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Palatine said:
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
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A lot of Oscar bait swings and misses. Jay Kelly was pretentious muck, as is everything by Noah Bombach. There are not words for how terrible he is and how unwatchable his movies are, and I don't get why everyone else does not see it. Nuremberg should have been a great film, but it was also undone by a bad director and bad casting with Rami Malek. On the other end of the directing spectrum, Jon Chu could direct 10 Boneyarders arguing about whether Jayden Ross deserves more playing time into an interesting film, but even he couldn't turn Wicked: For Good into an Oscar nominated movie.

The Amanda Seyfried film looks interesting, but I have not seen it yet. F1 was fun, but not a Best Picture caliber movie.

Song Sung Blue picking up an Oscar nomination for Kate Hudson was an indication of how weak this year's field was. Hudson did a solid job in a cute little film, but Best Actress nomination for that role? Really?
 
Palatine said:
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
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That industry is dead.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
A lot of Oscar bait swings and misses. Jay Kelly was pretentious muck, as is everything by Noah Bombach. There are not words for how terrible he is and how unwatchable his movies are, and I don't get why everyone else does not see it. Nuremberg should have been a great film, but it was also undone by a bad director and bad casting with Rami Malek. On the other end of the directing spectrum, Jon Chu could direct 10 Boneyarders arguing about whether Jayden Ross deserves more playing time into an interesting film, but even he couldn't turn Wicked: For Good into an Oscar nominated movie.

The Amanda Seyfried film looks interesting, but I have not seen it yet. F1 was fun, but not a Best Picture caliber movie.

Song Sung Blue picking up an Oscar nomination for Kate Hudson was an indication of how weak this year's field was. Hudson did a solid job in a cute little film, but Best Actress nomination for that role? Really?
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Sinners won because of the first half of the movie, which was very good. I can't imagine a vampire movie actually winning in any category.
 
I found myself watching "The Kill Room" as it queued up after a show I finished. I saw it had Uma Thurman and Sam Jackson in it, so I figured I'd give it chance. It was rough going for the first 15 minutes or so. Thurman was overacting and doing so terribly. I was about to turn it off till Jackson got involved. After that point, it was pretty good, including Thurman. The plot involves money laundering through art, and it totally skewers the art world's pretentiousness and lack of ethics. The "artist" is a mob killer and the medium he uses for some of his work is his chosen "weapon". It actually turns into one of those movies where you root for the criminals and there's a good bit of comedy involved, both the black and the LOL kind. I ended up enjoying it.
 
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Palatine said:
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
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Not everyone appreciates satire. One Battle After Another kicked butt in every possible area.

People thought 2001 was nonsensical when it came out too. But it was a decade ahead of it's time.
 
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temery said:
Sinners won four Oscars
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Not best picture. That’s what most normal people mean when they say it won.

Sinners was really mid. Nice premise but they screwed it up making it into a remake of “From Dusk Till Dawn”. Which also wasn’t that great.
 
Captain America: Brave New World

Miscast, whiney and boring. Hung around, hoping that the CGI fight scene would make it worth it. It didn't.

TLDR: It sucked.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Not everyone appreciates satire. One Battle After Another kicked butt in every possible area.

People thought 2001 was nonsensical when it came out too. But it was a decade ahead of it's time.
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Hey, I loved 2001 since the moment I saw it. I consider it one of the two best films I have ever watched. It is as close to a perfect film we will get.

One battle after another was silly, unbelievable, and filled with one dimensional performances. Comparing these two films is like comparing the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore to a Shake Shack.
 
Palatine said:
Hey, I loved 2001 since the moment I saw it. I consider it one of the two best films I have ever watched. It is as close to a perfect film we will get.

One battle after another was silly, unbelievable, and filled with one dimensional performances. Comparing these two films is like comparing the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore to a Shake Shack.
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That's not a popular opinion though. Lot's of people would have said and did say the same thing about Dr. Strangelove. It was deemed to be "utterly ridiculous". People who don't get satire will say that.

Kubrick ticked off everyone so badly that he had to lie to get 2001 made.
 
ZooCougar said:
That's not a popular opinion though. Lot's of people would have said and did say the same thing about Dr. Strangelove. It was deemed to be "utterly ridiculous". People who don't get satire will say that.

Kubrick ticked off everyone so badly that he had to lie to get 2001 made.
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They should have called it The Neverending Movie because random stuff kept happening long after any point of the movie had been made.
 
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