neekafat: Best Picture Noms Ranked 2017

neekafat 03.02.17	Better late than never. Top 3 are easily the 3 best films of the year
DoofusWainwright 03.02.17	Arrival is an average flick
neekafat 03.02.17	Fuck you good sir
DoofusWainwright 03.02.17	It's just not that great, it came out and nobody shot their loads...then end of year everyone realises nothing else came out. Elevated to instant classic status.
DoofusWainwright 03.02.17	Ex Machina is better and that didn't get this treatment
Ryus 03.02.17	arrival is pretty good la la land is alright 9 sucks 3 is best
EphemeralEternity 03.02.17	unpopular opinion: i think Manchester by the sea was insipid and ridiculously overrated , la la land wasn't much better and Arrival was a pseudo-intellectual mess with a relatively banal concept masquerading as some visionary tale of being able to coexist with aliens. shit all character development, cheesy dialogue, overly moralizing, underwhelming denouement and generally quite tedious to sit through. The lack of true classics this year definitely caused the others to be inflated
DoofusWainwright 03.02.17	Pretty much ^ Hell or High Water was an above average romp but nothing more than that
JeetJeet 03.02.17	5 is #1. 2016 kinda sucked ass for films
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	I've only seen HoHW and Arrival. Liked the former but wouldn't say it was amazing, the latter I thought was good until about 75% the way through at which point they didn't know what to do with the story.
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	I had higher hopes for HoHW cause Sicario was ridiculously good.
dbizzles 03.02.17	The Arrival really was blown out of proportion. It was just an okay movie. How are people still mind-blown over that subject matter? It had some cool elements but ultimately, it could have been a pretty good movie about communication then they tried to make it way more deep by adding in some quantum mechanics. I was shaking my head at the end of the movie.
wham49 03.02.17	as a father of a young daughter I can speak more educationally about Strawberry shortcake, Loud House, and My little Pony than these, however of the trailers I've seen Manchester and Fences are the ones I really want to see
dbizzles 03.02.17	I didn't see anything else on this list, just previews for La La Land and Hacksaw Ridge which are definitely not my cup of tea.
Xenorazr 03.02.17	I think this might be one of the few times Doofus and I agree. I found Arrival to be average and overrated. Hell or High Water was pretty good but I didn't feel like it did anything particularly well.
TheWrenKing 03.02.17	3 is 1
JeetJeet 03.02.17	Moonlight was good as hell. Probably my 3rd favorite out of all of them. And yeah Arrival was good but near the end it kinda falls off the rails. IMO Nocturnal Animals shat on most of the noms.
butcherboy 03.02.17	moonlight was phenomenal.. best movie in ages.. la la land was absolute horseshit.. i don't know who in a board room somewhere decided to revive the screen musical..
JeetJeet 03.02.17	I'm pretty sure one of us itt could have came up with a better ending for Arrival.
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	It hit the sci-fi wall. Ghost's law: Sci-fi films invariably fall apart somewhere between 50-80% through the movie, with a list of exceptions you can count on two hands spanning the past few decades.
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	Unless we're talking about garbage like Interstellar which hit the first fucking hurdle.
neekafat 03.02.17	At least we can all agree Moonlight was incredible
Flugmorph 03.02.17	damn i wanna see arrival already
neekafat 03.02.17	Do it man, lemme know what you think. Don't listen to the haters
Ryus 03.02.17	interstellar is the fucking worst i hate that movie so much
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	d e l e t e d
Source 03.02.17	I still think 10 Cloverfield Lane was the best movie of 2016
EphemeralEternity 03.02.17	lol interstellar got fucking wacky about half way through starting with that embarrassing 'love transcends all' monologue. I think some of us are just much harsher critics than others. Don't let anyone's judgement dissuade you from watching them yourself. You might even be one of those pop corn grazing philistines who completely turns their brain off when they watch a film. I kinda envy them tbh
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	Interstellar fucked up when they decided it was easier to travel through space and time than grow crops on Earth despite some occasional dust storms.
dbizzles 03.02.17	'I think some of us are just much harsher critics than others. Don't let anyone's judgement dissuade you from watching them yourself.' Seriously. Watch anything that interests you. I try to go into every movie as blind as possible.
EphemeralEternity 03.02.17	lmao the dust storms were pretty sever tho iirc
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	Sever dust storms sound more severe than the ones in Interstellar.
EphemeralEternity 03.02.17	yeah their brutal
neekafat 03.02.17	"You might even be one of those pop corn grazing philistines who completely turns their brain off when they watch a film. I kinda envy them tbh" I mean I'm a film student so I'd better not be
EphemeralEternity 03.02.17	i'm not implying that you are, i'm talking specifically about the obese fucker who i was seated next to when i got a free ticket to captain america: civil war who put away his entire bucket of popcorn within an hour, left to buy another, tripped and spilled the entire fucking thing on the stairway then bought a third and finished it with time to spare iirc.
grannypantys 03.02.17	plz don't describe hollywood movies as important thanks
neekafat 03.02.17	They are important whether you like it or not; they have the opportunity to influence the opinions of millions, and if they do so in a positive way it's idiotic to ignore that.
Titan 03.02.17	Arrival is an average flick [26]
porcupinetheater 03.02.17	The Lobster was really the only great movie that came out this year
neekafat 03.02.17	rolls eyes
rockandmetaljunkie 03.02.17	incredibly average film season tbh
neekafat 03.02.17	2016 was not nearly as good as 2015
neekafat 03.02.17	2014 was incredible too
Source 03.02.17	I don't let movies influence my opinions. I don't let anything influence my opinions :D
brainmelter 03.02.17	you're top 2 are perf, I would switch Lion and Moonlight
neekafat 03.02.17	Thanks! Not a fan of moonlight?
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	Hey Porc with a not faux-pretentious pick for once. Lobster was great. Big ups to the maid.
rockandmetaljunkie 03.02.17	2014 was indeed incredible, 2015 had an huge amount of blockbusters (some of them were actually good), but 2016 pales in comparisson
Chortles 03.02.17	arrival was good, manchester was amazing. still rly need to see moonlight
neekafat 03.02.17	#1 for 2014: Birdman #1 for 2015: Mad Max
neekafat 03.02.17	@Chortles lemme know what you think!
rockandmetaljunkie 03.02.17	moonlight was average as well :/
SharkTooth 03.02.17	I regret not seeing Moonlight when it was playing on campus only 2 weeks later it won best picture
Flugmorph 03.02.17	nom nom nom?
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	"#1 for 2015: Mad Max" Hahahahahahaha. No.
EphemeralEternity 03.02.17	'#1 for 2014: Birdman' try again mate
rockandmetaljunkie 03.02.17	"I regret not seeing Moonlight" didn't miss much man
SharkTooth 03.02.17	#1 for 2013: Movie 43
rockandmetaljunkie 03.02.17	that was released in 2013 :P
dbizzles 03.02.17	'The Lobster was really the only great movie that came out this year' I've been meaning to watch that one. It's on Prime, so I don't have much of an excuse since I just finished Hannibal.
SharkTooth 03.02.17	edited
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	It's basically a Wes Anderson movie in all but name.
neekafat 03.02.17	It's too dark to be Wes Anderson
neekafat 03.02.17	If Wes Anderson got really depressed he would make that movie
neekafat 03.02.17	Man, who would have know that Sputnik was even more pretentious and self-righteous in their tastes in film than in music?
SharkTooth 03.02.17	if someone's pretentious about their music opinions chances are they're pretentious about all their opinions
Papa Universe 03.02.17	To me it was more like this: 9) Hidden Figures It was a decent enough insight film, but it just had that typical okay nature to it. The one when you know you're just watching a good movie that in like a year or two is going to be forgotten completely. 8) Moonlight At first I didn't think a lot of this film. It was somewhat above average. I loved certain parts (especially Naomi Harris, holy shit), but it all seemed to me as kind of directionless. The main character remains the exact same insecure, unsure of himself dillweed at the end as he was at the beginning. I like the atmosphere and the cinematography a lot of the times though. But we get a gauntlet of these films in an Oscar season every year, the ones that try to ride the dick of the LGBT community (last year we had the idiotically awful Danish Girl in forefronters...and my favourite is still the underrated Single Man). This one certainly isn't the most soulless, but it ain't nothing special either. 7) Fences I was a bit too detached from this one, unfortunately. It's a decent film if you like this sort of talky chamber cinema, but it definitely isn't the best example of it. And the acting was sometimes way over the necessary top. 6) Lion Like Lion had actually any chances of winning, ha. If it wasn't for the great and powerful wizard of Weinstein, this movie would be dismissed as anotehr failed oscar bait with words like "Well, at least they tried and it ain't the worst one there is." But I must admit that I truly loved the two main characters, the adoptive mothere and the son searching for his true family. We even get some character progression and a morale at the end. 5) La La Land I guess I didn't enjoy it quite as much because of all the hype (I saw it like a day or two before the Oscars). Sure, it is gorgeously shot and directed, the songs are good and I was hooked throughout all the two hours of the film. Am I going to watch it ever again or listen to any of the songs (outside of like one or two) ever, ever, ever again? Hahah no.
Papa Universe 03.02.17	4) Hacksaw Ridge Now we get into the 'big four' that I actually loved. Hacksaw Ridge is an incredibly harsh and adrenaline pumped film. The main character and Andrew Garfield's performance is simply shaking and when it comes to action, there's no counterpart in 2016. Tough, rough, gory and moving. 3) Manchester by the Sea An actually touching sombre piece. I always like to see more of these down to earth, slap you in the face with reality dramas. This is moving and emotionally charged. The performances are all so real and natural that you don't see actors (as you do in almost every other film on this list), you see actual people living their lives. 2) Hell or High Water Yeah, this movie had no message and was not pandering to any particular audience outside of simple film lovers, it had no chances of winning. I am yet to see more gritty and gripping film from 2016. The story, the characters, the pace and the atmosphere; none of that tries to push though anything close to a moral message or a philosophical depth. It's only reason for existance is to be a good film and it is one indeed. 1) Arrival Lately, we start to get a lot of clever Science Fiction films. I really hope that this becomes a trend. Arrival brings up an actually important idea that not a lot of people talk about. How will we actually try to handle any alien interaction, besides that, it shows you just how much science and communication truly matters in scenarios when you are dealing with some alien (foreign) forces. And this is also one of the strange insances when a film is actually more enjoyable than the source material. I didn't like the ending in the short story by Ted Chiang as much, I felt it was too rushed, like he was simply throwing it all at us at once like "I'll just disclose this huge reveal in two pages, although it feels like it deserves about ten or so. Honourable mention: Silence should have received at least some recognition, like for real.
dbizzles 03.02.17	'It's basically a Wes Anderson movie in all but name.' Sold. I'm a sucker for Wes Anderson films.
rockandmetaljunkie 03.02.17	"Honourable mention: Silence should have received at least some recognition, like for real" decent film but of all the garbage that was released, it was tolerable
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 03.02.17	Zootopia was better than Arrival and I'm not even slightly joking.
Papa Universe 03.02.17	sure, why not
dbizzles 03.02.17	I can't speak for Zootopia, but I didn't find anything particularly clever about Arrival.
JeetJeet 03.03.17	Nocturnal Animals gets no love wtf is wrong with you guys?
Crymsonblaze 03.03.17	Arrival is very easily the best movie of the year
Crymsonblaze 03.03.17	"You might even be one of those pop corn grazing philistines who completely turns their brain off when they watch a film. I kinda envy them tbh" r/iamverysmart
EphemeralEternity 03.03.17	not necessarily smarter but a more discerning critic than yourself, yeah
Crymsonblaze 03.03.17	Joke's on you, I only like incomprehensible messes that make me feel smart like David Lynch films
Papa Universe 03.03.17	Oh yeah right, Nocturnal Animals should have received at least a Best Director nom.
EphemeralEternity 03.03.17	how dare you speak ill of Sir David Lynch, he is the one true cinema god whom people love to mention yet have rarely watched any of his films
Crymsonblaze 03.03.17	Eh I've seen Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead. Enough to know that he's 2smrtfurm3
Crymsonblaze 03.03.17	Oh and Twin Didn't Pique My Interest
EphemeralEternity 03.03.17	his stuff is a little bit overly adulated yeah
brainmelter 03.03.17	Moonlight is good but my god is it overhyped
Tunaboy45 03.03.17	Arrival was fantastic and I honestly believe it should have won, as much as I enjoyed Moonlight
Tunaboy45 03.03.17	@Crymsonblaze Mulholland Drive is my favourite film of all time
Trebor. 03.03.17	La La Land is a pretty good musical but it's nothing special
chinesewhispers 03.03.17	1 wasn't that good 4 over 5 & 6 is lmao
neekafat 03.11.17	"Lately, we start to get a lot of clever Science Fiction films. I really hope that this becomes a trend." Agreed hard. And yeah honestly Zootopia should've gotten nominated.
unclereich 03.11.17	Arrival was so bad
EphemeralEternity 03.11.17	alot of 'clever' science fiction films are not nearly as clever as they'd like us to believe though, just a few pseudo scientific concepts spliced together with specy cgi and dramatic music. imo