Lets keep it 100....does "Get Out" deserve any Oscars?

[Silver Surfer]

So let me get this straight....a movie where a white girl meets black men and "dates" them....even with the men's friends knowing the white girl. She is able to bring them to her home where cacs have an auction on the front yawn with a posterboard of said black man.....just to perform some ridiculous operation that has no basis in known medicine or science.....this is Oscar worthy????

 

[NobodyReally]

Logan should have gotten the nom, but black people would have complained cause they want more color at the ceremony. It's not winning any oscar though. Trust that.

The irony here is that this movie is about people like you. You're in the sunken place. I'm so sorry I can't help you get out, but maybe I can throw you a rope so you can begin the slow climb back to the light.

Ask yourself why of all of the nominees, you assume that the movie written and directed by a black man is undeserving? Ask yourself why it's beyond plausibility for you that white people really did enjoy this movie? Ask yourself why you think the other nominees are so much more worthy. Even if you do think Logan was a Oscar worthy film, why would you replace "Get Out" out of all of the other nominees on the list for your precious 'Logan'? Have you seen the other films? I have. And 3 Billboards is definitely the overhyped film in this category, yet, you chose 'Get Out' and then blame it on tokenism and racial politics. Let me clue you into something - the Oscars are political. People have to campaign and studios funnel big money into these campaigns. Don't try to distill this award into some type of pure meritocracy where only the best of the best are nominated and win, and somehow the black guy weaseled his way in out of sympathy or white guilt. Because that's dishonest. You sound like those white girls who get mad when they don't get into Harvard and blame that one black guy in their class who got in for why they didn't make it. There's a hundred different reasons why certain people and films get chosen for slots, but whenever black folks get some shine, people like to discredit their achievement and say they slid in by using the race card. Cut it out, or at least, acknowledge there are other, and equally shady reasons the OTHER nominees were chosen as well.

 

[gluvnast]

Yup. The King's Speech is a good flick. It's got great acting and I love Collin Firth. But it ain't the cultural movie the social network INCEPTION is

Corrected it for you for obvious and more appropriate reasons.

 

[Silver Surfer]

The irony here is that this movie is about people like you. You're in the sunken place. I'm so sorry I can't help you get out, but maybe I can throw you a rope so you can begin the slow climb back to the light.

Ask yourself why of all of the nominees, you assume that the movie written and directed by a black man is undeserving? Ask yourself why it's beyond plausibility for you that white people really did enjoy this movie? Ask yourself why you think the other nominees are so much more worthy. Even if you do think Logan was a Oscar worthy film, why would you replace "Get Out" out of all of the other nominees on the list for your precious 'Logan'? Have you seen the other films? I have. And 3 Billboards is definitely the overhyped film in this category, yet, you chose 'Get Out' and then blame it on tokenism and racial politics. Let me clue you into something - the Oscars are political. People have to campaign and studios funnel big money into these campaigns. Don't try to distill this award into some type of pure meritocracy where only the best of the best are nominated and win, and somehow the black guy weaseled his way in out of sympathy or white guilt. Because that's dishonest. You sound like those white girls who get mad when they don't get into Harvard and blame that one black guy in their class who got in for why they didn't make it. There's a hundred different reasons why certain people and films get chosen for slots, but whenever black folks get some shine, people like to discredit their achievement and say they slid in by using the race card. Cut it out, or at least, acknowledge there are other, and equally shady reasons the OTHER nominees were chosen as well.

I havent seen the other movies c00n....make a thread on them and post yoir merits why they should not be nominated

 

[Mic-Nificent]

By black people mostly. White people didn't give a shyt about Get Out as much as you would like to think. Hence why all the cac movies are cleaning up. Lady Bird and 3 Billboards were the worst movies I saw last year, but cacs are praising them. Get Out doesn't have a chance with the line up of cac films this year.

Get out has been one of the most well reviewed and received movies of the decade.

 

[nieman]

The irony here is that this movie is about people like you. You're in the sunken place. I'm so sorry I can't help you get out, but maybe I can throw you a rope so you can begin the slow climb back to the light.

Ask yourself why of all of the nominees, you assume that the movie written and directed by a black man is undeserving? Ask yourself why it's beyond plausibility for you that white people really did enjoy this movie? Ask yourself why you think the other nominees are so much more worthy. Even if you do think Logan was a Oscar worthy film, why would you replace "Get Out" out of all of the other nominees on the list for your precious 'Logan'? Have you seen the other films? I have. And 3 Billboards is definitely the overhyped film in this category, yet, you chose 'Get Out' and then blame it on tokenism and racial politics. Let me clue you into something - the Oscars are political. People have to campaign and studios funnel big money into these campaigns. Don't try to distill this award into some type of pure meritocracy where only the best of the best are nominated and win, and somehow the black guy weaseled his way in out of sympathy or white guilt. Because that's dishonest. You sound like those white girls who get mad when they don't get into Harvard and blame that one black guy in their class who got in for why they didn't make it. There's a hundred different reasons why certain people and films get chosen for slots, but whenever black folks get some shine, people like to discredit their achievement and say they slid in by using the race card. Cut it out, or at least, acknowledge there are other, and equally shady reasons the OTHER nominees were chosen as well.

The premise of Get Out isn't exactly original. It's been done time and time again - Stepford Wives, Body Snatchers, Puppet Masters, hell you can pull up a few Twilight Zone eps about it. Themes of man don't change, but the understanding and those able to relate to them do.

And we pick on HELLA MOVIES..movies of every genre. Get Out isn't being singled out in the scope of things, this is just a more popular thread.

 

[nieman]

Get out has been one of the most well reviewed and received movies of the decade.

Right. The overall black audience didn't even start catching on til later...they didn't even review it til later

 

[NobodyReally]

I havent seen the other movies c00n....make a thread on them and post yoir merits why they should not be nominated

I post my reviews after seeing each movie. Don't try to flip this and call me c00n when you're the one questioning the legitimacy of a black movie being Oscar worthy.

 

[NobodyReally]

The premise of Get Out isn't exactly original. It's been done time and time again - Stepford Wives, Body Snatchers, Puppet Masters, hell you can pull up a few Twilight Zone eps about it. Themes of man don't change, but the understanding and those able to relate to them do.

And we pick on HELLA MOVIES..movies of every genre. Get Out isn't being singled out in the scope of things, this is just a more popular thread.

Oh, right, cause biopics likeThe Darkest Hour are so rare, right? Or war movies like Dunkirk? I don't think I've ever seen a WWII movie nominated for anything before? Certainly not slice of life coming to age stories like Lady Bird. We've never seen those before. And that gaycoming of age romance Call Me by Your Name, that's completely original right? Wait, what was the name of the movie that won best picture last year?

You're right,Jordan Peele is really trying some slick shyt here, being all unoriginal and campaigning for an Oscar using familiar material with a new twist on it.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Then how did it get ANY Oscar nominations, let alone four?


You just contradicted yourself.

Get Out cannot be both unimportant to whites in the Academy and also mainly nominated by whites in the Academy at the same time.

lol

it most certainly can.

It's easy to nominate something just to keep ppl from the backlash.


Oscars so white?? "b-b-b-ut then why did we nominate Get Out?, we aren't racist"




But, my personal opinion. I liked it, I thought it was original and I think it has as good a chance to win as any.

I watche da few of these Oscar movies and didn't care for them at all

The Shape of water??

 

[MartyMcFly]

Corrected it for you for obvious and more appropriate reasons.

Meh

 

[MartyMcFly]

lol

it most certainly can.

It's easy to nominate something just to keep ppl from the backlash.


Oscars so white?? "b-b-b-ut then why did we nominate Get Out?, we aren't racist"




But, my personal opinion. I liked it, I thought it was original and I think it has as good a chance to win as any.

I watche da few of these Oscar movies and didn't care for them at all

The Shape of water??

See that’s the issue. We complain when they don’t nominate shyt with us in it but when they do we complain cause it’s not what we want. That’s bullshyt and backwards. Because there are plenty of movies I love that have never been nominated for Oscars nor will they be. Casino royale is possibly my fav movie of all time. Is the academy wrong for not nominating it? Of course not.

Point being it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. When they don’t nominate a movie you want, you say it’s essentially affirmative action and a PR stunt. But then if they didn’t nominate anything you’d be pissed. Can’t have it both ways homie.

And The Shape Of Water is dope

 

[NobodyReally]

I think the crazy that the bar is set so high for black people when they go for awards. They have to have a completely original idea and it has to be flawless not to be questioned. Meanwhile we have a movie like 3 Billboards that gives a redemption arc to a racist cop and allows a white woman to bomb a police station and ride off into the sunset with the redeemed racist cop and no one questions the Oscar worthiness of this ridiculous plot? LOL. That's evidence of A+ brainwashing. fukk outta here.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I'm glad it's nominated and I hope it wins just to piss off all the cacs again. They nominate a bunch of movies for best pic now so that's what they get.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Yo props to @MartyMcFly. I could tell the dude reads a lot of the shyt people post on here like “are these dumb nyggas serious with this shyt” and could easily shyt on people who don’t know wtf they’re talking about but instead dude still manages to be extra respectful with everything lmao. You’re the Good Guy Greg of the Coli.

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