Green Book is, I guess, just a movie I'm never gonna get. Like I get why people find it entertaining, but I don't think I'll ever understand why people find it to be "the movie we need right now," no matter how many industry folks I talk to.
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Like people are going to the mat for it! And it's, at best, thoroughly competent middlebrow filmmaking. There is Nothing Wrong With That. But I don't get why some behave as if it realigned their cosmos.
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I do sincerely believe there is some sort of generational divide thing around this movie I probably won't get, because I'm just on the "too young" side of it, one of the few times I've been able to say that in recent years.
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That said, the presence of it has made this awards season 20 percent more hilarious in just about every way, so. I'm in favor.
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Oh, actually: This is a REAL PUZZLE to me -- why did Star Is Born just sort of fizzle? It felt like such a classic Oscar kind of thing, and then it... wasn't. I guess it's the remake thing, but it's not like the year's other frontrunners are paragons of originality.
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Like if this year is the old, traditionalist Academy returning to centerstage -- and it sure seems like that's the developing narrative -- Star Is Born shouldn't really be hindered by its "fifth version of the same story" thing. Weird year.
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Plus, it's a big hit, something the Academy seemingly wants to reward, while Green Book is a minor double. Weird!
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I guess Green Book's secret weapon is that it's such an unassuming little thing with a message that's hard to disagree with -- people should be nice to each other -- that if you try to argue its themes are A Part of the Problem Today, you come off seeming like a spoilsport.
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It's such an uncool movie -- like even its supporters agree it's basically a Best Picture contender airlifted in from 1995 -- that attacking it on the grounds of being Even More Uncool Than You'd Think feels a little like piling on, which prompts defensiveness.
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It's a movie made by white people that makes white people feel good about how they overcame racism instead of being a movie that reminds them that racism is still happening and it's very, very bad out there. Of white oscar voters love it.
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