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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

Scarlet said:
Currently watching Hamnet. I am not a fan of films. I prefer movies. I can see why it’s nominated for so many awards and Jessie Buckley is wonderful but if I’m being honest, I’m kinda bored.
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This makes me want to see it. Sign me up for films, not movies.
 
Sinners. B+

Excellent first two acts. Act III is a mess.

Cromulent acting. Cinematography, dramaturgy, and music are Oscar worthy. Direction for the first two acts is brilliant, but the third... uh... yeah.


Remmick is Alan Lomax; the vampirism is safe New York Times Liberalism and the music industry that co-opted blues, rock & roll, funk, and rap.

The whites who gush over this movie have no idea it is saying they are the Baddies.
 
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Watched "One Battle After Another" this weekend, very good, my pick to win Best Picture over Bugonia, that being the only other one I've seen thus far. Interesting weekend to have watched it, though.
 
Weapons is my Best Picture and Plemons is my Best Actor. Neither was even nominated.

Sinners could sweep all the technical awards and I would be fine.

But I just haven't seen many of the nominees so I can't judge:

Picture: Saw 3 of 10, would be interested in 2, have zero interest in 5.
Actress: 1/5, 1, 3
Actor: 1/5, 1, 3
SActress: 2/5, 0, 3
SActor: 2/5, 0, 3
Director: 1/5, 2, 2
 
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I am not certain but this might be the 1st time in a long while that I haven't seen a single nominee in any category before the awards. I do have until March so I would bet I will see one or 2 which I do have on watchlists but I don't feel a lot of drive to make sure I see them. The last 2 movies I watched were Weapons and The Substance.
 
French Rage said:
Watched "One Battle After Another" this weekend, very good, my pick to win Best Picture over Bugonia, that being the only other one I've seen thus far. Interesting weekend to have watched it, though.
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Both my wife and I were not impressed. We didn't dislike the movie, but we couldn't understand how it was nominated. We just didn't find the characters worthy enough to root for.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Both my wife and I were not impressed. We didn't dislike the movie, but we couldn't understand how it was nominated. We just didn't find the characters worthy enough to root for.
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Agreed. Mediocre at best.
I watched Casablanca on TCM and then watched One Battle. All I could think was "How did both of these get nominated for best picture?"
 
Proud2baLaker said:
I am not certain but this might be the 1st time in a long while that I haven't seen a single nominee in any category before the awards. I do have until March so I would bet I will see one or 2 which I do have on watchlists but I don't feel a lot of drive to make sure I see them. The last 2 movies I watched were Weapons and The Substance.
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If you have time for only one I recommend Sinners. It is not as good as it could have been, which is maddening, but it's good, and I would say the first 2/3rds are great.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Both my wife and I were not impressed. We didn't dislike the movie, but we couldn't understand how it was nominated. We just didn't find the characters worthy enough to root for.
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Message movies will always be shortlisted for nomination. It is one of the ways liberals express their concern without actually doing anything.

cf. Hidden Figures, 12 Years a Slave, The Help, Philadelphia, The Shape of Water, and the genre's greatest exemplar, Forest Gump.

I'm sure I missed a dozen others. If you can raise a sniffle or a middle finger in an upper middle class white audience so they can walk out of the theater feeling morally superior, then vote for Chuck Shumer the next Tuesday, you are halfway to an Oscar nomination.
 
busterman62 said:
I watched Casablanca on TCM and then watched One Battle. All I could think was "How did both of these get nominated for best picture?"
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To be fair, not a lot of movies have ever been made that would come out of that comparison as anything more than Ow My Balls.
 
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