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[MetalFearSolid]

Man Casey Affleck won over Andrew Garfield?
I didn't watch Manchester by the sea but his performance must be something because Andrew had one heck of a year with Hacksaw Ridge and Silence.

 

[Rainy]

What did you guys think of Kimmel's hosting job?

 

[Monocle]

Man Casey Affleck won over Andrew Garfield?
I didn't watch Manchester by the sea but his performance must be something because Andrew had one heck of a year with Hacksaw Ridge and Silence.

It really is something. One of the top 5 performances I've seen from any actor or actress.

It is but he hasn't even seen the movie!

Oh jeez, I glossed over that detail, lol.

 

[WaffleTaco]

Wow, I went to be early last night, but am pretty surprised that Moonlight wins best picture. Personally I thought it was an okay film, and thought it was kind of boring. I would have given it to Hacksaw Ridge, Arrival, or Hell or Highwater before it, because at least those were entertaining. The third act just went on and on without anything happening, plus it really pulled my suspension of disbelief with his change of character.

Man Casey Affleck won over Andrew Garfield?
I didn't watch Manchester by the sea but his performance must be something because Andrew had one heck of a year with Hacksaw Ridge and Silence.

Garfield is better, Casey is just how Hollywood thinks a person with depression acts. There's no range to his acting in the movie at all, it's basically just him being pissed off/upset the entire movie. I really don't recommend watching it. It's not entertaining.

 

[Anung]

So sad I missed most of this because I had to go to bed a stupid o'clock.

Amy Adams looked amazing at the after party. Anyone got an imgur or something of all the dresses?

 

[GitarooMan]

I can't believe the conspiracies I'm reading regarding this messup... this is embarrassing.

Yeah its bizarre how anyone could think this is anything but a total unplanned clusterfuck but that's the internet I guess. Also its weird how people reach to cast villains and stuff, I thought the groups for both movies handled it as graciously as possible.

 

[Zousi]

Didn't really care about Moonlight that much tbh. Manchester by the Sea was the one that hit me right in the feels like a ton of bricks. Oh well, Moonlight it is. I mean it's a good movie no doubt about that, but it didn't leave me thinking about it the same way as Manchester did.

 

[Zakalwe]

LLL did not deserve best picture. It's a suprisingly flat film, the songs are pretty bland for the most part.

It looks fantastic, and the end is great, but the film and song that make up the brunt of it are not.

Best Actress is not deserved either, I honestly thought Emma wasn't charismatic at all thought her entire performance. The entire thing came across very staged (I mean the perfomances in LLL, not the oscars).

Anyway, drama is fun. Glad Moonlight won, it deserves it.

 

[Playsage]

They gave Best Song to City of Stars?

Bah.

 

[sn00zer]

LLL did not deserve best picture. It's a suprisingly flat film, the songs are pretty bland for the most part.

It looks fantastic, and the end is great, but the film and song that make up the brunt of it are not.

Best Actress is not deserved either, I honestly thought Emma wasn't charismatic at all thought her entire performance. The entire thing came across very staged (I mean the perfomances in LLL, not the oscars).

Anyway, drama is fun. Glad Moonlight won, it deserves it.

This was my feeling as well. Really Hail Ceaser did a fairly similar thing much better. The ending though is one of the best I've seen in film so I have mixed thoughts.

Whole move just felt kind of off. It was these quick 5 min fantastic scenes with 20min of nothing in between.

 

[biggersmaller]

As someone who was relentlessly bullied in an inner city middle school and had no friends - I am SO glad Moonlight won.

Not a single thug life shot fired (no guns even). No asshole cops. No revenge subplot. Just a great set of well explored characters in shitty circumstances living their lives.

 

[doby]

Yeah its bizarre how anyone could think this is anything but a total unplanned clusterfuck but that's the internet I guess. Also its weird how people reach to cast villains and stuff, I thought the groups for both movies handled it as graciously as possible.

When I watched it I thought the teleprompter had gone down during the presenters introductory speech. It happens just after Faye Dunaway starts speaking, she pauses and looks a bit miffed but finishes and then Beatty fumbles his way through what he has to say, seemingly from what he can remember of the script plus some improvisation.

What are the chances the teleprompter goes down AND they have the wrong envelope. Admittedly far from impossible but does seem a tad fishy.

 

[Ricker]

I hear there's a job opening at the Oscars... ? ;P

What did you guys think of Kimmel's hosting job?

I am reading he did a great job(did not watch)

 

[Clydefrog]

They gave Best Song to City of Stars?

Bah.

did you even WATCH the whole 4 hours?

 

[p2535748]

Super happy for Moonlight. In general, I was actually on board for almost all of the major awards. I thought Amy Adams should have been up for best actress, and despite it's beauty I have real problems with La La Land's direction, but I understand where those awards come from, and I pretty much agree with everything else.

 

[jett]

I hear there's a job opening at the Oscars... ? ;P



I am reading he did a great job(did not watch)

He pretty much did an episode of his TV show, "prank" and mean tweets included. He wasn't bad.

 

[Clydefrog]

I can't believe the lady narrating the whole thing is an actual lady narrating the whole thing. I thought it was all pre-recorded. She wrongly spat out the stats for La La Land winning.

 

[PillarEN]

It really is something. One of the top 5 performances I've seen from any actor or actress.

Garfield is better, Casey is just how Hollywood thinks a person with depression acts. There's no range to his acting in the movie at all, it's basically just him being pissed off/upset the entire movie. I really don't recommend watching it. It's not entertaining.

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I saw Hacksaw and Manchester. Will have to see Garfield in Silence to make a better call. Just thought these posts one after the other were funny how far apart they are. But after listening to Casey on WTF I don't think he was clueless about what it's like to feel pain or grief necessarily. I think he got a good dose of it from his old man growing up. Not that Waffle has to like his acting. I respect the opinion to not care for it.
Personally Manchester kind of ate at me and made me relive some darker family moments and it made me feel uneasy in a real way. Not that I went through anything close to what the main character did. Just seeing the daily struggle and how the world around him perceives him or doesn't and the other characters relationships just brought up some things that made me think of life and how some people are in my family and who I am and how I may be perceived and how I perceive them. Oh boy I'm getting off topic of Casey's acting here. Manchester though kinda got underneath my skin and into my core subtly during my viewing and I guess that means something to me.

 

[arts&crafts]

Why were there only 3 nominations for makeup? They should have at least thrown a few throwaways in there, even if you give it to suicide squad.

 

[The Elite]

I can't believe the lady narrating the whole thing is an actual lady narrating the whole thing. I thought it was all pre-recorded. She wrongly spat out the stats for La La Land winning.

They wouldn't take a chance on that stuff leaking. Everything is sealed away.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

lol how did they mess that up

 

[Scully Scully Scoo]

What page for reaction to u know what? I've got the popcorn

Also congrats to the banned guy on page 1 who made some bucks

 

[GitarooMan]

I thought the funniest thing of the night was that We Bought a Zoo sketch. Ruthless

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

Can't wait for Tomi Lahren to make some statement on the ending screw-up being karma for all of the anti-Trump sentiment throughout the night.

 

[MThanded]

I can't believe the lady narrating the whole thing is an actual lady narrating the whole thing. I thought it was all pre-recorded. She wrongly spat out the stats for La La Land winning.

How would that work?

No one knows the winners besides PwC.

There are way too many combinations of wins to record one for everything that happens. Especially when referencing things that happened earlier in the night.

 

[valkillmore]

I thought the funniest thing of the night was that We Bought a Zoo sketch. Ruthless

Jimmy Kimmel fucking killed. It was legit one of the funniest awards shows I've ever seen. But for my money the tourist bit was the bomb. I seriously doubt those were actors, but it did go off amazingly well.

What a killer show!

 

[UnknownSpirit]

I'm so torn. I think moonlight is really really powerful. It's an amazingly well written film and shot beautifully for virtually nothing.

I was personally more effected by La La Land, and that movie on a per technical level is incredible. I can also see the negatives. (It's was a bit more glearing on my second watch).

But I guess, in all honesty, something unique and different won, And that's all we can ask for instead of Hollywood picking another movie about Hollywood.

 

[neurosisxeno]

Auli'l Cravahlo absolutely crushed it. Just watched her performance.

 

[AuthenticM]

The bit with the tourists was super awkward.

 

[GitarooMan]

The bit with the tourists was super awkward.

Yeah I mean celebrity worship in the flesh is almost always awkward for both sides.

 

[wachie]

What did you guys think of Kimmel's hosting job?

I enjoyed the whole show, not just his hosting. The pace they kept was really nice.

 

[Blader]

I don't know why people always sleep on Kimmel. I've always found him to be a pretty funny, charismatic guy who can react on his feet pretty well. The Damon feud, culminating in We Bought a Zoo sketch and playing Damon off the stage, was hilarious.

Man Casey Affleck won over Andrew Garfield?
I didn't watch Manchester by the sea but his performance must be something because Andrew had one heck of a year with Hacksaw Ridge and Silence.

Casey's really was the best performance of the year.

Garfield is better, Casey is just how Hollywood thinks a person with depression acts. There's no range to his acting in the movie at all, it's basically just him being pissed off/upset the entire movie. I really don't recommend watching it. It's not entertaining.

Not only is this really dismissive of how complex the performance was and how differently people process and live with grief, but it also wrongly assumes that the quality of a performance is equal to how entertaining it is. Which is *still* off the mark, because for how dark and sad Manchester is, it actually is pretty entertaining and funny at times!

 

[cj_iwakura]

I just hope once the smoke clears, everyone will enjoy La La Land on its own merits. It's a genuine love letter to classic musicals and a roller coaster of a love story.

 

[Brinbe]

Thinking on things the morning after and reading through this hilarious thread, one of the absolute worst aspects of this twitterized culture is all the hot takes spat out without any critical thought applied at all. Applying ratings and shit to human interactions now? Its embarrassing. Just calm the fuck down, these people are human. No one is perfect.

Once everyone thinks things out, you realize it's all simple mistakes, getting the wrong card, not knowing what to do with the mistaken card on the spot, reading it instead of looking at it thoroughly. It's all human error on a lot of people's parts and though it's a shame they fucked it up in the first place and robbed Moonlight of some of it's shine, but at least they managed to fix things in the end relatively quickly (thanks to the producer taking charge.) Just shows that fuck ups can happen on the biggest of stages too. It's humbling. Shows again, no one/no thing is perfect.

The worst is anyone saying it's some pre-meditated attempt to manufacture ratings or any conspiracy ass shit like that. I wonder how people like that manage to get through a day. Probably Trump voters too.

I just hope once the smoke clears, everyone will enjoy La La Land on its own merits. It's a genuine love letter to classic musicals and a roller coaster of a love story.

I guess? I saw it twice, so I enjoyed it. It's a fun movie with beautiful leads and was an amazing spectacle, but I think they got it right in the end. Moonlight is transcendent and history will look back fondly on this win.

Real talk though, Sing Street was a better musical and a better love story, but I don't think it should be winning any best pictures now.

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

It really is something. One of the top 5 performances I've seen from any actor or actress.


Oh jeez, I glossed over that detail, lol.

Yup. It sucks because i think his work in Manchester By The Sea should be recognized somewhere because sincerely it's the best performance I've seen in ages.

 

[xRaizen]

La La Land should have won IMO. Enjoyed it much lore than Moonlight.

 

[pringles]

https://streamable.com/fitup

Wow, I turned off the TV like 20 seconds before the plot twist started happening. Shame I missed it live but wow what a strange situation. The La La Land guys really handled it great, kudos to them because it could have been way more awkward if they had acted upset or angry about it.

Also can't believe the stupidity of people thinking it was a deliberate mistake or blaming Beatty for it.

 

[MarauderShields]

As soon as they announced La LA Land I went to bed. Whoops.

 

[WrenchNinja]

They gave Best Song to City of Stars?

Bah.

"Drive it Like You Stole it" should have gotten it

 

[Alastor3]

What did you guys think of Kimmel's hosting job?

I HATE jimmy kimmel so much and his actions during the fiasco just confirm my belief that he is an idiot.

 

[mechashiva]

Auli'l Cravahlo absolutely crushed it. Just watched her performance.

I really wish this had won best song and she totally crushed it even when getting whacked in the head. I know it's easy to always say a Disney song should but this one really resonates for some reason.

 

[Nameless]

This is probably the best thing that could've happened to La La Land. Straight up defeat no one is mentioning the film 10 years from now. Straight up win and it's only mentioned in the same breath as a "Crash" for how undeserving it was. Now, however, it will exist in Hollywood lore forever and always.

 

[DrForester]

And it's a real tweet

Spoiler

but from last year.

 

[Apt101]

Just catching up. Wow. I'd be like "Poor Warren Beatty" but he's Warren Beatty. He don't give a shit.

Anyway, it's always nice when the actual best picture of the year wins it.

 

[RPGCrazied]

And it's a real tweet

Spoiler

but from last year.

I know, he hasn't tweeted in over 19 hours. I'm scared. lol

 

[Jigolo]

 

[Deleted member 20415]

Auli'l Cravahlo absolutely crushed it. Just watched her performance.

AND she got hit in the head by a flag during her song and didn't flinch or miss a beat.

She was great, and that whole soundtrack is awesome.

 

[valkillmore]

Honestly, I don't get sick of this bit. It's to me a modern classic comedy running joke. I love it.

 

[LionPride]

I HATE jimmy kimmel so much and his actions during the fiasco just confirm my belief that he is an idiot.

Why? He's the good late night Jimmy, he was funny the entire night, and played off the ending well. Wish he would have blamed Damon somehow but that's it.

 

[Blader]

Damon had the last laugh.