doodle
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Post by doodle on Feb 27, 2017 22:50:05 GMT
IMO, it would have been remembered either way but now with this mess up even more so. People are probably gonna be coining terms like "getting La La Land'd" or something when it comes to a movie being snubbed or the wrong name being announced as a winner. Steve Harvey got a break.
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Post by Real Duality on Feb 27, 2017 22:55:45 GMT
Some of you guys are awfully optimistic. I think it would have been mostly forgotten, but now because of this it will be somewhat remembered.
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Post by harlequinade on Mar 1, 2017 12:46:24 GMT
This is the best thing that could have happened to it. If it won, backlash. If it lost, loser. But now? It lost, but oh my, those poor people!
I've just seen they shoved slightly older Damien from the Omen next to Barry on the cover of Variety. They are totally 'sharing'/stealing spotlight from the actual winner.
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Post by phenix714 on Mar 1, 2017 14:58:02 GMT
At the end of the day, I'm starting to think its inability to have won Best Picture is a good sign for its legacy. I mean, the Academy hardly has a good track record of awarding the best movie of the year. They've been especially awful at it this decade (seriously, who thinks movies like Spotlight, Argo and The King's Speech will be seen as the best movies of their year decades from now ??).
Looking at that list, how many movies in the top 100 have won Best Picture ? I count 5 (The Godfather movies, Casablanca, The Apartment and Annie Hall). Of course a lot of those are foreign or pre-Oscars movies, but still, it's a ridiculously low ratio of the Academy getting it right. It looks like that more often than not, you're better off finishing second than winning Best Picture.
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Post by phenix714 on Mar 1, 2017 15:18:46 GMT
This is the best thing that could have happened to it. If it won, backlash. If it lost, loser. But now? It lost, but oh my, those poor people! I've just seen they shoved slightly older Damien from the Omen next to Barry on the cover of Variety. They are totally 'sharing'/stealing spotlight from the actual winner. I dunno. I've read some people complain about this, saying it makes it look like a tie. But, I think it's a good thing, because it kind of is a tie. After all, for several months La La Land WAS the Best Picture winner in everybody's mind. And indeed it would have been just as deserving a winner, and under different circumstances would probably have won. So, I think it's fair game to acknowledge that. I think it sends a good message. It encourages love and solidarity against hate and competition. And it will end up benefitting both movies much more than if they had been the sole winner. Together, they are stronger.
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Mar 1, 2017 15:30:22 GMT
It'll probably benefit from the BP loss in the long run. I've already noticed a lot of the "lulz DAE think La La Land is overrated af?" rhetoric has ceased considerably in the past few days.
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Post by harlequinade on Mar 1, 2017 15:43:12 GMT
This is the best thing that could have happened to it. If it won, backlash. If it lost, loser. But now? It lost, but oh my, those poor people! I've just seen they shoved slightly older Damien from the Omen next to Barry on the cover of Variety. They are totally 'sharing'/stealing spotlight from the actual winner. I dunno. I've read some people complain about this, saying it makes it look like a tie. But, I think it's a good thing, because it kind of is a tie. After all, for several months La La Land WAS the Best Picture winner in everybody's mind. And indeed it would have been just as deserving a winner, and under different circumstances would probably have won. So, I think it's fair game to acknowledge that. I think it sends a good message. It encourages love and solidarity against hate and competition. And it will end up benefitting both movies much more than if they had been the sole winner. Together, they are stronger. Not at all. Gravity and Mad Max won more Oscars than respective year's BP winner and they didn't get half of that attention. It's not a tie, they lost.
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Post by phenix714 on Mar 1, 2017 16:02:40 GMT
I dunno. I've read some people complain about this, saying it makes it look like a tie. But, I think it's a good thing, because it kind of is a tie. After all, for several months La La Land WAS the Best Picture winner in everybody's mind. And indeed it would have been just as deserving a winner, and under different circumstances would probably have won. So, I think it's fair game to acknowledge that. I think it sends a good message. It encourages love and solidarity against hate and competition. And it will end up benefitting both movies much more than if they had been the sole winner. Together, they are stronger. Not at all. Gravity and Mad Max won more Oscars than respective year's BP winner and they didn't get half of that attention. It's not a tie, they lost. Gravity and Mad Max weren't locks for BP the way La La Land was though. And I really doubt Mad Max was close to winning. Gravity may have been. In the end though, Mad Max is certainly now seen as a bigger deal than Spotlight. This year, in contrast, we were very lucky to have two great movies as frontrunners. Both of them would have been great winners any year this decade. And that's why, I think, it's a good thing that they get that much attention.
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