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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." Well one of the songs being performed was specifically for a rape documentary and the eventual winner was about child molestation (beating out a movie about a woman and her rape baby and another movie in which a warlord keeps a half dozen brides for raping) so why not talk about it?
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Mar 1, 2016 05:35
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Egbert Souse posted:FYI, Wings, the first Best Picture winner is on Netflix. It's a terrific film, even if not quite the artistic work. I haven't seen Wings yet but that's a fuckin' great shot.
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Mar 1, 2016 05:38
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Henchman of Santa posted:Well one of the songs being performed was specifically for a rape documentary and the eventual winner was about child molestation (beating out a movie about a woman and her rape baby and another movie in which a warlord keeps a half dozen brides for raping) so why not talk about it? A girl gets raped in The Revenant.
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Mar 1, 2016 05:49
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Raxivace posted:I haven't seen Wings yet but that's a fuckin' great shot. The whole movie is beautifully shot. It helps that the restoration looks that amazing, but it has aerial dogfights where they actually had a camera strapped to biplanes with actors inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVY8ukOl88
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Mar 1, 2016 06:13
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CelticPredator posted:A girl gets raped in The Revenant. So 50% of BP noms alone! I'm assuming there isn't any in Bridge of Spies or Brooklyn.
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Mar 1, 2016 06:14
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Well, having seen Spotlight now I see why it was given the Best Picture award. Certainly more deserving than Bridge of Spies anyway.
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Mar 1, 2016 06:16
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I saw bridge of spies today after the supporting actor win. It was ok. Poorly edited (30 min too long), cheap writing (the rerendition of the initial insurance pitch), too 'blindside/remember the titans'y, and I hated the score. But the acting was really good! and the core plot was compelling.
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Mar 1, 2016 07:42
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Mad Max probably deserved it but it was a pretty strong second for Production Design imo
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Mar 1, 2016 08:16
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I think people are correct in saying that Spotlight was not particularly cinematic. It's really important to remember that cinematography is only one part of the picture - Spotlight was a very well acted film with a tight script and a topical issue. It's actually not a surprising win if you consider it from that perspective. In a lot of ways, it was the complete opposite of The Revenant, which I consider a good example of something that's over-directed and over-acted. Zero nuance. I still think it's a crime Sicario wasn't nominated for more, but that's just me.
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Mar 1, 2016 10:37
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Mar 1, 2016 14:26
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Mar 1, 2016 14:41
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I really can't feel bad for the dude considering two months ago he was all 
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Mar 1, 2016 17:13
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Alain Post posted:I'm pretty sure the Tangerine Dream score from Thief was nominated. For a razzie?!! gently caress my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvomyYkIPY BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 17:17
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Pirate Jet posted:I really can't feel bad for the dude considering two months ago he was all I had no opinion on Sam Smith until now, other than thinking his music is kind of boring, but now I actively dislike the guy. He seems pretty stupid.
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Mar 1, 2016 19:34
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:For a razzie?!! Wasn't there just a general backlash against any kind of electronic music at the time? Like I know many bands like Styx got shat on for trying it out.
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Mar 1, 2016 19:41
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Henchman of Santa posted:Well one of the songs being performed was specifically for a rape documentary and the eventual winner was about child molestation (beating out a movie about a woman and her rape baby and another movie in which a warlord keeps a half dozen brides for raping) so why not talk about it? Well what's the point of buzzkilling the party? Most people don't rape, and those who do aren't going to be changed by the Academy Award people scolding them about it.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:43
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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. I won't argue that Jaws makes better use of the medium's unique aspects, but Cuckoo's Nest is infinitely more engaging precisely because its human elements are better realized.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:48
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Chris Rock is under fire for being racist because of his joke with the asian kids on stage. There you go, Hollywood.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:58
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Jack's Flow posted:Chris Rock is under fire for being racist because of his joke with the asian kids on stage. There you go, Hollywood. [extreme white liberal voice] That joke about Chinese child slave labor being used to make iPhones was very upsetting. *sent from my iPhone*
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Mar 2, 2016 00:04
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Judakel posted:I won't argue that Jaws makes better use of the medium's unique aspects, but Cuckoo's Nest is infinitely more engaging precisely because its human elements are better realized. Cuckoo's Nest is off putting in every respect. It's ugly to look at, the sound design is terrible, and it ends with a magical Indian.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:35
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Armyman25 posted:Cuckoo's Nest is off putting in every respect. It's ugly to look at, the sound design is terrible, and it ends with a magical Indian. The way Cuckoo's Nest treats mental illness is shortsighted and almost insulting. I get what it's trying to say as a film, but it just rubs me the wrong way. Jaws is a perfect movie, though. I have The Broadway Melody and The Great Ziegfeld on the way from Netflix. I'm going to catch up on the remaining Best Pictures I haven't seen. Melody looks like it'll be pretty creaky, but the clips I've seen of Ziegfeld look interesting.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:26
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Raxivace posted:I haven't seen Wings yet but that's a fuckin' great shot. You should check it out. It's excellent and a great introduction to silent movies if you're unfamiliar with them.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:35
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lmao that the entire point of the iphone joke being that people would complain about it on chinese technology and now people are blindly doing just that
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Mar 2, 2016 02:36
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straight up brolic posted:lmao that the entire point of the iphone joke being that people would complain about it on chinese technology and now people are blindly doing just that The joke was still terrible. Going "gotcha, you're using slave labor technology to criticize it!" misses the point of the criticism.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:42
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Armyman25 posted:Cuckoo's Nest is off putting in every respect. It's ugly to look at, the sound design is terrible, and it ends with a magical Indian. I am sorry that you cannot connect with a film on a human level.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:44
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I don't care about Spotlight winning, I'm just mad about two things: 1. Leo was absolutely banal in Revenant, Tom Hardy was the superior actor 2. That person in this thread who thought biopic wasn't a portmanteau of biographical picture and who is pronouncing it wrong and being smug about same. Other than that, life is good.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:51
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Biopic = biographic picture. Hm. I didn't know that!
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Mar 2, 2016 03:59
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Anal Surgery posted:
This makes my night. GORDON fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Mar 2, 2016 05:34
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Egbert Souse posted:I have The Broadway Melody and The Great Ziegfeld on the way from Netflix. I'm going to catch up on the remaining Best Pictures I haven't seen. Melody looks like it'll be pretty creaky, but the clips I've seen of Ziegfeld look interesting. I remember The Broadway Melody disc I got had some old Metro Movietone Revues on it that were interesting. Ziegfeld had some dance/stage segments that would've looked great in widescreen color but are forever stuck in 4:3 B/W.
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Mar 2, 2016 06:42
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GORDON posted:This makes my night. They don't call me the Night Maker around the office for nothing 
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Mar 2, 2016 13:19
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Jack's Flow posted:Chris Rock is under fire for being racist because of his joke with the asian kids on stage. There you go, Hollywood. That joke was lame and he deserves the criticism. The bit itself was an unironic "all accountants are Asian" jab, and the punchline about kids in China making iPhones was just a tired reiteration of that Louis CK bit about iPhones used to try and make it a "gotcha." This is actually my problem with Rock's performance more broadly. He had a few good jokes, but by and large they were forced or boring, if not total flops. His criticism of Hollywood's racism is legit, but a lot of his material (like the "Carol is the third best girl-on-girl move I've seen this year" or that Asian accountant joke) was crude and stupid. He just wasn't very clever. I think it's telling that the bit I ended up laughing the most at out of the entire broadcast was Louis CK's introduction of the Documentary Short Feature award.
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Mar 2, 2016 14:27
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Louis CK's bit about the Best Documentary Short Oscar going home in a Honda Civic and giving the winner anxiety to keep it in their crappy apartment was the best joke and second best joke of the night.
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Mar 2, 2016 17:27
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MeinPanzer posted:(like the "Carol is the third best girl-on-girl move I've seen this year" or that Asian accountant joke) yeah, what the hell, it was clearly the best one
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Mar 3, 2016 02:25
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That Carol joke was better than most of Rock's material all night. Fight me. And since when do Americans pronounce biopic like biopsy? Is that seriously a thing?
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Mar 3, 2016 08:09
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esperterra posted:
I'd always heard it as "bio" "pic" with the emphasis on the Bi part  My wife, an English major and linguistic pedant, SWORE to me it was bi-AW-pic, rhyming with myopic. A quick run to both Google and Wikipedia showed that, at least according to those fonts of all knowledge, it's supposed to be BYE-oh-pic. I'm not aware of it even being a regional thing because my wife is the only one I've ever heard pronounce it the other way. This also marks the only time in my marriage I've ever been right, so I'm clinging to this. I need this.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:19
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Anal Surgery posted:I'd always heard it as "bio" "pic" with the emphasis on the Bi part I think you're definitely right. The confusion is that people just pronounce it in line with other similar words (myopic, biographic, etc). Linguistic force of habit just shapes how people approach the word until they're corrected. edit: That and the correct pronunciation definitely accents a two word meaning ("bio pic") but the word itself is presented as one word "biopic" so that also shapes how we approach it's pronunciation. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 16:36
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Anal Surgery posted:I'd always heard it as "bio" "pic" with the emphasis on the Bi part Yeah BYE-oh-pic is how it should be said. I've never heard it the other way and I love in Canada. Really confused the poo poo out of me when it was even suggested there's two ways to say it.
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Mar 3, 2016 18:33
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Well, /bi-OP-ic/ is clearly a different word. It derives from bi, meaning 'two', op or ob meaning 'across, through', and ic meaning 'related to'. In other words, 'a thing related to two [people] going across or through something'. In the pages of movie magazines, it naturally refers to road movies. There's a false folk etymology that the term derives as a shortening of 'Bing-Hope-picture' but that is unsupported nonsense. Confusion of 'bio-pic' and 'biopic' is compounded by people on the internet making things up on the spot.
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Mar 4, 2016 02:42
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I just like the sound of it better than bio-pic
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Mar 4, 2016 02:54
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It rhymes with myopic. It always has... but that was before the dark times. Before the Millennials. They changed everything and made it stupid. GORDON fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Mar 4, 2016 03:03
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