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I was an original member of the DawgVent, way back in the 90's, long before Rivals bought it. I also had a heavy presence on the original BeeHive, raising h*ll with the Nerds. Those were the good old days when these social media sites were run off of some guy's basement server.
What’s funny is I didn’t even make a political statement. I merely chastised Hollywood elites for being hypocrites by constantly lecturing us at these award shows while they don’t live or abide by their own words.
And then certain persons here who happen to align politically with said Hollywood hypocrites got “offended by association/proxy”, and THEY made it about politics.
I think we should be able to trash Hollywood elites all we want in a topic like this without these certain persons hijacking and ruining the threads because they wrongly project their butthurt.
I did nothing against the rules here.
Why don't you keep it on topic and discuss movies like the OP wanted.
The first will always be my favorite, only because of Robin Williams, but I was surprised at how much I liked the second movie. I usually can't stand Jack Black in a movie and he was really good in the second Jumanji movie.
I respect your opinion, but disagree with your assessment. A war movie can still be great in a concentrated area. It didn't have to be grand or tell "the whole story" to be powerful. Also, with Dunkirk, the movie making itself was a lot of the enjoyment. The weaving of three different time frames into one seamless story was amazing. Add in incredible cinematography and you've got a great movie IMO.
How did you watch it? What service did you use.
Who are you addressing Barker? If me, I saw 1917 at the theater. And much like Dunkirk, it's a movie that absolutely should be seen on the big screen. IMAX/surround sound if possible.
Also the story was the citizens sailing their personal boats to pick their boys up
I agree. Walking thru the parking lot after the movie, I told My wife it was ok but didn’t really wow me.
Since it’s been brought up , I thought That Saving Private Ryan was much better.
SPR is the gold standard. Perfect combo of combat chaos, individual character development and cinematic beauty.
Saving Private Ryan has an amazing beginning, but after that it goes downhill. Private Ryan is a tùrd who doesn’t need saving. William Goldman (Butch Cassidy, princess bride) has one of the all time take downs of this movie. I can never see it the same again
Private Ryan went to Florida? Why did we bother to save him?!?!
I watch everything with subtitles on. Sometimes I'll turn off for sports because it'll cover too much of the screen. But 100% of shows and movies with use subtitles
I watched both. I really enjoyed 1917, but I thought it was a little cliche (espc. the mother in the basement). My favorite scene was the plane crash and the aftermath.
Parasite blew me away. The second half of the movie is so tense, and the shot in the rain before the flood is amazing.
I think these two were both a tier above the rest of the nominees, but ultimately I think they made the right call with Parasite
Yeah- I've tried to leave it alone because of the political argument that flared up, but part of my original point was that Parasite never should have been considered for best picture. This is the first time a foreign-language film has won the award in the history of the Academy. And for good reason- because there is already a separate category for best foreign language film.
The Ministry of Culture and Information in Daejong does not consider English language films for Korea's best picture award. The Deutscher Filmpreis does not consider English language films for Germany's best picture award. The Grande Premio do Cinema does not consider English language films for Brazil's best picture award.
Giving this year's best picture award to Parasite makes no sense. It's irrational, unfair to the other nominees, and wrong. (I believe it was also overtly political, but we can leave that part out of the discussion, since it's clearly divisive and largely irrelevant to the main point.)
If you're just comparing the relative merits of the two films then plenty of people can reasonably disagree as to which one is better. They're both good films. But if Bong wanted to win an award for best picture (as opposed to best foreign language film), he could have made an English language film using western production companies, actors, and crew, just as he did previously with Snowpiercer.
Frankly, I think he was both shocked and confused that he won the main award, and rightly so.