Best Picture winner "Moonlight" was a commercial flop

[Text Drivers are Killers]

IMDB says it cost $5 million and grossed $20 mill so it made money but a $20M gross is lousy. Why did it win? More black privilege and pervert privilege AKA affirmative action.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975722/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[Jarod]

IT will make some $$$ now. They will do a re-showing at the theaters.


Moonlight is not the first Oscar winner to not have not initially done well at the box office.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

IT will make some $$$ now. They will do a re-showing at the theaters.

Of course. But a quality movie would have done well without the oscar boost. THINK

 

[Mr.Badguy]

Have you seen it? However good it is it HAS to be better than BOO! A Madea Halloween. The lesson? Average Joe Moviegoer isn't looking for a work of art, just a good relaxing night out. The Oscars are there to recognize the art.

 

[sear]

Critical acclaim / artistic merit vs commercial success mis-match is not uncommon.

The Wizard of Oz is a remarkable movie. But it didn't win best picture; beaten by Gone With The Wind. So much for chick-flicks.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I've never forgiven the Acadamy for not awarding best picture to Pulp Fiction. Do you remember who won it?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I mean Forest Gump? Come on!

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

This thread is a joke.

The Oscars aren't a "highest gross" contest.

 

[TheDonald]

This thread is a joke.

The Oscars aren't a "highest gross" contest.

The Oscars are a joke, they weren't on a red carpet because Trumps hats are red

 

[zappasguitar]

Of course. But a quality movie would have done well without the oscar boost. THINK

Popularity is in no way indicative of quality.

 

[zappasguitar]

Have you seen it? However good it is it HAS to be better than BOO! A Madea Halloween. The lesson? Average Joe Moviegoer isn't looking for a work of art, just a good relaxing night out. The Oscars are there to recognize the art.

He's just another petulant, dim bulb Trumpkin who needs to demean things in order to boost his self esteem..

 

[Bigdog]

Has anyone on this thread seen this Black version of Brokeback Mountain?

 

[Jarod]

Of course. But a quality movie would have done well without the oscar boost. THINK

Only a fool directly equates commercial success with whether art is good or not.

 

[Jarod]

That's about as dumb as saying that Trump would be a good president because he's rich.

 

[Bigdog]

Well, we know the leftwingers consider Christ in a jar of piss to be art.

 

[Micawber]

IMDB says it cost $5 million and grossed $20 mill so it made money but a $20M gross is lousy. Why did it win? More black privilege and pervert privilege AKA affirmative action.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975722/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Straight ticket GOP voter

 

[Micawber]

Only a fool directly equates commercial success with whether art is good or not.

He is also trolling race.