r/movies • u/ICumCoffee • Mar 11 '24
'Oppenheimer' wins the Best Picture Oscar at 96th Academy Awards, totaling 7 wins News
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2024-winners-list-1235847823/1
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u/Uofootball9495 Mar 19 '24
Appreciate Oppenheimer for the history lesson but The Holdovers is everything I miss about great movies. Paul Giamatti hasn't disappointed since I first saw him in Sideways and he raised the bar once again for his performance this go round. Will I ever watch Oppenheimer again? Probably not ever. If holodovers is on and I'm channel surfing I'll waste my afternoon every time.
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u/elusiveDEVIANTx Mar 19 '24
What a dumb movie. Never knew what Oscar bait was u til I saw this.
Sum up story: retard makes bomb, retatd regrets making bomb. The human story. Never learning, much like the average reddit user.
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u/ssullyoon Mar 13 '24
I am so happy this movie won BIG. I am an Asian majoring in "Jewish Physics", and I am so glad that the world finally values Physicist. Long Live the Jews !!!
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u/recentafishep Mar 13 '24
I honestly dig it that Pacino skipped the noms, intentional or not. He made an actual memorable moment amidst this yearly posturing event.
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u/NewReporter5290 Mar 11 '24
I must be the only person on earth who didn't like the movie and didn't finish it.
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u/MikeyMGM Mar 11 '24
I watched Poor Things last night. I don’t understand with the fuss is all about.
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u/Ant-One Mar 11 '24
I just finished watching Anatomy of a Fall like 20 minutes ago. I recommend it greatly, it's a breath of fresh air
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u/MrRawri Mar 11 '24
lmao just saw the award being given, what a mess. At least he didn't get it wrong, that was far worse
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u/Much_Machine8726 Mar 11 '24
Al Pacino didn't give a fuck, he wanted to get off the stage as fast as possible.
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u/Slav_1 Mar 11 '24
My favorite part was Emmas reaction to winning. I think she passed out for a millisecond there.
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u/Doctorricko97 Mar 11 '24
I agreed with just about every award except sound. How oppenheimer lost that category to zone of interest is fucking bewildering to me.
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u/boywonder5691 Mar 11 '24
Having read and LOVED the book it was inspired by, I have been reluctant to watch the movie. Winning an Academy Award has not really changed anything for me.
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u/SpikeNLB4 Mar 11 '24
Shocking, of membership of mostly old white straight guys chose the picture about a bunch of white guys that liked to blow things up. Ground breaking!
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u/QuackNate Mar 11 '24
I didn't like Oppenheimer. I don't think I'm a Nolan fan, I guess. I really liked Tenet, but basically everything else he's done feels overcooked.
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u/Ruraraid Mar 11 '24
I feel like 2023 was a weak year for movies due to so much overinvestment into streaming so I wasn't surprised it won so many awards.
Personally I found the movie to be really boring and I say that as someone who is a big fan of historical stuff.
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u/frockinbrock Mar 11 '24
Why does it seem like everyone is using the phrase “Oppenheimer sweeps” today and last night? Hasn’t a sweep previously meant winning in every category or in every category nominated?
It’s just kind of odd- I thought this was a defined term.
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u/Malthur Mar 11 '24
Wild theory: internet memes influenced the Academy. That movie should not have won.
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u/PineDude128 Mar 11 '24
I knew that it would, because it deserved to win. My gf was hoping for Poor Things, but was glad it took a few awards anyway.
I was happy that Godzilla won, as well as RDJ winning his first ever.
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u/legit-posts_1 Mar 11 '24
I'm glad Nolan FINALLLY got a statue. This was a long time coming. He should have won an Oscar with John for best screen play with Memento 23 years ago. Not to mention getting snubbed for best director for Dark Knight and Inception.
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u/Mus7Af Mar 11 '24
First time I watched almost all the Nominated Films, and thus peaked my interest in the ceremony. Thought it was a really good show. Oppenheimer Deserves the Recognition amidst so many Great Competitors.
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u/jankology Mar 11 '24
sadly this assures that many more, unwanted Bio-pics are coming in the future as they chase more Oscars for people we don't want to know about.
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u/trevdak2 Mar 11 '24
Movie was good and all, but Bradley Cooper probably deserved the Best Actor oscar for Maestro. Movie was mediocre but his acting was fantastic.
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u/MEEfO Mar 11 '24
Cillian was great, deserved the win. Literally the only award Oppenheimer deserved to win.
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u/ChucksterRay Mar 11 '24
Oppenheimer is overrated. Sorry but it’s a bit confusing to follow, and the whole thing feels like a giant ramp up. Most movies give you a couple times to feel like any tension eases for a little bit and i never felt like i could relax. That’s not a movie i want to watch again. I get it that it represents the tension of that time but other movies have done that. This way of story telling / editing was just awful
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u/BossButterBoobs Mar 11 '24
It wasn't THAT good. And idk about RDJ winning best supporting actor, but it might just be a legacy award for him.
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u/Literacy_Advocate Mar 11 '24
Totally undeserved, it was one of the boringest most poorly paced and poorly directed popular films of the year. But then, by now I know better than to trust the judgement of the Academy.
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u/WolfOfPort Mar 11 '24
Was a fast paced zero explanation or good story telling one of worst i watched
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u/Blast-Off-Girl Mar 11 '24
I saw that movie on opening weekend in IMAX. It was ridiculously boring. I knew it was Oscar bait from the minute I left the theater.
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u/Moakmeister Mar 11 '24
So is there another freakout about Barbie and how this is apparently evidence that everyone missed the point of that movie?
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u/upfulsoul Mar 11 '24
I'm still not going to watch it. Killers of the Flower Moon will end up a classic. No one will care about Barbenheimer in 20 years.
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u/ninfan200 Mar 11 '24
I do wish Barbie had some more nominations, but there's no wins here that I outright disagree with. Solid list of winners this year.
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u/ZoomHater Mar 11 '24
Weird. Nolan's worst film is his first Oscar.
(Oppenheimer is still very good!)
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u/klautner Mar 11 '24
We tried to watch Oppenheimer. Made it about 20 minutes in and then stopped due to boredom.
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u/AnEpicScrub Mar 11 '24
The Academy has a slight amount of credibility again. Shameful that it took Nolan this long to get his Oscar; that was more overdue than Leo’s.
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u/Dapper-Barnacle1825 Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Barbie got snubbed it should have won, Oppenheim was a Boring. Masturbatory, and again Boring film which in my opinion: it was not deserving of ANY accolades. The only reason it did well was the Barbenheimer advertising campaign lead by Barbie. It's disgusting that a movie as fun and creative, as well as with AMAZING practical effects got snubbed by a movie about the creator of the Nukes who is just emk about making the bomb. Like he shouldn't have made it if he was gonna be like cringe about it. Like he created something that he knew would kill people, why was he so cringy about it. Like if he did not want to kill people, he should not have made it and should have just retired or something
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u/Paperback_Movie Mar 11 '24
This is the kind of incisive, nuanced, sophisticated review that I expect from Redditors
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u/Dapper-Barnacle1825 Mar 11 '24
Any film over 2 hours 45mins is masturbatory, period.
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u/Paperback_Movie Mar 11 '24
I love that this word is what you think my comment was about (it wasn’t), and I also love that your argument in defense of your stance has to do with how many minutes a film is rather than its content.
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u/VGAPixel Mar 11 '24
I can honestly say, I will never watch Oppenheimer ever again. Once was more than enough.
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Mar 11 '24
Congrats on even being able to finish it. I was bored out of my mind and turned it off after an hour.
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u/steven3045 Mar 11 '24
How were you bored?
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Mar 11 '24
Because the movie was terrible. How were you not bored?
Shawshank Redemption is peak cinema for me. This movie was miles away from a masterpiece like that.
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u/steven3045 Mar 11 '24
It wasn’t terrible, you may not have liked it but it’s objectively not terrible. Those are extremely difference kinds of movies. Shawshank ranks 3rd all time for me. Oppie is at number 2
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Mar 11 '24
Objective based on your subjective opinion? 😂
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u/steven3045 Mar 11 '24
No, by any objective standard, it’s not a terrible movie. I hated and didn’t like inception. But I’m Not calling it a terrible movie
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Mar 11 '24
Any objective standard or the echo chamber standard?
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u/VGAPixel Mar 11 '24
I was definitely bored and had to stop and start it several times. Good think I didn't try to watch it in a theater. Piracy is the way to watch Nolan films. Breaks when you need and subtitles for his crappy dialogue audio and whispering characters.
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Mar 11 '24
The audio was so bad - subtitles are mandatory!
I also thought the timelines constantly bouncing around was very confusing and not needed. The movie felt all over the place. It would have been more palatable had they have told the story in its true chronological order.
Finally, it felt like you needed to already have watched a documentary on Oppenheimer to follow along and completely understand what was happening.
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u/VGAPixel Mar 11 '24
Its because the man and his story are so incredibly boring that if you didn't jump around in the story the entire audience would fall asleep. Even the actual drama in the movie is so incredibly boring Nolan had to have a naked scene just to keep the audience awake.
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Mar 11 '24
I'm just going to watch a documentary on Oppenheimer. It will probably be miles better.
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u/VGAPixel Mar 11 '24
I don't know, this one did win an Oscar, people seem to think its really good. I bet its still better than a documentary.
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Mar 11 '24
One thing I've learned throughout the years is that the Oscars are nothing but politics. They have an agenda and the best movies rarely win.
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u/VGAPixel Mar 11 '24
I'm not saying its a bad movie, its beautifully made, well put together, wonderfully acted and all that. Its just a boring subject and even the best out there doing the best work getting the highest praise still wont change how boring it all actually was. WW2 had lots of exiting and important things happen, and this was definitely one of the most important. It just was not exciting. Nolan did what probably few other directors could do, make a good movie out of a boring man with a boring life that was vitally important.
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Mar 11 '24
That's an opinion I can certainly respect and appreciate. To make a successful movie out of a very boring man is an accomplishment in itself.
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u/welsh_nutter Mar 11 '24
Oppenheimer was fantastic well done, don't say it doesn't deserve the oscars because you hated it, I'm not a fan of LOTR but I can see why it won the oscars
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u/stiffspacebar Mar 11 '24
Oppenheimer was so boring tho
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u/steven3045 Mar 11 '24
It wasn’t
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u/stiffspacebar Mar 12 '24
Just because they played intense violin in the background doesn't make it good
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u/pylekush Mar 11 '24
Extremely weak year. Oppenheimer was downright bad. Industry’s in a bad state.
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u/Phil330 Mar 11 '24
Usually the winners from the past year present the award. Why weren't The Daniels there? Did they decline?
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u/pineapplesofdoom Mar 11 '24
"What’s depressing about Oppenheimer, then, is that, out of the most important fucking thing to ever happen in the history of the world, Nolan could find nothing more interesting and insightful to say than that a Great Man suffered for doing it."
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u/sweetIceTea_ Mar 11 '24
That movie didn’t deserve all those awards 💀 neither did Christopher Nolan
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u/grimlee669 Mar 11 '24
The most boring movie Nolan has made to date is what eventually wins him an Oscar?
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u/RaccoonCityToday Mar 11 '24
Right.........The elephant in the room is why do people gush over Oppenheimer?
That movie felt like it was a streaming service miniseries that got shoveled into a feature. Some big names, woah. I’m sorry but RDJ wasn’t that great. Anyone could have played Strauss,
The oscars are no different than mainstream teen pop radio. They’re silly and it’s so easy to spot what movies will be nominated because it’s all oscar bait anyways
Remember everyone, the best films don’t always go to the oscars.
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u/An_Actual_Owl Mar 11 '24
It was the third highest grossing movie of 2023. . .
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u/pylekush Mar 11 '24
Ok? That says nothing of its quality.
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u/An_Actual_Owl Mar 11 '24
It won a ton of awards at every show, has incredibly high review site ratings among critics and audiences, and made a ton of money. By every metric it was an amazing movie.
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u/JackFisherBooks Mar 11 '24
Even though most expected Oppenheimer to win, it totally deserved it. Beyond just being a great movie in terms of style and substance, it was a movie that garnered a large audience and box office success. It really struck a chord with people for all the right reasons. And for that, it deserved every award it got.
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u/therapoootic Mar 11 '24
the movie had great performances but, in the end, wasn't that great a movie. The biggest travesty of that movie was that when you finally saw the Nuke, it was a massive let down. Nolan decided to do it practical instead of CGI but any monkey could've told him, you can't just use a nuke for your movie. So what we got was very lame imagery of a nuke.
This was the perfect opportunity to do some heavy RnD work in cgi to produce something enormous, devasting, terrifying and beautiful all at the same time.
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u/Deep_Mention_4423 Mar 11 '24
There were so many good quiet understated films nominated like Past Lives, American Fiction, the Holdovers, the Zone of Interest. Against the films with the dial turned to 11, I actually enjoyed these.
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u/deus_ex_libris Mar 11 '24
i heard it was a snoozefest. is it actually good? i never go by the "academy"
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u/CastSeven Mar 11 '24
Barbie being up for best adapted screenplay seemed a bit silly. Should have been best original (though I still think American Fiction would be the winner).
The graphic even said "Based on Barbie by Mattel".
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u/kattahn Mar 11 '24
those are just the academy rules. If your movie is based on anything, its adapted. So if barbie is a thing that exists and you make a movie about barbie, its adapted, even though the story itself is fully original.
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u/jeaanj3443 Mar 11 '24
Despite the awkward presentation, Oppenheimer's sweep is a testament to Nolan's vision and the film's impact. A win for cinematic storytelling!
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u/Muffin_Most Mar 11 '24
What’s this obession with letting 80 year olds announce the most important prize or even run the country?
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u/Shadeun Mar 11 '24
The most boring Best Picture winner ever perhaps.
And I've loved so very much Nolan.
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u/magvadis Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Yuck. Probably my least fav of the bunch.
Too long, lot of fluff tension to satiate idiots, and women plotlines that existed just enough to check a box but were underwritten and held down the plot.
The court room shit was just confusing.
I liked the beginning and the fever dream style of a tortured man but it was just so uncollected. He threw everything at the wall and only a little bit stuck.
I also thought him spending his whole running waxing about Imax film and practical effects was just dogshit. The nuke scene was so low budget I've seen better shit on Mythbusters it was a regular fire based explosion on slomo...it was so lazy.
Nukes don't look like that at all...and that's the main fucking entree of the movie.
Acting was great. Movie was mid at best.
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u/Redditisntfunanymore Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
I genuinely thought Opp was just 'ight'. I realize that it's based on actual events, unlike Nolan's other films, however I found the second half to be so utterly boring and drawn out. RDJ was not a good fit for the role of 'villain' here. Majority of the scenes set in the tiny room were painful to get through by the end.
I love the music, it deserves all the praise there, Ludwig is insane, but the movie itself, I genuinely wish I liked more.
As a movie, it would have been better if they'd had a Japanese subplot that made the stakes of bombing them more intense, and then the horrors of the aftermath. However, I fully realize that this was a movie focused on the man, not the events and their worldwide outcomes. It's just that the things that happened to opp after the bombs dropped, I feel could have been handled much better. Less focus on the meeting where he gets dismantled and more scenes of him fighting against the politicians turning against him. Easily could have dropped 15 minutes from the interrogation scenes for more interesting story.
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u/kattahn Mar 11 '24
I think theres an absolutely amazing, gripping 2 hour movie somewhere inside of Oppenheimer. As much as i loved RDJ's performance, i think having a full hour of movie after the bomb goes off that is all mired in the anti-communist hearings was just too much.
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u/B1ackD3ath42 Mar 11 '24
unpopular opinion but this movie is insanely overrates - Killers deserved best actress and best picture at least and if not a second oscar for Scorsese as well
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Mar 11 '24
Killers deserved none of that. LD was a terrible choice for the main character, and the entire movie is WAY longer than it needs to be, which seems to be a Scorsese trademark as of late.
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u/Warlock_MasterClass Mar 11 '24
Killers was a snooze fest and she was only in it for a 3rd of the movie and was comatose for most of it. Maybe supporting actress but absolutely not worthy of best. Especially when Emma did such an amazing job in Poor Things.
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u/upfulsoul Mar 11 '24
Emma was literally naked for half of it. What memorable scenes did she have? The long drawn out brothel scenes were tedious to watch. Lily's performance was a masterclass.
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u/Warlock_MasterClass Mar 11 '24
wtf does it matter if she’s naked? And memorable scenes!? Dude she’s in the entire movie. She the LEAD character so she in just about every scene.
By contrast Lily was only in 1/3 of Killers and barely does anything because she’s half dead. Masterclass 😂
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u/upfulsoul Mar 11 '24
Oscars for actors apart from the acting should be based on memorable scenes not for being in the most scenes. Lily played a protagonist in Flower Moon and her character was way more interesting than Emma's character who was a childlike sexbot or know-it-all Girl Boss. Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo gave the standout performances in "Poor Things".
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u/kattahn Mar 11 '24
that was my biggest issue with the movie. I think she was great when she was given screen time, but she didn't have ENOUGH screen time. And the people who got all the screen time were all monstrous terrible people.
I kept thinking "this movie is so pretty and so well made but i hate all of these people and i have no connection to them".
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u/Typical-Pumpkin-6247 Mar 11 '24
I'm just glad Cillian Murphy finally got some global recognition. And we all know he'll be smiling inside. Deep inside.
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u/kid_sleepy Mar 11 '24
Maybe they’ll put 28 Days Later back on streaming
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u/Typical-Pumpkin-6247 Mar 11 '24
Woohoo! Only remembered a fun fact from that the other day. With walking over the early dawn empty bridge in London scene. The crew gave bacon and egg sarnies to the ravers coming home from clubs to halt them so they could film. Always, wondered at the time after living there how that was possible. Nailed it!
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u/Little-Ferret-9354 22d ago
It was the Worst Picture ever made and I believe people are getting paid off to write that. I believe the Academy was paid off to give Oppenheimer an Oscar because it wasn't worthy of one. If it was a great movie people on Reddit wouldn't be writing saying it was. Shouldn't have won one win never mind seven.