Food and football are not the only topics @profk is consistently wrong about.
I liked the first half (although their relationship didnāt really ring true to me) but the second half was just Lady Gaga getting famous without any character development.
The Artist is the one thatās really fallen off the radar. I mean, no one ever mentions it! Itās currently ranked 25th best of the year on Letterboxd.
Weird to have a superhero film in the best picture category. Avengers infinity war part 2 for 2019?
I think in part thatās because the directorās next film sunk without trace and heās gone back to doing French language films - and the two leads have probably sensibly swerved doing Hollywood films (Dujardinās brief appearance in The Wolf of Wall Street apart). I like The Artist, but it won in a pretty weak year.
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why is it exactly that people think āsuperheroā films are unworthy of oscar noms, or any ārealā acclaim?
the same reason films with talking animals shouldnāt get best picture nominations
have you even heard of Paddington 2?
Hey I actually enjoy these flicks! To be honest I wouldnāt rate black panther that high among themā¦
And in my mind (probably wrong) the best picture should be a film thatās accomplished, artistic well acted and shot or socially important (like moonlight or 12 years a slave). I realise this is hardly ever the case for which films are nominated and winā¦
I would argue Black Panther is highly entertaining, well made, well acted and socially important
thatās a bit of a silly sentence isnāt it
Yeah @lastdino WTF? you pick on Black Panther over the absolute dross on that list. I mean Iāve seen Vice, it was fine but itās only getting a nomination for the sake of its politics and the makeup/performances, but they donāt make it an amazing film.
Black Panther is far more politically astute and interesting than Vice could ever be.
(I havenāt seen Bohemian Rhapsody but the reviews Iāve seen make it sound like a fucking weird choice for sure.)
Moonlight is meant to be amazing. Iād watch it except I really donāt do well with depressing/sad films and I get the impression it would leave me a wreckā¦
I mean I find it a bit odd that Black Panther is in that list but I guess the whole point of extending to 10 nominations was so the Academy could make it look like it had a broader taste than it does. So I donāt really care that it gets in there but itās nice to see a rare sci-fi/fantasy populist movie get on the list.
However, if you saw Black Panther and yet you still feel it had nothing
to say then Iām fairly confused. Itās laced with questions about fascism, the nature of racism and colonialism, as well as giving us a really interesting hypothetical that interrogates our views on racism.
At the very least you have to ask how important it is that a film seen by loads of kids includes a very pointed query from a black man to a white woman about how her museum got hold of all these pieces of history from around the world. I somehow doubt any other popcorn film enjoyed by 10 year olds is likely to provide as much questioning of colonialism.
I mean I didnāt say it had nothing to say on those topics. I watched it and enjoyed it, think itās a decent film. Just donāt think itās Oscar worthy, simple as that. But hey thatās just one moonbats opinion.
Nah I mean itās cool, didnāt mean to be all YOUāRE WRONG.
Itās definitely not what Iād expect but then I have low expectations of Oscar noms for Best Picture. Always seems such a specific, narrow view of film. The mere fact that we class pictures as āOscar-worthyā as a separate thing from āgoodā says a lot about this I guess.
The Oscars have always been full of shite and donāt matter
There it is!
Yeah, itās the Brit awards but for films