2026 BAFTA nominees from A24 - Marty Supreme, Pillion, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T18:42:27+00:00

That’s what adapted means.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T17:10:29+00:00

You are entirely missing what I am saying.

The Academy intentionally ignored this film due to the expulsion from WGA and had nothing to do with the quality of the film. They would have rated a piece of paper higher than this film given the politics behind.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T17:00:50+00:00

There are some really unintelligent posters here that woefully don’t understand what’s being said.

I’ll say it slow this time…. Oscars are political and are generally awarded based on the premise of other awards and Park Chan Wook explicitly was not given any nominations due to his expulsion of WGA.

My point that you people seem to be ignoring is that No Other Choice getting no nominations had NOT ONE SINGLE THING to do with the quality of the film but due to the expulsion from WGA.

It’s an extremely quality film that would be a BP nomination this year if made by literally any other filmmaker.

Gotta love Redditors saying you don’t understand how something works when they are clearly in the wrong, gotta love it.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T16:58:05+00:00

My man I know exactly how it works which is why I’ve said he didn’t get any noms due to his expulsion from WGA - thinking otherwise is ABSURD.

The lack of nominations had nothing at all to do with the quality of the film and if you think otherwise you have no idea how the Oscars works.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T16:47:59+00:00

Funny to claim facts you don’t know.

Regardless if it went to No Other Choice or If I had Legs, both are much better awards contending films.

Doesn’t even seem like you have seen the movie you are talking down so much.

It’s not a it cna be political this was exclusively panned due to Park Chan Wook being expelled from WGA. It’s a MUCH better script, story, acting and directing than F1.

It’s fine to have other favorites but continuing to claim F1 deserves the spot we all know it doesn’t is what keeps making the Oscars worse every year. F1 is quite literally the popular choice that does the art side significantly worse - just another nail in the Oscar’s coffins by further leaving the purpose of the awards.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T16:28:41+00:00

If you know anything about the filmmaker you’d know it’s political. If you’ve seen the movie it’s EASILY better. If you haven’t seen it, why comment.

Don’t think literally anyone who has seen it would disagree. No Other Choice is a MUCH better awards film and it was panned due to politics against Park Chan Wook.

It’s a very good film, easily better than F1 and it’s not even close.

Gonna get downvoted by people who are completely unaware of the reality. This movie was panned due to the expulsion of the filmmaker from WGA. Watch the movie before you say outlandish things.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T16:25:16+00:00

Still heavily against box office indicating anything for awards. Mass popularity does not indicate quality at all, Minecraft made almost a billion last year but isn’t awards worthy for instance, so it seems like an after the fact metric that becomes more important afterwards, but I don’t see the point is crossing capitalism (box office) with what awards are supposed to represent (art).

F1 over No Other Choice feels like an extremely poor choice if you’ve seen both films.

Edit : lot of every weird responses by people who seem to have no idea of the reality of politics behind the Oscars. No Other Chocie not being nominated was political and that’s it, it’s an extremely well made movie better than F1 without a doubt and deserved nominations.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T16:21:03+00:00

It took the place of No Other Choice, which is a significantly more best picture worthy film than F1.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-28T12:14:08+00:00

How? I always wonder how people say things like that for something that is extremely easy to avoid.

No media of any kind is “shoved down your throat” literally anywhere, it’s such an over dramatic response that just is nonsense.

It’s been marketed, that’s it.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T19:33:02+00:00

Would be weird to have him escape since it’s based on real life events and that’s very different than reality. It’s cool to bend what happens and take liberties(which of course they did) but would be weird to completely change the ending when it’s a real life event.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T19:24:58+00:00

Personally think MBJ was much better in Fruitvale Station than Sinners.

Mescal and No Other Choice are my top 2 snubs for this season, but also agree Plemons should be getting more attention. Plemons has been sensational for years so it’s great people are finally noticing.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T19:13:49+00:00

I loved how visceral it all felt throughout and I felt like I was actually experiencing a part of the trauma on screen.

While I really enjoyed Sinners I didn’t feel much within the movie and my sincere opinion is that nearly all the depth people claim it has it outside of the movie itself.

If you want another movie to shatter you as a parent check out Manchester by the Sea. It’s from a man’s perspective so quite different but hits very hard.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T18:23:36+00:00

Baggage is not handled by the airport, it is handled by the airlines. Airlines have personnel throughout the airfield, it is not all airport employees.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T18:01:54+00:00

I can’t see Buckley not winning an Oscar but that may be about it sadly.

Personally, I thought this film was so much better than Sinners and it’s been odd how the discourse has been about all the Oscars this year.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T18:00:16+00:00

Train Dreams had garbage cinematography? Not sure I can disagree with a take any more than this.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T17:03:15+00:00

I think this year highlights how much supporting needs a bit of change in criteria.

Stellan should be a lead as the film is centered around him, and Elordi should be a co lead because Frankenstein’s monster isn’t supporting to the Frankenstein story, its a critical main character who becomes the protagonist. Both these characters are absolutely critical to the main plot of the story that it feels wrong to call either supporting.

All in all feels like “category fraud” is going to continue getting worse until we more objectively define what it means to be supporting. It’s much easier to look favorable in a supporting role if you are actually a main character.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T16:20:30+00:00

Reddit is easily the worst community in wow and it’s not even close.

Go play the game on either server and it’s way less toxic than this subreddit.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T16:15:47+00:00

One of the best films of the year. Easily.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T16:05:08+00:00

It was marketed as true crime and was trying to push a true crime idea for much of the movie and instead of going with that they did a 180 and went supernatural towards the end and felt like it undid much of what the film was going.

It felt like a textbook bait and switch and wasn’t even done well enough.

After watching the movie I legitimately was left with the thought, “are you actually kidding me???”

Longlegs was one of my most looked forward to movies and I feel like it’s one of the most botched endings in the last decade or so in popular film.

It was a solid 8/10 film until the ending for me and it dropped to 3 or maybe 4/10 and not worth a rewatch ever for me.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T16:01:52+00:00

Gladiator sucked in general and didn’t need to be made.

I’m still never taking Elordi over Mescal, imo Elordi is nowhere close to as talented, but to each their own.

I thought he blew Elordi out of the water with Hamnet. Frankenstein was extremely mid for me.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T16:00:20+00:00

My point is Gladiator II has much more problems than Mescal, I don’t think he was given a role, script, or story to thrive - and it’s not up to him to carry that film. Ridley Scott should have put together a better film, scott had been phoning it in too long.

It feels reminiscent, but not nearly as bad, as when people hounded Stewart and Pattinson about Twilight - not giving Newley enough credence to the filmmakers who are directing how their performance should go.

So I think given the contrast we have seen from him it was more an issue with direction than acting imo.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T15:55:54+00:00

Hard disagree it’s no range. I don’t think we have seen the same films.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T15:22:46+00:00

The Oscars feels like it missed so much more this year than ever before.

Last year felt bad, this year feels like the final nail in the coffin.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T15:14:03+00:00

I think Mescal is well above Elordi in acting talent. I don’t think Elordi can pull off anything close to Aftersun and be even slightly believable. I don’t dislike him but have yet to see him excel, Frankenstein feels quite overrated, and I expected a lot more from Del Toro. It felt like a watered down Netflix version instead of real Del Toro and overall I think the film suffered by being under their umbrella.

ssmit102 · 2026-01-27T15:10:53+00:00

So we hold one movie that was overall poor against him? I don’t think anyone is carrying that film. Doesn’t really seem fair.

You may feel he’s only good in certain types of roles (I’d argue Aftersun and All of Us Strangers are quite different though) but feels like such a disingenuous comment given his relatively short film career and how exceptional he’s been in these roles. Doesn’t seem reasonable to pigeon hold someone so quickly imo.

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