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Post by oh oooh on Jan 19, 2023 12:41:45 GMT
Everything Everywhere All At Once for best picture? Or The Banshees of Inisherin?
Cate Blanchett best actress?
The Elvis fella for best actore?
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 19, 2023 12:56:57 GMT
Frankly, it’s a toss-up in multiple categories, most notably best picture. Six films feel “safe” — “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans,” “Tár” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”
There are the other blockbusters and sequels in the mix: “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Glass Onion” and “The Woman King.”
Then we have the films that have stumbled along the way but have popped up in spots such as “Aftersun,” “Babylon,” “She Said” and “Women Talking.”
And then you have the international voting contingency that could go for any number of titles such as “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Living,” “RRR” and “Triangle of Sadness.”variety.com/lists/2023-oscars-predictions-ranked-best-picture/
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Post by harrylemon on Jan 19, 2023 17:08:46 GMT
Banshees of Inisherin was so overrated it beggars belief. Good performances wrapped around a completely ridiculous premise.
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Post by davey on Jan 19, 2023 17:10:06 GMT
If you told a younger version of myself that we would get to an Oscar season where I’d only seen one of the films in question, and that I wouldn’t care one way or the other - I’d never have believed you. But here we are.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 19, 2023 19:32:39 GMT
Banshees of Inisherin was so overrated it beggars belief. Good performances wrapped around a completely ridiculous premise. Logic of premise is extremely low in terms of what I look for in a movie. But then, I loved it. Plenty of absurd premises among my favorite movies of all time. You can start with "Vertigo," in fact. That said, I think BofI might be the only movie I've seen on the list! Must catch up.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 19, 2023 20:15:46 GMT
Banshees of Inisherin was so overrated it beggars belief. Good performances wrapped around a completely ridiculous premise. Logic of premise is extremely low in terms of what I look for in a movie. It's interesting. I think about this a lot with regard to movies. Of course we're supposed to be buying into an imagined world, that's what we do when we watch a film. We should submit ourselves to the whole, and not necessarily look for logic or sense or anything we can relate to. BUT! if the film is depicting something that looks real - i.e. the people behave like we do, the places they live in look familiar, they say things that we can sympathise with - then when something happens that has no apparent logic (and you know what I'm talking about in this case, and of course this happens all the time in movies), then it jars. It feels wrong, and it's natural to feel disappointed. Or worse. In the case of Vertigo the whole thing appears unreal in many ways. It's like it was filmed underwater or something. So you can suspend disbelief, because it's a kind of parallel universe and that's how it's portrayed from the start. We know what's going on. Anything that happens, we can accept. With this thing - they're ambling along in this village 100 years ago having pints and chatting - but then there's this nonsense behaviour from one character that makes no sense whatsoever on any planet I know of. But...you know, if you enjoyed it, then you enjoyed it.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 19, 2023 20:17:40 GMT
If Everything Everywhere wins best film I'll be delighted. That's my kind of movie. I was thrilled for nearly every minute.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 19, 2023 20:28:02 GMT
ALL of Martin McDonagh's movies play on the intrusion of surrealism on social reality. I think it comes from DeSica originally (one of my favorite movies of all time, "Miracle of Milan," is steeped in it), but I think he's the main modern adherent to it.
Of course it certainly does come down to either liking that or not, and I would never try to convince anyone not buying in that they're 'wrong', just saying there's historical precedence for it. And it's a consistent characteristic of McD's 'world'.
It's when it doesn't stay consistent within the world that the movie's created that it bothers me. Seeing his name in the credits (at least at this point) prepares me for it.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 19, 2023 20:33:53 GMT
Yeah, fair enough. I didn't know that about his films.
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Post by harrylemon on Jan 19, 2023 20:56:10 GMT
Banshees of Inisherin was so overrated it beggars belief. Good performances wrapped around a completely ridiculous premise. Logic of premise is extremely low in terms of what I look for in a movie. But then, I loved it. Plenty of absurd premises among my favorite movies of all time. You can start with "Vertigo," in fact. That said, I think BofI might be the only movie I've seen on the list! Must catch up. My problem was that the I didn't believe the character would do what he did. Maybe the first time yes ok, but not the following times.
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Post by jeffk on Jan 19, 2023 23:16:11 GMT
If Everything Everywhere wins best film I'll be delighted. That's my kind of movie. I was thrilled for nearly every minute. I think it will win. It's the kind of movie the Academy loves plus it made a little money. You already know my feelings towards it. They'll give Spielberg some nominations too even though nobody but the Academy is interested in his films any more. Cate for best actress and deservedly so and Brendan Fraser seems to be the feel-good Oscar story of the year that they gush over.
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Post by A.R. Parsons on Jan 20, 2023 9:51:18 GMT
Tom Cruise reveals he is actually Shelly Miscavige...
I have no idea. Haven't seen anything from this year.
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Post by A.R. Parsons on Jan 20, 2023 9:56:17 GMT
Or last year!
Maybe someone will get tased.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 20, 2023 15:05:09 GMT
That new Spielberg film looks like a right load of old toss.
It's pretty thin gruel these days. I dug Everything, Everywhere.... but I'd like to see Tar win. It actually felt like a proper film.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 20, 2023 15:16:54 GMT
Logic of premise is extremely low in terms of what I look for in a movie. It's interesting. I think about this a lot with regard to movies. Of course we're supposed to be buying into an imagined world, that's what we do when we watch a film. We should submit ourselves to the whole, and not necessarily look for logic or sense or anything we can relate to. BUT! if the film is depicting something that looks real - i.e. the people behave like we do, the places they live in look familiar, they say things that we can sympathise with - then when something happens that has no apparent logic (and you know what I'm talking about in this case, and of course this happens all the time in movies), then it jars. It feels wrong, and it's natural to feel disappointed. Or worse. In the case of Vertigo the whole thing appears unreal in many ways. It's like it was filmed underwater or something. So you can suspend disbelief, because it's a kind of parallel universe and that's how it's portrayed from the start. We know what's going on. Anything that happens, we can accept. With this thing - they're ambling along in this village 100 years ago having pints and chatting - but then there's this nonsense behaviour from one character that makes no sense whatsoever on any planet I know of. But...you know, if you enjoyed it, then you enjoyed it. Vertigo is depicted as a fever dream and the contrived plot is just used to as a device to explore the movies themes so it works. Banshees is realistic but I had no real idea of what the director was aiming for theme wise. I can accept the finger thing, as extreme as it was, if I thought there was something more to it than a man simply wanting to leave some kind of artistic legacy behind as he faces up to his own mortality. I got that part but what else was there? So you get bored of people, you waste a lot of time with people that could be spent elsewhere but so what? Maybe if the fella with no fingers realised that he could spend time by himself working on his music but friendship gives life meaning even if you don't leave something behind it would have made more sense to me but it just kind of hung there at the end. Nick on Facebook suggested maybe he was aiming for some kind of allegory to do with the Irish civil war but if he was it was over my head but then I know nothing about the civil war really. By the end I was scratching my head and I'm a bit puzzled by the praise but then that's standard these days.
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