Leo and The Revenant will wipe the floor with the competition and their 12 Oscar Nominations come Oscar Sunday. This was a weak year for film, but The Revenant was not weak at all.
If it's such a weak year for movies how is this the 3rd greatest movie of all-time you have posted about this month? I actually thought it was a really good year for film compared to recent years.
Yep. That film will be honored. Still, a bad year in film. I said it is not about winning or losing. and it is not, but after seeing the nominations it is clear that The Revenant stands out. I don't know what you are saying. A great film like The Revenant can't make up for an overall weak year for films the Academy likes. I saw The Big Short, The Revenant, The Hateful 8 and Star Wars recently. All were great, but in different ways.
I haven't seen the Revenant yet, but Tom Hardy is turning into a damn good actor. Seems like every roll he crushes.
Yeah, he really is. Great roles in The Revenant and Mad Max:Fury Road just in 2015. (Both Best Picture Nominees)
Someone needs to explain to me how Fury Road got nominated for an Oscar. It was a decent action film but it was basically one long chase scene. Nothing special or groundbreaking. And it had this WTF guy: _
I would say it's originality. It's design. Yes, it is a 2 hour chase scene, that is why it is amazing how well it was pulled off. It has strong, independent, female characters. The Academy loves all of that. The Martian and Mad Max: Fury Road are both great movies, but I agree neither should be nominated for Best Picture. Them being there makes the year look weak.
I think Mad Max was really very good. I think the picture quality alone stands above many films. There is a lot in that movie, I'm not sure if everyone saw it. The fashion is top notch, the makeup, the costumes, the image quality is spectacular...there are some real bullshit scenes of ppl with amazing balance standing on moving vehicles at high speeds...but like you said before, the women are gorgeous, and strong/powerful (that's key). And for whatever reason I think that film is really just amazing to take upon the eyes...sounds weird...but the visuals in that movie are spectacular. Like how they bring out colors and detail in certain images...there is a scene where they have escaped and they are in the dark, but one of the girls (Elvis's grand daughter) and the war boy are up in the war rig and it's bright where they are sitting. I thought the visuals were 2nd to none....kind of reminded me a little of the original 300 movie (like the scene where they are standing by the fire talking about their dead king...the fire has all the Spartans lit up and then the back drop is dark with the stars shinning in the distance), which before that movie came out was really only similar to the visuals produced in SinCity, kind of has a comic visual to it. I probably went overboard here, but I think this film deserves the nomination. Also, all those stunts are real (maybe shouldn't say "all", but a large chunk...got to get credit for the crazy shit they were doing hanging off vehicles flying through the desert). The film was really well done. side note, "the drop" was kind of a weird movie, but Hardy was fantastic in it.
So good. Saw the novel the other day and didn't realize it was so short. Gonna read it sometime soon. Will watch The Revenant when it comes to the cheap theater by me.
There was no shitty slavery movie to "give" the award to this year to show how progressive they are so a female driven action movie will have to do. Cutthroat Island should have waited 20 years, it may have gotten nominated too.
I'm seriously mystified. It wasn't that good. You want to nominate it for cinematography? Fine. Best Picture? Why not Fast and the Furious 7? _
Of course. Never saw Mystic River but I just read it (also by Lehane who wrote The Drop) and it just crushed me. Great read.
Star Wars The Martian Ex Machina Sicario Inside Out We'll see if the Revenant can take these cats on for 2015
The only two movies that were as good as or better than the novels were Jaws and Silence of the Lambs. No Country For Old Men was close. Worst adaptation of a novel to film was The Thin Red Line. I fucking hate Terrence Malick because of what he did to that book. _
