This movie has to be so ordinary and sober to win an academy. Having said that this movie turned out to be so obvious. I not really oppose for its Academy win only but also its presence the nomination list. Probably im coming out very strong, therefore i need some other perspective on this movie.
shareI agree it wasn't a bad movie but best picture of the year.... it wasn't a particularly strong year. but I liked the grey better for one in 2012. I think it is a kind of a feel good story that came out of what most academy age voters are old enough to remember well as a really dark time, plus it had impressive stuff like period wardrobe and hair/makeup.
shareI certainly can't give you any reason. I just watched it for the first time last night and was not overly impressed. While i thought it was "alright", i gave it 6/10, i didn't think it deserved to win Best Picture. Mud and Les Miserables were both much, much better in my humble opinion.
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That's the thing isn't it everyone has their own opinion and Argo got the most votes. I loved Argo I really enjoyed it as a gripping story. I think it did deserve best picture and wished that Ben Affleck had won for Best Director - his movies are always good to watch. They entertain me and it is called the entertainment industry.
shareInteresting, well acted, well paced, directed high in suspense and tension they are a few reasons I believe... Plus based on true event movies to tend to fair well at the Oscars (though that shouldn't be a reason it was probably taken into account)
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IMO this is the only Best Picture winner since Slumdog Millionaire to actually be a good movie. The pacing was good, the tension was effective, the characters were engaging and the performances were excellent. Give me this over The Hurt Locker and The Artist any day.
What's not to like?
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Django Unchained - Tarrantino will never win best Director/Film. Regardless if he deserves it as much as I love this film.
Les Miserables - Would you want a chick flick musical winning?
Lincoln - Speilberg has probably won his last Oscar allready.
Zero Dark Thirty- Katherine was not going to win again so soon. It was the typical lets nominate a female director to keep femenists happy.
Amour - Foreign films to my knowlege never win best film.
Life Of Pie - Very good film but Ang lee has allready won. I would not have minded if this won instead.
Silver Linnings Playbook - Possibly a contender but I did not feel anything oroginal was in it.
Argo- i liked it for its pace and the build up of tension. Yes it distorted history a little bit but find me a 100% historialy accurate film? Ben Affeleck deserves some redemption for poor film choices before. Also he Directed and acted in it very well. So I can see why it won.
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Because they needed an anti-middle east movie, and Zero Dark Thirty was too controversial.
I'm kidding. It just wasn't the strongest year for nominees. Django Unchained was by far the best nominee, but there was no way that a Tarantino movie would be allowed to win.
Isn't it obvious? The whole Oscar gala is about movie people congratulating themselves. And here we have a movie about movie people saving the day. I wonder why movie people would like to hand out prizes for that sort of films? ;) Of course there is something very self-congratulatory, almost masturbatory, about that choice, just like there is something very self-congratulatory about the whole Oscar event.
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