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01-30-20, 06:36 PM

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Re: Awards that were the last straw for you

Was Whipped really a Oscar worthy movie? JK Simmons was good but that was not probably his best work.

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01-30-20, 07:32 PM

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Re: Awards that were the last straw for you

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When is The Social Network going to win Best Picture? Hell, David Fincher is still without an Oscar.

Not a big fan of TSN, but his best film Zodiac didn't even get one nomination.

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01-30-20, 07:37 PM

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Was Whipped really a Oscar worthy movie? JK Simmons was good but that was not probably his best work.

1) Yes it was.
2) Yes it was.

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01-30-20, 08:26 PM

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Not a big fan of TSN, but his best film Zodiac didn't even get one nomination.

Maybe this should be in the “Unpopular Opinion” thread but I’ve always found Zodiac to be an insufferable bore.

And if that opinion doesn’t do it for you, I also think The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is Fincher’s best film.

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01-30-20, 10:04 PM

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I realized that the best way to win an Oscar was to play someone disabled.

Or made a holocaust/WWII movie, or impersonating a real life person.

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01-31-20, 05:14 AM

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Or made a holocaust/WWII movie, or impersonating a real life person.

or being Meryl Streep

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01-31-20, 06:22 AM

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Re: Awards that were the last straw for you

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Was Whiplash really a Oscar worthy movie? JK Simmons was good but that was not probably his best work.

I really liked this movie until

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which was so cliched and stupid, I laughed out loud.

I still think it's a "good" movie with a great performance by JK though.

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01-31-20, 12:04 PM

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Think you meant Death Proof.

Aye. Getting old is no fun.

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01-31-20, 12:14 PM

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Re: Awards that were the last straw for you

I love the end of Django because you get to see a bunch of slavers get ganked. I can take or leave the QT scene.

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01-31-20, 12:16 PM

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1) Yes it was.
2) Yes it was.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

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01-31-20, 01:17 PM

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Man I am so fucking tired of that example. The old Grammy voters had NO IDEA what "Metal" even meant. They made up for that mistake the very next year and over and over again. eight wins and counting, including for a two minute cover of a Queen song. That mistake has been rectified. When is The Social Network going to win Best Picture? Hell, David Fincher is still without an Oscar.

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01-31-20, 04:49 PM

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Re: Awards that were the last straw for you

Have we mentioned TRON yet? Didn't it get passed over for VFX awards because they were computer generated and not hand-drawn? And now every single movie, regardless of genre, uses CGI in some way, if even to erase a boom mic from a scene.
That kinda thing goes to show the Academy was always behind the curve.

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01-31-20, 04:53 PM

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It wasn't nominated for effects, which is totally ridiculous. But it wouldn't have won anyways going up against E.T, which was the biggest grossing film of all time at that time. The space ship looks cheesy today (and even did back then) but the alien effects hold up really well.

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