Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 3:29:33 GMT
Aug 24, 2017 22:47:36 GMT @weirdraptor said:
The Academy Awards are worthless. So are RT ratings. Always have been. The academy has rarely awarded the film, director, or actor that ACTUALLY deserved the little golden man that year. So again, you aren't presenting any real arguments in the film's favor.Again, the only thing Avatar has to offer is eye candy, and... that's it. It hasn't pushed film or storytelling forward in any way.
Also you really think the RT is a "worthless" rating system? Cause they have been pretty favorable to the MCU over the years .
Let's go through some notable award snubs, shall we? Best Picture:
1941: "How Green Was My Valley" winning over "Citizen Kane". A film no one cares about winning over one of the most influential films of all time. I rest my case.
1958: "Rear Window" was completely overlooked for "Best Picture" and James Stewart was passed up for "Best Actor".
1963: "Cleopatra" losing to "Tom Jones"
1965: "My Fair Lady" won over freaking "Dr. Strangelove".
1968: "2001: A Space Odyssey" wasn't even nominated.
1973: "The Sting", a film nobody cares about anymore, winning over "The Exorcist."
1976: "Rocky" winning over "Taxi Driver".
1977: "Annie Hall" winning over... well, anything, really.
1980: "Ordinary People" winning over "The Elephant Man".
1982: "Ghandi" winning over "E.T.". Even Richard Attenborough said E.T. should have won!
1989: "Do the Right Thing" wasn't even Nominated for Best Picture.
1990: The unbearably boring "Dances with Wolves" won over "Goodfellas".
1991: After "Beauty and the Beast" got nominated for Best Picture", the Academy created the "Best Animated Picture" category to make sure it never happened again.
1994: "Forrest Gump" is a good film, but "Pulp Fiction" and "Shawshank" were better.
1996: "The English Patient" winning over "Fargo".
1997: "Titanic" winning over... anything.
1998: "Shakespeare in Love" winning over "Saving Private Ryan." Yeah, a silly romance movie won over a film that so perfectly captured what it was like to fight in World War II that it drove the Vets of that war to tears.
1999: "American Beauty" winning over "The Sixth Sense" and "The Green Mile"
2000: "Gladiator" winning over "Traffic"
2001: "A Beautiful Mind" winning over "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring"
2002: "Chicago" winning over "Gangs of New York"
2005: "Crash" winning over "Munich"
And many, many more.
"Sorry dude that the MCU hasn't claimed any Oscars yet. Maybe one day haha."
You say that is if I'm supposed to care. You say that as if it proves anything. It doesn't. Honestly, I would be insulted if the MCU did rake in any Oscars. The series is too good for the likes of those out-of-touch snobs. The real reason they haven't won is because of their genre. The Academy has always been biased against superhero films, and don't even bother bringing up Heath Ledger. He only won that Oscar because he died and they'd been wanting to give him after "Brokeback Mountain", anyway. The Academy's also biased against Sci-Fi films, Fantasy films, and Horror films. Only one fantasy film has ever won Best Picture (LotR: Return of the King) and the most recent Horror film to win that was "Silence of the Lambs" in 1991.
Oh, yeah, you wanna know what, or rather, who else never won an Oscar? Alfred Hitchcock. So the MCU's int he same boat as ol' Al. Not a bad place to be if you ask me. Try not to be so smug next time.
Also, if the Academy is SO enlightened, how come they've all but completely exiled animated films from the Oscars? One animated film will be allowed the table scrap of "Best Animated Film", but that's it. If the Academy really represented the art of cinema, any and all films, regardless of how they were made would be allowed to compete for "Best Picture", period.
Yes, I really do think the RT rating system is worthless. I don't care that it favors the MCU.
Also, where do you get off laughing at me when you're under the delusion that Avatar is the greatest film ever made? James Cameron put some pretty pictures in front of you and now he's suddenly the greatest filmmaker of all time? Hitchcock alone would eat him up and spit him out if he were alive today.