Review 92nd Academy Awards

[Amol S.]

This years 92nd Academy Awards was quite different than previous ones. A major difference was that this year the "Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film" has been replaced by "Academy Award for Best International Feature Film", where the international film is allowed to win other Oscars, as well as best picture. This years award also went to the film that won "Academy Award for Best International Feature Film", which is the Korean film "Parasite".

Other new things were introduced in this years Oscar, this years orchestral performance was conducted by a female orchastrator. A major topic that was prominent in this years Oscars was the theme of empowerment (woman, race, and ect.).

During the final song performance that showed the actors that we loved that had passed away this year, the first person to be shown was Kobe Bryant, the basketball player who recently died in a helicopter crash. Singing from the Grammy winner was great.

There was comedy jokes in the Oscar as well this year.

I give it a 5 filled circles (5 out of 5) ◙◙◙◙◙

PS: can someone add a star emoji, to the emoji menu please.

 

[shortylickens]

I wish I had the verbal skills to express how much I dislike the Oscars and most of Hollywood in the 21st century.

 

[UncleWai]

Pretentious trash. Best picture category has been a joke, always with that M Night Shytmalan twist trying to be smarter than the general public.

 

[13Gigatons]

One long Woke fest.

Rich idiots flying around in private planes preaching about something.

They can’t stay married, can’t stay out of rehab and can’t speak without a writer banging out lines for them.

 

[13Gigatons]

Pretentious trash. Best picture category has been a joke, always with that M Night Shytmalan twist trying to be smarter than the general public.

Some decent films this year but they just had to give it to a foreign language film. Wut?

 

[IronWing]

The comments here just write themselves. Of course the same whiny criticism has been flung at the Oscars since the Oscars began. Yet, people keep watching the show. The Oscars show exists because it's incredibly cheap to produce and always gets the ratings.

 

[NoTine42]

The In Memorandum montage did not include Luke Perry, who was in one of the night’s nominated films, “Once soon a time in Hollywood”.
They were correct to include Kobe, who won an Oscar.

Eminem surprised everyone and showed up to the Oscars 17 years late to give a live performance of his Oscar winning, “Lose yourself”

 

[sdifox]

Some decent films this year but they just had to give it to a foreign language film. Wut?

Pretty sure they did it just to piss you off.

 

[Chromagnus]

A lot of times the Oscars suck and get it wrong but Parasite was definitely the best movie this year and deserved to win.

 

[ondma]

Havent seen Parasite. I would have liked to see Ford v Ferrari win. Also saw The Irishman and Marriage Story. Both were well done, but glad neither won best picture.

 

[slayer202]

I liked the comedy jokes as well

 

[zinfamous]

One long Woke fest.

Rich idiots flying around in private planes preaching about something.

They can’t stay married, can’t stay out of rehab and can’t speak without a writer banging out lines for them.

wat

 

[JulesMaximus]

Havent seen Parasite. I would have liked to see Ford v Ferrari win. Also saw The Irishman and Marriage Story. Both were well done, but glad neither won best picture.

I'm glad Joaquin Pheonix won for best actor. He deserved it. His speech however was a bit crazy. I thought they would play him off quickly but they didn't.

I haven't seen Parasite either but am kind of curious now since it won so many awards. I may have to check it out.

Also, as much as I like Jimmy Kimmel and him hosting the Oscars it just drags them out that much longer. The no host format seems to help keep it under the alloted time limit.

 

[sportage]

Parasite?
One of those movies Hollywood has a circle jerk over but no one will actually ever go see it because for the subtitles, plus its a foreign film.
Another one of those winning films that most of America will never watch.
So they won, so whats the point?

And Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ???
Seriously?
It was in the theaters for what? About one week?

The awards are really more about craft than anything else.
An awards show for those within the industry with an understanding of inner workings and of interest only to those within the industry and not so much for the general public. Like watching a medical convention hosted by Tom Hanks with doctors and professionals talking about their craft.
And that craft is how and why winners are chosen as they are and why to the general public a lot of those winning choices make absolutely no sense.

If this were an oil painting awards show, the winning paintings would be quite misunderstood and abstract while to the general public the winning paintings should be of pretty lakes and sunsets.

 

[KeithP]

The comments here just write themselves. Of course the same whiny criticism has been flung at the Oscars since the Oscars began. Yet, people keep watching the show. The Oscars show exists because it's incredibly cheap to produce and always gets the ratings.

I don't follow the Oscars that closely but the haven't the ratings been steadily declining?

-KeithP

 

[ondma]

I'm glad Joaquin Pheonix won for best actor. He deserved it. His speech however was a bit crazy. I thought they would play him off quickly but they didn't.

I haven't seen Parasite either but am kind of curious now since it won so many awards. I may have to check it out.

Also, as much as I like Jimmy Kimmel and him hosting the Oscars it just drags them out that much longer. The no host format seems to help keep it under the alloted time limit.

Yea, he deserved it. The speech *was* bizarre though. I am a Christian Bale fan, thought he was great in Ford V Ferrari. Also though Matt Damon should have been nominated for playing Carroll Shelby. He did a great job.

 

[Chromagnus]

Parasite?
One of those movies Hollywood has a circle jerk over but no one will actually ever go see it because for the subtitles, plus its a foreign film.
Another one of those winning films that most of America will never watch.
So they won, so whats the point?

It's an amazing movie and people shouldn't be scared off from subtitles to actually see it. The point is that they gave the award for best movie to the best movie, this year it just happens to be a Korean movie.

 

[Chromagnus]

I don't follow the Oscars that closely but the haven't the ratings been steadily declining?

-KeithP

Probably, but ratings have been steadily declining for basically everything (except possibly sports). Fewer people are watching live TV.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Parasite?
One of those movies Hollywood has a circle jerk over but no one will actually ever go see it because for the subtitles, plus its a foreign film.
Another one of those winning films that most of America will never watch.
So they won, so whats the point?

And Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ???
Seriously?
It was in the theaters for what? About one week?

The awards are really more about craft than anything else.
An awards show for those within the industry with an understanding of inner workings and of interest only to those within the industry and not so much for the general public. Like watching a medical convention hosted by Tom Hanks with doctors and professionals talking about their craft.
And that craft is how and why winners are chosen as they are and why to the general public a lot of those winning choices make absolutely no sense.

If this were an oil painting awards show, the winning paintings would be quite misunderstood and abstract while to the general public the winning paintings should be of pretty lakes and sunsets.

I liked Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It was original, well written and of course well acted.

I generally only watch these shows when I've actually seen some of the movies up for an award. My wife likes to watch them too so I don't mind watching them with her.

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

The comments here just write themselves. Of course the same whiny criticism has been flung at the Oscars since the Oscars began. Yet, people keep watching the show. The Oscars show exists because it's incredibly cheap to produce and always gets the ratings.

The Oscars show existed long before there were ratings to get. And the Oscars show will continue to exist even if California falls into the ocean and the only people left in show biz are a few interns who happened to be in New York at the time. They'll dress up and give each other awards because that's all the Oscars has even been. A circle jerk of self-satisfication with no more real world relevance than the Mid-West Toner Salesman of the Year Award. They ACT like it's important and some idiots believe them.

 

[Ken g6]

It's an amazing movie and people shouldn't be scared off from subtitles to actually see it.

I wouldn't mind subtitles for certain movies from decades ago. (Godzilla comes to mind.) But this is 2020. If you want to release a foreign-language film in America these days, you should pay for a proper voice dub and deepfake lip syncing.

 

[zinfamous]

I wouldn't mind subtitles for certain movies from decades ago. (Godzilla comes to mind.) But this is 2020. If you want to release a foreign-language film in America these days, you should pay for a proper voice dub and deepfake lip syncing.

oh hell no.

 

[sdifox]

I wouldn't mind subtitles for certain movies from decades ago. (Godzilla comes to mind.) But this is 2020. If you want to release a foreign-language film in America these days, you should pay for a proper voice dub and deepfake lip syncing.

Why?

 

[Ken g6]

Why?

So it looks like it was originally made in the language of every country you release it in.*

So you can keep your eyes on the screen and not have to constantly be reading words at the bottom.

* If it's done properly. Too many studios cheap out on their visual effects these days.

 

[sdifox]

So it looks like it was originally made in the language of every country you release it in.*

So you can keep your eyes on the screen and not have to constantly be reading words at the bottom.

* If it's done properly. Too many studios cheap out on their visual effects these days.

Dub sucks. There is no way you are going to pay actors enough to do a good job on conveying the original performance.