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this POS won best picture?? hollywood is a joke

posted 9 years ago by jackal07
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this artsy fartsy crapola won best picture because hollywood is rigged and has become a joke... of course the movie was not as good as american sniper or unbroken or the other movies up for the oscar but the powers that be dont care about the real movie goers ... they wanted it to win so it won.. and thats why hollywood has become a joke.. that and they have run out of ideas for movies...run far away from this movie, you will be sleeping 20 minutes in

[–] ososment 9 years ago

Huh. Personally, thought it was great.

It was Terry Gillingham with a reach around from Wes Anderson, subtle and brash, pop art sarcasm.

[–] ososment 9 years ago

Terry Gilliam obvs. Tchah, curse auto correct.

[–] amorehl-93-99338 9 years ago

Now I feel better about not liking this film. I'm never going to like anything that has any resemblance to anything Terry Gilliam has ever done.

[–] Picnic10 9 years ago

Did you actually like Michael Keaton before you watched this? Because no matter what the motives of some people involved in the film might be, he and his character are genuinely artsy but not artsy fartsy. If you only watched 20 minutes you didn't see some humour and some tragedy made with a lightly intense, not a pretentious, touch.

[–] michaeltrenton 9 years ago

Yes it won best picture. Transformers can't always win you know.

[–] christopher-townsend44 9 years ago

Is this film worthy of best picture? I tried watching through Netflix DVD service and I didn't understand the the message or moral in the movie. What is good about this movie that makes it worthy for best picture? Can someone tell me or should I watch the movie again?

[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

What is good about this movie that makes it worthy for best picture? Can someone tell me or should I watch the movie again?

Yes, watch it again. Just for a start look at how it has been shot. It is rather brilliant and that's before you start thinking about the acting and the clever darkly comic story.🐭

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[–] patrick_bateman_90029 9 years ago

I KNEW the OP was going to bring up "American Sniper" the moment I saw this thread. Those people need to seriously get the hell over themselves and that movie. Compared to Eastwood's earlier movies, it's not even that great.

[–] nesxp 9 years ago

Americans obviously wanted American Sniper to win, but as a foreigner, me and other people I know were pleased that didn't happened, in our point of view, if American Sniper have won would be exactly what you said "hollywood is a joke". Because Birdman is a film that touches more human topics, AS is a film nobody else cared but americans. (Or at lest a very few foreign people).

[–] Duane505 9 years ago

AS is a film nobody else cared but americans. (Or at lest a very few foreign people).

This is an odd thing to say considering AS grossed $197,000,000 outside the US. That's more than three times what Birdman made in foreign ticket sales. American Sniper's foreign box office is almost two times Birdman's total box office.

[–] nesxp 9 years ago

That doesn't mean much really, obviously people would like to go watch that kind of film: Eastwood, Cooper, war, nice poster and trailer, etc., but not many people really loved it. Is the film that when you're 20 minutes in you think "this is the kind of movie americans would like".
And don't misunderstand me, I really had great expectations for this film and thought it was ok when watched it, just not that important for Best Picture.

[–] Scooby52 9 years ago

Yep and just because a film has a great box office result doesn't mean everyone loved it. If you look at the voter breakdown on IMDB, US users have given the film an average vote of 7.8/10, while non US voter average is only 7.1/10. The other fact is a lot of Non Americans don't agree with the way the US invaded Iraq and are uncomfortable supporting a film that glorified someone who killed so many people.

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[–] patrick_bateman_90029 9 years ago

I'm American and I thought "American Sniper" was the worst of the nominees last year.

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

It was in competition and one of the better films that year, although I did not think it was that great but there you go.

It's that man again!!

[–] free-agent 9 years ago

it paid homage to Hollywood's ugly side. The ones who are no longer celebrities, but fade into oblivion.
To me, it was a dark dramatic comedy.

I can see why AMPAS chose it. Though, nothing spectacular.

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 9 years ago

Agreed. It makes no sense that this movie won Best Picture over a really great, transcendent and culturally significant movie like American Sniper... which may not have been totally accurate but who gives a fck? We finally got a war film that really puts us in the sh!t over there... far better than fcking Hurt Locker.

[–] madeitupforfacebook 9 years ago

LOL American Sniper, nice troll.