The Oscars!

[Captain Kelsten]

2 minutes ago, Stig said:

 

You're using a film (one no where near as good) that came out two months before EEAAO as your example 

The quality of the film or how recently it released weren’t part of the question asked. The question asked was “where have you seen a film like this before?” and you got your answer, even if it was a bad one. 

 

 

[Nick R]

12 minutes ago, Exidor said:

Thematically?

 

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Ah, I'd have said it's closer to a different film from that studio:

 

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You know, the one with the little animal sitting under the chef's hat.

 

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Raccacoonie.

 

 

[Stig]

13 minutes ago, Captain Kelsten said:

The quality of the film or how recently it released weren’t part of the question asked. The question asked was “where have you seen a film like this before?” and you got your answer, even if it was a bad one. 

 

 

 

That's not what I meant at all, there's loads films out there that deal with Asain culture within families but the execution of this film was like nothing I've seen before. To say it was unoriginal is doing it a massive disservice.

 

We can find thematic similarities in all kinds of original films, but the way that story is told and presented to us is what sets them apart.

[Nick R]

 

 

 

[Festoon]

1 hour ago, Ry said:

The Oscars really need to stop this "give an oscar because they should have got one years ago or they are older" bullshit. 

 

Cue Farrell getting an oscar in a couple of years for an OK performance to make up for this. 

 

 

 

They were always like that. Never leading, never cutting-edge.

[krenzler]

Vanity Fair.

 

 

Love it.

[Nick R]

 

 

[deerokus]

Why is the interviewer wearing her gran's pants?

[krenzler]

Because in fashion things come back around?

[Stevie]

5 hours ago, Nick R said:

 

 

 

 

 

[Timbuktu]

A lot of good stuff that I like from this year’s Oscars, but leaving Chabri Dean out in the in memoriam section feels like an awful omission.  Pretty shocked to find out she died after watching the movie.

[Stig]

2 minutes ago, Timbuktu said:

A lot of good stuff that I like from this year’s Oscars, but leaving Chabri Dean out in the in memoriam section feels like an awful omission.  Pretty shocked to find out she died after watching the movie.

 

Yeah, a few noticeable omissions as per but to leave out someone that was a major part of one of the best picture nominations feels really off.

[Uncle Mike]

4 minutes ago, Timbuktu said:

Pretty shocked to find out she died after watching the movie.

 

You'd think that sort of thing would make the news. It's basically the plot of The Ring.

[Ry]

57 minutes ago, Stig said:

 

Yeah, a few noticeable omissions as per but to leave out someone that was a major part of one of the best picture nominations feels really off.

 

I can't believe some of the massive names they left out. Are the producers just stupid?

[Eric86]

9 hours ago, Stig said:

 

That's not what I meant at all, there's loads films out there that deal with Asain culture within families but the execution of this film was like nothing I've seen before. To say it was unoriginal is doing it a massive disservice.

 

We can find thematic similarities in all kinds of original films, but the way that story is told and presented to us is what sets them apart.

Fair enough. But, bearing in mind I only watched the first hour, searching for the one and the multiverse idea has been done to death. As for the way it was executed, I didn't think it was funny, wasn't engaged by any of the characters or action, and had no inclination to find out what happened in the rest of the film.

[Stig]

 

Well I think that's your loss, but you won't agree cause you didn't like it, so its by the by. I do however disagree about the multiverse being done to death. At the time this was conceived and filmed we'd had one major animated Spider-man film out and I can't think of many other films that used the Multiverse to this extent. Feels very unfair and nitpicky to hold that against this film just because Marvel went crazy on the multiverse stuff in the last year. If anything EEAAO showed them how to do it properly.

[Eric86]

Maybe you're right and it's been unlucky to be released after all the marvel multiverse stuff. That wasn't really the main problem I had with it though. To be honest, I'm probably just getting old and grumpy and don't have the patience for this sort of quirky sci fi anymore. 

[Bazjam]

It was the Marvel Universe that was unlucky to be released close to this. EEAAO absolutely schooled them on how to do multiverse.

[deerokus]

It was released before the Marvel multiverse snoozefests, wasn't it?

[Stig]

2 hours ago, deerokus said:

It was released before the Marvel multiverse snoozefests, wasn't it?

 

Middle of it. Spider-Man NWH, Loki, What If and Multiverse of Madness were all out.

[Harsin]

I can certainly see that EEAAO wouldn’t be a film for everyone but unoriginal as criticism is a really out there. Especially when then comparing it to the designed by committee pablum Marvel is churning out.

[PK]

Yeah it's not really anywhere near the same category of film. It's about the overwhelming expanse of existence, the near infinite possibilities of how to spend your crushingly limited time in it, how that can drive you to nihilism, and how finding & focusing on people you love can save you from that, rather than a film about how a person or CGI alien or person/CGI hybrid wants power or revenge or vengeful power

[krenzler]

I liked it but felt it got a bit heavyhanded and tiresome towards the conclusion. Oscar-worthy for the stones scene alone though.

[Ork1927]

3 hours ago, Stig said:

 

Middle of it. Spider-Man NWH, Loki, What If and Multiverse of Madness were all out.

 

The main comparison of the Marvel films would be Multiverse of Madness, but that did a speed run through the multiverse can be anything bit with a 30 second montage and we only actually got to see a couple of actual multiverses and they were just branched off realities.

 

Loki did it a bit more with their Loki variants and Spiderverse with their characters (Spider-Ham, Noir, etc), but full on weird multiverses that aren't just branches off of the core reality hasn't really happened.

 

 

 

 

[Gabe]

8 hours ago, krenzler said:

Oscar-worthy for the stones scene alone though.

Agree completely with this. So simple and yet really powerful, a truly beautiful moment.