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I haven't watched the Oscars since John Wayne won for True Grit over Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight for Midnight Cowboy. How many Oscars do Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, Orson Welles, Ingmar Berman, Federico Fellini, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kramer, Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa have combined? ZERO.
Because it's more than just a movie about a toy. I'm guessing you didn't watch it.
I watched the whole thing, a couple of hours of my life that I will never be able to regain. Supposedly a metaphorical story about the evils of patriarchy, but it was done in such a boring, clumsy and disjointed way that the message was really hard to grasp. And, the acting in my opinion was average at best.
Amazing to me that it garnered any nominations at all.
Despite the poor nominations and really subpar year for movies, I am happy and expect my fellow Los Angeles native Billie Eilish to win her SECOND Oscar this year. Her song "What Was I Made For" (and the video) is amazing.
Maestrosucked. It was not good. Cooper was ridiculous as Bernstein. I usually love Mulligan but found her performance just as contrived as that of Cooper. For a movie about a composer and conductor, there was very little conducting or music. It focused on Bernstein’s private life based on the condescending premise that moviegoers are interested in and fascinated by the private lives of fabulous artists rather than their art. And I imagine that Cooper wrote and directed the movie that way on purpose because he’s just so, you know, innovative; because, you know, a movie about a composer that focuses on the composer’s music would be “expected.”
But of course it’s going to get nominated. The Academy loves nominating pretentious films about famous artists because every member of the Academy hopes that they will one day be that famous artist about whom someone is making a film.
Maestro sure seems like the outlier this year. Barely in the 80s on RT. Any biopic votes are going to Oppenheimer.
I haven't watched the Oscars since John Wayne won for True Grit over Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight for Midnight Cowboy. How many Oscars do Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, Orson Welles, Ingmar Berman, Federico Fellini, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kramer, Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa have combined? ZERO.
Correct.
Yet "I Just Called to Say I Love You" won an Oscar. What more evidence is needed?
The Oscars are a pathetic excuse for a publicity stunt.
I haven't watched the Oscars since John Wayne won for True Grit over Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight for Midnight Cowboy. How many Oscars do Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, Orson Welles, Ingmar Berman, Federico Fellini, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kramer, Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa have combined? ZERO.
I had never seen that particular list before but I am not surprised. I wasn't paying much attention at the time, but Wayne/True Grit over Hoffman/Voight in Midnight Cowboy? That's a travesty.
The Academy reminds me a lot of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, another institution that is more of a political good old boys fraternity than a serious attempt at honoring true artists. Plenty of incredible musicians missing from that as well.
I watched the whole thing, a couple of hours of my life that I will never be able to regain. Supposedly a metaphorical story about the evils of patriarchy, but it was done in such a boring, clumsy and disjointed way that the message was really hard to grasp. And, the acting in my opinion was average at best.
Amazing to me that it garnered any nominations at all.
And that's fine ... regardless of whether I agree or not, I respect that opinion, because you actually watched it. It drives me nuts when people have an opinion about something they haven't even seen.
I will now watch "Barbie" because I very much like America Ferrera.
I like her too and she was very good in the movie. She did have the most "meaty" lines.
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