"Whole Family Is In Front Of The TV For Oscar Night!" or "Playing Some TF2!"

[Seil]

It's always a big deal at my place, and I don't really care, but I wonder - does anyone else?

[Aldurin]

[Marc v4.0]

People still have regular cable/sat?

[Betty Elms]

My cousin won a (low level) award, so that's rad as hell.

All the rest is garbage and nonsense and Malick snubbery.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I was going to watch the Oscars but I watched a film about genital mutilation instead. Best decision ever.

Like when the winner of best picture is an 80s rom-com that ran out of sound budget then I don't know what to say.
Also if best actor is awarded for mugging at the camera then why doesn't Eddie Murphy get nominated every year.
But yeah Oscars are meaningless and only ever cover a specific range of middlebrow films, eschewing both the blockbuster and the arthouse to give out awards for films that 50 year old white men enjoy.

Originally Posted by Betty Elms

Malick snubbery.

Hahahahaha, don't ever change Betty.
I was kind of hoping he won just because I reckon for his acceptance speech he would talk about he can stop cutting himself now.


E: The film that should have won best picture was Drive and foriegn langue the Turin Horse.

[Betty Elms]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Hahahahaha, don't ever change Betty.
I was kind of hoping he won just because I reckon for his acceptance speech he would talk about he can stop cutting himself now.

E: The film that should have won best picture was Drive and foriegn langue the Turin Horse.

Drive would have been my BP runner up. You can't debate me because you have in fact never watched a film by Terrence Malick, ergo I win automatically. My taste is objectively the best.

The Turin Horse made me feel things I didn't want to feel, which I tend to award a movie points for. (Hence my David Lynch fetish.) But A Separation was just such an all around fantastic film, whereas Turin Horse was more like hey check it, wind and potatoes. It did its job well, but that job was reminding me how difficult and monotonous life is, which is itself easy peasy potato squeezy.

[Flarecobra]

People care about it still?

[3stan]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

People care about it still?

Genre movie fans desperate for validation and actual filmmakers are the only two groups who come to mind.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

But I've seen Tree of Life which is the film in question so surely I can debate you.
I don't think the Oscar committee snobbed it as such. It was exactly the kind of emototionally undeveloped, heavy handed manchild pandering that they enjoy whereas they would snob a movie like Drive for not just trying to manipulate the emotions of rich white dudes. I think it just lost because it was up against the Artist and they were like "It's a silent movie and it uses some of the techniques I learnt that silent movies use in film school. Ergo it must be a good movie".

I can't comment on A Seperation because I didn't see it mostly because it didn't sound interesting to me.
I get your point about Turin Horse- it wouldn't have been particularly revolutionary even if it came out in the 60s but I didn't see any particularly revolutionary films this year so I went with one that did its job well

[Magus]

Didn't watch. Could not be brought to care about any of the nominees in any of the categories.

Not to say I've watched it in the last five years but I used to at least read about who had won. Did not even care this year.