2023 Oscar Noms

[proofs in the pudd'in]

Standards? What standards? Whose standards? My sister and I go round and round with this when it comes to movies and a few other personal taste topics such as music. She of the "I'm too artsy for you to understand" and me of the "was I really entertained by the movie" types.

The standards by which we as a society judged what a great film was. Compared to other years these films are crap. I'm like you I don't try to go into a film with high expectations for it's genre or intentions of art if that is not what the intention was. If it entertains that's cool with me but in judging a film as "BEST" ---- entertainment is a shallow standard when compared to the past standards. Avatar was cool because of it's technology but its story line was super weak and repetitive and the dialogue sometimes laughable not to mention the annoying politicization of the noble savage trope. Top Gun was just silly testosterone and cartoonist nonsense with more bubbling dialogue that was trying to pass as meaningful when in reality it just wanted to get to the action scenes. I can't believes these are up for nomination - it's quite funny! But oh well it's probably just a bunch of circle jerking Hollywood snobs anyway.

[NotDutra5]

The standards by which we as a society judged what a great film was. Compared to other years these films are crap. I'm like you I don't try to go into a film with high expectations for it's genre or intentions of art if that is not what the intention was. If it entertains that's cool with me but in judging a film as "BEST" ---- entertainment is a shallow standard when compared to the past standards. Avatar was cool because of it's technology but its story line was super weak and repetitive and the dialogue sometimes laughable not to mention the annoying politicization of the noble savage trope. Top Gun was just silly testosterone and cartoonist nonsense with more bubbling dialogue that was trying to pass as meaningful when in reality it just wanted to get to the action scenes. I can't believes these are up for nomination - it's quite funny! But oh well it's probably just a bunch of circle jerking Hollywood snobs anyway.

...as my sister would say.

[NotDutra5]

It's a good thing she's your sister. If it were my sister, I'd say, "Oh, OOOOOOOK, Miss I'mSpecial." If it were not my sister, that would be the end of the conversation. If you can't articulate your position better than, no sense in continuing.

It comes across as she's (and she's far from being alone in this regard) more equipped to judge a performance and/or film than those who may enjoy a film which is more action involved. It can come across as pretentious and obnoxious at times.

[proofs in the pudd'in]

...as my sister would say.

Sounds like she got a good head on her shoulders!

[NotDutra5]

Sounds like she got a good head on her shoulders!

She does. That doesn't mean she can't be pretentious and obnoxious at times.

[jeremyp]

I can't believe Top Gun and Avatar are elected for Best Picture. Standards are dropping!

Its called $$$$$$$.

[18.99s]

And the winner is ...














Everything Everywhere All at Once won everywhere everything all at once...almost. 7 Oscars including Best Picture, out of its 11 nominations.

[Adam$]

Well I didn't watch even a min. so i can't complain about anything. Even though I think this is the one awards broadcast that should be conducted formally and not like network game show.
I read today that Paul Sorvino was left out of the memorial. He didn't do a lot of films but he has some good work in "Good Fellas / The Gambler."

I saw The Hustler recently. I don't think it held up well but still enjoyed seeing Newman,Scott,Gleason.

[jeremyp]

And the winner is ...














Everything Everywhere All at Once won everywhere everything all at once...almost. 7 Oscars including Best Picture, out of its 11 nominations.

Wife and I bailed after 20 minutes of this movie. Too frenetic for us oldens.

[Trickstat]

Well I didn't watch even a min. so i can't complain about anything. Even though I think this is the one awards broadcast that should be conducted formally and not like network game show.
I read today that Paul Sorvino was left out of the memorial. He didn't do a lot of films but he has some good work in "Good Fellas / The Gambler."

I saw The Hustler recently. I don't think it held up well but still enjoyed seeing Newman,Scott,Gleason.

Wikipedia lists over 60 films for Paul Sorvino. While I suspect that some of those parts were quite small that seems a decent number. Seems like an odd omission. He was in the montage of deceased at the British BAFTA awards a few weeks ago.

[bambam1729]

The standards by which we as a society judged what a great film was. Compared to other years these films are crap. I'm like you I don't try to go into a film with high expectations for it's genre or intentions of art if that is not what the intention was. If it entertains that's cool with me but in judging a film as "BEST" ---- entertainment is a shallow standard when compared to the past standards. Avatar was cool because of it's technology but its story line was super weak and repetitive and the dialogue sometimes laughable not to mention the annoying politicization of the noble savage trope. Top Gun was just silly testosterone and cartoonist nonsense with more bubbling dialogue that was trying to pass as meaningful when in reality it just wanted to get to the action scenes. I can't believes these are up for nomination - it's quite funny! But oh well it's probably just a bunch of circle jerking Hollywood snobs anyway.

Just flew back from Vegas (orthopaedic conference) and watched Top Gun Maverick on the plane. I loved it (Jennifer Connolly probably contributed to that also), but then my movie taste definitely does not run to artsy.

[Atticus]

watched Top Gun Maverick on the plane. I loved it

Hollywood talks about tentpole movies, movies that create a large tent for movie-going, that helps other movies also. If there were ever a post-COVID tentpole movie FOR THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY it was TopGun 2! It was the most entertaining, most talked-about, most Hollywood movie of the year.

Meanwhile Everythingeverywhereallatonce was a Hot Mess by most accounts.

After reading The New Yorker's review, I declined attending.

With its bland and faux-universal life lessons that cheaply ethicalize expensive sensationalism, the film comes off as a sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie.

Pass.

[bambam1729]

Meanwhile Everythingeverywhereallatonce was a Hot Mess by most accounts.

After reading The New Yorker's review, I declined attending.

Pass.

But everythingeverywhereallatonce sounds like the type of movie Hollywood loves - pseudo-intellectual crap maybe combined with some virtue signalling so they show off how smart they are and how evolved they are. Meanwhile the rest of us can't wait to watch "History of the World Part II"

[KDFINE]

But everythingeverywhereallatonce sounds like the type of movie Hollywood loves - pseudo-intellectual crap maybe combined with some virtue signalling so they show off how smart they are and how evolved they are. Meanwhile the rest of us can't wait to watch "History of the World Part II"

I found it to be an incoherent mess and turned it off after about a half hour. You won't miss much if you pass on "History of the World Part II."

[lonewolf]

I have not been in a movie theatre since 2019 but somehow I saw TopGun, the only movie in contention. I thought it was entertaining, nothing special.

The Everything movie is the type of current movie you could not pay me enough to watch....or Jimmy Kimmel.