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I watched, well, tried watching Spencer last night. It was SO boring - I always finish movies but gave up after 40 minutes.
 
tvham said:
I watched, well, tried watching Spencer last night. It was SO boring - I always finish movies but gave up after 40 minutes.
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Hard disagree on this one. Pablo Larrain is one of the only people making even remotely interesting biopics these days IMO. Not to mention the performances he gets out of his leads-Stewart is a top 5 of last year for this one, and Natalie Portman in Jackie was probably the single best performance of 2016.
 
ayayrawn said:
Hard disagree on this one. Pablo Larrain is one of the only people making even remotely interesting biopics these days IMO. Not to mention the performances he gets out of his leads-Stewart is a top 5 of last year for this one, and Natalie Portman in Jackie was probably the single best performance of 2016.
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I’m somewhere in the middle on this one. I thought it was Fine, and I enjoyed KStew’s performance, but it never fully clicked for me. Points for ambition.
 
avecigrec said:
That's unfortunate.

I mean I had zero stakes in the game but figured it would at least be fun
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That's what I had thought too. But I think they tried to go for more of an horror movie than a fun movie. Actually, it seemed like they couldn't fully commit to either it being fun or horror, so rather than opt for a good comedy horror it felt like the two impulses were out of sync with each other in the film and rather than play off of each other they conflicted with each other. There were a couple funny lines, and a couple ok slasher scenes, but it was stretched out too long with too little of either element to keep me from being bored.
 
Hemotep said:
That's what I had thought too. But I think they tried to go for more of an horror movie than a fun movie. Actually, it seemed like they couldn't fully commit to either it being fun or horror, so rather than opt for a good comedy horror it felt like the two impulses were out of sync with each other in the film and rather than play off of each other they conflicted with each other. There were a couple funny lines, and a couple ok slasher scenes, but it was stretched out too long with too little of either element to keep me from being bored.
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Thanks for watching it so we don't have to!
 
siremobunny said:
I'm a go with
1. Licorice Pizza
2. Power of the Dog
3. Drive My Car
4. Coda
5. Nightmare Alley
6. West Side Story
7. King Richard
8. Dune
9. Don't Look Up
10.Belfast

Fun, wacky Oscar prediction : by virtue of preferential ballot rules for Best Picture, and it being a crowd-pleaser that everyone generally at least likes, if not loves, Coda surprises with a win. It's maybe the least divisive film in this list, which makes me think it's possible.
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CODA won the PGA last night, so my prediction is no longer that wacky.
 
Just read that a movie hasn't won best picture with less than 4 nominations since 1932. Would be a wild stat to break.

Edit: also, a movie has literally never won best pic without being nominated for either directing or editing.
 
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I watched The Happening - there's no way this was meant to be a serious movie. The characters are too weird. i think the movie was just meant to be a dark comedy and its just really misunderstood? I thought it was pretty funny at the very least. It wasn't the best movie ever but it was not what I expected & better than I thought it was going to be.
 
zomgbear said:
I watched The Happening - there's no way this was meant to be a serious movie. The characters are too weird. i think the movie was just meant to be a dark comedy and its just really misunderstood? I thought it was pretty funny at the very least. It wasn't the best movie ever but it was not what I expected & better than I thought it was going to be.
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Sadly, M Night Shyamalan sees himself as an auteur and as such can only shoot his movies straight. I agree though, dude has made plenty of unintentionally funny movie scenes. My favorite part of The Happening is The hot dog scene, like WTF is going on?
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Sadly, M Night Shyamalan sees himself as an auteur and as such can only shoot his movies straight. I agree though, dude has made plenty of unintentionally funny movie scenes. My favorite part of The Happening is The hot dog scene, like WTF is going on?
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Yea that scene is too weird. I don't think he meant for that to be scary. At most maybe unsettling? Like a poor man's Lynch. But just ended up laughing at how absurd it is
 
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