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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    I heard Kobe won one...
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840

    I heard Kobe won one...

    #MeToo
    The first six amphibious inches were consensual!
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,340 Founders Club
  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457
    Well, most sequels suck.


  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    I'm trying to remember the last Best Pic winner that wasn't a total steam pile.
  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457
    No Country for Old Men was pretty good. The Departed was good. Unforgiven is one of the best movies ever. And yeah, The Godfathers. But a lot of shit in between.
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    salemcoog said:

    Wasn't Gladiator a winner? That was a good one.

    Can't watch that movie with a chick

    It's a tear jerker at the end


  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    edited March 2018
    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.
  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    And gay. Lots of gay.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    Or in the case of last years victor, to shut a certain portion of the population up.
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    salemcoog said:

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    Or in the case of last years victor, to shut a certain portion of the population up.
    Who won last year
  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457

    salemcoog said:

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    Or in the case of last years victor, to shut a certain portion of the population up.
    Who won last year
    The gay.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840
    salemcoog said:

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    Or in the case of last years victor, to shut a certain portion of the population up.
    Yryk
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913

    salemcoog said:

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    Or in the case of last years victor, to shut a certain portion of the population up.
    Who won last year
    Moonlight....




    Yeah, Me either.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Don't know about the feminism stuff, but wood. Over and over and over.

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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,136 Standard Supporter
    TheHB said:

    The Departed was pretty good.

    For the last decade, the academy decided that self expression and/or politics were a prerequisite to win Best Picture.

    And gay. Lots of gay.
    My original answer was "42nd Street" but then thought the gay-o-meter would explode.

  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,875 Standard Supporter
    It's Hollywood and it's 99% red.
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    2001400ex said:

    Don't know about the feminism stuff, but wood. Over and over and over.

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    No you woodnt
  • NEsnake12
    NEsnake12 Member Posts: 3,795
    Best picture is trending to shit. It's become a circle jerk of "which movie is the most ambiguously artsy/inclusionary and has a boring script made for actors to act.".

    They don't care about entertainment value at all. Not to say that every movie sucks, but I'd be hard pressed to watch a lot of them for a second time... and some I couldn't be assed to watch a first time (Shape of Water, The Artist, Crash, etc). No winners this decade will be rewatched and remembered 20 years from now.

    The 2000's had some actually good winners though... Hurt Locker, LOTR Return of the King, Gladiator, No Country for Old Men, The Departed...
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840
    NEsnake12 said:

    Best picture is trending to shit. It's become a circle jerk of "which movie is the most ambiguously artsy/inclusionary and has a boring script made for actors to act.".

    They don't care about entertainment value at all. Not to say that every movie sucks, but I'd be hard pressed to watch a lot of them for a second time... and some I couldn't be assed to watch a first time (Shape of Water, The Artist, Crash, etc). No winners this decade will be rewatched and remembered 20 years from now.

    The 2000's had some actually good winners though... Hurt Locker, LOTR Return of the King, Gladiator, No Country for Old Men, The Departed...

    Crash didn’t suck
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    NEsnake12 said:

    Best picture is trending to shit. It's become a circle jerk of "which movie is the most ambiguously artsy/inclusionary and has a boring script made for actors to act.".

    They don't care about entertainment value at all. Not to say that every movie sucks, but I'd be hard pressed to watch a lot of them for a second time... and some I couldn't be assed to watch a first time (Shape of Water, The Artist, Crash, etc). No winners this decade will be rewatched and remembered 20 years from now.

    The 2000's had some actually good winners though... Hurt Locker, LOTR Return of the King, Gladiator, No Country for Old Men, The Departed...

    This. I wish I had read this before I wrote my crap above. This nailed it, minus my profound addition of 90's movies and the data point that Shakespeare in Love ruined the last vestiges of Hollywood.

    Also, was just looking at the list of winners and nominees and everything from 2010 on is a complete farce. Look at 2015 - Spotlight (lolwut?) beat Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant? Get the fuck out of here Hollywood. Fags.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,136 Standard Supporter
    Just to unfag Shakespeare in Love, Gwynneth showed off some nice tittays and fucking skills.



  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    Swaye said:

    You dipshits left out the 90's. Braveheart, The Unforgiven, American Beauty, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves (shout out to me).

    But, the 90's also featured the first time I can recall of useless artsy tripe beating a legit great movie - when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan. 1998. That's where shit started going off the rails. Since 2010 it is rare where some useless artsy fag shit doesn't win. And Hollywood wonders why nobody tunes in anymore.

    You are young. Amadeus beat out The Killing Fields in 1984.

    And an overly large group of one-dimensional caricatures tromping around Normandy Saving Matt Damon was NOT a legit great movie. Spielberg's one legit great movie from the 90's was Schindler's List, not some high-production-value suckoff to the GG.