I still haven't seen Crash (the Oscar winning one) nor am I ever likely to
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
i haven't watched most of these because come on, tempted to throw a sardine to the fish-fucking movie but i shd probably vote King's Speech because not enough guillotines
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
Has anyone here seen all of these?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
i haven't seen green book but it's gotta be green book
― na (NA), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:07 AM (one hour ago)
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
King's Speech is decent bored Sunday evening TV fare. It should never be winning awards obviously but its ok
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
I've seen all of them bar Green Book
the best thing about the king's speech is that the location they used for the speech therapist's office turned out to have earlier been used as a backdrop in a bunch of gay porn
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
I like Spotlight and Hurt Locker more than Parasite in retrospect.
King's Speech wins this, although I viscerally hated Birdman. But at least there was an idea there.
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
the king's speech is a great demonstration of how the formula of 'man overcomes odds to achieve his goal through dedicated montage training' has been honed to such a fine art that it can even be effectively applied to the story of an inbred oaf overcoming the odds to talk into a microphone in an empty room
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
i do enjoy this high-school-essay-ass paragraph from the king's speech wiki
Principal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to January 2010. Hard light was used to give the story a greater resonance and wider than normal lenses were employed to recreate the Duke of York's feelings of constriction. A third technique Hooper employed was the off-centre framing of characters.
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
I voted for King's Speech, not because it was the worst film necessarily but because it was the one that made me angriest when it won. I haven't seen Green Book though.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
tempted to vote for the hurt locker for being a remarkable achievement in action-thriller filmmaking from a director working at the top of her game which nonetheless is complete imperialist propaganda bullshit, using its veneer of gritty authenticity to promote the baseless idea that iraqi insurgents are such godless savages that they turn dead kids into improvised explosive devices
This is so otm. I found The Hurt Locker so much more ethically repellent than most of the films on this list (though that's not saying a lot). Jeremy Renner is great though.
― tangenttangent, Monday, 10 February 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
remember in Argo where they go "Argo fuck yourself!"?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
this is obviously Green Book, which I've never seen. King's Speech is at least entertaining, if not remotely close to being 'best'.
― akm, Monday, 10 February 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
Bigelow is a deeply regressive filmmaker
xps
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
even her best movie (Near Dark) can be read as a fundamentally conservative family-values film
yeah i concede that this was good tbf
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
Honestly Ive been tempted to watch Argo again and wonder if it might hold up as popcorn fare if I just pretend its a dumb fictional Tom Clancy thing
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 10 February 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
remember when TKS was supposed to augur a new decade of Eighties Prestige Pictures
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
thank fuck we dodged that bullet
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
oops this was supposed to be a vote for worst :/
― Mordy, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
voted King's Speech because it was so mind numbingly boring. I mean I disliked Birdman for most of the same reasons as everyone else but I didn't walk out thinking, "I wasted 2 hours"
― frogbs, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
Green Book
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
Worst winner of the 21st century so far is A Beautiful Mind. Christ, I hated that film to its core
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
Ahh, the early 2000s
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
I've softened on Akiva Goldsman to the point where I can take his writing or directing if it's tempered by someone else, but A Beautiful Mind's pairing of his writing and Ron Howard's direction brought out the worst in both
― mh, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
I'd forgotten I'd seen Argo, why did that win? Such a nothing film.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
To compensate for Ben Affleck's absence from Best Director.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
sometimes i remember "argo fuck yourself" and laugh to myself it's truly one of the great bits of dialogue
― omar little, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Birdman Or is extremely silly and pretentious but I had fun watching it once. Completely ludicrous choice for Best Picture, but not offensive in and of itself.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
instead it added 20 years to Peter Morgan's career
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
this list could be markedly worse, there was a perceived momentum towards Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri taking the prize a couple years ago.
― omar little, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Birdman easy, just for the “Hollywood sucking itself off (while sucking itself off”) factor
― umsworth (emsworth), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Green Book, followed by the King's Speech and Argo.
Haven't seen Parasite yet. All of the other ones are OK or better.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
I like Birdman.
― akm, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Of the nine I've seen, The Artist--sheer torture.
― clemenza, Monday, 10 February 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), 10. februar 2020 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
This is otm, and is kinda the reason why I can't hate the film. It sounds like a parody from Bojack Horseman.
― Frederik B, Monday, 10 February 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
Birdman seems to be one of those films where if you take it seriously it's bad, if you don't it's good. Whether it's meant to be taken seriously or not I couldn't say, but I thought it was funny.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link
I kinda liked Birdman.. bit self indulgent, but surprised it's so bad and hated.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
Argo even more so.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
ben selffsuck
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
while we're bashing ben, i'll say that the town was even worse -- it's bigelow's point break with the fun stuff taken out.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
the idea that movies that tackle serious subjects have to be utterly joyless is definitely a running theme
― mh, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
You the bomb at selfsuck, yo
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
i stopped watching movies after argo, it probably isn't argo's fault but man i hated that movie, it was fucking blatant cia propaganda
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
glad to see a lot of people bashing birdman, an easy vote (haven't seen green book), even though it did inspire a great episode of always sunny.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
glad to see a lot of people bashing birdman
were you not on twitter in 2014
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
i'm just always glad to see people bashing it.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Birdman was dark and brooding, just like this bird, man:https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.mypetchicken.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2FBroodyPenny.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
Slumdog Millionaire was a Final Jeopardy answer 4 or 5 years ago and no one got it.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link