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He once got into one little fight as well
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MacheteZombie posted:He once got into one little fight as well What was his family's (perhaps, specifically, his mother's) reaction?
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Mar 31, 2022 20:23
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Guy A. Person posted:What was his family's (perhaps, specifically, his mother's) reaction? She did get a little fearful, now that you mention it.
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Mar 31, 2022 22:08
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The only good take you'll see on twitter: https://twitter.com/NoahPasternak/status/1508929619223023617
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Mar 31, 2022 23:38
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Will Smith funded a Scientology school Chris Rock deserved to be slapped, he's an SP (suppressive person)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v62QkD_q1bs
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CPL593H posted:The only good take you'll see on twitter: Im surprised he still does tbh I thought Garfield had been franchised out to other writers years ago.
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massive spider posted:Im surprised he still does tbh I thought Garfield had been franchised out to other writers years ago. It’s a joke tweet, Davis sold the rights to Nickelodeon a few years back and has nothing to do with the property anymore.
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Apr 1, 2022 10:20
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No surprise, the LAPD were itching to arrest Will Smith. https://twitter.com/abc/status/1509684465857142787?s=21&t=XCbKaZq3fsn74WenA7RX9A
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Apr 1, 2022 16:48
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"Please let us kill him," bay foam-mouthed officer as veins swell in their apopleptic faces
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https://twitter.com/ign/status/1510033145151766539?s=21&t=JVbjhGj_mGtznCWPVUmPIA
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Apr 2, 2022 00:26
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gently caress that
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Apr 2, 2022 01:24
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Ejection from the academy was, like, the only reasonable punishment the academy could have levied, so well played by Will Smith I guess.
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Apr 2, 2022 01:27
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Wittgen posted:Ejection from the academy was, like, the only reasonable punishment the academy could have levied, so well played by Will Smith I guess. Yeah this doesn't really hurt him, the academy has already lost a whole lot of its prestige over the past few years given the plummeting ratings for the oscars along with all of its (non-Will Smith related) fuckups, and what wins an oscar being so predictable that whole movies are crafted to an absolute tee based on pushing the exact buttons that get something a win. (Not that all those movies end up bad, just very predictable)
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It was April fools’ day you nerds, why would you release it that day lol
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I think the idea that the Oscar nominations are particularly predictable is overblown and regardless of quality the last thirty years of winners are more diverse than you’d think. Like regardless of what you think of CODA, it’s not even an Oscar bait movie and I don’t think anyone thought it would win anything. And like what other film even meets the idea of being predictable Oscar bait besides maybe Belfast and King Richard? The one thing that is predictable is that if you’re a somewhat famous person who plays a dead real person in a movie, you’re getting nominated. Like Tom Hanks could play Ronald Reagan by wearing a black t-shirt that says “Ronald Reagan” on it and be sipping coffee and reading right from the script during the whole thing and he’ll get nominated. But honestly the Acting categories should be completely rebuilt from scratch. They’re the most bullshit
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Timeless Appeal posted:The one thing that is predictable is that if you’re a somewhat famous person who plays a dead real person in a movie, you’re getting nominated. Like Tom Hanks could play Ronald Reagan by wearing a black t-shirt that says “Ronald Reagan” on it and be sipping coffee and reading right from the script during the whole thing and he’ll get nominated. Hey now let's be fair, he'd also have to do a funny voice. The Academy loves it when you do a half-assed impression of a dead person.
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Apr 3, 2022 01:29
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And since it's Tom Hanks there'd be a scene where Ronald Reagan makes eye contact with the camera while he pisses.
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Timeless Appeal posted:The one thing that is predictable is that if you’re a somewhat famous person who plays a dead real person in a movie, you’re getting nominated. Like Tom Hanks could play Ronald Reagan by wearing a black t-shirt that says “Ronald Reagan” on it and be sipping coffee and reading right from the script during the whole thing and he’ll get nominated. Man the Darkest Hour was so bad lol
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Apr 3, 2022 06:46
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Pretty much everything about the Oscars is openly known to be laser-focused to making a particular strain of rich assholes feel good about themselves.
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Apr 3, 2022 06:49
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Which is why Will Smith's crime is so heinous, he made rich white people uncomfortable.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I think the idea that the Oscar nominations are particularly predictable is overblown and regardless of quality the last thirty years of winners are more diverse than you’d think. Like regardless of what you think of CODA, it’s not even an Oscar bait movie and I don’t think anyone thought it would win anything. And like what other film even meets the idea of being predictable Oscar bait besides maybe Belfast and King Richard? CODA is absolutely Sundance Oscar bait. It hits all the inspirational notes.
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live with fruit posted:CODA is absolutely Sundance Oscar bait. It hits all the inspirational notes. CODA is a cute, twee indie coming of age story, but so is like The Half of It and nobody was nominating that for an Oscar. It struck a cord with people for how its representation and specifically for how it presents ASL as truly a language in of itself instead of a a way to compensate for not being able to speak and hear English. But the only comparable nominees I'd say we've seen the last few years are Gerwig's films which have consistently failed to hold water. Like you can go back to Slumdog Millionaire to find something that I think is a comparable tone to CODA and that's sandwiched between feel good inspiring films, The Hurt Locker and No Country for Old Men. The Oscars are so full of poo poo on so many levels, but I feel like people spike the ball with it and create this false narrative that the most generic movies strictly for grandmas for Best Picture and that's clearly not true. Honestly, if they were just giving Oscars to like The Post and poo poo that would at least be consistent. The Oscars are so baffling and frustrating because they often do reward earnestly great and interesting movies, but also Green Book.
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Apr 4, 2022 03:39
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CODA hits all the notes of Captain Fantastic from a few years ago and is nominated just the same. The difference is actually winning, which you never expect from a Sundance film.
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Vegetable posted:CODA hits all the notes of Captain Fantastic from a few years ago and is nominated just the same. The difference is actually winning, which you never expect from a Sundance film. I'd also throw out Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. In the first five minutes, the parents fart, pick her up listening to very loud hip hop and have very loud sex. It's all very quirky
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Vegetable posted:CODA hits all the notes of Captain Fantastic from a few years ago and is nominated just the same. The difference is actually winning, which you never expect from a Sundance film.
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live with fruit posted:I'd also throw out Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. In the first five minutes, the parents fart, pick her up listening to very loud hip hop and have very loud sex. It's all very quirky I can't believe they're still making this genre, lol. I thought Trump would have killed it.
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Coda is cross genre when it comes to oscar bait. It's quirky indie family-learns-to-understand-each-other bait mixed with people-with-disabilities-are-inspiring bait.
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porfiria posted:I can't believe they're still making this genre, lol. I thought Trump would have killed it. well from what i understand it's a nearly shot-for-shot remake a 2014 french film (La Famille Bélier / The Bélier Family)...... so you could consider it pre-trump
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I know everyone's pretty sick of the topic, but if Smith resigned from the Academy already, what is the likely punishment. It's like he's giving them little to do but rescind the award.
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They're gonna spin their wheels until talk dies down then quietly do nothing
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They didn't rescind Polanski's, they're not going to rescind Smith's. There probably some back room deal about resigning, Academy agrees not to take it further and in 2 years Will makes a brilliant comeback movie and is allowed back in.
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I'm pretty sure Smith was leaned on to resign. The academy is in a tough spot since he just won one of their top awards so this way he makes a pr statement acknowledging his transgression, "voluntarily" disinvites himself from future events until some point when bygones will be bygones, and both he and the academy come out of this looking good (for will, he's contrite; for the academy, they're magnanimous)
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CODA is about deaf people, how is that not Oscar bait? I mean, maybe it wasn't intended by the creators, but the academy loves movies about underrepresented minority groups. They were probably salivating at the opportunity to show some performative inclusivity towards the deaf.
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TheMopeSquad posted:CODA is about deaf people, how is that not Oscar bait? I mean, maybe it wasn't intended by the creators, but the academy loves movies about underrepresented minority groups. They were probably salivating at the opportunity to show some performative inclusivity towards the deaf. If this was true then Sound of Metal would've won <  >
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Cacator posted:If this was true then Sound of Metal would've won < Just because a movie is Oscar Bait doesn't mean it's going to win, or even get nominated.
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There's lots of different kinds of oscar bait. Historical figure bait, hollywood self-masturbation bait, inspiring story of disability or recovery bait, quirky indie family story bait, fighting oppression bait. The game played by oscars forecasters is figuring out which of those the academy is likely to feel like rewarding this year. Most bait-y oscar winners (excluding Coda) lately are probably Green Book (historical figure, oppression, "family" story) and the King's Speech (historical figure, disability).
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BiggestBatman posted:There's lots of different kinds of oscar bait. Historical figure bait, hollywood self-masturbation bait, inspiring story of disability or recovery bait, quirky indie family story bait, fighting oppression bait. The game played by oscars forecasters is figuring out which of those the academy is likely to feel like rewarding this year. You can never go wrong with movies about showbusiness. Worked for Kidman, Bardem and Simmons.
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I think of it less in terms of a movie being made intentionally as "Oscar bait" and more about if it has aspects that will check certain boxes for the Academy at that time. Like, I wouldn't say 12 Years a Slave was Oscar bait by any means, but I felt super confident betting on it winning (while giving almost everything else to Gravity) without even having seen it because of the social context at that exact moment and the Academy wanting people to think they're progressive or whatever. And I'm not trying to criticize the movie itself at all, the Academy is just stupid. Similarly I expect them to drag their feet on seriously honoring any Asian movie for a bit after having given Best Picture to Parasite, because a bunch of old idiots probably feel like they're covered on that front for a while. Then you have stuff like Crash beating Brokeback Mountain, and umm I dunno where I'm going with that but I got mad again
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