really liked Apollo 11, thought it should have been nominated
― Dan S, Monday, 13 January 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
Scarlett Johannson's two acting nominations is the first since Blanchett more than a decade ago
― Dan S, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
and she'll lose both like Blanchett, Emma Thompson, and Sigourney Weaver.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
it's interesting that she's just now been nominated for the first time
― Dan S, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:17 (four years ago) link
well Under the Skin way too chilly to garner gold
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
Julie Strain, Statuesque Star of B-Movies, Dies at 57.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-strain-dead-statuesque-star-b-movies-was-57-1168492
― nickn, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
will not make the death reel
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
FLORENCE PUGH, Little Women = fuck Trump
Almost want to make that my next screenname.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6772-oscar-shut-outs-and-silver-linings
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
haha, that link makes it clear that Julie Strain is not in fact dead.
― akm, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
E & E are back with their prognostickery
https://www.slantmagazine.com/category/awards/
I still suspect best doc feature will go to the Obamas' prod co (American Factory)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that was my initial hunch but Ed won me over.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
that Ed! ;)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
Honestly the Baseball HoF method wouldnβt be a bad way to approach Best Picture for the Oscars. 10 year wait after release, films remain eligible for 10 years and then after they are null, films have to get 70% of the vote in order to join the Oscar Pantheon.— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) January 24, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
Nah, by the time they start marketing, Disney will have already pulled the movie from release in order to replace it with the remake.
― I Heard You Ain't HOOS's (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
A movie hall of fame somehow seems to make more sense to me than a rock & roll hall of fame, somebody should get on that
― silverfish, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
and by movie hall of fame, I mean a hall of fame for movies, not for actors, directors, etc.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
I guess the closest equivalent would be the National Film Registry.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
The Academy museum will serve the space function once it opens.
― I Heard You Ain't HOOS's (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
I mean, there's always the Victorville Film Archive.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
2019's Oscar Nominees
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Sunday, 2 February 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
I liked Uncut Gems as much as any movie I saw last year, but I love Uhlich slashing and burning even more.
https://letterboxd.com/keithuhlich/list/for-whom-the-zell-tolls-or-i-ren-i-ren-so/
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
was gonna post for the Tarantella take
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
...but not in this thread
Feel free to lard up as many threads with it as you can.
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
There's a lot of ham in that post.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
he's right about that last shot in OUATIH.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
That's kind of who/how he is IRL too, and I dig it.
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
Shutout for Little Women, The Irishman and Marriage Story? won't watch
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
Respectively: costumes, nada bing nada boom, and Dern.
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
oh yeah her
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
"Duplasses on amphetamines" is only accurate as a description of the Safdies in that they are both sets of brothers who make movies.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
yeah, based on uncut gems, safdies are infinity more talented
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
I think even the Duplasses would admit it.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
not sure how much of his argument about the Africa prologue i concur with -- but wd be good to post in UG thread
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
This line is dreadful too:
The film's sins are legion, though high on my personal list of offenses is the Brothers's hiring of one of the great modern DPs, Darius Khondji, to do what effectively amounts to a Sean Price Williams impersonation.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
because...? I don't happen to agree, but I don't think it's dreadful.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
An anonymous actress weighs in...
Little Women was badly acted and confusing, and I have no idea why they cast four British actresses to play American girls. [Emma Watson and Florence Pugh are British, but Saoirse Ronan is Irish-American, and Eliza Scanlen is Australian.] And every time they said they were poor, I gagged β they're living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.
Oh my god...
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
And they're not very little!
― nickn, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
of course she's a big Inglourious Mansons fan
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
now now
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
So for me, it was between [Pain and Glory's] Antonio Banderas and [Joker's] Joaquin Phoenix, and I had to go with Joaquin because that is a performance that sticks in your mind. Antonio's was much more subtle and poignant; Joaquin hit it out of the park.
There you go, she decided me.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
de Niro (subtle) and Sandler (not) robbed by this floozie
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
I've now come to accept "Brutally Honest Oscar Voter" as "Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote On Dog Catcher."
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 05:04 (four years ago) link
And every time they said they were poor, I gagged β they're living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.
All that statement proves is that America is actually worse now than when young girls regularly died of scarlet fever.
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
Parasite is beautifully done, but it didn't hold up the second time, and I don't think foreign films should be nominated with the regular films.
I liked 1917 and Sam Mendes' direction, but I thought Quentin did a great job, and I want an American director to win.
I won't vote for [Harriet's] Cynthia Erivo because I think that they should have gotten an American actress to play Harriet [Tubman], not an English actress.
I didn't know Hedda Hopper was still alive.
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 05:15 (four years ago) link
MOGA
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
this could be Jeff Wells in drag
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
Iβve come to terms with the fact that I will never understand the preoccupation with Manson etc.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n lΓ‘imh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
way to break precedent by not bumping this thread
haven't seen a minute of this
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link