That "In Memoriam" segment was... not well done. Usually they are quite moving, but they went so incredibly fast it practically felt like we were doing mad-minute math flash cards. No feeling, and almost disrespectful to see someone like Olivia de Havilland flash up there for 1 single second. Not sure who thought it was a good idea.
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Yoda said:
That "In Memoriam" segment was... not well done. Usually they are quite moving, but they went so incredibly fast it practically felt like we were doing mad-minute math flash cards. No feeling, and almost disrespectful tto see someone like Olivia de Havilland flash up there for 1 single second. Not sure who thought it was a good idea.
How you gonna put Fred Willard in the fast cuts section?!?
I also like when they have the audience audio over the In Memoriam, too.
Some of them they flipped so fast you couldn't even read the name. Very odd
Wait, I'm still a bit behind. Is Best Picture really being awarded before actors???
I guess they did.
They did best director earlier, also Nomadland, but yes on the actors.
Right...
Minari got short changed.
Minari got short changed.
Just FYI, most of the changes tonight will be a one-time thing. Not only because if Covid, but because Steven Soderbergh is directing the production/telecast, and has said he's not coming back for more. In other words, this was very much an experimental Covid/Soderbergh thing, on multiple levels.
Such a weird end - Frances McDormand wins for playing Frances McDormand, and gives a 10second acceptance speech, then Anthony Hopkins wins the last award that's not a best picture award, and isn't even there virtually like others abroad.
TCTTS said:
Just FYI, most of the changes tonight will be a one-time thing. Not only because if Covid, but because Steven Soderbergh is directing the production/telecast, and has said he's not coming back for more. In other words, this was very much an experimental Covid/Soderbergh thing, on multiple levels.
A Steven Soderbergh production and not even a telescopic zoom.
"Why didn't someone clean the camera lenses?"
Looked up the winners this morning. Besides Tenet, I have not heard of a single one of these movies.
I only saw Nomadland this year and found it ok. Great cinematography but that's about it. The fact that it won tells me it was slim pickins this year.
Also, the final award was cringe, hilarious, and a slightly bit tragic...
Also, the final award was cringe, hilarious, and a slightly bit tragic...
why did they turn chadwick into a literal token?
It's all personal, of course, but I thought Minari was legitimately a best picture winner just about any year.
A Promising Young Woman was better, too, IMO.
Nomadland was just formulaic Oscar catnip. It's very similar to so many other individual-focused Oscar movies, but this time it's about a woman! It's another take on whatever that genre is that Hurt Locker, Joker, Birdman, etc are part of and that the Academy gets a hard on for. Very good movie? Yes, definitely. Unique? Eh...
A Promising Young Woman was better, too, IMO.
Nomadland was just formulaic Oscar catnip. It's very similar to so many other individual-focused Oscar movies, but this time it's about a woman! It's another take on whatever that genre is that Hurt Locker, Joker, Birdman, etc are part of and that the Academy gets a hard on for. Very good movie? Yes, definitely. Unique? Eh...
Forgot to watch but this is bullsh^t!!!! Fred Willard is a god!!!!israeliag said:Yoda said:
That "In Memoriam" segment was... not well done. Usually they are quite moving, but they went so incredibly fast it practically felt like we were doing mad-minute math flash cards. No feeling, and almost disrespectful tto see someone like Olivia de Havilland flash up there for 1 single second. Not sure who thought it was a good idea.
How you gonna put Fred Willard in the fast cuts section?!?
I also like when they have the audience audio over the In Memoriam, too.
I saw all the Best Picture nominees except Minari and have no issue with any of the winners. Hopkins is great in The Father. That movie is a tough and powerful watch.
Two time Academy Award winner Trent Reznor!!! I like the sound of that.
I love that Questlove is just like this character who hangs around things. Producers want to make something hip? Stick Questlove in a corner somewhere!
Overall I didn't care for the show itself. Definitely look forward to the pageantry returning next year.
Also France McDormand is weird as hell. She seems a lot like her character in Nomadland. She just speaks frankly and then get this face that says "If you don't like it, tough. F$% off and deal with it!" I don't think she's someone I could stand to be around for too long.
Two time Academy Award winner Trent Reznor!!! I like the sound of that.
I love that Questlove is just like this character who hangs around things. Producers want to make something hip? Stick Questlove in a corner somewhere!
Overall I didn't care for the show itself. Definitely look forward to the pageantry returning next year.
Also France McDormand is weird as hell. She seems a lot like her character in Nomadland. She just speaks frankly and then get this face that says "If you don't like it, tough. F$% off and deal with it!" I don't think she's someone I could stand to be around for too long.
I just find her uncomfortable. Like one of those eccentric old ladies from the neighborhood that mom always thought was "such a hoot," but you're pretty sure she could stab someone with a pair of scissors over an inconsequential remark.Quote:
Also France McDormand is weird as hell. She seems a lot like her character in Nomadland. She just speaks frankly and then get this face that says "If you don't like it, tough. F$% off and deal with it!" I don't think she's someone I could stand to be around for too long.
Sounds like my ex-fiancee.Harry Lime said:I just find her uncomfortable. Like one of those eccentric old ladies from the neighborhood that mom always thought was "such a hoot," but you're pretty sure she could stab someone with a pair of scissors over an inconsequential remark.Quote:
Also France McDormand is weird as hell. She seems a lot like her character in Nomadland. She just speaks frankly and then get this face that says "If you don't like it, tough. F$% off and deal with it!" I don't think she's someone I could stand to be around for too long.
Because of this thread, I watched Minari today and was quite impressed. I do not normally like foreign films, but I enjoyed this one. The actress who played the grandmother and won the Best Supporting award did wonderfully, but everyone else was also terrific, especially the young boy.
OldArmy71 said:
Because of this thread, I watched Minari today and was quite impressed. I do not normally like foreign films, but I enjoyed this one. The actress who played the grandmother and won the Best Supporting award did wonderfully, but everyone else was also terrific, especially the young boy.
Minari is not a foreign film.
Edit: apologies, that may have come off as rude. It was produced by Plan B (Brad Pitts production company) and was written directed by an American sorta about his life. As an immigrant/son-of-immigrants myself, this movie to me is perhaps the American movie.
That said, awesome to hear you watched it and enjoyed it! The cast is indeed wonderful. That little boy is so cute.
Thank you, I did not realize that.
It is also "foreign" in the sense that a great deal of the dialogue is in Korean, though of course there are subtitles.
I should have said that I do not normally watch foreign films or films that are extensively subtitled.
I agree that it is a great example of the immigrant experience in America.
It is also "foreign" in the sense that a great deal of the dialogue is in Korean, though of course there are subtitles.
I should have said that I do not normally watch foreign films or films that are extensively subtitled.
I agree that it is a great example of the immigrant experience in America.
Interestingly, Minari is an American-produced movie, written and directed by an American.OldArmy71 said:
Because of this thread, I watched Minari today and was quite impressed. I do not normally like foreign films, but I enjoyed this one. The actress who played the grandmother and won the Best Supporting award did wonderfully, but everyone else was also terrific, especially the young boy.
This might be my favorite movie of the year. Great acting all around and plenty of humor.
I love that there were no villains in this film.
It would have been easy to make fun of some of the Arkansas people in this story, but they were treated lovingly, portrayed as helpful and inclusive.
A couple of awards for sound, I believe.third coast.. said:
Did sound of metal win anything?
The film The Sound of Metal or the awards for sound?third coast.. said:
Seems ableist
I actually thought it portrayed the deaf in a way that I had not seen before. They were learning to embrace their lives of silence instead of trying to "overcome" a handicap.
The awards for sound I think came from the way the creators let us hear what it would be like to be losing hearing and what it would be like to hear through a cochlear implant.
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