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I really have to see all quiet on the western front and top gun ! I love Steven Spielberg but I am so lazy to see the fablemans!
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The oscars are all a panderfest, have been for years. I kinda watch to see what gets an award that isn't to the panderfest. I was happy that Brendon Fraser got his oscar, the man has been grateful and humble in every award he's been giving for the past few months, I enjoy seeing that.
This was such a painful oscar season full of virtue signaling. Everything, everywhere, all at once? Best picture? Really?
Jeez. It's a fun movie, but it's hardly groundbreaking. Might as wel make the avarage Marvel movie best picture.
Banshees of Inishirin was greatly robbed of awards. The only movie to deserve the award for 'best picture'. Reason? Because I watched it without even thinking about what could be done better. It's a flawless film. It also had a far superior supporting actor than Short Round.
How is it groundbreaking in storytelling? It's a basic multiverse storyline. We've seen marvel do it the same year. If this deserves it then any jack chan movie deserves it tbh.Speaking generally: awards are voted on by the people within that industry. If they want to see some people who've been overlooked far too long get their due, what's the problem? I don't fault awards voters for "virtue signalling" rather than the alternative: checking any virtue at the door and awarding douchebags who are misogynistic or racist or predators or just jerks to work with. All things being equal, sure, I'd award based on virtue rather than award a jerk, too.
Getting specific: so many of the films come down to taste. Everything Everywhere might not have been for some people, but it's hard to say there's ever been a film like it that won Best Picture. It's groundbreaking in terms of casting, story, technique, and so many other ways that if it needs explanation, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Personally, some of my favorite films weren't even nominated, and I never like to see the lion's share of awards heaped on just 2 or 3 films. But I'm not going to disparage the winners just because I preferred some other ones. Art is subjective, and I don't need my personal taste to "win". No film is owed anything, so no film gets "robbed".
Besides, it's cooler to have your favorites not be the majority favorite anyway, right?
How is it groundbreaking in storytelling? It's a basic multiverse storyline. We've seen marvel do it the same year. If this deserves it then any jack chan movie deserves it tbh.
OK I'll admit the Jackie Chan comparison was a bad look lol. It reeks like that black panther best picture nomination. It's a fun movie, but yes there are multi verse stories. Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man no way home.To answer you specifically about storytelling: the film lays out inter-generational family trauma along with mid-life identity crises and cultural confrontations about what's traditionally considered "strength" or "success". Then it flips to a sci-fi story whose multi-versality references films as varied as Buckaroo Banzai and the works of Wong Kar Wai and Pixar. Each different universe is actually lit and shot differently, much less performed differently. And if you can name any other "basic multiverse" movie that takes 5 minutes to have the characters have a subtitled philosophical conversation on the meaning of life while they exist as motionless rocks, I'd sure like to know.
None of that is "virtue-signalling", that's just gutsy cinema.
Equating this to a Jackie Chan movie is mind-boggling to me (and kinda racist? Like "any" Jackie Chan movie is all the same??) Same for Marvel. They squandered all the "multi-verse" ideas and did the old Star Trek evil flip of a familiar character in the Dr. Strange sequel while featuring a one-other-verse of predictable, bland backgrounds. I'm not really invested in turning this into some kind of "Let me teach you about cinema" moment though, so I'll let others chime in if they want to note other ways the film broke ground.
Sometimes being awarded "best film" doesn't mean you have the objectively, indisputably, highest-quality cinema product possible. Sometimes it means people liked it more or thought it was important for the time, sometimes it means other things.OK I'll admit the Jackie Chan comparison was a bad look lol. It reeks like that black panther best picture nomination. It's a fun movie, but yes there are multi verse stories. Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man no way home.
It was a fun movie, but there are plenty of scenes that are hardly world class cinema. (looking at you, butt plug fight)
Having a rock monologue does not equate to a masterpiece. This isn't Parasite lol.
Well that's where I disagree with the oscars I guess. The quality should always be the benchmark imo. A better solution would be a 'most fun' catagory I guess, which everywhere would be absolutely qualified to win. But that doesn't make it the most impressive piece of cinema.Sometimes being awarded "best film" doesn't mean you have the objectively, indisputably, highest-quality cinema product possible. Sometimes it means people liked it more or thought it was important for the time, sometimes it means other things.
Harrison Ford looked and sounded ooooollllllllldddd. I think there is going to have to be a lot of CGI body doubles and/or puppeteers operating him, if he's still going to be the action star in his new Indy movie.
This has been a discussion point for probably as long as the Oscars have been around. It's a vote and the people voting have specific criteria they meet to qualify, but they aren't unbiased and are not primarily critics. Most of them, one must assume, have not even watched all the nominations.Well that's where I disagree with the oscars I guess. The quality should always be the benchmark imo. A better solution would be a 'most fun' catagory I guess, which everywhere would be absolutely qualified to win. But that doesn't make it the most impressive piece of cinema.
Otherwise Hot Fuzz should've also won best picture back in the day lol.