The Official 89th Academy Awards Thread - ABC, 8:30PM ET

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

It was a character study and we popped in on him at pivotal points in his life.

Aaron Sorkin did the same thing with "Jobs"

Nikkas are expecting it to have a typical structure and plot. Doesn't make it a thin screenplay because it doesn't follow the 3 act structure.

All of that is a lazy way of getting out of writing an actual story and just letting the camera work carry the script. The best actor in the film was only on screen for 20 minutes, then he just disappears. The third act was awful all the way around.

Like someone previously said, if the protagonist was straight, this would be on Netflix getting ignored. You know how I know this? Because a far superior movie, Imperial Dreams, is on Netflix and hasn't gotten anything close to the praise of moonlight.

Moonlight wasn't about the black experience whatsoever, but that's what white people thought it was. A hood safari with a gay tour guide.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

We're gonna need some on to make this an IN (on the card) GIF!

That dude looks heated

How exacty did the old man fukk up

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

That dude looks heated

How exacty did the old man fukk up

Yes he was pissed

 

[Won Won]

That dude looks heated

How exacty did the old man fukk up

He froze and didn't know what to do after he opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone - La La Land

 

[Tony D'Amato]

He froze and didn't know what to do after he opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone - La La Land

Then it wasn't Bugsy's fault

That old thot shoulda knew her place and kept her trap shut till Bullworth could assess the situation

 

[UserNameless]

I didnt even have to find another thread @UserNameless

Too obvious at this point. ..agenda too real.



Then you got the chick from LaLa Land saying "it's the best movie ever" ...



...too real.








Raise ya sons, brethren.

 

[UserNameless]

if he was straight
this shyt would've been written off as just another "urban" movie

Some people looking real funny in the light in here, @Ol' Otis

I'll refrain from names tho.

 

[Rell Lauren]

 

[pickles]

So they fukked up & now it's going to "Moonlight"??!!



The Oscars ARE A fukkING JOKE!!!!!!!!


All this pandering from Hollywood to "Moonlight" & "Hidden nikkas" is to cover up for the obvious racism they showed with "Birth of a Nation" & Nate Parker!!!!! They ain't fooling nobody!!!

Nobody gives a fukk about Nate Parker.



Sorry your cac movie with "pawgs" didn't win.

 

[pickles]

I love this thread

1 - La La Land - thread goes "boooooooooo, I knew it! Those racists CACs love jerking off Hollywood, this was a clear winner from day one. Why can't Moonlight win?"
2 - fukkery - Thread goes WTF
3 - Moonlight - Thread goes "boooooo! This was a set up to go viral. A total conspiracy. Also fukk this homo film"

Exactly.

 

[UserNameless]

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@the next guy Representation Matters/Symbolic Change Black Liberal Twitter stay championing/rallying over irrelevant shyt.

Symbolism... Such a powerful word.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Who are you telling? I agree with you. I wish black folks would stop putting so much damn stock in the Oscars & Grammys and take pride in the Image Awards & Soul Train Awards instead.

Here's where you all miss the picture tho: the black people in Hollywood who've busted their asses since high school or college to get there put stock in it because it's recognition from people they work with, whether it's writers producers actors directors etc and that award means they're forever in history and a lot of them work their asses off just to be nominated. They grew up watching films and studying films with all races not just black people. And they also understand what type of juice you get by being able to say oscar nominated or oscar winner.

So to say black people shouldn't put stock in something because you have misgivings about who wins or why they win is shytting on the people like Viola or Sidney or Denzel or Halle or forest or Octavia or anyone else who's ever been nominated and or won. It may not mean a lot to "us" because we aren't the ones putting in the work but it means a lot to them. And to decry that simply because the person or film you wanted to win didn't win is childish and short sighted. I don't give a fukk about the Grammys but I'd never say the artists nominated in the rap category or r&b category shouldn't. I get what it means to them

 

[MartyMcFly]

Exactly.

This shyt is crazy B lol. When a movie directed by a black man with an all black cast wins it's a conspiracy or an agenda or God knows whatever else. But if it didn't win the academy is racist

 

[Mortal1]

Who are you telling? I agree with you. I wish black folks would stop putting so much damn stock in the Oscars & Grammys and take pride in the Image Awards & Soul Train Awards instead.

I mean the original Birth of a Nation won serval oscars which is basically a KKK superhero flick why the fukk should black people care about the Oscars

 

[MartyMcFly]

I mean the original Birth of a Nation won serval oscars which is basically a KKK superhero flick why the fukk should black people care about the Oscars

Same reason there's a thread on the Grammys every year even though they didn't want to recognize jazz initially. Or rock initially. Or hip hop and even with their hip hop taste, at times it rubs me the wrong way but that's my preference. But they didn't want to give props to genres we started and we trailblazer in until they became "safe" or overrun by white people and other races. Yet that doesn't stop those threads from being made or people caring about whether or not Beyoncé or Kendrick get a trophy. Can't put down one and then praise the other.