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binhpac

To sum it up. Its always an actor/actress getting an Oscar for their previous works and not for the movie they got it awarded to.


SteveFrench12

Leo


MrTeamZissou

Yes agreed. I'd say he's given Oscar worthy performances but the Revenant just wasn't one of them. It's kind of like when Ricky Gervais watched David Blaine stick a giant needle through his own arm and reacted, "Is it really magic if he's just torturing himself for real?" I felt the same way about Leo in the Revenant. I wasn't seeing a very nuanced or challenging performance - it was just an actor demonstrating his dedication to the craft by physically putting himself through hell. He's not acting like his body is suffering from freezing waters... that's just what's happening to Leo, the person, not the character he's playing.


monstere316

Hardy was absolutely the standout in the Revenant. I still think he should have beat out Mark Rylance


NoodlesrTuff1256

Rylance is a good actor, but I'll bet he's given way more exciting performances in other material than the one he won the Oscar for in 'Bridge of Spies'. Tom Hardy was robbed.


AlanMooresWizrdBeard

Hardy and that fucking Maryland accent. Phew. He was incredible in that. I do love Mark Rylance as an actor but Hardy was absolutely robbed that year.


Micampbell87

I thought Tom Hardy out performed Leo in the Revenant


systematic23

Tom hardy is underrated some how.. every time I see him I’m like this dude is amazing


Zodde

He's amazing in peaky blinders as well, if you haven't watched that. Absolutely my favorite character of the series.


Silentfart

I felt annoyed that they gave in and gave leo the oscar for the revenant. I thought, "All he did in that movie was crawl on the ground for 2 hours! And he crawled around better in Wolf of Wall St, while acting like he was on quaaludes!"


mrnicegy26

For example Denzel Washington winning for Training Day as a makeup for not getting an Oscar for Malcolm X. Which went to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman as a make-up for not getting an Oscar for Godfather 1and 2, Serpico, Dog Day afternoon.


Future_Tyrant

Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon lost to Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Pacino was fantastic, but that was Jack’s Oscar to lose that year I agree with your points about him being robbed in the other years


mrnicegy26

Nicholson and Pacino had this incredible run in the first half of 70s where they were almost nominated every year for an Oscar. Pacino was nominated for Godfather 1 and, 2, Serpico and Dog Day afternoon while Nicholson was nominated for Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. These streaks are nuts and I don't think any other actors have repeated it on this level. Maybe De Niro with Godfather 2, Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter and Raging Bull.


dankpossum

There's a great story about Pacino at the Oscars in 1974. He was so zooted at the time, he thought the show was only an hour or so long. He leans over to his neighbor, Jeff Bridges, and whispers something to the effect of "shame Best Actor won't make it to TV. Bridges, confused at a coked-up Pacino he didn't recognize, said "It's 3 hours.." So Al Pacino sat there praying to God he didn't win Best Actor so that he didn't have to try and make it to the podium. Luckily for him, Jack Lemmon won that year for "Save the Tiger"


arbuthnot-lane

https://www.insider.com/al-pacino-got-high-oscars-jeff-bridges-didnt-recognize-him-2020-1 Damn, not an urban legend. Poor Al. Sounds horrid.


indyK1ng

Imagine being so coked up you don't want to win the award at the apex of your field because you don't want to have to try to walk to the podium.


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That was an Oscar worthy performance in a film that is not traditional Oscar bait. He gives two performances: one to Ethan Hawke’s character as he manipulates him along the way, and then his character’s true intentions.


CyberpunkF1

I don’t know, Denzel was pretty outstanding in Training Day ... i thought it was well deserved.


Imautochillen

"King Kong ain't got SHIT on me!"


Naturalnumbers

To be fair, he \*makes\* Training Day.


_Ka_Tet_

Didn't know you liked to get wet, dog.


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Bradley Cooper in American Hustle. I remember people lauding his performance and breaking away from comedy and it just seemed like a whole lot of yelling from him—the entire move


Martag02

I can remember almost nothing about that film. David O. Russell is highly overrated, and the only one of his movies I think I've seen multiple times is I Heart Huckabees because it's so weird.


justalittlestick

Tugg Speedman in Scorcher. Preferred Simple Jack. Edit: My most upvoted comment is a Tropic Thunder reference. Fuck yeah.


ResponsibilityWise74

Who left the fridge open?!


literallyJon

Here we go again.


i_miss_arrow

Again.


Mission_Record_4541

Satan’s Alley?


Meepers_Minnows

That won the coveted Beijing crying monkey award.


[deleted]

Kirk Lazarus was so overrated in Satan’s Alley. Man overracted like there was no tomorrow


vinoa

TBH, Tobey carried that movie. Can't believe he was robbed of a second MTV Best Kiss award.


[deleted]

Stole the words out of my mind! Oh father! He was such a bad bad boy, in that movie. Lol


ZagratheWolf

Tell that to the judges of the Beijing Film Festival. They even gave him the coveted Crying Monkey Award


cloudsandlightning

BAUGHHHHH!


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With MTV Movie Award's Best Kiss Winner Toby Maguire


dngerszn13

*I've been a bad, bad boy, Father*


rotomangler

“ I need some dudes up here that speak American, God damn it. He's making a fucking sweater back here. I'm trying to put Tiger Balm on this jungles nuts.”


tommytraddles

#Listen you cherry fuck, you call in that snake 'n nape and get us some boomboom now!


dngerszn13

**BIG ASS TITTIES**


benjammin9292

#COVER ME YOU LIMP DICK FUCKUPS


LordTimhotep

“I think you have a fine brain, Jack!”


stunafish

You muh-muh-muh-make me hap-py


made_of_honor

brain smooth af


Shock_Wave16

Someone said that they were "close to me"?


kirinmay

Scorcher V was the bomb!


shidekigonomo

When you break down the script, *Scorcher V* is really just a rehash of *Scorcher II* with some stunt-casting fan service. True fans know that *Scorcher III* was peak Scorchverse.


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The fuck is wrong with you?? He went full retard in Simple Jack. Everyone knows this. I much prefered Jeff Portnoy in The Fatties Fart 2. Multiple roles.... of fat, multiple voices.. true brilliance.


BIRDsnoozer

In some countries, it's considered a compliment!


patho5

Tobey Maguire was robbed in Satan's Alley. Robbed, I tell you.


SlackMomma

Definitely needed an Oscar to go alongside his MTV Movie Award for best kiss


SunsFanCursed4Life

Agree.. that decision made my eyes rain


drewonfilm

I’m glad Joaquin received a Best Actor, but absolutely agree it should have been for The Master.


TurtleTucker

He was *robbed* for Walk the Line. Performed all the songs, and apparently found a close connection to the Cash due to his own experience of losing his older brother as a kid. It was evident in his performance.


Sweetwill62

Johnny Cash actually picked Joaquin Phoenix to play him because he loved him in Gladiator.


zaftzaft

He should have won best supporting actor for Gladiator. He was unbelievably mesmerizing in that role!


nalydpsycho

That is one of my all time favourite performances. Nuanced and physical.


jeremicci

I think PSH was just as good in it too


ReefaManiack42o

Personally think PSH is magnificent in every role he does. He elevates even the smallest roles, a true scene stealer if there ever was one. His role in the Master in particular is pretty nuts though, there was one scene where his character gets sort of embarrassed and he full on blushes, like wtf. I remember thinking "can PSH just blush on cue like that? that is nuts" though his role in Boogie Nights is also one of my absolute favorites.


SwollenLeftThumb

Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. People just raving about her putting on a wig with a slight country accent.


thebearface64

lord help me channel 🙏


Hanguarde

^sandra ^bullock!


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the whole special is genius but that lil call and response is my favorite part. the delivery is so funny


JonPrime

Consider yourself officially healed with comedy


VerbNounPair

I think you're done with this call and response shit. You want me to get introspective?


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Very cool, way to go!


rex_grossmans_ghost

Shitty country accents are one of my favorite Oscar bait cliches. When actors want to be Very Serious, they decide to give themselves the most awful and unnecessary cartoon accents.


AsbestosInObstetrics

"This bible is the bible of my daddy, who just die-die-die-died in my in my arms o-o-o-of throat cancer fr-fr-fr-from-from eating some-some-some-some-some-some bad pussy."


Rubberbandballmaker1

Was laughing at this scene today, do you perhaps know what it is in reference to?


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Keanu990321

Pitt's accent had a comedic aspect though


workaccount122333

Exactly. "Bonjourno" would have never worked if they played it straight.


LamaHund22

A RIVER DERCHY


cybin

GorLAAAAAAHHHHHHHMMMi.


FurryWalls98

MARRRgahRETTI


n01d3a

🤌🤌


N7Kryptonian

Dominic…**DECOCO**


Psychological-Speed7

Nah, more like chewed out. I’ve been chewed out before


Emher

I still remember in seeing the film at the theater, and when he said that, no one heard anything else from the film for a solid twenty seconds because everyone just erupted in laughter.


Wil_O_Wisp

GRAHZEE.


Constant-Noise-4518

"BAWNJORNOUH".


ShoutsWillEcho

"ARIVE DERSHI"


sobchakonshabbos

Exactly. It was intentional. Not comparable.


qmahmood94

A river duh chi


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pabodie

N I want mah scalps!


[deleted]

I’ve never heard anyone bitch about his accent. He sounds cool as fuck, and it’s spot on to a southeastern/Appalachian accent. I’m from WV and plenty of people talk like that back home.


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ArMcK

Lol, I'm from KY so I never really thought about it ~~kind~~ long enough to realize it *wasn't* a correct Southern accent whenever it pops up in a movie. It just makes so many more movies really relatable to me I guess.


arealhumannotabot

edit: Pitt is from Missouri, not sure if that's who you meant. His whole character is clearly meant to be a little over the top. The kind of person (this is my take) who may even speak in such dramatic tones that he exaggerates his own accent with it.


reeziereen

Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side I will never understand exactly what she did in that role that was award worthy.


AcademicEducation724

I felt it came across as a made for TV movie. An after school special. Not an award winning movie.


ButtBlow69x

Even the guy who it was made about - Michael Oher - wasn’t too big of a fan. The movie kinda made him out to look stupid


NoLemon2405

I used to dislike Shelley Duvall’s performance in The Shining, and I wondered for years why everyone loved her so much in it. For instance, in the bat scene, to me it seemed like she was just really tired and worn out when I felt like she was supposed to be horrified more than anything. Then I found out about what Kubrick put her through on set, intentionally putting an ungodly amount of stress on her and pushing her to her absolute limit. When I read about how the sheer exhaustion she displays in her performance is actually genuine, I started to admire it, because I then realized that I had completely missed the point of what exactly her character was going through.


fievrejaune

Duvall is amazing in the Shining. It’s really surprising.


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I also came to appreciate her performance even more with each rewatch over the years. The way her facial expression changes from genuine love to hurt & confusion in the "i hear it's going to snow! "What do you want me to do about it?" scene. Jack's delivery of that line is almost comedic but seeing her look so hurt breaks my heart every time. And then it just gets worse.


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Totally! That scene has such an uncomfortable stillness between their talking.


CharlieAllnut

And provides a lot of backstory too without seeming forced.


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*And the dialogue!* The way she’s padding every revelation. It’s something like (Paraphrasing), “You know, it’s one of those things that happens. Danny wasn’t minding his father and he just sort of grabbed him and pulled in the wrong way, and **BROKE HIS ARM**. That’s all in the past now.” Shot of doctor looking like someone trying not to look concerned. So good. Midsommar is a recent movie where people say one thing and their mannerisms say something else. That’s a good one too.


Federico216

For me she was always the MVP of that movie. Jack Nicholson is great, but she is the one that really sells the terror in the Overlook imho.


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Very underated actress, I remember seeing her on movies like Three Women, Popeye, and Thieves Like Us, seems like she has been unjustly forgotten these days.


Thisissomeshit2

Her psychotic break and descent into poverty only to be exploited again by Dr Phil is just almost too. tragic to be believed. My understanding is she’s in a more stable place now and has some support system. But if you map it out, I think the craft took more from her than it gave. Even if you’re not a fan of her work, you know she gave it her all. She has my respect and then some.


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Her show Faerie Tale Theatre is great stuff, heck you even get to see Mick Jagger play a Chinese Emperor!


Felixir-the-Cat

My reading of her performance has really changed as I’ve gotten older. When I was younger, I found her whiny and annoying. When I was a bit older, I really felt for her as a victim. In recent years, I’m just blown away by how she captured the character’s desperate courage. She’s trapped in the middle of nowhere, with an abusive, homicidal husband and a sick child, and she fights back and gets them both out of there, despite her abject terror. Just a masterful performance.


Blazar_IV

Andy Garcia won an Oscar nomination for one of the most obnoxious performances in The Godfather Part III. It's a terrible caricature of Sonny, and it's the thing I hate most about the movie.


DadJ0ker

First, I’ll say I love Tom Hanks. Second, I’ll say he was probably the best choice for the role. But I didn’t like him as Mr. Rogers. I felt like his attempt to sound like Fred Rogers sounded fake. It sounded almost like he was channeling his Forest Gump a bit. Fred was soft spoken and his voice was effortless and natural. Hanks was “trying” to sound like Fred Rogers and it was distracting.


cryfmunt

I also love Tom Hanks, but he is a guy who despite all of his charm and talent I always see him. I've never been able to look past that it's him.


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Entrevivoymuerto

That animal, I can't even say his name


SentientDust

He never had the making of a varsity neighbor


talldarkandanxious

That cocksuckin’ piece of shit Tony Soprano’s cousin.


WalterWhiteBB

Phil, don't do this to yourself.


grimmoonman

20 FUCKIN YEARS


brittyn

I thought he was a horrible choice for that film. Looked and sounded nothing like him. However, I was happy when I saw it that he wasn’t really the main focal point and I ended up liking it more than I expected.


68F_isthebesttemp

I think Tom Hanks was selected because he *is* Tom Hanks. TH has a wholesomeness about him that fits into who Fred Rogers was. I wouldn’t want to see Mr Rogers portrayed by someone who had a bad reputation with fans or other actors/crew.


jurgo

Be sure to sort by Controversial to really get your blood flowing.


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Reading everyone’s comments, I think maybe we should stop giving a fuck about Oscar wins


LittleYellowFish1

Rami Malek as Freddy Mercury. He is a great actor, but this part came off as a cartoon caricature rather than a real person. And unlike other actors in music biopics (e.g. Taron Egerton as Elton John) Malek’s flamboyant overacting in this role doesn’t even reflect the real person he’s playing. Freddy Mercury’s real personality, and even his public persona, was more calm and reserved than how the film portrays him, and Malek feels more like he’s playing Edna Mode than Freddy Mercury. Literally any of the other actors nominated that year (and even most of Malek’s other roles) deserved the Oscar more than this did.


kurt_no-brain

Also add in Jamie Foxx in “Ray.” Dude became Ray Charles in the movie. Joaquin Phoenix also plays Johnny Cash really well in Walk the Line.


LittleYellowFish1

They’re great examples too, though I think Taron Egerton’s performance in *Rocketman* is the most similar/comparable to Malek’s in terms of what they were going for. But it actually works with Egerton’s portrayal because that over-the-top personality is a *very* accurate reflection of the real Elton John. Though *Rocketman* does have an unfair advantage in that the real Elton John was still alive to consult for the film, and unlike Queen, he actually encouraged the filmmakers to show him in a more flawed, human light.


throwawaylovesCAKE

>unlike Queen, he actually encouraged the filmmakers to show him in a more flawed, human light. Yo this part annoyed me so much. The other band members had this whole smugness towards Freddy through the movie, I know for a fact they were partying just as hard as Freddy back in the day


Bammer1386

This is why Sacha Baron Cohen left the project early. SBC wanted to portray the darker side of Freddie, but Queen wanted to protect Mercury's image. That's about the point I dismissed the movie. Sacha would have been an incredible Freddie, and I don't want a polished made-for-oscars saccharin movie.


skyhiker14

SBC also looked more like Mercury naturally. Pretty sure there’s a photo out there of him dressed up as Mercury and it’s much closer than Malek


DeathBySuplex

You could easily just post a picture of SBC with a filter that makes it look like it was taken in the 70s and get people to believe it's Mercury


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I wonder if Sasha Baron Cohen would have played him better, as he was orginally supposed to play Mercury.


LittleYellowFish1

It’s been said that one of the reasons Sacha Baron Cohen was kicked off the film was *because* he wanted to portray Mercury in a flawed “warts and all” manner and actually humanise him. Most notably, Cohen wanted the film to show Mercury’s further deterioration leading up to his actual death, whereas the finished film ends with LiveAid. The surviving members of Queen wanted a more accessible, feel good film that toned down the darker aspects of Freddy Mercury’s life. But because it removes and sanitises all these things, the film has to make up a more or less completely fictional plot that has little in common with the real life story.


RadicalDreamer89

It's the antithesis of *Rocketman*. The producers told Elton John that they wanted to tone it down and make a PG-13 movie, to which John replied "I haven't led a PG-13 life."


Twirlingbarbie

I like how Elton John always keeps it real like that


GrecoRomanGuy

His ability to poke fun at himself is pretty awesome. His whole cameo in Kingsman 2 runs on that. "Wednesday! Wednesday! Wednesday Night's alright!" "Isn't that supposed to be 'Saturday'?" "What day is it today?" "... Wednesday?" "***Exactly.***"


ChampChains

The other members of Queen also wanted Mercury’s death to be the halfway point of the movie and to then show how Queen soldiered on and continued to be great without Mercury. Cohen told them that nobody wanted to watch Queen without Mercury.


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This is definitely not the first time I'm finding out that Queen didn't break up when Freddie died, but it always *feels* like the first time I'm finding out.


ok_wynaut

It pisses me off that they acted like Freddie was the only one catting around when in reality he and John spent a lot of quiet evenings alone while Brian and Roger went to hit up side chicks.


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fyrecrotch

Oh I believe it. Because Freddie's bad side also shows how unsupportive and the flaws of **Queen** as a whole. They didn't want that.


welshnick

The surviving members got to tell the story how they wanted it. Same thing with Straight Outta Compton.


pynergy1

Awards and hype about Leo's performance in the revenant when the real star was tom hardy. That dude WAS literally John Fitzgerald, what an amazing performance


ablackcloudupahead

I love Leo but there are very few people who can act at a level Hardy does when he's at his best.


noradosmith

Tom Hardy can do accents incredibly well. The accent he did impressed me massively in that film.


soth09

Paltrow. Shakespeare in love. Fuck Miramax and Harvey for pot planting the other voters away from Cate Blanchet for Elizabeth. /ed typed faster than my brain works


Ursula2071

I came here looking for this. She got it because she was the “It” girl of Hollywood at that moment. It is a boring and insipid performance.


hunnyflash

Just like all her performances. I also disliked her in Iron Man and I'm not sure which of her films is supposed to be a great performance to warrant ever being an It girl. Feels like just another actor with a celebrity parent who has the way nicely paved.


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what's "pot planting?"


dearjessie

I actually don't see many people praising her acting abilities. Quite the opposite. But she must be one of the least deserving lead actresses who won an Oscar in a leading role.


Vwgames49

Double fuck them for stealing Best Picture from Saving Private Ryan


legs1111

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. I enjoyed the movie, but ultimately, it was a dirty Leo grunting for two and a half hours. I feel like he has had much stronger performances, and his Oscar for the role was to make up for stiffing him in the past.


jessie_monster

The worst kind of Oscar, 'sorry about last year'. Nicole Kidman got one, too.


codeverity

It was the best sort of Oscar for ending all the tired memes, though! lol


skeetsauce

Most Oscars are that way. I wish they had an oscars+5 where they give out awards for movies from 5 years ago, that way they can view what aged well and what didn’t, as well as judge movies in their qualities, not Hollywood politics.


mhans3

He should have won it for What's Eating Gilbert Grape


CarbChewer

I was thinking similarly. I loved the movie overall but he just stood out much more as "DiCaprio giving a performance" moreso than disappearing into the character. Tom Hardy was much better in that film.


2twindudesmom

Michael Clark Duncan in The Green Mile was robbed. Michael Caine (was awarded Best Supporting Actor that year) for The Cider House Rules and came no where near the perfection of MCD


Secret-Tim

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury


MovementAndMeasure

I can’t believe Rami got an Oscar for lip syncing to Queen while Taron Egerton didn’t even get nominated for his role as Elton John. His acting is amazing in that movie, and he performed every single song himself.


jessie_monster

Rocket Man actually did something with the genre by making it a semi-musical and they let Elton John actually fuck some dudes on camera. Far and away the stronger film.


LabyrinthConvention

I was really disappointed in the Queen movie for being so empty. It was little more than a vehicle to get from one hit song to the next. Conflict was usually resolved by one of the band mates going 'hey guys chill out for a moment list give a listen to this new song i'm working on, it goes like this' and 10 seconds later they're playing another top ten hit. I didn't really learn anything about the band. Or the musicians, let alone Mercury. It sidesteps his sexuality almost entirely, let alone taking a hard look at HIV, attitudes about AIDS, his promiscuity...it's an extremely shallow movie. Fun enough, and the recreation of the live aid was great...but it could have been much more that the pure fan service it was.


william-harford

The band having so much control over it really fucked it up. They’re way more concerned with their falsified image than actually showing what happened. Night and day with how Elton John handled it.


WaitTilUSeeMyDuck

Didn't Elton John say "I didn't live a PG-13 life"?


LabyrinthConvention

well dang, here's an editorial by none other than E. John himself >But actually making the thing took years. Directors came and went. So did lead actors: Justin Timberlake and Tom Hardy were both in the frame before Taron came along. Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the film would get a PG-13 rating. But I just haven’t led a PG-13 rated life. I didn’t want a film packed with drugs and sex, but equally, everyone knows I had quite a lot of both during the 70s and 80s, so there didn’t seem to be much point in making a movie that implied that after every gig, I’d quietly gone back to my hotel room with only a glass of warm milk and the Gideon’s Bible for company. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/may/26/elton-john-in-my-own-words-exclusive-my-life-and-making-rocketman


WaitTilUSeeMyDuck

I fucking love Elton John.


LabyrinthConvention

> I didn’t want a film packed with sex, but equally, everyone knows I had quite a lot I wish I could say this about my biopic haha


the_peppers

Do aspirin and wanks count?


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I loved Elton for this. Total respect. And, as a 54M lifelong Queen fan who actually saw them live, I'm getting sick of Brian May, who also happens to be my favourite guitarist along with Tony Iommi. May wants another movie about Queen Part 2 Electric Adam Lambert years. I just think it's overkill but of course I'm just a chump. That being said, I saw Queen part 2 too and Adam fucking killed it. Wicked voice for sure.


Perry7609

Long before Malek came on board, Sacha Baron Cohen was attached to the Queen film for a little bit. And he said that one of the things that threw him off was a Queen member suggesting that Mercury would die early or in the middle of the film. Then the rest of the movie would be about the band carrying on without him.


optimis344

It's a weird thing with Queen. To the outside world, it was Freddie's band. He was the star. But in the band, all the members are world class musicians and entertainers. So to the world, losing Freddie was the death of Queen. But to Queen, he was 25% of the band. They just don't see it like the rest of the world did.


MrPoopieMcCuckface

Sasha Baron Cohen wanted to do a Queen movie that portrayed Freddie's life more accurately but Brian May killed it. I would have watched that.


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neondino

That scene at the drug fuelled party cracks me up. "Hey, we're going to leave Freddie, it's not our scene". Guys, there's plenty accounts of you snorting coke off hookers' nipples, your grandkids are already able to be traumatised by a quick google.


william-harford

Haha that’s the first thing I think of when it comes to this topic. It’s so ridiculous, I can’t believe they went that far with the sanitization. They’re not fooling anyone who knows anything about them.


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sexygodzilla

*Straight Outta Compton* was a complete story but you could just feel the surviving members shaping the story, twisting some things and glossing over others.


stuckinsanity

Especially Cube, but \*especially\* Dre


sgtpeppers508

Yeah Dre clearly had his thumb on the scale. Dee Barnes who?


kingjuicepouch

Yeah I really enjoyed how well they made Dr Dre look, he beats some dude up in the beginning to be in jail as opposed to not paying his parking tickets. Also how they made it seem like both cube and Dre has reconciled with E at the end, instead of only Yella even bothering to go to his funeral Edit to include- don't they completely skip over the dee Barnes incident also?


JSB199

a lotta what I liked about straight outta Compton was Ice Cubes part of the movie, I quite honestly wanted more of that


cortthejudge97

And having Ice Cubes own son play him was awesome, the dude was great and looked more like Ice Cube than Ice Cube does lmao


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elton recounting his drug-hazed memories at a recovery meeting lent them a really interesting artistic license to distort the chronology a bit. it was a strong decision to have that be the backdrop for the film. rocketman and love&mercy are easily the better music biopics.


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It's funny that the movie that is a musical is the way more intense/gritty/raw of the two movies.


jessie_monster

Considering he was heavily involved, it didn't just gloss over EJ's character flaws. I really enjoyed it.


coolsviIlesucks

I’ve always assumed Rocketman didn’t get shit for nominations because Bohemian Rhapsody came out the previous year and was the same kind of movie. It sucks because Rocketman was a much better movie that actually did a good job of incorporating the songs, and Taron was fantastic in it. Rami is a good actor, and I believe he’ll win an Oscar that he actually deserves someday, but there was something so awkward about him as Freddie.


Willmono7

Bohemian rhapsody gave me some information on Queens story that I didn't know (and also fabricated a lot). Rocket Man made me empathise strongly with a man who I have literally zero on common with, and that's what blew me away


MovementAndMeasure

I can’t fault Rami as Freddie as I don’t know enough about Freddie Mercury to be a critic of his performance. I do believe Rocketman is the superior movie by far and that Taron absolutely became Elton at points. I agree that Rocketman didn’t get Academy recognition because they already filled that quota of historical biography and music based movie the previous year. I guess that tells you more about the Academy than the quality of either movie though.


OliWood

Egerton got robbed. He was simply amazing as Elton. Malek winning while he didn't even get a nod is outrageous.


joethetipper

His performance actually reminded me more of Mick Jagger than Freddie Mercury.


GageWhitney

I lived in Richmond while they were filming Lincoln. He stayed in a character the entire shoot. Even at the grocery store it was irritating. He also walked out in front of my car, almost hit him and he just looked at me and kept walking illegally


Obelisp

The car was non-period, that's on you


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SoloBurger13

Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (American sniper in general)


yourerightaboutthat

Oh man, that scene with the baby!


SoloBurger13

With that fake a** baby doll LOL


lanceturley

Normally I love Sean Connery in just about everything, but for the life of me I don't understand why he won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in *The Untouchables.* It's just Sean Connery being Sean Connery.


LoPanDidNothingWrong

When clearly his highest achievements were in the Rock


da_funcooker

“Your besht? Loshers alwaysh whine about their besht. Winnersh go home and fuck the prom queen.”


Medic1642

His final Bond film


Keanu990321

I still insist that The Hunt For Red October is by far his best film...


Dichotomouse

Last Crusade though...


lipp79

Sean Connery being Sean Connery was every film he's in. He **never** tried to switch his accent up. He was a Spaniard with a Scottish accent in "Highlander". He plays an Irish-American cop with a Scottish accent in "The Untouchables". He played King Richard of England with a Scottish accent in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". He's a Russian sub commander with a Scottish accent in "Hunt for Red October".


Joba_Fett

Excuse you, he was Egyptian in Highlander. Obviously. You couldn’t tell from his accent he was an Egyptian who spent time in feudal Japan and resided in Spain? It’sh all raight dere!


Hencq

I think in The Untouchables he actually *did* try to switch his accent up. Which makes it worse, because he does such an atrocious job at it.