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Watched Sinister 2. First one was more shocking and intense but 2 is different because you see some from the ghosts' point of view.
 
I watched Making a Murderer and holy shit, this blew my mind big time. Besides being an utterly fascinating story, the way it's put together is unbelievable. The filmmakers made this documentary feel like a regular crime thriller series with plot twists and cliffhangers between episodes... Masterful editing. The whole thing is narrated perfectly. I've never heard about the case of Steven Avery so it was quite an experience to follow the events this way. Exciting and at some points nerve-wracking. If you don't know this case, do yourself a favour and just watch it without reading anything. Seriously, you won't regret.

Episode 1 (of 10) is available for free on YouTube:

 
I loved Making a Murderer. It's definitely biased, but it's still very interesting to read up on all the information that has come about since the "broadcast" of the show. On both sides. It definitely sheds a light on how fucked up the criminal justice system is.

In other news, I'm very interested in seeing the Deadpool movie. I'm not even much of a superhero fan, but this movie looks amazing.
 
Watched almost the entire Oscars. I'm glad to see so much recognition given to Mad Max and a bit surprised that The Revenant won just 3 (Hardy was robbed). Biggest snub - visual effects for Ex Machina... Come on. Winning against Star Wars? Joke. Speaking of TFA, I'm bummed it didn't get both sound awards as well as score and left with nothing. Spotlight winning best picture... Meh, an overrated film IMO. Honestly I stopped expecting it to win during the ceremony, because it wasn't winning much. Last but not least - good for Leo. I wouldn't say it's his best role ever, but he deserves an Oscar as an actor. Besides all of that, Chris Rock was a fail. The whole racism drama was unbearable to watch.
 
I only have seen a couple clips of it. I generally don't find Chris Rock funny, but there's a valid point about how very white Hollywood is to be made. I just don't think he makes it well.

Good for Leo, great on Mad Max, and Spotlight is pure Oscar bait - I think we mentioned that earlier.
 
Srogyy said:
Biggest snub - visual effects for Ex Machina... Come on. Winning against Star Wars? Joke.
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Have you seen Ex Machina? It's arguably the visually most impressive film I've ever seen. Beats Star Wars hands down.
 
I think it deservedly won. At least compared to the other two nominees in the category I've seen, Star Wars and The Martian.

Now look, I loved Star Wars as much as the next nerd. It was more or less the film I wanted to see. It had some problems, but maybe I'll write about those some other day. But let's not overrate it. It was engineered to look like it could have been made in 1977, and we're all really glad about that. However, the consequence is that it doesn't have any groundbreaking effects by today's standards. It didn't give us anything we haven't seen before. And it wasn't supposed to. That was the whole point of it. But if we're being honest, that doesn't even justify a best visuals nomination.

In my eyes, Ex Machina is the polar opposite of that. After Avatar, Matrix and whatnot, I honestly believed that I had seen everything on the screen. Armies of a million soldiers shooting thousands of robots? Seen it. Giant transforming robots destroying entire cities? Seen it. Dinosaurs? Seen it. Cars turning invisible, fleets of ships destroyed by killer waves, planets colliding... Shit just got bigger, but no different anymore. But Ex Machina showed me things I had not seen before. It conveyed to me an atmosphere of unease, claustrophobia and anxiety while looking so sleekly modern, indeed bringing modernity to the perfection that contemporary designers strive for, and turning it into a horror show. The film showed me an environment that could perfectly exist today, but I sincerely hope doesn't. It was genuinely unsettling, thanks to its amazing visuals. I haven't seen a film that had this effect on me in a long time.
 
Srogyy said:
Besides all of that, Chris Rock was a fail. The whole racism drama was unbearable to watch.
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Chris Rock has always been a racial comedian, no surprises that he took the controversy and played around with it. Personally not a big fan of his. (Not because he's a racial comic, one of the great comics of all time was a racial comic -Richard Pryor-)
 
The Flash said:
Chris Rock has always been a racial comedian, no surprises that he took the controversy and played around with it. Personally not a big fan of his. (Not because he's a racial comic, one of the great comics of all time was a racial comic: Richard Pryor)
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Yeah, I just do not find him that funny ... he will have good moments and some good lines here and there ... but listening to a whole set of him, no way. That said I did not watch the Oscars this year and generally do not watch them any year
 
Louis C.K., in his presentation, managed to outdo Chris Rock's material in a matter of minutes. I wish he'd present the Oscars but it's not likely, his style is a bit too controversial for the Oscars.

I'm not a movie guy by any means, I'd even say I'm an absolute ignoramus when it comes to cinema so no interest in the Oscars, really. I only watched Rock's monologue and Louis C.K.'s presentation because I'm really into stand up comedy.
 
Perun said:
Now look, I loved Star Wars as much as the next nerd. It was more or less the film I wanted to see. It had some problems, but maybe I'll write about those some other day. But let's not overrate it. It was engineered to look like it could have been made in 1977, and we're all really glad about that. However, the consequence is that it doesn't have any groundbreaking effects by today's standards. It didn't give us anything we haven't seen before. And it wasn't supposed to. That was the whole point of it. But if we're being honest, that doesn't even justify a best visuals nomination.
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The whole film is supported by both big and more subtle effects - take them away and you have no Star Wars. Fans loved TFA because it 'looked and felt like Star Wars' and VFX played a big part in achieving that success. Groundbreaking aside (because none of the nominees were), I think that effects were the most crucial here and the gigantic amount of work put into it should be appreciated. I see your point about Ex Machina but let's not forget we're talking about a pretty technical award here and you seem to focus on the overall design and atmosphere.

 
As much as I loved Star Wars (was my favorite movie of the year), I'm not sure if there was anything Oscar worthy about it. The Hateful Eight score was way better (not to mention an Oscar for Morricone was a long time coming) and I agree with Perun re: Ex Machina. Star Wars usually pushes boundaries with their VFX (even the prequels did this), but it didn't really do that this time. And that's fine, they were obviously very conscious of not letting the effects overshadow the story.
 
Mosh said:
I'm not sure if there was anything Oscar worthy about it.
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Sound - 100% worthy.

Btw. Random remark - The Academy should totally ditch the song category. :P Maybe they could introduce something more contemporary instead. Besides, I think the sound categories could be merged into just 'best sound'...
 
Srogyy said:
Sound - 100% worthy.

Btw. Random remark - The Academy should totally ditch the song category. :p Maybe they could introduce something more contemporary instead. Besides, I think the sound categories could be merged into just 'best sound'...
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Nah, I like the technical Oscars. They're a telling picture of who actually worked hard on the thing.
 
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