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Magic Hate Ball posted:Chicago, King's Speech, and Shakespeare in Love are all perfectly fine films that Crash is significantly worse than. Yes but the movies they beat are what makes them such bad winners.
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What about Driving Miss Daisy or Rain Man?
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The Awl posted:I would argue that one can plot a straight line from Crash's Best Picture win to Californians passing a proposition banning gay marriage and a proposition making chickens being raised for slaughter more comfortable in the same year and congratulating themselves for doing so. http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/crash-the-most-loathsome-best-picture-of-them-all edit: Seriously, this is the movie that excuses rape and sexual assault because of some bizarre divine intervention where a racist cop can pull the woman he assaulted out of a burning car. Everyone's saved. gently caress Crash. It's not because it's bad on a technical level - that's old hat - but because it's bad on a personal level.
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May 13, 2013 19:48
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The Cameo posted:What about Driving Miss Daisy or Rain Man? Both easily better than Crash.
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May 13, 2013 20:01
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bobkatt013 posted:Yes but the movies they beat are what makes them such bad winners. Gangs of New York, maybe. But Two Towers / The Hours / The Pianist are not better movies than Chicago.
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May 13, 2013 20:03
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Gangs of New York, maybe. But Two Towers / The Hours / The Pianist are not better movies than Chicago. I do not know. Chicago is just by the numbers. There is no energy in it that the show has. It is just there.
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May 13, 2013 20:06
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I loved Shakespeare in Love and The King's Speech and think they're unfairly poo poo on regularly. But seriously, Crash loving sucked. It wasn't just bad it was offensive on multiple levels. Jack Nicholson's voice and face as he announced it said it all. I also completely buy the theory that the Academy voting for it over Brokeback Mountain was an unintended gay backlash, even in this day and age of more enlightened thought that everyone supposedly operates under. There are zero acceptable arguments that Crash is better than Brokeback in my opinion.
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May 13, 2013 20:10
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Gangs of New York, maybe. But Two Towers / The Hours / The Pianist are not better movies than Chicago. I like Chicago, but The Pianist is absolutely much better. Do people actually like Shakespeare in Love though? That's such a middle-of-the-road movie. Also I just really don't like Joseph Fiennes (aka The Crappy Fiennes).
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May 13, 2013 20:32
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kiimo posted:I loved Shakespeare in Love Shakespeare in love is a fine movie, maybe deserved it's nomination but it had no right beating out Saving Private Ryan. The only reason people even remember Shakespeare in love these days is because it beat out Saving Private Ryan.
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May 13, 2013 20:52
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Febreeze posted:Shakespeare in love is a fine movie, maybe deserved it's nomination but it had no right beating out Saving Private Ryan. The only reason people even remember Shakespeare in love these days is because it beat out Saving Private Ryan. Look at what it beat Elizabeth Life Is Beautiful Saving Private Ryan The Thin Red Line
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May 13, 2013 20:54
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Life is Beautiful is a movie that basically everyone nowadays agrees is a saccharine piece of poo poo.
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May 13, 2013 20:56
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Life is beautiful isn't that bad, but it loads on the sap like mad. In that respect im really surprised it didn't win, seemed like exactly what the academy would want. Probably only didn't due to it being foreign language. bobkatt013 posted:Look at what it beat drat, I forgot the Thin Red Line came out the same year. gently caress Shakespeare in love Goodfellas I also think was better than Dances with Wolves, but I think the extended directors cut of Dances is a much better movie then the romance piece we got in theaters so it doesn't bother me that much. Febreeze fucked around with this message at 21:01 on May 13, 2013 |
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May 13, 2013 20:57
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Life is Beautiful is a movie that basically everyone nowadays agrees is a saccharine piece of poo poo. Its the closest we are going to get to Jerry Lewis's greatest film.
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May 13, 2013 20:58
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The worst best picture winners are Dr. Doolittle and the English Patient.
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May 13, 2013 21:00
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Look at all the trailers being posted. Red-band trailer for Inside Llewyn Davis. http://youtu.be/R4GGOXkY5CI
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May 13, 2013 21:30
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CPFortest posted:The worst best picture winners are Dr. Doolittle and the English Patient. Out Of Africa's worse than The English Patient.
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May 13, 2013 21:33
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Vagabundo posted:Look at all the trailers being posted. I'm kind of pissed that they are waiting till Oscar season to release this movie since I can safely assume that the Coens will get snuffed again like they always do.
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May 13, 2013 22:22
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Franco's first trailer for his adaptation of As I Lay Dying is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO68Kd2yQsE Looks interesting. Will be fun to see how he adapts it.
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May 13, 2013 22:25
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Here's an interesting trailer for Ari Folman's (Waltz with Bashir) next project, The Congress, which is apparently inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gv3zSqBBfg Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 00:20 on May 14, 2013 |
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May 13, 2013 22:42
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bobkatt013 posted:Yes but the movies they beat are what makes them such bad winners. You could say that about every Best Picture winner.
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May 13, 2013 23:38
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Hey guys every movie sucks because herp Seriously though looking at the list and working backwards in time, Platoon is the best one on the list since the 80s.
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May 14, 2013 00:10
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falz posted:Hey guys every movie sucks because herp Unforgiven, Silence of the Lambs, and Schindler's List are pretty great
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May 14, 2013 00:24
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BonoMan posted:Franco's first trailer for his adaptation of As I Lay Dying is out: Very interesting cast. My mother is a fish. (Not sure if this is a spoiler  )
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May 14, 2013 01:48
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zenintrude posted:Very interesting cast. It was also filmed here in Jackson (Canton), Mississippi. We have a budding film market with a nice 25% cash rebate (not tax credit...straight cash rebate). Part of the deal is most of your crew needs to be from Mississippi so everyone I knew was on it and they said it was really fun and ridiculous lax. Like there was ZERO set security. You could just walk on set and watch them film and you'd probably get ushered into an extras wardrobe and get a free lunch.
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May 14, 2013 02:32
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Life is Beautiful is a movie that basically everyone nowadays agrees is a saccharine piece of poo poo. Saccharine yeah but there's nothing wrong with that. Call it a piece of poo poo and you and I got beef dawg.
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May 14, 2013 05:28
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Jewmanji posted:I'm kind of pissed that they are waiting till Oscar season to release this movie since I can safely assume that the Coens will get snuffed again like they always do. They're multiple-time Academy Award winners, I'm not exactly sure what the hell you're talking about.
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May 14, 2013 05:49
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Alehkhs posted:Here's an interesting trailer for Ari Folman's (Waltz with Bashir) next project, The Congress, which is apparently inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress: Great concept if I'm understanding it but does the animation style look kinda bleh to anyone else? Maybe that'll work in the story's favor, though.
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May 14, 2013 13:56
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scary ghost dog posted:Saccharine yeah but there's nothing wrong with that. Call it a piece of poo poo and you and I got beef dawg. I really, really don't like that movie but would probably need a gun to my head to watch it again. So why's it good?
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The Cameo posted:They're multiple-time Academy Award winners, I'm not exactly sure what the hell you're talking about. Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother Where Art Thou, A Serious Man, and True Grit have 0 Oscars between them. They won 2 for Fargo and 4 for No Country. Not saying those are all best picture winners, but their last film, True Grit, was nominated for 10 categories and didn't win a single one (losing to Alice in Wonderland and The Kings Speech etc.) The Academy Awards are stupid, and I wish they would just release this movie now is all I'm saying.
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Febreeze posted:The only reason people even remember Shakespeare in love these days is because it beat out Saving Private Ryan. Also Gwyneth Paltrow's speech.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Life is Beautiful is a movie that basically everyone nowadays agrees is a saccharine piece of poo poo. That's the contemporary opinion of it, sure, but I feel like if it was made in the '50s, everybody would agree it was a timeless classic. edit: sorry, this is a weird derail.
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Jewmanji posted:The Academy Awards are stupid, and I wish they would just release this movie now is all I'm saying. A rational want but even if it performed as well any other time of the year, which it very well may not as people now come to expect their works at a certain time and can safely and slowly get hyped, the nominations alone are so political that it'd be like Obama running for a Chi-town suburb's city council after leaving office. They're in too deep to start doing doing spring or summer releases. LtKenFrankenstein posted:That's the contemporary opinion of it, sure, but I feel like if it was made in the '50s, everybody would agree it was a timeless classic. That may be a fair assumption though I'd also say age has something to do with it. Film preferences change like taste buds and indubitably a middle-aged person's palate would better cut through the sappy sentimentality than a contemporary young adult's. But "saccharine" is a perfect one word review.
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soapgish posted:A rational want but even if it performed as well any other time of the year, which it very well may not as people now come to expect their works at a certain time and can safely and slowly get hyped, the nominations alone are so political that it'd be like Obama running for a Chi-town suburb's city council after leaving office. They're in too deep to start doing doing spring or summer releases. People who aren't ready at the drop of a hat to go see a Coen brothers film can go hang. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying the film-going public should up their game.
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May 14, 2013 23:08
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really, really don't like that movie but would probably need a gun to my head to watch it again. So why's it good? It's got a really good script! It's really well acted and directed too! Frankly there's nothing wrong with it, at all.
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May 14, 2013 23:51
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scary ghost dog posted:It's got a really good script! It's really well acted and directed too! Frankly there's nothing wrong with it, at all. I hate you.
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May 15, 2013 00:37
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I hate you. They also like Miss Congeniality.
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May 15, 2013 01:32
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I like Miss Congeniality. It makes a good double bill with Election.
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May 15, 2013 01:43
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scary ghost dog posted:It's got a really good script! It's really well acted and directed too! Frankly there's nothing wrong with it, at all. The movie's an atrocity. Even the title is offensive.
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May 15, 2013 10:19
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DNS posted:The movie's an atrocity. Even the title is offensive. He was just remaking a Jerry Lewis film and missing the point.
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