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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Current Best Picture ranking:

Masterpiece:
Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood

Okay:
Marriage Story
The Irishman

Bad:
Joker
Parasite

Want to See:
Ford v Ferrari

No Interest:
Jojo Rabbit / Little Women / 1917
Parasite was good and Joker was a masterpiece.
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Dev wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Current Best Picture ranking:

Masterpiece:
Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood

Okay:
Marriage Story
The Irishman

Bad:
Joker
Parasite

Want to See:
Ford v Ferrari

No Interest:
Jojo Rabbit / Little Women / 1917
Parasite was good and Joker was a masterpiece.
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Here's what should be winning the Oscars:

Best Picture: Uncut Gems

Best Director: Bong Joon Ho for Parasite (let's pretend these two categories have to be different)

Best Actress: Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell

Best Actor: Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems

Best Supporting Actress: Idina Menzel in Uncut Gems

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Originial Screenplay: Honey Boy by Shia LaBoeuf

Best Adapted Screenplay: Little Women by Greta Gerwig
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Current Best Picture ranking:

Masterpiece:
Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood

Okay:
Marriage Story
The Irishman

Bad:
Joker
Parasite

Want to See:
Ford v Ferrari

No Interest:
Jojo Rabbit / Little Women / 1917
Really good:
Ford vs Ferrari

Good:
Joker
Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood
The Irishman

OK:
Marriage Story

Really looking forward to:
Parasite
1917

Will see:
Little Women
Jojo Rabbit
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Parasite and Once Upon a Time... are about on equal level for me, gorgeous films both of them and among the best of the decade. The Irishman is good but I'd put it a couple notches below those.

Marriage Story is definitely "okay" material. Jojo Rabbit is cute and occasionally funny but overall just okay, maybe even inching towards "bad" because of its more grating qualities. Joker gets worse the more I think about it. Haven't seen Little Women, 1917, or Ford v Ferrari
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Current Best Picture ranking:

Great:
Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood

Good:
Parasite
Ford v Ferrari
1917

Bad:
Joker

Will watch soon and update:
Marriage Story
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Little Women
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I’ve only seen joker and thought it was good not great.
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That “white male rage” SNL skit was awwwwwful but tbh it was kinda right about Joker
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:That “white male rage” SNL skit was awwwwwful but tbh it was kinda right about Joker
That seemed to be a topic of jokes at the Golden Globes, too, right? Do you think this will have any consequence for the Oscars?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:That “white male rage” SNL skit was awwwwwful but tbh it was kinda right about Joker
That seemed to be a topic of jokes at the Golden Globes, too, right? Do you think this will have any consequence for the Oscars?
Only if they fall over themselves trying to placate SJWs, which they probably will somehow since they have before.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:That “white male rage” SNL skit was awwwwwful but tbh it was kinda right about Joker
That seemed to be a topic of jokes at the Golden Globes, too, right? Do you think this will have any consequence for the Oscars?
Only if they fall over themselves trying to placate SJWs, which they probably will somehow since they have before.
Yeah, that is kind of what I was getting at. They need to "fix" the no diversity in this year's awards, so that will probably happen.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I guess to really care about the Villaseñor bit, you'd have to really care about the Oscars. *shrugs*
The bit wasn’t really about the Oscars (other than the Gerwig snub), it was about wildly misreading and overgeneralizing the movies in question to a degree that’s either genuinely deranged or deliberately obtuse in order to pander to anti-art liberals.
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Joker is about class and mental illness, it pretty much explicitly communicates that in the film. Not sure where people are getting all the stuff they're reading into it.
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Orpheus wrote:Joker is about class and mental illness, it pretty much explicitly communicates that in the film. Not sure where people are getting all the stuff they're reading into it.
Yes it really really really really wants you to know exactly what it is about, and it does so, repeatedly, in the bluntest ways, to exhaustion
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Or when he scribbled in his joke book in crazy letters "I am mentally ill and society has failed me" while he laughed like a mentally ill person whom society has failed
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Right. Like Jorge said it hammers you over the head with society has failed the mentally ill. It's over long\repetitive and I personally thought Phoenix's portrayal was way over indulgent but the alt right white male rage angle propagated by the media seems way off.
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