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Once Upon A Time In...YaYa and Goose!’s Oscar Thread [YAYA WINS! PARASITE WINS!]
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Oscars 2020! new thread, no hosts, maybe Parasite can win!
Here is the link to the form for the pool, entries close at 3:30PM PST on February 8th, a day before the ceremony. EDIT: pool closed! may the odds etc etc etc
we'll be collecting prizes up until February 8th, for now: @Goose! and I can announce that we’ll be offering six months of AMC A-List as a prize!
feel free to offer any and all prizes to the pool, and talk about how pissed you’ll be when Parasite doesn’t win anything other than Best Foreign Film before the nominations drop!
Here is the link to the form for the pool, entries close at 3:30PM PST on February 8th, a day before the ceremony. EDIT: pool closed! may the odds etc etc etc
we'll be collecting prizes up until February 8th, for now: @Goose! and I can announce that we’ll be offering six months of AMC A-List as a prize!
feel free to offer any and all prizes to the pool, and talk about how pissed you’ll be when Parasite doesn’t win anything other than Best Foreign Film before the nominations drop!
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https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/2020-oscar-nominations-list-academy-awards-joker-parasite-1202201829/amp/
we’ll have the form up soon!
We sure do live in a society.
If I'm doing the form it'll be not till tonight. My current job isn't like my old one I have zero free time
Oh well, rooting for Parasite, expecting 1917 (ugh) or The Irishmen (which I haven't seen but I'm sure is excellent).
Joker ties for most Oscar wins for a film
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Sure but the main problem is it’s more opportunity for Todd Phillips to share his incredibly stupid and wrong opinions about everything
I'm not trying to defend the movie or anything, I still haven't seen it. I'm just saying that it probably shouldn't be a surprise that it got so many nominations.
Not really
it had early hype but it has a 59% on Metacritic. 30 positive reviews, 15, mixed and 12 negative
Average/mixed score overall
Not really. 69% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Metascore of 59 on Metacritic. Not exactly universal critical acclaim.
For comparison, Knives Out is at 97 and 82, and Parasite is at 99 and 96. Little Women is at 95 and 91.
This many noms for Joker feels more like "It made a billion dollars, we should recognize it."
Too bad about Uncut Gems being shut-out and Knives Out only getting a single nom tho
Not being subtle with the racism this year.
Wasn't Green Book also basically a white movie since it apparently had changes to actual events that made the driver look better and was done without the consent of the musician's family?
They gave Moonlight best pic so they don't have to worry about minorities for at least ten years.
Sure was.
It rewrote a real person into a stereotype to create the narrative of the stiff, overly cultured black man learning to appreciate his own culture from his salt-of-the-earth working class driver. None of the relationships in the movie existed as depicted, the subject of the movie was adamant that he did not want Hollywood touching his life story, and the white POV character's real life counterpart was not only not a friend but someone who got fired and was largely forgotten until he sold the rights to "their" life story.
Even by the slippery standards of Hollywood biopics, it was pretty bad.
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and then I got mad that Allison Janney won instead of Laurie Metcalf again, smh
I haven't really paid much attention to the Oscars in the past. Right not it seems like the consensus is that Greta Gerwig got snubbed for best director. I think Little Women in one of the best movies I've seen this year so my inclination is to agree, but it did get nominated for Best Picture. Generally what is the line that makes a movie Best Picture worthy, but not best director, or vice versa? I'm mostly curious in what would a director need to do for their movie to legitimately deserve a Best Picture nomination, but not a Best Director nomination.
and also Once Upon a Time in Hollywood might be Tarantino's single weakest film, honestly