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Poll: Moviegoers want "Hidden Figures" for Best Picture, Denzel for Best Actor
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The thing is I have a distinct feeling many of the people answering Denzel to this poll did not even see Fences. He's just the biggest name there on the list.
airmangataosenai
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Really pulling for Arrival on thid but I know movies like it will never get serious consideration.
losertheboy
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If the Oscars were based on the opinions of the average movie going public Paul Blart: Mall Cop would win every year.
Is it really a once in a lifetime performance if he's reprising a role he already played to great acclaim on Broadway six years ago?
I'm not trying to put him down at all, but it's as familiar of territory for an actor in the race as you can get.
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Hidden Figures winning would remind me of The Blindside being consider a contender despite how bland and inoffensive it was as an adaptation, but I wouldn't fault them for liking the performances in Hidden Figures over whatever the fuck people claimed was special about Sandra Bullock in The Blindside
I actually see that as the exact opposite.
metalslimer
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God the blindside was such a bullshit movie. I don't think hidden figures was trying to be inoffensive. There are a few moments in particular that don't back
Doctoglethorpe
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Torn between Arrival and Hidden Figures. Both deserve it imo.
Irrelevant, lest we start adjusting performances for how much an actor rehearsed before shooting a movie.
Diprosalic
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That new Emma Stone backlash is confusing me.
Emperor_Uriel
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I dunno, Moonlight is really good.
BUNTING1243
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academy voters: hidden figures is a charming little movie about space!
SonofdonCD
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Ummm yeah, did I miss something?
Those who took this poll say they saw all nine nominated films. Not just the most popular ones. Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.
Did you like Remember The Titans? Hidden Figures is the same exact quality as many of those old "True Story" kids flicks. Solid film, but shouldn't be up there at all. Yet, I also think it is the most important film up there too.
Move over October Sky, Hidden Figures is that semi-educational feel-good movie based on a true story that middle/high school teachers show to their students on the last few days of school when there's nothing really left to do but everyone is still required to be there.
I liked it, and would be real happy to see it win Best Picture, but it's not the best picture of the year.
Dune wins every award in my heart. Best Inexplicable Dog. Best Use of Sting.
Now you know i felt when the shit was going down with Anne Hathaway a few years ago
Angelus Errare
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Aren't they all which is why minorities rarely win
Angelus Errare
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Argument makes no sense given that Hidden Figures was amazing outside of that weird white savior moment that didn't happen IRL.
FTFY.
SamuelSupreme
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Or you know Denzel earned it with the performance of a lifetime.
Angelus Errare
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No lies detected.
No.
It's so safe it's boring.
No one saw it. Hidden Figures is the most successful of the nominees. People are just voting for the movies they've seen and enjoyed.
A movie with black women as leads is anything but safe in Hollywood though.
It's as if to make up for that they made sure to scrub any sense of drama or conflict out of the picture.
SpideySenses
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She got nearly half the vote there, there isn't any real backlash, just normal internet saltiness when people don't view the world their way.
TAJ
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1. 'Moviegoers' is a pretty unassuming label. It's not anything like, say, 'cineaste'
2. These people aren't even self-identifying as moviegoers.
3. Your post was frankly derpy AF.
Everyone who participated in the poll saw all 9 pictures.
Everyone who participated in the poll saw all 9 pictures.
Everyone who participated in the poll saw all 9 pictures.
Everyone who par- I give up.
Why do you believe them? It's an online poll.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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"Did you see all nine nominees?" *clicks yes*
It's an online poll; I doubt Fandango double-checked their accounts to see if they actually sold tickets to them for all 9 movies. The fact that all the top 4 are literally in order of how much money they've made domestically is convincing enough IMO to assume that no, not everyone that took this poll actually saw every movie.
Vanillalite
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The story itself IS pretty by the numbers and you know how it ends if you already know the story.
That being said it's an important story not often told, and the cast behind it do a great job.
I'm not sure it's the best movie of the year, but I think the acting specifically by the 3 females IS Oscar worthy.
That being said for me I think there isn't a clear cut MOTY. Arrival is hit or miss. La La is a bland story with Oscar worthy set trappings around it. Manchester didn't blow me away.
If every movie has flaws why not give it to the well acted movie that usually doesn't win headlined by black females who usually get the shaft in Hollywood. Plus the movie put a spotlight on someone non white non male that did great things to help make America great in its past.
Like, every movie that was nominated was better than Hidden Figures
She is not good enough to win an award in the film.
I'm glad people like La La Land, but apart from appearing in the film, nothing she does is remarkably better than what she has done in the past, nor is it better than any number of a dozen or so female lead actor performances I could name.
ghostofsparta
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Worst movie of the year? I agree.
I'm still mad about how boring that movie was. Watching Denzel shoot the shit for 2 hours was painful.
Vault Dweller 111
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Hidden Figures was fine, but it was the worst of the nine BP nominees.
Did you watch the right movie? Fences may not have been particularly well directed but it's full of very dramatic moments, owing to its award-winning source material.
That's one way to look at it- but maybe you have it backwards: BO can be a result of how likeable a film is to the population at large. Aggegate-conscious Joe Blows might still see less-mainstream films simply because of their critical acclaim, and just as the trailer contents may have failed to generate mass-market interest, the actual film might not resonate with as many aggregate-conscious Joe Blows as something with more-broadly-appealing themes.
BronsonLee
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But what do white people want?!
I'm glad you asked....
And_Gignac
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Huppert is the biggest injustice here. That performance deserves a billion oscars.
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