This one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Brink%27s_Robbery
Although Brink's the armored cash truck service is still in business today.
Anyway, if y'all want to read someone getting hugely pissed over something different, read this guy losing his shit over Best Live Action Short Film.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/oscar-winning-short-film-skin-review.html
Seemed like a weak field for the live action shorts this year. Four of five dealt with endangered children.
Live-action shorts are not respected. Even if a lot of major talent got their start that way (https://mic.com/articles/92951/16-short-films-that-launched-the-careers-of-famous-directors#.4icNRxme4)
. Bradley Cooper also said that his ASIB was inspired by a short film Scorsese made, Life Lessons for New York Stories.
...from the acceptance speech, I thought Skin was going to be about antisemitism and Holocaust survivors, but good lord. Out of all the short films, Marguerite sounds like the only one I'd actually have anything close to a good time watching, and even that one takes place in hospice, which...says a lot about how cheery the rest of the competition are. At least the one with kids torturing an infant and then throwing it to be cut in two on train tracks didn't win.
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller listIts more interesting with Green Book because Crash or The King's Speech or Shakespeare in Love at least had clear alternates — Brokeback Mountain and The Social Network, Saving Private Ryan. With this one, there's a divide between who feels more stiffed. Roma or Black Panther or Blackk Klansman. In terms of how the night led up to it, Bohemian Rhapsody should have won but I think there's a case to be made that if it won, it would provoke similar responses.
So I think you can say there's a split in votes and in the end the most consensus pick was Green Book.
Eyyy I'm not the only one who hates The Social Network, nice.
Also, I feel like the only people who still like Crash are from my town (because Paul Haggis used to live here - there's like a six foot poster of him receiving his Oscar in the back storage room of my old high school), maybe Green Book will end up the same way?
In retrospect The Social Network was focused far too much on “losing real friendships” aspect and not the mass acquisition of millions’s personal information that’s turned FB into a national security nightmare now.
I half expect either the director or the screenwriter is biding their time for a sequel.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Feb 26th 2019 at 6:55:15 AM
To be fair, I think Fincher simply wasn't aware of that. The film was produced before that controversy really made it big.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."The Social Network came out in 2010, so it's now a decade old. So enough time has passed to decide if it has dated or stood the test. The consensus answer is that it did. The BBC ranked it 27 on 100 Best Films of the 21st Century (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films)
. Another Fincher movie, Zodiac finished higher at #12 (I generally do think Zodiac is better, and Fincher himself considers it his best, so that's fair). I find the idea that The Social Network didn't do enough against Zuck questionable, since most of his weird controversial stuff happened in the last four years, well after the film came out. At the time the story was that the movie was too critical of Zuck and Zuckerberg himself didn't like it. And almost every actor in The Social Network have gone on to become notable character actors or leads — Eisenberg, Garfield, Armie Hammer, Rooney Mara in her small role, Justin Timberlake who proved he could act.
In any case, my point was that 2019's Oscar Ceremony is interesting because usually it's a debate of one film or the other. The case is a movie deserved to win, the other movie should have won. In 2019, it's not just Green Book vs. Black Panther, it's also Green Book vs. Black Klansman, and also Green Book vs. Roma. To a lesser extent, Green Book vs. Bohemian Rhapsody.
So it's a much more open field in terms of who got stiffed. That was my point. If we want to discuss Social Network in depth, we can do that in its own page.
FWIW, here's David Fincher's opinion on The Social Network:
- Fincher: "It’s a little glib to be a film. Let’s hope we strove to get at something interesting, but Social Network is not earth-shattering. Zodiac was about murders that changed America. After the Zodiac killings in California, the Summer of Love was over...No one died during the creation of Facebook. By my estimation, the person who made out the worst in the creation of Facebook still made more than 30 million dollars...And besides, on Social Network, I didn’t really agree with the critics’ praise. It interested me that Social Network was about friendships that dissolved through this thing that promised friendships, but I didn’t think we were ripping the lid off anything. The movie is true to a time and a kind of person, but I was never trying to turn a mirror on a generation."
Actual quote from the screenwriter (Aaron Sorkin): "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?"
This is why I don't usually care for 'based on a true story' type films. If you're going to portray something that actually happened, especially if the people involved/their family members are still alive, either try for something approximating the truth or write an original story that doesn't use the names and likenesses of real people. It just ends up feeling exploitative and manipulative.
Edited by Pseudopartition on Feb 26th 2019 at 9:09:20 AM

I did think Sam Elliott should have won for ASIB which I saw and its a legitimately good movie, maybe not as good as the Judy Garland movie (that's considered the best ASIB) but that movie got chopped up by producers and had to be reconstituted with stills for some scenes, whereas the new one doesn't have the usual problems. Mahershala Ali is a good actor but he won an Oscar before and this could be the last time Sam Elliot has a chance for one of this. Bradley Cooper is a good actor but his performance in American Sniper is better, and ASIB is more him as director. And in any case, the movie works because of Lady Gaga and she got an Oscar for the song.
You know Judy Garland not winning for ASIB was considered the great Award Snub of its day. She lost to Grace Kelly going plain for a movie. Groucho Marx who was presenting or hosting told Judy, "That's the biggest robbery since Brinks", apparently that was a bank that got jacked. Old timey references, amirite?
So the Oscars more or less have always been what they are now. The only time things were a little different was The '70s.