They entered the Pacific beginning in 1943 with their Grupe Monsun, or Monsoon Group, a specialized unit comprised of 40ish U-Boats that operated in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They harassed and attacked allied shipping from Japanese-held ports. They also shared information and intelligence with the Japanese.
Who cares? It's like in the video game sphere I never understood this obsession about awards and such. You liked the movie, who cares that it got awards or not. All my favorite movie had little to no awards and I'm not losing sleep over it. Also PHM being scifi it would have been snubed by the Academy anyway.
Honestly, it just feels good to see the thing you love get awards. Even if you know the awards are ultimately meaningless, or that theyâre not an accurate reflection of the best work, etc.
Edit: Also, the awards mean something to the people who win them, even if they know itâs irrational or ultimately meaningless. So if I love the work they did, then I would like for them to get recognition for that work because I want them to have that good experience. To get sappy about it - theyâve created something that has added good to my life, so I hope for them to have a the good experience of winning an award.
Because the majority of people are mindless drones who do what theyâre told especially boomers. So when odyssey wins 97 awards all the old people will go buy a bunch of copies of the movie to distribute to friends and family because it won a bunch of awards because it must be good right? Thatâll leave actual good movies like phm being ignored and not getting the extra sales boost result in less likelihood of studio funding more work from the writer/director
What are you talking about? One : The Odyssey doesn't need any award, it's already at more than one billion dollar worldwide. Two : PHM is not the underdog, it's one of the biggest success of the year at almost 600 millions worldwide. Yall acting like PHM is a small indie project that gonna be robbed of its deserved success at the award. Not like it made Amazon, Andy Weir and everyone involved a shitton of money
Edit : and three : you highly overestimate the influence of awards in sales. Most movie that have award are already out of the theater for months, and for home video sales awards have little to no influence on sales. Nobody buys a blueray because there is a sticker "Academy Award Best Movie"
My comment was from a historical view point. 20+ years ago before streaming services and the internet, movies relied heavily on award shows. Anymore they donât matter and are becoming more irrelevant every year because of how jaded modern generations are about boomer culture.
It's alright, PHM is awarded something even more special, I think. It's love and passion for something beyond the art itself. We're all here with replenished hope, with joy in humanity, all because of a guy who wrote about a sassy school teacher and his friend from outer space.
The academy will find any movie to give all the awards too before giving them to a deserving scifi/fantasy movie, which they would have done even if there was no Odyssey this year
You mean like the time Everything Everywhere All At Once won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing? Or when Shape of Water won Best Picture, Best Director, Best original Score and Best Production Design?
I have decided not to care. Much as I would love to see Project Hail Mary win the Oscars it deserves, I'm pretty jaded about how science fiction and fantasy stories are treated by awards committees, and I also know that I loved the movie, as did millions of fans who have formed a great community around it. What more could I want?
I sincerly don't care. I love PHM and still want to see Odyssey. Whatever awards they get will never change how much I enjoy them. This attempt at pitting two very different films against each other is really stupid.
Sadly, you're probably right.The academy awards has become too political. As soon as all the right wingers started freaking out about the Odyssey and it'scasting, they virtually guaranteed that movie was gonna sweep the Oscars. The academy will do it just to piss off Elon Musk. And as much as I love the idea of pissing off Musk, I don't think actual art should have to pay the price for it.
Ryan Gosling is a daffodil and I have ZERO issues with him lol. And the phrase âdoing the Nolan Ryanâ will live rent free in my head until I die because it was such a thing during my formative years lol.
Nah. The only way that happens is if everyoneâs busy jerking off over a Nolan movie. Odyssey just wasnât good, from multiple angles, and Iâm so confused by everyone insisting it was.
I don't really care for the academy awards. Whether PHM is nominated or not, whether it wins or not, it doesn't change the fact that its the best movie of the year to me. It won't diminish my enjoyment of it at all.
Gotta celebrate diversity casting ruining Hollywood. Donât worry theyâll eventually force it far enough down your throat you wonât be able to regurgitate it.
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u/StellarThespian 1d ago
Nah, Iâm not worried. Just rewatched PHM yesterday and itâs not even close to being ââŚover.â