His reaction after losing the Best Picture was exactly what I was referring to this week about kids learning to be a good sport after losing. Doesn't mean you have to except losing (shouldn't at all) but use it as motivation for the next competition.
The whole thing is a sham. I can predict pretty much every winner based on what would be the most politically correct choice.
Of the 3 nominated movies I saw, Vice, Black Panther, and Green Book, I thought Green Book was the best.
I watched it on and off. It was actually one of the better ones since they didn't have an MC. These awards are like a National holiday with the women in my household. Now you should understand my intermittent viewing!
Spike's movie was good but just barely better than Black Panther and not even in the same league as A Star is Born. Can't wait to see Green Book.
I think that is the beef this time. Green Book is supposed to be too white knight or whatever they call it.
I was a bit shocked that black panther was up for it, on two counts. One, I didn’t think superhero movies ever really had a chance, and while I liked it a lot, it’s like the 4th-best Marvel movie. How was it up against these critically-acclaimed ones? I really don’t want to think it’s because the Academy sees it as “12 years a Wakandan King” or something. But it brings up questions that I feel odd to have to deal with. That said, it’s the only one I’ve seen of the nominees (though I like the Mahershala Ali character in House of Cards, so I could see him being good enough to win), and I have no way to judge how good it was against its peers.
Of the best movie nominations I have seen A Star is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Black Panther. I want to see Green Book ,Vice, Roma and maybe Blackklansman. The only other movie that I think I saw that was nominated for anything, is The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which is the latest Cohen brothers film. Different than their usual fare, a sextuplet of western shorts. Well done, but anticlimactic.
Of the movies mentioned in this thread I saw only Black Panther, which was predictably predictable throughout and somewhere around the 70th or so best superhero movie out of the around 100 superhero movies I've seen. Not something I'd view again or see the sequel(s) to. The fact that the other movies considered were all hard-left racial/political "message" movies, and yet a 3rd remake of the smaltzy 1937 A Star is Born pretty much confirms my view that there was really no justification for handing out awards to themselves this year. R.I.P. Hollywood creativity.
I've seen so many versions of a Star is Born and the fact that I can't stand Barbara Streisand nor her character in one of the versions of A Star is Born, that I refuse to sit through yet another version.
Black Panther had no business being in the conversation. It's a Marvel movie, and really not any different than any other Marvel movie. Same pace, same humor, same writing style. Nothing special other than the politics of it. I haven't seen Vice or Greenbook yet, but I want to. I saw A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody and I thought they were both excellent. Considering this was Bradley Cooper's first time directing, and he took something that had been made three times before and made it THIS good, really says something. He also went against the advice of many people who told him it would be a horrible idea to make the movie. He recruited Gaga something like 3 years ago while her career was on the downswing. He learned to sing, play the guitar and the piano. The whole thing is just amazing. Really the best part about Bohemian Rhapsody was Rami Malek. I was really hoping he would win best actor for his performance and he did.
The good thing about opinions is that yours are usually wrong. Bonus is that you haven't seen this version of A Star is Born and haven't seen all his movies.
Hey, we have something in common. Your opinions are usually wrong. I think that's worth a beer or two.
