88th Annual Academy Awards

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah that's pretty cool to see two sci fi films getting all this attention. If they get nominated, we better enjoy this. Because it won't be for a long time til that happens again.

But McKay getting nominated is surprising. I haven't seen The Big Short yet but is it really so good to get a DGA nom and to be picking up all this steam?

 

[kvz5]

The Oscars doesn't usually go 5-5 with the DGA (Nolan! Affleck!) though since the AMPAS are a smaller snottier group so I suspect one of them will miss.

If I have to guess it's one of these 3: Miller, Scott, or McKay. Miller or Scott because yuuuucccck sci-fi or McKay because hey it's that guy who directed Anchorman and Stepbrothers.

 

[Boom]

Could be worse.

Could've been Tom Hooper.

 

[kvz5]

But McKay getting nominated is surprising. I haven't seen The Big Short yet but is it really so good to get a DGA nom and to be picking up all this steam?

IMO yes. McKay is really the star and MVP of the film. For him to make a boring subject so entertaining and accessible to the GA is a huge accomplishment. He got great performances out of the entire ensemble as well.

 

[Kane52630]

I think 99 Homes did a better job on the subject but that's just me.

 

[Doctor Jones]

IMO yes. McKay is really the star and MVP of the film. For him to make a boring subject so entertaining and accessible to the GA is a huge accomplishment. He got great performances out of the entire ensemble as well.

It was one of those movie where I thought it was either going to be a disappointment or a really well done idea. I'm glad to see it's paying off.

I do think Best Director will be between Scott and Inarritu though.

I'd love to see McArthy win as well because there was absolutely nothing wrong with Spotlight. It was a perfect movie. But that won't because it's so understated.

 

[kvz5]

I think 99 Homes did a better job on the subject but that's just me.

They're good companion pieces.

It was one of those movie where I thought it was either going to be a disappointment or a really well done idea. I'm glad to see it's paying off.

I do think Best Director will be between Scott and Inarritu though.

I'd love to see McArthy win as well because there was absolutely nothing wrong with Spotlight. It was a perfect movie. But that won't because it's so understated.

I'd love to see Miller or Scott take it but with The Revenant growing momentum, it might be Inarritu. I mean his cast and crew he suffered!!!!11111 for art after all.

 

[Boom]

See, in my mind it comes down to Miller vs. Scott. In an ideal world the race is between those two.

Which means it will go to Inarritu.

 

[kvz5]

See, in my mind it comes down to Miller vs. Scott. In an ideal world the race is between those two.

Which means it will go to Inarritu.

Pretty much.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Bear should also win 'Best Actor'.

 

[Boom]

Best Rising Star: Bear (The Revenant, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

 

[kvz5]

Bear should also win 'Best Actor'.

Stop with your category fraud! She's clearly supporting actress.

 

[Boom]

Pretty much.

"We suffered the freezing cold for nine months!"
"Didn't the book take place in the summer/autumn, making that whole issue avoidable from the get-go?"

"We could've died!"
"People can die anywhere."

"Leo choked on a buffalo liver!"
"Would a mountain man have problems like that?"

 

[Fallen Angel]

Bear was doing a Redmayne before Redmayne, sister.

 

[SoNicRaDiATioN]

See, in my mind it comes down to Miller vs. Scott. In an ideal world the race is between those two. & lt;br />
Which means it will go to Inarritu.

In an ideal world it would go to Todd Haynes, but I'd settle for Miller or Scott.

But awards are silly anyways.

 

[chamber-music]

I enjoy watching Ridley Scott's new found nonchalant attitude.

I think 99 Homes did a better job on the subject but that's just me.

Margin Call and 99 Homes are the best financial crash movies for me.

The Big Shot was Ok. Parts of the film felt like episodes of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.

Bale and Carrell gave solid performances but it isn't anything we have not seen before from those two.

 

[CaptainWagner]

2016 DGA nominations:

Iñárritu (The Revenant)
McCarthy (Spotlight)
McKay (The Big Short)
Miller (Fury Road)
Scott (The Martian)

Best First-Time Director:
Fernando Coimbra
Joel Edgerton
Alex Garland
Marielle Heller
Laszlo Nemes

I'd be perfectly happy if those were the nominees for the Academy.

 

[Boom]

Garland!

 

[kvz5]

"We suffered the freezing cold for nine months!"
"Didn't the book take place in the summer/autumn, making that whole issue avoidable from the get-go?"

"We could've died!"
"People can die anywhere."

"Leo choked on a buffalo liver!"
"Would a mountain man have problems like that?"

"This is dedicated to the Natives! We suffered for them!"

 

[Doctor Jones]

They're good companion pieces.




I'd love to see Miller or Scott take it but with The Revenant growing momentum, it might be Inarritu. I mean his cast and crew he suffered!!!!11111 for art after all.

See, in my mind it comes down to Miller vs. Scott. In an ideal world the race is between those two.

Which means it will go to Inarritu.

I just think it's gonna go to Inarritu on those grounds. As if what went on behind the camera dictates that.

 

[Boom]

it simply boggles my mind how grown-ass people fall for this ****.

How about the development hell that Miller had to crawl through to get his movie made?

Besides, it's not like spending hours a day in the Australian Outback is a walk in the park.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Yea. Maybe Tom Cruise should win best actor because of all the insane **** he does on a MI basis.

 

[Doctor Jones]

See that's the thing though. Even those behind the scenes things are publicized, those films were able to measure up to themselves and those things fall by the wayside. Interesting stories in and of themselves, but they don't dictate the direction of the success they get. People on this make it seem like in order to get this attention and it to be good, you must suffer. Now I don't think that's the intent of the people writing these things, but how it comes through suggests that. Inarritu ain't helping that notion with his Globes speech. It gives people the wrong idea still. I just think people are inadvertently exposing the flaws of the movie when they talk about these things.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Even those behind the scenes things are publicized

Not to the Revenant's extent. The daring stunts of MI is just one talking point out of many other. They occupy no special spot compared to anything else.

All I've ever heard of the Revenant from interviews and the usual award circle BS is how fricking haaaard it was guyz.

Even when DDL comes out hybernation every five years to win oscars. Narratives of how hard he worked for the role is usually superseded by the power of the role itself. When you watch DDL in There will Be Blood, you are watching Daniel Plainview. There isn't a hint of the actor in the performance. When I watched Leo in the Revenant, I didn't see Hugh Glass the mountain man suffer, I saw Leo the actor suffering for his 'art'.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Not to the Revenant's extent. The daring stunts of MI is just one talking point out of many other. They occupy no special spot compared to anything else.

All I've ever heard of the Revenant from interviews and the usual award circle BS is how fricking haaaard it was guyz.

Even when DDL comes out hybernation every five years to win oscars. Narratives of how hard he worked for the role is usually superseded by the power of the role itself. When you watch DDL in There will Be Blood, you are watching Daniel Plainview. There isn't a hint of the actor in the performance. When I watched Leo in the Revenant, I didn't see Hugh Glass the mountain man suffer, I saw Leo the actor suffering for his 'art'.

You're right, I was just making the point of the principle that these things aren't an anomaly.

Yeah the difference between this and Lewis is that his methods become not only justified, but like you said, the performance takes over and supersedes anything that came before because the thing we were all dying to see actually lived up to the hype. The Revenant didn't so now people are just conflating hype with quality. They could be in denial who knows but I won't go that far yet.

To me when in a lot of cases when someone's arguing about a movie's quality and when they start using real life as a justification for narrative choices, it's then when the flaws become apparent.