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Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue January 22, 2019 3:24 pm
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It baffles me how much more pushback Black Panther is getting than A Star Is Born or Vice. None really deserves a best picture nod, but those other two felt like fat, under-thought mimics of previous winners. All three movies had things they did well, but you’d have a hard time convincing me that both of these statements are simultaneously true:
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue January 22, 2019 3:29 pm
The Master
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McParadigm wrote:
It baffles me how much more pushback Black Panther is getting than A Star Is Born or Vice. None really deserves a best picture nod, but those other two felt like fat, under-thought mimics of previous winners. All three movies had things they did well, but you’d have a hard time convincing me that both of these statements are simultaneously true:
1. Panther is unworthy.
2. Star is.
The difference is that Star and Vice both have standard Oscar bait trappings. Panther is just a superhero movie that’s loaded with racial baggage. The Academy is terrified of irrelevance, so of course they threw it a bone.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue January 22, 2019 3:34 pm
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
The difference is that Star and Vice both have standard Oscar bait trappings.
Oh, I’m aware of the cinematic conservatism that influences these decisions.
While we’re here, I also don’t understand why Brad Cooper made a movie about a Nickleback-like singer who meets a more talented woman and then kills himself, but it’s not a comedy.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Also, none of these movies are “deserving” anyway. Nobody actually takes the Oscars seriously, do they?
I’m indifferent to the Oscars. Its the response I can’t make sense of.
But that's exactly the point. Given what the thing is, it seems it seems bizarre to claim that a piece of pop art that captured imaginations and moved people and tapped into something meaningful in its moment should be dismissed as laughable or illegitimate.
While we’re here, I also don’t understand why Brad Cooper made a movie about a Nickleback-like singer who meets a more talented woman and then kills himself, but it’s not a comedy.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue January 22, 2019 3:58 pm
The Master
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durdencommatyler wrote:
But that's exactly the point. Given what the thing is, it seems it seems bizarre to claim that a piece of pop art that captured imaginations and moved people and tapped into something meaningful in its moment should be dismissed as laughable or illegitimate.
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