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11 minutes ago, Deja23 said:
Kids flocked to the Hobbit movies...?
7 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:All of the MCU films fit that category too, not just Guardians. They're for general audiences, but kids love them as well.
I'm perfectly fine with the PG-13 rating though. Animated movies aren't just for kids after all.
I think the rating bodes well for the film, quality wise.
I just think that if adults and kids enjoyed those PG-13 films, then I'm not sure if this PG-13 ratings (meaning kids can still see it) would make too much of a difference, unless there is an animation bias.
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I can name a slew of PG-13 "animated" movies that kids flocked to: Avatar, The Avengers, Jurassic World, Guardians of the Galaxy, Transformers, Star Wars (episodes 3, 7, and 8, plus Rogue One), the three Hobbit films...
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John Requa and Glen Ficarra are the writers of a good film from 2015 called Focus, and they are producers of This Is Us. They also have experience in lowbrow comedic stuff like Bad Santa, Cats & Dogs, and I Love You Phillip Morris- though those were a long time ago.
What I'm saying is this: if they can take the comedy and the emotional aspects that they have experience in handling, and somehow converge the two together, they'll have something competent on their hands (and I'm saying this as an optimist).
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This is going to surprise a lot of people. Me, included.
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Yeah, that's a much better poster.
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34 minutes ago, That One Guy said:
Marmalade sandwiches in Paddington 2 would be a good contender for 2018
I'm gonna be honest; looking at the poster for Paddington 2, I thought those sandwiches were honey sandwiches...
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Do we know when the nominations announcement will begin?
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Okay. My ballot has been sent. Here it is:
SpoilerBest Picture
Blade Runner 2049
Columbus
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
The Lost City of Z
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wind River
Best Director
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049)
Best Ensemble
Blade Runner 2049
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan Lucky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor
John Cho (Columbus)
Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
James McAvoy (Split)
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
Best Actress
Seo-Hyeon Ahn (Okja)
Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus)
Saorsie Ronan (Lady Bird)
Best Supporting Actor
Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)
Ray Romano (The Big Sick)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Patrick Stewart (Logan)
Best Supporting Actress
Betty Gabriel (Get Out)
Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)
Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Sienna Miller (The Lost City of Z)
Lois Smith (Marjorie Prime)
Best Original Screenplay
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Kogonada (Columbus)
Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick)
Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Taylor Sheridan (Wind River)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Brian Bird (The Case for Christ)
Hampton Fancher & Michael Green (Blade Runner 2049)
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green (Logan)
James Gray (The Lost City of Z)
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (The Disaster Artist)
Best Film Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of WaterBest Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Lost City of Z
The Shape of WaterBest Costume Design
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
The Lost City of Z
Wonder WomanBest Production Design
Blade Runner 2049Columbus
Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
The Shape of WaterBest Makeup & Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Greatest Showman
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Lost City of Z
Only The BraveBest Original Score
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
War for the Planet of the ApesBest Sound
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last JediBest Soundtrack
Baby Driver
The Greatest Showman
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Ghost in the Shell
Kong: Skull Island
Okja
War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Hero
Chris Washington (Get Out)
Cole Lambert (Wind River)
Farrier (Dunkirk)
Winston Churchill (Darkest Hour)
Wonder Woman (Wonder Woman)
Best Villain
Buddy (Baby Driver)
Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
Richard Strickland (The Shape of Water)
Santino D'Antonio (John Wick: Chapter 2)
Vulture (Spider-Man: Homecoming)
Worst Picture
Bright
The Emoji Movie
Fifty Shades Darker
The Snowman
Transformers: The Last Knight
Most Epic Box Office Run
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
Split
Wonder Woman
Most Soul Crushing Box Office Run
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Ghost in the Shell
Only The Brave
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Best TV Series
13 Reasons Why
Fear the Walking Dead
Longmire
Search Party
This Is Us
Funniest Member
aabattery
MrGamer
shayhiri
slambros
tribefan695
Most Valuable Member
Barnack
Blankments
chasmmi
ck5111 / raegr
Morieris
Nomination Counts
11: Blade Runner 2049
10: The Shape of Water
9: Get Out
8: Lady Bird
7: Dunkirk; Darkest Hour
6: The Lost City of Z
5: Columbus; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Baby Driver
4: The Greatest Showman; Wonder Woman
3: Logan; Wind River; The Big Sick; Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2: Okja; Ghost in the Shell; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2; Only The Brave; Split; War for the Planet of the Apes
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Here's hoping this puts Oscar Isaac in the running for an Oscar.
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40 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:
A 3 entry category would probably be a good idea for all the eliminated categories (Foreign, Comedy, Horror, Voice etc)
I agree wholeheartedly.
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5 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:
Horror for sure. How do you just presume that IT will be the obvious winner when there's Get Out, for starters?
Plus, the rush to get other favorites a nomination would've been epic this year; It Comes At Night, Split, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, A Cure for Wellness, Raw, Annabelle: Creation, Happy Death Day, mother!, and Tragedy Girls would've all had their own fans. It would've been a highly entertaining bloodbath just to get favorites to their nominations, which, in my opinion, is where it truly counts.
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2 minutes ago, Tree Billboards said:
kind of sad that I could only find one female performance that I liked enough to nominate. I'm no feminist but that kind of sucks. I only saw like three movies with a lead female.
I was having that problem early on before Oscar season came. Scarlett Johansson from Ghost in the Shell was on my Best Actress list for a concerningly long amount of time!
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After watching the trailer, I can officially state that this will, in fact, be inspiring young filmmakers to make films with their iPhones or similar devices!
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TriStar did the heavy lifting for Sony Pictures last year (outside of Spider-Man: Homecoming), so I'm really happy to see TriStar make more smart decisions! This looks like it'll be a great project!
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I disagree that George from Dunkirk did anything wrong. He certainly didn't deserve to die because he was a little bit of a liability. Even going with the others at all towards Dunkirk was pretty brave of him.
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I have a theory about horror films that become Oscar-nominated.
With Silence of the Lambs and Get Out releasing in February, and with The Sixth Sense releasing in August, I think horror films are better off being presented away from the 'awards films' season so that they can stand out as a gem amongst their crowd. If one film is much better than the other films surrounding it, that film is poised to stand out much more, regardless of its genre.
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The Shape of Water
January 28th, 5:05 pm, 90%-95% full
Regal Mayfaire Stadium 16
Trailers:
A Wrinkle of Time
Winchester
Alpha
A Quiet Place
Fifty Shades Freed
Red Sparrow
Isle of Dogs
This film, while well made from a technical standpoint, is controversial amongst the general audience if my experience is anything to go by. The film sparked a lot of conversation when it ended, some good and some bad. The person I was sitting next to said:
"That's no Academy Award movie... that's no Casablanca..."
My parent and I talked about it during dinner afterwards:
Parent: "I did not like that film at all..."
Me: "Well, it was definitely outlandish..."
Parent: "Outlandish? They had (*spoiler*) together." *scoffs* "I had to stop myself from laughing out loud."
I'm willing to bet many of the general audience members seeking out this film have those viewpoints. And I think that's okay; that is definitely not a film most viewers are used to watching. But I think word-of-mouth has been taking hits and will continue to take hits.
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So I'm in a bit of a jam here...
I think I may legitimately be able to watch one more film via Google Play tomorrow, just before the ballot deadline. But I'm stuck between three films:
Colossal
Columbus
Stronger
The film I choose will likely be receiving multiple nominations on my ballot at the last minute. But I need help picking which one to watch, if I do watch one more... what do you think I should watch?
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1 hour ago, baumer said:
So this opens against a horror movie and a threequel kids movie? The Rock is going to be coming off of the success of Jumanji and presumably the success of Rampage.
As @grim22 was mentioning today on what's app, this is almost a can't miss sure fire hit. It has a kind of Die Hard vibe to it. Should be a thrilling summer action film, the kind of film I live for, especially in the summer.
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I have to say, reading all of your ballots has given me some interesting ideas on what to put on my own ballot. My best examples of nominations inspired by other people included Betty Gabriel (Get Out) for Best Supporting Actress, Bright for Worst Feature, and The Lost City of Z for various categories I didn't already have it in.
I wish more people were voting for This Is Us, but it's at least a snub that I am able to understand. The show has a subversive and interesting storytelling technique which is implemented with great acting, but perhaps it's not for everyone.
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I've been working on my ballot all year basically; I've been slowly adding films to different categories since I saw Logan, my first film of 2017. I've taken this year's Boffy voting very seriously, and I've evaluated many different candidates. Tonight, I'm going to watch The Shape of Water, and tomorrow night, I might rent one more film on Google Play, and then I'll be sending it in. 2017 was an agonizing year in a great way, because almost everything I saw had merit in its own right.
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I didn't know Bleecker Street bought Leave No Trace so that's a sigh of relief. It's upsetting when films that have great potential aren't even purchased...
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They made a smart choice in director Baltasar Kormákur. He is an experienced director, not only with action films (Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest), but also with a film that has a very similar plot to this one (The Deep).
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I was very overzealous with my FYCs this year, campaigning films in categories where even I don't have the space to put them...
The only Faith-Based film that I may be giving a vote is The Case for Christ for Best Adapted Screenplay, though that may not have happened if Adapted Screenplay wasn't as barren this year. All Saints would have been given a Best Original Song nomination if that was a category, and the year is so strong that I decided not to give All Saints a Best Picture nomination on the basis that it really doesn't have a chance.
(If anyone is planning a last-minute voting campaign for either of those films, notify me and I'll change my ballot around.)
Paul, Apostle of Christ | March 28, 2018 | Sony
in Box Office Discussion
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So religious filmmakers aren't allowed to touch narrative features based on a true story such as 12 Years a Slave, Schindler's List, Apollo 13, 127 Hours, United 93, Erin Brockovich, Argo, and such?