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Not a huge fan of American Beauty, even though I liked it when I saw it in high school.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:10
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Iron Crowned posted:They're all trash! Yes, Mr. Sherman, everything stinks.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:21
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I'm here to say I've enjoyed most Best Picture winners unlike you uncultured swines.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:13
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David s Pumpkins goddamn sucks.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:22
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The King's Speech is way worse than Crash, and Crash is extremely bad. Spotlight is mediocre at best, Argo is Bad, The Departed is OK but it's just a Lifetime Achievement Award, A Beautiful Mind is terrible, Dances with Wolves is garbage... Oscar winners are overwhelmingly bad or mediocre. Annie Hall is better than Star Wars though.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:28
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Nah. The Kings Speech is fine. Like something you watch once and forget about. It's not as offensively lovely as Crash is. Crash is worse than The Room.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:30
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The Kings Speech is like a History Channel TV movie or something. It's pure mediocrity. Utterly brainless. Also it's pro monarchy (!) At least Crash is totally insane. Both Crash and The Room are better movies than King's Peach. Actually every winner in the 70s is good. Except I suspect One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest isn't good.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:34
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Timby posted:I think it was penismightier or HUNDU who said it's cinema's equivalent to "We Didn't Start the Fire." I think that was penismightier, I wish I could take credit for that one.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:45
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Roger Deakins probably isn't gonna win or even be nominated for cinematography for Blade Runner 2049. The Oscars are a goddamn joke.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:54
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porfiria posted:The King's Speech is way worse than Crash ... Spotlight is mediocre at best, Argo is Bad, The Departed is OK but it's just a Lifetime Achievement Award, A Beautiful Mind is terrible, Dances with Wolves is garbage ... Annie Hall is better than Star Wars though. Go watch breathless again for the thousandth time you fart-sniffer I'm not saying any of these deserved best picture but none of them are outright bad, except crash
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Oct 27, 2017 03:47
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I would pay good money to see the incredibly awful book sequel made into an actual movie starring old man Tom Hanks. What they should do is cross over with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and just make Forrest Gump into the Beyonder. Let Hanks go full on Saturday Night Fever.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:08
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Iron Crowned posted:I can say the same about SNL viewership You don’t understand why a show that was created with some genius comedians had a wide viewership? Are you daft
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Oct 27, 2017 04:09
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Why won’t Deakins be nominated for Blade Runner? How is Spotlight merely ok? Wtf is going on in here right now
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Oct 27, 2017 04:11
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An ice cold take: Casablanca deserves its best picture win.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:13
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bows1 posted:Why won’t Deakins be nominated for Blade Runner? How is Spotlight merely ok? Wtf is going on in here right now That's what I was thinking, he's been nominated like 10 times.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:15
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Barudak posted:An ice cold take: Casablanca deserves its best picture win. It's a good movie, but by the time I saw it the effect was mostly "oh, so *that's* what that other thing was referencing".
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Oct 27, 2017 04:17
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Byzantine posted:It's a good movie, but by the time I saw it the effect was mostly "oh, so *that's* what that other thing was referencing". I had the same reaction to The Godfather. Watching it, all I could think was how derivative it was. Then I realized that it wasn't derivative, it was the thing from which other films derived.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:19
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bows1 posted:Why won’t Deakins be nominated for Blade Runner? How is Spotlight merely ok? Wtf is going on in here right now Spotlight was good but it wasn't the best movie that year.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:20
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Byzantine posted:It's a good movie, but by the time I saw it the effect was mostly "oh, so *that's* what that other thing was referencing". That's 100% fair. Happens to lots of old films. Just, like, nobody talks about "In Which We Serve" or Christ any version of "Song of Bernadette", much less the film version. It stands alone in its year.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:28
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SciFiDownBeat posted:Go watch breathless again for the thousandth time you fart-sniffer My taste is unbelievably middle to low brow, so I won't generally watch foreign films. Argo is just a bad movie, sorry that's how it is. I mean it's technically competent because it cost millions of dollars and was generally worked on by seasoned, talented professionals but goodness is a relative thing baby.
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I remember Argo being good when I saw it in theaters but I literally haven't thought about it in years
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There are like two good scenes in Argo, it's not good. Affleck deserved a nom and a win for Gone Baby Gone instead. Spotlight and The Hurt Locker are very good though, so I don't know what's going on here.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:34
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bows1 posted:Why won’t Deakins be nominated for Blade Runner? The fact that practically nobody saw it, and a large chunk of those who did are lukewarm on it, is probably key.
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FlamingLiberal posted:King’s Speech and Slumdog Millionaire are very overrated IMO. Slumdog is actually Very Good and people who say it isn't are letting a hokey plot distract them from everything else about the movie
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Oct 27, 2017 05:12
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porfiria posted:The Kings Speech is like a History Channel TV movie or something. It's pure mediocrity. Utterly brainless. Also it's pro monarchy (!) At least Crash is totally insane. Both Crash and The Room are better movies than King's Peach. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is loving fantastic.
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My Oscar gripes are Crouching Tiger not taking it over Gladiator, and Clint Mansell not winning (or being nominated) for his score to The Fountain.
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FilthyImp posted:My Oscar gripes are Crouching Tiger not taking it over Gladiator, and Clint Mansell not winning (or being nominated) for his score to The Fountain. Speaking of Gladiator, what was the insane idea for the sequel to it? It sounded even more bizarre then the Forest Gump book sequel that started this discussion.
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Rirse posted:Speaking of Gladiator, what was the insane idea for the sequel to it? It sounded even more bizarre then the Forest Gump book sequel that started this discussion. I believe Maximus becomes the god or incarnation of war and the movie ends with him in a war room in the Pentagon. By Nick Cave!
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Oct 27, 2017 07:22
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FilthyImp posted:Clint Mansell not winning (or being nominated) for his score to The Fountain. Wtf. That movie is my favorite by virtue of its soundtrack alone, not even a nomination? That seems a deliberate snub.
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"For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkins, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and reimagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeD3sCW7Yag
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Yup, there was a less insane version that was going to follow Dimmon Honsou's character but that also went nowhere fast.
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porfiria posted:I believe Maximus becomes the god or incarnation of war and the movie ends with him in a war room in the Pentagon. By Nick Cave! Wonder Woman prequel?
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Oct 27, 2017 07:58
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The only good Best Picture winner was Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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I’ve said it before in other threads, but I’ll always be pissed off that the Academy didn’t give Sharon Stone the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Ginger Rothstein in Casino. She was nominated, but she should’ve won. She was an absolute lunatic in that role.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:34
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KiteAuraan posted:The only good Best Picture winner was Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Finally a good poster in CD.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:47
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KiteAuraan posted:The only good Best Picture winner was Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The LotR movies are very weird to me in that I saw them opening night and a few times afterwards, bought the special edition DVDs and have never once felt inclined to watch them since.
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FilthyImp posted:Clint Mansell not winning (or being nominated) for his score to The Fountain. My man.
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porfiria posted:I believe Maximus becomes the god or incarnation of war and the movie ends with him in a war room in the Pentagon. By Nick Cave! Yeah, Maximus was supposed to become a god, so the sequel would be him fighting in wars through history. Which sounds loving awesome, like the original ending of God of War.
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