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

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i dont really watch movies but is moonlight a must watch ? I dont know anything about it except remy from HoC is in it
The movie is split into three distinct acts.

If brehs have a problem with other issues. At least watch the first act which features Ali from Luke Cage heavily.

That will determine if you should watch the rest of the movie or not. Because if you become invested in Ali and the kid then you'd probably care about what happens as he grows up. If not then the rest of the movie isn't for you.
 

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The movie really doesn't display much gay stuff outside of one scene. Its actually about more than just that.

Like I told my fam about this movie. Its really no different than Omar on The Wire....yet you watched that :ld:

When I told them that the response was
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So because we don't agree with Gayness it's homophobia? Why

Exactly. I'm not watching Mein Kampf either am I wrong for that?

The same reason people throw around the word "homophobia" without critically thinking about what the implications are for demonizong people who disagree with that lifestyle.

I disagree with people who get drunk as a lifestyle. So I assume that makes me alcoholaphobic too. :yeshrug:
 

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The same reason people throw around the word "homophobia" without critically thinking about what the implications are for demonizong people who disagree with that lifestyle.

I disagree with people who get drunk as a lifestyle. So I assume that makes me alcoholaphobic too. :yeshrug:

Yeah, it's so strange how people can't see this. Like alcoholics haven't been beaten and killed time and time again because they were alcoholics.






















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The same reason people throw around the word "homophobia" without critically thinking about what the implications are for demonizong people who disagree with that lifestyle.

I disagree with people who get drunk as a lifestyle. So I assume that makes me alcoholaphobic too. :yeshrug:

I think the homophobic term only comes out when there's negative rhetoric around it or emojis or slurs. I'm with you on the whole drunk thing but I don't clown my friends who drink or call them out their names for it.
 

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:beli:I call bullshyt. People (black and white) only pull this 'agenda' shyt when a straight white male doesn't win the award. You're so used to straight white males winning that if they don't win, you think something is up. That brainwashing is strong. Moonlight is an incredible movie. It transcended race, sexuality, and gender. People were touched coming out of that movie, and the actors acted their ass off. And now you have black folks talking about an agenda. It's sickening. If the academy has an agenda please explain to us what message they were trying to send when when No Country for Old Men won? The Departed? American Beauty? Titanic? The fukking English Patient? Braveheart? :jbhmm:



Moonlight was a good movie, I know the DP on it.

It's catching strays cause it's part of a larger conversation that's BEEN going on about Hollywood.

The effeminization of the black male on screen, the abundance of Poverty porn and the general backlash to seing blacks on screen in a positive light.

If you wanna play dumb then fine but I've seen it with my own eyes working in Hollywood and in journalism.

If your a black male you simply won't get the same opportunities unless you come off as gay and non threading and are willing to push that agenda.

This has been going on and the results are starting to show in the youth culture.

I'm all for movies that tackle gay issues or poverty issues but does that have to be the only thing we can get rewarded for?

Oh And a lot of gay people didn't even like moonlight cause it seemed unreleastic.
 

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If I make a film and it wins best picture shouldn't I automatically win best director as well?

Nah. Best picture acknowledges the variety of factors that contribute to the movie. The music the sound the acting the writing the camera work and the directing. The directing award is purely for that one aspect that you as the director can control which is tone and the overall stewardship of the movie.
 
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