28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[TGM]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Revenant
3. Room
4. Brooklyn
5. Spotlight
6. The Martian
7. Bridge of Spies
8. The Big Short

[Dukefrukem]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Brooklyn
3. The Martian
4. The Big Short
5. Bridge of Spies
6. Spotlight

Weird ranking considering

Here's your Best Picture winner. Calling it now.

It's very good. McCarthy's techniques doesn't match the aesthetic scope of an All the President's Men or Zodiac when it comes to capturing the restlessness of investigating journalism, but it hits its beats well. The subject matter keeps it afloat. The only performance that really stuck with me afterwards is Liev Schrieber.

[Lazlo]

Weird ranking considering

Seems like he liked it just okay and was only commenting on its chances to win Best Picture, rather than its worthiness of the award.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Brooklyn
3. The Revenant
4. The Martian
5. Spotlight
6. Room
7. The Big Short
8. Bridge of Spies

[baby doll]

I've just seen The Revenant, which wasn't terrible.

Also, I've seen The Room (or more precisely, the first hour or so), if that counts.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Spotlight

3. The Big Short
4. The Revenant
5. The Martian
6. Room

[Dead & Messed Up]

Also, had to caption The Family Man for work, and while it is not a good film - not at all, really, with its cloying sub-Capra messaging and absence of style and unironic Magical Negro - Tea Leoni gives one of the all-time great thankless performances as Cage's lost love and magical temporary wife. She plausibly busies herself with chores and children, plays energetic at the rare opportunity for sexy time with her husband. She fashions a pitch-perfect blend of the sexy, the earthy, the maternal. Yeah, she essentially plays to the fantasy of the film, but Leoni actually makes her two-dimensional ideal plausible.

[Spinal]

I guess I understand why a lot of you are placing Bridge of Spies low on your list. But, for me, it felt so old-fashioned that it was actually refreshing. I liked that the protagonist wasn't a superhero or an antihero or a hero with a dark side. He was just a hero. It feels like what these times need. A protagonist in the Atticus Finch mold with moral integrity.

[transmogrifier]

I just found it quite dull, hokey in places (the paired wall scaling scenes, for example), and thought that the balance between Hanks and the two men he was trying to save was off; the young student is introduced out of nowhere when it became necessary for the plot and then it occasionally flicked back to him when we needed a perfunctory visual reminder of what Hanks was in it for.

[Ezee E]

Seen:
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Mad Max
The Martian

Haven't seen:
Brooklyn
Bridge of Spies
Big Short

[Peng]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Martian
3. Spotlight

4. Bridge of Spies
5. The Revenant
6. Room

7. Brooklyn
8. The Big Short

[The Bad Guy]

I guess I understand why a lot of you are placing Bridge of Spies low on your list. But, for me, it felt so old-fashioned that it was actually refreshing. I liked that the protagonist wasn't a superhero or an antihero or a hero with a dark side. He was just a hero. It feels like what these times need. A protagonist in the Atticus Finch mold with moral integrity.

I was genuinely surprised by how much I liked it. I actually think it may be one of Spielberg's best films.

[Winston*]

I was genuinely surprised by how much I liked it. I actually think it may be one of Spielberg's best films.

As a complete film, I think it might be the best thing he's done since Raiders.

Though Tintin was pretty boss also. Let's have another one of those next.

[Watashi]

I've grown on Lincoln more and more. It's one of his best.

[Spinal]

I went to see the Oscar nominated short animation films last night. It was really fun to see World of Tomorrow on a big screen. It made me appreciate the visuals even more. While I think it is the class of the field, I am predicting that the win will go to Bear Story, which is more of a tug on the heartstrings. It also has some nifty style shifts that will likely be attractive to voters. The other nominees were fairly weak, in my opinion.

OK, just have to bump this. Oh, Oscar voters. Your sentimentality is so predictable.

[Spinal]

Every Oscar party I have ever been to, whenever the ballots get passed around, someone will ask, "Are we supposed to mark who we want to win or who we think will win?" I am amazed at how consistently this happens.

[MadMan]

Took the bastards long enough to properly award Mr. Morricone.

[The Bad Guy]

OK, just have to bump this. Oh, Oscar voters. Your sentimentality is so predictable.

I was pretty disappointed that 'World of Tomorrow' lost.

[Ivan Drago]

I was pretty disappointed that 'World of Tomorrow' lost.

After Hertzfeldt and Miller lost, it was hard to be happy for the rest of the night.

[Lazlo]

Posted my Top 25 of 2015 on Tumblr today. Forgive the repetitive writing. Enjoy the gifs!

[Ezee E]

Every Oscar party I have ever been to, whenever the ballots get passed around, someone will ask, "Are we supposed to mark who we want to win or who we think will win?" I am amazed at how consistently this happens.

Ha. I had the same thing happen with a newcomer to my house this year.

[Spinal]

Ha. I had the same thing happen with a newcomer to my house this year.

It makes me wonder if there are parties where people hear Spotlight announced as Best Picture and then say, nah, we voted. It's actually Brooklyn.

[Grouchy]

Hey, it's a legitimate question, specially since it's more fun to state your opinion than to predict what will win. It's usually fairly easy to guess what will win Best Picture.

[Spinal]

Hey, it's a legitimate question, specially since it's more fun to state your opinion than to predict what will win.

But what would that look like? And why would there be prizes? It makes no sense.

[Spinal]

Also, nobody at my Oscar party (out of 9 ballots) predicted Best Picture correctly.

I did. But I was out-of-the-running since I bought the prizes and was tallying the votes.