So, I have to throw something out there, and who knows, a lot of people might not like to hear it. I've been hearing a lot about how the new bioflick, Selma, about MLK in the months prior to the civil rights act, is getting "snubbed" at the Oscars. And I have to ask one question. How? Seriously, How is this movies getting snubbed? It's up for best picture, which I'm not so sure it should even be up for that. And It's not that it's a bad movie at all, it's just it has A LOT of strong competition this year. The thing I'm hearing the most about is how David Oyelowo is getting snubbed for best actor. Which I'm not sure if I agree with or not, as Jake Gyllenhaal isn't up despite his amazing job in the movie nightcrawler.

But then we get to the thing I've been seeing the most. How the director should be up for best director. Why? She did a good job directing sure, but her style brought nothing new to the table if you ask me. And for the people saying she's getting snuffed, watch the movies that are up for best director, they are simple more uniquely and originally directed than Selma. Simply put selma is a Good movie, and maybe it should be up for one or two awards, but no more than that. It's a well written movie with a few very good performances, but nothing else. 

this is the year of boyhood. a bad movie that will get a lot of awards if they are lucky and that noone will remember in a year or two.
birdman should win a lot of oscars, its a freaking amazing movie.

Selma was alright, but a movie shouldn't win awards just because it was about something really important, the movie that was the best should win, and for me I hope Birdman or Foxcatcher can win a few awards.

generic-user-1 said: this is the year of boyhood. a bad movie that will get a lot of awards if they are lucky and that noone will remember in a year or two. birdman should win a lot of oscars, its a freaking amazing movie.

The thing with Boyhood is that I think it has potential if you are an average white middle class American. (Maybe add with divorced parents)

Otherwise, it doesn't click and becomes boring as hell.

People just cant accept that maybe its just...not a good movie :O

morenoingrato said: generic-user-1 said: this is the year of boyhood. a bad movie that will get a lot of awards if they are lucky and that noone will remember in a year or two. birdman should win a lot of oscars, its a freaking amazing movie. The thing with Boyhood is that I think it has potential if you are an average white middle class American. (Maybe add with divorced parents) Otherwise, it doesn't click and becomes boring as hell.

the movie is just lame, i dont care for any of those people, they are all boring and the boy is a freaking a-hole. and the movie looks bad. they mae it in 12 years, wow congratz you are lazy. birdman on the other hand is freaking great with a nice story, realy good acting and it looks realy great, you feel the movie. same goes for great budapest hotel (havnt seen the rest of the heavy nominate films). the difference to boyhood is, we will watch both films in the future and enjoy em.

morenoingrato said: The thing with Boyhood is that I think it has potential if you are an average white middle class American. (Maybe add with divorced parents)

Wow, I meet like all of those criteria!

Boyhood was stupid. It's an okay movie but it's far from Oscar-worthy. I'm baffled by its critical success and the only explanation I can come up with is that people are more impressed than they should be by the fact that it was filmed over a period of 12 years with the actors aging in real time, which I can't see as anything more than a gimmick. They could have filmed the whole thing in under a month with three different actors playing the kid at various ages and the movie would effectively be no different.

Haven't seen Selma yet so I have no comment on that.

Selma is pretty good but its not better then 12 Years A Slave. Oyelowo probably should have gotten nominated but the other people that got nominated probably did a better job. Not really rooting for any movie but I'm hoping Interstellar gets the Oscar for best original score the movie itself could have been better but the score was great. Zimmer should have won last year also but all his worthy movies good snubbed he should have been nominated for Man of Steel, Rush and 12 Years A Slave.

I had hough hopes for Selma but, truth be told, as a movie it just isn't anything special. The acting isn't great, either. Hell, The Butler is a better movie and that movie was "Civil Rights Light".

Nightcrawler was friggn' weird, but I agree Jake deserved some recognition for that role.

Award shows are nothing but autofellatios of the entertainment industry inflating their already-enlarged egos on how important they supposedly are. I wouldn't sweat what other "critics" think of movies.