The 2020 Oscars

[Runa216]

Jaicee said:

Runa216 said:

The Academy got its international cred by nominating Parasite. Also nominating The Farewell would have been overkill and would have...triggered the SJWs or something? I dunno. Social politics are dumb. The Farewell was excellent and it really deserved better. 

That said, I was shocked at how much I LOVED Parasite. Going into this Oscars Season I genuinely felt that would be one of a handful of 'nothing' movies (Where nothing really happens and there's no primary conflict to propel the narrative...like Little Women), but it was gripping from beginning to end. Made me wanna go back and watch all of Bong Joon-Ho's work! Outstanding film. 

I agree with all your comments except that Little Women didn't deserve a Best Picture nomination. Like I said, it was a 'nothing' movie, but I found it far more compelling, engaging, and gripping than Joker or The Irishman or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Which is strange to me becuase I love Comic Book movies, Martin Scorsese, and quentin Tarantino, with their respective genres/filmmakers regularly making my top 10 list in any given year). 

"Nothing happens" in Little Women? Really? Just because events aren't all portrayed in chronological order? *groans*

Is that really how rigidly you think?

How in the name of the skies above and the depths below did you come to that conclusion? Did you even read any of my post? 

I specifically said that a 'nothing' movie is one where there's no central conflict propelling the narrative and that it's just a sequence of events happening. That is pretty clearly what Little Women is. The non-chronological storytelling was a bit confusing but it had nothing to do with my assertion that it's a 'nothing' movie, and since I listed it as one of the best nominees, it should be clear that 'nothing' movies aren't bad by any means. I really liked the movie, and your criticism is so remarkably off-base I don't know if you're just really bad at reading comprehension or if you're overcompensating for some weird hangups you have external to this conversation. as in, I guess you heard people complaining about the nonlinear progression of the narrative and...somehow...assumed that because I said something you vaguely saw as negative (it wasn't), that this was the reason? 

Please don't project your hangups onto me. I loved the movie and felt it deserved more praise than it got; its status in my mind as a 'nothing' movie does nothing to deter me from enjoying it and the nonlinear narrative had nothing to do with that assessment.