Oscars 2024

Holy shit, this is the first Oscars I can even remember that seemed to 'matter' and have decent to great winners.
 
Damn, that fast-talking New York Italian-American director got shafted this year.
 
I just watched all I could stand of Poor Things. I made to the 1 hour and 40 min mark before wanting to drink bleach. The world itself was better than the plot. Pretty steampunk like. The plot was pretty much if the Reanimator movies were written by a pedophile.
 
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Matthew216 said:
I haven’t seen any of this, but just the description makes me roll my eyes all the way to the ceiling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things_(film)
“Poor Things.”

“In Victorian London,[n 1] medical student Max McCandles becomes an assistant to eccentric surgeon Godwin Baxter. He falls in love with Godwin's ward, Bella, a childlike young woman. Godwin reveals that the woman, who was pregnant, killed herself by leaping off a bridge. He replaced the woman's brain with that of her unborn fetus, resulting in her having an infant's mind, and named her Bella Baxter.

With Godwin's encouragement, Max asks for Bella's hand in marriage. Bella accepts, but as her intelligence rapidly develops, she becomes curious about the outside world and herself. By exploring her own body, she discovers masturbation and sexual pleasure. She runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a debauched lawyer whom Baxter hired to overhaul the nuptial contract. Deciding to let her go, Godwin starts a new experiment with a young woman, Felicity, who matures much more slowly than Bella.

Bella and Duncan embark on a grand journey, starting in Lisbon, where they have frequent sex. When Bella becomes difficult for him to control, Duncan smuggles her onto a cruise ship. Bella befriends passengers Martha and Harry, who open her mind to philosophy. Duncan attempts to stunt her growth to no avail. He becomes exasperated and indulges in drinking and gambling. During a stop at Alexandria, Bella witnesses the suffering of the poor and becomes distraught. She entrusts Duncan's winnings to unscrupulous members of the crew, who falsely promise to give it to the needy. Unable to afford the rest of the trip, Bella and Duncan are dropped at Marseille and make their way to Paris. Seeking money and accommodation, Bella begins working at a brothel. Duncan, enraged, has a breakdown and Bella abandons him. At the brothel, she comes under the tutelage of Madame Swiney and befriends another prostitute, Toinette, who introduces her to socialism.

Godwin, now terminally ill, asks Max to bring Bella to him. Max locates her after tracking down Duncan, who has been institutionalized. In London, Bella reconciles with Godwin and renews her plans to marry Max. The wedding is interrupted by Duncan and General Alfie Blessington. Alfie, addressing Bella as Victoria, declares that they were married before her disappearance and that he has come to reclaim her. She abandons Max to learn of her past life, but discovers Alfie's violent and sadistic nature and realizes Victoria killed herself to escape him.

Alfie confines Bella to his mansion. He threatens her at gunpoint to submit to genital mutilation, demanding she drink a sedative. She tosses the sedative in his face, and after a struggle, Alfie accidentally shoots himself in the foot before passing out. Godwin dies peacefully with Bella and Max at his side. Bella decides to follow Godwin's footsteps by becoming a surgeon with the help of Max and Toinette, while Alfie has a goat's brain transplanted into his head.”
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Plantation Barbie said:
That synopsis reads like a diet coke Lolita.
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We were talking about “Poor Things” in the thread about movies you couldn’t stomach next door @Quijibo69 . That synopsis, “Diet Coke Lolita”, and “Reanimator written by a pedophile” tells me all I need to know.
 
>Anime won
Null in shambles after Jannyman: Into the stickerverse lost to anime, gonna be reliving the time he fell over in japan with his TV and the japs ignored his shame.
 
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Oscars weren't the worst but my god Jimmy Kimmel should never host an awards show, along with other washed up comedians. They always make the same god damn jokes like

"DURR HURR THE MOVIE IS TOO LONG"

"ANIMATION IS FOR CHILDREN AMIRITE!"

"[NOMINATED MOVIE] BAD!"

Then Kimmel made jokes that were just obnoxious like RDJ drug jokes, Transformers being written by AI (This one being the one fans liked), a cringe joke about Miyazaki not being there to accept his award, and the original "Orange Man Bad" (like I don't like Trump myself but god I'd rather listen to Trump than Kimmel).

Kimmel has to have blackmail or be friends with some executive to keep being the host.
 
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Pretty good ceremony to be honest. Maybe except Kimmel jokes or naked John Cena, but still not as bad, as Amy Schumer. 2023 was overall a great year for movies and yet some retards who only watch one Marvel movie or Indiana Jones in a year will still tell you that ''cinema is dead''.
Oppenheimer deserved all the awards and same with Poor Things.
Same with Da'Vine Joy Randolph winning the best supporting actress. Way better character than Ferrera in Barbie.
The Boy and the Heron winning the best animated movie is the biggest plot twist of that night. I like Spiderverse or The Peasants more (the fact that this movie wasn't nominated and Wish was is the biggest crime) but it's just so heartwarming to see 2D animation winning and especially a Miyazaki movie.
Godzilla Minus One winning visual effects category is the best middle finger to Hollywood and I respect that Takashi Yamazaki will never reveal the actual budget that was put into it.
Kenbros were unfortunately robbed, but at least we got the concert and it's probably the best performance at Oscars since A Star Is Born.
 
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ArthuriusMartyrius said:
And no fucking shit Oppenheimer won, that crap was practically tailor made to be Oscar bait.
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Still better movie and less of an Oscar bait than The Zone of Interest. This didn't need to be 1 hour and 46 minutes movie, because everything can be closed in 1 hour or less. You have this wow effect at the beginning with people being killed in the background while our family is playing in the garden or doing other mundane things. BUT HEEEEY LOOK HOW THIS MAIN CHARACTER IS WALKING AND TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF FOR A WHOLE MINUT ITS SO ARTSY. I don't know why, but after seeing the opening title you get one minute of black screen with sound. I deadass thought that there were some technical problems in my cinema. There is also this weird sequence in the halfway when screen turns red and in the background you have this sound that is similar to aliens from War of the Worlds. Truly perfect choice for WWII movie. Don't get me wrong, I like slow movies, but when they have something to tell and don't waste my time. I didn't give a fuck about this family drama, the only character that I liked is this maid and I don't even remember, if she had even 2 lines of dialogue and I watched it not even 4 days ago.
 
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