Oscars 2020 • Page 54

It's crazy how much better Parasite is than Snowpiercer.

 

My goal is to watch Snowpiercer, Okja, Memories of Murder, Mother, and The Host this year.

 

snowpiercer is my least favorite of his three i’ve seen. agree that i wanna try to catch the others landon mentioned this year. are any on criterion channel?

 

Neon got the rights to Memories of Murder so a nice version of that is probably coming out soon-ish. I don’t think anything of his is on criterion channel.

 

Both Snowpiercer and Okja suffered from the curse of a great foreign director trying to work in English. A few do make the transition but it is usually a significantly reduced product. Wong Kar-wai has never really recovered.

 

Just checked, not seeing any of them.

 

Hey, the Academy's bias against hard sci-fi is well-documented by this point. Dune is probably going to rule but I doubt it gets the recognition I expect it will deserve. It sucks but it's the truth.

 

Best part is he says 1917 would’ve been better to win, completely unaware that technically that's also a “foreign” film isn’t it?

 

Hey also make sure everyone checks out American Factory on Netflix, it’s really good. I know a lot of people said they hadn’t seen it yet last night.

 

there were 14 musical performances and 24 awards last night

 

It even won the frickin' Palm d'Or!!!

 

To be fair, i don't think the average moviegoer pays much attention to any of the festivals, even Cannes.

 

Seeing Parasite win so much last night (plus Brad Pitt and a handful of others) was so wonderful that I didn't even care that the actual show itself was so shitty and I'll keep riding this high even if the Ben Affleck drunk basketball coach movie sweeps every category next year

 

I don't know why I enjoy staring into the sun so much but I do. I can't get enough of these bad takes on Parasite

 

and on top of that when he goes into why Joker should have won and starts talking about the class warfare not realizing anything about Parasite's plot and themes haha. video is just full of "big ol yikes". what a frightening individual

 

it's racism more than anything else lol

 

a humble king

 

That's my favorite part about this!

It just goes to show that the people that flip out the most about these sorts of things don't actually like movies. They only care about their precious comic book characters that happen to appear in movies, and the only reason "Joker" appears to be a masterpiece to them is that its the first time in a long time they have seen a movie with somewhat challenging themes (or an attempt at it at least to be generous) that also doesn't end in a big CGI fight.

...And this is without even digging into their obvious racism/sexism.

 

looking back on this decade of BP winners, I don't think there's any doubt that the top three are Parasite, Moonlight, and Spotlight, which is funny because they all rhyme

 

what a surprise dumb white incel youtube movie critics didnt 'get' Parasite lol

 

damn, i just looked back at this list. i could have sworn No Country or There Will Be Blood won... i'm sad now haha. only credit i give to Shape of Water at least is my enjoyment that a weird genre film won and didn't feel very typical Oscars. But i don't love the film itself, just love some things about it

 

he didn't even watch it! haha just got mad because a foreign film won both foreign film and best picture, which ya know, of course he did haha

 

I liked The Shape of Water but yeah it wasn’t even in the top like five movies nominated that year. Was glad to see GDT honored though and yeah I appreciated how out-of-the-box it was for the Academy to award it.

 

i remember really wanting Grand Budapest to win over Birdman

 

Holy shit, I forgot about the Artist