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Oscar Voter Reveals Her Brutally Honest Ballot: 'La La Land' "Not Memorable"
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broncobuster
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Not a comment on the movie quality, but what was the last memorable BP winner, however loosely we're defining memorable. No County for Old Men? Return of the King? Just the other day last year's awards came up and I guess people assumed The Revenant won.
Frozenprince
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Will agree on Descendants, Clooney killed it.
I saw Extremely Loud in theaters and couldn't tell you a thing about it.
War Horse was laughable.
The Strokes
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I feel like pretentious is a shock value word to use when you don't like a movie?
What exactly is pretentious about La La Land? What exactly is it pretending to be? Hell, I think it's a movie with the opposite intentions!
The last pretentious movie I've seen getting a lot of praise is Birdman.
What exactly is pretentious about La La Land? What exactly is it pretending to be? Hell, I think it's a movie with the opposite intentions!
The last pretentious movie I've seen getting a lot of praise is Birdman.
Crash is fucking awful, an embarassment to film damn it. Piece of shit movie is all I have to say
jack_package_200
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I also hate that the director won the best director award over my boy David motherfucking Fincher.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I still haven't watched all of The King's Speech because Tom Hooper and as a Brit I'm tired of the royal family. My sister watched it and enjoyed it quite a bit.
DontBeThatGuy
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I think Spotlight and 12 Years are excellent films.
Frozenprince
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12 Years is a seminal film, and Spotlight was tremendous. Usually best picture at least gets it relatively right.
12 Years a Slave definitely Spotlight arguably
OdysseusVA
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She's not wrong. I enjoyed it, but yeah...
jack_package_200
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I fucking love 12 Years a Slave. The film-making in it is nothing short of brilliant and the acting is incredible.
Will the Thrill
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No worries, but she did say she disliked Fences and then why alongside her reasons for other picks, for Arrival it just "sucks" and that's all. Not expecting a review but you would hope someone actually voting for these films would take the time to explain how they were bad. It also seems that hate spilled into the other categories where story doesn't matter, or were dependent upon people who weren't involved of other aspects of the movie. And that wasn't just for arrival, but stuff like Silence as well.
12 years a slave is still such an incredible film. Steve McQueen is an incredible director, his second film from 2011 Shame is probably the actual best movie released that year.
I think the reason why people call La La Land pretentious is that it shares the same thing as the Artist where it's a Hollywood movie paying tribute to the old Hollywood era of filmmaking. I wouldn't call La La Land pretentious, but I can see how it'd rub someone the wrong way.
Tsk tsk tsk.
Garmonbozia
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12 Year A Slave deserved it for sure.
There Will Be Blood should have won over No Country for Old Men though.
Edit: hahaha Juno was nominated for best picture.
Discotheque
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12 Years was good. Spotlight was alright.
but even taking those into account I think they've gotten it wrong every year this decade lol.
the throwback scene to An American in Paris felt kinda pretentious, but i dunno, i guess it was just a nod more than anything.
Frozenprince
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Yeah it's got the same stink as The Artist and Argo to some people. Hollywood smacking itself to talk about how special it is. Doesn't mean it's pretentious though.
To be pretentious it would have to be trying to have a pretension of being something it isn't, but La La Land absolutely is comfortable in it's own skin.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I hate to use the word pretentious but one movie that is deserving of it is Birdman.
So you're saying FilmGAF must take over the Academy.
jack_package_200
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Only way the cinematography of Arrival could have looked better is if Roger Deakins was the cinematographer.
Frozenprince
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You want BvS nominated in every category?
Cause that's how we get BvS nominated in every category.
Back-In-Black
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You mean Marvel winning Best Picture every year.
at the very least the winners would be less predictable than the Oscars today
The Hurt Locker sure, but people are going to remember how shitty and undeserving Crash was for awhile. It's over 10 years and I still see people bringing it up to very deservedly hate on it.
I don't think I've ever audibly groaned at a movie in a theater other than Crash which received several. I still can't get over that thing winning.
edit: I haven't seen La La Land so I can't comment on the comparison.
Thor 2: The Dark World, Dredd, Pacific Rim, Speed Racer and BvS. The best of the best.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I'll have you know that Cipher Peon will revolutionise the awards with Suicide Squad noms everywhere.
NYR
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Frozenprince
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Superhero movie, Superhero movie, whatever indie crap someone caught at Sundance that there wasn't a line for, Transformers, and whatever GAF's hot actor of the moment is in that year.
I like it better already.
The fact that they are gonna be able to slap "Academy Award Winning" on the blu-ray box for it will never not make me a little irked.
Jesus christ no.
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neurosisxeno
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Last year was stacked as hell. Bridge of Spies was really the only one out of place, the others easily could have taken it. I was expecting The Revenant to win, but it doesn't surprise me they went with Spotlight. Secretly I hoped for Mad Max.
I'm still a bit salt that Hurt Locker won over A Serious Man.
Frozenprince
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"I NOMINATE REVENGE OF THE SITH"
DontBeThatGuy
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I'm a fan.
lightskintwin
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I need to watch that film. I recently watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and couldn't help but feel the overt influences of that on La La Land, it even ends very similarly.
neurosisxeno
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From a filmmaking standpoint Birdman was one of the most impressive films made in recent memory. I haven't watched it was much as I have Whiplash, but it was a damn well crafted film.
Frozenprince
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Honestly if it's got Gene Kelly in it and he's dancing I recommend seeing it no matter what it is.
Put yeah An American in Paris is great fun. Really inventive with some of the numbers.
She seems to not like preachy stuff. Even though she liked 13th, she dismisses it because it had a point it's trying to get across and Silence was too religious for her. Which imo is like get over yourself lady. These are real things in the world
Nearly all of those are at the very least solid 7/10s. Only Crash is a piece of shit, and King's Speech is meh.
Back-In-Black
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Birdman was pretentious nonsense as far as I'm concerned.
DontBeThatGuy
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I actually haven't seen Birdman, so I can't comment on that.
Chicago sucks
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