Oscars (2025)

These snuck up on me.

I typically like to see the Best Picture nominees, but I genuinely have no interest in seeing the two musicals or the Bob Dylan biopic. It looks like SUCH a generic biopic and I don't have much interest in his music, so was genuinely just going to skip it, but may have to go ahead and watch some of them anyway. Isn't everyone sick of biopics at this point?

I've seen 4 of the 10 already.

Best Picture

“Anora,” (Neon)

“The Brutalist” (A24)

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

“Conclave” (Focus Features)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classic)

“Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

“The Substance” (MUBI)

“Wicked” (Universal)

I've only seen four on that list, got to step up my game. Damn.

Which four have you seen? I know you've seen Dune 2, Wicked, and Conclave. What's the fourth?

I've only seen Anora, Conclave, Dune 2, and The Substance so far (all pretty excellent in my opinion).

Conclave
Dune: Part Two
The Substance
Wicked

Crazy that Denis Villeneuve never got a director nomination.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Crazy that Denis Villeneuve never got a director nomination.

That and the fact that another fu#king biopic made the list should be enough to invalidate the whole ordeal. Not to mention 2 more fu#king musicals.

Oh, but Conan is hosting the show this year. I'm pretty excited about that... lol..

He's going to steal all the Oscars with his amazing drama skills...

Gingey bastard

Haven't seen any of the films from that list.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Haven't seen any of the films from that list.

Not even Dune Part 2??

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Not even Dune Part 2??

Nope, Haven't even seen part 1.

What planet are you living on, bro?! Salusa Secundus??

The Brutalist and The Substance were good, Emilia Perez is an absolute joke of a film, it being nominated for anything other than a razzie is ridiculous.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
What planet are you living on, bro?! Salusa Secundus??

I don't "just" watch movies, I do play games something that you don't do alot yourself.

Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
...Emilia Perez is an absolute joke of a film, it being nominated for anything other than a razzie is ridiculous.

I haven't finished the last act yet, but I'm surprised I don't hate it as much as some. I think the idea is at least a good one. I'm just going to have to see if it actually does something with the idea in the 3rd act instead of just more annoying musical numbers. If it progresses the plot instead of just adding more musical scenes.

Finished Emilia Perez.

I didn't hate it as much as most people. The 3rd act isn't exactly the direction I was hoping it would go in, but it at least did something with its premise. And most of the music is kept pretty brief.

I give it 7/10.

Anora was very enjoyable.

^ 👆

Omg, I liked Wicked. I can't believe it. Well, I liked everything except the singing, but even that I could forgive most of the time knowing that it's basically a musical play put to screen. One or two of the musical numbers were stimulation overload. But the story sucked me in with its contributions to the Wizard of Oz lore, the origin of the Wicked Witch of the West, timely and highly socially relevant plot elements, of course. And the two leads had tremendous chemistry, I thought.

If someone had told me it featured a talking goat (voiced by Peter Dinklage no less!!!) I probably would have rushed out to see it.

I did not like Nickel Boys. Apparently an historical atrocity obscured by poor choices in filmmaking. Had potential to be Shawshank Redemption esque, but decided to be artsy fartsy and incomprehensible and to even be vague and weird about hiding the apparent violence. That shit gets on my nerves. If it was bad the audience needs to know.

And f#ck, I don't think Brutalist and the Bob Dylan movie are going to go digital for another couple weeks. Like the 18th and 22nd or something.

Meh, not too far away.

I'll look for Nickel Boys, but like Emilia Pérez I'm in no rush to see it. Still might skip both.