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Moonlight....wow!

posted 8 years ago by Bbonds25
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I saw Moonlight last night and I can't imagine how it won't win best picture. I felt the same way walking out of 12 Years a Slave in October....like, you just knew there was none better in that year.

I know La La is getting great reviews and is odds on favorite, but Moonlight was something special and I can't imagine seeing a better film this year. Can Silence do it? That looks epic too.

This will be an interesting year...best year
of films since 2013. Lots of competition. Good for us. But La La is no sure thing, that's all I'm saying.

[–] karenleung081231 8 years ago

12 years a slave was boring and drawn out to me, actually i got a bit interest in moonlight but it seems exactly like 12 years a slave according to your feeling, now i think i had better pick another one.

[–] J-No 8 years ago

12 Years a Slave had support from the acting, directing, editing, and writer branches of the Academy. Moonlight looks like it will have support from those branches, too.

What may separate 12 Years a Slave from Moonlight in total Academy support is that 12 Years had support from technical expertise branches (production design, costume design) that will likely be casting Best Picture votes for La La Land, or Silence, etc.

Moonlight will also likely lose the significant votes of the Academy's directing branch at the expense of La La Land, or Silence, etc.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

[–] brosefstalin 8 years ago

Moonlight is a top-tier and professional film that is thoughtful and important.
La La Land is not thoughtful or important.
Moonlight SHOULD win but people seem to love the cliche'd gimmicks in La La Land.
Same reason why Crash won over Brokeback Mountain.

[–] OneFilmLover 8 years ago

For the Oscar ceremonies for the past five years what has won Best Picture?

2011 - THE ARTIST. A movie (quickly forgotten) about how amazing Hollywood is & that the true road to happiness is playing the Hollywood game.
2012 - ARGO. There's a hostage crisis overseas. The government can't fix things. The military can't fix things. But you know who can fix things? Hollywood damnit! The kickass producers, effects men & the power of acting is what saves the day!
2013 - 12 YEARS A SLAVE. A real movie.
2014 - BIRDMAN. A "masterpiece" (ugh) about how famous people from Hollywood aren't soulless avatars designed to make money. The geniuses at Hollywood aren't defined by their billion dollar comic book franchises or those fuddy duddy critics who are the worst. No, the movie stars from Hollywood are real ARTISTS.
2015 - SPOTLIGHT. Journalism is important.

Of the past five winners three specifically push a hard "Ain't Hollywood or the people who make it there really great people".

La La Land doesn't have to be thoughtful or important. As long as it sells Hollywood as amazing or that the people from Hollywood are more nuaneced than what you read in Variety then it's got the Best Picture award already.

There. It's on the Internet. Thus it's official

[–] J-No 8 years ago

Early reviews describe La La Land as "a risky method of storytelling", "rooted in a reality where happily evers after are not certainties", and "without ever succumbing to cliché".

Yet you label it as cliché?

You get one chance to explain yourself to me. Hurry, go...

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

[–] brosefstalin 8 years ago

It's as cheesy and cliche as it gets. There is NO risk in re-telling a dozen stories that HAVE BEEN TOLD BEFORE in your own colorful gloss and call it an original story.

Return back to my post that's titled "Are you people just easily impressed?'

it's like the people reviewing La La Land that positively HAVE NEVER seen a musical or a film from Woody Allen before.

Bunch of cucks they are

[–] Bolchevik (377) 6 years ago

@Onefilmlover : your analysis is really ineresting. I agree that the Oscars they give often the best movie award to a film promoting Hollywood. I would add they also have a bias for movies promoting californian lifestyle or some political agenda. I need to admit these movies are usually good or very good but does not seem to be the best american movie of the year based on the movie itself.