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Jack Brickman said:
Black Panther is basically just Lion King, only Mufasa comes back for his own revenge instead of Mufasa's son.
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Because the origin of both is the real biography of Mali's first king, Sundiata.
 
The Oi said:
Took our kid to Lego Movie 2. Really well done and really funny. He enjoyed it but my wife and I were laughing our asses off.

He’s a pretty perceptive kid for 4 but I’d say a lot of the jokes, like with many kids movies these days, play better with teens and up. Definitely adult friendly. There were Sheryl Swoopes and Gary Payton legos for example among many other gen- x to late millenial friendly references.

It has done TERRIBLY in the box office. Not exactly sure why either. Maybe it wasn’t hyped enough.
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My wife and I went without the kids, just because it looked like the funniest movie out right now. Jon Lajoie - RCF fav from back when he started out and Taco in The League - wrote most of the songs. Very enjoyable comedy I plan to purchase on old school DVD when it comes out.
 
LEGO Movie 2: 8.3/10

Not as good as the first, but plenty of laughs.
 
Oscars have decided not to televise: Best Cinematography, Best Make-up, Best live-action shorts, and Best editing. What a mess. Not sure what the identity of this show is anymore. Merge with the Globes and be done with it.
 
kosis said:
Oscars have decided not to televise: Best Cinematography, Best Make-up, Best live-action shorts, and Best editing. What a mess. Not sure what the identity of this show is anymore. Merge with the Globes and be done with it.
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I thought it was a circle jerk to pretend how important actors are. Has that changed?
 
Award shows were always declining but I think that fish sex movie really caused a substantial decrease.

I started Avatar last night (haven't seen it, never really wanted to. Opinion changed when I experienced the Avatar ride in Animal Kingdom a couple weekends ago), knew it was a long movie but didn't realize it is a LONG movie. Stopped about halfway so my Valentine and I are Avatar and chillin' tonight. More so focusing on Avatar then chillin' after if you know what I mean. So far, really good. Living up to the hype I remember back in '09 surrounding it. Crazy to think the CGI was top of the line then and how much it has improved in 10 years or so.
 
FiveThous said:
I thought it was a circle jerk to pretend how important actors are. Has that changed?
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I mean, it's a movie awards show, so sure. But outside of acting, part of the appeal was seeing some of the critical technical awards being handed out, because effects people, editors, DPs... they're some of the hardest working and talented people out there. These changes will make the show worse.
 
KI4MVP said:
don't forget about pretending how significant movies nobody bothered to see were.
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I always felt this was a weird criticism, because a movie being a technical achievement, well-acted, well shot, etc... is more or less an objective thing. Of course you can have subjective tiers and whatnot, but what is the logic of nominating Ben Affleck over Daniel Day Lewis, for example, just because more people saw Batman than did Phantom Thread? No one said these award shows were popularity contests, so I don't see the conflict.
 
kosis said:
I always felt this was a weird criticism, because a movie being a technical achievement, well-acted, well shot, etc... is more or less an objective thing. Of course you can have subjective tiers and whatnot, but what is the logic of nominating Ben Affleck over Daniel Day Lewis, for example, just because more people saw Batman than did Phantom Thread? No one said these award shows were popularity contests, so I don't see the conflict.
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And plenty of great movies do poorly at the box office. Should we be nominating shitty Michael Bay movies just because they make 800 million dollars in China?
 
Jack Brickman said:
And plenty of great movies do poorly at the box office. Should we be nominating shitty Michael Bay movies just because they make 800 million dollars in China?
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是。
 
kosis said:
I always felt this was a weird criticism, because a movie being a technical achievement, well-acted, well shot, etc... is more or less an objective thing. Of course you can have subjective tiers and whatnot, but what is the logic of nominating Ben Affleck over Daniel Day Lewis, for example, just because more people saw Batman than did Phantom Thread? No one said these award shows were popularity contests, so I don't see the conflict.
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the conflict is people are automatically excluded from the awards because they are in movies that are popular or in certain genres. Same thing for best picture, best director, etc. Some genres get excluded from nominations and especially from winning because of the kind of movie they are, no matter how well they are made. Meanwhile movies nobody sees do get nominated. Just how good can the movie be if nobody even wanted to pay to see it before it was nominated?

I go through this every year with my wife. We try to watch all of the nominated movies before the academy awards, so many times, they aren't remotely as good as the movies I already watched that weren't nominated.

And most people must agree with me because the ones I like have massive box offices, while many of the nominated ones barely have any.

Formula to get nominations:
Make a movie about a historical person or event, make a musical, have a comedian play a serious role. It could be the same producers/directors/actors from other movies. They aren't suddenly better actors/producers/directors because of the subject matter.

Formula to get minimal nominations: make an action, comedy, comic book or sci fi movie. Occasionally there will be a token nomination everyone knows won't win, doesn't matter how well the movie is made, or how well the actors act. The one exception was Heath Ledger, who knows if he wins if he didn't die.

Not every action, comedy comic book or sci fi movie has Oscar caliber performances or direction, but a heck of a lot more of them do than get nominated.
 
Jack Brickman said:
And plenty of great movies do poorly at the box office. Should we be nominating shitty Michael Bay movies just because they make 800 million dollars in China?
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I never said shit movies should get nominated. See my post above for the point I'm trying to make.

The Dark Night is the best movie of 2008, it didn't even get a nomination for best picture or director.
 
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KI4MVP said:
I never said shit movies should get nominated. See my post above for the point I'm trying to make.

The Dark Night is the best movie of 2008, it didn't even get a nomination for best picture or director.
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No comic book movies were getting nominated back then. Marvel has only just now made them mainstream enough to warrant consideration.
 
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