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⌈ Secret Post #3700 ⌋

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[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/KO1pnst.png

[tabaqui]

Blech. It looks fairly boring and cliche *and* - Gosling? So bland. I really hope that's not what passes for 'Oscar bait' now.

[morieris]

If it wins, and I still think another movie will come out of nowhere and beat it for BP - in four year's time it will only be remembered as something not worthy of the prize Lionsgate paid out the ass for.

Why do you think the LEADS don't want to sing their nominated song? Because they know they can't without all the magic of moviemaking behind the scenes.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

People are going to be furious. It probably doesn't deserve to win. But it definitely is going to win.

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Hollywood and haven't seen this film. Does it show the huge homeless encampments (complete with open drug-snortin') every two blocks, or the Target Husk we've been fighting the NIMBY's to let it get finished to give the people of Hollywood who aren't living in the hills and don't give a shit about the skyline a lot of needed jobs?

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I suspect it's probably set in the all-white AU Los Angeles that's always so popular.

[(Anonymous)]

Where do the fancy hill folk buy toilet paper if they don't have Target?

[bur]

I saw it, and while I didn't think it was a bad movie I thought it was a shit musical. The only thing I can remember is "City of lights~". Just that musical phrase. That's it. Shouldn't music in a musical be more memorable? Shouldn't the dance routines actually require some work? Those were so uninspired I was beside myself. And the "big number" that whats-her-face sings at the end, she just blenches out with her hands in fists at her sides. GG. You can carry a tune loudly while just standing there.

UGH.

I'm gonna go watch Singing in the Rain again.

/rant

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of similar to what I thought of the movie. I thought it was more music than an actual musical which my coworkers thought didn't make any sense. I certainly didn't think it was outstanding or memorable.

Side note, once I found out it wasn't Debbie Reynolds using her own singing voice in "Singing in the Rain", I couldn't bear to watch the movie again!

[(Anonymous)]

Still gonna win the Oscar

[ketita]

It's NOT a musical. It's a movie with a few musical numbers in it, but that's it. The only real musical scene was the beginning, with all the dancing, which was fun but I don't remember the music at all, like you said.

The rest of it... eh. I kind of liked "City of Stars" as a song, but that's not enough for me to call this a proper musical.
I mean personally I also had a lot of issues with the plot and characterization, but that's beside the point. I was mostly annoyed that it was billed to me as a musical and when I watched it my only thought was WHERE.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I haven't seen it, and I imagine it's fairly good as what it's trying to be--a pretty, fluffy musical about Hollywood and jazz--but it seems to me that the things it's going to be rewarded for (being pretty, being about Hollywood) aren't really award-worthy. Especially in a year with some REALLY award-worthy movies (looking @ Hidden Figures in particular).

[(Anonymous)]

It's not JUST going to be rewarded for being pretty and about Hollywood

it's also going to rewarded for having Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and for Whiplash being a good film

[kallanda_lee]

No point in being annoyed though - you knew that was going to happen. I quite like the movie, actually, but it's still over-hyped.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I'd rather see oscar bait movies that are about "yay the magic of movies" than oscar bait movies that are "able-bodied actor plays a physically or mentally disabled person and talks about how haaaaaard it was". Since apparently oscar bait movies aren't going away.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm actually with you on that one.

[(Anonymous)]

The other movies (gay black men and strong independent black womyn doing doing space stuff) are fairly baity too.

[(Anonymous)]

They're really not. For one thing, I think the Oscar bait themes have changed a little bit, and La La Land is way closer to the recent model than any of the other movies. For another thing, Moonlight isn't Oscar bait, it's an artsy independent. There's a difference - often there's also some overlap but still, there's a difference. And Hidden Figures is kind of an Oscar bait thing but it's also fairly populist and non-Weinsteiny.

The most obviously Oscar-bait-y movie besides La La Land is honestly probably Fences, and even then, it's more of an actor/actress thing than a Best Picture thing.

[(Anonymous)]

okay maybe this is just me being over sensitive but...regarding Moonlight, I've seen a bunch of people saying something similar, that because Moonlight's about a gay black man that means it's meant to be "Oscar Bait!!!!" And the implication that people only make movies like Moonlight, movies about PoC and/or LGBT+ people, to get awards, kind of rubs me the wrong way.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, this comment section is full of a bunch of freakin' SNOBS.
It was a very well done movie that more people liked than didn't and it deserves it's nomination even if it wasn't your personal favorite.
I know when something is popular and good at the same time it makes you feel better to shit on it but get over yourselves.

[(Anonymous)]

I had honestly never heard of it until the nominations came out. Only then did people start talking about it.

[wannabe_influential]

I never heard of this movie until like a month ago, and it was because people were taking potshots at how the directors were talking about how 'hard' it was to make

Like, really? It was so hard to make a movie that took place in Hollywood about two white people trying to make it big in Hollywood? Really?

[(Anonymous)]

As someone born and raised in Los Angeles, and spent a lot of time in the less shiny/white parts of the Hollywood area because that's where our immigrant church was:

This movie is EVERYTHING I hate about transplants to LA.

I don't know.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it will sweep, but if that were a surefire way to win, wouldn't there be more made? I guess I could see The Artist as being about Hollywood in a good way, but Birdman, another film that has to do with show business, really doesn't seem that positive about it. To me, it seems like many of the nominated pictures in the last 20 years are either based on real people or true events.

[(Anonymous)]

NGL, I was really bitter that "City of Stars" won Best Original Song. I thought that "Audition" or "How Far I'll Go" deserved it more.