Oscars tonite, anyone see any of the best picture nominations?

I've seen Little Women (which I really enjoyed) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I thought that one was fairly good - I was 14 years old in the summer of 1969 so I remember it quite well. I was getting into the soundtrack until they played Neil Diamond's Hot August Night. Someone must have thought it was perfect for the section of the film taking place in August '69 but that song didn't come until '72. That's the sort of thing that takes me right out of the movie magic. The movie did have an ending straight out of the Quentin Tarantino playbook.

My husband and I usually do Best Picture movie marathons sponsored by our local movie theater but I wasn't willing to spend the money this year to do them with the two Netflix movies not in the lineup and zero desire to watch Joker.

 

Ford vs Ferrari was excellent.. Irishman terrible (some liked it but I don’t like deniro. ) I won’t see Joker as I don’t care for creepy movies but I would like to see 1917 and little women.. I heard 1917 was excellent. Hope it wins!! I just want Renee Zellwinger to win Best Actress for Judy.. she was superb! I will find out results tomorrow.. I don’t watch them. I hope Tom Hanks wins best supporting actor and Brad Pitt wins too!

 

I loved Little Women. I thought that Once Upon a time in Hollywood was very well done. I knew the story, didn't live then, but it felt like what I imagine the 60's were like.
My husband loved JoJo Rabbit. And he says Joker shouldn't be there. It is not worthy of a best picture at all.

 

I haven't seen any of them, even though DS has been begging me to take him to see 1917 for weeks. He is a huge history buff, but we just haven't had the time. I'd really like to see all of them, but gotta have a little free time first. I guess I'll get them from the Redbox at some point.

 

My husband and son went to see 1917 today, but I haven't seen any of the other ones. I haven't been in the mood for movies lately, I prefer watching shows that I can binge watch a few episodes at a time instead. And even then I have a hard time finding time for TV these days.

 

I think I saw 3 movies in the theater in 2019: The Lion King, Spiderman, and another superhero one whose title I forget. I had a ticket to see Mary Poppins but ended up having an interview scheduled that day, so I watched it months later at home.

 

I don't even know what movies have been nominated. We haven't been to the theater for years - if we feel like watching a movie, we watch it on one of our channels, or Amazon Prime or Netflix. Usually, after the Oscars, we see a winner or runner-up that looks good, so we'll watch it at home.

 

We saw the Irishman. Really good. Not a fan of violence, but the story line was strong. And Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel... classic!

 

This past year went way to fast, I didn't watch any of those!

 

Watching Oscar nominated movies is something my husband and I do with our son. He's away at college now, but we still have a shared spread sheet to keep track of what we've seen and talk about them during our weekly calls. This year was a tough one, we didn't get many watched at ALL.

Ford v Ferrari - didn't see it
The Irishman - wanted to see it, but never remembered to start it early enough in the evening
Jojo Rabbit - really want to see this but at this point will wait until its out to rent
Joker - no desire to see this
Little Women - want to see this one, but will wait
Marriage Story - saw this one... really good, but hard to watch as it seemed very real
1917 - on our list
Once upon a Time...in Hollywood - saw this on 70mm film... loved it and want to see it again
Parasite - watched this last night.... really, really good, but the basis of the story is one that makes me uncomfortable

We were trying to work ahead this year and watch movies on the short list before nominations were out... we guessed the wrong ones though. We saw Knives Out and The Two Popes. Enjoyed them both, but very different from each other.

We were going to go to the theater yesterday to see all of the nominated documentary shorts, but the run time was 158 minutes and we couldn't get it fit into the schedule.

 

We watched half of The Two Popes tonight. I know it wasn't up for Best Movie, but the two popes (one was Sir Anthony Hopkins) were both nominated for best actor and best supporting actor. It's very good and a true story, which we like.

 

I hear ya re the Mob hearing about stuff growing up in NY (on Long Island, but NY just the same)... I like Joe Pesci and while I enjoyed pieces of it, the aging of the characters really was a bit off. It was very very long and from what I heard it was not true either. I was looking for it to have Irish in it.. LOL ... Here we have Ford Vs Ferrari now on On Demand ? Pay Per View... Mr Rogers Neighborhood is on there now too along with Harriet, so I hope they all come on to the movie channels soon for me to catch .. I liked Ford so I would watch it again

 

Ford versus Ferrari was a phenomenal movie!

 

I stayed up till late yesterday to watch the ceremony, and I'm not sure if I like that Parasite won everything...I liked the film a lot, but I think 1917 or Irishman deserved too...

still need to see Little Women, Ford vs Ferrari, a marriage story.

and Judy, I'm curious to see Renee's character, also want to see the Bombshell.

 

I've seen The Joker and it's NOT a super hero/DC comics traditional kinda movie. Actually it's one of the best movies I've seen in a long time and that Oscar to Joaquin Phoenix is so well deserved!