Film Room's Top 10 Movies of 2016 - Moonlight won
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NoChillJones
Banned
It wasn't. The movie was highly disappointing.......it went to far to make apologies for his actions.........when it should have focused more on the savagery itsself.
It was decent IMO. I can't get past the fact that it follows the same slavery film tropes. The scene with Nat getting whipped was in Glory, 12 Years, Roots, etc. The rebellion was too short.
What's different about this one is the slaves came together to try to save themselves. In all the others there was a white savior among them.
There were times in history where indeed both white and black fighting along side each other. But all slaves time films have already portrayed this. We have never seen the side where blacks rose up and rebelled to try to save themselves.
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In order to get to that point we had to endure all the other things we've seen 100 times.
ProfessorXavier
Rookie
did the handmaiden not get a nomination?
thought it had best foreign film on lock.
thought it had best foreign film on lock.
Wasn't that country's submission this year
ProfessorXavier
Rookie
damn that's wild
OJ Simpsom
Superstar
Foreign films were dominating the noms in this thread. Which one I should watch first? I'm thinking the zombie train.
Congrats to Moonlight and to the runner-ups as well. See you guys in the 2017 thread. 
Congrats to Moonlight and to the runner-ups as well. See you guys in the 2017 thread.
Already saying it now: Spider man homecoming will be my number 1. Be prepared
StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
@ Nocturnal Animals finishing in 6th place.
Yeah, should've been higher.
Biggest slept on film of 2016. Deserved a slew of Oscar noms over shyt like hacksaw ridge
So grown ass men watched La La Land 