Lots of surprises — on the surface. But when you take time to delve deeper into all the internal numbers, especially when considering the demographic breakdown, you’ll discover all kinds of reasons why the results played out among AD voters exactly as they did.
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Let’s all keep in mind the most valuable purpose served by Rob’s incredibly detailed efforts each year is to open a window into the inner machinery of the ballot process itself, so that we can see precisely how the preferential system operates with concrete examples. AD reader taste bears scant relation to Academy taste and we know all the reasons for that. (For example, unlike some Academy members, I doubt if we could find any AD voter who refuses to respect Quvenzhane Wallis just because her name is tricky to pronounce). The most interesting thing to me about these simulated Academy Awards is to see what goes on below the simple list of who won what. I like to look at who almost won, and I like to keep in that in mind to help remind myself that we shouldn’t blame the entire Academy for some of the rotten decisions a minority of members make. (Because make no mistake, thousands of Academy members are as embarrassed by Crash and The Blind Side as all of them should be).
Why are there as many votes for Doc Short as there are for Director? That suggests to me that people were just voting what they think was going to win. I’d be surprised if more than 10% of AD readers have seen the doc shorts.
I’d be surprised if more than 10% of AD readers have seen the doc shorts.
So you’re saying more AD readers have seen the shorts than Academy members who saw them?
gracias, mi amigo!
All I can do is use the demographics we asked for.
5-6 films, male, and 46+:
Argo 80 over Lincoln 75
DDL, Lawrence, Jones, Hathaway, Spielberg, Django (OSp), Lincoln (ASp), Pi (Cinema), Argo (Editing)
7-8 films, male, and 46+:
ZDT 172 over Argo 148
DDL, Chastain, Hathaway, Hoffman, Ang Lee, Django (OSp), Lincoln (ASp), Pi (Cinema), ZDT (Editing)
Combined 5-8 films, male, and 46+
Argo 242 over ZDT 233
DDL, Lawrence, Jones, Hathaway, Spielberg, Django (OSp), Lincoln (ASp), Pi (Cinema), ZDT (Editing)
This process is not as easy to cross reference as a straight up and down demographic. But the data above indicates Argofuckyourself.
Rob
Rob… If you can see this… Thanks for your awesome and interesting work here.
Gang, I don’t think we’re paying nearly enough attention to the results for males and for the 46-and-over crowd. These are probably the most closely related to the actual Oscar results. Here’s a reminder of why: http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/oscar-voters-are-almost-exclusively-old-white-men.html Also, I believe I’ve read here that the average Oscar voter is fairly “low information”, meaning that, in these terms, they might see around 4 to 6 of the films.
I wonder if Rob has the capability to produce *combined* cross-sections…? With each of the categories, what I’d really like to see would be the results among a select group that has several characteristics — they saw 4-6 movies, they’re 46-and-over (or even better, they’ve been standardized to the mean age of 62), and they are 77% male. My guess is that running results among a group with these key demographic characteristics would actually give us a pretty decent indicator of the eventual winners. Any chance something like this is possible??
Love this stuff!
Like I felt a changing tide with SLP and a possible adapted screenplay victory, I also believe ZD30 could surprise and take any one of their awards. If you think about it…Chastain is in the top 3 to win it, Boal is in the top 2, editing is top 2 and sound editing is probably top 3. That tells me any one of those awards are probably and best picture might not be far off either. As much as I love Argo I would eat my hat if ZD30 took it all.
My personal ranking:
1) Amour
2) ZD30
3) BOTSW
4) Life of Pi
5) Les Miserables
6) Argo
7) Django
8) Lincoln
9) SLP
The fact that Argo almost won here says one of two things:
– People like the movie more than we think
– Even AD readers are susceptible to groupthink
Both of which make me think nothing else has a chance. No denying ZDT is deserving, but it simply isn’t winning the Oscar. It has been beyond badly snubbed.
@The Dude
Man, are you from Brazil? I’m from São Paulo. Glad with the Latin American voters too.
Thank you AD contributors for putting controversy aside and voting Zero Dark Thirty the best picture of the year…because it is the best picture of the year, despite what Ed Asher and his fellow Leftists in the academy think.
What is the ballot based on? Who voted?
Ah damn it, put this is the wrong thread^^^
I only differed with two of their consensuses. One, while I think The Hobbit and Les Mis could both easily win Makeup, I think the BAFTA win gives Les Mis the slight edge. Plus, you may recall that last year Harry Potter was the big franchise nominee with the fancy makeup, but the smaller The Iron Lady beat it, so that could happen once again.
The other difference is a truly baffling one. How in the world did they come up with a consensus of Robert De Niro to take Supporting Actor? From what I’ve seen, the consensus is actually Jones. I’ve been wondering why people have been choosing De Niro, not just now, but throughout awards season. He’s won no major awards… and yet, people keep picking him. Do they think that the Academy will pity him so much that they’ll just throw a third Oscar at him for a completely forgettable performance? Really, I’d love to know.
My personal picks of the nominees in the last 5 years just cuz I’m bored.
2012: Zero Dark Thirty
2011: Tree of Life
2010: Black Swan
2009: The Hurt Locker
2008: Milk (Oh my. Good enough film even if it is a bit too scattering at the beginning but it was the best among the nominees since The Wrestler got only Actor and Supporting Actress.)
And after some way too complicated copy and pasting and boredom, I did the math and ZD30’s international gross is inching toward $30 million pre-Oscars weekend rather than Box Office Mojo’s still stubbornly having it at $13 million. So it is around a $120 worldwide gross.
“The reason why ZDT did poorly in Latin America it’s because it wasn’t released in most places, and in some, like in Brazil, only last week.”
Of the nine BP nominees only 5 have already been released in Venezuela: Argo, Django Unchained, Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook.
Opening tomorrow (March 22): Lincoln
Opening March 29: Les Mis
Opening Soon (I’m guessing here): Zero Dark Thirty
Not opening any time soon: Beasts of Southern Wild and Amour
Lucklily I’ve seen 8 out 9 (haven’t seen Amour yet)
Henry Z,
You’re right, its actually a mind numbingly tragic, stupefying, terribly embarrassing mistake.
Thanks Paddy. 🙂
Robert A., you could have voted for Argo over Zero Dark Thirty. Argo picked up 55 votes after Amour was eliminated. One of those could have been yours.
I loved that Zero Dark Thirty won Best Picture and Best Editing here. I know that it is almost impossible that this happens this sunday, but this result made me very happy.
“I tend to think that ARGO will not win Best Picture (I actually don’t have any idea what will take the BP) I have this strange feeling that it will go the way of Brokeback Mountain winning all the awards in the world then getting dumped on By Crash for Best Picture….talk about a mistake.”
Actually, though, Crash did have a few guild wins (SAG Ensemble, WGA, Eddie) that signaled it had some major support in the industry. This year, Argo has won every major award from the industry–PGA, SAG, DGA, WGA, Eddie, even BAFTA.
“Basically the Beasts and Amour voters were the only ones not to favor Argo, and their votes, along with a little more than half of the original Lincoln voters, pushed ZDT over the top.”
Jeesh! I’m in the minority again, even in my own voting sector. I had Amour at #1, Beasts at #2, and Argo at #3. (Although I keep flipping back and forth between Argo and ZD30 for #3, so maybe on the day I voted at AD, I placed ZD30 over Argo?)
So let me see if I understand this. The reason why ZERO DARK THIRTY took over on ballot 7 is because it had more #7 votes right?
No, Antoinette. When Amour was removed from contention, the 209 votes which it had amassed were redistributed among the remaining three films: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. 95 of these ballots placed Zero Dark Thirty the highest of those three, 55 placed Argo highest and 58 placed Lincoln highest. Adding those votes on, Zero Dark Thirty takes the lead over Argo.
OH! Thanks, Rob! (dead giveaway that I’m not really an elderly Asian lady because I have the manners of a donkey)
Well, this (identifying by the stats) elderly Asian lady, unconnected to the Academy and with homes in Belize and Perth, just read the tea leaves and agrees with KT and Paddy: Beware the Silver Lining!
This could be the first time anyone has been able to counterplay and actually use the campaign politics of others to its own advantage.
Unless Argo stays rock solid, or Zero Dark Thirty or Lincoln rallied like legionnaires at the end, be afraid. Be very afraid.
I’m ever hopeful that Ang Lee is sitting in a pretty good spot right now if you weight these results to closer match the Academy demographic.
So let me see if I understand this. The reason why ZERO DARK THIRTY took over on ballot 7 is because it had more #7 votes right? Meaning the reason it ended up winning is because the people who had it in #7 and #8 place probably had ARGO last? That’s right, right? So the “vote against” works. Meaning putting the movie you definitely don’t want to win last actually probably made a difference here. Because the people who made the difference for ZDT had ZDT in 7th & 8th place, meaning they didn’t like it too much either. They just hated ARGO more. lol Right?
Also, Latin American voters alone in picking Haneke for Amour and Phoenix for Best Actor. Yes, we are awesome, thank you very much.
And you gotta do something about these poor African numbers, Sasha LOL!
The reason why ZDT did poorly in Latin America it’s because it wasn’t released in most places, and in some, like in Brazil, only last week.
And why is it that I don’t find surprising that Amour was ranked last among the Les Miserables voters?
Odd thing is I know people who love ZD30 who initially liked Argo but ZD30 really colored their opinion of the other film (not the case with myself and a few people I knew as some of us were never hot on Argo to begin with). It is clear with critics the moment there was controversy in the air quite a few moved back into Argo’s camp while the rest of us and a few people who liked both films continued to support ZD30. I have to think it was on even shakier ground for members at the Academy and a lot of ZD30 supporters bolted back to Argo. The potential of overlap is so easy (same editor, same composer, a few actors in both films, and both being about CIA and America).
Basically the Beasts and Amour voters were the only ones not to favor Argo, and their votes, along with a little more than half of the original Lincoln voters, pushed ZDT over the top.
“A film does not even have to lead the vote until the final round. Such a situation, I feel, would help Argo. However, these results state the opposite, interestingly.”
The same could happen in the Academy if the Lincoln, SLP, and even ZDT supporters (if ZDT has as many fans in the Academy as it does on this site; I doubt it) are all anti-Argo. Argo has been seen by many as winning the guilds for the wrong reasons. Anyone who wants his vote to count for a film other than Argo knows to vote against Argo, unless Argo is the lesser of two evils (e.g. I purposely ranked Argo low, but still above SLP).
Argo is a very likable film, but if the SLP fans prefer Lincoln winning to Argo, or vice versa, Argo could lose. But I doubt that happens. ZDT probably won’t come down to the final 2, but Lincoln is probably not “likable” enough to trump Argo.
Seen 5 out of the final 9. Those are Django, Argo, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook. The worse wins (ZERO stars) and the second worse is runner up (*** out of *****).
Good job, AD!
I tend to think that ARGO will not win Best Picture (I actually don’t have any idea what will take the BP) I have this strange feeling that it will go the way of Brokeback Mountain winning all the awards in the world then getting dumped on By Crash for Best Picture….talk about a mistake. I am hoping for ARGO to win. I’m from Boston, Affleck is from Cambridge..almost neighbors. So, yeah, I’m rooting for ARGO. Plus I have already seen it three times and have bought the DVD.
it appears a lot more people voted than ever comment on this sight.
That is the understatement of the year. You cannot assess the desires of the many based on the outbursts of the few.
In my mind, if you think it’s coming down to a Lincoln Argo vote, once you list one of the two, it doesn’t matter where you put the second, it could be one spot below or 8 spots below. Either will yield the same result.
This is the crucial point, as I realised a few weeks back. It only matters which of the top two films more voters preferred. A film does not even have to lead the vote until the final round. Such a situation, I feel, would help Argo. However, these results state the opposite, interestingly.
Looking over the full breakdowns, particularly for the Best Picture race, is very insightful. This might inform my final predictions on Sunday.
It looks like ad voters. have better taste than academy members. Though I will never understand why people like pi better than beast. I’m surprised Argo came in second because lots of people who have blogged will not be happy with an Argo bp win .it appears a lot more people voted than ever comment on this sight .
Looking at the demo breakdowns more – the Academy isn’t going to vote for ZDT because of the controversy. They will stay away from it. And if on this site Argo gets this much support…
I think Argo is going to win by hefty margins (we’ll never know of course) but we can test how much of a landslide it is based on what it wins…Editing? Screenplay? If none of those, then it was really the preferential that did it but I doubt it. It will be those at least. Then if it wins even outside that – soundtrack? sound? We will know more.
Definitely agree it’s a complicated analysis. But the takeaway is this: If Lincoln is eliminated, and many of those voters have Silver Linings ranked above Argo (and those two are the final two films), their votes will go to Silver Linings. That could help it win. It doesn’t take strategy–what I’m saying is that it can have an impact if Silver Linings is ranked between the other two movies.
KT – going to agree with ruffus. I don’t see voters filling the ballot that way. It’s too complicated for many and most probably know that it can lead to an odd result that they’d rather not have (i.e. SLP winning). I think voters will just honestly rank the movies how they like them, which leads to less divisive movies winning always under preferential ballot.
If this kind of strategic voting were widespread at all, you would have seen an upset already happen to TKS or The Artist, but it hasn’t, and it won’t.
I wish that Zero Dark Thirty would win on Oscar night and I’m glad it gets some love here. On the other hand Hathaway at 50 percent. Really? Ugh
It’s not my logic, but it works if Silver Linings Playbook is consistently being ranked BETWEEN Argo and Lincoln OR BETWEEN Lincoln and Argo on the preferential ballots. Where the other films are doesn’t matter.
KT, I don’t like your logic here, but then if voters use the same logic your logic will be correct.
In my mind, if you think it’s coming down to a Lincoln Argo vote, once you list one of the two, it doesn’t matter where you put the second, it could be one spot below or 8 spots below. Either will yield the same result.
So I don’t think that many voters will punish one of the two films just because they prefer the other more. Like I prefer Argo over Lincoln, but I’m not going to, say, put Django Unchained above Lincoln just because I want Argo to win. Because, you see, I would rather Lincoln win over Django.
Unless you think people want to use their ballots as votes against a certain film. Where, at that point they would put it at #9 or leave it off the ballot altogether.
You’re logic only works if someone liked a film but doesn’t want it to win for political or personal reasons and will articially lower a vote. And frankly, I just don’t see that happening to any great extent.
You know esp after finally playing catch up on making of avatar on my blue ray I all but concluded I no longer as forgiving that Oscar turned their back on it.
Fact Cameron is such a genius he seemlessly blended traditional filmmaking essence In state of the art visuals not visual effects. Who knew that the costume design was one of the smaller awards Cameron quote: expressed his ‘ profound disappointment it was not recognized . Indeed avatar exposed Oscar for the discredited morons they become. As tsutey said : even a rock sees more well hate to see ir but Oscar can’t see the would from the trees bit like this year they can’t distinguish the point between beatifully presented visuals and what is real that gone to real effort to infuse a film with real elements and what is visual what is traditional cinema in a advanced never before done integrated form and what is pure effortless effects. Avatar should have dominated. But Oscar demonstrated Su h contempt for a truly game changing genre as they did till Bohemia won to women for so damn long they had to concentrate on reversing perceptions they behind the 8 ball. Now they seemingly lost their way. Lincoln is by far this yrs avatar in context it took time,effort passion and mist precious of cre to bring a film to life. More so than u average period drama.Cameron’s avatar was gravely misunderstood by the academy as just pretty visuals. But the fact set design and costume had more to do with real craftsmanship yet was totally discounted as winning. And that a veteran ahead of Hollywood awards outdatedretarded state of mind but is one of Hollywood’s revered sons condemned awards season of his making of documentary for costume design being dismissed as elaborate visual effects which is bullshir. Means that even Hollywood’s own older directors are turning on Oscar. It amusing in a disturbing way. How those directors who grew up under hpllywoods once golden era have now surpassed what Hollywood could once distinguish between what deserved and wins and what does not. Thus is the vullshit that Oscar fraught with this yr mre than any yr I can recall
kt,
this is quite interesting and i can see acad voters thinking like this, nevertheless this kind of voting strategy is erroneous: in the showdown between argo and lincoln, it doesn’t matter how many films you stuff between the two since your vote can only go to the enemy once your favorite has fallen down, so let’s say you put lincoln at #1, putting slp at #2 won’t help lincoln since it’ll only be counted once lincoln is out, but it might help you defeat argo, but won’t make lincoln win… so i guess we agree slp could profit from that faulty reasoning.
Hooray. Thanks to everyone who voted and gave ZDT this honor. It deserves it.
I really thought Lincoln would have this in the bag since Sasha’s many pro-Lincoln articles probably increased the Lincoln support amongst both long-time readers and new ones attracted to this site during this race.
But this tally gives me hope that the academy might just get it right. And judging from past stats there is a 50% chance! (I wish)
Except for a few surprises (Zero Dark Thirty winning) we went with the presumed favorites. So how could we blame the Academy?
Still, my only fear for Sunday is a win for SLP. I hope it goes home without a single Oscar.
@ Sasha,
please upload the set!
http://www.trbimg.com/img-511eee9f/turbine/la-la-et-0215-oscars-set-01.jpg-20130215/580/580×406
:)))
This forum has a strong Spielberg bend. It’s not surprising he had the most votes for Best Director, even over Lee.
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BUT regarding the Oscars: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE Silver Linings Playbook in the Best Picture race!!!! It will be #2 on the preferential ballot, and it, not Lincoln, could upset and win the top prize. Some insight from a post on Gold Derby:
– With the preferential ballot system, Silver Linings has a real shot to sneak in and win BP. After the first round of voting, it may just have the most #1 votes — if not, in a close race with Lincoln and Argo. Once you start chopping off movies like Django Unchained and Life of Pi, I think the Silver Linings total will rise (along with Argo).
– NOW, assuming that it rests in the number 2 position, with Argo ahead of it (but no film reaching above 50%), the Lincoln votes will be redistributed. This is where the SLP stealth win can go down as those voting for Lincoln will put Argo near the bottom to increase Lincoln’s odds — and due to this, will have SLP higher ranked so their votes will go there.
– If that happens, it will be enough for a win. Likewise, if SLP is 2nd and Lincoln is ahead so the Argo votes have to be redistributed — Argo voters are placing Lincoln at the bottom, so the votes would go to SLP allowing it to win. It is a perfect scenario for a three-way race to allow the consensus feel-good movie to win over the two presumed frontrunners.
***So, due to the broad support that SLP has and due to the system that requires rival movies like Argo and Lincoln to rank their nominees, SLP may win as Argo voters will rank Lincoln very low and Lincoln voters will rank Argo very low. This will allow SLP to reap the benefits. But if SLP is third, it will be out….THE MORAL IS: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!!!!
From my perspective:
2012 – Les Misérables
2011 – The Artist
2010 – The King’s Speech
2009 – Inglourious Basterds
2008 – The Reader
and I watch all the BP nominees every year.
I know the correlation between AD and Oscar isn’t the strongest, but if Lee couldn’t pull of a BD win (or if Pi couldn’t do better in the BP race) on this forum where I read some strong support, well…I guess I should just hope that Pi doesn’t lose any of the tech categories it’s predicted to win on Oscar night.
I’m amazed how far behing Argo was amongst voters close to the Academy. Does this mean an upset is a real possibility?
Crash is not an embarrassing mistake.
Indeed. It’s not. It’s a fucking travesty.
So it seems that mostly women voted for Lawrence, while mostly men voted for Riva. Alright stalinists, your sexism argument is of no evidence.
Um, no. 30 women voted for Jennifer Lawrence. 30 women voted for Emmanuelle Riva. 64 women did not vote for Jennifer Lawrence. And we don’t know how any of them, nor those who did vote for Lawrence, feel about David O. Russell’s sexism.
Rob is a hero. These are fascinating!
I still think it’s going to be Silver Linings Playbook vs. Lincoln vs. Argo
We all know ZDT has just about zero chance to win Best Picture. So, all of us sophisticated AD voters putting Argo in second place ahead of Lincoln (sorry, Sasha) just confirms it will win Sunday.
I think one very telling trend: Those that watched 4 or fewer of the BP nominees favored Argo…a trend that continues as those who watched all 9 placed Argo at 3rd. I’m not saying that those viewers who are more mainstream/limited in cinematic tastes (AD readers and probably the Academy) are carrying Argo…but yea I guess that’s what i’m saying.
From my perspective these are the results for the 5 years I’ve done this
2012- Lincoln
2011- The Help
2010- The King’s Speech
2009- Precious
2008- Milk
Thanks for the hard work. It was great to go through all the stats.
CMG, I agree.
Just for some perspective, these are the results for the 5 years we have done this.
2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
2011 – The Artist
2010 – The Social Network
2009 – Inglourious Basterds
2008 – Slumdog Millionaire
Hmm, the enormous difference between male and female participants is amusing. Are women not as active in online film discussion? Looking at this data, it’s no wonder that Oscar films or Hollywood in general caters mainly to men.
Well, relative to the amount of women and men in the category respectively anyways.
So it seems that mostly women voted for Lawrence, while mostly men voted for Riva. Alright stalinists, your sexism argument is of no evidence.
Great! Lincoln won Best Director, Actor and Adapted Screenplay!
I would be tickled pink if ZDT took home the prize. Who in their right mind could be angry at that happening? I have accepted Argo as a good winner (I’ve seen it 3 times + once w/audio commentary track). My ultimate would be Lincoln.
Anything other than those 3 would be a huge letdown to me. Well, maybe Pi. I could live with Pi. My biggest fear is SLP & the Weinstein monster ruling Sunday. Yuck. Might be enough to make stop caring at Oscars once and for all. It’s like Weinstein is the New York Yankees’ management but he’s always got the San Diego Padres for a roster.
Well I already knew I didn’t belong here but this clinches it. lololol I put ZDT last.
This was absolutely fascinating to see how people were ranking the Best Picture nominees on the preferential ballot. For instance, what film Les Miz people were ranking second. Zero Dark Thirty got a huge boost from Amour voters once it was eliminated. Overall, I’m shocked Zero Dark Thirty won the vote.
An interesting occurrence not reflected in the BP race for ZDT Voters. It came down to a three way race between Lincoln, Amour, and Argo. Argo was eliminated by one vote with the other two tying (63/63/62). But in a head to head vote, Argo wins over Amour (100/88) and Lincoln (95/93).
This is our ‘We’ll always have Paris’ moment for us ZD30 partisans. **sighs**
mike,
preferential balloting is definitely the way they vote for bp in the final phase, unlike the other categories, where they just pick their favorite nominee. you can check that academy member discussing his ballot in an itw: https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2013/02/20/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot/
also, documentary and short film nominees have been sent to academy members via screener for the first time in oscar history, thus explaining the change of rules. hopefully they’ll do the same thing for best foreign film in the near future.
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“Crash is not an embarrassing mistake.”
Ha! That’s a matter of opinion.
Wow, there are so many gems here. Pi dominated Asia, Lincoln got the 2 African votes, Argo dominated Europe, men liked ZDT more than women, people close to the Academy favored ZDT all along, but they also preferred 4 of the 5 films with Director nominations to Argo. Post-WGA more votes for Argo. Are some readers sheep? So much to pore over.
Forgive the stupid question, but reading the rules for Best Picture on oscars.org, I do no see where it says anything about preferential balloting for the *final* voting. Rule 16 item 4 just says “Final voting for the Best Picture award shall be restricted to active and life Academy members.” Rule 5 item 5 says “Tabulation of final ballots shall be according to the plurality or preferential system.” Which seems extremely vague. Can anyone shed any light on this?
In other news, it appears that final voting for documentaries is restricted to voters who have seen all of the nominees, but no longer specifies that they be seen in theaters (unlike the foreign film category, which does still say that). This part isn’t a question, just an observation. It very likely means that there will be more people voting in the documentary category than before.
So, if I understand well, I have the film tastes of an old Asian woman who might take occasional trips to South America. That makes my day!
Methinks if Lincoln couldn’t win over this site’s readers, at least over Argo, it ain’t winning Picture.
Crash is not an embarrassing mistake.
Okay, hate to be “that” guy. But someone needs to explain to me why I should have left Amour feeling that it is a movie deserving of awards. I do not understand it. And before anyone says so, it’s not because it was slow, or “artful”, or too sad. I just didn’t see why it deserves awards for screenplay especially. It was beautifully shot, and the acting was suitably restrained and depressing (which people LOVE). But by the end I felt so hollow, and not in the sense that the movie deeply effected me, I just felt straight up used.
But someone needs to explain to me why I should have left Amour feeling that it is a movie deserving of awards.
Because not every movie is for everybody?
maybe you’ve noticed that I can’t stand Django Unchained but I don’t need anybody to explain to me why I should feel differently. I know how I feel and nobody can change my feelings but me.