Huh. shrugs I guess that happens. I have a friend who hated, hated, hated Deadpool so much he’s sworn of seeing any more superhero movies at all. So there are always those films that everyone loves that just, for whatever reason, rub you the wrong way.
I thought it was an excellent film and deserving of the award.
I like that it’s not “showy” or melodramatic. It’s a film about journalism, and investigative reporters’ lives are not glamorous. They spend countless hours pounding the pavement for interviews and performing archival research in courts, libraries and basements. Then they spend countless more hours trying to fit all the pieces together into a coherent story.
The film did a great job keeping the focus on the story as opposed to the reporters themselves. I loved how bland Rachel McAdams’ wardrobe was - these are not people concerned with staying on top of the latest fashion trends, they are just doing their jobs.
Put me in the category of people who liked this (hard for me to “love” something in this particular genre/style), and I think it was a perfectly worthy Best Picture winner. The things that make it great are largely of execution rather than inspiration, which puts it behind a few other movies for me personally but is also probably what pushes it to the front of the list for just enough of the Academy’s voters.
This is an accurate summary of how I feel about it. I admired how it was put together, and was moved by it…but in the end, I’d say I was more gripped by several of the other nominees. That may also be a result of the fact that I remember all this from living in the Boston area, so the scale and outcome was not a surprise.