To even think Top Gun could win because people watched it is insane.
Nah, most of us were pretty clear on it just being picked to help try to get us uneducated plebs to watch the Oscars and boost its ratings. No one actually expected it to win.
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1994 had Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and Shawshank all nominated for best picture!? Damn, what a choice. All three are probably better than any movie has won best picture since.
Return of The King won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. 4 BAFTAs, and 8 other nominations. 4 Golden Globes. 8 Saturns, and 5 nominations.
1994 was an insane year, and all three of those movies deserving. But ROTK was a very special movie.
I'd be really curious to know what your top five movies are.
I'm not really a keep-a-list kind of guy, but I'll try to rattle off a few off the top of my head.
1. Interstellar
2. 21 Jump Street
3. Live Die Repeat (or Edge of Tomorrow...whatever the #### you want to call it)
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Good Will Hunting
6. Rushmore
Honourable mentions would be Fear and Loathing, Superbad, Back to the Future, Lolita, and, yes, Princess Switch.
I'm not really a keep-a-list kind of guy, but I'll try to rattle off a few off the top of my head.
1. Interstellar
2. 21 Jump Street
3. Live Die Repeat (or Edge of Tomorrow...whatever the #### you want to call it)
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Good Will Hunting
6. Rushmore
Honourable mentions would be Fear and Loathing, Superbad, Back to the Future, Lolita, and, yes, Princess Switch.
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I haven't seen it, but All Quiet is an anti-war film. At least it should be; that's what the book is.
Isn't every war film since All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) an "anti-war film"? I can't really think of any "pro-war films". Oh damn, I forgot about Pearl Harbor (2001).
That said, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) was panned in Germany for muddying the message of the original book which was beloved there.
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I didn’t mind EEAAO but I’ve yet to meet anyone who didn’t hate it. I didn’t think it’d be that polarizing but I guess that what happens when a mediocre movie gets that much hype.
Super happy for Michelle Yeoh and the movie. Wonderful achievement by her and is a great example for Chinese women and those of color to look to.
I believe (might be wrong here) her win ties it up now - women who have won Best Actress for roles in which they played Asian women - Asian women 2 and non-Asian women 2.
I’m 60 years old, and I just won my first Oscar. I know something about perseverance, and I am all too aware of what society expects of women. I’m also well aware that my experience can’t compare at all with that of the women heroes I met who are on the front lines of crises. But if I can do one thing with this moment of my professional joy, it would be to point the spotlight on those who all too often go unacknowledged, the women who are rebuilding their communities, taking care of children and older people and putting food on the table. Let’s make sure they are not missing from the room when decisions are being made that affect them the most.
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Impossible, I thought we were still in the stage of writing articles about millenials destroying everything and treating the generation as if millenials were all 20 rather than adults with jobs, children, and responsibilities?
Have we seen any
"Millennials destroyed the Oscars" takes yet in the news?
Everything Everywhere was a boring and stupid ####ing movie. It's the only movie I can think of in yeeeaaaars where I just wandered out and didn't go back in. I was so bored with it I just couldn't sit there any longer. Left to take a leak with maybe 20 minutes to go and just decided to play on my phone after instead of sitting back in the theater.
I think it was made for the lowest of the low basic bitch who wanted to surprise themselves by liking a quirky little movie that wasn't your average Hollywood movie. Okay, well congrats. Yes it was quirky and wasn't typical Hollywood, but that doesn't make it good. #### that movie.
Ironically, the first thing I thought reading this was "we've got a basic cinema b### over here."
I dunno dude. Playing on your phone by the bathrooms and knowingly wasting your money, then passing judgment on a film you didn't actually sit through because you have a poor attention span for anything that isn't typical Hollywood, then labeling anybody that dared enjoy it is just setting yourself up to be mocked. But at least you were honest.
I don't think liking or disliking that film says much about a person's movie taste, but I'll at least respect the negative reviews of those thar stuck it out and give the movie a chance only to disagree over someone that couldn't sit still long enough to see the whole thing and evidently made up their mind before the movie was half through.
I'm actually thankful that there are people out there who were open minded enough to take a couple hours outside their Hollywood comfort zone and give something different a chance. It helps to spur more originality in the future, rather than just furthering the demand for endless sequels and rehashes.
Personally I didn't like the pacing, but the themes, creativity and humour throughout were executed very well. It wasn't out if this world, but it had heart, and it was something wholly unique. And that's more than you can say for 97% of the rest of what's out there right now.
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I'm want to start by saying this was a weak pool this year for the Oscars. It's not like there were a lot of epic films, and much of that is a hangover effect of COVID, since it takes more than year from inception to realize a movie on screen, and then reap the rewards 6 months later.
So if you don't love EEAAO, I understand, it's not a traditional Best Picture winner. However, it was fully deserving of everything it received. Just such a rare treat to see a unique approach to film. It is technically fantastic, has some genuine and heartfelt performances, and is full of enough insanity to keep your attention (looking at you Sliver). I thought it was compelling, weird, intriguing, joyful, exciting, funny, and fully entertaining for a long run time. That's not easy to do, and the accolades are well deserved.
And lastly, we all know that Ke Huy Quan's award was just a make up for not receiving a best supporting actor for either Goonies or Temple of Doom. In those movies, he stole every scene he was in. Even in EEAAO, he was genuinely moving in a small amount of screen time. His recognition was my favorite moment of the night, bar none.
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