Oscar Nominations
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 18:05 last edited by
It ran away with the Golden Globes and is the front runner for the Oscars. Seriously.
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@89th said in Oscar Nominations:
Seriously, is that bad dubbing? A comedy sketch? WTF did I just watch and listen to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Pérez
The film follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who enlists a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to help her disappear by transitioning into a woman.
wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 18:06 last edited by@George-K said in Oscar Nominations:
@89th said in Oscar Nominations:
Seriously, is that bad dubbing? A comedy sketch? WTF did I just watch and listen to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Pérez
The film follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who enlists a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to help her disappear by transitioning into a woman.
And Karla Sofia Gascon is a dude that transitioned in his 40s…
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 18:26 last edited by
Why do we care so much about these awards? The Oscars is just a huge marketing campaign which ends with a bunch of rich people giving a bunch of statues to a bunch of rich people who spend the evening telling each other how fucking special they are. It doesn't mean anything.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 18:31 last edited by
We can all speak for ourselves, but I don't care a bit, not even as a curiosity. The Oscars peaked for me when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Wake me up the next time an Oscars broadcast leads to a live hour standup set from an all-time great comedian. Everything else is a letdown.
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It ran away with the Golden Globes and is the front runner for the Oscars. Seriously.
wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 19:15 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Oscar Nominations:
It ran away with the Golden Globes and is the front runner for the Oscars. Seriously.
Honestly this is blowing my mind. That video is worse than stuff middle schoolers try to sing, choreograph, and videotape. W...T...FFFFFFFFFFFF
For me, I used to love the Oscars. I guess because as a dumb kid in high school I wanted to direct films when I got older. Even made some short films for competitions, but I learned during the process I (selfishly) just enjoy watching films and not knowing how they are made. Anyway...certainly a few years ago the Oscars became a tired platform of rich celebrities giving their political opinions and it turned me off. I used to watch it each year but not anymore... although it does give me a somewhat decent list of movies to add to my Netflix queue.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 19:44 last edited by
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@LuFins-Dad said in Oscar Nominations:
It ran away with the Golden Globes and is the front runner for the Oscars. Seriously.
Honestly this is blowing my mind. That video is worse than stuff middle schoolers try to sing, choreograph, and videotape. W...T...FFFFFFFFFFFF
For me, I used to love the Oscars. I guess because as a dumb kid in high school I wanted to direct films when I got older. Even made some short films for competitions, but I learned during the process I (selfishly) just enjoy watching films and not knowing how they are made. Anyway...certainly a few years ago the Oscars became a tired platform of rich celebrities giving their political opinions and it turned me off. I used to watch it each year but not anymore... although it does give me a somewhat decent list of movies to add to my Netflix queue.
wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 21:32 last edited by@89th said in Oscar Nominations:
@LuFins-Dad said in Oscar Nominations:
It ran away with the Golden Globes and is the front runner for the Oscars. Seriously.
Honestly this is blowing my mind. That video is worse than stuff middle schoolers try to sing, choreograph, and videotape. W...T...FFFFFFFFFFFF
OK, sure, that is obvious.
But the identities are simply wonderful, very powerful.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 21:56 last edited by
@LuFins-Dad said in Oscar Nominations:
By the way, @89th @George-K “Karla” is also up for Best Actress.
Looks like I'm going to have to start drinking early this afternoon.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 22:07 last edited by
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@89th said in Oscar Nominations:
I read that Demi Moore might win Best Actress, too.
From what I've read, "The Substance" is
kind ofa weird movie.wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 22:19 last edited by@George-K said in Oscar Nominations:
@89th said in Oscar Nominations:
I read that Demi Moore might win Best Actress, too.
From what I've read, "The Substance" is
kind ofa weird movie.Watched it. Weird, but also very good.
Not outstanding or stellar, but still very good.
Got really weird only at the end.
If you don't mind Moore and the other female lead showing full frontal nudity or the gore of blood and guts deformed bodies in a few scenes, it would be a good movie to watch. -
wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 22:24 last edited by
"Chellengers" is the one I thought would win some major awards but it's not even nominated for anything.
I typically do not enjoy that genre, still I say this is an outstanding movie. I highly recommend this movie.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 20:26 last edited by
My favorite movie reviewer reviews Emilia Perez. Spoiler alert: worst film of 2024.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 22:27 last edited by
Her actual singing was far better than anything in this film.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 23:28 last edited by
78% critic score on rotten tomatoes, vs 18% audience score. As usual, the audience score represents what a normal person might think better than the critic score.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 23:35 last edited by
Has-been Leonard Maltin, desperately clinging to relevance with this review:
Phrases like “game-changer” and “cutting-edge” can’t capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. I daresay it wouldn’t or couldn’t have been made, or even conceived, just ten years ago. (Maybe five…) I am determined to praise and discuss it without giving too much away. Here goes: Emilia Pérez is a crime thriller that boils over into melodrama, laced with violent action. It has been described as operatic, which makes particular sense when you learn that it is punctuated with a dozen musical numbers. I would love to have been a fly on the wall when filmmaker Jacques Audiard auditioned this idea for his backers.
Zoe Saldaña gives an excellent performance as a lawyer who has become bored with her work, making her a perfect choice to take on a formidable and dangerous assignment: to help a brutal Mexican drug kingpin disappear from sight—even from his wife and two children—and live the rest of his life as a woman. Both iterations of that character are played by trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón, who gives the breakthrough performance of the year.
The film utilizes songs to help define its characters and their emotional state as the unpredictable story unfolds: from a tender bedside recitation to an anthem of liberation set to Busby Berkeley-like choreography. Composers Camille Dalmas and Clement Ducol deserve credit for sheer versatility…as well as the ability to write lyrics in Spanish when they (like the director) are French.
Audiard, whose notable work includes A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and The Beat My Heart Skipped, credits a novel by Boris Razon with the inspiration to make this one-of-a-kind picture, which he co-wrote with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius, and Nicolas Livecchi. He has gone on record as saying he is not a fan of musicals, and he hasn’t paid attention to the genre’s conventions at all. His unique and compelling picture defies pigeonholing. And if the narrative has some lulls, well into its two-hour-plus running time, it’s a minor complaint given the exhilaration it provides overall.
The cast wrings every drop of emotion from the screenplay, at reflective moments as well as sequences where every feeling is dramatically heightened, and always with purpose. Kudos to Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and a late-arriving Édgar Ramírez for delivering on the promise of Audiard’s wild ideas. Emilia Pérez is a knockout.
