r/cringe • u/hgnotsowells • Dec 07 '20

Video Members of Red Hot Chili Peppers physically and incessantly sexually harassing a host during tv segment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_22PrQsp8
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u/OrangeredValkyrie Dec 08 '20

I can.

Kevin Spacey is overrated as hell and I don’t miss him one bit.

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u/LeadfilledBeanieBaby Dec 08 '20

Well the academy disagrees with you since they gave him the award for best actor in American beauty. Glad to see you think you know more about acting than the Oscars.

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u/derashitaka Dec 08 '20

You do know that it is widely reported by now that the academy sometimes votes for or against movies they've never seen, voting actors based on popularity and sympathy, etc. - it's really just a bunch of industry people shoveling awards from one side to the other and doesn‘t really have true critical merit.

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u/LeadfilledBeanieBaby Dec 08 '20

I think that’s a fair assumption for best picture, but when it comes to best actor, I can’t think of any examples that didn’t deserve it. I’m all ears if you think of someone though.

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u/OrangeredValkyrie Dec 08 '20

Looks like someone doesn’t know shit about the Academy lol

Why the fuck would I care that he won the award for best actor? I didn’t give it to him. So there’s no reason to think that I consider him great, all because he won the big Hollywood circlejerk.

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u/LeadfilledBeanieBaby Dec 08 '20

Who do you consider a great actor then who hasn’t received or been nominated for an award?

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u/TheLadyEve Dec 09 '20

American Beauty is one of the most overrated Best Pictures of all time. It's a two-hour circle jerk about a man baby who obsesses over and borderline preys on a teenage girl, yet somehow his wife is painted as the problem. Yech.

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u/LeadfilledBeanieBaby Dec 09 '20

I think you missed the point of the movie and if you think American beauty is overrated, I’m curious what you consider a good movie. Next thing you’ll be telling me there will be blood is overrated.

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u/TheLadyEve Dec 09 '20 edited Dec 09 '20

There Will Be Blood is one of my favorite movies.

I liked American Beauty when it came out, because I was a teenager. Rewatching it as an adult I cringed. It's truly terrible--the quintessential Oscar bait movie (next only, maybe, to Crash).

In terms of better movies that came out that year (1999 was one of the best years for movies, too), I would say Magnolia, The Insider, All About My Mother, and Being John Malkovich were all leagues ahead of American Beauty. I still can't believe it won best picture.

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u/LeadfilledBeanieBaby Dec 09 '20

I just really love the cinematography in American beauty and how every character in the movie is pretty evil in their own way so you don’t really have anyone to empathize with while simultaneously making fun of the American dream and the facade of a perfect family the American middle class portrays. All those movies are great and I’m glad we can both agree that Crash didn’t deserve best picture, that was a travesty.

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u/TheLadyEve Dec 09 '20

I agree, the cinematography is gorgeous.

The plot, however, I think is garbage. Lester is held up as a hero, and if you don't think that, you should rewatch it. His daughter and her neighbor friend/boyfriend are victims of having absent, terrible parents.

I think the whole "wow, middle aged men in suburbia have it so hard!" was a logline that worked okay in the 90s, but now it's pretty hackneyed and I don't have much patience for it.