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[mjp2417]

boring white people singing about their problems in LA with autotune:
"I can't open my jazz club!"
"Nobody chooses me in my auditions! Guess I have to go back to school or go back to live with mom and dad!"

boohoo.

black women put people into space.

And I'm glad Moonlight got best picture.

The LLL hype train is ridiculous.

This is film criticism as "woke" tweets. I guess this is what happens when you gut education funding for the arts.

 

[vatstep]

I need to know the story of the person that fucked this up

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

:lol

 

[Hexxen-Panda]

La La Land fans, please comment if you're ok.

I'm alright, and even more psyched now for the release of Moonlight on bluray this Tuesday.

 

[Radec]

Didn't watch live but here it is on YT before it gets taken down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xd_exQvgk

Fucking lol

Yo wtf.

Fucking Shamalayan twist!

 

[SURGEdude]

Bye Felicia

Difference is people still remember Friday. Neither of these two will even be memorialized in a trivia game in 20 years.

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

Everyone will blame Warren Beatty, but it was Faye who read out the wrong film!

She didnt read the wrong film...the card said La La Land..they were given the wrong envelope.

 

[rekameohs]

La La Land's leads are a bastion of privilege, and whiteness is indeed a part of that. If those two were of different races the movie would come off entirely differently. You can't deny that.

Edit: Lmao BJ Novak keeping it real.

Oh, come on

 

[Gobias]

People really hating on Casey for Manchester in here? He may be a piece of shit but he was fantastic.

 

[Theecliff]

oh my god lol

 

[NYR]

I found it kinda weird Ryan Gosling wasn't with the La La land entourage when they were making their speech..hmmmm.

Yes he was. He was all the way on the right, our left from the perspective of the TV.

 

[illmatic22]

YES

FUCK L L Land

 

[TumblingHippo]

Please fix your GAF settings.

Oh fuck what have I been doing with my life. Thank you for correcting my horrible mistake.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Moonlight wins, the day is saved!

 

[Kelpie]

Brillant, haha.

 

[MIMIC]

I am laughng too hard

 

[Trigonometrize.]

This is a terrible way to judge movies or any art.

Apparently stakes are the only thing important in a movie. JRPGs must all be the best since the world is always ending.

 

[Brinbe]

Really can't understand how people can undersell Moonlight after seeing it. Especially compared to La La Land... Talking about art, Moonlight IS ART. Heartless ghouls on GAF

 

[Zabka]

Look at this fuckery.

Post-fuckup I think it was handled really well. The producer (I think) snatching the card and holding it up is going to live forever.

 

[GhostWriter24]

So happy for Moonlight. What a tremendous film.

 

[SaniOYOYOY]

Here and fine. Moonlight is a very worthy winner, and a surprising and bold one at that, considering what the Academy typically picks.

thats why it totally got me. so many polls said "LLL will win but Moonlight should win" for a reason

 

[The Lamp]

Is that really how you came out of La La Land? Dude

Yes, but I also thought it was a hammy, forced, undercooked relationship between Emma and Ryan. It didn't even feel believable to me until the ending scenes.

 

[Lothars]

I feel like I can't even enjoy it.

I wanted Moonlight to win, but fuccccccccck, they brought the La La Land crew onstage for the biggest win of the night and took it away.

Yeah it's a pretty shitty thing to happen even though mistakes happen. Just not cool.

 

[firehawk12]

Reposting for new page:

TV Line has the video up of the screw up for Best Picture.

Wow. lol

 

[Icolin]

The last thing people and the film industry need is another generic-ass musical with people who can't even sing reinforcing white privilege.

bye LLL

boring white people singing about their problems in LA with autotune:
"I can't open my jazz club!"
"Nobody chooses me in my auditions! Guess I have to go back to school or go back to live with mom and dad!"

boohoo.

black women put people into space.

And I'm glad Moonlight got best picture.

The LLL hype train is ridiculous.

See, there's reasonable criticism, and then there's shit like this.

 

[Kacar]

I found it kinda weird Ryan Gosling wasn't with the La La land entourage when they were making their speech..hmmmm.

Thought I saw him to the very left of the screen during the speeches.

 

[Quick]

Someone needs to edit this with Barry Jenkins's face on it:

 

[Nesotenso]

boring white people singing about their problems in LA with autotune:
"I can't open my jazz club!"
"Nobody chooses me in my auditions! Guess I have to go back to school or go back to live with mom and dad!"

boohoo.

black women put people into space.

And I'm glad Moonlight got best picture.

The LLL hype train is ridiculous.



Yeah, that's why I think it Moonlight winning instead of LLL was great.

you know people could also reduce the other movies as stupidly like you did LLL. I have no horse in this race but the disdain is ridiculous. You root the other ones because you feel that they are more socially relevant for you, fine. But shit like "white privelege" , "auto tune" and other asinine conclusions just baffle me.

 

[traveler]

What is he your grandpa? He could have realized the card was wrong and called the producer over.

Yeah, he could have improvised better, but calling someone a senile old fuck because they don't handle a messy situation perfectly is pretty ridiculous/offensive and even a bit discriminatory.

As for Warren himself, I can't actually remember what I thought of the last thing I saw him in. No opinion on him really

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I found it kinda weird Ryan Gosling wasn't with the La La land entourage when they were making their speech..hmmmm.

He's always been down

 

[Window]

LLL was simply not as good as Hidden Figures or Moonlight. And there was definitely not a single scene as good as when Katherine yells at everyone in the control room.

But whatever. Justice was served anyway.

You may very well think that to be true and that is fine but come to that conclusion simply based on the subject matter of the film is rather shallow.

 

[Afrocious]

the strangest thing is that they resealed an envelope of an already announced winner

My thoughts exactly.

Glad Moonlight won because we already have a million La La Lands but wouldn't it have been surprising anyway if Moonlight was just read out straight instead of this bait-and-switch?

Eh.

 

[Rhaknar]

Just rewinded and Warren looks mad confused when he has the card tbh

 

[msdstc]

Really lmao give that to Denzel

I guess Casey really mumbled his ass off though

LOL sure casey just mumbled his way to an oscar. Give me a fucking break.

Well this take is quite hot

There is a ton of this on gaf recently for whatever reason.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

This... this is amazing.

 

[A-V-B]

 

[Joeku]

And? We're talking best movie here, i'm sure moonlight is great and maybe even better than LLL (still haven't seen it) but what a nonsensical statement considering the context of the awards

It undermines the art if the lead characters are written from a disingenuous and/or ignorant place. That's kind of it.

Advantaged people in Hollywood win but also feel bad about winning: La La Land, written by a man who won young.

The above is reductive, but not wrong. The writing (sans the very end) is the weakest part of the movie. I really enjoyed it, but it's kind of tone-deaf and the only reason it got as far as it did in the Oscars is because Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. Come the fuck on.

 

[Qwyjibo]

An embarrassing moment for the Oscars. As if the show doesn't already get criticized (rightfully) for being a long and dull each year. Now they have this fuck up.

 

[duckroll]

Reposting for new page:

TV Line has the video up of the screw up for Best Picture.

That was extremely gracious. I don't stop shitting on La La Land, but that's probably the classiest way they could have handled this awkward fuck up.

 

[Talka]

Didn't watch live but here it is on YT before it gets taken down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xd_exQvgk

Fucking lol

Holy fucking shit that was painful.

Gracious, but painful.

 

[Zasa]

Oh my god, lmfao

 

[stupei]

Really unfortunate though that the best picture of the year won and all anyone's going to be talking about is the screw up.

 

[JABEE]

SquareSoft still exists

 

[Matush]

the strangest thing is that they resealed an envelope of an already announced winner

Wait, I thought that winners take both award AND envelope.

 

[Chase17]

lol

 

[kevin1025]

I didn't know they gave out Posthumous awards.

 

[HotHamWater]

Props to the dude who took the reins after the fuck up. He handled that like a pro. Get him to host next year.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

This thread is now about this photo.

 

[Nameless]

:lol

 

[TheSkullPrince]

I'm cool with Moonlight winning it too, and in such spectacular fashion!