I mean, I can stand to lose Argo (didn’t like it that much), but if we’re going to cancel Gladiator then it’s all aboard SS Magaritaville for me.
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I mean it is about Koreans.
Isn’t that wild?!
Seems like there are A LOT of Best Picture winners from like 2000 to 2014 that don’t qualify.
Does being a serial killer count as a cognitive disability?
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Worse, some of the worst winners ever do qualify cough Crash cough
Apparently P. D. James also wrote a fanfiction sequel to Pride and Prejudice and it’s a murder mystery? That is some absolutely wild shit, I want to read it. Man, just imagine writing a fanfiction sequel to Mansfield Park and making it a murder mystery. You either have to be a teenage girl or P. D. James to pull that off.
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Spaniards are an underrepresented ethnic group iyam.
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In
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
Slumdog Millionaire
The King’s Speech
12 Years a Slave
Out
Gladiator
Return of the King (Unless you can talk them into Arwen or Galadriel, or hobbits counting)
Departed
No Country for Old Men
Hurt Locker (Unless having a female director counts)
The Artist (Unless her story is enough)
Argo
Birdman (Emma Stone enough of a role to count?)
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fyp
The Shape of Water was a great film in every single way except for the screenplay, which was absolutely horrendous. As someone who likes a good story, I hated that movie.
my best “naked” movie experience is also a great story.
I had to travel to LA for work a lot in my first Air Force job, and one time one of the people that came along had never been to LA before. So we scheduled an extra day and took her to all the hits, including Hollywood Blvd. We were walking past the Egyptian theatre and noticed the AFI film festival was going on, and there was a movie starting soon. On a whim, we asked at the window if we could just buy a ticket to see it. They said sure, so we did. We’d never heard of the film, except it had Matthew Broderick in it, who we all knew, and Laura Linney, who I vaguely recognized, and a young actor named Mark Ruffalo.
The film was “You Can Count on Me” and it was fucking fantastic. The actors and main crew were all there, the writer/director introed the film for us, and all in all, it was one of the neatest things I’d ever done. If you’re looking for a quiet, slice of life film with stellar acting, check it out. Linney got nominated for an Oscar for it.
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One way or another they’re gonna make that #OscarsSoWhite hashtag a thing of the past
I saw South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut in a theater with my mother.
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So in 2020 the Best Picture went to the first-ever foreign-language movie winner with an explicit anti-capitalist message vs. a field of some really great movies. In 2019 the best movie was very clearly the foreign-language movie about an indigenous housecleaner, but it got robbed because of some dumb industry insider bullshit. And now they want to make a bunch of silly rules so that more Green Room-style movies win?
Man, this is some bullshit. Just lower the barriers to entry and let these foreign streaming productions compete. Show subtitled movies in theaters. White dudes don’t have any kind of an edge when it comes to making movies and telling stories. I don’t want more Hollywood movies with black best friends, I want more Parasites.
PS: Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger was so robbed.
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I assume you mean Green Book and not Green Room? While the former won best picture, the latter is quite a bit better.
Have you seen Serenity? (Not the TV show movie)
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Oh fuck me, man, I got that twisted.
Green Room is an amazing movie. Does anyone want to do a Green Room watch party? I could definitely watch that for a third time. It’s basically an indie horror movie where some punk rock teens have to fight Sir Patrick Stewart and a gang of Neo-Nazis. I don’t even like punk rock, but this movie owns.
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Vertigo is a devastating film, and my favourite of all time.
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