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Why Hillbilly Elegy Flopped at the Oscars
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Hillbilly Elegy appeared to be one of the top Oscar contenders of 2020, but then everything went wrong. What happened? In this latest video in my series Oscar Fiasco, I explore why the Ron Howard drama starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close crashed and burned at the Academy Awards. #academya …
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@LarryjB53
2 weeks ago
Politics pure and simple.
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@vanceshepherd1618
6 months ago
This movie was EXTREMELY authentic. I grew up with people just like Close's & Adams' characters. Seemed it was dismissed because it was the type of story Hollywood was no longer interested in propping up. The icy critical reception showed their lack of even TRYING to understand a lifestyle & people they just don't care about.
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@bossfan49
6 months ago
How are people going to criticize the story when it's a true story?
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@marshallscot
7 days ago
It's all politics. If this movie was about a brown family it would have swept the Oscar's but it wasn't. It painted white Americans in a sympathetic light during the Trump era, and for that reason alone the critics hated it.
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@makcarolin
7 months ago
I will not elaborate, but I believe Glenn Close deserved BOTH the Oscar nomination and the Razzie nomination for her performance.
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@susanaltman5134
6 months ago
Note: Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar. The Oscars are best understood as a promotional gimmick created by the movie studios.
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@izzykhach
4 days ago
The low Rotten Tomatoes reviewer score is a hit job from critics who detest JD Vance's conservatism and association with Trump. These critics can't get out of the way of their own politics.
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@fenian123
6 months ago
F the Oscars! Winning one would be a step down for Close. Hitchcock never won, not winning should be seen as a badge of honor for any accomplished artist
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@chrichtonsworld1
6 months ago
When are people going to realize that Oscars are not about the performances but more about politics. If it were for example Samuel L. Jackson should have won several by now. It's why I don't care about these awards. They mean very little.
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@kcbh24
7 months ago
Glenn Close has the misfortune of having a career at the same time as Meryl Streep.
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@Stefarooh
6 months ago
Glen Close should have won for Fatal Attraction. That is her most iconic role. Cher was good in Moonstruck but she was no Glen Close that year.
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@Purplenpinkk
7 months ago (edited)
She should have won for The Wife. I think it’s far more difficult to give a subtle and compelling performance like she did then Olivia Coleman’s one. They should give Glenn an honorary.
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@BrownsBacker
7 months ago (edited)
I was raised in Ohio, and my mother was raised in southeast Ohio...the area shown in the film. When i watched it, i found it close to real life...and while watching Glenn Close, i said to myself, OMG that's my mom and grandma she's portraying in the way she spoke and acted. She had my mom and grandma's way of speaking and acting down pat. There is a certain way people from this area speak...for instance the word fish is pronounced feesh, wash is pronounced worsh, etc. Those from outside that area love to make fun of them for the way they think and speak, but it is the way they are and portraying them is also bound to provoke criticism and derision. I fault Howard, not the actors for the film's failures.
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@isaacmartinez6904
7 months ago (edited)
I believe that Hillbilly Elegy didn’t do well due to the controversy since the movie depicted of the people who live in Appalachia region in a negative light.
Politics was also a reason why it didn’t do well since the author is from the right and he is now a US Senate from Ohio.
This is some of the reasons why in my opinion. I know they are other reasons.
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@criss8836
7 months ago
Had the pleasure to see Amy Adams in Tennessee William's play "The glass menagerie" in London last year.
Such a fine actress, movies, tv, theatre, she does it all with class.
A shame to give her so many nods and no wins.
Mrs Close is just an Icon. Nothing further to add.
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@ikexbankai
7 months ago (edited)
No one was awarding a movie about a Trump supporter
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@stevennieves3327
6 months ago (edited)
I swear there are people in the Academy who hate Glenn. This woman is so talented she should have not one but multiple Oscars in her mantle. She should be a triple crown and EGOT (she's been nominated for Grammys before but hasn't won one of those yet either). They'll nominate her but refuse to give her the award.
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@carlenemaloney9886
9 days ago
who did she piss off...her acting was outstanding in this film HIIBILLY ELEGY.
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@mitsukai7192
7 months ago
Also with regards to Glenn: The tragedy isn't simply that she hasn't won an Oscar, but that there were so many nominations where she could have (and in some cases, arguably should have) won. Sadly they keep passing over her for someone else.
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@lonellfletcher
7 months ago
I know we all feel some kind of way about Close's Oscar history, but her Dougie dance is iconic. Find some joy!!!!
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@2160michael
6 months ago
It’s a white struggle film. The Oscar’s love black struggle films, but not white
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@oscarman42
7 months ago
I know I'm in the minority...but I liked Glenn Close's performance.
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@alpe1987
7 months ago
I think we need to be screenwriters and give both Glenn Close and Amy Adams a film that will get them that damn Oscar!!!
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@MuhammadAhmad-oj6mf
7 months ago
Whenever I hear Amy Irving was nominated for a razzie I scratch my head. That's a good performance.
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@lavedadavis818
7 months ago
I am a fan of Glenn Close. Both Glenn and Michelle were luminous in Dangerous Liasons. I was surprised that she didn't win. I watched Hillbilly Elegy and enjoyed it immensely. She disappeared in that character. (Shoulder shrug)
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@heather8775
7 months ago
I am from Southeast Tennesse, with family and genealogy spanning TN, GA, NC, AL...basically known a bunch of people from Ohio even though my people aren't really from there, however, def from the hillbilly land. Plenty of my family members (as I'm sure in other families) past and present have struggled with addiction, depression, anger, abuse, etc., and baby ain't nobody got money I mean not really. We were especially poor growing up. I was a very protected and sheltered child who grew up in a kind, loving family, much like the boy in this story. But I did see things and I have always sought better and wanted more. What I loved so much about this movie is recognizing moments, characters, scenarios...it was very real life. That lady wrote an article "not my Appalachia" ... well okay hon, it ain't for you. No film in recent history that's faced such negativity have I gotten so angry about. Yes, these areas are very conservative and problematic... tell my very liberal a** about it, I LIVE here and am related to a bunch. That wasn't what this story was about. I don't know much about the real J.D. Vance and the little I do makes me not care terribly about finding out more. Nor have I read his memoir or prob ever will. But a whole bunch of folks saying he made clichéd characters to serve the stories purpose of portraying mostly negative obstacles he faced in his life growing up where and how he did. But here I am, recognizing these people, witnessing some of these exact moments in my life. I don't know that man or the people whom he wrote directly about, but somehow, I know these characters in this film based on what he wrote. So I find it very hard to believe he just made them up or exaggerated them for the sake of his story. Seems to me he grew up with people very similar to some I grew up with. A movie isn't necessarily bad because it wasn't made or was unrelatable to you. That's what made me so mad about all the negative reviews. And screw the Razzies for that Glenn Close nom! I've been waiting on you to post this particular fiasco (it definitely was an Oscar fiasco) video since you mentioned it in another, but I'm so glad you weren't too harsh on it!
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@Clouden3
7 months ago
That 82% audience score is proof that Rotten Tomatoes needs to go away.
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@maxfieldfulton
7 months ago
Hillbilly Elegy was a solid 3.25 star movie. I found it far more entertaining than Nomadland.
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@mr29
7 months ago
Close in Hillbilly Elegy WAS my grandmother - it was uncanny.
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@frodofraggins
7 months ago (edited)
I hate the idea of someone being owed or due an award because of all the past nominations. If they were never the best in a given year then they never deserved it. Each year should be determined based on that years performances only, otherwise more worthy people may lose.
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@karinjacka7422
8 days ago
Such a pity the Oscars have become so inauthentic….never watch
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@CionnFE
3 months ago
To your last line….me too.
How Amy Adams did not even get nominated for Arrival, is just bewildering
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@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719
7 months ago
I'm in the 82% audience score who found the movie good to okay.
Also Glenn Close did not deserve that Razzie nomination.
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@roycerowland2699
7 months ago
I wouldn't call it an complete flop at the Oscars it did get nominated for two Oscars and Glenn Close has an slim chance at winning Best supporting actress at the Oscars. Razzies are so irrelevant nowadays. I think that Glenn Close will win an Oscar for an great performance in an good movie that Audiences and critics will both loved.
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@singstreetcar5881
7 months ago (edited)
Amy adams needs a new agent
Bad movie after bad movie.
Dear evan Hanson was a disaster
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@nannyg666
7 months ago
I don't care what happened in the past, we shouldn't be giving awards for "lifetime" work unless it's a lifetime award. Also, JD Vance is a massive tool.
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@anitasitarz7689
7 days ago
That’s why I don’t watch the Oscars or the Grammys. It’s an inside popularity contest and has nothing to do with what audiences like.
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@55555gino
6 months ago
Glenn deserves a BEST ACTRESS Oscar , nothing wrong with best supporting , but she’s just too good. Same feeling I have with Dame Judi Dench. She’ll probably never win it, but she also deserves a best actress Oscar
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@sharonhoyt2133
5 days ago
Hillbilly Elegy is a great movie. Hollywood is full of nuts.
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@alisdairmckenzie
7 months ago
I believe the last performance nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie was Amy Irving for Yentl and lost both but that is something - it shows you how divisive a performance can be. As much as I love Cher and her win for Moonstruck which I love too - I feel Close should have won for Fatal Attraction
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@nickmann9549
7 months ago
If only this film adaptation of the musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" would get made after being talked about for so long! Although Glenn Close at 76 might not be able to sing it as well as she once did (and there were many Broadway lovers who were not a fan of her singing voice...I thought she sounded great on the cast recording!).
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@joelanthonylim6792
7 months ago
Imagine how bad a movie is when Glenn Close and Amy Adams of all actors are undeserving of nominations for their performances damn. But I agree, with the amount of work they do they're bound to get those gold trophies someday. I don't think Glenn Close will be O'Toole'd.
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@pophector
7 months ago (edited)
Excellent retrospective, Brian! I actually enjoyed both of Glenn and Amy's performances in the movie but I did not like anything else about the movie. This film was rightfully better best forgotten. By the way, kudos on using that Glenn clip perfectly during the Oscar to Razzie nomination section Glenn and Amy will hopefully finally get their Oscar wins with great performances and we will all cheer And I adored Youn's win for Minari in 2021, the heart and soul of the movie other than Alan Kim
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@MJC_227
6 months ago
I will say this, after watching Susan Lucci lose the daytime Emmy for 18 years before winning, I think the lesson is to not give up hope. Glenn or Amy could easily win an Oscar someday!
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@kolonarulez5222
6 months ago
The younger me wanted Glenn to win for Cruella Devil in the live action 101 Dalmatians movies.
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@VTMCompany
7 months ago
It was wild that Amy Adams received a SAG Best Actress nomination for her role.
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@WalkBesideMe
7 months ago
13:59 "largely devoid of cinematic imagination" kinda sums up Ron Howard's movies for me with a few exceptions. Imagine how hard a movie TRIES to get those Oscars and still doesn't. I blame the writing and directing, not the actors, for why it failed
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@BrianJosephMorgan
6 months ago
Yes, I wish Miss Close had won for “Dangerous Liaisons” and/or “Reversal of Fortune.”
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@kellie-nd1yp
7 months ago
If they had given it to Close for The World According to Garp like they should have we wouldn’t still be wondering about an Oscar for her .
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@NeverLetMeGo777
7 months ago (edited)
Amy Adams gave it her all. One of her best performances despite the movie being subpar.
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@LauraEllen999
6 days ago
I don't get it, both Glenn Close and Amy Adams gave incredible performances!!!!!
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@79JamesC
7 days ago
Had JD been a dem this wouldn’t have happened
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@lunallena5594
5 days ago
I liked the movie very much, and for once it was a more realistic story that unfortunately Hollywood doesn't care about. Glad to have seen that the family also enjoyed their happy moments, and they all left their toxicity behind in the film and in real life.
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@MsTriangle
7 months ago
Should have won for The wife. And her speech at the Globes...
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@douglasturner6153
7 days ago
Let's face it. Even "Grapes of Wrath" wouldn't earn an Oscar nowadays because depicted rural White Folk's struggles
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@robfuzz
7 months ago
If nothing else, Glenn Close will most definitely get a career Oscar someday. No question. Not sure about Adams. I agree she should've been nominated and won for Arrival. Sometimes winning an Oscar can be a kiss of death to a career. Many actors win and then are rarely heard from again, or they rarely if ever get nominated again afterwards. It can be a "be careful for what you wish for" thing.
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@mitsukai7192
7 months ago
Can we please get the film adaption of the Sunset Boulevard musical happening so that Glenn can finally get her Oscar?
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@frances6940
6 months ago (edited)
I enjoyed the movie and thought all performances, especially Glenn Close and Amy Adams’, were excellent and deserving of nominations and wins. I think you very cleverly alluded to the real reason for the failure of the film at the Academy Awards: politics. The critics killed it because they, and Hollywood powerful, don’t agree with J.D. Vance’s political beliefs. I doubt any of them come from such an impoverished, disfunctional family background so their sneering shows them for the biased frauds they are. Evidence: The disconnnect between critics rotten tomatoes scores and audience scores for many movies during the last year or so demonstrates many critics are just Hollywood shillls. They praise many movies because it pushes the approved agenda and the movie going public either stay away or, if they go, give it a poor score. Going to the movies is a costly outing nowadays and, quite frankly, this movie buff is unwilling to spend money unless I think the movie is going to be value for money. I no longer trust most main stream media critics and look for movies to go and see by watching critical commentary presented by independent commentators like you dear sir. Thank you. I hope your independent commentary is amply rewarded and you prosper in 2024.
P.s. Hollywood seems to forget there are approximately 100 years of wonderful movies available on DVD or streaming so we movie lovers aren’t dependent on the latest offering at the local cinema.
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@jimfesta8981
6 days ago (edited)
It flopped at the Oscars because it wasn't about some poor black family from the south side of Chicago. That would have been a guaranteed winner.
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@KathyStrickland-nh9vx
7 days ago
The country's political climate.
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@ieatgremlins
5 months ago
Thank you for recognizing Amy Adams deserved to be nominated for Arrival. The way the Academy ignores basically all sci-fi and horror film is so frustrating.
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@errantrazor
6 months ago
That pull yourself up by the bootstraps fiction JD Vance was peddling to pave the way for a political career was the biggest problem before it got optioned for a movie, and the clownish performances kept it out of the running.
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@AngryMoor
7 months ago
Ron Howard directed this? Oh, dear.
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@knightterror2826
7 months ago
I'm still bitter about Amy Adams and her no nomination for Arrival
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@kirkreid743
7 months ago
I like Glenn Close. But her performance in Hillbilly Elegy was not good. And her makeup was horrendous. She looked like Robin Williams doing a hillbilly version of Mrs. Doubtfire.
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@emillion4470
7 months ago
This film just felt small to me. Despite being elevated by two film luminaries, a great director and an Oscar-bait premise, it should have ensured success but it came out inert and cliched.
My least liked performance by Close -and that's saying a lot. I've never found her less than watchable in any of her screen work but here she was unconvincing, borderline campy and predictable.
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@giancarlojacobs9982
6 months ago
Please do a video on Angela Bassett!!
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@larrydirtybird
1 month ago
I also think a reason is that, if she was finally going to get her Oscar, people didn’t want it to be — not only for this movie — but in this category, and on an evening when the awards are being held in a train station with hardly anybody there. So I wasn’t disappointed when she lost, the way I many others times. I want to see her win in the lead category, and at the Kodak Theater, with a massive standing ovation from a full house.
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@donna25871
7 months ago (edited)
When the person who wrote the book is regarded as a J6 insurrectionist no wonder it tanked. Amy Adams will win an Oscar eventually but Glenn Close is going to be another Peter O’Toole - she’ll get a lifetime achievement one and that’s it.
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@javi__...
6 months ago
I don't even remember when this movie came out
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@edgaracajabon9522
6 months ago
Win lose no matter. Talent means you good. Oscar just mean you lucky. I think that's how Mr. Miyagi would put it if he were alive today
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@jamienodell7109
7 days ago
We ALL know what's happening here.
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@johndwightestur5670
5 months ago (edited)
I thought my world stopped when Glenn Close lost for The Wife. For a moment, I was thinking maybe I was just dreaming and that the Oscar awards ceremony has yet to commence. I started hoping again when I heard about Hillbilly Elegy. Alas, yet again, her long-deserved Oscar glory wasn't going to happen. Almost everyday, I scour the net for updates on new projects for Glenn Close. It was quite disappointing to know that the planned remake of Sunset Boulevard isn't going to happen anytime soon. By the way, whatever happened to The Duchess, the supposed movie about Anna Anderson, the most famous impostor of Anastasia Romanov. This was an announced project for Glenn Close way back in 2014. But I agree, in time Glenn will have her Oscar moment. Maybe for The Summer Book?
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@gabrielcastaneda9700
7 months ago
Close won’t win till she does sunset boulevard
Amy Adams will
Win for a musical
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@johnnzboy
7 months ago
I was surprised that it wasn't until 16 minutes in that the dubious political stylings of JD Vance came up, kinda hard to talk about this book-cum-movie without mentioning the freshman sell-out senator(!?!)... I actually felt bad for Glenn Close for getting nominated when she clearly had no chance of winning, it seemed gratuitously unkind to raise her hopes when they would inevitably only be dashed once more (though I daresay she's pretty sanguine about the whole thing by now). Fingers crossed that there's at least one more critically acclaimed Oscar-worthy role for her so she can get that competitive Oscar that she has so long and richly deserved. Another superb video, Brian!
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@user-if4ux9io8q
7 months ago
I really didn’t mind the movie or performances.
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@cliffordyamasaki3899
18 hours ago
Which one will be in a wheelchair to accept
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@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore
6 months ago (edited)
I tell you what… if Glenn Close had leaned into the Razzie thing.. a little bit.. like acknowledged that she’s did this role purely to win an Oscar. Like if Glenn Close had accepted her Razzie award.. and been like “I am so proud to be one of the few nominated for both a Razzie AND and Oscar, imagine if I became the first person to ever win both a Razzie… AND an Oscar.. for the same role.”
Been a good sport and laughed about it.
Glenn would have her Oscar. And it would’ve been the most legendary Oscar campaign ever.
(Couldn’t have been any worse then watching her dance after losing.)
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@oscarpinillacastro5893
7 months ago
It was just punishment for the author's political views.
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@hernar2
7 months ago
Always been a big Glenn Close fan. So deserving for The World According to Garp, Fatal Attraction, and Dangerous Liaison. The time to give her the Oscar was for those performances. Hillbilly Eligy was a not a good movie and I’m kinda glad she didn’t get it for that. She deserves better
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@BinArelcort
3 months ago
Glenn Close is a magnificent actress and, honestly, she doesn't need an Oscar to state that. Her work as a whole will always be remembered. I mean, her Cruella DeVil, her Albert Nobbs, so brilliant!
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@ZeCabreira
5 days ago
Glenn should change her last name to 'Open' instead.
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@berenicececilia
6 months ago
This level of Oscar bait is always a brutal flop. A well deserved flop. Not against any of the parts.
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@joeyjohn9950
9 days ago
GOES TO SHOW IT IS NOT ABOUT A STATUE.
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@Nightsinwhitesatin645
7 months ago
It was a mediocre film. I’d rather Close either win for a performance she deserves or not win one at all. I hate the sympathy Oscar. That cheats someone else who could be in Close’s situation in the future.
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@mdruben
5 days ago
Oscar is not synonymous with greatness, at least not anymore. I used to watch the Academy Awards and watch the films thay were nominated. My interest dwindled and the it was killed when The Academy of Arts decided to put agendas before art itself. In orde to be nominated you will need to comply with DEI? RIP art.
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@goulartaf66
9 days ago
That's Hollywood for you.
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@Nik-pp3qs
7 months ago
Glenn Close looked ridiculous as that character. It’s not a surprise that she got a Razzie nom. As a casual viewer, Close and Hillbilly Elegy as a whole came off as desperate for awards. Context is important too. There was no way a film like that would’ve won right after January 2021, given the political climate.
As far as Close being “overdue”, I don’t like the idea of actors “deserving” Oscars. It should go to the “best” of the year (or the one who “plays the game” the best). Close, while obviously very talented in many, MANY films, just has never been the best of that year. Sadly, she has rotten Oscar luck.
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@joshsantos7083
6 days ago
I don’t think Glenn Close will win a competitive Oscar but u guarantee the Academy will give her an honorary Oscar eventually. If Adams never wins, she will get the same.
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@rabrab3
6 months ago
Such a tragedy!! All I can say is June bug and Dangerous Liasons
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@Starkardur
7 months ago
What do women like Glenn Close, Amy Adams and Annette Bening have in common? They have all portrayed a version of Marquise Isabelle De Merteuil and many think they are all overdue an oscar. Is this role cursed?
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@user-pv5vj8dd1c
5 days ago
Wow we just watched Hillbilly Elegy… Glen Close and Amy Adams were great … Ron Howard told a great American family saga…this movie was snubbed by ‘elite’liberals for obvious reasons but… who cares … it did not stop the audiences from loving it .. Glen Close you nailed it!
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@natet5959
1 day ago
Amy Adams is a gem.
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@ctbob7635
2 days ago
Who is Amy Adams?
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@LHSnLA
6 months ago
I remember being very disappointed in this movie. The script was obvious and cliched and the direction was stilted. But Glenn was terrific (as always)!
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@aftalavera
8 days ago
So?
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@Thesunshines247
7 months ago
you should do The Devil All the Time!
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@andremesquita69
6 days ago
The abysmal critical reception of the movie was, no doubt, due to the politics of JD Vance. The movie was good. It was no masterpiece, but it was a respectable effort from everyone involved. It wouldn't be the first time critics don't agree with audiences, but the diference between both ratings and the terrible 25% approval shows that the movie was judged for more than its artistic value. Glenn Close was great and, although critics used the excuse that her performance was a "caricature", the family confirmed that her portrayal was really close to the real Mamaw.
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@jbrownil
6 months ago
I went into it with an open mind and it thought it was mediocre and while it managed to somewhat sidestep much of the politics Vance represents, it just wasn't that good.
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@DJarvis1987
7 months ago
Let's be honest 2024 Honary Oscar is well overdue for both Glen Close and Amy Adams needs to happen.
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@Ziggy-hy4fn
7 months ago
I feel like she'll be getting her honorary Oscar or a Cecil B. DeMille Award within the next 3 years.
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@stadbab
7 months ago
vanessa taylor. now i know who was responsible for that nauseating script.
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@craigmmcgill
7 months ago (edited)
I don’t get the hate for this film. Should it have won best picture? Um no, but I genuinely liked it. My opinion has rarely been so afar from the critics. And in terms of politics, I’m about as liberal as they come and think Vance is a disaster of a human being. But I still enjoyed the film and I think Glenn Close is absolutely brilliant in it. It’s honestly one of my favorite of her performances and I’ve been a fan since my teens in the 90s. The reception to this film is just so puzzling to me.
…and the Razzie nomination was just so mean spirited. She was in no way deserving of that. So disrespectful of them.
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@Rambam1776
7 months ago
JD Vance? Forget it!
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@bethanycook8430
4 days ago
Amy Adams should have won for Arrival her best work
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@MrCarlosandres94
7 months ago
Glenn Close has to be one of the best actresses of all time. The fact she didn’t win for fatal attraction still baffles me. Then for Albert Nobbs and The Wife. She stole the show in Hillbilly Elegy and for me it was an effective film up until I learned what it was based on.
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@johndelossantos7678
6 months ago
Politics aside, I liked the movie. Glenn Close deserved to win, Make-up too.
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@huguihugh9803
6 months ago
Itsnt a good movie. However the main reason was a,backlash like received this year Sound Of Freedom.
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@rogerwa123
6 days ago
Take the same story and same movie and put the name Obama or Clinton as the source character and it would have gotten every award possible.
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@robertparsons313
8 days ago
Appalachia is just too far away from Hollywood.
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@marikamarika7205
3 months ago
They don’t deserve her!
Everybody knows she should have won for Fatal Attraction!
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@hdgehog6
7 days ago
No, the movie was actually pretty good it's just that both the region and the people who live there make it difficult to have any sympathy for. When I was in "hollywood" I saw a lot of people who were trying to distance themselves from their own connection to that world and the south. The real reason the movie was slammed was all politics. If the author was from the far left then ALL YOU WOULD GET WOULD BE PRAISE! Hollywood is that maniacally transparant.
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@guimrtns
6 months ago
There’s only one reason: it was a bad movie with weak performances from good actresses.
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@bethanycook8430
4 days ago
Glenn Close should have won for fatal attraction
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@amartinjoe
5 months ago
christ...why spend 22 minutes talking about this when you can make your point in 5 minutes. jesus.
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@drbvo9578
7 days ago
Of course we all know the real reason why the movie was passed by Hollyweird. Come on guys!
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@marrmart7690
7 months ago (edited)
ه Glen glose
Deserve oscar for fatal attraction.
Cheer dont deserve it at all.
But in (the wife)
Must be ( tie ) for glen close and olivia colman.
Academy must make glen close take the oscar in leading role.
And olivia colman take oscar in supporting role.
Becase emma stone in favurate was leading role.
I mean musr emma stone lose and glen close win when they but them in same cateagory.
And olivia take supporting.
That will be great...
If the academy do that
Glen and olivia take oscar that night... becase they desearve it.
Glean glose her golden dress oscarian dress.
When olivia take bafta..glen feel disopintment and but her neck anthor side when she clap.
Hillbily gilby
They make reaction in role..
But without clear resain.
Emmy adams shout and cry and make drama effort..without motovation.
The film makers push actress do over acting but dont make charachter tell us why they did that.
So the film was shallow..and no one understand clearly the charachtatr and what they think.
Glen glose
Was great as a shape and acting
But the role so short and small and not important.
Just good make up and good acting.
Great acting without role.
So the academy dont watch role.. glen just make performance.
The problem in film
Screenply...
If the writer make more detalise in narrtive and make clear dialouge and explane why the wommen in film do that.. the film will be deep.
The writer take original story..but make it so shallow and breafe.
The asian win the oscar no one remmeber her or know her.
If they give it to glen better.
Thank you brian
To tell us glen glose news.
And critices what they said about hilliby gelby.
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@user-hi4dq6gb1j
3 days ago (edited)
Now the Oscar’s are just political and woke. Not in the DEI category
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@reflectsonlife
6 months ago
It was indeed absorbing, but in a Brechtian fashion, esp watching Glenn Close caricature-ish performance in disbelief. Amy Adams was good though, playing against type.
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@MerylCheap
7 months ago
I can’t say it’s good, but I loved Hillbilly Elegy in a camp way
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@stevenstevenson5303
7 months ago (edited)
Amy Adams Arrival snub still saddens me, my god I still cannot believe they nominated that movie in all those big categories and not Amy smh.
Edit: and poor Maddie Zegler for Music... man 2020 was rough
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@amahra100
7 days ago
Greater female actors never won an Oscar. Namely, Barbara Stanwyck who got an honorary one.
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@Urizen61
6 months ago (edited)
I watched the first half of Hillbilly Elegy. Ron Howard made comments to the effect that critics and the audience had a snobbish attitude towards the subject matter. But it just wasn't a good movie.
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@barbarabell1171
7 days ago
This was an amazing movie! And the only reason it didn't win an Oscar is because it didn't have woke ideology going on in it. It was solid in every way. The message, the actors and the way Ron Howard portrayed the movie... It deserved that award as did the people who acted in it. But the good news is JD Vance is going to be our next vice president of the United States!
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@claudiacoy3294
6 months ago
Close should have won for The Wife.
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@samsamsam4790
7 months ago
im blaming ron howard
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@singstreetcar5881
7 months ago
Lady gaga and glen close tied for best actress at the critics choice awards, a complete joke. .
Thats the moment i knew olivia coleman was gonna win the oscar.
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@MaureenStapletonFan
6 months ago
The film struck me as poorly edited - it could benefit from a recut. There was such hate towards this film, and I wonder if it had to do with the pro-Trump author. Did Ms. Close deserve the Razzie nom? No. Her resemblance to the real Memaw was uncanny.
The Summer Book has me excited! It’s a wonderful book.
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@scottthompson6753
5 days ago
Easy. Oscar voters play favorites. With DEI in their rules, it won't happen with a Hillbilly movie.
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@barbarawaldorf330
7 months ago
Stay home and she might win.
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@Starkardur
7 months ago
It's an awful book made into a terrible movie and not just terrible from the story perspective but just a bloody awful movie. Oscars are not supposed to reward BAD MOVIES
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@laurenzabelsky1385
7 months ago
It's pronounced App-uhh-LATCH-uhh by people that live here.
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@branagain
7 months ago
I never watched it but I don’t know anybody who liked Hillbilly Elegy.
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@kurobeach13
7 months ago
I love you Brian but you mispronounced Appalachian
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@SamBryans128
7 months ago
Hillbilly Elegy was a terrible movie with no audience. It was about unsympathetic and unrelatable characters. Amy Adams and Glenn Glose needed new agents after this crap. Glenn Close is next in line for an honorary Oscar.
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@markhelfgott2619
3 months ago
Mixed feelings about it. Yes, it was very manipulative. But I’m okay with that. I didn’t realize that it was Glenn Close as the grandmother. She did a good job. I like simplistic tear jerkers. (“The Hill” is another example of a manipulative tear jerker.) But I know what I’m getting into. Also, I rate a movie’s excellence based on whether I can eat a meal while watching it on NETFLIX, etc. The test is that if a can eat and look at my plate and away from the screen and not miss anything in the film that means it’s not a complicated movie that demands my full attention. So, how good can it be? So, I give “Hillbilly Elegy” a two fork rating meaning I had to pay attention. But I could occasionally look at my meatloaf and potatoes and
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@cincomilarboles
7 months ago
I love the award season and your content. I just have a very hard time enjoying your videos because of the intonation you do with your voice, why don't you speak in your natural tone? I'm sure this is not the way you speak 'in real life'.
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@user-ol2ks9tt4i
6 months ago
It was a horrible movie based on a worse book.
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@austine2680
1 day ago
Since the author is very conservative you know the leftist critics already had an opinion before even watching it.
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@l82nite
4 days ago
I stopped caring about what the oscars are about. Haven't watched or read about it for decades. It's all nothing but a woke boy's club. Rubbish.
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@user-CatherineDodd
7 months ago (edited)
Because it didn't conform with most of these critics woke agendas and the movie was too close to 'home'. Having said that. I am looking forward to witness the incomparable Glenn Close to win her very first Oscar (hopefully soon).
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@jamesmichaelhughes7692
7 months ago
In all fairness and respect, Olivia Colman's win is a slap in the face to Glenn Close. Here are my reasons:
1. Colman's performance was supporting certainly NOT leading. She shared arguably the same amount of screen time as her co-stars and the story belonged to Emma Stone not Colman's.
2. THE WIFE was much more relevent in the age of #metoo and women's equality than THE FAVOURITE. And Close carried the.entire. movie. Colman did not.
3. The Oscar voters love to build up a nominee, make you believe it's "their time" (i.e. Close) then BAM, slug you in the gut with a shock win.
4. Sorry, Colman's speech was cringy. She acted like a bumbling, goofball Brit. Not sorry.
5. It was another year the Oscars got it wrong, really wrong. Cate Blanchett losing to Michelle Yeah wrong.
6. GIVE CLOSE THE OSCAR! And scene. :)
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@toritori5835
5 months ago (edited)
Yes, they are deserving as actors, but not for Hillbilly Elegy. I can’t help but say that I lost a good bit of respect for Close, Adams and Ron Howard for their involvement in a movie about JD Vance.
It is extremely sad how a person can live the life Vance has lived and miss the mark so badly on what drives and further exacerbates conditions like poverty, addiction, mental illness, etc.
His arrogance and superiority complex makes him unlikable. Even the full title of his book makes me wince.
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@sharonalbanese8084
7 months ago (edited)
I think its partly political. Hollywood is notoriousl left wing/ liberal, and because JD Vance was a republican, that killed it. the critics HATE this type of thing because the look down their noses at these type of people.
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@residentevil4life
6 months ago (edited)
honestly, considering how problematic JD Vance is I am glad this movie lost since any win would have aged poorly with what we know years later
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@mnpollio
7 months ago
I disagree on the Colman win vehemently. She has less screen time in The Favourite than Emma Stone and roughly equal screen time (maybe less) as Rachel Weisz, both of whom were in the supporting category. Truly I don't think Colman deserved supporting either. Her Queen Anne is basically a McGuffin for the real leads (Stone and Weisz) to be motivated to fight over. Colman delivers a character reserved solely for pity, derision, and disgust. The real Queen Anne had tragedies, but is credited with still spear heading certain important things. One never gets that from Colman's performance - her Anne can't seem to put one foot in front of the other, can't even dress or make herself up, and is a buffoon from start to finish. It is an historically inaccurate embarrassment of a role that Colman fails to bring one shred of dignity. And let's not even get started that the most relevant aspect of Anne that the film dwells on are sordid lesbian relations, whose historical veracity is dubious at best.
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@MicoDossun
7 months ago (edited)
I personally find Glenn Close to be a massively overrated actor and think she deserves to be continually snubbed. The Wife was in my opinion a pretty awful performance and her win was looming in my brain
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@xtian1688
5 months ago
I love both Glenn and Amy but I’ll be honest the movie is trash like some obnoxious lifetime movie
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