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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-20-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say 99% of...

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say 99% of people don't understand this. But I know the Oscars, and the appearance of winning an Oscar, certainly has a cache with a lot of people. But whether...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-19-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

The Oscars function completely fine as they are designed. They are voted on by members of the Academy. As much as some people seem to get thrown by the "Best Movie" designation, and seem to take it...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-17-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

Yeah, the idea that Spielberg or even Lucas is responsible for the deterioration of the New American Cinema of the 70's, is such a tired old notion that has absolutely no traction with the reality of...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-17-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

You don't watch movies for them to be better than other movies. They are to be watched, and felt and talked about. Nothing else.



And if it's really that important for someone to figure out...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Oh, for sure. I have biases towards films that...

Oh, for sure. I have biases towards films that portray any group of people who've fallen between the cracks. Stories that get over looked. Whether it be films that have to do with queer culture, or...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
If I feel compelled to put down a list (frankly,...

If I feel compelled to put down a list (frankly, I'm not nearly as obsessively interested in making lists from this millennium as I am from the last, as I know I have a lot of blind spots from the...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
This is all leads to one of the only 'truth's I...

This is all leads to one of the only 'truth's I can really conceive of in art, is that you are never wrong in liking anything. If you respond to something, and that response is positive, there is...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
I get people defending the movies they like with...

I get people defending the movies they like with fire and passion. Sometimes (in my case) against any kind of common sense or good taste. What I will never get is people who can't accept others...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Give or take .01 percent, I think this number is...

Give or take .01 percent, I think this number is essentially correct.

lol

Yeah, this has been a particularly tough one to parse. It has something to do with that list of directors. Because it...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
If you think this is how arguments work, I can't...

If you think this is how arguments work, I can't help you.


Exactly what do you think you are proving with your list nonsense? Do you think I'm incapable of writing a list of another ten great...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
This line of thinking makes zero sense to me. The...

This line of thinking makes zero sense to me. The best picture Oscar is not about honoring Barry Jenkins career. It's honoring that particular movie. If people are thinking the Oscar is tarnished...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Okay. But Moonlight is still my favorite. And...

Okay. But Moonlight is still my favorite. And maybe it was also the favorite of those who voted in the Academy. Just like Gladiator was the favorite when it won. And Braveheart was the favorite when...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Moonlight may be the rare example of a film...

Moonlight may be the rare example of a film winning that I might actually consider being the best American film of that year.



Michael Cimino also directed Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Year of...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

So Moonlight, Spotlight, 24 Years A Slave, Parasite and Birdman, which to me are entertaining, shouldn't win because they aren't Argo, Gladiator or Braveheart, which I find boring?



Who decides...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-13-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

I get what TUS is saying in relation to the film industry, and I imagine it is the common view of movies in general. And I think he is probably correct looking at it within these margins.But it is...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-08-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

I think the reality is the Oscar ceremonies have only traditionally saved a very small handful of indie films a year. And while it might help in that small productions gain financing in hopes of...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-07-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

Good Lord.



Nearly all standard narrative is based on conflict and struggle. It is frequently about individuals, or groups, overcoming the odds. There is a reason (and it isn't virtue...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-07-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By crumbsroom
There wasn't any. Any movie identified as being...

There wasn't any. Any movie identified as being about marginalized people reflexively gets tagged as this because, I don't know, some people get confused why someone would make a movie about people...