Someone is super touchy 
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Who’s the one being uncivil (in response to some lighthearted humour)?
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Ahh you thought you were being funny, fair enough.
I have seen people here who love to first movies and tv show episodes with midnight viewings etc all to post a review here about it as soon as possible untagged for some insane reason.
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Ken MacMonier? 
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Also watched Decision to Leave on iPlayer last night and REALLY enjoyed it.
Kind of like Basic Instinct without the nudity, but with far more tension between the two leads.
Beautfully shot too. Very highly recommended.
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I agree, but also there’s good reason for the overhype. Over the last few years cinemas have had a very rough time with covid and strikes, many closed and it was looking bleak. It was also rough for people working in film, and Barbie caused critically needed resurgence in summer blockbuster theatre goers. Undoutably, a lot of it’s praise/recognition came from critics and the industry who felt they should get people to go and watch it to save cinema. So, yes underwhelming film but one with an important role in the industry as a whole.
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Feel like this ignores some pretty big successes which got people back in the theatres like Macverick and No Way Home.
Also, as a regular cinema goer I’d say that the theatres are still pretty empty. We need more than one off phenomenons to get audiences back. I do like how there are far more classic screenings these days.
Interstellar on IMAX last week was absoutely packed. Especially impressive for a mid week screening.
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Top gun got a best picture nomination for much the same reasons, but that was 2023.
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Sometimes I’m mystified by nominations. Top Gun gets 96% on rotten tomatoes. I guess, I didn’t hate it, but so overhyped.
Going to see either Poor Things or All of Us Strangers tomorrow - both look good.
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Yeah, it’s trash 
Provides some fun and a bit of nostalgia. Although, clearly 2022/2023 wasn’t a great year for film and the nominations were slim pickings - actually probably the worst year I can remember. We need abother year like 2017 or 2018 where almost every film was an absolute banger (and a lot of box office hits too)
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Yeah, 2017 was an amazing selection. Although I was very pleased in 2016 when Moonlight won over La La Land.
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That was 2017! Although I did like La La Land (that openening scene!), Moonlight was definitely a much better film in many ways and it was still suprsing it won as films about Hollywood / the movie industry tend to clean up even when they clearly aren’t the best pick (see: birdman)
Definitely not Oscar worthy, but it was pitch perfect popcorn cinema.
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Had me completely gripped from the first note, but the rest of the movie could never have lived up that opening.
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Looking on Metacritic it has the critics scoring the first as 50 and the second as 78. I think the first is a better movie tbh.
User scores are 7.4 and 7.5 which is what I would expect.
To me it’s a solid 7/10. I enjoyed watching and does the trick in entertaining but it’s overall forgettable.
Favourite Oscar (best picture) winner over the last 20 years?
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- Million Dollar Baby
- Crash
- The Departed
- No Country for Old Men
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Hurt Locker
- The King’s Speech
- The Artist
- Argo
- 12 Years a Slave
- Birdman
- Spotlight
- Moonlight
- The Shape of Water
- Green Book
- Parasite
- Nomadland
- CODA
- Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
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so many great films. I think it could have been Moonlight or The Shape of Water, but I just had so much fun watching Parasite that I’ve gone for that.
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Not part of your poll, but Crash is easily the worst film on that list and can get in the bin. I’ve no idea how it managed to win against, well, literally any other film made that year.
2007 was an absolutely cracking year for films, though. Can barely move without tripping over a five-star classic.
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Out of that list I’ve only seen in full are:
- Birdman
- Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- The Hurt Locker
That would be my ranking so voted Birdman.
The others I’ve seen bits of and gone meh not for me.
I very nearly picked Parasite too. Such a great film.
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Parasite by a mile. Absolute masterpiece, but still very accessible for the average movie goer.
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