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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-17-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Takoma11
Agreed. Several essays written about "fixing" the...

Agreed. Several essays written about "fixing" the Oscars have basically suggested that they stop pandering to a "general audience" and just go full film-nerd. I would also watch such an event, having...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Takoma11
I don't think that you can ever objectively say...

I don't think that you can ever objectively say things about art that aren't observations of aspects of that film. But there's always this subjective element where the viewer is (or isn't) impacted...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Takoma11
Right. I mean, I'd say that the one caveat I have...

Right. I mean, I'd say that the one caveat I have here is that it's frustrating to me when people won't just name some of their own biases/preferences.

I do partly like Moonlight because it...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Takoma11
There will always be a human element to art (and...

There will always be a human element to art (and even if you try to hew to something "objective" like technical proficiency, well, it's really about how well techniques are deployed, which gets you...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Takoma11
I don't want to sound too patronizing here, but I...

I don't want to sound too patronizing here, but I think there's something you don't quite understand: bias is only bad when it works against the movies you like. Get it now?
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Takoma11
Yeah, I find this very confusing as a concept. ...

Yeah, I find this very confusing as a concept.

I know that what someone uses as a metric to determine the film that is the "best" will really range from person to person, but the idea that the...