Your opinion is only informed by 3 trailers sooooo...
I know it's not the fairest way to judge. The trailers just didn't impress me enough to see it and comparing it against films I did see I still feel that way.
Your opinion is only informed by 3 trailers sooooo...
I don't think most of the movie was CGI, they shot a bunch of it in a water tank, about 20 shots actually had a real tiger but if they didn't have the tiger they would still have Pi and the boat.
I know it's not the fairest way to judge. The trailers just didn't impress me enough to see it and comparing it against films I did see I still feel that way.
So basically you are the equivalent of a guy who posts in an LotR thread never having read the book or seen the movies but sure it didn't deserve an oscar because he thought the commercials looked dumb.
Is anyone else on here aware of what's going on with Rhythm & Hues? I thought it was incredibly disrespectful of the Academy to start playing the 'Jaws' theme when those four talented effects artists were up there trying to inform the general public on how badly VFX artists are treated in the film industry.
That should have been the talk of the night instead of Harvey Weinstein's bought & paid for Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence.
is it just me. i wanted to see the real thing unfold. shift it from an eyegasmic experience to mind**** thriller of some sort instead.
Life of Pi isn't some action flick with big explosions and cool aliens they can hint at in 30 seconds in a trailer. It's one of the most interesting, intelligent movies I've seen in several years, and one of those that until the very end you won't quite be sure of. Even then, it will leave you talking about your reaction and what that all means. Conveying that in a traile is pretty much impossible.
And Weinstein didn't buy Lawrence an oscar - she was excellent in Playbook and definitely deserved it.
Life of Pi isn't some action flick with big explosions and cool aliens they can hint at in 30 seconds in a trailer. It's one of the most interesting, intelligent movies I've seen in several years, and one of those that until the very end you won't quite be sure of. Even then, it will leave you talking about your reaction and what that all means. Conveying that in a traile is pretty much impossible.
And Weinstein didn't buy Lawrence an oscar - she was excellent in Playbook and definitely deserved it.
Agree with your first point. But Emmanuelle Riva performance was the more accomplished. How she did not win is a mystery.
That was my thought as well based on the trailer and seeing the other 3. Nothing about this movie looked like Oscar worthy in anyway especially bigger awards like BD when you had Spielberg/Lincoln.
No mystery at all. More academy voters liked Lawrence's performance than Riva's. Simples.
Or they were bought. Have you seen both performances? Apart from technical achievements he oscars are a cluster****. They occassionally get them right (3 wins of Day Lewis) but he should have been on four for bill the Butcher.
The CGi Tiger was worth an Oscar alone. Best CGi of any film this year and worthy winner. I'd have given best cinematography to Roger Deakins.
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