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Old 03-05-2025, 04:53 AM
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The following is a list of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

How many have you seen?
Has anyone seen all of them?
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The following is a list of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

How many have you seen?
Has anyone seen all of them?
Wicked and Dune: Part Two.
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Wicked only and that is because wife and kids wanted to go
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Haven't heard of most of them. Seen none.
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I saw an interesting take on Wicked. The writer said the idea for it was people watching The Wizard of Oz and wondering where the secondary characters went to college.
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Have not seen any of them. I can’t figure how the academy picks best picture of the year. Many times it’s not my pick.
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Totally disinterested and none of them packed my interest
I wonder why?

Usually I could like action movies and mysteries. We saw a wicked in New York live theater and none of the other ones fit my profile as a person or My views.



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The following is a list of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

How many have you seen?
Has anyone seen all of them?
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Have not seen any of them. I can’t figure how the academy picks best picture of the year. Many times it’s not my pick.
Probably it is, for the most part, twenty to fifty aged people who pick the Oscar contenders. Not 55 and over movie goers. Even those would be West Coast individuals even if Hollywood now could more mean movie production in Georgia, New Zealand, Paris, New York City, New Mexico, etc .
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The following is a list of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

How many have you seen?
Has anyone seen all of them?
Anora was good story with graphic strip club scenes at the start that may turn people off...
The Brutalist was way out their....pretty weird. Great acting job by Adrian Brody though.
A Complete Unknown (Bob Dylan Bipopic) was very good and great acting by Timothy Challomet
Conclave was the best in my opinion. Should have won.
Dune II was good, sreamed it for free, I usually don't like science fiction, but enjoyed this one.

One response said that younger people pick the movies for the academy nominations....that is not true. This year's nominess weren't as good as last year's.../but have the same appeal to people over 55 - especially a drama about naming the next pope and the Bob Dylan story. We saw two of them at the Lake Sumter Cinema....good to go and watch a movie so this one doesn't close down also.
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Probably it is, for the most part, twenty to fifty aged people who pick the Oscar contenders. Not 55 and over movie goers. Even those would be West Coast individuals even if Hollywood now could more mean movie production in Georgia, New Zealand, Paris, New York City, New Mexico, etc .
There is usually a wide difference large enough to build a Walmart Supercenter between what the so-called critics like and popular opinion. The most egregious example was in 1977 when Dennis Cunningham, movie critic for WCBS-NY rated "The Turning Point" with Mikhail Baryshnikov as a "10" and Star Wars as a "-1". I think history has spoken, and George Lucas is happier with his bank account than the producer of "The Turning Point"
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Saw Wicked, The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown and was bored. I kept checking my watch to see when the movie will get over. Actually fell asleep a few times.
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Anora was good story with graphic strip club scenes at the start that may turn people off...
The Brutalist was way out their....pretty weird. Great acting job by Adrian Brody though.
A Complete Unknown (Bob Dylan Bipopic) was very good and great acting by Timothy Challomet
Conclave was the best in my opinion. Should have won.
Dune II was good, sreamed it for free, I usually don't like science fiction, but enjoyed this one.

One response said that younger people pick the movies for the academy nominations....that is not true. This year's nominess weren't as good as last year's.../but have the same appeal to people over 55 - especially a drama about naming the next pope and the Bob Dylan story. We saw two of them at the Lake Sumter Cinema....good to go and watch a movie so this one doesn't close down also.
The Academy members vote for Oscar nominations. I doubt if many of these people are retirees. It did look like Taylor Swift got a vote in the music categories. Google it.
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I watched Wicked on TV, didn't like it. The original Wicked was outstanding.
We saw The Unknown at the Theater and really liked it!!!
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Other than the sound of freedom. I haven't been to a movie theater since Obama 2016, other than some oldies like Caddyshack, Die Hard, Airplane, Hunt for red October, etc streaming on TV.
I don't care for today's Hollywood. I miss the days of John Wayne , Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, etc..
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Other than the sound of freedom. I haven't been to a movie theater since Obama 2016, other than some oldies like Caddyshack, Die Hard, Airplane, Hunt for red October, etc streaming on TV.
I don't care for today's Hollywood. I miss the days of John Wayne , Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, etc..
Sound of Freedom was eye-opening but seemed to play very fast and loose with what really occurred. Loved Angel Films Cabrini.
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