Post by Hauntedknight87 on Sept 7, 2018 8:30:25 GMT
I think their major push will be that, Disney seeing the backlash told the Academy to pull it back this year so Black Panther can be nominated under the original category for best film.
What's your going theory list it below. If (a huge IF) it does happen and they get nominated we can come back here and see who was closest.
1. there is a bias to MCU that has now become impossible to deny
2. Disney is overly powerful and too influencial that they destroy the very core of artistic merit
the topic is simple. black panther is an average and generic movie. forget Logan and TDK. Use first class and batman begins. first class and batman begins are better films, why?
a. the plots of these films are more compelling
b.the characters are more 3 dimensional
c. both films have better CGI.
More importantly the core themes of both films. batman begins dealing with police corruption and first class dealing with the cold war and racial prejudice were handled with more depth than the themes of black panther that was barely there, which is what attracts Oscars. so how can black panther get nominated why none of this films did not?
it is simple. the recognition should go to the best of film making. black panther is not close to the best.
Because comic book movies weren't taken seriously, at least I the eyes of the folks running the Oscars.
Spider-Man 2 was a film that even the great late Roger Ebert pushed for an Oscar nomination.
In the 2000's comic based films were only looked at as mostly just popcorn block buster films (well granted most of them were) and up till 2007, with a few exceptions, weren't taken seriously.
The Dark Knight changed that. Nolan showed the world that comic book movies could tell compelling stories that didn't rely on CGI heavy effects and over the top action.
That's why that film got the biggest push that year, but it wasn't enough to change their prejudice against the genre. Sure they gave ledger the Oscar and gave the film some technical stuff. But no best picture or director.
2008 was the year Nolan was robbed of an Oscar.
Now thanks to Logan, it's looking like we're seeing a major change in the Oscars.