The Official 89th Academy Awards Thread - ABC, 8:30PM ET

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It's a good movie but it's so basic, so paint by numbers and it does nothing new. The social commentary we have seen a millions times in all media in the last 10 years. I'm not saying every movie needs to break new ground but I'd rather movies that go all in and maybe fail in some parts (Nocturnal Animals, Loving, Demolition) then a well made safe movies like Hell or High Water.
If Hell of High Water added more layers to the characters and 20 minutes to the movies, we could've had a true classic on our hands. Instead we got a bunch of shallow characters working off a great premise with the potential for great social commentary.

Jeff Bridges doing a racist True Grit version of Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men somehow got an undeserved nomination and probably got close to winning. Chris Pine's character was on Tim Tebow levels of unbelievable virtuousness and altruistism and somehow didn't really clash with his psychopathic brother in a way that affected their heists. And that's just the beginning of the issues.

They could've even ended things more like Heat or somehow more tragic and compelling. Instead they went with the safest possible resolution. Mediocre movies like this are maddening, because they show all the potential of being great, but never really reach for it. These are like the Jeff Green of movies. So frustrating to watch.
 

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Boy some of y'all just love your conspiracy theories.

I mean...

:francis:

The Tuskegee Experiments being true pretty much gave the green light to every crackpot conspiracy theory from the Illuminati to Will Smith and Jada's unproven bisexuality and open marriage since the 70s.

"If it could have happened, it definitely did" - signed, the Black Consensus.

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Don't @ me
 

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not unexpected i predicted that a while back.

even on here we had @Sensitive Blake Griffin sleeping on the fukkery :ariana:

:russ:
With streaming, why is anyone surprised? Especially when people can check the winners tomorrow. Award shows need to make people do more shyt live or it's pointless to tune in to see it.
 

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With streaming, why is anyone surprised? Especially when people can check the winners tomorrow. Award shows need to make people do more shyt live or it's pointless to tune in to see it.
breh that mishap at the end is the strongest case ever for the live tv/against cord cutting.
 

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not unexpected i predicted that a while back.

even on here we had @Sensitive Blake Griffin sleeping on the fukkery :ariana:

:russ:

I slept on it too. :francis:

There are way too many stupid people here. God lord.

What is the conspiracy? :whatthefukk:

It says it right there on the envelope card.


I can only assume cac tears are being cried here because Moonlight won.

#blackexcellence triumphs once again. :blessed:


:umad:


Can someone make a smiley of Beatty's face, it is the perfect troll face, much better than :skip:
It will be the new troll face.
 

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But them calling him gay and him doing gay ish are different. To me they didn't even show how he was confused about his sexuality as a child, only that he was picked on for it. Hell, they didn't even show it as a teenager until....if anything he had no sexual identity. They showed him being alone more than anything. Even as an adult, he says he wasn't with anyone other than that time with Kevin. I didn't say remove the scenes with Juan, I'd say sprinkle it with the teenager and adult scenes. They had 2 scenes together.

Now Kevin in the other hand...The movie should've been about how he turned out his lonely, emotionally repressed, semi-friend. then we could say this gay movie.






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Thanks for posting that.
 

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To me, it's nasty. :yeshrug:

I'm not anti-LGBTQ or any shyt like that. Even on GoT, I'll skip or turn my head on some kid shyt during the gay scenes. I guess I could do the same with this jawn, but I'd rather watch something else I find entertaining. Movies aren't a right/must to watch. I like to be entertained by the shyts I watch, and this joint isn't something I want to see.

I turn my head too. There's only a short scene in Moonlight that you can look away from and that's it. It's maybe 60 seconds out of the movie. It's not Brokeback Mountain and like I said GoT is much worse. I wasn't sure I wanted to see it either but it was a great movie and worthy of the Oscar.

Watch it. You won't catch the gay:lolbron:

But them calling him gay and him doing gay ish are different. To me they didn't even show how he was confused about his sexuality as a child, only that he was picked on for it. Hell, they didn't even show it as a teenager until....if anything he had no sexual identity. They showed him being alone more than anything. Even as an adult, he says he wasn't with anyone other than that time with Kevin. I didn't say remove the scenes with Juan, I'd say sprinkle it with the teenager and adult scenes. They had 2 scenes together.

Now Kevin in the other hand...The movie should've been about how he turned out his lonely, emotionally repressed, semi-friend. then we could say this gay movie.

Did you fall asleep? They clearly showed that:what:
 

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Thinking that being a gay man is more difficult than being a black man makes any other logic beyond that point broken. He's wrong.
what about being a gay black man?

i dont really watch movies but is moonlight a must watch ? I dont know anything about it except remy from HoC is in it
its a great, great film that will be talked about for many years.
 
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