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AlanMorlock t1_jaef97y wrote

People say this but there's been more animated films nominated for best picture, and notably far more animated films nomi ated for other awards like screenplay after the the category was started thst in the several decades before. It's made animated festures much more of a part of the awards conversation generally.

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JeffRyan1 t1_jaef3fy wrote

Every talks about the unforgettable opening scene of Ghost Ship, but there's another scene, shot in fast motion, that's (to me) just as jaw-dropping. It shows a series of crimes -- murders, double-crosses, triple-crosses -- and it's done in fast motion, so that you're not supposed to be able to track the shifting alliances of who's betraying who. All you can glean is that the number of people alive on the boat is dropping every few seconds, all by desperate human greed.

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melinte t1_jaeezke wrote

I'm an old fuck (by internet standards) and also a weeknd fan, but I am actually a pretty recent fan. My first actual contact with something weeknd was when I saw him in Uncut Gems and read the whole discussion about him playing a younger version of himself whatever. I liked him in the movie.

Then he did after hours and dawn fm which are both great 80s throwbacks for an old fuck like me and I became a fan.

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jessebona t1_jaeeult wrote

I can only think of a couple off the top of my head and the first is debatable as to how it falls on the comedic/drama scale.

In Big Fish Edward meets the love of his life and comments that people are right about time standing still, but they don't tell you it compensates by moving extra fast to catch up and she leaves before he ever has a chance to ask who she is or even talk to her.

In Cube 2: Hypercube a couple of the group members end up in a trap room with accelerated time and wind up aging into skeletons while having sex.

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Rswany t1_jaeeo0n wrote

I thought Tar was a pretty riveting character study and performance.

With that being said, I do think the climax and ending of the film unfold rather unceremoniously. I think you can argue, that's kind of the point but it does kind of make the ending less dramatic.

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FloridaFlamingoGirl t1_jaeeljn wrote

The Raimi Spider-Man films were clearly made with a true passion for comics. They echo the dynamic storytelling that makes comics fun. Most MCU movies just don't do this. Into The Spider-verse was a movie that felt immensely refreshing to me, because it quite simply felt like the immersive cinematic equivalent of a vividly-illustrated graphic novel.

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