Maybe the public shouldn't go to the movies for a year.........
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So, I thought Chris Rock was actually pretty funny. You may not realize this, but there's been a lot of controversy this year because no black actors were nominated. Now, I tend to think that's just something that's going to happen sometimes, and that it has nothing to do with racism. The worst thing you could say might be that there simply aren't enough black writers writing about the black experience, which may mean less parts for black people at times. Anyway, what Rock was saying wasn't just out of the blue, and in fact, it was something he probably had to address.
On the other hand, I think this year's show was way too focused on progressive social issues. You had people saying the absurd phrase "gender confirmation surgery" in reference to the movie "The Danish Girl," you had the writers of "The Big Short" complaining about money from 'big oil' in politics, and you had Leo DiCaprio insisting that global warming is the biggest problem facing our age. That kind of silliness makes me a little less eager to defend them from the whole #oscarssowhite thing.
Nobody's for sexual assault. But it isn't particularly courageous to "stand up for survivors" when literally everybody would gladly stand up for survivors. The problem with the whole campaign is the false claim that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted in college, and that there is a "rape culture" that's to blame any time an accuser's story is questioned.
That is why i asked. After that super bowl halftime salute to racism nothing surprises me
Have to take into effect who the first three poster were.
I guess that's why I enjoyed it, it was different from any action movie i had ever seen in a lot of ways.
Rock would make fun of his own Mother. He's just a funny guy. Make that VERY funny guy.
"The Revenant" and Best Actor DeCaprio...SMH. This was a freaking remake. "Man in the Wilderness" was the original and Richard Harris played the lead. John Huston was the Captain. IMO, a much better movie. Computers in movie making has taken away from old fashioned acting, set building, etc. But I love old movies.
I'm not sure they used a whole lot of CGI in that movie, except for the scene with the bear and the one of Leo going over the cliff. I thought the cinematography was beautiful, and it did win the Oscar for cinematography (in my opinion, either that or The Hateful Eight could've won, but the first scene of The Revenant probably won it for those folks). Not sure how you could knock the acting in that movie, either, as DiCaprio and Tom Hardy were very good. If there were problems with the movie, they were in the length and the pacing of the narrative rather than in the technical aspects.
Also, The Revenant wasn't really a remake of Man in the Wilderness. Both were based on the life of Hugh Glass, but The Revenant was directly based on a 2002 novel of the same name.
