Of course it’s possible for it not to win. But our senses are so high we won’t allow for the fact that a governing body of a lot of different artists, including plenty of minorities if anyone bothered to look, preferred another movie over it. So if The Shape Of Water does win then I fully expect cats to say they’re racists and it was too real etc etc. and that’s the shyt that confuses me.
We have dissenting opinions here. I loved The Shape Of Water. You thought it was meh and we both love del toro. We have comic book threads filling up this place all with pissing fights about whether a movie is bad or good. So eventually we have to allow for the fact that we all don’t think alike and have different opinions.
Of course it’s hard to separate that from a perceived history of bias and racial ignorance. It’s toufh to divorce the history of race in this country from a movie that jama that history in the face of its viewers and say “yeah well that’s why it didn’t win” and it’s tough to ignore the history of Oscar voters being old white men. I get it. I get all that. But the fact of the matter is we can’t always go to our base instincts.
I’d love for the movie to win. I truly believe it’s the best movie of last year. But I’m also cool with the idea of someone saying “nah it wasn’t” and giving props and merit to something else. It’s no different than any other year when movies I loved are nominated and they don’t win because of something else.
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Have't seen so many Juelz gif posts in one thread before and I refuse to go through them all cause I said my opinon on the cac oscar nom process.
I agree there is politics on everything. I don’t agree that that is the ONLY reason shyt gets done or shyt pops or shyt works. Is ther politics in the advent of affirmative action? Yes. Does that mean every black person who gets into an expensive university with a good reputation is only there because of it? No. Are there some? Of course. That’s the system at work. But to say that every single one of them isn’t there because of their merit or because they were simply better is a disservice to them and asinine.