The creator of this series is fucking 17 years old and A24 picks it up. https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-ba...ture-based-on-viral-horror-shorts-1235249413/
it was good, interesting, imaginative, and heartfelt. But I don't think it will deserve its best movie oscar
I've seen all 10 best pic nominees and am curious which one you think will win and which deserves to win?
I have not seen them all yet, but I plan to see all but 2 or 3 of them ahead of the Oscars. I think in a normal world, Top Gun would win. It was the best movie experience of the year. But I will be watching Fabelman's and Tar this weekend. Can't really say until then.
Top Gun was visually impressive and fun to watch. But at the end of the day it’s a nostalgia flick with a pre-Global War on Terror outlook on American imperial adventures. EEAAO tackles a number of real world issues (immigration, family values, mental health, nihilism, communication…) all while being visually stunning on a shoe string budget.
we should stop giving the best movie award to movies based on what they set out to accomplish (see Green Book). Not comparing the two, but I judge the movies based on the enjoyment I got from the time I started the movie to the time I ended it. I rarely vouch for the blockbuster to win the academy award, but when we look back at the movie year of 2022 a decade from now, we will only think of Top Gun.
we can have both! sometimes when the entire country loves an amazing blockbuster movie (99 percent fan score on RTs, best reviewed movie of the year), it should win "best movie"
this is all silliness anyway as Top Gun won't win. It'll be cool if another A24 movie wins, even if it isn't my favorite movie of the year
sure, I don't think Top Gun is remotely interesting from an artistic standpoint beyond cinematography though so it'd have to be a very weak year where it wins Return of the King is the only modern movie I think that has pulled it off. and it was a pretty weak year and largely awards as a cumulative thing.
this year is pretty weak. this would have been a good year for the ol' 5 movies are nominated. getting to 10 was a stretch
0% chance the plot-light celebration of the military and Tom Cruise's movie star status makes the nominations in a 5 movie list
Who is we? The Academy will remember Tar, EEAAO and to a lesser extent Elvis and Banshees ahead of TG for this year.
The Academy has a rough few years ahead of it. It might be fair to say we don't see 5 movie lists anymore. I don't see them course correcting for at least 5 years.
the Academy is a set of old ass voters who took 100 years to finally begin to diversify. "we," the moviegoers, will remember Top Gun. And when the Oscars do their dumb movie scene montage celebrating 100 years of Oscars in the next few years, Top Gun is more likely to be in it than any film this year.
Interesting. I think it was a great year for movies. Not 2019 or 2017, but a really deep and enjoyable amount of releases.
No it isn’t. The extremely popular and well reviewed movie that made a billion dollars will be honored by the academy and movie goers 10 years from now. Banshees, which I liked, will be just another movie like Nomadland.
Fuck Top Gun. First off, yours and (I guess since you’ve seen fit to speaking for the general audience) others’ nostalgia is carrying a lot of weight. Secondly, the fact that people like you eat this literal propaganda shit up, and are stanning for it as best picture and something we will remember for decades, is wild. And for the record, the Oscars are utter shit. Best director awards get handed out every year and somehow Kubrick, Hitchcock, Welles, and Chaplin never got one? There are also a lot of movies that have way more staying power than the their best picture counterpart winners. Top Gun isn’t anywhere near that echelon, though: The Great Dictator (Rebecca) Citizen Kane (How Green Was My Valley) The Magnificent Ambersons (Mrs. Miniver) It’s a Wonderful Life (The Best Years of Our Lives) Dr. Strangelove (My Fair Love) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe (A Man for All Seasons) Cries and Whispers (The Sting) HOLY FUCK 1975 WAS LIT Raging Bull (Ordinary People) It gets murky from there. And I’ll let others debate it.
come tag me when it happens because the Oscars isn't exactly known for highlighting blockbuster action flicks in their montages
This is definitely a really good point. I’ll circle back after they honor McDonald’s for making a billion dollars with the best burger ever.
This post stinks. Look up the reviews for your nearby McDonald’s. And then look up the reviews of top gun maverick.
It’s good. Your mileage may vary depending on how much you can buy into charming scumbags but Simon Rex does a really good job as the aforementioned charming scumbag. Suzanna Son should probably be a star, I feel bad her next role is attached to that clusterfuck weeknd levinson project
That's impressive. I love my movies, but I'd have no interest in seeing about half of those nominated for the Oscar.
I've said it before but my best friend worked on EEAAO and he generally does commercial work and this was his first credited film (he worked on Transformers: The Last Knight but did not fill out his paperwork to be in the credits which is a blessing in disguise) so I will be rooting for it hard to win best pic but I think I'd still have it as my favorite film of the year regardless. Banshees, The Batman, The Menu, Top Gun were all really fun but I just had a unique emotional response to EEAAO. I live around where they were filming it and asked my friend what it was about when we had dinner during early production and he was like "Well....yeah...I don't really know how to explain but it has Michelle Yeoh" Filming that with zero context as a set worker must have been confusing as fuck considering some of the actors seemed to be confused