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I'm really behind on my big Oscar movies this year it seems- of the BP nominees I've only seen two- Arrival and Hell or High Water. The latter of those I didn't even see until after the nominees were announced. I would have liked to see Silence get a BP nom but alas.
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I watched Lion today. It seemed like your typical kind of Oscar nominated film- decently well crafted with solid performances, but otherwise kind of inoffensive in all ways. At least, normally I'd say that but then again this recent nonsense from Trump about refugees perhaps makes the movie bolder than even the filmmakers intended. Anyone else see it?
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Feb 2, 2017 23:45
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I haven't seen Fences yet but Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? did try and add some cinematic touches to the material. Like that great tracking shot that ends with the fakeout where George grabs a rifle, where we think he's about to murder Martha but it only turns out to be a toy isn't in Albee's original play at all.
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Feb 4, 2017 11:22
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Moonlight was insanely good, holy crap.
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Feb 13, 2017 22:06
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thatfatkid posted:To me that's what the movie was trying to portray, the Japanese and the battlefield aren't meant to be realistic but instead representative of Hell and Devils.
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Feb 17, 2017 05:58
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GonSmithe posted:Steve Yun, You gonna tell me 12 Years a Slave has no "artistry" either?
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Feb 17, 2017 17:06
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Nebraska was my personal favorite of that year. I like 12 Years a Slave but I kind of feel like it needed to be connected to modern times more, if the number of white people I know that walked out of the movie saying "Well thank god racism is over now here in America and all that slavery stuff is in the past" are any indication. That being said I'm not sure how that could have been done in a way that would work with telling Solomon Northup's story specifically. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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Feb 18, 2017 08:44
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Except that it's pretty much the only high profile film about American slavery that indicts Christianity as a central component of the success of said institution, which basically represents a major change in historical interpretation, at least where cinema is concerned. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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Feb 18, 2017 09:56
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That it also addressed religion as part of what allowed slavery to spread, though like I said I don't think it did it as well as 12YAS.
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Feb 18, 2017 10:44
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I think the distracting part is that its Brad Pitt, more than it being a white guy.
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Feb 19, 2017 15:38
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I would have understood Spotlight winning if it had come out in 2005, though I don't think it would have aged super well. In 2015 it just feels blander than a movie about something so horrible should be- like it shouldn't be so easy to watch. I'll always think its funny that Tom McCarthy directed it though, considering the character he played on The Wire. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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Feb 19, 2017 20:02
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Detective Dog Dick posted:Spotlight was a hell of a lot better than The Revenant and The Martian at any rate. Detective Dog Dick posted:I never really got the love for The Big Short. Inside Job gives a more concise and damning explanation of the collapse without feeling like a Very Special Episode of a sitcom. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 23:01
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That was loving strange. Loved that Moonlight won though!
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I think we all know that somehow Matt Damon is responsible for this.
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