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| 02-22-19 11:50am - 2130 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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FreddieAdmin
PornUsers Staff Posts: 0 Registered: Dec 06, '18 |
Oscars 2019! On Sunday, it's the Oscars! Personally, it's my favourite time of the year. This year I felt quite underwhelmed by the selection of films. I didn't see Bohemiam Rhapsody or Green Book but I love The Favourite and Roma. I highly recommend The Favourite - it's an absurdist historical drama and you get to see some girl-on-girl action and Emma Stone's boobs! Thought I'd share our deeply researched article on porn/Oscar lookalikes right here for all your happy reading: https://www.rabbitsreviews.com/hareald/o...-pornstar-lookalike/ xoxox | |
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| 02-22-19 12:17pm - 2130 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
FREDDIE, WHEN DO WE GET TO SEE YOUR AVATAR, SO WE GET TO SEE WHICH OSCAR NOMINATED ACTRESS YOU LOOK LIKE? OR IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN OSCAR-NOMINATED LOOKALIKE, MAYBE YOU STILL HAVE A FAVORITE ACTRESS WHO YOU ADMIRE, THAT LOOKS A BIT LIKE YOU?  | |
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| 02-22-19 12:21pm - 2130 days | #3 | |
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FreddieAdmin
PornUsers Staff Posts: 0 Registered: Dec 06, '18 |
I've had people say I look like Jennifer Lawrence! I'm working on it - turns out it's a bit of a complicated task. According to the code, the image is actually there but we can't see it. I've got the tech team working day and night to figure out the problem  | |
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| 02-25-19 03:33am - 2127 days | #4 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User  Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
After studying film history and theory at USC (leaving college in 1994), I was an avid follower of the Academy Awards for a few years. I was bitterly disappointed in the Academy's choices for Best Picture four years running ("Forest Gump" in 94, "Braveheart" in 95, "The English Patient" in 96, and most of all "Titanic" in 97). I lost even more interest when "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" lost in 2000 and was even more alienated when the superb "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" lost in 2001. Then the best superhero movie ever made wasn't even *nominated* for Best Picture, Best Director, or even Best Original Screenplay in 2008 ("The Dark Knight"). The Academy Awards have often gone to movies that, in hindsight, were obviously less influential in technical merit, cultural significance, or pushing the boundaries of cinema. "Annie Hall" was a really good movie, but in hindsight, wasn't "Star Wars" really a more significant movie in all three features than "Annie Hall?" The Academy is an industry awards show. It is a big night for the studios, as a win is a marketing and box office boon. But the awards given out by professional filmmakers and critics probably have more relevance, if not the cachet that the Oscars do. Hell, most years I'm way more interested in the Golden Raspberry Awards (the Razzies) than the Academy Awards. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 02-25-19 08:15am - 2127 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
PARDON THE CAPS. EASIER FOR ME TO READ AND EDIT. LIKE LOKI, I USED TO FOLLOW THE ACADEMY AWARDS. YOU SEE THE BIGGEST STARS IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY, AND THEY PUT ON A SHOW WITH SOMETIMES HUMOROUS HOSTS. BUT I'VE COME TO REALIZE I DON'T MUCH CARE WHAT MOVIES WIN THE OSCARS, BECAUSE THE WINNERS DON'T CORRELATE WITH HOW MUCH ENJOYMENT I WILL GET FROM THOSE FILMS. OF COURSE, BOX OFFICE RESULTS ALSO DON'T CORRELATE WITH MY ENJOYMENT OF A LOT OF MOVIES. I CAN WATCH SOME OSCAR WINNERS AND GET BORED OUT OF MY SKULL. NOWADAYS, I DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO WATCH THE OSCARS ANY MORE. EVEN THOUGH I CAN REALLY ENJOY SOME MOVIES. THE MOVIES I ENJOY RARELY WIN OSCARS. | |
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| 02-26-19 01:37am - 2127 days | #6 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
There is a big disconnect between the movies that people see and the ones nominated for the Academy Awards. Decades ago, most of the nominees for Best Picture were also among the movies with the biggest box office take. That changed. For the last few decades, almost no major awards picture is even in the top 20 of box office take. There is a big disconnect in the film industry between the movies made for money and the movies made for critical prestige. Almost all the biggest box office movies aren't considered for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, or Best Adapted Screenplay. Film is an industry where most of the movies are made to reap huge box office take, which is why so many big studio hits are so similar. Due to the lengthy production process of film, money chases tastes, so we tend to see very similar movies over and over (one of the reasons so many movies are sequels, prequels, or trilogies). The money invested is chasing the trend of what has succeeded before. The major exception to this is "Oscar Bait" movies. Many of them have small budgets, don't get seen by many people, and make very little money. The reason that these movies are made (they don't get high returns on investment, so why make them?) are strictly to get awards. The blockbusters are subsidizing the more interesting and provoking films that won't make money. It's imperative that these smaller films give the studios *something* for their investment, so they are usually geared to winning awards. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 02-26-19 03:56am - 2126 days | #7 | |
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mbaya (0)
Suspended  Posts: 891 Registered: Jul 07, '08 Location: new jersey |
There are some movies that I can't understand how they were made to win an award. Example number one was The Shape of Water. Pure ridiculous nonsense, even though I like fantasy stories. Example two was Birdman, completely a waste of my time. Halfway into it I was so bored, as well as so lost, that I gave up. I saw Holmes and Watson the day it opened and had not yet seen the reviews. I liked it better than those two, which was not all that much. Yet which one won a Razzie? I dare not leave out one other clunker. What was so great about Grand Budapest Hotel? Deathly boring and disjointed. Edited on Feb 26, 2019, 04:04am | |
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| 02-26-19 05:01am - 2126 days | #8 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
mbaya, "Birdman" won for the same reasons "The Artist" won, which is namely that the Academy is made up of film professionals, and they absolutely LOVE movies about their industry and the people who make it. This kind of inward focus of the Academy and the industry makes films like "Birdman" very popular. It wasn't just an award for the film, but more a kind of cathartic acknowledgement of it's star, Michael Keaton. Keaton is a talented actor, and casting him as Batman was a great idea (I loved his performance, in an otherwise so-so movie). But Keaton's career took a nosedive. "Birdman" winning was not only about an actor, but an actor doing stage work (another fave for the Academy, see "Shakespeare in Love"), and mirrored Keaton's story. As much as the Academy loves patting itself on the back, they love redemption stories and Keaton's performance made that a critical darling. BTW, Keaton had made a great appearance as Dogberry (the lead of Messina's night watch) in Kenneth Branagh's 1993 movie adaption of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." There's also a strong undercurrent in the Academy that certain actors or directors "deserve" an Oscar, usually late in life after failing to win many times, and usually for an inferior performance. Henry Fonda winning for "On Golden Pond" was such an award. There's many more. This is kind of why Spike Lee, who didn't win for "Do the Right Thing" won an honorary Oscar for "contributions to film," but they still won't give him one for "BlacKKKlansman." "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Feb 26, 2019, 05:14am (Loki: added the last paragraph) | |
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| 02-26-19 07:44am - 2126 days | #9 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT ABOUT PETER O'TOOLE, NOMINATED FOR 8 OSCARS, NEVER WINNING ONCE. AND STEPHEN SPEILBERG WAS NOMINATED 19 TIMES FOR OSCARS. HE WON 2 OSCARS FOR BEST DIRECTOR, AFTER A LOT OF LOSSES. SOME GUYS SEEM TO WAIT FOREVER, BEFORE FINALLY WINNING AN OSCAR. OTHER GUYS DIE BEFORE THEY EITHER WIN OR NEVER WIN. MAYBE THE OSCARS ARE A POPULARITY CONTEST, OR A POLITICAL CONTEST. OR A MARKETING CONTEST. A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS AT PLAY. PAUL NEWMAN FINALLY WON AN OSCAR BEFORE HE DIED, BUT IT WAS VERY LATE IN HIS CAREER. I'VE ENJOYED MANY OF HIS MOVIES, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE WAS A BIG POPULAR STAR, BUT HE WON FOR ROAD TO PERDITION, WHICH SEEMED MORE LIKE A RECOGNITION OF HIS PREVIOUS WORK THAN AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN THAT MOVIE. | |
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| 02-26-19 08:28am - 2126 days | #10 | |
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FreddieAdmin
PornUsers Staff Posts: 0 Registered: Dec 06, '18 |
Loki is right. I personally found Birdman incredibly boring and basically a self-congratulatory pat on the back from the industry. They love movies about the industry and actors - probably why Lala Land was so acclaimed despite it being quite boring (I'm not a great fan of musicals though). Shape of Water was also a slog of a movie but it was also a movie I feel like the Academy Voters could get behind without causing too much controversy. The Oscar Best Picture nominee for 2018 was stacked - Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, 3 Billboards, Get Out, Dunkirk etc. Some of them were artsy/indie films, others were controversial and so Shape of Water, a flimsy fantasy movie which was just pretty to look at was the easy win. It didn't offend anyone and came from a revered director. I feel like something similar happened this year with Green Book, a film soaked with controversy. The silver lining is at least it wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody! If the Academy really wanted to make a statement about race in America, they'd have given it to BlacKKKlansman but instead, they gave it to me a movie that white-washed a lot of racial history. I was pretty unimpressed with Best Picture nominees this year. I thought last year was much more fresh with Lady Bird and Call me By Your Name depicting narratives not often spotlighted at the Oscars. This year I would've loved Roma or The Favourite to have gotten it but alas, a movie where a white guy teaches a black guy how to eat fried chicken won. | |
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| 02-26-19 08:32am - 2126 days | #11 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Peter O'Toole was nominated for his portrayal of T.E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia" which won seven Academy Awards (out of ten nominations). This was possibly the greatest role he ever did. He was nominated for Best Actor, and lost to Gregory Peck for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird" and probably rightly so. Some never win Oscar gold. The whole process is kind of ridiculous. At the inaugural Academy Awards, the dog Rin Tin Tin won the most votes for Best Actor, but the award was given to a human actor, Emil Jannings, as they didn't want the first award to go to a dog. There was someone, I don't recall who, who pointed out that the whole Academy Awards process for giving acting awards is ridiculous. The person pointed out that to truly judge which performer was best, they would all have to be in the same roll in the same movie, and the Academy would decide which performer was best in the role. This is impossible, but it does point out the absurdities of judging different performances in different movies against each other. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 02-26-19 08:40am - 2126 days | #12 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Kind of a parallel for how "Driving Miss Daisy" won Best Picture over a field that included "Born on the Fourth of July," "Dead Poets Society," "Field of Dreams," and "My Left Foot." Spike Lee has made compelling and meaningful movies. His contributions to cinema are great enough that he will be acknowledged by the Academy with an honorary award, but because his films challenge orthodoxy, he either (a) will never win Best Picture or (b) will finally win Best Picture for his last feature film. Hollywood works that way. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 02-26-19 08:53am - 2126 days | #13 | |
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FreddieAdmin
PornUsers Staff Posts: 0 Registered: Dec 06, '18 |
100% agreed and then they'll be like 'well, we gave it to him now so why are you guys complaining??" He should have won it for Do The Right Thing but for now we'll have to give thanks to kim basinger for calling out the injustice | |
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| 02-27-19 04:52pm - 2125 days | #14 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Let me preface that it's my belief that while every member of the academy receives a copy of the movie they have to vote on. Most never watch them. I also don't know what method the Academy members use to nominate movies so what we are basically left with are movies that should never have been nominated who are then voted on by people that haven't watched them. In regards to The Shape of Water. Here are some reasons why I love this movie. They are pretty accurate with the time period. They have very well developed characters. The cinematography is amazing. We know who the antagonist and protagonist are without any expositions on the part of the characters. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 02-28-19 05:03pm - 2124 days | #15 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I have several friends in LA who work in the film industry. Some are screenwriters, some actors. Most are part of the industry guilds that give their members all of the movies nominated for awards to them for free. I have one actor friend who has told me that the only reason he ever does any acting it to keep his credentials current with SAG so he keeps getting free movies. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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