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Hidden Figures (2016)
A decent Oscar movie
When it comes to Best Picture nominated/winning movies, I always feel they fall into 3 categories for me.
1. Great-brilliant movies that deserved their nomination, let alone actually winning.
2. Decent-okay movies that while not bad, it only felt like they were nominated/won due to their subject matter.
3. Really boring-bad movies that while they suck as a movie, it make total sense for the Oscars to give it such praise.
Fortunately, Hidden Figures doesn't fall into number 3 on this list but it's not reaching number 1 for me anytime soon.
It is a very important historical piece of a film I'm glad was made at least. It's really well-acted, the characters are enjoyable and have good chemistry with each other, it's surprisingly really well-shot, the movie has good or sweet moments in it, and I really liked in particular how the clothing the main female characters wore fitted into some of the movie's theming. However, the creativity liberties taken with this movie really show off in not a very good way. Mainly the fact this is the one of the most predictable movie's I've ever watched.
Being predictable isn't always a sign of being a bad movie, but this is one of those movies where every scene and setup is so obvious that by the time the play off happens, it's not that satisfying since it was very easy to see it coming in the first place. There were expectations to the rule and I get the fact making it unpredictable would cause some issues due to this film being based off a true story, but there's already creative freedom taken with this movie like basing off Kevin Costner's character in the movie off of three different NASA directors instead of one real life person so I don't see the harm of making the movie a little less predictable if it doesn't erase the actual real story of the movie and is done well.
That's not the only issue I have however, there's way too many sub plots in this movie leading to some parts of the movie being a structural mess, 90% of the music used in the movie were either forgettable typical Oscar music you've most likely already heard in another movie or just felt out of place of the scene happening, and the film focuses on Katherine a bit too much in that, leading to Dorothy and Mary's arc of the story feeling not as fleshed out as they could have been.
Overall, I did enjoy the movie more than hating it but I doubt I'll be re-watching this anytime soon.