Movies - Best Piceture Nominees

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

I find it hard to understand what the Hollywood selectors were thinking. Here is my take:

Parasite.
This is a Korean film that won Best Picture. It has English subtitles. It is the story of two families, one rich and one poor. The poor family infiltrates the rich family. It is a very good movie that held my attention but not the best picture of the year, not even close.

Joker
I found this movie to be boring with a capital B. My biggest challenge was staying awake until the end. There must have been some under the table payola to get this B movie the nomination.

1917
What a great movie. This is an epic story from WWI with Britsh forces battling the Germans, most likely at the Somme. The directing and cinematography are superb. The acting is good too. This is one that you don't want to miss. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief that they voted Parasite the winner over this far better movie. That's kind of like voting Kia a better car than Porche.

[Scottish Lassie]

Feb 19, 2020 23:28:36 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

I find it hard to understand what the Hollywood selectors were thinking. Here is my take:

Parasite.
This is a Korean film that won Best Picture. It has English subtitles. It is the story of two families, one rich and one poor. The poor family infiltrates the rich family. It is a very good movie that held my attention but not the best picture of the year, not even close.

Joker
I found this movie to be boring with a capital B. My biggest challenge was staying awake until the end. There must have been some under the table payola to get this B movie the nomination.

1917
What a great movie. This is an epic story from WWI with Britsh forces battling the Germans, most likely at the Somme. The directing and cinematography are superb. The acting is good too. This is one that you don't want to miss. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief that they voted Parasite the winner over this far better movie. That's kind of like voting Kia a better car than Porche.

[Scottish Lassie]

Feb 19, 2020 23:28:36 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

I find it hard to understand what the Hollywood selectors were nomination.

1917
What a great movie. This is an epic story from WWI with Britsh forces battling the Germans, most likely at the Somme. The directing and are superb. The acting is good too. This is one that you don't want to miss. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief that they voted Parasite the winner over this far better movie. Scottish Lassie.That's kind of like voting Kia a better car than Porche.

I cannot understand your thinking. War is stupid, and making a movie about this stupidity is bad, and for people who think that is great is beyond my comprehension.

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

Feb 20, 2020 2:42:13 GMT Scottish Lassie said:

Feb 19, 2020 23:28:36 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

I find it hard to understand what the Hollywood selectors were nomination.

1917
What a great movie. This is an epic story from WWI with Britsh forces battling the Germans, most likely at the Somme. The directing and are superb. The acting is good too. This is one that you don't want to miss. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief that they voted Parasite the winner over this far better movie. Scottish Lassie.That's kind of like voting Kia a better car than Porche.

I cannot understand your thinking. War is stupid, and making a movie about this stupidity is bad, and for people who think that i19s great is beyond my comprehension.

You are just half right. Yes war is hell. You got that right.

You are wrong when you say we shouldn't make war movies. This is how young. people learn about the horrors of war.

WWI on the western front came down to two major battles: The Battle of the Somme fought by the British against the Germans and the Battle for Verdun fought by the French Army against the Gmerans. Both of these battles lasted a long time and were characterized by trench warfare and relentless artillery shelling.

The Battle of the Somme lasted more than four months. The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest in the British Army’s history. Casualties topped 1 million, including the deaths of more than 300,000. The battle included the first use of tanks in warfare. The battle claimed the life of the son of the British prime minister. Adolf Hitler was wounded in the leg during the Battle of the Somme.

1917 isn't a movie that glorifies war. Far from it. It is a movie that documents very accurately just how dangerous that war was.

[Scottish Lassie]

A person has to experience the real war before they can really understand the horrors . Watching a movie no matter how well it is presented, does not do this iIMO

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

Feb 21, 2020 17:36:00 GMT Scottish Lassie said:

A person has to experience the real war before they can really understand the horrors . Watching a movie no matter how well it is presented, does not do this iIMO

No we don't want to send our young people to war so that they can understand the horrors of war. Nor to we want them to think that superhero movies like Rambo are anything like real wars. in those movies the hero never dies and he kills more enemies every time he turns around.

Movies like 1917 do a good job of portraying war as it actually was.

We should take our kids to battle sights as well. For example, the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France is the largest American military cemetary in Europe. More than 23,000 American soldiers died in that one battle and are buried there. It is quite a sobering sight to see that many crosses (headstones) in one place.

[deyana]

I still haven't seen 1917, I will look it up.

I think, even though, those of us who have never fought in any wars can't fully fathom just how horrific it is, we do need to remember what happened in the past. It's very easy to forget and there is a danger in that.

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

Feb 25, 2020 15:45:42 GMT deyana said:

I still haven't seen 1917, I will look it up.

I think, even though, those of us who have never fought in any wars can't fully fathom just how horrific it is, we do need to remember what happened in the past. It's very easy to forget and there is a danger in that.

Yes Deyana, history lessons are very important.

When I was growing up in California, the schools were pretty thorough on American history but not so good on the rest of history. We got lessons on WWII from an American perspective, especially the battles against Japan in the Pacific theater. The Russian war against the Nazis was barely mentioned. We learned almost nothing about WWI.

Last year we spent a couple days in Verdun France where one of the most important WWI battles played out over months. The battle was in a heavily forested area with the French Army going against the Germans. Both sides were dug into their trenches. They were each trying to hammer the other with artillery shells. At the end of the battle the area between the two combatants looked like a moonscape. There wasn't a tree, a bush, or even a blade of grass left standing. The landscape was a series of overlapping craters from violent artillery shell explosions. You do see that sort of terrain in the movie 1917. When we were there the craters were still there but the forest had grown back.

[deyana]

Yes, that is something to see I imagine, BA. The earth will cover and disguise everything given enough time. And that is why we have to find other ways to remind ourselves of what really happened, A way to remember. In order to prevent such atrociousness from ever happening again.

Sadly I think many never learn, and that is why wars and deaths of innocents keep on happening even today.

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

Deyana - if you have Netflix check out the ZZ Topp documentarty they've posted. Tracks the groups history and features their music. I know you love music and think you'd enjoy watching.

[rebel2020]

Not yet seen "1917" But have visited the WW-1 Battlefields of Gallipoli (Western Turkey), Even now the trenches & barbed wire is still there(1990) It brings the full horror of War into Focus.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign

But do we learn from Past Horrors, Do we hell, I think there are more Wars now then Ever, The Bombing of North Pakistan by the USA, Tribal Wars in Afghanistan, Israel Bombing Schools and Hospitals in Palestinian & Gaza, More Wars across Africa then I can keep account of, Then there is; Syria, Yemen, Iraq, It just goes on,

When will we ever Learn ?

[deyana]

Mar 11, 2020 17:09:30 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

Deyana - if you have Netflix check out the ZZ Topp documentarty they've posted. Tracks the groups history and features their music. I know you love music and think you'd enjoy watching.

I've seen that advertised.  And I've been meaning to watch it.  I might do that tonight, BA    Thanks for the headsup.

[deyana]

Feb 29, 2020 22:34:28 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

Feb 25, 2020 15:45:42 GMT deyana said:

I still haven't seen 1917, I will look it up.

I think, even though, those of us who have never fought in any wars can't fully fathom just how horrific it is, we do need to remember what happened in the past. It's very easy to forget and there is a danger in that.

Yes Deyana, history lessons are very important.

When I was growing up in California, the schools were pretty thorough on American history but not so good on the rest of history. We got lessons on WWII from an American perspective, especially the battles against Japan in the Pacific theater. The Russian war against the Nazis was barely mentioned. We learned almost nothing about WWI.

Last year we spent a couple days in Verdun France where one of the most important WWI battles played out over months. The battle was in a heavily forested area with the French Army going against the Germans. Both sides were dug into their trenches. They were each trying to hammer the other with artillery shells. At the end of the battle the area between the two combatants looked like a moonscape. There wasn't a tree, a bush, or even a blade of grass left standing. The landscape was a series of overlapping craters from violent artillery shell explosions. You do see that sort of terrain in the movie 1917. When we were there the craters were still there but the forest had grown back.

It's interesting how the earth will eventually take everything back.  I've seen lots of photography where just this has happened.    I've watched many war documentaries, you are right, we need to learn and we need to know.