Oscars 2019

he considers himself a lib (unsurprisingly)

Wells has always been a crank, now he can join the Intellectual Dark Web

I kind of hovered for the first half--DVD going, No Country for Old Men on TV (seemed apropos: "that colossal goat-fuck out in the desert"), some computer time in the adjacent room--caught as much of the second half as I could stand. Highlight was Lady Gaga's Lola Heatherton speech ("Bradley Cooper, I want to BEAR YOUR CHILD!") about how tough she's got it. Disappointed that Jonas Mekas was left off the death roll.

there is now a place on the Oscar website for obituary also-rans

https://oscar.go.com/photos/2019/oscars-in-memoriam-2019-photos/582573fb44deb48f463bb74c0f186dff8601a960cd036f397cefa2558c1f1969

Deleted Green Book scene where Don Shirley learns about the birth of rock n' roll from Chuck's cousin Marvin Berry.

— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) February 25, 2019

Prediction: the star of the Elton John biopic wins Best Actor next year.

a world where taron egerton has an oscar would be final definitive proof that we are living in a simulation

and not a good one

When I saw that trailer for the Elton John movie, my thoughts were basically just "I guess we're going to get one of these every year now"

I saw the trailer and thought, "Well, I guess that's why they call it the blues."

i for one am psyched for the bee gees biopic starring the jonas brothers

I have had tiny dancer stuck in my head since last night. I get why these movies are made.

lol the Elton John was directed by the guy who finished Boh Rhapsody

really taking chances

shallow isn’t even a song. it only works in 20-second snippets.

what a horribly formed "song"

and BCoop was just atrocious on that duet!

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2019

I'm v happy for Colman as her performance was phenomenal but can anyone explain the rationale behind her being in the Best Actress category and Stone and Weisz being nominated for Best Supporting Actress? If anything it felt like the hierarchy of the character focus was Stone>Weisz>Colman (personally I'd put them all in the Best Actress category).

"I always have tremendous success when I go off the teleprompter--my staff loves it, and I say great things."

I'm v happy for Colman as her performance was phenomenal but can anyone explain the rationale behind her being in the Best Actress category and Stone and Weisz being nominated for Best Supporting Actress? If anything it felt like the hierarchy of the character focus was Stone>Weisz>Colman (personally I'd put them all in the Best Actress category).

― Fetchboy

The politics of securing a nomination. Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortenson had equal screen time.

xp Colman's character is the focal point of The Favourite, and even though they were all leading actresses, they can't put all three of them in the same category. It would've also looked weird to put Stone & Weisz in different categories, obviously fitting to have them competing in the same category as they do in the movie. in other words, arbitrary bs

what alfred said. this happens almost every year.

she was the queen

Stone>Weisz>Colman

This is correct, and they should have shared one prize, but the split meant we got a solo Colman speech

there is no sharing in Awardsland

except for

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/23/Snow_white_oscars.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070514184105

and Ving Rhames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU

green book sequel gotta be viggo mortensen & mahershala ali driving thru the south to collect all the other colored books to complete the infinity gauntlet

— Desus Nice (@desusnice) February 25, 2019

Trevor Noah told a joke to South Africa

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/oscars/the-best-joke-at-this-years-oscars-was-a-hidden-one/

I've met Olivia Colman and she is indeed lovely btw

(I never get to name-drop; let me have this one)

it is a good one

the ones you usually see are not but this is

im fine w green book winning best pic tho also the oscars are trash overall~

A Quiet Place was really robbed.

― piscesx, Monday, February 25, 2019 5:46 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And Hereditary!!!

yes Hereditary deserved recognition

A Quiet Place would sweep the Razzies in a just world

So, does anyone actually like Green Book? I don't mean on ILX, but rather anyone, anywhere? To date, I've seen only one semi-positive review, and the reviewer was very upfront about how the movie is a schmaltzy, likely problematic white liberal fantasy that he found sorta entertaining despite his better instincts. Like, if Roma or Bohemian Rhapsody or A Star is Born had one, I'd get it; the former is a critical hit and the latter two were big crowd pleasers that clicked with audiences (particularly ones of a certain age). I don't even know who the audience for Green Book is supposed to be.

*had WON

i havent seen a anything about whether its good or bad thats not how we grade movies now

David Edelstein's review is basically positive.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/11/green-book-spoon-feeds-you-but-it-goes-down-easy.html

The thing that's really interesting there is the update at the end--before his Bertolucci controversy.

Pretty sure I won't ever see Green Book, much as I like Ali. Just not my kind of film--if I ever do, it'll be solely because of him. (I was going to say that "not my kind of film" applied to most of the winners this century, but, checking, turns out I've seen all but five or six--including The Artist, where I should have trusted the loud voice in my head screaming stay away.)

Ali is the only reason I'd ever see it as well (though I likely won't). It certainly isn't because I want a lecture on race relations from the director of Dumb and Dumber.

green book has a few good jokes that i laughed at, but its take on race relations is cringeworthy

Driving Miss Daisy, which gets shit for winning, is a far better picture.

This seemed calculated to annoy people

what, ILX?

My understanding is that the move to more than 5 Best Picture nominees created a ranked choice type situation where the "least objectionable" movie had a good shot at winning, even if it was no one's favorite movie. Basically it's a consensus pick. There is also a narrative that there was an anti-Roma (the front runner going into the ceremony) insurgency because of its Netflix affiliation.

^sounds right to me (although it surprises me that Green Book was the least objectionable)

that last paragraph of edelstein's review was really bad

and the first part of the review didn't seem like a convincing endorsement of the movie, either

So, does anyone actually like Green Book? I don't mean on ILX, but rather anyone, anywhere?

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko)

old white people

hmmm i wonder how it won best picture

AV Club post-Oscars take seems to be relatively common:

To these eyes, Green Book isn’t an awful film. Both of the lead performances, by Viggo Mortensen and newly minted two-time Best Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali, are more nuanced than they had to be. And as a longtime Farrelly brothers fan, I’ll personally admit that I found it a little amusing to see a standard, self-congratulatory Hollywood social-issues movie with a main character broad and goofy enough to have appeared in, say, Kingpin. Hell, it’s probably not even the bottom of the 2019 Best Picture barrel; that dishonor is reserved for Bohemian Rhapsody, a glorified parody of biopic clichés—an accidental Walk Hard—trying to pass itself off as the real thing. But if Green Book wasn’t the worst of the eight films up, it was almost certainly the most retrograde, in its ideas and filmmaking. You watch it and think, “I thought we had moved past this sort of thing”—a dismayingly common sentiment in 2019.

"You watch it and think, “I thought we had moved past this sort of thing”—a dismayingly common sentiment in 2019" sums it up

I liked The Root's take on it.

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/green-book-has-great-acting-a-misleading-title-and-pa-1830572839

I think it's very well shot, very funny, has a lot of great dialogue and acting and reminds me of a good odd-couple buddy flick. I also think that a lot of the racial stuff is well-meaning but deeply flawed. You can't really make a HotTakeable opinion out of that so it gets lost in the noise

There's a huge gulf between "oh-so-important racial justice tearjerker" and "white savior garbage shitshow" and the movie definitely exists in it, imo!