Somebody check Oprah, her dress may have just exploded.
Somebody check Oprah, her dress may have just exploded.
You know Clint's movies have won a bunch of Oscars, and he himself has two, right?
Not sure we needed the whole nph ballot bit. Wasted about 10 minutes.
Did sniper get completely shut out?
I wonder if they should have delayed its release. Wasn't it only in limited release in 2014? Boyhood was out early in the year.
With the political leanings of Hollywood its doubtful sniper would win Mich of anything any year. This from someone who still hasn't seen it. I thought about seeing it today.
Sniper is hated in Hollywood and Clint is despised because of the empty chair speech.
wejo wrote:
Wow google is getting crazy smart. On the confirmation screen to my post not two minutes after they awarded best actor google was telling me to rent that movie on google play and it was highlighting it just one best actor.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to plan that ahead.Google janitor s could have done it.
wejo wrote:
Not sure we needed the whole nph ballot bit. Wasted about 10 minutes.
Did sniper get completely shut out?
I wonder if they should have delayed its release. Wasn't it only in limited release in 2014? Boyhood was out early in the year.
With the political leanings of Hollywood its doubtful sniper would win Mich of anything any year. This from someone who still hasn't seen it. I thought about seeing it today.
No american sniper won Best Sound Editing. but thats as much as I expected it to win. Birdman and Boyhood gave it 0 chance of winning Best Picture which was unlikely anyways with its political leaning. And Eddie Redmayne and Michael Keaton were eons above Bradley Cooper in the Best Actor category and Cooper had to deal with overcoming the political stance of the movie to snatch that one. Really American Sniper did as well as anyone who truly knew all the movies and had a balanced view on the matter expected it to do.
That was a travesty that Rosamund Pike didn't win. i loved her violent scheming and sneeky killing shiete. Gone Girl was the years best film.
Isn't it pretty well known that the Oscars are the "Revenge Of The LGBT-Nerds"?
sofw wrote:
So what I get is if the guy wasn't gay WW2 wouldn't have been won. JFC boohoo I'm gay, boohoo I'm black??? Get over yourself Oscar
#1 You don't really understand how difficult that problem was to solve.
#2 A guy as fundamental to winning the war as any celebrated leader only just recently had the "official record" changed to decriminalize the guy.
Forget it. It will never sink in.
Xcereder wrote:
Sniper is hated in Hollywood and Clint is despised because of the empty chair speech.
The industry loves Eastwood. He makes mostly profitable movies and they are made on time and near budget. Eastwood has a team and they make movies and the movies make a profit.
The same industry loves creeps like Woody Allen and gave a standing ovation to an felon who fled the country Why? Because the movies make money.
As soon as financing happens, nobody cares about politics except some very difficult personalities who are a waste of time anyway.
wejo wrote:
Not sure we needed the whole nph ballot bit. Wasted about 10 minutes.
Did sniper get completely shut out?
I wonder if they should have delayed its release. Wasn't it only in limited release in 2014? Boyhood was out early in the year.
With the political leanings of Hollywood its doubtful sniper would win Mich of anything any year. This from someone who still hasn't seen it. I thought about seeing it today.
Go out and see Sniper, wejo. It's worthwhile. Now I want to see Birdman. Looks pretty interesting.
I actually was live blogging on a different forum. Although I couldn't make it past 9:30 EST with this year's version of the Hollywood jack-off fest. I don't take these events seriously, just an entertainment event and opportunity to make snarky comments.
wejo wrote:
Selma just won best song. DiCaprio was in tears after they played the song. I liked the song but the real question was was DiCaprio acting or legitimately moved to tears?
uhhhh, CHRIS PINE???
I can't remember a single shot of Leo during the show.
That was Chris Pine .
I'm an early morning guy, and I watched as much as I could. But when 10 o'clock rolled around, I headed to bed. I was somewhat surprised that Boyhood didn't really get anything significant. I thought the speeches being used for causes were a great idea. Applause for the young man who talked about suicide. To be that brave and talk about yourself is unreal. It must be a horrible and lonely place when someone thinks about taking their own life. And, it is largely ignored. Nice job, kid.
I'm not sure how many people realize the screenwriter's comments related very directly to the content of "The Imitation Game," to the personal story of Alan Turing. Virtually no accounts I've seen of the speech even mention that.
well, judging from the snippets of oscar speeches on npr this morning, the telecast did not exactly refute the notion that hollywood is gay and left-leaning, with speeches about gay rights, women deserving equal rights, and the police mistreatment of African Americans.
All these separate rights movements need to merge together to get more power, rather than splintering and weakening themselves by special pleading for their own oppressed group. The civil rights movement and gay rights movements have proved that only united mass movements can affect social change without already holding the levers of power.
Incidentally, Boyhood was the only new movie I have seen in the last few years and I thought it was way, way overrated. Parts of it, particularly early on, were good but much of it was aimless and I thought that Arquette really lost her sharpness in the latter half of the film. The college scenes are just ludicrous.
Sad to think that something like women deserving equal pay is seen as "left-leaning," along with gay rights, which are supported by about 85 percent of the population under 30.
Do NOT see American Sniper. It is absolutely not worthwhile. Politics aside, there is no character development and I found myself completely indifferent to the protagonist. I was hoping to see the guy's struggles with PTSD, but Eastwood completely glosses over that and turns it into a very typical war film.