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Parkingtigers posted:I dunno, I could kind of see the logic in the most popular movie of the year being included by default. There’s 10 spots for best picture, having one of them each year given to the biggest film as a hat tip to their popularity won’t break things. Given how much complaining is done about how “obscure” Oscar movies are by people who only care about it for about 1 week a year, the highest grossing movie in the country has been nominated more than you’d think, especially since the expansion. Avatar, Toy Story 3, American Sniper and Black Panther all fit that criteria, which means 1/3 of the time since the expansion (excluding 2020 for obvious reasons). And honestly the 2000s were sort of an outlier in that sense, if you go back to the 1990s and before the most popular movie being nominated for BP was probably right around the 1/3 marker, maybe slightly less owing to the fewer slots. But also I don’t think “competently made” should be enough for BP. Movies like the MCU, Harry Potter, Star Wars have the capacity to reach higher than that and their best do but I don’t think that Endgame or the last HP or Catching Fire or Force Awakens should have been nominated.
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Feb 13, 2022 00:34
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BP is the producers award for best business decision. Cinematography award is where I get mad if I have to.
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DC Murderverse posted:Given how much complaining is done about how “obscure” Oscar movies are by people who only care about it for about 1 week a year, the highest grossing movie in the country has been nominated more than you’d think, especially since the expansion. Avatar, Toy Story 3, American Sniper and Black Panther all fit that criteria, which means 1/3 of the time since the expansion (excluding 2020 for obvious reasons). And honestly the 2000s were sort of an outlier in that sense, if you go back to the 1990s and before the most popular movie being nominated for BP was probably right around the 1/3 marker, maybe slightly less owing to the fewer slots. Return of the King was nominated and won for the achievement that was the whole LOTR trilogy, even though the first two movies were better. I could see Endgame being nominated in the same way as the culmination of the whole MCU project. Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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Feb 13, 2022 01:49
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Charlz Guybon posted:Return of the King was nominated and won for the achievement that was the whole LOTR trilogy, even though the first two movies were better. I could see Endgame being nominated in the same way as the culmination of the whole MCU proj Yeah, and RotK is the only movie of the three that I can’t defend to the death because it has issues. It was still ok to give it the awards for the project as a whole, which was an unprecedented gamble at the time making three movies that way. Endgame is similarly flawed, coming as it does after the much tighter Infinity War. Absolutely sticks the landing though, both of that film and of the decade long 20 movie project that led to it. Coming in the same year where both Game of Thrones and Star Wars spectacularly poo poo the bed, it felt even more amazing. I’m an unashamed MCU fanboy though, and even I can see why these films are just a bit too populist and often too solidly fun but decidedly non-life changing to make them not awards worthy most of the time. Endgame would have been the time to go “you know what, 20 movies with only a couple of legit clunkers amongst them, here’s a trophy for the collective body of work” and give the genre flicks people a moment to briefly delude ourselves that our dumb movies about punchmans actually matter. The films aren’t high art in the same way the comics they are based upon aren’t. Much deeper flicks to give awards to and get angry over. I’m just saying that the very nature of the movie industry, and the nature of awards shows, at some point they’ll feel obligated to recognise the overall achievement but there won’t be another “ok, that makes sense” opportunity for years.
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Feb 13, 2022 02:08
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I have an even more basic opinion: one BP nom for Dark Knight would have cut a lot of these arguments off at the knees, and I don’t think that anyone out there would claim that TDK is not a better movie than The Reader. WALL-E is better than both of them but you could easily slot it into Benjamin Button’s slot with little trouble, and the animation debate is slightly different because they made their own category so they can’t claim that they’re not being acknowledged in some way. Maybe we should just have an Oscar for Biggest Movie and we can just install a giant permanent statue in Walt Disney Studios Headquarters since I don’t see any movies not made by them ever being the biggest movie in the world again.
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Feb 13, 2022 02:20
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oof, remembering the king's speech
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Feb 13, 2022 02:22
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see its called that because the climax of the film is the king making a speech, but also that the king has some speech problems
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Feb 13, 2022 02:28
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:The year The Matrix, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, and Being John Malkovich came out. Such a crazy good year goddamn.
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Feb 13, 2022 02:37
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NOPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8fuzj3gck
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Feb 13, 2022 09:38
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I just binged Los Espookys and the season long joke of the mystical being who really wants to watch the king's speech really is the best way to describe how of little impact that movie is
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Feb 13, 2022 09:49
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Snooze Cruise posted:see its called that because the climax of the film is the king making a speech, but also that the king has some speech problems
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Feb 13, 2022 11:03
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God loving drat that is a great trailer
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Feb 13, 2022 11:28
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nice trailer. looks better than us
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Feb 13, 2022 12:58
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Ohh hell yeah.
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Feb 13, 2022 15:24
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https://twitter.com/letterboxd/status/1492769840414982144?s=21
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Feb 13, 2022 15:49
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Yeah man that ticks all my boxes
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Feb 13, 2022 16:30
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Looks like Jordan Peele has tapped into the magic that made Signs so effective.
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Feb 13, 2022 16:45
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I love it when a UFO movie actually plays into the modern mythology of it all rather than ignoring it. Fingers crossed this is a take that balances that with evolving the genre, like Close Encounters did. I'm hype.
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Feb 13, 2022 16:51
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Hell yeah that looks good.
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Feb 13, 2022 16:54
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Greys tap into that same uncanny realm as Slenderman, in that they’re inscrutable and don’t do anything overtly threatening. Also they were both originally inspired by mass media. Really, they’re underused in horror.
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Feb 13, 2022 16:56
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I AM GRANDO posted:Greys tap into that same uncanny realm as Slenderman, in that they’re inscrutable and don’t do anything overtly threatening. Also they were both originally inspired by mass media. Really, they’re underused in horror. When I was a kid they scared me more than anything else. Hated seeing the cover of Communion at the bookstore and I don't think any movie scene bothered me more than the one in Fire in the Sky.
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Feb 13, 2022 17:30
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I AM GRANDO posted:Greys tap into that same uncanny realm as Slenderman, in that they’re inscrutable and don’t do anything overtly threatening. If you don't consider being abducted and anal probed to be "overtly threatening", anyway.
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Feb 13, 2022 18:41
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Groovelord Neato posted:When I was a kid they scared me more than anything else. Hated seeing the cover of Communion at the bookstore and I don't think any movie scene bothered me more than the one in Fire in the Sky. For me it's the idea around how impersonal it all is. They aren't malevolent, they're just field scientists tagging and examining primitive lifeforms. If it involves vivisection with no anesthetic, well it's nothing personal and it's not like it will impact the population as a whole.
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Feb 13, 2022 18:41
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Proteus Jones posted:For me it's the idea around how impersonal it all is. They aren't malevolent, they're just field scientists tagging and examining primitive lifeforms. If it involves vivisection with no anesthetic, well it's nothing personal and it's not like it will impact the population as a whole. I can't remember where I heard it exactly, maybe Dark Skies, but I liked the idea that the abductors weren't their best and brightest and instead were the equivalent of miscreants or rednecks or something like that. It's just they're so far advanced that even that is way beyond us.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:06
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For me, it was because they struck my childhood mind as more plausible than bigfoot or ghosts when I was up watching Sightings and Paranormal Borderline on a dark Saturday in November. Sightings was probably some of the most effective horror of the 1990s. It has to be a measurable influence on the development of the found footage genre.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:24
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been awhile since I found myself expecting a new movie.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:36
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Feb 14, 2022 00:23
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That's weird, I swear the version during the pre-game commercial on TV had a shot of Zombie Dr Strange but I don't see it here. Looks absolutely bonkers. And with Raimi doing this one I feel glimmer of hope.
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Feb 14, 2022 00:26
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Proteus Jones posted:That's weird, I swear the version during the pre-game commercial on TV had a shot of Zombie Dr Strange but I don't see it here. There is a second version, yeah.
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Feb 14, 2022 00:27
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The voice at about 1:18 in. Welp, here we go.
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Feb 14, 2022 01:32
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thrawn527 posted:The voice at about 1:18 in. Welp, here we go. Patrick Stewart
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I AM GRANDO posted:Patrick Stewart I didn’t intend my post as a question, just so we’re clear.
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Feb 14, 2022 02:41
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thrawn527 posted:I didn’t intend my post as a question, just so we’re clear. I’m just not clear on who it is.
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Feb 14, 2022 02:45
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I AM GRANDO posted:I’m just not clear on who it is. Oh? I believe the strong implication is that it’s Professor X. Multiverse, and all.
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Feb 14, 2022 02:47
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I AM GRANDO posted:I’m just not clear on who it is. Obv this is a crossover with David Lynch's Dune.
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thrawn527 posted:Oh? It’s probably a multi-verse/MCU take on the Illuminati
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Lastdancer posted:I can't remember where I heard it exactly, maybe Dark Skies, but I liked the idea that the abductors weren't their best and brightest and instead were the equivalent of miscreants or rednecks or something like that. It's just they're so far advanced that even that is way beyond us. Reminds me of Under the Skin, the book. The movie and book are so different it's really hard to compare them, but the book deals with way more practical and mundane aspects of aliens preying on humans.
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Feb 14, 2022 02:53
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It's kind of the mcu to finally tap the director of the greatest superhero movie (Darkman) even if this looks about typical
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If The Classic isn’t in this, I’m done with all disney productions forever.
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