A few years ago, the Oscar’s decided to have as many as 10 movies that could be nominated for best picture. This year for some reason, only 8 movies were nominated which eliminated great movies like Concussion and Joy from the list of this years best pictures. Considering the decision to have 10 movies in the list some years ago, why wasn’t a similar decision made for all the acting categories, allowing for as many as 10 actors per category to be potentially nominated?

Very simply, if the major categories in the Oscar’s did not have a limit of 5 then this years Boycott of the Oscar’s because no black actors or movies directed by black directors were nominated this year. Clearly, its wrong that Will Smith in Concussion was not nominated for Best Actor along with Michael B. Jordan in Creed and several other omissions even within the limit of 5 nominees. Many errors were made with this years Oscar nominations and many errors have been made in the past, but by just expanding the number of people just like w

The easiest movies to any movie reviewer to review are comedies.  The reason why its so easy to review movies like this is because you have the sound of audience feedback, the laughter you hear in the audience to reinforce your opinion that the movie is either funny or not funny. If the movie is funny then people will laugh, if the movie is not funny then there is silence. Unfortunately, for Ride Along 2, like Ride Along there just were not enough funny scenes or dialog to agree that the movie is funny.  After almost 2 hours there was only one scene in a car where Kevin Hart’s character and Jen Jeong’s character are talking about Star Wars and other issues and Ice Cube and Olivia Munn are in the front seat making faces because the conversation is so annoying.  This scene works for the most part because of the relentless ranting from 2 nerds talking about nerdy things and you know the “shut up” is coming at the end.  Unfortunately for this movie, this is the only time I noticed some laughing in the audience.

As I have said about other movies that Kevin Hart has been involved with, he is a very good stand up comedian, but much too often his movies are not funny or too plain average and because he is in so many movies this may catch up with him soon because he is in way too many movies. In my opinion, Kevin should take some time off for a while and concentrate on his stand up act because this is another pretty boring and average movie.

Ice Cube’s character in this movie, as he was in the last movie and most of his other movies is always in a bad mood and the question is, how long can we have Ice Cube getting annoyed at Kevin Hart before it gets old. Odds are high that there will be a “Ride Along 3” but you just have to figure that after the 3rd movie in this series comes out that people will finally get tired of the moody angry Ice Cube character and the relentlessly annoying Kevin Hart character and this will finally be put to bed.

Mainly because this movie is not funny enough, I cannot recommend it.

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The obvious snub in this list is of course the movie Joy not being nominated for best picture. This is a big mistake along with not nominating Concussion or Will Smith for best actor. I also thought that 10 pictures were normally nominated each year. If that were the case then Concussion and Joy would be nominated. Also, why is Mad Max nominated?  This nomination makes no sense when you consider the omissions Concussion and Joy.

Best Picture

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

Spotlight

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Carol

Brie Larson – Room

Jennifer Lawrence – Joy

Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years

Saorise Ronan – Brooklyn

Best Actor

Bryan Cranston – Trumbo

Matt Damon – The Martian

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant

Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Directing

Adam McKay – The Big Short

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

Alejandro G. Inarritu – The Revenant

Lenny Abrahamson – Room

Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight

Rooney Mara – Carol

Rachel McAdams – Spotlight

Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale – The Big Short

Tom Hardy – The Revenant

Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight

Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

Sylvester Stallone – Creed

Animated Feature Film

Anomalisa

Boy and the World

Inside Out

Shaun the Sheep Movie

When Marnie Was There

Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies

Ex Machina

Inside Out

Spotlight

Straight Outta Compton

Cinematography

Carol
The Hateful Eight

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Sicario

Original Song

“Earned It” – Fifty Shades of Grey

“Manta Ray” – Racing Extinction

Simple Song #3″ – Youth

“Til It Happens To You” – The Hunting Ground

“Writing’s On The Wall” – Spectre

Foreign Language Film

Embrace of the Serpent – Colombia

Mustang – France

Son of Saul – Hungary

Theeh – Jordan

A War – Denmark

Documentary Feature

Amy
Cartel Land

The Look of Silence

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom