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The 88th Academy Awards |OT| Sixth Time's A Charm
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Academy: "Hands are tied now."
Stallone: You shut me down. No, listen to me. You gave Rocky best picture. That's why I went to Coogler. Coogler's a great director. Remember he came to me, said, "You wanna be a Oscar winner?" I'm bein' a Oscar winner."
Academy: "Listen now, we offered you a chance."
Stallone: "I'm asking you for some votes. I need to win something. I need to do this for myself."
*Rylance enters*
Rylance: "Listen, you deaf fuck. I offered you a chance. When you could have won something, I offered you a chance to win an Oscar...and you blew it! You blew it."
Stallone: You shut me down. No, listen to me. You gave Rocky best picture. That's why I went to Coogler. Coogler's a great director. Remember he came to me, said, "You wanna be a Oscar winner?" I'm bein' a Oscar winner."
Academy: "Listen now, we offered you a chance."
Stallone: "I'm asking you for some votes. I need to win something. I need to do this for myself."
*Rylance enters*
Rylance: "Listen, you deaf fuck. I offered you a chance. When you could have won something, I offered you a chance to win an Oscar...and you blew it! You blew it."
Bale kind of has an Oscar, so yeah.
Not as greatly shot?
What does that even mean?
He makes either unusual, quirky or rather slow films that tend not to appeal to all tastes, a few of which have been responsible for taking awards away from many people's favourite films.
Calm waterfall
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Yeah, it says i have a great tastes in movies and not just fascinated by just action scenes. The Martian is a better directed movie and a better movie.
It means that the Revenant and the Martian are better directed movies.
This took me seconds longer than I am comfortable admitting.
holy fuck that movie is so under-appreciated
Innaritu hate is really bizzare... I get if you don't enjoy his movies, but folk are frothing at the mouth. He makes nice movies. It's not his fucking fault that the Oscar's picked him. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Go yell at the Oscar's if you are mad about someone not winning.
Monocle
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Hey, Jakku's a hot planet. The fact that Poe removed his jacket offscreen, before the crash, speaks to the practical mindset of his character. Or perhaps hints at a steamy love connection with Finn.
Either way, it was genius. So much meaning tied to one garment. Remarkable.
The entire award category is bullshit, so whatever. It needs to just disappear.
Lionel Richie
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Same here. Spotlight winning means that instead of 2 years in a row with a Inarritu led film winning the big award we have 2 years in a row with Michael Keaton doing so. The world is flat out a better place for that.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Why the hate for Innaritu? What has he done?
The Martian is not better shot than Mad Max Fury Road. Not by a country mile. Is it a better movie? That's more debatable because what the Martian lacks in top-tier cinematography, it makes up for by being the most coherent and likeable film Ridley Scott has directed in ages. I think that people who dismiss Fury Road because it is just "action scenes", misses the point that the art of cinema is all inclusive, not exclusive.
I get where you're coming from. CRIMSON PEAK isn't what I expected and I've some problems with it. I warmed up to it more when I revisited it.
The movie's biggest problem was its marketing, which set the wrong frame of mind. It's a gothic romance with ghosts, not a horror movie. It's not supposed to be scary but atmospheric and tragic, and many people complained that it lacked scares.
BIRDMAN is a better movie than THE REVENANT.
We knew that when the Academy acted like Prisoners, Zodiac and especially Nightcrawler didnt exist.
I'm actually one of the people who disliked Mad Max, but this made me shudder.
Also from what I've read in this thread I think a lot of people confuse acting, cinematography, directing, editing etc. with a sort of in your face impression (acting intense = best acting, screen saver pictures = best cinematography, etc.)
I mean I can kind of get The Revenant (though I totally disagree) but The Martian? The direction was competent, nothing more. There's reason why the Director's Branch snubbed Scott in favor of Abrahamson.
Monocle
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Some find him pretentious.
I will definitely see it again after I've looked into what Del Toro was going for.
Raitosaito
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He can tell the story he has in front of him extremely well. It is the material he is given that can hold him back, but the guy can direct whatever is on the page.
Fury road was shot in such a cohesive manner, you can almost watch the whole film silently, and in fast motion while retaining all the necessary information. Miller played with shutter speed increases, and atypical framing. Super uncommon for most action flicks.
Scott and Iñárritu made exceptionally entertaining films that adhere to normal film making conventions, but wasn't anything groundbreaking.
That's an event that takes place in the film, not an inherent directorial decision. Assume Abrams didn't write the film, as long as it was directed in an entertaining manner, that event was "directed" well.
You're confusing a film you enjoy vs directing ability.
Officerrob
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He needs to get away from the Lawrence/Cooper combo
Keep it in your pants, Monocle.
yeah sorry about that
Him and his films are consistently getting worse.
Yeah I don't understand this all of the sudden he's Terrence Malick rhetoric.
Monocle
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But the zipper is right there!
greatestjediever
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Poe actually takes his jacket off before piloting the TIE fighter
UberTag
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If Michael Keaton stars in the Best Picture winner a 3rd year in a row, I hear that humanity will summon Beetlejuice to host the Oscars indefinitely.
The critical community overwhelmingly disagrees with your viewpoint.
What with Mad Max standing as the overwhelming champion of top ten lists and winning 6 best picture awards out of 14 of the major awards. More then any other film this year....so yeah.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Oh, like in his demeanor?
EatinOlives
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It's not a GAF Oscar thread until the last several pages post-Oscars is pure salty trashing of winners.
It's evident that both filmmakers are trying.
Every movie I've watched by Iñárritu is the same thing.
They're technically impressive overall, boast passable to decent performances, and have a story that's about one thing: "Iñárritu is an amazing filmmaker."
Wrong. I don't have to assume because as the director of the film he specifically got involved in rewriting the film with the writer, and clearly had direct oversight on every aspect of the film. That's his job.
No they find his actual movies pretentious. But usually in the misused form of pretentious that actually means "thing I dislike but cant properly articulate why."
So he's a timeless masterpiece who is loved by critics and all who truly appreciate the artform he works in, respected by his peers, but hated by a bunch of angry people who spend all their time on internet forums?
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
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So he's a timeless masterpiece who is loved by critics and all who truly appreciate the artform he works in, respected by his peers, but hated by a bunch of angry people who spend all their time on internet forums?
Duckroll, please.
Monocle
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I'm fascinated by technically brilliant filmmaking that achieves the exact effect it was aiming for. I am not the best person to distill the specifics for you, but there are plenty of articles and other behind-the-scenes content out there that delve into Fury Road's phenomenal production. You should look into it rather than dismiss the film for its "action scenes." You're focusing on the what in a conversation about the how.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
So he's a timeless masterpiece who is loved by critics and all who truly appreciate the artform he works in, respected by his peers, but hated by a bunch of angry people who spend all their time on internet forums?
Film Crit Hulk covered Iñárritu and BIRDMAN and describes the central problem with Iñárritu's work.
No, he's actually pretentious. Go look up his interviews. They're a whole bunch of nothing, like the stories of his films.
I don't have a problem articulating why I don't like Iñárritu's work as a whole. They're empty experiences lofted by passable to decent performances and technical excellence.
TheAutomator
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For me, I find him pretentious because I thought The Revenant barely had a semblance of a plot and the pacing was terrible and yet he's trying to make us think as if it was some kind of masterpiece. It was beautifully shot sure, but as a movie it fails to deliver.
No. People call Iñárritu (as in, Iñárritu the person) pretentious. Probably because they heard him say things like his film deserves to be watched in a temple.
Right. The movie totally deserved the Oscar for cinematography. Lubezki is great.
TheAutomator
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So he's a timeless masterpiece who is loved by critics and all who truly appreciate the artform he works in, respected by his peers, but hated by a bunch of angry people who spend all their time on internet forums?
Bioshock Infinite was trash though. Game was beautiful, but the gameplay and story is mediocre.
Just like Innaritu's movies.
Are we getting ducktrolled?
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