Comments by "Connor Webb" (@connorw2k) on "Top 10 Failed Oscar Bait Movies of the 21st Century" video.

  1.  @rambunctiousrohan  Studios do that with most of their releases. It's almost a formality.
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  2. not all mediocre films are Oscar bait fails
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  3. Dude, thats just about any movie that won because they each drew hook line and sucker on the Academy.
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  4. not Oscar bait
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  5. some Harry Potter movies and all Christopher Nolan movies (besides Following, Insomnia, and The Dark Knight Rises) have nominations
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  6. both came out the same year
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  7. I just have heart attacks
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  8. It came out in July 2009....
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  9. So it didn't fail...
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  10. KevinWood44 no they dont. Forrest Gump is great.
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  11. The Dark Knight got like eight nominations. It didn't fail at all. Plus, even if it had failed - it wasn't Oscar bait.
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  12. Definitely. And Best Director. And Best Adapted Screenplay. Regardless, since it got nominations it wouldn't belong here.
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  13. That's more of a fact. Whether or not you think it's great (I think it's great), it still has all the requirements for an Oscar bait film.
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  14. it got nominations
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  15. That got two nominations. One being Best Picture.
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  16. They're just saying they're Oscar bait movies that failed to garner nominations. (The dumb thing is that EL&IC got nominations...)
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  17. It wasn't Oscar bait
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  18.  @rambunctiousrohan  I don't think any movie based on a Y/A novel is trying to win any Oscars.
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  19. No. They just know how to make great fucking movies.
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  20. You think The Shape of Water is Oscar bait? Just because it has their politics, its about A WOMAN HAVING SEX WITH AN AMPHIBIAN MAN
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  21. Oscar winning Interstellar?
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  22. Also not very Oscar bait
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