• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Benny Safdie doesn’t make box-office-numbers kinds of movies.

    Besides, Johnson’s producing it. It’s his money. He wanted Oscar bait and got Oscar bait.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah, from what I’ve seen it looks great, it’s just not a blockbuster or even trying to be one.

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        3 days ago

        Looked cringe to me. Throwing on a wig doesn’t automatically make you a “serious actor”. And a bad wig at that. Like someone else said, the whole thing reeks of Oscar bait.

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        3 days ago

        Hollywood running its own rewards shows has always been the Obama putting a medal on Obama meme…

        In fact, rewards ceremonies for most things are nothing but BS. Very, very few are actual rewards that seriously considered all applicable content, and even fewer serve a purpose beyond ego inflation.

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          3 days ago

          I think it’s more about increasing perceived value. I’ve definitely seen professionals literally just paying for awards.

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            3 days ago

            Oh, perceived value… I guess that would be the outward side of ego for individuals like celebs. lol Only so many careers where those two can go hand in hand. (although under very much NOT meritocratic capitalism, ego goes a lot further than it should…)