The Shining 1981: Worst Picture and Director Heaven's Gate (in fairness it took a LONG time for Heaven's Gate's reputation to be fixed) 1982: The Thing's Score, seriously. 1983: Worst Director - Broian de Palma for Scarface 1984: Worst Song - "Sex Shooter" from Prince's Purple Rain 1985: Worst Picture - Rambo Part II (WINNER), Rocky IV. Worst Actor Sly (WINNER)... actually everything nominating Rocky IV that year. Also notable is them making GBS threads all over Year of the Dragon which is a cult film now. 1986: Worst New Star - Kristin Scott Thomas and Brian Thompson 1987: Worst Supporting Actress - Daryll Hannah for Wall Street (WINNER). Worst New Star - Jim Varney (oh come on guys) 1988: Worst Supporting Actor: Harvey Keitel as Judas in The Last Temptation of Christ (admittedly, it is loving funny Harvey not even attempting an accent). Worst New Star: JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME for Bloodsport 1989: Worst Picture - Road House, Worst Supporting Actor - Pat Morita for The Karate Kid III (ok the movie sucks, but Pat Morita never sucked) I'm sure the 90s are filled with these too
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I'm pretty sure the Tangerine Dream score from Thief was nominated.
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Lid posted:Worst New Star: JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME for Bloodsport Son
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Judakel posted:One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is as good as Jaws. Perhaps Barry Lyndon. It has so many character moments. Jaws is almost pure cinema (Or at least in the sense of how Hitchcock meant it). What makes the movie so good is how well it uses the medium of film, which you really can't grant to Cuckoo's Nest. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Raxivace posted:One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, as good as it is, is just good writing and acting from what I remember. On the stage with the same cast and script I'm not convinced it would be worse or different. The deleted scenes from Jaws are better than most of the scenes in Cuckoo's Nest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfX1MkMazwc
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Armyman25 posted:The deleted scenes from Jaws are better than most of the scenes in Cuckoo's Nest.
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Purple Monkey posted:I always thought the most ridiculous acting Oscar decision was in 1975 a year included Al Pacino in Godfather Pt II, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, Dustin Hoffman in Lenny and a not even nominated Gene Hackman in The Conversation the winner of best actor was.... Art Carney in Harry & Tonto Yeah, that's the one that always sticks out to me too. It was (as far as I know, it was a while before my time) one of those lifetime achievement/well liked actor going outside of his comfort zone awards that might be enjoyed at the time but look bad historically. I mean, it wouldn't have been even close to the same degree, but I feel like Stallone getting one this year would have been in vaguely the same category. There's probably a few more examples from recent years.
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I'm glad Mad Max won some things.
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"Hey everybody welcome to the 88th Academy Awards where we celebrate our industry and the best of the best art that has been created in this last year. So let's talk about rape now." I know peeps tend to get preachy at the Oscars, but goddam, is it always that bad?
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FYI, Wings, the first Best Picture winner is on Netflix. It's a terrific film, even if not quite the artistic work. And it has this awesome shot halfway into the movie: 
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GORDON posted:"Hey everybody welcome to the 88th Academy Awards where we celebrate our industry and the best of the best art that has been created in this last year. So let's talk about rape now." Just like the Academy giving an award to Scorsese for The Departed, the Academy's a few thousand years late on addressing how women are victimized by a cruel society who blames them for the actions of their rapists.
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