Moonlight (2016, D: Barry Jenkins)
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Re: Moonlight (2016, D: Barry Jenkins)
i will say that i am perplexed by Ali's win considering his screen time. i really expected him to be in the film much more and from what i heard i was pulling for him to win, which he did, but i thought it was for much more than this. only minor gripe, but way to go Jenkins and crew.
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Only bc I really like him from House of Cards and Kicks. I didn't care too much about the other nominees. Heard he was great, liked him before, and wanted him to win. Is there something wrong with that?
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Speaking of Ali, we watched the movie last night. My daughter thought they mentioned in the scene with Janelle Monae in Act 2 that
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Re: Moonlight (2016, D: Barry Jenkins)
Yes,
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Re: Moonlight (2016, D: Barry Jenkins)
Here is the entirety of Beatrice Straight's Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winning performance in Network, all five minutes of it. That was, BTW, the very last time a single movie won three acting Oscars.
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Speaking of Ali, we watched the movie last night. My daughter thought they mentioned in the scene with Janelle Monae in Act 2 that his character had been killed, but if she did, I must have missed it. Did they say that?
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Speaking of Ali, we watched the movie last night. My daughter thought they mentioned in the scene with Janelle Monae in Act 2 that his character had been killed, but if she did, I must have missed it. Did they say that?
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Re: Moonlight (2016, D: Barry Jenkins)
Guess I'm going to a naysayer. I watched this last night. Granted my expectations for a movie that won Best Picture was above average, I just was bored silly and had a hard time trying to keep up with and understand the dialogue, even with subtitles on. The movie was painfully slow and disjointed. I realize that it was taking this kid's life and slicing it up into 3 segments, each several years apart. However, it was a disappointing having the Juan character just disappear from the movie with only one aside from the mother explaining what might have happened to him. Granted he was a self-admitted drug dealer, so fill in the blanks I suppose. I thought the casting of the grown up Chiron was off as he was way more buff than the two previous actors who'd played him. Small gripe I suppose. All the suppressed homosexual tension pretty much throughout the movie was a bit too much to sit through for my taste.
I just didn't think this movie was all that, and frankly felt bad for the other movies that lost out. That being said, it didn't suck I suppose.
I just didn't think this movie was all that, and frankly felt bad for the other movies that lost out. That being said, it didn't suck I suppose.
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