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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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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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Jan 15, 2016 06:51
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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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Jan 15, 2016 07:11
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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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Jan 15, 2016 07:53
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Literally nobody in the media has called Redmayne brave for doing the role, don't set up strawmen for yourself to tear down. Speaking as a film programmer, there are very few "diverse" films that are actually excellent any given year. Creed, Carol, Compton, Tangerine... What else can you really think of? The Oscars are self-masturbatory garbage, but the root of the problem is the industry.
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Jan 16, 2016 20:51
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The Pianist is very, very good. And Gangs of New York has Daniel Day-Lewis in an incredible role. Bottom-tier Scorsese is still rock solid filmmaking. Haven't seen Chicago, though, so I don't know how much it deserved it.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:14
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American Beauty had a ton of critical acclaim back in its year. It's one of those films that haven't aged well, but I don't think you can blame the Academy for giving it the award. I don't know my film history, but my impression is disillusion with suburbia wasn't as cliche back then as it is now.
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Jan 21, 2016 18:46
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Zogo posted:Hasn't aged well in what way?
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Jan 21, 2016 23:37
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If a film seems good today, it should win today's award. It'd be high speculation for Academy voters to go "This probably won't hold up well" and vote against it when the longevity of a movie's acclaim is so unpredictable.
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Jan 25, 2016 17:12
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Fury Road is probably the fourth or fifth favorite, behind at least The Revenant, Spotlight, and The Big Short. Still in with a shout, but the Academy rarely shocks in this direction.
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Jan 30, 2016 18:08
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Oscar Isaac wasn't even the lead in Ex Machina.
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Feb 3, 2016 16:25
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Pretty sure Chris Rock chose the ending song you retards
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Feb 29, 2016 06:10
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Tina Fey's a talentless hack who hasn't made a single good movie and somehow thinks she's above "the culture of apology." All that means is she doesn't want to be disturbed during her little moments of racism.
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