Best picture predictions?

For me, the 8 are broken up into three categories: Okay, good, and great

Okay for me were Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star is Born, and Green Book.

Good were Black Panther and Vice

Great were BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, and Roma.

Since If Beale Street Could Talk is not the conversation (I will never understand nominating Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody over this masterpiece), my pick would be Roma.

Hollywood will give Trump the middle finger by awarding Roma. Fortunately, it’s also an outstanding film.

Usually by this time, I have seen either most or all of the nominated films either by redbox or at the movies. This is the first time, I have not seen (with the exception of Black Panther) any of the nominated films. I am just not interested in them.

I'm surprised by this love for Black Panther. I have a feeling it'll be Roma or Green Book.

A Star Is Born in a shocker.

I haven't seen Green Book, The Favourite or A Star is Born.

That said, I was very impressed with BlackKk Klansman, it was original, told a cool story and was well acted and directed.

Roma had the same qualities but directing was a bit overwrought in my opinion. Still, well done.

Black Panther was 20 minutes too long for me and I was dying for it to end, but a good film nonetheless.

I enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody as did the sold-out audience as I was with, but I acknowledge the film's story weaknesses, and Mike Myers should have played himself, his real involvement with Queen was much more interesting than the fake composite character he played.

Christian Bale killed it in Vice but the film was more of a snoozefest, sadly.

I think Roma might snag the Oscar, but I would prefer it to go to BlacKkKlansman.

I usually think of each year's Oscar winner as being a reaction against the previous year -- they like to pretend to be all diverse. So after last year's travesty with the putrid fish-f*ck emo-wank fantasy THE SHAPE OF WATER, they should give it to ROMA, which is, you know, actually about life on Earth and a very fine film to boot. Alas, I think ROMA is ultimately just entirely too fine a film to win Best Picture -- I'm thinking BLACK PANTHER or GREEN BOOK, something crowd-pleasing that plays with "relevance."

No, I got the point of SHAPE OF WATER, who didn't get the point of SHAPE OF WATER, the points were made with such lead-pipe blatancy that Donald Trump would get the point, all that cliched "minorities against the vicious white man who wants to weaponize the magical fish" crap. Sure, they're nice enough little points if that's what folks need, easy fantasy wish fulfillment where one-dimensional cliched characters get momentary payback against the man (and the pathetic alcoholic gay guy gets his hair back) and some chick swims off to live happily ever after with an anthropomorphic piranha -- what annoyed was the barefaced parade of cliches (at least we were spared the ASL version of "you're the real monster!" ) and the barefaced ripoffs of so many other better works (it may be the single most derivative movie ever made), and the holes in the plot that you could push a galaxy through (in a state with so many miles of beachfront, they can only return the fish to the ocean at one specific little bit of.waterfront at only very specific times after very specific amounts of rainfall). It certainly is the film to represent the first year of Trump's Presidency, in it's sheer stupidity run amok and entirely undeserved award-winning.

ROMA might win. Who knows. The double nomination in Foreign Film and Best Picture might cost it in the long run. Voters might think it'll win one or the other and vote for something else instead.

Updated On: 2/21/19 at 01:38 PM

ErikJ972 said: ""No, I got the point of SHAPE OF WATER, who didn't get the point of SHAPE OF WATER, "

You."

Looks like we disagree. It happens. Glad you dug on SOW.

Updated On: 2/21/19 at 02:36 PM