Vice | Opening Wide on Christmas | Let's call it... mixed reviews #DiViceive

[filmlover]

This and Marwen are gonna be the casualties of the holidays this year (poor Carell).

[MrPink]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

This is gonna be a wack ass year for Best Picture no matter what makes it in:

 

The frontrunner that made over 200M DOM

A black and white foreign film

A movie from the guy that made The Lobster

An MCU movie

A Spike Lee joint

Oscar bait straight out of the 80s

A divisive movie that will be yellow on Meta and potentially rotten

A problematic hit biopic that is barely even fresh on RT and below 50 on Meta

A jumpscare horror movie produced by Michael Bay

A Disney sequel

An indie movie revolving around middle schoolers

 

Like damn. Beale Street feels like the most normal contender of the bunch, and a not that long ago, it would've been too indie to make it  

 

As for whether this is still making it into Picture, idk. It depends on what the industry's side is. Given Adams is probably winning her category, they at least have to be closer to the love it side, right?

 

Is she, tho?

[Curtis1986]

I can't see this get the best picture nod and if it does it will be a crime

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

Is she, tho?

If this falls under 50%, I'll reconsider it, but who else can do it? King's SAG snub is pretty damning, and Stone and Weisz are probably gonna split votes. This would've been an easy win for Colman if she was placed here.

Edited December 17, 2018 by WrathOfHan

[Black Panther]

1 minute ago, Curtis1986 said:

I can't see this get the best picture nod and if it does it will be a crime

I also don’t see it winning any of its golden globe nominations

[MrPink]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

If this falls under 50%, I'll reconsider it, but who else can do it? King's SAG snub is pretty damning, and Stone and Weisz are probably gonna split votes. This would've been an easy win for Colman if she was placed here.

 

SAG's snub would be damning if it weren't in a year that is by all accounts, wack for this category. At least enough for me to say King still has a good shot even if the Screen Actors Guild didn't care for Beale Street.

 

If King wins a Globe, I think that feedback will loop all the way to the Oscars. 

Edited December 17, 2018 by MrPink

[filmlover]

6 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

Is she, tho?

I said this in the Best Picture thread but after seeing The Favourite they really wasted a good opportunity for a sweep by putting Colman in Lead. Nobody would’ve made a deal out of her placement had they put her there since she definitely ranks #3 in terms of screen time among the three women (albeit narrowly, it’s definitely a three-hander).

Edited December 17, 2018 by filmlover

[Barnack]

19 minutes ago, Black Panther said:

Kind of surprised it got six golden globe nominations with these mixed reviews

Star Powers and not Americans voters

[Alli]

what a weak oscar season

[filmlover]

Honestly if King wins the Globe I can still see her winning the Oscar despite the SAG miss.

[Jonwo]

Annapurna really isn't doing great, the partnership with MGM for distribution likely has saved them from going under.

[Cmasterclay]

This is a fine Oscar season and a few of the bad reviews for this are pissing me off, seriously. Some have very legit gripes but a few of them....baaaaaad takes.

[TMP]

Just now, Cmasterclay said:

This is a fine Oscar season and a few of the bad reviews for this are pissing me off, seriously. Some have very legit gripes but a few of them....baaaaaad takes.

The review from The Wrap is terribly written

[The Panda]

Seems like this movie is bringing out the closeted conservative critics 

[Rebeccas]

Looks like this and Bohemian Rhapsody will be TWO best picture nominees in the yellow MC area lmao. At least that should kill all the fake discourse about Black Panther being a "token" nominee.

[Cmasterclay]

Vice - the movie that was too liberal for people who tweet about Putin-gate every day.

[Curtis1986]

 This film is now Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes. I cannot see this getting the best picture nod. Thank God the studio amd Plan B production still has if Beale Street could talk.

[Black Panther]

2 minutes ago, Curtis1986 said:

 This film is now Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes. I cannot see this getting the best picture nod. Thank God the studio amd Plan B production still has if Beale Street could talk.

I have said it before and I will say it again it shouldn’t have its six golden globe nominations and i’m not many, if at all any oscar nods

[MrGlass2]

9 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Vice - the movie that was too liberal for people who tweet about Putin-gate every day.

This isn't a contradiction, the movie makes the nice Bush family look bad which is bad for the #Resistance.

[That One Girl]

49 minutes ago, PANDA said:

Seems like this movie is bringing out the closeted conservative critics 

 

Immediately dismissing any negative criticism about this movie as said critic being a “closeted conservative” is...questionable, to say the least.