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secured tickets for dune 2 on 70mm tmrw

can't wait

bsp77 posted...

Yes. But I have also admitted that I am still learning, especially in regard to the Golden Age of Hollywood and certain international circles.

like what/who

bsp77 posted...

Sometimes. You can have assumptions but you can't know they are correct.

nah you just gotta be confident bro

had my suspicions confirmed many times. like when i saw the trailer for EEAAO and was like "this looks like horrible bullshit" and i started reading all these hyperbolic reviews from people with sus taste. then a friend said "its like if edgar wright directed a dan harmon script". after that i knew in my heart it would be the most annoying reddit movie ever made. then i saw it and wow i was right. that movie was irritating as hell with its epic bacon humor and nicecore themes. all because i, zithers, am the god of film writing interpretation.

bsp77 posted...

C'mon, I threw you a bone and you just made yourself sound as bad as FortuneCookie. Fer shame

idk if you watch enough movies and read enough reviews/criticism from different sources for long enough you can get a pretty good feel for what a movie is gonna be like

bsp77 posted...

Is that going to be your go to every time? I also am able to separate my personal feelings from objectivity and history. Ikiru is undoubtedly a more important film, and likely even objectively better. My issue is I saw Living first, and it is very solid remake that mostly removes the last 30 minutes of Ikiru. I did not like the last 30 minutes of Ikiru, because it rammed the anti-bureaucracy message so hard that I felt it thought the audience was stupid for not already getting it by that point.

yes. ikiru rules. and kurosawa is the god of directing unlike [whoever directed living idk probably some oscar bait loser].

do you ever read criticism or any kind of film writing?

hockeybabe89 posted...

You post on a dying video game website, but are so high on your own farts over how cultured and adult you are for exclusively watching art films.

yeah i got older and decided i didnt want to watch cartoons and movies made for kids anymore... what's your point?

you can not see movies and still have opinions about them if you are smart like me

Garioshi posted...

Okay but they're fundamentally all the same movie even if Goodfellas is cocaine-flavored and the others are a bit sadder

you don't seem like an art enjoyer

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

I tried, you know? But thats not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isnt the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.

i don't see anything about "being beaten" or w/e

bsp77 posted...

Still very much disagree. I think history will show that the Oscars got it right this year with best picture going to Oppenheimer. And yeah, they have f***ed up many times.

you think living is better than ikiru

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

No wonder he's so pissed off that he says stupid shit like "that movie that beat me doesn't count." Paraphrased, of course.

huh?

Garioshi posted...

I think it's because the only movie he makes is Goodfellas

killers of the flower moon is a gangster movie but it isn't really exuberant or fun in the way goodfellas is, which makes being a gangster look cool. its much darker and sadder. same with irishman. the final half hour or so for each movie is like a knife twisting in your guts.

just looked and only 55 of 86 voters picked oppenheimer

man people really dont keep up with movie industry news i guess

MarthGoomba posted...

All of his movies seem like utter shit

going to assume you think all movies seem like utter shit

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride

How does he sleep at night

with a poster of the searchers over his bed

very cool

do you think his movies are getting blanked because he made fun of the marvel movies? or maybe because he restores old and foreign films to try and preserve the past when so many are willing to pretend cinema's history never happened? or do the hollywood elite see themselves in his stories of evil hubristic men who destroy those around them, and dislike that?

the wolf of wall street - 0/5
silence - 0/1 (ridiculous it only had a nod for cinematography)
the irishman - 0/10
killers of the flower moon - 0/10

to this day his only personal oscar win is for directing the departed. also dicaprio and de niro were not nominated for their lead roles in the last two movies for some reason.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Movie snobbery is something that will never not be funny to me

somebody has to do it

Delirious_Beard posted...

holy shit the 12 years a slave/wolf of wall street year made me remember that American Hustle was somehow up for like every oscar that year. holy shit the academy is so unserious LMFAO

i think it was nominated for like 12 awards and won 0 which is tied for the record

ok im back

12 years a slave/wolf of wall street
phantom thread/call me by your name (neither won lol)
parasite/irishman/once upon a time in hollywod
drive my car/licorice pizza (neither won lol)

all of these are masterpieces and were nominated while oppenheimer is like a 2-2.5/5 on letterboxd. all way closer to ncfom/twbb situations

i wonder if there's been an actual NCFOM/TWBB situation since then. probably not. will report back shortly

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i believe i mentioned some of the whack cgi and how denis shoots conversation in medium closeups. not particularly cinematic and fun to look at.

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what exactly is "deeply engaging" about it though? there's no tension built to give any gravity to the situation. the emperor wants to get rid of atreides apparently but why? and the harkonnen's are willing to go along with it because, well why wouldn't they i guess. the spice makes them rich. i dunno. didn't find any of this engaging.

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what are the deeply engaging politics? when is it incredibly beautiful?

bsp77 posted...

Most definitely. This year is more akin to arguing if No Country for Old Men or There Will Be Blood should have won

lol

Anteaterking posted...

I think it's hyperbolic to compare Oppenheimer to CODA or Green Book in terms of Academy "misses".

i think coda is better than those two movies. and eeaao and nomadland. keep in mind that i do not think coda is good.

bsp77 posted...

Oppenheimer and Poor Things are my rebuttals for anyone who disregards modern movies

these are poor rebuttals, bsp

Zikten posted...

Is it over? Who got Best Picture?

oppenheimer

Euripides posted...

No one thinks less of Scorsese for not having won a pile of Oscars

sure but we think less of the academy and filmmakers in general

this is why movies are getting so shitty now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIWtWJuXYAArGZl?format=jpg&name=medium

scorsese being shut out on silence, irishman, and killers all in a row will confuse future cinephiles

zero wins for all 3 movies

db can you imagine being a plothead

do you want to join the movie server btw dp and bsp

lilORANG posted...

Pacino is a weird guy, huh?

he's fucking hammered. or high as shit.

beard is right. killers of the flower moon is without question the best of these nominees.

i am officially mad online

Euripides posted...

Because saying "lol, no" is stupid, while actually saying who you like is more interesting

is it. is it more interesting. got more important shit to do like get mad if lily gladstone doesnt win

Euripides posted...

So who would you have picked?

of those nominated, scorsese and giamatti. why do you ask

Euripides posted...

Did they get Director wrong? Best Actor?

yeah

Euripides posted...

The Academy disagrees

holy shit are you serious? whoa no way

rdj wasnt good in oppenheimer btw

awesome im just ken performance

ClayGuida posted...

It was. Just like a Fincher movie was like a 30s movie. What's your point?

mank is nothing like a 30s movie. the point is you dont have any frame of reference for anything and know nothing about the artform, so you need to refrain from posting in my threads and assaulting my brain with your thoughts

ClayGuida posted...

Jfc your taste is horrible.

you said a scorsese movie was like a tv movie

the rock and bad bunny giving best foreign movie to zone of interest is hilarious

then the director gives a speech condemning what israel is doing to palestine

then we had some barbenheimer jokes from blunt/gosling

bizarre tonal whiplashes

john cena has no body hair its weird looking

good speech by cord jefferson even tho that movie sucked

miyazaki wins a 2nd animated oscar for boy and the heron

didnt attend tho to give a speech

good first speech

not sure how i feel about this long ass way of presenting awards. second or third time they've done this. always takes for damn ever

almost time bros

how bad will jimmy kimmel's opening monologue be

the rock also has a terrible suit jesus

likes: anya taylor joy, becky g, hailee steinfeld (mostly cuz they're all hot) also john krasinski's cream tuxedo, nic cage's fake hair and sideburns

dislikes: andrea riseborough's plaid shit also billie eilish looks stupid

anyone liking any of the red carpet lewks?

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i laughed with them

B18Champ posted...

Oppenheimer was clearly the best movie and should win, which means the academy will give the award to a movie like Anatomy of a Fall or Poor Things instead

oppenheimer has won every guild award. there is almost no chance it loses. too many shared voters in the academy and the guilds.

ClayGuida posted...

flower moon felt closer to a tv movie (I get that's the point, since it was a radio show or some shit, that I assume Marty listened to as a kid)

lmfao

lilORANG posted...

Correct. Also many of those 10000 members have acknowledged they don't watch all the nominees anyways and vote for whoever their buddies are part of. The campaign behind an Oscar win is often more fascinating than the movie itself.

i think the academy's attempt to diversify in the wake of metoo and oscarssowhite is pretty cool tbh. they've added thousands of younger people and international voters while shedding the old white dudes who were grandfathered in. they publish who is invited each year. obviously campaigning is a huge part of it but that's just the name of the game. and it isn't like its a bad thing. neon is very good at it and parasite won. that was a watershed moment. same with a24 and moonlight/eeaao. like is it bad we are seeing more diversity in terms of representation and movies doing well?

i mean i don't really love this year's lineup but it is decidedly not oscar-y compared to what you'd see in the 90s when weinstein was running hollywood. poor things is weird yorgos shit. past lives is an extremely lowkey romantic drama. zone of interest borders on experimental at times (and isn't in english). the holdovers is a shaggy throwback to 70s dramedies. barbie is a candy colored comedy. anatomy of a fall is a foreign movie and we've seen a huge uptick in those being nominated in the last few years.

idk. i just don't see how this inherently draws in more viewers man