lorddemaxus

A Disney+ series? What a waste of Boden and Fleck's talent. I wasn't a big fan of their Cap Marvel work though so don't really mind Marvel getting another director (maybe this time Marvel should let the directors do more of the action sequences than a second unit team). I was just hoping Boden and Fleck would go back to doing their indie work. I think Lorene Scafaria would be a pretty good choice for the sequel but I'd also like her to write the movie if she joins the movie as director. Only if the whole movie was about this and not some hypocritical war story that takes up too much space.

Oh my god, that scene always has me bawling. Definitely the most emotional scene in the movie. The scene were Racer X tells Speed this is also a great moment (epecially upon rewatch when you know that he's his brother):

Zola is the only movie that sounds geniunly interesting to me from this year's Sundance.

Because the n word was created by white people as a derogatory term and has a horrifying history behind it (I don't need to explain the history do I?). Desi was a term created by Indians and doesn't really have any history behind it. It's not like when the British ruled India, they used Desi as derogatory term for Indian slaves or anything.

Anyone else remember when WB produced the best comic book movie of all time in 2008? And no, I'm not talking about The Dark Knight. I'm talking about Speed Racer. You guys act like the portals scene and iron man death scene in Endgame are the most cathartic and emotional things to happen in a superhero movie but this beats any of that by a mile:

SDCC like they did with Aquaman.

Little kids at a Bad Boys for Life screening? Doubt. Even if what you're saying is true, kids at my Frozen 2 screening laughed when the Dolittle and Spies in Disguise trailer came on (both of which flopped) so its fair to say that kids will find anything funny.

A few showtimes for Birds of Prey are on Fandango (not up for sale yet). Seems like previews are starting at 6pm

Feels like its gonna suffer from the same problem as Pikachu where the studio forgets to market the movie towards kids because they are too busy marketing it towards the twitter and reddit.

@Eric Dolittle I saw that Sonic started sales a few days ago. Are you gonna track it next week?

My point is that most people don't make logical situations. I would even say horror movies are about people making the worst decisions. People react differently to situations. What's more important is that the way the character acts makes sense for the character to act. A character who acts illogically making an illogical decision is justified because that's a part of the character's personality. It's like watching Uncut Gems and saying that the movie sucks because of the irrational decisions Sandler's character makes eventhough it makes a lot of sense a scummy and greedy character like that makes those decisions. The kid already made illogical decisions before that scene so don't see why that is the only illogical part. You think he wasn't being illogical by bringing his sister and leaving her alone in a high school party and letting her eat the cake that caused her allergy to start? And I doubt you would act the way you think you would act because thats the way emotions work. They make you make irrational decisions (unless you think you would be unfazed and calm in a situation like that which I doubt most people who be able to). Edit: Also what @Ipickthiswhiterose said about trauma.

I don't really have a problem with people have a different opinion and stuff but I find this criticism really odd. I thought it made sense for a teenager in shock to do that (I mean he thinks he just killed his sister). I think you don't find it logical just because its something you wont do. Was it a logical decision? Not really. But when have teenager ever been logical (espescially one that brought his middle school sister to a high school party and let her eat something that would get her allergy starting up)? Most adults probably won't make a logical decision in the same position either.

All the actor winners (Phoenix, Zellweger, Pitt, Dern) were expected. Parasite win probably makes it a Parasite vs 1917 race but I'm gonna lean towards 1917 for now.

I guess so but the movie that seems to get the best reactions at the VFX bake-off usually seem to win. Maybe it's just a coincidence.

I have a feeling that the VFX branch might have more influence than that.

Doing the moon scene without green screens but with LED screens is absolutely an innovative technique and something more movies will start using, BR 2049's holographic sex scene was more complex than the CGI from any of the other nominees, The Jungle Book's VFX was a big step forward towards photorealistic animation, Ex Machina wasn't really innovative (which is why that was one of the more surprising wins) but creating a human like body that looks extremely real with the kind of budget Ex Machina is amazing, Interstellar's Black hole VFX helped scientists visualise black holes and helped with black hole research. I don't think I'm overthinking it. The yearly Oscar VFX bake-off does a really good job of showing why the winners of the category win. I think it's just a coincidence that franchise films don't win stuff (outside of the Planet of the Apes films, which recent franchise films actually have achieved anything new with CGI)?

That's really not how it works. The award usually goes for the most innovative use of visual effects (it was even called "best achievement in Visual Effects" before). Just looking back at the last few winners, First Man won for the Moon scene, BR 2049 for that holographic sex scene, The Jungle Book for its animal visual effects, Ex Machina for Vikander's character's CGI (espescially for looking so good on such a low budget), Interstellar for the Black Hole VFX. 1917 doesn't really have a big enough hook for it to win.

Although I think the race is over because it won at the PGA. It could do what Saving Private Ryan, Brokeback Mountain, and La La Land (PGA+DGA winners) did and not win BP because of no SAG ensemble win. But a Harvey Weinstein film isn't competing and there seems to be no racial or "this movie is so overrated" backlash so I doubt it.

Don't see Bumblebee numbers happening especially if Birds of Prey manages to reach it.

There's a chance this does a La La Land but that's probably a very small chance.

1917 won and the race is over.

I don't think doing "well" internationally well help the movie much though. Like, it could make 300 mil OS (which I think is decent) and still be a flop.

Nah, if it loses DGA and SAG, it will be a frontrunner but I think 1917 can still win.

But I think the chances of the DGA not giving the award to Mendes is pretty low though so if 1917 wins the PGA, then I think its winning Best Picture (unless it somehow loses at the DGA).

If 1917 wins at the PGA, I think it's the frontrunner above OUATIH and Parasite because it will also likely win the DGA.