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Deadpool Could Actually Get a Best Picture Oscar Nomination
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Monocle
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The fuck? 2016 was great for movies. What are you even talking about?
tearsintherain
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Would be great, zero interest in most of the probable noms for most of the Oscar categories. While I'm sure stuff like Moonlight, Fences, Manchester, etc are great movies I almost never watch "sad" / depressing movies.
Dunno though if actually nominating popular movies would actually change people watching, Oscars and other award shows seem like one of those things where either you want to watch or you don't, and who gets nom'd doesn't really change that.
Dunno though if actually nominating popular movies would actually change people watching, Oscars and other award shows seem like one of those things where either you want to watch or you don't, and who gets nom'd doesn't really change that.
metalslimer
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Because nothing about that movie from the acting, cinematography, directing etc were particularly good? It was also up against some great movies that year.
Mushroomer25
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This is the awards show that declared 'Crash' & 'Argo' the best movies of their respective years. They've done far worse than champion a comic flick.
George Oscar Bluth II
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People who complain about a lack of good movies don't actually watch movies.
Messofanego
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I mean personally, if I'm putting a comedy in the Best Picture noms, I'd choose Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Wiener-Dog, Everybody Wants Some!! over Deadpool, but I'm glad to see a variety of movies being nominated if this happens. Obviously, Deadpool being by Fox, they have a bigger marketing budget to spend on an Oscar campaign if they want compared to those other films. Although Everybody Wants Some!! and Wiener-Dog have Annapurna (Foxcatcher, Killing Them Softly, The Master, Zero Dark Thirty, Her, American Hustle, 20th Century Women) as a production company, so could have a chance if they wanted to do it.
oo those would be stronger picks for BP out of the comedies
Deadpool was an absolute joy, but as an actual work of film, I didn't really see it as anything too groundbreaking. In some ways is was even kind of lame in it's tropes.
I don't think it deserves to be the first comic book movie to be nominated for best picture, especially over stuff like The Dark Knight.
But at the same time, it would be kind of hilarious and fitting. Fuck it, I wouldn't be mad.
I don't think it deserves to be the first comic book movie to be nominated for best picture, especially over stuff like The Dark Knight.
But at the same time, it would be kind of hilarious and fitting. Fuck it, I wouldn't be mad.
SonicMegaDrive
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First the Academy was all like
then they saw Deadpool and were all like
then they saw Deadpool and were all like
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I've wanted the Oscars to have a "best sequence" award for a long time, and the bathroom stall scene from The Nice Guys would be a shoe-in for that.
Most of GAF never looks outside of the blockbuster/commercialism output
Granted, that area was pretty trash this year
PS Watch Manchester by the Sea people
KiwiLannister
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Deadpool is just such an average movie though. Like if you remove the dick jokes and r rated humor you're left with a pretty terrible and boring plot.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is the years best film, and quite easily. Arrival was great too.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is the years best film, and quite easily. Arrival was great too.
Monocle
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Pretty much. How do you watch movies like The Nice Guys, or Kubo and the Two Strings, or The Wailing, or The Witch, or Arrival and then whine that there's nothing good?
People who judge the quality of a whole year's worth of movies based on the handful of blockbusters they're aware of have no business complaining.
Why would it be embarrassing?
Lionel Richie
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I deeply disliked this movie and I really don't want to live in a world where it gets nominated for Best Picture but The Dark Knight doesn't.
Maybe you should scream that to the Producers Guild.
Langdon Alger
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Yeah. I didn't get the memo, don't want to look all stupid saying I liked it in some other thread.
2009 Oscars and 2017 Oscars are pretty different.
Corronchilejano
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I will say: I've never laughed at a movie so much as I have Deadpool. It may not be thought provoking, but it tells you what it wants to do and does it well.
I don't think it's academy award material though.
I don't think it's academy award material though.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester, Hell or High Water, and Arrival are all high quality movies. And I haven't seen Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, or Lion yet.
Lionel Richie
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Had Gravity or Mad Max won in their years like IMO they should have I would have agreed, but as it is the only major difference I see is that they expanded the number of nominees. Heck, Little Miss Sunshine was somewhat hyped to win it in 2007 while stuff like Room or Grand Budapest Hotel didn't have a fighting chance.
It's not always 10 exactly. It's probably 8 this year like it's been for the past couple of ones.
don't worry, he's a lock for Best Actor as Deadshot
Legitimately shocked that this might be a possibility. I liked the movie, but it was forgettable as all hell for me and not worthy of a Best Picture nom. But, worse things have been nominated so I guess I shouldn't be shocked anymore by things like this.
This year was very good for film in my opinion, much better choices than Deadpool.
This year was very good for film in my opinion, much better choices than Deadpool.
HoodWinked
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it wont, lego movie didn't get nominated despite being the best animated movie two years ago. because they're biased against anything that may even appear commercial.
Bitch Pudding
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"South Park - Bigger, longer, uncut" got an Oscar nomination
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So, why not?
and rightfully so!
So, why not?
god damnit why did you remind me of that
Lego Movie getting snubbed is one of the all time great Oscar snubs
Gordon Shumway
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Ain't that the truth..
I believe it's up to 10. They don't have to fill all the slots for any category is my understanding. And that's how you only get like 3 films in the Best Animated Film category because the Academy doesn't understand shit about animated films.
sixteen-bit
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Oscars tryna stay relevant
Leads to some hilarious generalizations though
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1289297&highlight=movies
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