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Post by michael128 on Feb 27, 2017 5:45:06 GMT
and honestly, the guy who actually announced moonlight as the winner seemed like such a sore loser. white tears. he was acting so aggressive. moonlight was done so wrong tonight
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Post by brockmeeks on Feb 27, 2017 5:46:29 GMT
It wasn't a joke.
We just witnessed a big screw up. Maybe their biggest.
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Post by princenuada on Feb 27, 2017 5:46:50 GMT
What in the actual fuck. I truly expected La La Land to win. It would've been the first time my favorite film of the year actually won BP.
And then fuckin Moonlight gets it.
I thought Moonlight was ok, but is it going to go down history the same way LLL will? Noooope.
Atleast now I don't have to hear about LLL being "overrated" and hopefully it won't get a lot of backlash now
God this is so weird. This is clearly a political move there's no way the majority of Academy voters preferred Moonlight to La La Land
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Post by Sharbs on Feb 27, 2017 5:47:05 GMT
In 10 years, most of us would have said Moonlight should have won, but now all of us will say LLL should've won. It's funny how we work
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 27, 2017 5:47:05 GMT
Someone needs to get fired and then executed.
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Post by pendragon on Feb 27, 2017 5:47:25 GMT
Gone with the Wind, All About Eve, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, Ben Hur, Bridge on The River Kwai, Amadeus, Moonlight? What's wrong with this picture? Nothing. Best picture winners don't have to be 3 hour long epics. What about Marty or The Apartment or Ordinary People?
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 27, 2017 5:47:27 GMT
Now that Moonlight is the BP winner, some thoughts:
1) Well, that should mitigate some of the La La Land backlash people already got started on. Which I'm at least happy about, a lot of the backlash struck me as really cynical and externally motivated rather than honestly addressing the film itself.
2) Huge boost for Moonlight's exposure, which is terrific but I'm afraid will also result in some backlash over this being a "political" win. I could also see it sadly being remembered more for the gigantic fuck-up with the BP presentation and being the movie that beat La La Land, which is unfortunate.
3) I wouldn't be surprised to see a million different thinkpieces and conspiracies on how this whole thing turned out. I can see it now: "the ending was a joke that the La La Land crew was in on," "since everyone assumed La La Land was the frontrunner people voted strategically to mess with the preferential ballot," "Ryan Gosling single-handedly saved Moonlight's chances just like he saved jazz," etc.
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Post by Viced on Feb 27, 2017 5:49:09 GMT
In 10 years, most of us would have said Moonlight should have won, but now all of us will say LLL should've won. It's funny how we work HELL OR HIGH WATER SHOULD HAVE WON, DAMMIT.
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Post by atn on Feb 27, 2017 5:49:45 GMT
Lmao I know this was insane but some of y'all need to chill
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 27, 2017 5:50:13 GMT
As a joke. Cruel and cheap, sure, but I can imagine somebody thinking it would be a funny a memorable way to end a seemingly predictable awards season. I just don't see that happening. It's not that out of the realm of possibility for me to think it was a freak confluence of events and the people running the show were late on the draw because of the wild and unprecedented circumstances.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 27, 2017 5:50:42 GMT
Gone with the Wind, All About Eve, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, Ben Hur, Bridge on The River Kwai, Amadeus, Moonlight? What's wrong with this picture? I don't see a problem.
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Post by phenix714 on Feb 27, 2017 5:51:13 GMT
Other then the screw up of disastrous propos. This has got to be one of the biggest upsets in Oscar BP history Agreed...that's why I'm finding it hard to be happy. I loved them both and early on, I wanted Moonlight to win between the two...but now it just feels like a purely political move, knowing how well loved La La Land has been. It feels like a repeat of 12YAS, except we knew 12YAS was more likely to win during that season. The thing I don't understand is, LLL is also a very political movie, maybe more than Moonlight. It stands against everything Trump represents. So, if they wanted to go political LLL would have been a very fitting choice as well. My feeling is La La Land just was a kind of divisive movie. It's not exactly new, a lot of people are meh about it and don't really get the dreamer/artist aspect, which is the emotional core of the movie.
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Post by michael128 on Feb 27, 2017 5:51:36 GMT
lolol at her lies. what a fake
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 27, 2017 5:51:53 GMT
My night is complete. Good night, all. Wake up, Ryan.
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Post by Viced on Feb 27, 2017 5:53:07 GMT
Watching it again, I feel really fucking bad for Beatty. He had no idea what to do and that's one hell of a jam to be in. The look on his face after Faye announces La La Land is kind of like "hmmmm just smile Warren. It was the frontrunner. You didn't announce it. None of this is your fault. Keep smiling Warren."
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 27, 2017 5:53:11 GMT
lolol at her lies. what a fake lolol at your butthurt
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Post by stephen on Feb 27, 2017 5:55:16 GMT
As a joke. Cruel and cheap, sure, but I can imagine somebody thinking it would be a funny a memorable way to end a seemingly predictable awards season. I just don't see that happening. It's not that out of the realm of possibility for me to think it was a freak confluence of events and the people running the show were late on the draw because of the wild and unprecedented circumstances. I'm certain this is the case. Beatty's initial reaction seems to be befuddlement (but after Sean Penn did the same thing when he presented, people thought it was a joke). Unsure of what to do, as it would seem incredibly awkward to just stop in mid-presentation and say, "Um, we got the wrong envelope, guys," he showed it to Dunaway, ostensibly to let her know there was a problem, but Dunaway figured he probably wanted her to read it, and she read La La Land.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 27, 2017 5:55:55 GMT
Watching it again, I feel really fucking bad for Beatty. He had no idea what to do and that's one hell of a jam to be in. The look on his face after Faye announces La La Land is kind of like "hmmmm just smile Warren. It was the frontrunner. You didn't announce it. None of this is your fault. Keep smiling Warren." Crazy thing is that this felt like the kind of year where they could easily get away with just announcing the frontrunner, have nobody bat an eye, and pretend that everything went to plan. But nope, curveball of the century.
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Post by The-Havok on Feb 27, 2017 5:56:49 GMT
Yeah. The media is eating Beatty alive
Maybe he could blame it to the Reds
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Post by avengingangel on Feb 27, 2017 5:56:56 GMT
Other then the screw up of disastrous propos. This has got to be one of the biggest upsets in Oscar BP history Agreed...that's why I'm finding it hard to be happy. I loved them both and early on, I wanted Moonlight to win between the two...but now it just feels like a purely political move, knowing how well loved La La Land has been. It feels like a repeat of 12YAS, except we knew 12YAS was more likely to win during that season. I feel sad for them.
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Post by bobbystarks on Feb 27, 2017 6:00:12 GMT
lolol at her lies. what a fake Dude it just sounds that you're mad that she won, and taking it all out on her when she didn't do jack shit. Chill out, man. Being salty isn't going to change anything.
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Post by michael128 on Feb 27, 2017 6:01:14 GMT
lolol at her lies. what a fake Dude it just sounds that you're mad that she won, and taking it all out on her when she didn't do jack shit. Chill out, man. Being salty isn't going to change anything. ok it just sounds like you're angry for some reason. chill, seriously. see how fucking stupid you sound?
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 27, 2017 6:01:16 GMT
I went into tonight expecting a very predictable evening -- damn. The editing win threw me for a loop (yay) but I didn't think much else would happen to spice things up. I was so over Ga Ga Land that I left the theater where I was watching the show and missed the insanity. I can barely wrap my head around it, but I love this. If there was going to be another split (whoa) I wish Jenkins had taken director instead, but what a cool win. I have Moonlight third of the nominees and I'm so happy for them.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Feb 27, 2017 6:02:04 GMT
I'm dying to see the headlines on the tabloids. I'm guessing someone from the Academy staff is going to be fired because of this. In all seriousness though, this is so awkward. I'm tremendously happy for Moonlight, but at the same time I feel bad for those producers of La La Land. Moonlight's victory, as fair as it is, will always be overshadowed by this embarrassing event. And that's sad.
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Post by Viced on Feb 27, 2017 6:02:48 GMT
God I love Albert Brooks.
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