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Just saw "Fences." I'm not sure if this is quite fair but my feeling when watching it was that it was the black Glengarry Glen Ross. It's basically a vehicle for Denzel Washington and Viola Davis to go on extended monologues and just basically act everyone else's faces off.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I mean, sure, but I guess you could say similar things about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and nobody would be complaining about the results. I didn't mean it like it was a bad thing. I mean that it's not usually fair to judge a film by immediate comparison to such a famous and star-studded piece.
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Purple Monkey posted:Spotlight probably won because best picture is decided by a ranked/instant runoff vote which is why middling but inoffensive films often win. This video does a better job of explaining it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfIxihGOaQ8 I hate this video 1) It essentially makes the case that we need more movies like "Crash" to win best picture, because they're more "polarizing" 2) It paints preferential/instant runoff voting as guaranteeing "safe, boring" winners. Given that preferential voting would be a good choice for actual elections, this is not a brush that is worth painting preferential voting with, especially at this moment in history. 3) It makes an awful lot of guesses and overgeneralizations. If you had preferential voting in 2005, that does not mean "Good night and good luck" would have won.
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