Comments by "Morgan King" (@MorganKing95) on "Top 10 Failed Oscar Bait Movies of the 21st Century" video.

  1. You're not alone
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  2. +Diadlo Even for its genre, I thought the battle sequences were just ok, none of the actors (except maybe Peter O'Toole) stood out and I thought Orlando Bloom was annoying, the music was overused and unfitting, and I felt the movie was clichéd. There was also too much romance. I've also forgotten most of the movie
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  3. Why? They often go for movies that seem to be popular with the Oscars. You don't see them in many indies
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  4. pathofoblivion it still got mixed reviews and was not nominated in any of the major awards (best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay etc.)
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  5. I personally thought the dramatic mood was there, the setting and art direction was good, the music was great, the story was good, Jim Carrey did a great job, and the cultural references were interesting to watch, but I thought it became a bit too dramatic. By that, I mean that the dramatic mood could had built up a little more, because I felt that it was dramatic on a very similar level from start to finish, and the pacing became too slow because of that, especially because it lasts for 150 minutes. I also longed for a small moment or scene that could had lightened the mood a little bit (There may have been some, but it wasn't enough); it makes the movie more nuanced and makes it easier to sit through. I thought it was good and had great potentials, but I would had shortened it down and worked on the structure and the buildup of the dramatic mood. But I think the only reason the critics panned it and it was a box-office failure is because people expected to see something like "Ace Ventura", "The Mask", or "The Truman Show" again (which has a dramatic core but is quite comedic on the surface until the ending). Thankfully, people finally managed to take Jim Carrey seriously with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". I think "The Majestic" is a good movie and I'm glad to have seen it, but I don't think it's a great movie
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  6. Hayley Rodgers at least Roger Ebert liked the film
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  7. "Man on the Moon" is 20th century
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  8. +pathofoblivion It was not nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, or Best Screenplay though, and it only received one acting nomination. Oscar-baits are mostly just looking for the major awards Besides, the movie consisted of an all-star cast where several of them already had won an Oscar, the director Rob Marshall had already won an Oscar for directing a musical (Chicago), the co-writer Anthony Minghella had won Best Director for "The English Patient" (and being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for the same film), and the movie was released in December. It's pretty obvious that Marshall wanted to recapture his success with Chicago.
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  9. pathofoblivion​ I meant that the movie won Best Picture although he didn't produce. Other than that, I stand by my comment And if the goal is to get Oscars in general, then I guess most movies will be considered Oscar bait
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  10. pathofoblivion​ ok, I was wrong. But I still stand by the other things I said 
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  11. One of the best maybe, but certainly not THE best
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  12. Jared Leto was clearly the main favorite
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  13. "Waterworld" reminds me more of a summer blockbuster than an Oscar-bait
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  14. I thought he was too over the top in Django and tried too hard to be evil
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  15. pathofoblivion Oscar baits are mostly looking for the major awards, because the majority of the audience and filmmakers don't care if a movie won or was nominated for the technical awards if it was not nominated for the major ones as well. Even horrible movies like "Waterworld", "Pearl Harbor", "The Golden Compass", and "Armageddon" have been nominated for Oscars for their technical achievements, but it doesn't improve their reputation
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  16. at least Robert Duvall got nominated
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  17. pathofoblivion but no Oscar nod for Jim Carrey, and he deserved one. At least he won the Golden Globe The film itself didn't feel like an Oscar bait
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  18. +анонимный пе Actually, an actor is supposed to make a situation clear and relatable and bring out the subtext of their lines. If a performance is internal and the audience becomes indifferent towards the situation, then it doesn't matter if the actor is unrecognizeable
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  19. Not anymore
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  20. I'm thinking the same thing as you
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  21. +musicaltheatergeek79 It's funny, because I often come across comments that say "WatchMojo, why do you always have to show those old movies? Nobody has heard about them nor cares about them" +James Kennedy The movies need to be from the 21st century in order to qualify
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  22. It was directed by Oliver Stone (one of his few movies that have been horrible)
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  23. +Ivan Vidakovic  I felt that too. Of course, I thought the movie was dark and unpleasant, but it could have been taken all the way out even more. Overall, the movie was very good and handled every aspect very well, but I didn't feel that it excelled in any of these
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  24. "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" received mixed reviews
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  25. Omar Alor​ there is a movie called "the unbearable lightness of being" from 1988. However, that movie was actually very well-received
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  26. steve cheevers​ I didn't say it was a bad movie, I just corrected Omar Alor since he thought kristiep70 talked about "Nine". And kristiep70 thought "the unbearable lightness of being" was kind of a yawnfest, and I said that the movie was well-received by critics, so it can't be that much of a shit film
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  27. Hayley Rodgers Yes, don't get me wrong. I love drama films, but I just thought it could have been more nuanced or had built up a little, because there are different kinds of drama (emotional, depressing, intense etc.) Or maybe I was just tired; I have so many projects going on that I can't relax properly Some of my favorite drama films include "Casablanca", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "On the Waterfront", "Last Tango in Paris", "Rocky", "Saturday Night Fever", "Raging Bull", "Schindler's List", "Leaving Las Vegas", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ", and "Whiplash"
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  28. They have both "Worst Picture winners" and "Top underwhelming Best Actor wins" (there is a list for underwhelming Best Actress too)
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  29. Didn't exist yet
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  30. The Truman Show is from the 20th century and actually received some major Oscar nominations
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  31. It received 10 Oscar nods
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  32. Libtard detected!
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