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Anora was the big winner at the Oscars a week ago, securing awards for best picture, actress, and director, among others. This major achievement puts the movie in the spotlight and increases interest through both legal and illegal channels. Fresh data collected by TorrentFreak shows that pirate downloads surged right after the awards ceremony ended.

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[–] krnl386@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

IMHO movies and other entertainment pieces should be judged/ranked based on how much they are pirated. Oscars-schmoscars!

[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

Great movie. 🍿

I rented Flow even though I could pirate it

Reward indies

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

I didn't think it was a bad movie at all, but definitely not Oscar-sweeping good.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I remember seeing the trailer for it about a year before it came out. Think it was during the coming attractions for a different indie film. My initial reaction was like wow that looks horrible. Like I assumed it’d be a campy romp that might find an audience, but maybe 25% on RT max. No one was more shocked than me to see it winning 5 Oscars including best picture lmao.

I've long since given up on thinking Oscar winners equate to good films. It's a closed voting system subject to cronyism and hidden agendas. I honestly would trust my time spent more with movie recommendations made by all you asshats on Lemmy. I'm not going to bury my head in the sand on Anora - the preview did nothing for me at all, but after winning all those awards, I'll at least see what the fuss was about via pirating most likely. For 2024 films though, I've got Lisa Frankenstein on my to watch list before Anora though.

It's a 'Pretty Woman' knockoff without a Cinderella, and the usual cliche inept/empathetic/sinister characters blah, blah, shite.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It’s weird because Best Picture is usually given to movies that aren’t necessarily entertaining but are artistically interesting. Not sure what is artistically interesting about a romance movie, the genre is just cheesy comfort entertainment

[–] sanzky@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

like Crash and Shakespeare in Love?

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

How in the living fuck did Shakespeare in Love win over Shawshank Redemption?

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

yeah that cheesy comfort ending in this movie... not

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Doesn’t surprise me, the plot is rather weak.

Why is dating an oligarch a good thing?

[–] Nanook@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I had to force my self to finish watching, hoping the ending would redeem the movie.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

i almost quit during that crazy screaming scene in the living room

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

A lot of the top movies got mixed reviews from friends and family. I saw some that were meh. Hope next year has some better ones.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I enjoyed it.

It’s odd that you would call anything subjective overrated.

The 'winning' of the Oscar is subjective. The 'fact' that it won an Oscar isn't subjective.
Hence, I'm calling that 'fact' an overrate.

It's weird that you find it weird. That's subjective.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good movie! Anora the stripper and the bodyguard are two sides of the same coin - competent yet powerless underlings warped by their relationship with the powerful rich.