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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 05-08-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Have to wonder what message boards you're on...

Have to wonder what message boards you're on where The Station Agent is the most overrated of all movies - it barely gets mentioned at all on this message board.

As for the movies listed, the ones...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-20-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
You heard him. I don't know how much you were...

You heard him. I don't know how much you were keeping up with this year's Oscars, but they introduced not one but two "fan favourite" awards that were voted on by the general public via Twitter...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-17-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

Yeah well I'm glad there's no Officer 72582 who will shoot me for watching Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-17-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Because that kind of kill-baby-Hitler rationale...

Because that kind of kill-baby-Hitler rationale doesn't account for the external circumstances that allow such individuals to thrive in the first place and would theoretically extend that same...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-17-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
I thought about including The Best Years of our...

I thought about including The Best Years of our Lives but I knew that William Wyler was already such an established director before and after making it that he would not qualify by Siddon's...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-16-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Only because you started this whole thing off by...

Only because you started this whole thing off by referencing the last 20 years. Would In the Heat of the Night or Midnight Cowboy or West Side Story count as "fashionable" choices by your standards?
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

Esoteric doesn't enter into it, nor does fashionable (and I would think these concepts are at odds with one another anyway). A popular film winning doesn't automatically make it a deserving winner -...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
It is a valid point, especially if a point of...

It is a valid point, especially if a point of contention is that the most recent slate of winners are "unpopular" to the point where Argo being a financial success makes it an outlier despite its...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-15-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

Gotta admit I was a little surprised that Argo got held up as some kind of populist entertaining choice on par with Gladiator or Titanic, then I looked it up and find it grossed about $232m against a...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-11-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
And that list isn't worth judging? I definitely...

And that list isn't worth judging? I definitely don't think McKay or Russell are anywhere near the "best directors" conversation, much less holding such unimpeachable positions as you seem to suggest...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-11-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Feels like this point does hinge on who exactly...

Feels like this point does hinge on who exactly the "ten best filmmakers of the last twenty years" even are, which is obviously going to be a matter of subjectivity anyway. It's also worth noting...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-08-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Looks like Holden already beat me to it, but the...

Looks like Holden already beat me to it, but the Academy has been acknowledging and awarding films about minorities and marginalised groups for decades already - I'm sure Best Picture winners like In...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-06-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
On the other hand, consider what kind of films...

On the other hand, consider what kind of films are being "widely seen and appreciated" by audiences these days and how the overall Hollywood business model has shifted to accommodate films that do...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 04-05-22
Replies: 188
Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Do you think Academy Awards has hurt film?

You're asking people on a movie forum, we're probably more likely to remember winners and losers than most. Just the other day we were relitigating the 58th awards and what we thought deserved the...