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How many of the best picture nominees have you seen?

Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge (wow, is Mel back in good graces?!), Hell or Highwater (never even heard of it!), Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight.

I'm 0 for 9 but bad example as only movies I've seen in theaters this year are with kids. Intend to take them to Hidden Figures. I suspect most folks have seen 3 or less.
 
Seen La La Land and hell or Highwater. Liked both a lot. Hell or Highwater a modern day western with Jeff Bridges. Go check that one out.
 
Saw the following:

1. Hell or Highwater
2. Arrival
3. Hidden Figures
4. Manchester by the Sea

All are good. Hell or Highwater was particularly good. Seemed interesting when I read the description on RedBox, so for $1.60, I said "What the Heck, Let's Try It".
Hidden Figures was best of the remaining group. Manchester by the Sea is good but overrated as is Arrival.
 
We've seen La La Land, Fences, Arrival, Hidden Figures, and Manchester By The Sea.

All very good. Very different from each other. Still want to see Hacksaw Ridge and Lion.
 
More than I expected. Is there still a distinction at theater vs not ? I wonder how many years we are away from theaters becoming obsolete.
Will add Hell or Highwater to my to see list.
 
Saw Hell or Highwater. Very good. Recommended. Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine are both good.

Will get Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hidden Figures on DVD/BR, and honestly don't have an interest in the others.
 
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Dogdeacon said:
More than I expected. Is there still a distinction at theater vs not ? I wonder how many years we are away from theaters becoming obsolete.
Will add Hell or Highwater to my to see list.
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The last thing on earth I'm going to go to the cinema to see is some long, slow drama. Rogue One, sure. Fantastic Beasts, sure. Star Trek...always. Any Marvel comic film...absolutely. Any movie that is dialogue heavy and short on action is better suited to home viewing.
 
Arrival (Thought it was good not great)
Hacksaw Ridge (Loved it)
Hell or Highwater (Thought it was really good.)
Hidden Figures (Loved it)
 
Saw Manchester by the Sea. Thought it was very good, not great. Casey Affleck does a really nice job at times with layers and layers of character, but also slips into "the guy from Good Will Hunting" too often....mainly because that just kinda is who he is.
 
Have seen Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea and Fences. Couldn't make it through Fences. Didn't buy Denzel's character--seemed more like a caricature. I've had that problem with him at times before.

Moonlight was very interesting and well acted and it's a very humane and moving film. But it's a small film and people need to know that so they don't expect too much.

I loved Manchester by the Sea. Best of the ones I've seen so far but I want to see La La Land. It's tragic but incredibly moving. I think Affleck, Williams and the kid all deserve their noms. Glad to see the kid get recognized.
 
I really liked Arrival and enjoyed Hell or Highwater. Heard Manchester By the Sea is great and La La Land ok. I used to see all the screeners by now until the government shut down kick *ss torrents.
 
I just saw Hell or High Water. Great movie, with a wonderfully charismatic performance by Jeff Bridges that just steals the show. I thought Bridges was one of the leads of the film, but the Academy saw fit to nominate him as a Supporting Actor.
 
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Deepster said:
Saw Manchester by the Sea. Thought it was very good, not great. Casey Affleck does a really nice job at times with layers and layers of character, but also slips into "the guy from Good Will Hunting" too often....mainly because that just kinda is who he is.
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I really like him in Gone Baby Gone, but not as much as in the Ocean's films and Affleck's Dunkin Donuts SNL skit may be the best work he's done.

Watch Dunkin' Donuts from Saturday Night Live on NBC.com
 
Dogdeacon said:
How many of the best picture nominees have you seen?

Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge (wow, is Mel back in good graces?!), Hell or Highwater (never even heard of it!), Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight.

I'm 0 for 9 but bad example as only movies I've seen in theaters this year are with kids. Intend to take them to Hidden Figures. I suspect most folks have seen 3 or less.
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I saw Hell or High Water. It's from the same writers as Sicario. Very uhhhh timely. Good movie and has super high ratings from everywhere.

Arrival was really good. Original story, kind of mindbender too. I hope this one wins but it will probably be La La Land or Manchester by the Sea which I have not seen.
 
Saw Hidden Figures this weekend with the whole family and we all liked it a lot. Especially great movie if you have daughters.

Surprised to see it beat out Manchester By The Sea and Moonlight at the SAG awards last night though. It's a lot more Hollywood than those two, and I thought they each had better acting performances than Hidden Figures.

And I don't get the Fences love.
 
Wow...just saw Hacksaw Ridge. Amazing. No idea how you can compare to a movie like La La Land, just so different. Really good batch of nominees this year
 
I watched Dirty Grandpa last night. Good Deniro, and Aubrey Plaza was off the hook.
 
Just saw Arrival.

Terrific movie. The ending is kind of an emotional triphammer.

I don't know how Amy Adams doesn't get nominated for that role.
 
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Fishy said:
Just saw Arrival.

Terrific movie. The ending is kind of an emotional triphammer.

I don't know how Amy Adams doesn't get nominated for that role.
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Were you in my living room bro? Wife and I just finished it 20 minutes ago. Pretty darn great movie. Our newborn has made it hard to get out to the theaters and watch much of the rest of these (dang inconsiderate baby) but I'm intent on catching up on DVD. Hell or High Water is next on the list for my day off.
 
That's funny - I actually rented it last night and rewatched it again tonight because one line bugged me the first time around. (It didn't make sense originally, but I had the context wrong.)

I really liked the movie. It was just good storytelling and they didn't try to cheat on the 'twist' ending.
 
Arrival was good, but I truly hate movies that start with what is basically the ending, and then they begin to tell the story. Every time I saw Amy Adams on screen the only thing I think of was
why don't they just push her in? She going die anyways.

Same with movies that jump around (two days ago, then present day, etc.). With an incredibly short attention span, I miss pieces, and I can't follow what's going on.

You have no idea how messed up at was trying to watch pulp fiction.
 
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temery said:
Arrival was good, but I truly hate movies that start with what is basically the ending, and then they begin to tell the story. Every time I saw Amy Adams on screen the only thing I think of was
why don't they just push her in? She going die anyways.

Same with movies that jump around (two days ago, then present day, etc.). With an incredibly short attention span, I miss pieces, and I can't follow what's going on.

You have no idea how messed up at was trying to watch pulp fiction.
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To whom are you referring to in your spoiler?
 
Mano said:
To whom are you referring to in your spoiler?
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"Every time I saw Amy Adams on screen the only thing I think of was " Spoiler"

I didn't want to spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't seen the movie.
 
temery said:
"Every time I saw Amy Adams on screen the only thing I think of was " Spoiler"

I didn't want to spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't seen the movie.
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Edit: Apparently I had the ending wrong. Please watch. Everyone lives happily ever after. I still think the beginning sucks.
 
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Tried to watch Midnight yesterday. Turned it off maybe 30-40 minutes in. Still don't know what the point of the movie is supposed to be. Really slow.
 
Now seen Arrival, Moonlight, and Hell or High Water. Liked them all. Hell or High Water the most so far, followed by Arrival, then Moonlight. The wife didn't care for Arrival. She thought it was too slow. Not sure Moonlight is necessarily worthy of a best picture nomination. Good, but not THAT good. A bit amateurish in style. Not too much, like if you've ever seen Chasing Amy, for instance - that was BAD amateurish. Had that same kind of thrown together feel.

Have Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Jackie, Allied, and Hacksaw Ridge on the near future watchlist.
 
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Deepster said:
Tried to watch Midnight yesterday. Turned it off maybe 30-40 minutes in. Still don't know what the point of the movie is supposed to be. Really slow.
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Deadrody said:
Now seen Arrival, Moonlight, and Hell or High Water. Liked them all. Hell or High Water the most so far, followed by Arrival, then Moonlight. The wife didn't care for Arrival. She thought it was too slow. Not sure Moonlight is necessarily worthy of a best picture nomination. Good, but not THAT good. A bit amateurish in style. Not too much, like if you've ever seen Chasing Amy, for instance - that was BAD amateurish. Had that same kind of thrown together feel.
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I think I've said this here or elsewhere, but the worst thing for Moonlight is having big expectations. It's a small film, not a big movie. And yes, it is a much slower pace than most modern movies. On the one hand, I never would have seen it but for the hype; on the other hand, I didn't think it lived up to the hype. But I am glad I saw it. It is a provocative movie that stays with you if you stay with it, but it doesn't hit you over the head with anything. There are some very good individual performances that I think are Oscar-worthy, but I'm not sure I agree that the movie itself is worthy of best picture, either.

As for "the point," again I think I have said this when comparing it and Manchester By The Sea, but I think the point was to depict the humanity of living a tortured existence, and what people do to cope and try to overcome it in less-than-ideal circumstances, to put it mildly.
 
I really wish there was a useful way to sort through the bazillion movie options. IMDB used to have the weekly rental numbers that was pretty useful, but they got rid of that and the only thing they seem to have for "DVD / Bluray" is the "Releasing this week" page, which for my purposes, is entirely useless.

Redbox has a top 20, but only the current week / month. Once something drops off that list, it's gone.

Rottentomatoes has a lot of information, but too much, IMO. Hard to tell the wheat from the chafe there.

UPDATE: Ironically, as soon as I posted that, I found the iTunes top rentals and MRQE Netflix top 100 lists.
 
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I think I've said this here or elsewhere, but the worst thing for Moonlight is having big expectations. It's a small film, not a big movie. And yes, it is a much slower pace than most modern movies. On the one hand, I never would have seen it but for the hype; on the other hand, I didn't think it lived up to the hype. But I am glad I saw it. It is a provocative movie that stays with you if you stay with it, but it doesn't hit you over the head with anything. There are some very good individual performances that I think are Oscar-worthy, but I'm not sure I agree that the movie itself is worthy of best picture, either.

As for "the point," again I think I have said this when comparing it and Manchester By The Sea, but I think the point was to depict the humanity of living a tortured existence, and what people do to cope and try to overcome it in less-than-ideal circumstances, to put it mildly.
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I'd agree with that. The downside of Moonlight could be described as the movie focusing on the outcome, moreso than the coping. Maybe a bit too superficial feeling. I definitely fell into the cliche movie trap of expecting more bad things to happen than actually happened, but I think that's what mainstream movies will do to you, I guess. Maybe the issue is more that it tried to stradle that line too hard.
 
temery said:
Edit: Apparently I had the ending wrong. Please watch. Everyone lives happily ever after. I still think the beginning sucks.
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So when you give the wrong ending you use "spoiler", but when you give the right ending you don't?? :rolleyes:
 
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