Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude streaming movies

Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by iask on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:43AM (#19301116)

I was saying this to someone just a few days ago. And, if I might add, many of the films from Netflix and Amazon are way better.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by curiousgal on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:08AM (#19301297)

I honestly can't think of a single Netflix movie that isn't, to me, shallow or half-assed. I'm curious to know which movies you found way better, as I might have missed them.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by Freak_NL on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:11AM (#19301324)

Roma seems to have been received well to critical acclaim.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by gamblor956 on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:34AM (#19302004)

Other than the critics, I don't know anyone who was actually able to force themselves to finish watching that slow, pretentious film. Like most of the films on the ballot this year it did not deserve to be nominated.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by baldfat on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:29AM (#19302446)

Old Man Here.

Nor would they be able to sit through 2001 A Space Odyssey. The quality of the movie hasn't changed but the audience has.

I love betting people they can't sit through one of the best movies ever. I have yet to see some under 40 make it through.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by Freak_NL on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:43AM (#19302576)

38 here. I love that film, and many others with similar pacing.

I don't think it's age. There are plenty of older folk who used to be able to appreciate slower works — be it film, music, literature, or art — but no longer have quite the attention span for it. We appear to have managed to lower the attention span of society as a whole in the past few decades.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by wink on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:37AM (#19309638)

Not sure that has anything to do with slowness or appreciation. It has to do if you enjoy the material and then if it's worth your time.

I kinda liked Apocalypse Now. I am not rewatching Redux, it's just too long. I have no problem rewatching the 3 extended editions of the Lord of the Ring, even one after the other.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by extra88 on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:45AM (#19302594)

You don’t know me but I not only found Roma to be wonderful, I traveled to another city just to see a 70mm projection.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by redwood on Saturday March 09, 2019 @09:26PM (#19349809)

I loved it. But I was lucky enough to see it on a big screen

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by arrakeen on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:29AM (#19301480)

i can't tell exactly what Spielberg's criteria is from the article, but Roma had a theatrical release so i'm not sure it counts here

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by dagw on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:00AM (#19301747)

but Roma had a theatrical release so i'm not sure it counts here

He seems to think that Roma sticks to the letter of the law, but not the spirit and thus wants the law changed. Roma, the argument goes, had a limited token theatrical release solely to qualify it for the Oscars, but the intention was always that people where meant to see the movie on 'TV' rather than at the cinema.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by Grue3 on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:29AM (#19302444)

> limited token theatrical release solely to qualify it for the Oscars

A lot of non-US (and even US) films do this as well. The distributors do a limited release to qualify for the awards, and bank on it winning the awards so that they can do a wide release of an "award-winning" film.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by arrakeen on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:58AM (#19302179)

thanks for the clarification-- i hadn't even realized it was on netflix until after i'd seen it in the theater

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by turc1656 on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:43AM (#19301600)

I really enjoyed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. If you like the Coen Brothers, you should definitely watch it.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by uncletaco on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:27AM (#19301457)

Lots of people in the FighterZ community now say they're "birdboxing" their opponents with blind mixups which I think is more culturally significant than anything the movies up for best picture put up, save Black Panther.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by spookyuser on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:11AM (#19301320)

Roma

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