Lady Gaga is a supremely talented musician, any accolade she gets, including Oscars for her music is more than deserved. Her acting though? Wooden at best in A Star is Born.
Bradley Cooper's acting and Gaga's music made up for what was a disjoined awkwardly paced movie.
He mumbled his lines for two hours.
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Some people can't get past the type of music Lady Gaga burst onto the music scene with, in order to see what she really is, and that is an unbelievably talented singer and musician.
You'd have to be some kind of deluded snob not to recognize the talent of Lady Gaga right off the bat. She was the cultural zeitgeist for a couple of years and the biggest pop star talent since Madonna, Prince or MJ by a longshot. Poker face is still absolute fire when it comes on, times 100 if you have some good sounding speakers.
Looking at trends, it appears the propensity for the Academy to reward good sci-fi and fantasy is going up. I honestly think this largely has to do with the increased quality of visual effects that allow these stories to be told better and more easily. They have recognized good genre films of the past (Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist), but there are some glaring misses too (Alien, Jurassic Park, Blade Runner). I don't think every comic film is a masterpiece, but I think there have been a few that deserve to be recognized. The Dark Knight should have been nominated. Infinity War should have been nominated. The cultural impact of those films is as significant as Star Wars or Jaws IMO. I don't think Black Panther was as good as Infinity War from a film-making perspective, but I see why they are giving it the props. Maybe instead of "popular movie" award they should have a "cultural" award for films that define and impact pop culture.
Past Best Picture Nominees:
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Martian (2015)
Gravity (2013)
Inception (2010)
District 9 (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Then there's a fairly long gap to 2003 and the LOTR trilogy.
Into the 90's it really falls off with the above mentioned films being really the few outliers. So it appears the trend is positive (depending on your view of these types of movies I guess). Regardless of how you feel about Marvel films, you can't argue their significance to the industry of filmmaking, and to have their universe come together in Infinity War and pull off a universally acclaimed film is a historical feat of film entertainment.
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This nomination has been making the news back in the UK. Features the abduction from a shopping mall and murder of a two year old by two ten year old boys.
Mother of the murdered boy has been asking for it to be withdrawn on sensitivity grounds (wasn't informed that the movie was being made). Both The Academy and director have refused to do so.
This nomination has been making the news back in the UK. Features the abduction from a shopping mall and murder of a two year old by two ten year old boys.
Mother of the murdered boy has been asking for it to be withdrawn on sensitivity grounds (wasn't informed that the movie was being made). Both The Academy and director have refused to do so.
TDK was nominated for a bunch of technical stuff and Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor. Damn it, it should've got nominated for more and won more.
I wouldn't call TDK mediocre but it is overrated. That side trip to Hong Kong and the sonar vision stuff is very skip-able. I also felt the closing act was just one intense climatic scene after another and when the actual climax came it was a bit of a downer.
That said it was still a far better film than its' contemporaries and was deserving of a best picture nomination.
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Batman Begins is the best movie, But Heath Ledgers performance makes TDK a must see film whether you like Batman or not. It’s one of the only I can think of where you literally forget whos playing The Joker and think you’re just watching The Joker. It’s a truly brilliant piece of work.
I do think TDK deserved to be nominated though. Not win, but nominated. Ledgers performance is part of the film after all. I also think Oldman should have been nominated for both films. Those movies would be nothing without him. His view that Gordon is the conscience of Batman is spot on. He is the soul of the whole franchise IMO.
I wouldn't call TDK mediocre but it is overrated. That side trip to Hong Kong and the sonar vision stuff is very skip-able. I also felt the closing act was just one intense climatic scene after another and when the actual climax came it was a bit of a downer.
If you're talking about the climax between Batman and Dent, then I agree, it was a bit of a letdown compared to what just came before it.
But that ending though (following Harvey's death) is arguably one of the best final scenes ever. Gordon's dialogue, that amazing Hans Zimmer score, and Batman riding off into the darkness...it's pure cinematic poetry.
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^That last scene is excellent. Yeah I did mean the Batmen v Dent climax was underwhelming after the Dent/Rachael rescue, the Joker escape, the hospital, the ferries, and the final Joker capture which preceded it. The movie needed 10 minutes cut from it.
I prefer Batman Begins as the writing is tighter and less convoluted. It also the first time I had seen a gritty realistic origin story and it blew me away. If anything this is the Batman film that should have received a best picture picture nomination.
It really is dumb how the Oscars shun comic book hero movies. Looking back, Iron Man and The Winter Solder were also both good enough for consideration. Edit: Logan too.
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This nomination has been making the news back in the UK. Features the abduction from a shopping mall and murder of a two year old by two ten year old boys.
Mother of the murdered boy has been asking for it to be withdrawn on sensitivity grounds (wasn't informed that the movie was being made). Both The Academy and director have refused to do so.
I like to look up the movies in every category when the nominations come out, as theres undoubtedly some I've never heard of. I wish I hadn't looked up the details of that crime. Took me an entire day for that pit in my stomach feeling to fade away. I can see why she's taking this stand for sure.
Outside of the Joker, the rest of TDK is kind of mediocre. Pretty much any non-joker scene is skip-able in a re-watch.
Yeah time has not been kind to TDK. It's really quite a mess of a movie. It makes zero sense. If not for Ledgers Joker it would probably be the worst Batman movie of the 3 it was a part of.
^That last scene is excellent. Yeah I did mean the Batmen v Dent climax was underwhelming after the Dent/Rachael rescue, the Joker escape, the hospital, the ferries, and the final Joker capture which preceded it. The movie needed 10 minutes cut from it.
I prefer Batman Begins as the writing is tighter and less convoluted. It also the first time I had seen a gritty realistic origin story and it blew me away. If anything this is the Batman film that should have received a best picture picture nomination.
It really is dumb how the Oscars shun comic book hero movies. Looking back, Iron Man and The Winter Solder were also both good enough for consideration. Edit: Logan too.
Logan maybe, if it didn't seemingly steal their entire plot from "Children of Men"
