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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 18:30:25 GMT
I’d say “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (2011) I don't know if "failure" is the right term, since it did get 2 Oscar nominations (one of them being Best Picture). I meant failure in the sense it was terrible and not what they were going for. |
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Post by mstreepsucks on Feb 5, 2021 18:30:31 GMT
The majestic or maybe, big fish.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Feb 5, 2021 18:31:26 GMT
Anyone remember that forgetable film "The Soloist" with Robert Downey Jr?
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Post by janntosh on Feb 5, 2021 19:23:31 GMT
Is Forest Gump meant to be an Oscar bait film? It was a big summer release
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 19:42:02 GMT
Is Forest Gump meant to be an Oscar bait film? It was a big summer release That’s a fair point. It was meant to be a blockbuster. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 19:45:55 GMT
Is Forest Gump meant to be an Oscar bait film? It was a big summer release It certainly ticked some Oscar buttons at the time. AIDs, intellectual disability, Vietnam, etc. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Feb 5, 2021 22:10:57 GMT
Forrest Gump won Best Picture, so calling it a “failure” is objectively false.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 5, 2021 22:52:10 GMT
Big budget flop appropriately title The Oscar (1966).
In the wake of the success of Big Musicals “My Fair Lady” and “The Sound Of Music”, struggling studios rushed similar product into production with disastrous financial results. They had major stars and major budgets but major hubris brought down some major studios.
Star (1968)
Doctor Dolittle (1969)
Darling Lili (1970)
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Feb 6, 2021 7:20:26 GMT
While I don't have any bad memories of it, it did really come off as a way for Cuba Gooding, Jr. to try and keep his star power up.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Feb 6, 2021 7:21:47 GMT
Anyone remember that forgetable film "The Soloist" with Robert Downey Jr? Was it really trying to be Oscar bait? I just remember it being marketed as an uplifting, low-key movie for the coming summer movie season.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Feb 6, 2021 7:23:05 GMT
Is Forest Gump meant to be an Oscar bait film? It was a big summer release It certainly ticked some Oscar buttons at the time. AIDs, intellectual disability, Vietnam, etc. I mean it beat Pulp Fiction so yeah you're right it did press all the right Oscar buttons, lol. Also, very convincing effects too.
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Post by Vits on Feb 6, 2021 12:56:12 GMT
Magnolia - 99' is similar and Oscar bait Really? How so?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2021 13:52:24 GMT
It certainly ticked some Oscar buttons at the time. AIDs, intellectual disability, Vietnam, etc. I mean it beat Pulp Fiction so yeah you're right it did press all the right Oscar buttons, lol. Also, very convincing effects too. On paper, Forrest Gump shouldn’t work. If you get the wrong actor to play Forrest, it could have been corny in the wrong places and over dramatic in others. Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks together pulled this off. Great supporting cast, don’t get me wrong. But if Forrest goes too handicapped, or not enough... if he doesn’t do funny aloof the right way. Dramatic crying convincingly... it doesn’t work. And Zemeckis did a great job of building your sympathy. Then you can play with the character. It’s a masterpiece in cinema imho. The music score, the cinematography, the plot, the humanity. The allegory. It’s perfect. |
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Post by Harmless elf on Feb 6, 2021 16:01:46 GMT
Modern Oscar bait is movies with a black lead that has a big focus on race in the story.
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Post by Vits on Feb 6, 2021 17:27:54 GMT
Thanks for the enlightenment. I feel smarter after reading through your complex analysis.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 6, 2021 19:27:58 GMT
Thanks for the enlightenment. I feel smarter after reading through your complex analysis. That's how he answers replies to his MAGA posts over to the Politics board.
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Post by Vits on Feb 6, 2021 21:41:59 GMT
That's how he answers replies to his MAGA posts over to the Politics board. Oh, I've seen him write despicable things in the past. However, there didn't seem to be anything political, religious, etc. about his post nor mine, so I wasn't expecting him to reply that way.
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Post by shannondegroot on Feb 6, 2021 21:45:33 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Feb 6, 2021 22:09:36 GMT
While I don't have any bad memories of it, it did really come off as a way for Cuba Gooding, Jr. to try and keep his star power up. I liked it fine. A little better than I Am Sam (2001) in my opinion. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 6, 2021 22:21:34 GMT
Yentl 1983
Nell 1994
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