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Post by arrogantmodel on Feb 25, 2019 11:09:59 GMT -5
I liked it but the first half hour is incredibly boring. It's never an action-packed romp obviously but it's a decent film. Watching “Roma” is like going to an art museum and staring at a single painting for nearly three hours. Yes, I see the artistic merit and beauty in it, but after a while it gets kind of tedious. It takes almost 90 minutes for anything of note to happen in “Roma,” and again, while it’s a feast for the eyes and a visual achievement, it’s also perfectly fine to admit that the first 90 or so minutes is just viciously boring. Spike Lee was pissed that Green Book won. Him saying, "Every time somebody's driving somebody, I lose!" is funny though. Referencing Do the Right Thing losing to Driving Miss Daisy. But I hate movies with a "white savior" or a "magical negro." I think it's just insulting. Was “BlacKkKlansman” even in Spike Lee’s top five of all-time movies? If he received an Oscar for that, it would basically be the Academy’s way of giving him a lifetime achievement award, not unlike how Martin Scorsese’s first Oscar for directing was for “The Departed,” which might not be one of his 10 best movies. BlacKKKlansman looked great, and I love movies like that. I definitely have to see it. If Spike really poured his heart into it, which I'm sure he did, getting the Oscar is ok with me. Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X are probably his best works though. But BlacKKKlansman definitely is relevant for today's climate.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Feb 25, 2019 11:15:29 GMT -5
All I know is that Spike Lee was dressed like Waluigi
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Post by Some Guy on Feb 25, 2019 11:17:28 GMT -5
I genuinely don't get the boring complaints about Roma. It starts off quiet sure, but everything in the first half is laying groundwork for how to interpret the rest of the movie. It's little subtle bits, like how you're supposed to see the boyfriend as kind of a joke with his "martial arts training" before the movie wallops you in the face about what it actually was, or how to show that Cleo is always the caregiver but kept at a distance which is what makes her break at the end.
It's definitely better than Green Book, which is just intensely bad, but really only Roma/The Favourite should have been nominated of those movies.
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Feb 25, 2019 11:58:09 GMT -5
“Green Book” felt a lot like this year’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” in that it was getting a lot of critical acclaim early on, but that started to wane as we got closer to awards season as people recognized it as a typical Oscar bait movie. The fact that “Green Book” won this year despite a pretty considerable backlash among entertainment media tells me that nothing really stood head-and-shoulders above this year’s crop of Best Picture nominees - there were a bunch of really good movies but none that will be remembered as historically great - so the voters went with the safest choice of the group. <iframe width="28.100000000000136" height="4.939999999999998" style="position: absolute; width: 28.100000000000136px; height: 4.939999999999998px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_82103719" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="28.100000000000136" height="4.939999999999998" style="position: absolute; width: 28.1px; height: 4.94px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1340px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_95648265" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="28.100000000000136" height="4.939999999999998" style="position: absolute; width: 28.1px; height: 4.94px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 186px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_28368275" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="28.100000000000136" height="4.939999999999998" style="position: absolute; width: 28.1px; height: 4.94px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1340px; top: 186px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_27540850" scrolling="no"></iframe> Saw Green Book. It was a solid movie, but at no point did I think to myself that I just watched the best movie of the year
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 25, 2019 13:16:36 GMT -5
I can see why people like it. It's just not for me. Honestly the last Non-Superhero/Star Wars movie to hook me was The Greatest Showman. I still watch that at least once a month and it is rare for me to go even a day without listening to one of the songs. Like I said, Shallow is going to be like Let it Go. No matter how good/bad the song is, I'll be annoyed at all the times I hear it or hear people talk about it. And I'm the only one who saw and liked Bohemian, aren't I? No. I saw and liked Bohemian Rhapsody but there’s no way it should have been nominated for Best Film or a few other categories, like Editing for example. The only category that I can see why it was nominated was Actor but even then, I don’t think he should have won it. I know biopics aren’t known for their accuracy but BR had so many, it makes some of the crap on the Daytime TV channels look accurate.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 25, 2019 13:35:03 GMT -5
It was a good show for the most part. The Oscars clearly does not need a host anymore.
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 25, 2019 14:20:54 GMT -5
Crash is still the worst movie to win Best Picture. Damn straight. The message was fine, but they beat the audience over the head with it with a giant 2x4 Like I said earlier, it amazes me how badly a movie about racism that beats you over the head with how bad racism is completely misses the point of how racism does its damage in our society is at a systemic, not an individual level. Individual incidents of racism and prejudices are a symptom of the larger problem of systemic racism and the movie didn't even start to touch that.
It's like a doctor looking at a brain tumor and only prescribing headache medicine.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 14:47:20 GMT -5
I can see why people like it. It's just not for me. Honestly the last Non-Superhero/Star Wars movie to hook me was The Greatest Showman. I still watch that at least once a month and it is rare for me to go even a day without listening to one of the songs. Like I said, Shallow is going to be like Let it Go. No matter how good/bad the song is, I'll be annoyed at all the times I hear it or hear people talk about it. And I'm the only one who saw and liked Bohemian, aren't I? I didn't think BR was best picture worthy, but I still liked it.
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Post by cosmo on Feb 25, 2019 15:35:35 GMT -5
All this talk about what should and shouldn’t have won Oscars, and I’m to this day still pissed that Bruce Springsteen’s song from The Wrestler didn’t get nominated for the Best Song Oscar despite winning the Golden Globe, but they nominate two songs from Slumdog Millionaire.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 25, 2019 16:23:28 GMT -5
That duet between Gaga and Bradley Cooper was utterly gorgeous. Stole the show.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 25, 2019 16:39:45 GMT -5
That duet between Gaga and Bradley Cooper was utterly gorgeous. Stole the show. As Gaga does
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Feb 25, 2019 19:06:16 GMT -5
THIS WINS EVERYTHING
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 25, 2019 21:16:00 GMT -5
There was no R. Lee Ermey on the In Memoriam segment.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 25, 2019 21:51:27 GMT -5
There was no R. Lee Ermey on the In Memoriam segment. They Farina'd Verne Troyer, Carol Channing, Dick Miller, Sandra Locke, and John Mahoney too.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 25, 2019 21:54:24 GMT -5
There was no R. Lee Ermey on the In Memoriam segment. They Farina'd Verne Troyer, Carol Channing, Dick Miller, Sandra Locke, and John Mahoney too. I thought John Mahoney was longer ago.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 25, 2019 22:02:07 GMT -5
On their website they have an extended gallery of those who weren’t included on the show. Troyes, Ermey, Channing and others are all on there. I suppose they only have so much time during the show itself.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Feb 25, 2019 22:14:04 GMT -5
maybe they should do separate tributes to actors and makers
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 25, 2019 22:34:39 GMT -5
They Farina'd Verne Troyer, Carol Channing, Dick Miller, Sandra Locke, and John Mahoney too. I thought John Mahoney was longer ago. You're right, he passed before last year's awards.
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