Last year I saw Dunkirk and Murder on the Orient Express because a friend wanted to see them. They were alright.
It has been decades since I watched the Oscars, and it will be decades before I watch them again.
I’ve never watched an oscars show. No desire to see people give each other awards. It’s not like it’s brain surgery.
movies are those things you watch on your phone or tablet from netflix, right?
I go to the movies a couple times a year because it’s a treat for my disabled brother, but that’s mainly because he likes the snacks.
This is how important your “body of work” is, Hollywood jerks. In fact it’s hard to find anything that’s not violent/perverted/vulgar that we can go to.
I think I saw three of them.
None of them “moved” me. And I love going to the movies.
Best Pictures?!
We saw only Dunkirk and that was a really lousy movie. Definitely not traditional Oscar material unless the field is so incredibly bad that it passes as a good movie.
Maybe voting with pocket book, top grossing 2017 movies? None of the Oscar movies are even in the Top 10! Dunkirk made it to 14th and none of the others are even on the list.
Better list. We've actually seen several of these. Marvel is doing well. Among these, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is best and should get best picture nomination. My twin 10 year old boys would like pick the same. Star Wars made more money but was a very bad story and, in my opinion, damaged the franchise. But they didn't ask me.
What did you see, your picks?
Dunkirk’s $188 million box office??? That got it 14th while Star Wars got $619 million box office. My pick Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 got $390 million.
The only movie I have a desire to see is the remake of ‘Death Wish’. I haven’t gone out to the movies in a decade but seeing a bunch of dirtbags get what they deserve, sounds like a good way to pass time.
I’m kind of embarrassed to admit I saw Phantom Thread and really liked it. I adore Daniel Day-Lewis not only for his acting and good looks, he seems to keep his personal life and opinions to himself and simply does his job.
Darkest Hour is quite good IMO, but the box office didn’t agree.
So?
That's what the Golden Globes are for: pictures that folks actually pay to see!
OSCARs are for the 'in' crowd to salivate over, and use to recruit more SJWs using the latest cause célèbre.
Saw Dunkirk and Darkest Hour.
Dunkirk was good. Darkest Hour was EXCELLENT. With Churchill as Trump. His own party was trying to defeat his every movie.
Highly recommend by Vaquero. 5 asterisks. *****. If Gary Oldman doesn’t get the lead actor Oscar … it’s political.
Was it on last night? YAWN
Dunkirk and Darkest Hour were both very good movies.
....typically..beating each others chest fest...
A pathetic piece—the guy doesn’t like the description of the movies, but hasn’t seen them? And the descriptions range from a Churchill biopic to war and coming of age films?
Even back when movies were entertaining - before they were merely vehicles to push the left wing agenda - I didn’t bother watching the award show. In fact, I couldn’t tell you which show goes with movies, or TV, or music... I’m only vaguely aware there are multiple versions. There are still, right? Never held any interest for me. Bunch of out of touch whack jobs spending an evening self-aggrandizing and patting each other on the back. {snort} They are only entertainers - modern day court jesters. Every once in a while you here one of them talk about how important someone’s work is. Important? Ha! Keeping my toenails trimmed is far more important to me than everything that comes out of Hollywood in a typical year.
Dunkirk was alright...cinematography
was very good...but story line jumped
all over the place...