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Dark Knight wasn't just a hit, it was legitimately really good and has turned out to be influential. As far as your annual Oscar outrages, Steve Jobs made no money, wasn't that well-liked by critics, and has the ever scandalous issues of accuracy, which of course don't apply to a Steve Jobs movie. The Hateful Eight didn't get a Best Picture nomination, as the Academy is content to relegate Tarantino to Screenplay again. quote:How was Mad Max not nominated for best Original Score? Also this, what the gently caress. I went out and bought this OST immediately after seeing it and I hardly ever do that.
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I don't understand all the unconditional love for The Martian and Star Wars. The former had fantastic set production and Matt Damon being Matt Damon, and the latter had... idk, nostalgia value and good music, but the level of support those two movies got boggles my mind. Star Wars especially, because I think it's an undeniably bad movie and I'm utterly confused at it's universal praise, and I'm just as confused as putting The Martian up for Best Picture. Really? I'm glad that Ex Machina and Inside Out got some nominations. Inside Out is probably the shoe-in for best animated picture because it was good and popular and the academy can't be arsed to give a poo poo about any of the other candidates, as usual. Anomalisa looks interesting though and seems to have gotten decent mainstream presence, so maybe it'll manage a surprise victory?
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ViggyNash posted:I don't understand all the unconditional love for The Martian and Star Wars. The former had fantastic set production and Matt Damon being Matt Damon, and the latter had... idk, nostalgia value and good music, but the level of support those two movies got boggles my mind. Star Wars especially, because I think it's an undeniably bad movie and I'm utterly confused at it's universal praise, and I'm just as confused as putting The Martian up for Best Picture. Really? What do you hate about it? I am mixed on Star Wars.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:No need to be diminutive of specialist awards. That's the good poo poo. Yeah I mean generally the only actual value most award shows have is the same thing as any, like, ordered list or whatever. There's a little bit of creating a historical document but primarily it's just, hey yo these are the movies that these people think you should check out.
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World of Tomorrow is on Netflix, it's pretty good.
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The Mad Max score was fine but extremely simplistic. John Williams' worst score would beat it easily.
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Colonel Whitey posted:The Mad Max score was fine but extremely simplistic. John Williams' worst score would beat it easily. Minimalism is a thing.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:51
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I really like the track "The Scavenger" from The Force Awakens' score.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:53
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If Leo loses again I hope he storms out of the theater.
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Wow, Sicario totally got snubbed. It's the best flick I saw all year. I watched The Revenant and wasn't all that impressed with it.
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Colonel Whitey posted:The Mad Max score was fine but extremely simplistic. John Williams' worst score would beat it easily. Less is more.
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OregonDonor posted:Wow, Sicario totally got snubbed. It's the best flick I saw all year. I watched The Revenant and wasn't all that impressed with it. Sicario better win for score and cinematography.
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Alec Eiffel posted:I really like the track "The Scavenger" from The Force Awakens' score. I think Rey's Theme, and its use throughout the film (like in the above track), gives the score a decent shot at actually winning the category. It's truly an exquisite piece.
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What the hell is The Martian doing with a Best Picture nod? It's a good, fun movie, but that's all it is, and certainly not good enough to be the best movie of 2015.
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Mars4523 posted:What the hell is The Martian doing with a Best Picture nod? It's a good, fun movie, but that's all it is, and certainly not good enough to be the best movie of 2015. And it's a comedy too, and the Oscars usually don't go big on them!
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Thank god Star Wars didn't get shoehorned in. Chris Rock is going to be absolutely miserable.
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Judakel posted:Minimalism is a thing. It wasn't minimalist though? Repetition and a lack of sophistication is not the same thing as minimalism. It worked well enough but it definitely was not Oscar worthy.
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computer parts posted:World of Tomorrow is on Netflix, it's pretty good. Don Hertzfeldt is awesome. I loved Inside-Out but I gotta cheer for the underdog. As for the rest, god, I'm so bad at this. gently caress Redmayne and go Mad Max!
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Colonel Whitey posted:It wasn't minimalist though? Repetition and a lack of sophistication is not the same thing as minimalism. It worked well enough but it definitely was not Oscar worthy. It was.
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Mars4523 posted:What the hell is The Martian doing with a Best Picture nod? It's a good, fun movie, but that's all it is, and certainly not good enough to be the best movie of 2015. To be honest, 2015 was a pretty slow year overall so I can imagine a movie like The Martian (which was just entertaining as gently caress, well-paced and a delight) sneaking in.
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Is this whole thread going to be people who haven't seen the other nominated films chirping about Mad Max and Star Wars
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Don Hertzfeldt is awesome. I loved Inside-Out but I gotta cheer for the underdog. You can cheer for both because they are in different categories.
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Vegetable posted:Is this whole thread going to be people who haven't seen the other nominated films chirping about Mad Max and Star Wars Honestly I just desperately do not want The Danish Girl to win. That movie is the drizzling loving shits.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Honestly I just desperately do not want The Danish Girl to win. That movie is the drizzling loving shits. People shouldn't conflate a bad film with its constituent parts. A very bad film can have good acting, writing, cinematography and whatnot.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Honestly I just desperately do not want The Danish Girl to win. That movie is the drizzling loving shits. Please elaborate. I instinctively avoided it, it smelt oscar baity, but i'd like to know why I should specifically be avoiding it.
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Justin Godscock posted:To be honest, 2015 was a pretty slow year overall so I can imagine a movie like The Martian (which was just entertaining as gently caress, well-paced and a delight) sneaking in. 2015 was one of the best years in recent memory for film! The Martian might not be in my top 20 once I'm all caught up. Not that it's bad, there was just so many better films. I can see why they nominated it -- gotta tease that lucrative young adult audience into watching -- but I would be absolutely stunned if it won best picture.
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Snowman_McK posted:Please elaborate. I instinctively avoided it, it smelt oscar baity, but i'd like to know why I should specifically be avoiding it. It takes the story of an actual trans person and reframes it into a forced-feminization fetish story. That alone is absolutely disgusting and warrants the movie just being stricken from the loving record entirely in my book. Also, Redmayne's performance is absolutely ridiculous (he basically plays his character as Divine), even discounting the shittiness of casting a cis dude to play a trans woman. Plus, it outright lies about what happened to Lili Elbe to make her wife look more sympathetic and make it a ~tragic love story~ when, in reality, Elbe's wife was kind of a lovely person. e: I mean, no poo poo you shouldn't expect historical accuracy from Oscar bait biopics, but this is some seriously insidious poo poo that's actively harmful to LGBT people. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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LORD OF BUTT posted:It takes the story of an actual trans person and reframes it into a forced-feminization fetish story. That alone is absolutely disgusting and warrants the movie just being stricken from the loving record entirely in my book. Also, Redmayne's performance is absolutely ridiculous (he basically plays his character as Divine), even discounting the shittiness of casting a cis dude to play a trans woman. Plus, it outright lies about what happened to Lili Elbe to make her wife look more sympathetic and make it a ~tragic love story~ when, in reality, Elbe's wife was kind of a lovely person. Also, no idea what a "forced-feminization fetish story" is, but I'd like to see that movie.
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I didn't even hear about room and spotlight until a few days ago, are they any good? I watched all the best picture noms last year and was kind of annoyed by how lovely a lot of them were
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Vegetable posted:It's based on a book that's a fictionalized version of Elbe's life. It's not meant to be particularly accurate. I'm not particularly okay with the book either. Also, if you don't know what that is, you're probably better off that way. (I am also hardly the first person to poo poo on it for being a fetish story disguised as a legitimate portrayal of a trans person.)
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Seriously, one of the most harmful and hosed up things you can possibly do when making a biopic about an LGBT person is erase their LGBT-ness and portray it as a kink. You are literally setting back decades of progress if you make a work that does that, even moreso if it actually becomes acclaimed.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I'm not particularly okay with the book either. Also, if you don't know what that is, you're probably better off that way. I've dug deep into this film as somebody who cares personally about the trans movement. It makes a lot of missteps. But the film is hardly the shitshow that critics make it out to be. Most of the criticism boils down to "This isn't the perfect trans story." No poo poo, Tangerine is the first and perhaps only film to do a trans story without pissing somebody off. Baby steps. e: How does it even portray transgenderism as a kink? You're just plucking buzzwords out of the air ("kink", "fetish") and plastering them on the film. Vegetable fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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I hate Eddy Redmayne. I just hate him. That is all.
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The lack of nominations for Beasts of No Nation is very distressing. Seriously, as much as I love Cranston the kid from Beasts of No Nation should have gotten in over him. EDIT: No Going Clear for best documentary? Raxivace fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Rooney Mara getting tabbed as a Supporting Actress is pretty silly. The worst thing about her and Vikander being there is it guts the Best Actress category, and it really stacks the supporting category. I'm worried they'll give it to one of the those two because of their screentime. McAdams, Winslet, and Leigh were all great, but since they threw lead actresses in the category, better luck next year I guess. Vikander has a great performance that qualifies too, come on Oscars. I'm pretty disappointed Ex Machina missed on Best Picture especially with something as plain as Bridge of Spies being there. Ex Machina, Sicario, Creed, and Inside Out had something more going on and there's two more spots available. I'm glad Spielberg didn't steal a director slot though, I'm ok with that category (although I haven't seen Room yet). I'll also echo the Michael B. Jordan sentiment especially in a weak year for the category.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I hate Eddy Redmayne. I just hate him. I never want to see him in a movie again after Jupiter Ascending. I would also never like to see a movie like Jupiter Ascending again either.
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Is there some kind of problem people have with Redmayne now? I only know him from Theory of Everything, and while that is by no means a great movie I think he's fine in it.
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Raxivace posted:Is there some kind of problem people have with Redmayne now? I only know him from Theory of Everything, and while that is by no means a great movie I think he's fine in it. Seems to constantly be in movies that are A) Oscar bait B) Bad C) All of the above
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MorgaineDax posted:I would have liked to see Jupiter Ascending in Best Costume, probably instead of meh period drama The Danish Girl. JA wasn't a great movie, but there were some fantastic outfits there. JA had great costuming. Why the hell aren't Carol and Sicario nominated? So weird.
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cat doter posted:I didn't even hear about room and spotlight until a few days ago, are they any good? I watched all the best picture noms last year and was kind of annoyed by how lovely a lot of them were I missed Spotlight, but Room was fantastic. The kid deserved a nomination just as much as Brie Larson, IMO.
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