2014 Oscars Discussion

[DonDadda59]

I was really underwhelmed by that movie. It was alright but it is soo overrated. Although Django is obviously a more surreal and less serious film I thought it captured the time much better than 12 years. It just felt more immersive and drew you in, 12 years just made me feel like I was watching a film that happened to be about slavery. Too predictable and formulaic.

Do you mean the underground slave cockfighting ring that didn't exist or the runaway slave bounty hunting with a German national? Django was just another empty, vacuous but highly stylized Tarantino spaghetti western comedy that was one big excuse to use the word n*gger with impunity. I like Pulp Fiction as much as the next man, but damn... when is Quentin going to grow up and make an adult movie for once? The man has managed to turn the holocaust and slavery into pulpy jokes.

Anyway, the way it'll probably go down...

Best Picture: 12 years a Slave
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Best Actor: Matthew McConnaughey
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o (Outside shot for Lawrence)
Best Original Screenplay: Her

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This is a list of the people nominated (because I think Phoenix deserves the Best Actor nod and Jeremy Renner Best Supporting Actor).

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Best Actress: Amy Adams
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o

Fassbender was superb in 12 years. But I fully believe in the "Johnny Drama" rules of winning an Oscar. You either have to play a retard or gay.

Jared went gay.

[alenleomessi]

hopefully its not that dude from 12 years a slave and its either leo or matthew..

[T_L_P]

hopefully its not that dude from 12 years a slave and its either leo or matthew..

Why hopefully?

Has it become the cool thing to go against 12 Years all of a sudden?

[T_L_P]

Fassbender was superb in 12 years. But I fully believe in the "Johnny Drama" rules of winning an Oscar. You either have to play a retard or gay.

Jared went gay.

That was my "deserving" list. I know Fassbender has practically no chance of winning, unfortunately.

I'm quite annoyed that Renner didn't get a nomination for American Hustle. Cooper wasn't even a supporting actor; he and Bale were both leads.

The whole concept of a supporting actor has become very muddled in recent years.

[KingBeasley08]

your prediction/who deserves

best picture:
best actor:
best actress:
best supporting actor:
best supporting actress:

GO!

Best Picture: 12 Years A Slave (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Alfonso Cuaron)
Best Actor: Matthew McCon (Leonardo Dicaprio)
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Cate Blanchett)
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (Michael Fassbender)
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyongo (Julia Roberts

Book it. Names in parenthesis are who I would vote for but the people I said on the left will win guaranteed

[Qwyjibo]

Who I'd give it to:

Gravity (12 Years a Slave will win and it would be my 2nd choice)
Alfonso Cuaron (will probably win)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (McConaughey will probably win though)
Cate Blanchett (will win)
Michael Fassbender or Jared Leto, both were great. Leto obviously will win though.
Sally Hawkins (this category could surprise but I'd still bet on Nyong'o)

- Brie Larson was robbed of a nom for Short Term 12.
- Before Midnight? Only 1 nomination? Come on...
- I really liked Octavia Spencer in Fruitvale Station. Worthy of a Supporting Actress nom, IMO.
- It sucks that Sandra Bullock won her Oscar for such a, IMO, mediocre role and movie (The Blindside). She was excellent in Gravity.

[Qwyjibo]

Just watched Dallas Buyers Club and it was a good movie but I can't help but get thrown off when there is a poster of a modern day Lamborghini and during one of the shots there was a modern day $100 bill.

I couldn't get past seeing an Asomugha Eagles jersey in Silver Linings Playbook. Get your shit together people!

[alenleomessi]

pretty sick

[MightyWhitey]

Are you seriously looking to be entertained by a movie about one of mankind's biggest failures?



You can disagree with it on an intellectual level, but you sound like a douche when you call a movie like that boring.

My man,,, these cry me a river movies have run their course. It's high time people respect the genius of Leo and the absolute master Scorsese. I fell asleep during 12 years. It felt like 12 years of my life wasted watching that bore. Have you actually watched Wolf of Wall Street?

[MightyWhitey]

hopefully its not that dude from 12 years a slave and its either leo or matthew..

[MightyWhitey]

Do you mean the underground slave cockfighting ring that didn't exist or the runaway slave bounty hunting with a German national? Django was just another empty, vacuous but highly stylized Tarantino spaghetti western comedy that was one big excuse to use the word n*gger with impunity. I like Pulp Fiction as much as the next man, but damn... when is Quentin going to grow up and make an adult movie for once? The man has managed to turn the holocaust and slavery into pulpy jokes.

Anyway, the way it'll probably go down...

Best Picture: 12 years a Slave
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Best Actor: Matthew McConnaughey
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o (Outside shot for Lawrence)
Best Original Screenplay: Her

Great, the liberal arts community college Oscar picks

[DonDadda59]

Great, the liberal arts community college Oscar picks

Shut the f*ck up. Aren't you late for your klan rally?

[T_L_P]

My man,,, these cry me a river movies have run their course. It's high time people respect the genius of Leo and the absolute master Scorsese. I fell asleep during 12 years. It felt like 12 years of my life wasted watching that bore. Have you actually watched Wolf of Wall Street?

I find it hilarious that you think these "cry me a river movies", which 12 Years certainly was not, are commonplace. The film is about a mindset, about people, about actions...how many good slavery films have even been made? Besides 12 Years a Slave, I can't think of any in since the '80s.

But you've done nothing to describe why it was boring (and thus a bad film). You just said you were bored and thus expect everyone else to feel the same. Well, they don't. I sat and watched dozens of people leave the cinema with a lot of emotions (many of them conflicted).

And yes, I have seen Wolf of Wall Street. I thought it was a very, very good film. If 12 Years a Slave or Her hadn't come out this year, Wolf would have been my favourite Oscar movie. However, Leo definitely does not deserve Best Actor. He was too grandiose. Belford (or the Belford Leo presented) was more an archetype than an actual character.

[MightyWhitey]

Shut the f*ck up. Aren't you late for your klan rally?

Still looking for your lawn