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Post by Brother Fease on Jan 7, 2019 5:04:29 GMT
I know, I know, I am surprised too. I thought it was going to be A Star is Born.
Bohemian Rhapsody received okay-to-lukewarm critical praise. RottenTomatoes only has it at 62%. Metacritic at 49/100. The Broadcast Film Critics scored the film with a 75/100, which just barely squeaks into their recommendation territory. For the film to beat out A Star is Born, If Beale Street, Black Panther, and BlackKklansman is quite remarkable.
At this point, it's pretty much locked into a Best Picture slot. It will be interesting to see if it snags a WGA or gets a DGA nomination, which would be ironic, because Singer got CANNED before the film was complete.
What do you guys think? Do you believe Bohemian will get a Best Picture nominations or end up like The Cardinal or Spartacus? As in, won Best Drama at the Globes, but scored no Best Picture nomination.
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Post by bruinjoe96 on Jan 7, 2019 5:07:57 GMT
I mean, the film was okay, and Rami Malek is fantastic in it, but I wouldn't award it Best Picture, hell, not even a nomination (just for Rami Malek).
It's going to get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, the Globes loved it, and SAGs loved it, and PGA nominated it.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 7, 2019 5:09:17 GMT
let's talk about the waves of backlash it's about to be hit with
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 7, 2019 5:09:23 GMT
You know what? I kinda want it to win BP at the Oscars now...
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Post by quetee on Jan 7, 2019 5:09:39 GMT
Questioning its best picture nod status is crazy talk. It scored a SAG ensemble nod for pete's sake. That's huge.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 5:10:10 GMT
It's playing at the rundown discount theater near me now, so I guess I'll see it... At some point.
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Post by quetee on Jan 7, 2019 5:11:14 GMT
let's talk about the waves of backlash it's about to be hit with It won't get any cause GP loves the movie. We all know it won't win best picture. I think the globe win keeps other contender's potential backlash in check. Now, you can't hate on ASIB or Black Panther, they look like underdogs. |
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 7, 2019 5:16:34 GMT
2020 frontrunner Taron Egerton.
But seriously, Malek’s good, and he’d be far from the worst winner, but the movie is so thoroughly mediocre. Take away Queen’s music, there’s nothing to it.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 7, 2019 5:17:47 GMT
I wonder is Sacha regrets walking away from the project now.
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Post by Zeb31 on Jan 7, 2019 6:07:14 GMT
I wonder is Sacha regrets walking away from the project now. I don't see how he would, tbh. The film he had in mind was so radically different from what Singer seems to have wound up making that there's very little chance that he saw the finished product and went "boy, do I wish I could've been a part of that". And he doesn't strike me as the type to take awards seriously enough to regret it based on that. |
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Post by The-Havok on Jan 7, 2019 6:19:10 GMT
Yeah.... I could have been okay with capeshit winning. With race bait winning but... This?
I may be super corny here but cinéphiles, SJWs, trades, pundits, hell even some of the industry are united against this movie so I'm glad it at least has created common ground for the film community. Even if some of us don't take awards seriously.
Let's hope the new Academy will listen. They are known for correcting, not for following trends.
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Post by mrimpossible on Jan 7, 2019 6:19:27 GMT
Eddie Redmayne must be feeling pretty good. He’ll no longer be the worst Lead Actor winner of 2010s...
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Post by Miles Morales on Jan 7, 2019 6:48:03 GMT
let's talk about the waves of backlash it's about to be hit with It won't get any cause GP loves the movie. We all know it won't win best picture. I think the globe win keeps other contender's potential backlash in check. Now, you can't hate on ASIB or Black Panther, they look like underdogs. I'm pretty sure GA also loved La La Land and yet it got hit by a major backlash. Just need a few online thinkpieces to deflate the hype before the Oscars.
Black Panther also got hit by a pretty major backlash.
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Post by countjohn on Jan 7, 2019 6:52:51 GMT
let's talk about the waves of backlash it's about to be hit with It won't get any cause GP loves the movie. We all know it won't win best picture. I think the globe win keeps other contender's potential backlash in check. Now, you can't hate on ASIB or Black Panther, they look like underdogs. The award show politics are so dumb. I hate on things if they suck, I don't care if it's the "underdog" or not. |
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jan 7, 2019 13:30:42 GMT
Speaking as someone who found it the be a pretty decent film, and much better than A Star Is Born, I'm happy it won the award instead. Sure BlacKkKlansman, or even Black Panther would have made for a better winner, but leaving aside If Beale Street Could Talk, which I have yet to see, it isn't like Bohemian Rhapsody was a crap film winning in a quality lineup. It was an overall decent film, winning an average to decent lineup.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 7, 2019 14:01:46 GMT
The movies, the most populist art form - who are "film critics" today - why do we still talk like that's an actual thing like Andrew Sarris is still around shaping the discourse  - we always get caught up in the odd combination of perceived critical praise and that very populism which we costantly misjudge. For example, I never liked Queen, or Mercury, and that POV would be considered perfectly logical until you get to the point where Hollywood made a film about him. I haven't seen the film, but the general reaction to that from people is you love movies and music - why not? It's the same as if we lived in a book culture (we don't), we live in a visual culture and in that culture, the rules go out the window. Those rules are stupid fake ones anyway - a 5th - FIFTH time remake doesn't get more points than a 1st Freddie Mercury film other than in the fake world of film. Even more than that, I don't see anything odd with it beating a 5th time remake film, a deeply flawed film that strained to be relevant (it's not, Blackkklansman), a super-hero movie and a movie that has no heat at all (Beale Street, also haven't seen). It makes perfect sense that it would win in a way in that lineup anyway......that way is it suits the culture (30+ years regressive in taste and dramatic history - its important because it justified a film, period) and the medium.....it's more suited than it is for the people misreading the culture and the film medium as a whole. |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Jan 7, 2019 16:20:28 GMT
Malek is the only aspect of that film that deserves any high praise. It's pretty mediocre and watered-down overall (I can only assume an R-rated, Sacha Baron Cohen-helmed version would've been far superior). Will undoubtedly be the most controversial BP win since Crash if it repeats at the Oscars.
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- we always get caught up in the odd combination of perceived critical praise and that very populism which we costantly misjudge.
