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Post by toomanyhatz on Apr 13, 2021 5:13:49 GMT
Chicago 7 was...good. And certainly well acted. Far too much stilted dialogue, and I think movies that take place in the 60s really need to declare a moratorium on mentioning it too many times in the script. I spent a fair amount of time rolling my eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 5:22:52 GMT
The ending was absurd, like something froma Spielberg movie.
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Post by Sneelock on Apr 13, 2021 6:15:36 GMT
Sorkin is such a scold. All those bad hippies burning draft cards & bras just to be difficult. LOL. Good performances, though. The Sorkin film to top (for me) is “Molly’s Game”. The point was made by the character’s behavior rather than by reciting laundry lists.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Apr 13, 2021 6:33:08 GMT
The ending was actually one of the more reality-based scenes, though it happened earlier in the trial and not at the end. Absurd isn't quite the right word. It was overdone. The scene could have spoken for itself. It didn't need the cheering background or the giant orchestra swells. Movies are supposed to engage your emotions, not dictate them.
I forgive a lot of the Hollywoodisms, and think its heart was in the right place, it just suffered from a very common problem of commercial American movies taking on history - it doesn't trust its audience to think for itself. The modern parallels and retrospective connection to shared history was played in such broad strokes that it left no room for interpretation or relevance to one's own life - which is pretty much what I watch movies for.
It just made me all the more impressed by One Night in Miami, which brought history down to a human level in a way that was both believable and engaging. And starting from source material that was not a matter of public record like this one was, at that.
Like I said, though, at least the acting was uniformly good (well, except for Jeremy Strong playing Jerry Rubin like he was in a Cheech and Chong movie, but I don't think the script gave him very much to work with).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 11:16:03 GMT
I sometimes think the oscars should just take a 10 year break and try again. Folk can't pedantically give out about it about race, diversity, and all that if the oscars isn't there. Let society change hence films will reflect that, and then oscars can pick films due to their merit rather than feeling that they have to pick certain type of films. Maybe have the oscars every 5 years or something.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 11:32:11 GMT
The ending was actually one of the more reality-based scenes, though it happened earlier in the trial and not at the end. Absurd isn't quite the right word. It was overdone. The scene could have spoken for itself. It didn't need the cheering background or the giant orchestra swells. Movies are supposed to engage your emotions, not dictate them. The PBS dramatisation of the trail from the early 90s was better. It can be found on youtube.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 13, 2021 11:56:26 GMT
I sometimes think the oscars should just take a 10 year break and try again. Folk can't pedantically give out about it about race, diversity, and all that if the oscars isn't there. Let society change hence films will reflect that, and then oscars can pick films due to their merit rather than feeling that they have to pick certain type of films. Maybe have the oscars every 5 years or something. I think they should all be blasted into space with fucking Spike Lee for company and Driving Miss Daisy on repeat. It will just descend further into meaningless virtue signalling as the lot splooge over each other.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 12:02:37 GMT
Maybe watch the raspberry awards or whatever they're called. Ha, might be a bit a craic actually.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 13, 2021 12:24:58 GMT
At least they are honest
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 12:30:39 GMT
Aye, i think some of the A listers show up some times.
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 13, 2021 12:35:39 GMT
Yeah, there's something seriously fucked up when you get celebs accepting doggy bags with free diamond-encrusted iPhone 12s with one hand, and holding the notes for their little speech about BLM and saving the planet with the other.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 12:41:40 GMT
Aye, it's a funny weird juxtaposition.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 13, 2021 12:44:40 GMT
People see it through don't they? It's bullshit and they know it. They are so NEEDY.
I'm not a huge fan of Gervais but I did appreciate his speech when he just said go on stage, thank your agent and God and then just fuck off.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Apr 13, 2021 16:12:21 GMT
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Post by daveythefatboy on Apr 13, 2021 16:12:46 GMT
I see this thread has fallen into a different kind of virtue signaling.
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