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Lost Highway wrote:Get Out was one of the best reviewed movies of the year. To imply its in there to make up quotas is bull.

Brian C wrote:If you’re the kind of person who finds McCrutchy’s reasoning compelling, though, you can use it to explain anything away. It was well-reviewed? Well sure, critics are afraid to hate on the black movie. It was a box-office hit? Of course, all those liberal do-gooders championing BLM, their pet cause. It never ends - “identity politics” literally explains everything.

Lost Highway wrote:I'm glad Get Out got nominated not just because its a great deal of fun and it handled its politics with a fair degree of wit, but also because horror films so often get overlooked during awards season, especially when they aren't star driven, big budget films like The Exorcist or Silence of the Lambs. I doubt it will win anything though.

davoarid wrote:Oh, and the complete snubbing of Haneke’s “Happy End” was a bit of a WTF. But he got his already so I’ll live.

Brian C wrote:If you’re the kind of person who finds McCrutchy’s reasoning compelling, though, you can use it to explain anything away. It was well-reviewed? Well sure, critics are afraid to hate on the black movie. It was a box-office hit? Of course, all those liberal do-gooders championing BLM, their pet cause. It never ends - “identity politics” literally explains everything.

McCrutchy wrote:

Lost Highway wrote:I'm glad Get Out got nominated not just because its a great deal of fun and it handled its politics with a fair degree of wit, but also because horror films so often get overlooked during awards season, especially when they aren't star driven, big budget films like The Exorcist or Silence of the Lambs. I doubt it will win anything though.

I just thought its blending of comedy and thriller (I think it's more of a Silence of the Lambs-type "horror" than what I would consider "horror") was off-balance. It kind of works, and the performances are fun, but I felt the twist was not as horrific as it should have been, and I thought that the comic relief best friend character was right out of a Wayans Brothers film, and didn't really fit.

If people wanted a horror film to win something, the academy could have nominated It for something, although unfortunately, I didn't find much about that film to be award worthy. Maybe the make-up, although even there, the digital eye effects on Pennywise were less than great.

bearcuborg wrote:What stood out to me was Kobe Bryant, given the talk of sexual harassment/abuse. His case, unlike many others who have been named - actuality has horrific evidence/half confession and settlement weeks before trial. But whatever, he bought his wife a really big ring.

davoarid wrote:To be fair, I saw this movie while recovering from a particularly painful surgery and was hopped up on copious quantities of painkillers. But I know what I saw

mfunk9786 wrote:

davoarid wrote:To be fair, I saw this movie while recovering from a particularly painful surgery and was hopped up on copious quantities of painkillers. But I know what I saw

Put this on the DVD box!

swo17 wrote:I don't doubt that Boss Baby got in here on its own merits, but I have to admit if I was tabulating nominations in this day and age and they naturally came out with something called Captain Underpants (which statistically is actually pretty likely to happen most of the time), I'd be tempted to fudge the numbers to avoid someone having to say Captain Underpants on the telecast.

mfunk9786 wrote:

swo17 wrote:I don't doubt that Boss Baby got in here on its own merits, but I have to admit if I was tabulating nominations in this day and age and they naturally came out with something called Captain Underpants (which statistically is actually pretty likely to happen most of the time), I'd be tempted to fudge the numbers to avoid someone having to say Captain Underpants on the telecast.

davoarid wrote:Also, please don’t hit me, but I actually really really really liked “The Boss Baby” and am glad its innovation will be recognized.

Now I know it’s based on literally one joke (“What if the baby was LITERALLY the boss of a family?”) but dammit it was very thoughtful, and it juggled animation styles in a thematically appropriate way (thanks to it telling most of the story from the POV of a very imaginative 7-year-old.)

To be fair, I saw this movie while recovering from a particularly painful surgery and was hopped up on copious quantities of painkillers. But I know what I saw—and today I’ve receive confirmation that it was Oscar-quality!

The Narrator Returns wrote:I feel like we're all burying the lede here, which is Academy Award-nominee Sufjan Stevens.

matrixschmatrix wrote:I haven't seen The Breadwinner, though I meant to- the director worked on Secret of Kells, which is one of the best animated movies of its decade- but assume Academy voters also didn't, I'd assume this is a shoo in for Coco, which was lovely and made me cry in public. So, I'm ok with that.