100%
Truly absorbing acting
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He definitely was, that is included in that period, it came out in 2013 no?
Mud, DBC, TD, Interstellar 
Loved the McConaissance as Dave puts it.
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That usually is the case, yes
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Yep.
The fluffin lines scene in the bar, the resultant breakdown scene in the trailer, the scene where he first meets the little girl on set.
Very hard to take your eyes off the TV when di Caprio is in full flow
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Nah I thought Pitt stole once upon a time. Trailer park scene and Bruce Lee fight very memorable.
Thought he was very charasmatic throughout that film.
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Anyone else think that the film that won Leonardo his Oscar was a bit shit?
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Yeah, not one of his best. It wasnāt the strongest year for films. I imagine the thought process went āwell, Leo is long overdue an Oscar, letās just give him this one.ā
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Yeah Pitt and Leo were both awesome, but Pittās character was just so good. Everything about him was just so effortless.
The Revenant was a āone and doneā movie, Iām glad I saw it in the cinema, it was fucking intense but Iāll never watch it again because I just donāt need to.
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Wouldnāt call it shit, but he could have rather won it for his other far better films, yes. The Great Gatsby, Wolf of wall Street, Blood Diamond, Inception off the top of my head. Revenant was good, but wasnāt a movie people were talking about after watching it. And also felt Leo acted better, especially in Wolf of wall Street. Truly robbed there. Think the involvement of drugs and sex in the movie played a slight hurdle for him that year imo.
But De Caprio didnāt win an Oscar did he? All those films you mention he was really good but the films themselves were a bit average. I thought Pitt was great in Once Upon a Time. But man movies that win Oscars have been getting worse and worse for years and years.
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Yeah itās just an endless sea of rich people getting up on stage and engaging in a fairly grotesque form of moral posturing and virtue signalling.
Itās not that some of the issues they mention arenāt real, but many of them only do it because they think it makes them look great on stage and they are the last people who would know anything about the problems they preach about. Itās nauseating.
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Yeah the hypocrisy of some of these cunts is fairly out there lol
Talk about a cultural elite in their ivory towers haha
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The Revenant was great.
Crash and slumdog were particular lowlights to my mind.
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Crash was an excellent film I thought. Slumdog was complete garbage though Iām with you on that.
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Iād say American Beauty was the last good mainstream film to win best picture. That was over 20 years ago!
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Was that the one where Kevin Spacey is a bit of a weird sex creep, or is that real life?
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Not sure about that. The Oscars were always mostly about marketing. Genuinely great films that win the top prize have always been exceptions.
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Itād be interesting for someone to put an exhaustive list on here of best picture winners from, say, 1960 (so @Persona can get involved) and we all judge them on a scale of 1 to 10
With Arsenal being complete shit these days we should just change this forum to a TV and cinema discussion board.
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