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Feb. 22nd, 2017 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potentiality_26When Oscar season comes around I'm always pretty uninterested in most of the nominees but I always end up having to watch a few anyway.
I just saw Manchester By the Sea and... wow. It was exactly what I expected. Fine from a technical standpoint, not all that well put together in my opinion but definitely your classic Accomplished look-how-good movie, and so very, very boring. I swear the same thing happens every couple of years. Some drab, depressing movie gets made about a white guy who has a depression beard and acts like a jerk, and the academy flaps around like, "So innovative!" And it's just not?
That said, I'd be interested to hear what anyone who liked it thought was good about it. I do understand that a movie can be good without being enjoyable to watch, but this movie just wasn't saying anything new.
I just saw Manchester By the Sea and... wow. It was exactly what I expected. Fine from a technical standpoint, not all that well put together in my opinion but definitely your classic Accomplished look-how-good movie, and so very, very boring. I swear the same thing happens every couple of years. Some drab, depressing movie gets made about a white guy who has a depression beard and acts like a jerk, and the academy flaps around like, "So innovative!" And it's just not?
That said, I'd be interested to hear what anyone who liked it thought was good about it. I do understand that a movie can be good without being enjoyable to watch, but this movie just wasn't saying anything new.
