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2 posted on 01/23/2024 8:24:55 AM PST by sphinx

If it is nominated for an Oscar it is not worth watching.

3 posted on 01/23/2024 8:30:57 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)

My pick for Best Picture? Probably American Fiction. I really liked the savage mockery of woke white liberals. This movie says about the lefties exactly what we have been saying for years, and it is unrelenting and hilarious. The movie is complex and nuanced in other ways, but every white character in the movie is a smug, patronizing, condescending, virtue signaling liberal. And having seen and read several of the interviews with the cast and writer-director, I have the sneaking suspicion that they do not yet realize that they have produced a parody that is about as subtle as Ladyballers, the latest Daily Wire movie that sadly requires a subscription to view.

One of my hobbyhorse interests is movies whose subtext may go far beyond the conscious intention of the filmmakers. As I argue very repetitively -- so I won't repeat it here -- this happens because reality is conservative, so honest storytellers who want to be serious about serious issues may end up writing truth, whatever their own personal politics. My go-to examples are The Florida Project, which is a very conservative film even if Sean Baker doesn't realize it, and Never Let Me Go, which is probably the best anti-abortion movie you've never seen -- and I would bet a donut and a cup of coffee that nobody associated with the movie realizes this.

6 posted on 01/23/2024 8:38:44 AM PST by sphinx

I’ve only seen about three movies on the big screen since COVID. Its got to be one I really want to see for me to bother with a theatre anymore (i.e. Top Gun: Maverick, No Time to Die, and the Hunger Games prequel). If you wait a few months they all come out on DVD through the library or on one of the streaming channels.

9 posted on 01/23/2024 8:39:38 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I guess some still care. I sure don’t.

17 posted on 01/23/2024 8:55:26 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Has anyone watched Astroid City? I did last night. It was quirky, artistic, and rather good. I liked it.

18 posted on 01/23/2024 8:55:48 AM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)

22 posted on 01/23/2024 9:14:18 AM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )

Flower Moon was really boring. Easily an hour too long.

25 posted on 01/23/2024 9:29:18 AM PST by circlecity

I loathe Barbie did so well
Stupid fat nation

65 posted on 01/23/2024 9:21:32 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)

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