Shakespeare in love killed the oscars .
It’s a noticeable drop off in quality before and after than flick one
Ever notice that there is a “Best Picture” Oscar every year?
Doesn’t matter if very movie that year stinks. One of them will be “Best Picture”
One of the reasons I quit following the Oscars was that I had never heard of any of the movies nominated for best picture.
More like Communist Hollywood.
Wife and I intend to see ‘The Fabelmans’, but that’s about it from the ‘Oscar’ list.
People trust Biden more than Hollywood... and they don’t trust Biden worth crap.
Go WOKE - Go BROKE
I was brought up when the Oscars were a big deal....not so much any more....really could give a sh!t less!!!
Till – Racist propaganda
The Banshees of Inisherin – About self-mutilation
TÁR – About an orchestra conductor.
She Said – Lesbian propaganda
Triangle of Sadness – Communist propaganda
Bones and All – About a pair of psychos crossing the country and eating people.
The Fabelmans – Spielberg loves himself long time
Armageddon Time – “Coming of age”
Aftersun – “Coming of age”
I was thinking yesterday that Hollywood is way behind the woke times.
Why are there still awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, etc.?
That would imply a gender bias.
I have never really followed the Oscars. I’ve never sat through the Oscars show. I really don’t care who wins. BUT ... I do glance at the nominations. Picking a single winner is usually pretty arbitrary and there can be a lot of studio gamesmanship and politics involved. My canonical position is that the nominations are the important thing.
And the only thing that’s useful about the nominations is that they are a screening device, one among many, to whittle down my choices. I pay attention to the other awards and the selection lists for major festivals for the same reason.
Yes, these are rough and imperfect screens. All they mean is that a bunch of people who watch movies for a living, or who are involved in making movies, think that a particular film somehow rises above the pack.
If I like the premise, the period, or have a favorite in the film, that’s enough for me to read a few reviews and check audience reactions on Letterboxd, which I find the most useful of the movie sites.
I almost never go into a film cold. I don’t spend a lot of time researching films. What I’ve described above doesn’t take much time. It’s more a matter of developing the habit of glancing at nominations, selections and reviews as part of my daily routine — my daily swoop through the current news. It’s a matter of casual situational awareness. I probably spend less time at this than most people spend on sports sites.
The movies made less then $50 million combined....
Avatar Underwater will underperform but sweep in a weak year. End story.
LOL!!! only one i’ve heard of is TopGun...
Oscars totally rendered meaningless due to political correctness. Same with the Grammies and even the Nobel Peace prizes. None of those awards mean a damn thing anymore and in fact might be more of an indicator of something that is mediocre and crappy.
Top Gun 2 was a great story, clean and shows what a good story and characters can do at the Box, once upon time it would have been up for about every Oscar there is. Even the Bond movie, No Time To Die, was great sand should have a chance.
The Oscars have long made themselves irrelevant.
We only see one movie a year on average. We saw The Fabelmans last week. Good film. Well done with good acting. Spielberg waited until his father died at 103, I believe, to make it.