Do you watch the Oscar's "Best Film"?

[Independent voter]

I don't watch the Oscar's, the show always seems a little tedious but I do find out who the "Best Film" was awarded to and I watch it. This year it was Birdman.

I've noticed movies about acting or actors are favorites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy...r_Best_Picture

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
12 Years a Slave
Argo
The Artist
The King's Speech
The Hurt Locker
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country for Old Men

[Deleted]

I always completely ignore nominated and/or rewarded movies and decide for myself what I would like or not.

Looking at that Oscar movie list I can say ive only seen one of the movies (Hurt Locker).
And even though I really like Michael Keaton, I don't think I will really go and see Birdman unless it's by chance.

[Noradin]

Only ever by coincidence if at all.

[Gheld]

I'm really not one to allow 'Teh Academy' to influence what I will and will not watch.

Very few movies look at all interesting to me these days. I truly believe that the 80s and 90s were the golden age of blockbuster movies (And that it's just gone thoroughly downhill since).

Every now and then there's a diamond in the rough of all the remakes and rehashes and political soapbox pieces, and I could care less whether or not it's on 'Teh Academy's Radar.

On the rarest of rare occasions if there's a lot of buzz about a movie I will see it just so that I can participate in the buzz, the last time this happened was with Avatar, which wasn't worth the hype on either side of the aisle (it was a movie, neither great nor terrible) and it's 3 hours of my life I will never get back.

Every now and then it seems I agree with 'Teh Academy' on what a great movie is but I've always found celebrity worship to be the lowest common denominator of human behaviors, likely dating back to the instinct to gather into as big a crowd as possible so that when the pterodactyls swoop down you are less likely to be plucked from the herd and sadly they never seem to go for the guy right in the middle.

(Like I can still appreciate and identify great acting, but I wouldn't feel bad if supply and demand left the price of a dvd at 5 pesos and hollywood actors were a bunch of gutter trash being exploited for my entertainment. Which is how I think it should be.

[vihtahousu]

birdman is great movie and deserved oscar

[Deleted]

I don't care too much abou the Oscars, but that said, Birdman IS one of the best movies I've seen in my life. It simply HAD to win SOMETHING at the Oscars. A bit sad Keaton didn't get an Oscar, since I don't see him making another movie this good, but Redmayne deserved it too.

[Xargoth6634]

I don't watch any awards ceremonies, it's just more celebrity worship bullshit. I gave up on caring about the Oscars at all the year that Inception didn't win most of the awards that they gave to that King's Speech movie. Oh, hooray, another victorian era movie, let's give it a bunch of awards. What a bunch of horseshit.

[Kaleredar]

The only movie up for best picture this year I saw was Grand Budapest hotel, which I thought was good. Can't say how it stands up to the other ones, however.

I saw Argo... It was pretty good, but I thought Lincoln deserved to win over it.
I also saw The Artist... It was really nothing special, but that year wasn't full of "great" movies.
I also saw the King's Speech... that was a good movie.


The most irksome thing about this year's oscars is the lack of nomination for the Lego Movie for best animated feature...

[Deleted]

Hell yes!
If you don't watch the academy award winners you don't watch enough movies to appreciate the guarantee that 'this' one will be at least ok

I also watch the nominees for that achievement alone

[Cattleya]

I don't usually watch a movie specifically because it won that Oscar, no. Although admittedly that's the reason I watched 12 Years a Slave.

That said, I have seen most of them anyway, but they're rarely movies that really do it for me. I didn't particularly like King's Speech, and I expect to never ever watch The Artist.

[Revi]

Don't pay attention to the Oscars, so no. Might do by accident though.

[apepi]

Not really, I might watch one, but not because it is an Oscar's best film.

Looking at the whole list, it has been a way fucking long time since a kinds movie or g movie has gotten it, it seems like the votes seem pretty ageist. Like since maybe 1965 the Sound of Music.

[Yvaelle]

I haven't cared what the Oscars said since I was a child and tried to watch the films they crowned - consistently incorrect.

The best movie of 2014 was Guardians of the Galaxy, followed by Winter Soldier, followed by Interstellar - Birdman should feel honored if it makes the top 100 movies of 2014.

Pay no mind to the Oscars, do not tune in, let it die.

[Zoaric]

I largely ignore the Oscars and other awards when choosing a film to watch.
Though I will occasionally use them as motivation to get certain friends to
watch stuff.

[Naxere]

Generally, no.

[Yvaelle]

Not really, I might watch one, but not because it is an Oscar's best film.

Looking at the whole list, it has been a way fucking long time since a kinds movie or g movie has gotten it, it seems like the votes seem pretty ageist. Like since maybe 1965 the Sound of Music.

Yea it's very ageist, the voters are like 80 now - you get awarded for making a movie they understand, that pushes their controversy buttons while not actually challenging their beliefs, etc.

[ItachiZaku]

I like Chris Andersen well enough, but I don't really want to watch a movie about him. Keaton is too short to play him.

Of the films you listed, I saw HuRT Locker (pretty boring) and Argo (actually pretty decent, snuck in so saw it for free), the rest had no interest for me.

[Altrec]

I will often take a look at the list of nominees and see if there is anything of interest to me, but generally I pay the Oscar's no mind as I prefer to watch what I'm interested in rather than what others say I should be interested in.

[Krazzorx]

I'd respect them if they'd actually have less of a narrow idea of what makes a "good" movie and then force it down people's throats. If they want to make it about rating the best "sophisticated" movies, fine, no problem. But don't claim its about considering all movies when nearly every single winner is from a very narrow genre.

[belfpala]

Looking at that Oscar movie list I can say ive only seen one of the movies (Hurt Locker).
And even though I really like Michael Keaton, I don't think I will really go and see Birdman unless it's by chance.

Birdman was an excellent movie. As was The Grand Budapest Hotel. Those two seemed to sweep the main categories, deservedly.

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But don't claim its about considering all movies when nearly every single winner is from a very narrow genre.

The OP lists a number of movies. What genre are each of those?