It was alright but undermined its own message >movie about poor people fricking everyone over to get ahead, then chimping out and committing completely unnecessary murder over hurt feelings >wow, so true le rich people bad!
>le rich people bad
Why does everyone seem to think Parasite is endorsing Kim’s actions? Is the message of Mother that it’s okay to murder people for making fun of you?
Shape of Water was at least creative. Great score, cinematography, performances, effects, etc. The story was just a let down and ultimately full of cliches. Del Toro earned it for Pan's Labyrinth
it was fine, but VERY by the numbers, they might as well have given the Oscar to something more interesting, like Ebbing or Lady Bird or Phantom Thread (the best of the bunch, for my money)
Shape of Water was at least creative. Great score, cinematography, performances, effects, etc. The story was just a let down and ultimately full of cliches. Del Toro earned it for Pan's Labyrinth
>Great score
no
NO
NO, IT WAS NOT A GREAT SCORE, IT WAS ONE FRICKING ACCORDION TUNE (admittedly nice) REPEATED AD NAUSEAM AND THE FACT THAT THIS GOT THE OSCAR AND JONNY GREENWOOD'S HYPNOTIC CHAMELEON SCORE DIDN'T MAKES ME SEETHE TO THIS FRICKING DAY
>more interesting >like Lady Bird
not seen Frances Ha?
but it was a spectacular example of the Academy picking the film that deserved to win the least. generally they at least get the 4th or 5th best.
>HIS CHILD DAUGHTER GOT DRAMATICALLY SHOT BUT WAIT THEY JUST HAPPENED TO BE BLANKS BECAUSE STUPID SLANTS CANT READ
I stood up and took a shit right in the theater seat
A racist Italian man drives a rich circus Black person around to play white man instruments and comes to the conclusion that racism is kind of yikes. Black person also had some kind of arc of not being black enough because he is rich, but I don't honestly remember anymore.
I thought Roma was pretty good too but yeah 2018 was bad and the fact that Black Panther was nominated must have been done purely just do get anyone to watch the Oscars that year.
I don’t think Green Book was a great winner but find it funny people think it’s win taints the integrity of the Oscars when a movie about a woman fricking a barely-sentient fishman won the year before.
Also it’s funny despite getting so much shit, “Green Book” is one of the only recent best picture winners to still be in the IMDb top 250.
>“Green Book” is one of the only recent best picture winners to still be in the IMDb top 250.
Holy based. I'm throwing a party the day EEAAO gets knocked off.
No, it's not. I don't know if you even read the wiki article for it as a substitute for actually watching it, but trust me, the movie is not paced the way the wiki describes its plot to you. It's the most "and then" BP winner.
I don't know if you noticed but this board is incredibly surface level and there is nothing can be done about. You can indeed have a more coherent conversation in youtube comments.
You can go to /film/ but they circlejerk 10 directors there and don't have time for Academy flicks.
yeah, Spacey's midlife crisis involves liking his teenage daughter's friend, smoking pot, and quitting a job he doesn't like. The most cliched boring predictable midlife crisis you could have. the movie was shit for other reasons too. Mena Suvari is not believable as a hot nymph, she's uggo. Watched this within the past few months, total shit movie
How come? I watched it for the first time recently. I liked it. I thought all the shots of the countryside were beautifully composed. All the gaygay stuff confused me because I just kept thinking, "b***h it's the 70s. Go to San Francisco and be happy homosexuals over there."
Best director and best supporting role is usually pretty consistent. Best actor CAN be consistent but a lot of time its not in line with the performance. Juaquin Phoenix should have won best actor years ago but he got it with Joker which was far from his best performance.
Like with Shape of Water, where the deaf chick lived above a movie theater, what Hollywood loves most is films that celebrate film. They eat it up. If you're ever unsure about which film will win Best Picture in a given year, it'll be the one giving Hollywood a blowjob.
The way Best Picture is voted on means the two most deserving movies knock each other out. And the most mediocre film ends up winning. Would be very interesting if KOTFM ended up winning because of this .
Cinemaphile doesn't consist of film critics or film buffs. It consists of Hollywood insiders airing their grievances in relative anonymity.
t. Brad Pitt
I'd say these are the choices I'd consider to be outright bad from worst to best.
Green Book
CODA
Moonlight
Crash
Shape of Water
Slumdog
Shakespeare in Love
Dances With Wolves
Out of Africa
You could probably name any Best Picture aside from Birdman or Parasite over the last 13 years and make an argument for it though.
This fricking piece of steaming shit and it's not even fricking close/thread. Somehow it manages to be completely moronic while up it's own ass.
Only reason this doesn't have most Oscars ever is Return of the King.
What a travesty and oh, infinite realities, but the daughter is fat in all of them.
This is an instance of a movie being damaged by its own reputation/fanbase/critical response. It went from, >the little movie that could
to >THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!
It was effectively propped up by the industry to flex how progressive and hip they now are.
>we solved the whole thing
That's the thing, at no point, Crash pretends it solved anything. It's just vaguely connected stories of prejudice and empathy. If it were released today, it would have been vivisected online for daring to portray an apologetically racist cop as a selfish hero and a bleeding heart one as a jumpy coward that had the same prejudices as everyone else. No one by the end of the movie stops being racist. They just agonize over the shit they did.
It wouldn't even be a bad BP winner if half of storylines weren't terribly written and directed like Pena's one.
It's not mysterious, we are living into an unprecedented age of shit, even though the technology is advanced enough that it should allow everyone to shoot what they want.
Slumdog Millionaire is probably the worst for me because of how bad it looked. Digital cameras were not good enough yet, and the movie should have never been nominated.
People hated it, I loved it. It had such an odd plot, people that get turned on by car crashes. The fricked up thing is, I bet there's people out there that are like that.
Everything from the 2002 ceremony onwards. 9/11 really did change everything and this is when things started to decline in this country. The '90s were the last time the Oscars were relevant.
Crash isn't the worst but I remember watching this and Slumdog Millionaire back to back for a film class and becoming completely disillusioned by "best picture" and the oscar's in general
Absolute jokes of movies
Shakespeare in Love (the movie that stole the Oscar from Truman Show)
Truman Show wasn't nominated for Best Picture, only Best Director.
it actually stole it from Saving Private Ryan which is based
Boomer aswer.
This. I completely tuned out of the Oscars when Argo won.
Lmao buttplug this is our humor bros
These were good. Stop seething moronic chuds.
This is the answer.
Non-chuds were the ones shitting on Green Book for being milquetoast.
Anything after 2010
Wait you didn't like Parasite?
It was alright but undermined its own message
>movie about poor people fricking everyone over to get ahead, then chimping out and committing completely unnecessary murder over hurt feelings
>wow, so true le rich people bad!
>le rich people bad
Why does everyone seem to think Parasite is endorsing Kim’s actions? Is the message of Mother that it’s okay to murder people for making fun of you?
>implying that mongoloid seen any of his movies except maybe for MOM because he got memed into watching it
Now all a movie needs to do is change genres midway through and the critics shit themselves. Genres exist for a reason.
The one where the mute girl bangs a fish man.
bump
Shape of Water was at least creative. Great score, cinematography, performances, effects, etc. The story was just a let down and ultimately full of cliches. Del Toro earned it for Pan's Labyrinth
>Great score, cinematography, performances, effects, etc.
frick off Del Toro. you know it only won because you pandered harder than Ron Howard
>Shape of Water was at least creative
GTFO the plot was old af, basically Pocahontas with water aliens instead of a whale
it was fine, but VERY by the numbers, they might as well have given the Oscar to something more interesting, like Ebbing or Lady Bird or Phantom Thread (the best of the bunch, for my money)
>Great score
no
NO
NO, IT WAS NOT A GREAT SCORE, IT WAS ONE FRICKING ACCORDION TUNE (admittedly nice) REPEATED AD NAUSEAM AND THE FACT THAT THIS GOT THE OSCAR AND JONNY GREENWOOD'S HYPNOTIC CHAMELEON SCORE DIDN'T MAKES ME SEETHE TO THIS FRICKING DAY
>more interesting
>like Lady Bird
not seen Frances Ha?
but it was a spectacular example of the Academy picking the film that deserved to win the least. generally they at least get the 4th or 5th best.
Crash is much better than Shape of Water, Green Book, or Nomadland.
>HIS CHILD DAUGHTER GOT DRAMATICALLY SHOT BUT WAIT THEY JUST HAPPENED TO BE BLANKS BECAUSE STUPID SLANTS CANT READ
I stood up and took a shit right in the theater seat
people's complaints about this movie are just plain moronic and shows they misunderstood it
it was an early example of being triggered by wokeness. of course it was far more subtle than modern woke media.
Thats right. It was a satirical dark comedy about the racial stereotypes Hollywood writers use. There is a reason it won an oscar.
You don't think it has anything to do with scenes like this? https://youtu.be/L-iyxIincCI
>misunderstood it
It literally screams at you what the movie is about. The characters are hilarious cardboard cutouts.
Everything Reddit All At Once is the worst.
I've only seen Crash once, but it was so bad that I got randomly depressed for a week afterward.
Moonlight
13 years a slave
Schindler's List
The Green Book
EEAAO
Parasite
Slumdog millionaire
I could keep going, but the last movie that deserved to win was probably Birdman and before that NCFOM.
At least Birdman was entertaining
My guy just say you’re racist and move on you don’t gotta list every minority made movie
birdman was gimmicky shit masquerading as le high art concept. total garbage
Alright I never watched Greenbook. Can someone tell me what its about so that I dont waste an hour of my life?
A racist Italian man drives a rich circus Black person around to play white man instruments and comes to the conclusion that racism is kind of yikes. Black person also had some kind of arc of not being black enough because he is rich, but I don't honestly remember anymore.
It's a comfy movie I shouldn't have won best picture but it's not bad
Ironically it was the best nomination of that year
I thought Roma was pretty good too but yeah 2018 was bad and the fact that Black Panther was nominated must have been done purely just do get anyone to watch the Oscars that year.
no it wasn't you fricking pleb moron. shut the frick up.
I don’t think Green Book was a great winner but find it funny people think it’s win taints the integrity of the Oscars when a movie about a woman fricking a barely-sentient fishman won the year before.
Also it’s funny despite getting so much shit, “Green Book” is one of the only recent best picture winners to still be in the IMDb top 250.
>“Green Book” is one of the only recent best picture winners to still be in the IMDb top 250.
Holy based. I'm throwing a party the day EEAAO gets knocked off.
EEAAO isn’t on the 250
probably Cimarron or something else nobody watches
They aren't. But rearly anyone is going to bring up or even watch shit like Cavalcade.
They are.
Cavalcade sucks but it's better than anything made today.
No, it's not. I don't know if you even read the wiki article for it as a substitute for actually watching it, but trust me, the movie is not paced the way the wiki describes its plot to you. It's the most "and then" BP winner.
Crash is better than Moonlight and CODA to be sure.
kek. accurate.
it's a good movie. It's like the Intouchables and other buddy cop type roadtrip movies.
I don't know if you noticed but this board is incredibly surface level and there is nothing can be done about. You can indeed have a more coherent conversation in youtube comments.
You can go to /film/ but they circlejerk 10 directors there and don't have time for Academy flicks.
can't believe nobody's said american beauty yet. easily one of the most contrived, pretentious and fake-deep pieces of trash i've ever had to watch.
This won best picture? I was a pretentious little homosexual when I saw this in high school and even then I thought it was crap.
Best picture is the most pointless category anyway. Of my favorite movies only a few of them ever won an academy award.
It didn't hold up as well but I hated Shakespeare in Love more
yeah, Spacey's midlife crisis involves liking his teenage daughter's friend, smoking pot, and quitting a job he doesn't like. The most cliched boring predictable midlife crisis you could have. the movie was shit for other reasons too. Mena Suvari is not believable as a hot nymph, she's uggo. Watched this within the past few months, total shit movie
The Greatest Show on Earth
Crash isn't even a bad movie. The hate is a meme.
Everyone is just mad Gay Mountain didn't win.
I hated that movie even more and I say that as an actual gay.
How come? I watched it for the first time recently. I liked it. I thought all the shots of the countryside were beautifully composed. All the gaygay stuff confused me because I just kept thinking, "b***h it's the 70s. Go to San Francisco and be happy homosexuals over there."
Crash is an awful movie dude. It was so painfully cringe to sit through.
Best director and best supporting role is usually pretty consistent. Best actor CAN be consistent but a lot of time its not in line with the performance. Juaquin Phoenix should have won best actor years ago but he got it with Joker which was far from his best performance.
4/10 at best
Like with Shape of Water, where the deaf chick lived above a movie theater, what Hollywood loves most is films that celebrate film. They eat it up. If you're ever unsure about which film will win Best Picture in a given year, it'll be the one giving Hollywood a blowjob.
Shape of Water was so mediocre I didn’t even bother finishing it
Isn't there one from the 50s which is just like birds doing circus tricks?
The way Best Picture is voted on means the two most deserving movies knock each other out. And the most mediocre film ends up winning. Would be very interesting if KOTFM ended up winning because of this .
No, need to be passive aggressive buba.
I've never even heard of this movie and I'm pretty in the loop when it comes to film culture.
It literally feels like a mid-2000s Disney movie.
Is this the Mandela Effect all the kids are talking about? I legitimately have NO idea what you're talking about.
No one thinks that movie is good. Roma and The Favourite were marginally better that year but 2018 was god fricking awful for the oscars.
You mean The Thin Red Line.
It was so bizarre going into work the next day and that was all anyone was talking about.
Cinemaphile doesn't consist of film critics or film buffs. It consists of Hollywood insiders airing their grievances in relative anonymity.
t. Brad Pitt
Of the last 10 years
Actually deserved to win tier
>Parasite
>Birdman
Not actually a bad movie, you just hate black people tier
>12 Years a Slave
Its ok to meh tier
>Green Book
>Moonlight
>Spotlight
>Everything Everywhere All at Once
Didn't even watch tier
>The Shape of Water
I legit forgettable and they hold no cultural significance tier
>CODA
>Nomadland
Nightcrawler was better than Birdman but didn't make the nomination.
Let me add that of the top 3 there I think the are worthy of winning. Nightcrawler was good, not sure I'd say better then Birdman tho.
>Actually deserved to win tier
back to r3ddit gay
I'd say these are the choices I'd consider to be outright bad from worst to best.
Green Book
CODA
Moonlight
Crash
Shape of Water
Slumdog
Shakespeare in Love
Dances With Wolves
Out of Africa
You could probably name any Best Picture aside from Birdman or Parasite over the last 13 years and make an argument for it though.
Slumdog Millionaire doesn't get enough hate. Indians despise that movie for how pandering and tryhard it is
Slumdog Millionaire is so fricking overrated and ridiculous.
>using Indians as a metric for taste in film
Bollywood is a making more kinos than america at all times!
Then go to an indian board and have fun discussing them there.
This fricking piece of steaming shit and it's not even fricking close/thread. Somehow it manages to be completely moronic while up it's own ass.
Only reason this doesn't have most Oscars ever is Return of the King.
What a travesty and oh, infinite realities, but the daughter is fat in all of them.
This is an instance of a movie being damaged by its own reputation/fanbase/critical response. It went from,
>the little movie that could
to
>THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!
It was effectively propped up by the industry to flex how progressive and hip they now are.
>we solved the whole thing
That's the thing, at no point, Crash pretends it solved anything. It's just vaguely connected stories of prejudice and empathy. If it were released today, it would have been vivisected online for daring to portray an apologetically racist cop as a selfish hero and a bleeding heart one as a jumpy coward that had the same prejudices as everyone else. No one by the end of the movie stops being racist. They just agonize over the shit they did.
It wouldn't even be a bad BP winner if half of storylines weren't terribly written and directed like Pena's one.
It's not mysterious, we are living into an unprecedented age of shit, even though the technology is advanced enough that it should allow everyone to shoot what they want.
Dude, this will be uniquely shit even three decades from now.
crash was released 20 years ago, idiot. and no one cares about older movies.
I now watch only pre00 movies due to how shit current movies are, simple as.
The oscars hasn't been credible for 25-35 years now. they nominate movies based on social/political reasons, not artistic merit.
Argo
The King's Speech
Parasite
Million Dollar Baby
The Hurt Locker
Platoon
The Deer Hunter
Slumdog Millionaire is probably the worst for me because of how bad it looked. Digital cameras were not good enough yet, and the movie should have never been nominated.
Mooncricket
People hated it, I loved it. It had such an odd plot, people that get turned on by car crashes. The fricked up thing is, I bet there's people out there that are like that.
Moonlight was fricking pointless. If the main character wasn't a homosexual, nobody would even consider it a real movie.
Everything from the 2002 ceremony onwards. 9/11 really did change everything and this is when things started to decline in this country. The '90s were the last time the Oscars were relevant.
Crash isn't the worst but I remember watching this and Slumdog Millionaire back to back for a film class and becoming completely disillusioned by "best picture" and the oscar's in general
Absolute jokes of movies