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The 87th Academy Awards |OT| The One That Matters
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CreeperBlocks
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THANK YOU
plasmawave
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This one's even better.
Did he mispronounce her name too?
Atraveller
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Whiplash, too, was better.
Gordon Shumway
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Didn't watch it. So, Birdman wrecked shop?
AlteredForms
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A part of me wanted Keaton to win for Birdman. Granted, Redmayne did a good job also.
American Sniper didn't get 'shat over', it was a surprise it was even nominated, it wasn't a frontrunner in any category unlike Lincoln which early on was expected to win major awards.
The Sarcastic Dude
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The Best Actor category was way too competitive this year. People like Gylenhaal and David Oyelowo didn't even get a nod.
Bad
And speaking of Mexican media overreacting:
They are comparing winning Best Movie to winning a World Cup. I'm cool that Iñárritu won it, but talk about latching to someone else's success.
You know that's the Latin American way. ALWAYS latch on to the success of your countrymen as if they were always representing your nation. :lol
scoobs
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I saw Nightcrawler and found his performance to be insanely creepy/awesome. He was incredible. Anyone else think he'd make a great Joker in future batman movies?
RastaMentality
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Which is kinda baffling since Bradley Cooper made it in.
Bradley Cooper was one of the most undeserving nominees of the entire show, right along with the director of The Imitation Game.
And speaking of Mexican media overreacting:
They are comparing winning Best Movie to winning a World Cup. I'm cool that Iñárritu won it, but talk about latching to someone else's success.
And this is why I avoid mediotiempo.
AlteredForms
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A very valid point and one that's been shown to work well in previous wins. Jaime Foxx for Ray Charles is the one that really grinds my gears. To think if somebody thought of him as a serious actor.
Those who give incredible performances based on something original, or fictitious for that matter are the ones that gain more respect from me.
GitarooMan
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It was pretty bad, terrible writing. Another thing though is that, more than ever, the audience is so uptight. I know, surprise surprise, Hollywood is full of oversensitive people who can't laugh at themselves or anything else even remotely controversial, but it feels like its worse than ever. It's like they just sit there and murmur and gasp anytime anyone dares to say anything a little out of line. The show is more and more of a drag to watch, and I think it makes hosting nearly impossible since the audience basically gives you nothing.
We have the same thing in Norway... I was looking for the results, but the news only talked about the "Norwegian Oscar", the adapted screenplay award won by Graham Moore for the Imitation game, a film directed by a Norwegian. Yes, reaching as hell...
Anyway, Birdman or Boyhood, would have been a decent choice either way. I don't understand the bashing both movies are getting here. Birdman is also in an other league than Argo and the Artist, don't try to put them in the same box.
Mister Wilhelm
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Keaton was robbed.
She was in the last year's tribute, same as Philip Seymour Hoffman [both died in February few weeks before the ceremony]. Tribute segments cover people who died between ceremonies, and not only people who died in a calendar year.
What I missed was footage of the actors who died. I like footage much more than than this static cards. Eli Wallach deserved to scream "Blondie!" one more time.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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She made it last year.
Where was Kanye when you needed him?
Killing_Joke
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Sad as fuck keaton lost but on the flip side Boyhood got exactly what it deserved.
Lé Blade Runner
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I also think that Teller was snubbed, but he is still young and will get plenty of chances. The bigger mistake was leaving Gyllenhaal without a nom - he was incredible in Nightcrawler.
cj_iwakura
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Happy with the wins, Birdman was one hell of a film.
Future Foundation
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Just a bit of an OT question, who designed the nominee slides for this year's ceremony?
Haloid1177
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Interstellar was nominated for exactly what is was best at.
The point of Boyhood is not "nothing matters", it's the exact opposite: everything matters. Every moment, no matter how small or trivial or seemingly insignificant, has meaning.
Had Boyhood's story been about how nothing matters, I'm sure Linklater would have chosen a much easier production method.
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That's the thing I liked about the movie, a lesser director would have focused on the standard things like learning about sex, first kiss, first day at school, first drink etc. Instead Linklater skips those things because these are thing one are expected to go through anyway.
The Elite
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Yeah, I had no idea what was going on. Both my girlfriend and I were confused by that. In one scene he's harping on Mason for being late and talking about it being his home and then a couple of scenes later she's selling the home.
They mention the divorce as an afterthought.
The film had a lot of problems. I liked it but I do not think it deserved to be there.
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Whiplash and 50 Shades of Gray seem to be the same movie.
But it took twelve years! Of course that makes it genius.
And speaking of Mexican media overreacting:
They are comparing winning Best Movie to winning a World Cup. I'm cool that Iñárritu won it, but talk about latching to someone else's success.
Its mediotiempo.com, a sports medium, obviously they would compare the win with something related to sport (i mean...http://www.mediotiempo.com/bitacora.php?id_partido=1 haha) , you're being manipulative, most of the media are taking normally the victory of Inarritu and Chivo Lubeski:
http://www.elnorte.com/aplicaciones.../aplicaciones/articulo/default.aspx?id=472053
http://www.milenio.com/hey/cine/Hacen-historia-Oscar_0_469753032.html
http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-e...alez-inarritu-gano-el-oscar-como-mejor-pelicu
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2015/02/23/sociedad/043n1soc
What was poorly done about it?
It was like watching SNL create a drunk character. In retrospect, he might have been the best character in the film for a healthy duration.
I suppose the acting was the main problem with that storyline, it just wasn't strong enough by any of the actors to present it self as natural within the rest of the film. It was the first part of the film that tried to show much more depth of the characters and I think it failed.
I completely forgot Patricia was even nominated for her performance in the film till she won.
The Elite
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The worst scene in Boyhood, by far, is the teens talking about women and beer in that unfinished house. It was laughably bad.
It felt like one of those Kyle Mooney/Beck Bennett SNL skits. I love those skits because they're hilariously awkward representations of 90s/80s "very special Blossom" sitcom moments. I just didn't expect to see that in a feature film.
I actually thought the actor playing Mason was doing a pretty good job of being a teen at that age. I don't know how much of that was acting though.
It felt like one of those Kyle Mooney/Beck Bennett SNL skits. I love those skits because they're hilariously awkward representations of 90s/80s "very special Blossom" sitcom moments. I just didn't expect to see that in a feature film.
I actually thought the actor playing Mason was doing a pretty good job of being a teen at that age. I don't know how much of that was acting though.
That like most scenes in the film felt like stuffs kids that age would talk and bullshit about but watched like the actors were reading off cue cards. I mean the dialogue was not great writing either but I didn't find any of the movie to have great dialogue.
I'm not just talking about the kid who played Mason not bbeing a strong enough actor to bring any realism to those scenes, the mom and the stepfather as well.
It's funny watching people attack the believablity of the alcoholic stepfather or the kids' bullshit conversation about sex and drinking when others have said those felt ripped right out of their own lives. Ymmv, and all that.
It's almost like he turned out to be another mean drunk or something.
Also, they never showed us when Mason got his ears pierced. Plot hole!!
It's almost like he turned out to be another mean drunk or something.
Also, they never showed us when Mason got his ears pierced. Plot hole!!
You're comparing a character's pierced ears to the disappearance of a character portraying the lead actor's step-father?
Yep. Actually I'm seeing mexican media focusing on "the government we deserve" part of the speech. Nothing to do with this being an election year, of course /s
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