Oscars 2021

Blini Cat said:
The animated film category is a joke every year. I don't think the judges even watch any of the contenders. They just give the award to whatever Disney or Pixar movie comes out that year and totally snub some genuinely artistic or beautiful animation. Ghibli gets nominations but hasn't won one since Spirited Away.
Click to expand...
They all but confirmed it years ago when a few of them admitted to not having seen any animated movies other than Frozen that year. The Oscars only ever pay attention to standard kiddie fare and ignore almost anything else. This is how you get weird shit like Boss Baby getting an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
 
  • Agree
  • Informative
  • Feels
Reactions: George Geef, Woke Blue Muttlema, Elim Garak and 6 others
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
They all but confirmed it years ago when a few of them admitted to not having seen any animated movies other than Frozen that year. The Oscars only ever pay attention to standard kiddie fare and ignore almost anything else. This is how you get weird shit like Boss Baby getting an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Click to expand...
I've given up on it since they snubbed both Song of the Sea and Princess Kaguya for Big Hero 6 of all things.
 
  • Feels
Reactions: George Geef, Chester Rigby, Atatata and 2 others
Toolbox said:
How much lower do you bet the viewership this year will be vs last?
Click to expand...
The better question is how much cringe will there be. Which year was it where they totally spontaneously had some celebs go into a totally real movie theater to give some "normies" snacks to prove that they don't really hate flyover country's money? I want to say 2018.
 
  • Informative
  • Optimistic
Reactions: Chester Rigby, Toolbox, Vyse Inglebard and 1 other person
Toolbox said:
How much lower do you bet the viewership this year will be vs last?
Click to expand...
Hard to say. Last year's ratings were a 20% decline from 2019. It would be very easy for 2021 to improve upon those numbers.

On the other hand, no good films came out in 2020, the movies that were nominated are all pretentious garbage, and the Hollywood hype machine has taken a massive hit because California is in a never-ending shutdown. Does anybody give a shit if Mank wins over one of the half dozen blacksploitation films that were nominated? I can easily imagine ratings being down from 2020.

Of course, ratings are ultimately meaningless because award shows like the Oscars will be propped up in perpetuity by collaborative media outlets long after they have lost any real relevance in the popular culture.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Woke Blue Muttlema, Uranus Pink, Chester Rigby and 3 others
And of course most of the nominated flops are are about blacks, women, or both and virtue signal. I'm sure someone will have a speech prepared about how the woke establishment "beat fascismĺ last year by voting Trump out of office and how that was just the beginning and they need to keep "fighting " aka cause more riots, loot more stores and causing more mayhem, so long as our puppets remember to do it away from our multi-million dollar estates and communities.
 
  • Agree
  • Semper Fidelis
Reactions: Woke Blue Muttlema, Quantum Diabetes, Vyse Inglebard and 2 others
Kari Kamiya said:
Mulan being nominated for anything is bullshit. "Visual effects" maybe, but the shitty editing fucks all of that to pieces that you forget there were actual visual effects (which honestly means nothing anymore due to CGI). "Costume design" is proof they're blind and tone-deaf 'cause even the Chinese were harping on the costumes.

Outside of animated features, and that's barely, I haven't heard of any of these movies, and frankly don't care to. Yawn. Wake me when the Academy ratings come out and we see it hit a record new low.
Click to expand...
This. It's such a tragedy.

Idiotron said:
I love that Glenn Close is nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie for the same role.
It would be amazing if she won both.
Click to expand...
Oats12345 said:
I'm confused on that. So does that mean it was Both a good and bad performance?
Click to expand...
It really just means that people have extremely varying positions regarding this performance. It's not that uncommon, though. The same thing happened to Amy Irving (Yentl) and James Coco (Only When I Laugh).
CivilianOfTheFandomWars said:
Actually, I watched part of Tenet and wasn’t particularly jazzed with it, so I just went to bed.
I generally like Nolan’s films, but this one’s story and characters didn’t really grab me like Interstellar or Inception, and the scenes weren’t as impressive as both of those and Dunkirk. Overall, in his films I can point to a moment and say, “that was magnificent”. Going through 40 years of messages always tears me up, DiCaprio finally talking to his wife and the shot of them both old and holding hands floored me the first time I saw it, the tension of the soldiers calling each other Germans, I just didn’t really feel Tenet gave me what I like in his films.
Click to expand...
I...agree with this. I enjoyed Tenet for the most part, but much of the allure from his previous films was not here. The backwards fight scene and the exploding/un-exploding scene, maybe the kitchen fight, was cool to me, though.

Not watching this show regardless. Don't care about it at all. The last time I watched it was just to see Leo in for The Revenant. There's also this:

Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Times noted that Warner Bros. did not put Tenet on the Academy's streaming platform or send out screeners to awards voters.
Click to expand...

So clearly Nolan didn't give a shit.
 
  • Informative
  • Like
Reactions: Woke Blue Muttlema, Vyse Inglebard, Oats12345 and 1 other person
Watched Mank yesterday. Definitely worth a watch. David Fincher is one the best modern directors. The old film aesthetic is 100% nailed. They even put the black circles with yellow edges at the corner of the screen

I know the general consensus here is that liberals are utter shit, but, on the other hand, it's fascinating to see the story behind the creation of one of the best screenplays ever. Also, Gary Oldman is great, as usual.

The only weak point: lack of Charles Dance. More scenes of him playing W. R. Hearst (a keypoint character) would have been neat.
 
  • Feels
Reactions: Woke Blue Muttlema and Vyse Inglebard
I have not seen or heard a single thing about any of those movies outside of Sound Of Metal. Not that it matters though since the Oscars are a joke and have just been getting more pathetic year by year. Remember when they didn't even nominate Adam Sandler for best leading actor in 2020?
Edited because I'm a moron who switched up years.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Vyse Inglebard, Raging Capybara and Toolbox
What is this stuff? Never heard of any of it.

They'll probably just give it to the Black Panther movie. I thought it was about black Jesus at first. :lol:
 
  • Feels
Reactions: Toolbox and Vyse Inglebard
Low key wish Steve Yeun to win but probably Chadwick Boseman will win because muh Black Panther shit, even though he’s a really actor. (:_(


Kari Kamiya said:
Mulan being nominated for anything is bullshit. "Visual effects" maybe, but the shitty editing fucks all of that to pieces that you forget there were actual visual effects (which honestly means nothing anymore due to CGI). "Costume design" is proof they're blind and tone-deaf 'cause even the Chinese were harping on the costumes.

Outside of animated features, and that's barely, I haven't heard of any of these movies, and frankly don't care to. Yawn. Wake me when the Academy ratings come out and we see it hit a record new low.
Click to expand...
The fabric-bending emperor is atrocious
 
I read through the lists today and the only thing i even watched was octopus teacher. As far as best picture holy fuck this is bottom barrel shit. It's sad when i think the aaron sorki movie is possibly the most appealing. Judas looks okay as well.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Like
Reactions: Chester Rigby and Oats12345
1281A4DF-9572-4CD5-9591-36C6C1E82DB1.jpeg

C5473F90-4727-4EF2-8390-A4DED7F994D6.gif
 
  • Like
  • Autistic
  • DRINK!
Reactions: Woke Blue Muttlema, Chester Rigby, Oats12345 and 1 other person
I just don't think I care anymore, I've watched the Oscars every year for almost 20 years and I just don't think I care anymore.

"Oscar bait" now means "race baiting", just Woke movie after Woke movie, nothing I care to watch, nothing I care about whether it wins awards, it's all propaganda now.

The 2000s (there I go again) was secretly a great fucking time for "Oscar bait" movies, so many great movies that either won best picture like Gladiator, got nominated for best picture but didn't win like Gangs of New York or Master and Commander or didn't get nominated for best picture at all like Road to Perdition, all great fucking movies that they don't make ones like them anymore or it's at least a lot rarer.

Sure, oftentimes what actually won best picture was lame but I actually don't understand why the "Oscar bait" films of the 2000s aren't better remembered and more acclaimed today, like I said, there were a lot of great movies, it's just that the 2000s was a mostly terrible decade for "summer blockbuster" movies and that causes people to overlook movies as a whole from that decade I guess.


Blini Cat said:
The animated film category is a joke every year. I don't think the judges even watch any of the contenders. They just give the award to whatever Disney or Pixar movie comes out that year and totally snub some genuinely artistic or beautiful animation. Ghibli gets nominations but hasn't won one since Spirited Away.
Click to expand...
It's such bullshit that Ghibli never won another Oscar after Spirited Away.
 
  • Feels
Reactions: George Geef, Woke Blue Muttlema, Dolphin Lundgren and 1 other person
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back