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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
OFF TOPIC: Steven Spielberg says Netflex movies shouldn't win Oscars. I'm certainly not a movie professional, like Spielberg, Christopher Nolan or James Cameron, but I think that if a movie is great, it should be in contention for an Oscar. I understand that these directors want the audience to see most of their movies in a movie theater. And in 3D, Ultra-large/WhateverTheFuck Special Presentation movie format. But most of us don't have the cash to pay for the Special Presentation formats. Or even to see a lot of movies with ticket prices that seem to go nowhere but higher and higher costs. So-give us a break, and let us watch these movies on DVD, TV, Cable, Streaming, etc. That's my opinion, anyway. --------- --------- Steven Spielberg Says Netflix Movies Shouldn’t Win Oscars, Warns TV “Poses Clear And Present Danger To Filmgoers” by Dade Hayes March 25, 2018 2:38pm Even while promoting his futuristic, high-tech new movie, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg is revealing his traditionalist streak., questioning the level playing field between theatrical features and films launched on Netflix and other streaming services. During his five-decade directing career, as innovations from DVD commentary tracks to digital cameras and projectors have arisen, the filmmaker has often questioned the need to veer from the classical approach. There are positive results of this reverence for tradition, including Spielberg’s work on a range of preservation causes and other efforts to strengthen the legacy of Hollywood. But the latest target of his skepticism is feature films that launch on streaming services like Netflix and Amazon are the latest target of his skepticism. (His views, and those of fellow filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, are not new but are getting fresh attention as he makes the publicity rounds.) In an interview with ITV News (see video below), Spielberg noted that the movie business has never faced more of a challenge from television, especially given the rise of streaming. While there are benefits from that to the overall culture, he said features launched on streaming platforms should not be allowed at the Oscars. “I don’t believe that films that are given token qualifications, in a couple of theaters for less than a week, should qualify for Academy Award nominations,” he said. “Once you commit to a television format, you’re a TV movie. If it’s a good show, you deserve an Emmy. But not an Oscar.” Movie studios who once took chances on fringe, indie fare they discovered at film festivals, he said, are focused on branded tentpoles. And filmmakers are able to find willing buyers in the SVOD world, fundamentally changing the game. “Television is thriving with quality and heart,” he said. “But it poses a clear and present danger to filmgoers.” Reflecting on his previous film outing, he expressed no regret. “I’ll still make The Post and ask an audience to please go out to theaters and see The Post and not make it for Netflix,” he said. | |
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| 03-26-18 08:48am - 2463 days | #2 | |
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merc77 (0)
Disabled User Posts: 291 Registered: Apr 17, '16 |
To qualify for an Academy Award nomination, a movie must play in at least one cinema for a week. I think it used to be the movie had to play in Los Angeles or New York City but am not sure. Netflix should be able to run a movie for a week as Amazon does before they stream it. "Dogs think people are Gods. Cats don't as they know better." - Kedi (2016) Dogs have masters; Cats have staff. | |
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| 03-26-18 09:09am - 2463 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
If Spielberg had his druthers, Netflix and Amazon and any other srreaming service would be ineligible for an Oscar, no matter what the merits of the movie. That's a purist point of view. To take it one step further into fantasy, would Spielberg, Nolan, and Cameron be in favor of banning all DVD sales and rentals, and TV sales, and streaming sales of their movies? Of course they wouldn't. But they advocate seeing their movies at a movie theater, because that's the "best" way to experience the movie. I don't deny that the movie experience could be heightened by seeing a movie in a first-run theater, especially with al the special effects some movies have. Except it costs a lot of money to see these movies in a theater. Something these directors seem to forget about, or ignore. Not all of us are millionaires or billionaires like these directors are. And I doubt that they pay to see a lot of movies in a theater like a regular paying customer. Either they see the movies at premiers, or are entitled to special passes. Or maybe they even watch some movies on cable or DVD, perish the thought. | |
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| 03-26-18 01:35pm - 2463 days | #4 | |
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biker (0)
Active User  Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
I really could care less if a movie is eligible to win an Oscar. don't watch the Oscars and couldn't tell you who won the the last Oscars. It is up to the Academy to set the rules for eligibility. I just know that eventually all films will make it to DVD or streaming and I can wait till that happens. In the last ten years I've seen three films at the theater and that mainly is because my friends wanted to. I have to say that the last one was a waste of money and time. So give onto the Oscars what is the Oscars. Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 03-26-18 04:14pm - 2463 days | #5 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User  Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I agree with the directors. But I spent a lot of time in film classes at USC learning about film theory, like the directors, and probably have a bias, again like the directors. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-26-18 07:02pm - 2463 days | #6 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
1-Steven Spielberg you are an amazing director but you need to shut the fuck up on this subject because Netflix is not just an online streaming tv/movie provider but a production company. They give money to directors who than use that money to make movies. 2-while it's true that a movie has to have some kind of theater release to be considered for an Oscar. The vast majority of the people who vote for those movies will never see them and that is pretty pathetic when you consider that they get digital copies of the movies to watch at home. That includes Mr Spielberg. I would be highly curious to know if he watched every movie he voted for. 3-Maybe Steven should have stopped and thought about all the implications before doing that interview because if he had then he wouldn't be looking like a hypocrite right now. Maybe he forgot that he is one of the producer of a little movie called Super 8. A movie that belongs to Bad Robot which I guess he doesn't realise that it basically was a Tv production company until it started to make movies. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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