Friday, February 24, 2017

Your Turn - Academy Awards - Best Picture

BEST PICTURE
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

20 comments:

Tricia13 said...

LaLa Land.
Though Manchester By The Sea was extraordinary and as I said at the beginning of awards season- my personal wish to win because Kenny Lonergan is one of the most talented ,humble, and nicest guys out there or that known in the industry

sandybrook said...

Anything but LaLa Land.

Tricia13 said...

*that I've

MontanaMarriott said...

I hated it but most definitely Meh Meh Land.

Guesser said...

With ten picks, the best won't win. Haven't seen them all so no choice.

Zilla1 said...

Hidden Figures was really, really good. I highly recommend it.

SheenaBeena said...

My husband and I are movie freaks. We've seen them all. Trying to finish the foreign language films by Sunday... But here's my order:

1. Manchester by the Sea- This was the best movie of the year. Best story, best acting. Most realistic portrayal of human events. Yes, people call it depressing. This is life for some people. It was outstanding.
2. Moonlight- Barry Jenkins did a phenomenal job. Wish Ali was in it more. Really cool way of telling a coming of age story.

Big gap

3- La La Land: Sure, you feel good walking out. It should win many of the secondary categories. Not the best movie.
4- Lion- Amazing story. Could have been told a little better. Only thing keeping it from #3
5- Hell or High Water- Great story. Jeff Bridges is a beast again. Came out too early to generate enough buzz.
6. Arrival- It was good. No problems with it. Excellent twist at the end. The other movies were better.
7- Hacksaw Ridge- Main character's life is fascinating. It's a very well done war movie.
8- Hidden Figures- I've voiced my opinion on this previously. This was way too "Disney"/"Rudy". It wasn't realistic. It was like Remember the Titans for NASA. The 3 real life women are remarkable. They cheapened the story with how they told it.
9- Fences- Could have seen the exact same thing on Broadway

Zilla1 said...

I saw Manchester. I thought it was good, but I didn't think it was the best movie out there.

Flobee said...

Hell or High Water

8====D KermitGosnellKnobjob said...

I have not seen any.
The only one I want to see is the Mel Gibson one, I do not even know the name, I will have to search before torrenting it, but I think it is nominated, so there goes my vote.
For the rest, do not know or care about them.

SheenaBeena said...

@Zilla1.... What was your favorite?

As far as one out there now that isn't "award-worthy", Split with James McAvoy was very entertaining. He was outstanding individually.

david said...

None of the above?

Sadie said...

Hidden Figures was clunky and old fashioned, but still probably the nominated film the whole family enjoyed the most. Hated Arrival, can't believe it got nominated and Interstellar didn't a couple of years ago. Arrival was basically just a remake of Contact.

I didn't like Lalaland, Manchester by the Sea? Nah, and Casey Affleck ALWAYS plays the same role - gloomy, depressed, scowling. Hope he doesn't win.

I think Moonlight will probably win even though the last third didn't live up to the great first two segments.

Marianne said...

I really enjoyed Arrival, Oscar worthy probably not... I thought Manchester was a very good movie. I fear it just maybe La La land, not my kind of flick but that's just me. The others I haven't see just yet..

Brondie said...

Who really gives a rat's ass? Will not spend a dime to these hypocrites.

Side Piece said...

Though gloomy, Manchester is the best IMO

information desk said...

I think moonlight just to prove Oscars aren't racist
Plus it was a groundbreaking movie for race and sexuality

Scandi Sanskrit said...

Lego Batman.

Redhead said...

La la land bored me to tears but it was full of non threatening white people and that's what Hollywood loves. Moonlight was so gorgeous and haunted my thoughts for days afterward. I need to see more movies because I haven't seen most of these. Lego batman was beyond hilarious and kids won't get most of the jokes. My Five year old just liked the visuals.

Scandi Sanskrit said...

Yah, I saw it over the weekend with my friends and we came out of the cinema and my friend was like, "that was so embarrassing, we were the ones there LOL-ing!"

And I had to remind her that it's adult humour (most of the audience were small children and grannies—plus, Joker/Batman parody Western dating culture and that sort of humour gets lost in translation a bit). Batman's narcissism and Joker's neediness is fucking hysterical.

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