Trump Mocks ‘Parasite’ Best Picture Win: ‘What the Hell Was That All About?’

I have not seen Parasite but planned to watch it because it won, which has never happened before for a foreign film so I expect it to be good. But does the President have a point about a foreign film winning the Oscar for best picture, especially considering the problems with South Korea and trade? Should foreign films be allowed in the running for best picture, or should they be in their own category?

 

havent seen it.

havent seen the Oscar's either, not for years.

it was recommended to me, so eventually I'll check it out but the synopsis didnt make it sound like I'd like it, sounded kinda creepy

 

I have no problem with a foreign film winning “best picture”, as long as it doesn’t have a left wing political message.

“Field of Dreams” was a great movie that became good because it had an unnecessary leftist message crammed into it.

 

which message was that? I've seen that movie enough that I probably have half of it memorized

 

They had the unnecessary town hall meeting where conservatives were portrayed as evil, book burning rubes. That had nothing to do with baseball. And they slanted the story to make it appear Shoeless Joe Jackson was completely innocent.

I don’t like obvious or subtle political messages in movies. My politics are fine. I don’t need Hollywood to tell me what to think.

 

The only issue I have is a film winning best Foreign film and Best Picture. It’s either one or the other. You can’t have special categories that shut out the other entries. It’s unfair. Just another example of AA. There should even be that category at all. Major American films can’t enter festivals from other countries. I haven’t seen it yet but friends who Have said it was not best by a long shot. Good film but not good enough. I do like the director.

 

I remember that being the core issue of father son not reconciling. Also there is a large contingent who find him just that. And he was acquitted by a grand jury.

Some movies may do that.

This one was telling a story not trying to change your politics.

 

I wouldn't have any trouble with this film winning if it was at least known by the public before winning the best picture award... The only reason we know about this movie, outside of Korea, is because of the oscar.

Then again, the oscar have never really been about which movie is the best, only about which movie they want to promote or which fit the jury's agenda. Hence why whole genres are excluded from winning.

 

The evidence on Joe Jackson is ambiguous. It’s not clear either way. All we know is he took the money. Sympathy for him is offensive. But I understand how that situation is key to the movie.

It’s the portrayal of rural conservatives as idiots that’s completely superfluous and just plain wrong. That’s especially true since it’s the left that tries to silence free speech by doing things like having speech codes and banning Mark Twain’s books from school libraries.

 

oh ya, I forgot all a out that, duh.

 

on another forum I participate in a movie and a tv series thread that's very active.

they've been heavily pushing parasite for some time with nothing but positive reviews.

it was well known by those that love movies.

I dont always agree with the winners (shape of water would be a good example) but I usually agree.

 

WHOA! You mean Parasite isn't about voters?

Who knew?

 

There is an award already for Best International Film.....they shouldn't be able to double dip.

 

the best line is a tweet from the movie producers

"it is understandable trump does not like the movie, he cannot read"

 

This story illustrates how deranged Trump is, and how unfit for office he is.

It also demonstrates the vacuum that exists in the heads of his worshippers.

 

We know the Grand Jury acquitted him.

As for the PTA, it seemed like a way to introduce the author that Ray read, which created the riff between father and son.

Perception is a tricky devil.

 

Cause 'MERICA!

 

Only the political Left would judge the fitness of a president according to liking or disliking a movie.

 

Which means that the movie wasn't known to the majority of the people. Look, I'm a big movie fan and I love asian movies. My own private DVD and Bluray movie collection is in the thousands and my htpc is linked to a 20Tb NAS full of movies and TV series from all around the globe, but even I only barely knew about this movie.

The oscars are just another pseudo award that is bought by the industry to push something to the public. They're the same as those car awards. They have no relation to the quality, enjoyment or popularity of a movie. Just a bunch of elitist jerks passing judgement on themselves.

 

It's a great movie. The Oscars are a joke.

 

Yeah, I just saw that.... classic...

We are planning on renting Parasite via On Demand this evening... Not normally a huge fan of subtitles, but I'm willing to give this a shot.

If Trump doesn't like it or support it, I'm all for it...

 

LOL, it really says a lot about you that you would deride a solid movie like FOD for one scene that seems to hit you below the belt, while book censorship was certainly a thing in the 1980's.

BTW the scene was important because it was used to introduce us to the Terrance Mann character

How do you feel about Trump wanting "Gone with the Wind" back again?? A movie about the Civil War (and slavery)?? No politics in THAT movie, no sir!!

8 Men Out also slanted Shoeless Joe not to be the instigator in 1919... Gonna jump on that one too??

 

Dunno, haven't seen it. Might check it out when it shows up on DVD. Kinda seems like Hollyweird just trying to be edgy by promoting an obscure foreign film.

 

The inclusion of a leftover 1960’s radical leftist was not necessary in a baseball movie. And yes, there was book banning. All those Mark Twain books. Sad.

 

I'm a big buff and move on from dvd/BR some time ago, but have about 12 TB of digital, so I'm right there with you.
I was most certainly aware of it, and I believe (not sure) it was showing in the local theater before the oscars, but post nomination, as of a few days ago it was still showing at the local regal cinema. I thought it was now on netflix but I haven't looked, I'll have to look when I get home, I know it wasn't there when I looked some time ago.

As far as the synopsis/premise ya, it might have that feel, some of the comment I read did indicate that it had a strong underlying tone about income inequality, all that crap but that isn't going to sway me IF its an excellent movie.

As I mentioned before, I don't always agree with best picture, but if I go back the last 20 winners, Its a bit of a mixed bag but many of them were quite excellent movies and A few that I can't judge properly because I didn't finish or didn't watch it,
I copy pasted below the others from a quick list on google and adding 2018, 2019

I'm curious what you thought about the list below, do we have similar taste?

• 2019 - green book, Loved it
• 2018 - Shape of Water, Just awful

• 2017 - Moonlight quit after 15 minutes
• 2016 - Spotlight awesome
• 2015 - Birdman hated it
• 2014 - 12 Years A Slave awesome
• 2013 - Argo not a huge fan
• 2012 - The Artist didn't see it
• 2011 - The King's Speech didnt' see it
• 2010 - The Hurt Locker awesome
• 2009 - Slumdog Millionaire awful
• 2008 - No Country for Old Men Nope
• 2007 - The Departed, didn't do it for me
• 2006 - Crash liked it
• 2005 - Million Dollar Baby awesome
• 2004 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King awesome
• 2003 - Chicago Nope
• 2002 - A Beautiful Mind fantastic
• 2001 - Gladiator watched it 5 times at least
• 2000 - American Beauty Loved it
• 1999 - Shakespeare in Love seriously?
• 1998 - Titanic incredible

side note: I do see a trend towards "preaching" vs "just dam good" over the past 10 years...