The Official 87th Academy Awards Thread

[Lefty Gunz]

 

[the next guy]

I feel y'all on Nightcrawler. Honestly...I'm just not sure what happened with that. I feel like the Academy just looked at it as this basic thriller...didn't "get it". Maybe it wasn't the Academy...maybe it was the studio not pushing it hard enough.

It definitely should have been marketed to be more like a modern Taxi Driver....instead of the Drive like promotion it seemed to have gotten.

I kinda felt like Gone Girl was average though. I actually am pretty big on Rosamund Pike, been following her performances for awhile now, but aside from her....wasn't Finchers best effort imo.

The academy is hypocritical. Gone Girl was a female driven movie, very well done. Should at least be up for best picture and sound affects. Nightcrawler brought something new to the table, showed a guy doing something doe the better of society. An antihero with a purpose.

More importantly, they were original concepts. That should have been enough to get noms.

 

[Rich Spirit]

Tommy Picles, doe

Tommy is that baby

 

[kp404]

Y'all giving Common props dude tried to be inclusive, once again rappers ain't shyt

Exactly. Same ol' "hey, did you know blacks are oppressed?" fake liberal shyt. Its easy to get props here I guess. How about calling out the prison owners, dropping stats and narratives, etc. to show we are pissed off about the conditions of the prisons? Actually take some chances and stop being a soft

 

[g-ice]

we need one of David, he had all of the feels

You ain't lying breh

 

[Box Cutta]

But Common will :mjpls 2:

 

[mson]

Yeah, free all those black people who broke the law!! give em a standing ovation!

Those black men who received longer sentences than their white counter parts

 

[satam55]

I wasn't paying attention to Common & John Legend's performance. Someone post pics of Chris Pine crying.

 

[MikeyC]

ScarJo

That voice

Those titties

Those lips

 

[g-ice]

Scarlett and that short hair

That green dress though

 

[the next guy]

Exactly. Coli brehs still don't understand racial dynamics...this is a SAFE song, its not powerful at all. Its safe, and that's why the cacs like it. They mentioned the prison capitalist system, but did not mention solutions or call out the privateers...

We know the prisons are racialized; we know that, so why not add some depth to your speech? Address solutions and stop being SAFE!

Of course, but in only so much time, you can say so much. And sadly, I feel many of these entertainers can more about joining the elite then putting in work to change the course of society.

 

[Lefty Gunz]

I wasn't paying attention to Common & John Legend's performance. Someone post pics of Chris Pine crying.

 

[kp404]

It was a token Oscar but I don't care. It was a positive song and more Rappers need to have more conscious lyrics. Salute Common and John Legend. It's something the mainstream doesn't want more people to here. Conscious hip hop has been phased out, it's sad.

You serious? Did you listen to the lyrics? That's exactly what they want the mainstream to here"We are peaceful, there are problems, but we will be peaceful and ask for our rights, and be peaceful"

 

[wire28]

Exactly. Coli brehs still don't understand racial dynamics...this is a SAFE song, its not powerful at all. Its safe, and that's why the cacs like it. They mentioned the prison capitalist system, but did not mention solutions or call out the privateers...

We know the prisons are racialized; we know that, so why not add some depth to your speech? Address solutions and stop being SAFE!

come on man if anybody else would have won it they would have thanked God and the people they worked with and the academy and walked off. we not bout to get on them for not speaking out "enough"

 

[satam55]

John Legend dropping that slavery/prison analogy BOMB on Cac America....

BTW, y'all mighta caught Jessica Chastain crying during this Common speech...she seems to actually care about these issues.

I bet that Saldana went to the bathroom for that shyt....

Someone post pics of that too.