There was a massive backlash against it if I recall, was never due to be implemented this year anyway
Aye, it was basically as they had to hold their nose to nominate Get Out the other year and it would have allowed them to nominate Blank Panther without holding their nose this year. It got kiboshed.
Yeah this is how it felt with The Favourite, everyone was obsessed with it online but I barely know anyone irl who has seen it and enjoyed it (in fact I know more people who walked out of it than enjoyed it). Whereas Bohemian Rhapsody was the other way round.
I wholeheartedly endorse the Academyās reticence to nominate films based on comic books. Give that its own category by all means.
What does he mean, āout thereā? The Oscars are voted by a bunch of geriatric old fuds stuck in a bubble much denser than any corner of the Internet.
fwiw I loved Bohemian Rhapsody even though I was intermittently furious about its liberty taking with both the truth and chronology. Be very hard for someone to make a film about Queen that I wouldnāt enjoy mind you.
The Favourite has done well at the box office considering itās not a big commerical sell (over $80 million so far on a low budget), so I think itās just a case of not taking people you know or on Twitter as necessarily being everyoneās view. But maybe all the people who walked out didnāt ask for refunds so it gets the box office anyway!
It doesnāt make Green Book or Bohemian Rhapsody any good as films, but both have done well commercially (x 1000 in the case of Bohemian Rhapsody), so clearly some people have enjoyed them and thereās been good word of mouth even if those people are possibly nuts.
Out of interest, who has seen Bohemian Rhapsody and who hasnāt?
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You couldnāt pay me
The reason Iām asking is because thereās huge amounts of criticism of the film on here but seemingly from people who have never seen it
I donāt need to have seen it to know Bryan Singerās an awful person and I wouldnāt touch that film with a bargepole
The āwe need to get experimentalā and āI want to give the audience a song they can performā scenes that are in the trailer are presumably in the finished film as well.
Whether heās an awful person and whether the film is critically awful/ Oscar worthy are two separate questions though.
iāve just enjoyed the relentless piss taking (specifically the editing) that itās been getting
not interested in seeing it
Those clips highlighting the editing are genuinely astonishing. Like that is a technical craft that is one of the few things that awards can actually highlight properly and they gave it to this complete fucking mess.
Well it was already off to a bad start by being a film about one of the worst band stuff of all time.
That said Iām quite chuffed for Rami Malek as heās a real good young talent, and as I had no real horse in that race anyway
I have seen Bohemian Rhapsody with my family and it is properly rubbish, but the Live Aid bit is every bit as good as everyone says.
It is perfectly entertaining whilst on but in the following months I have grown to detest it.
Well as 1 of only 2 people on here who have actually seen the filmā¦ - the dialogue and acting is clumsy and I certainly wouldnāt recommend any of you miserable lot to go and see it but I can totally understand why the general public have enjoyed it so much. Malek is excellent at depicting Mercury on stage and I think thatās what the appeal is. I get why heās won the Oscar for that part of the performance although I canāt understand why it was up for best film.
I mean this is why this site is so infuriating at times
