Seeing Ke Huy Quan win made me happy at the beginning, but good goddamn, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE SWEEPS WITH 7 OSCARS INCLUDING BEST PIC!!!
Edit: The BRENNAISSANCE is IN BLOOM
It's a fun film with insanely strong performances across the entire cast. Does it deserve to be hailed as a modern classic? Probably not, but compared to your average year's Best picture winner (Coda, Green Book, Hurt Locker, fucking KING'S SPEECH) it's goddamn Citizen Kane in my eyes
Remember that one Oscars when The Iron Lady was nominated for everything?
(the movie about Meryl Streep playing fucking Marget Thatcher)
Outside of the subplot with the fishing community struggling, CODA was just straight up not a good movie. I'm still amazed it won but it was kind of a weak year anyway.
coda was a disney channel original that had the money to hire some decent actors, idk how it was even in the conversation
Yea, but on the other hand there was that fish monster mash movie
Previous years:
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I watched EEAAO on a plane and I was bawling by the end of it and the person sitting next to me kept glancing at me
GOONIES FOR LIFE!!!Ohhh, the movie. I thought you watched the acceptance initially. The speech when he got the award evoked a little tear from me with his heartfelt, "Always follow your dreams."
Best part about the Oscars this year was the organisers telling Zelenskyyyiyyiyi to eat shit when he demanded he be given a video spot.
Can't believe that Avatar: The Way of Water is getting disrespected like this by not winning literally every award in every category.
Probably because it's mid as fuck and is only really worth watching for the nice CGI.
Well thats not very fair Cliff, Im just a guy who loves Avatar and hates reddit. Can you blame a guy for that?
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the thing about james cameron is that he's always been mid. idk why he's so crazy popular. and the thing about eeaao is that it's not mid, and is in fact very good
Chinese/Hong Kong cinema reminding us that action movies can be sad, dramas can be funny and comedies can be badass.
According to the Wikipedia article the directors started planning things out way before multiverse shit went mainstream and were really worried the movie would fall flat as time went on because people would be sick of that concept.
According to the Wikipedia article the directors started planning things out way before multiverse shit went mainstream and were really worried the movie would fall flat as time went on because people would be sick of that concept.
It helped that their take wasn't a pop nihilistic bazinga take, which I am indeed sick of because it really doesn't follow for me that "if multiverse = NOTHING HAS MEANING BEING A NARCISSISTIC MASS MURDERING ASSHOLE IS NOW GREENLIT FOREVER"
Exactly. Whether they intended it or not, EEAAO actually comes off as an incredible response of radical empathy to the cynical nihilism that embodies so much of the multiverse genre.
I appreciate that it did something better with a multiverse story than "BECAUSE MULTIVERSE NOTHING MATTERS MASS DESTRUCTION IS NOW AN ACCEPTABLE WAY TO ACQUIRE MEME SAUCE." :so-true:
e3 Is in fact the exact opposite of that. Evelyn could kick Rick's balls into outer space.
unlike rick and morty it had some funny jokes and actual emotions and wasn't ugly as shit
If you don't have mommy issues you're not allowed a negative opinion on this movie
God damn right. That movie made me bawl my eyes out the first time, and cry even more the second time because I was pre-sad about things that I knew would be sad later.
Rare W for the academy in my eyes. I think I said nearly a year ago "I know this won't happen...but they should just cancel the academy awards, toss up their hands and say 'we give up. This movie wins everything'." I get not everybody feels that way but it was a genuinely pround movie going experience and I'm genuinely happy to see it clean up shop.
It's deserved. I swear they nailed the homophobic boomer mother archetype, had me crying, legit felt like she was my mom
Naatu Naatu was the only good performance of the night, which in a meta-way recapitulates the meaning of the Naatu Naatu scene in RRR.
Lady Gaga's remarks before her performance were hilariously dumb. No one should get that emotional over performing a song for Top Gun.
found the movie's simplistic messages increasingly wearisome over time even though I could appreciate the artistry. Tar and Fabelmans were both easily better movies but they're just awards and worse things have won
Let's be real here the whale sucked fucking ass. It tricked the audience in the first half but by the time he was weezing "people are amazing" and gorging on pizza to kill himself I lost every bit of good will for the whole thing, felt so cheap and manipulative. Is it Fraser's fault? No, but holy fuck the more I think about this movie the more annoyed I get.
IMO both Paul Mescal and Colin Farrell did a better job also, but I guess his comeback is a more compelling narrative for an awards show.
The Whale shows that fat people don't just have to be comic relief or evil bad guys, they can also be miserable dying piles of flesh.
What nuance!(I'm making fun of some quotes the director said about portraying fat people as human in films)
Real talk though just fucking make films about happy fat people(that aren't necessarily comical), it's not that hard.
Also the title is just the oscarbait version of that Kojima quote scolding people that they will feel ashamed once they find out the lore reason why the hot sniper lady absolutely has to wear lingere in battle.
I am in the middle of the chapo movie review episode still.
It has a lot of good suggestions. Want to watch Tar and barbarian now.
But EEAAO i thought was really great.
