Oscars 2019

I actually have heard zero fuss about Eighth Grade not getting nominated

I mean God knows it's better than BlackkKlansman but

I don't think any snub since Hoop Dreams failed to land a documentary nomination has compared in terms of how much blowback there was.

Eighth Grade's screenplay snub least of all.

what about Mind the Gap?

Also now streaming on PBS (after airing last night)

https://www.pbs.org/pov/mindingthegap/video-mindingthegap/

left off an -ing

I did, that is

apparently I am blissfully unaware of AA blowback, as others are of the war crimes of Democratic presidents

Yes. Blissfully unaware are we.

also, noms for a first film made by a cis straight white guy? lol

I know it’s getting hard, but do try to make some sense awhile longer

I am. not gonna amplify.

Is Whoopi Goldberg This Year’s Secret Oscar Host?

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/whoopi-goldberg-secret-oscars-host-kevin-hart-1202045303/

well they're not gonna announce Whoopi in advance

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/roman-polanski/6245219/Roman-Polanski-backlash-as-Whoopi-Goldberg-says-director-didnt-commit-rape-rape.html

false alarm, according to Joy Behar said Whoopi is recovering from pneumonia so won't be hosting

sorry *joy Behar, Whoopi...

We're calling it for Green Book: https://www.slantmagazine.com/awards/oscar-2019-winner-predictions-picture/

It'd be interesting to see Spike lose to a stodgy race-comfort-food chauffeur movie again.

Roma backlash (in addition to the Netflix one?):

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/anonymous-ballot-editing-voter-criticizes-academy-1202045610/

He was only nominated for Original Screenplay in ‘89, where Daisy won for Adapted.

(He definitely doesn’t deserve to win Picture this year, but would have above the field in 1989. Don’t worry, he lost to a towering monument to white privilege anyway.)

I know, but he was sitting there watching DMD win.

it seemed like seething contempt at the time, before we had three decades of photos of him sitting with the same expression at basketball games

was traumatised by Eric's post until I clicked through to be reminded about McDormand winning for some dumb racist nonsense last year

well Green Book would join the list of Best Pictures i will never see (Gump, Gladiator, Beautiful Mind)

covering '89-films to now, I've not seen Miss Daisy, Silence Of The Lambs, Schindler's List, Gump, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, The Departed, Slumdog Millionaire, The King's Speech, The Artist, 12 Years A Slave or Spotlight. There are two in there that I can imagine it's possible I'd ever see.

silence of the lambs and the departed are great. spotlight is good. Burn the rest

spotlight is mediocre. artless. like a made for tv thing. no stellar performances either.

Silence is one of the maybes, if it was on a big screen as part of a Demme retrospective or s/t. I still feel I saw enough of it re-enacted by kids at school, let alone years of parodies, that I've basically watched it three times.

The Departed has DiCaprio and Nicholson and Wahlberg and Baldwin: even if it wasn't a remake of something I've seen, that's too much waddling masculinity in one movie. (DiCaprio alone is usually too much.)

covering '89-films to now, I've not seen Miss Daisy, Silence Of The Lambs, Schindler's List, Gump, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, The Departed, Slumdog Millionaire, The King's Speech, The Artist, 12 Years A Slave or Spotlight. There are two in there that I can imagine it's possible I'd ever see

Just out of morbid curiosity, you clicked on a thread with Oscars in the title why?

Silence Of The Lambs - great flick, it has a singularly creepy vibe to it that goes well beyond the Lecter scenes and has so much to do with Demme's skillful framing even in the most innocuous scenes.
Schindler's List - I still think this is pretty amazing when it's in its peak moments but Spielberg's corny moments towards the end are a bit cheap, and I'm not a fan of a couple of his suspenseful bits in the middle of the horror.
Gump - complete trash
Braveheart - great battle scenes, the best parts beyond those scenes involve Robert the Bruce and his dad. The rest of it is pretty dumb.
The English Patient - I think the performances are all good (Fiennes, Thomas, Binoche, Dafoe, Andrews, Firth) and it's better than its rep as the Fargo-trouncing Oscar bait would have you believe. It's not special or anything however...
Titanic - Good spectacle, decent structure, bad script.
Gladiator - mostly awful, however as a side note Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut) is the real deal when it comes to Ridley Scott's run of medieval/ancient world battle flicks.
A Beautiful Mind - never saw it, why would i
Million Dollar Baby - blah
Crash - fuck this
The Departed - clearly it's not a very personal Scorsese film and Nicholson loses the plot halfway through, but he makes it work. The masculinity shit is there but it's frequently shot down so to speak. It's the best of the Boston movies in recent years. Baldwin is actually funny and Wahlberg is the same, this is maybe the last time these guys were in a film where they were not just tolerable but good.
Slumdog Millionaire - eh
The King's Speech - no
The Artist - I liked the OSS films from this director but this is a hard pass
12 Years A Slave - It's fine
Spotlight - I always forget this won, it's ok.

yah I love Baldwin in 30 Rock, and he was good in the recent Missions Impossible; Wahlberg was great in Boogie Nights, The Big Hit, and Three Kings. they're both terrible humans though and most of their 21st century work is gross

Just out of morbid curiosity, you clicked on a thread with Oscars in the title why?

a friend and I used to watch the Oscars and Globes with pizza and champagne every year bcz they're dumb and fun to not take seriously; I never bothered to get involved in office sweeps, and stopped even paying attention to nominations once they stopped showing the ceremony on free--to-air.

a huge part of what makes the Oscars the Oscars is that the "big" categories are voted on by old dumb rich idiots; what wins best picture usually reflects this more than any marker of inherent must-watch quality. if The Favourite wins this year I'll be very pleased for it. if Roma wins I'll figure that was a reasonable result all things considered. if Green Book wins I'll be appalled for exactly three seconds, and then never care about it again. (if BlackKklansman wins, I'll shit myself with surprise and die. everything else nominated sucks afaict but so do most winners, let alone annual nominations!)

otm about Baldwin, tho I've enjoyed Wahlberg in comedies a lot more than cop procedurals/war porn.

Spotlight is totally a TV movie but it is good. Pretty funny how Michael Keaton picks up the phone at the end and says "Spotlight" like he's getting the fucking bat signal.

i forget Baldwin was in the last couple MI flicks, he's good in those.

i agree with omar's entire rundown, except that Spotlight was quite good not just okay

Spotlight is perfectly fine. I like it better than at least half of the BP winners from '89-present.

spotlight is mediocre. artless. like a made for tv thing. no stellar performances either.

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, February 22, 2019

Nonsense, and lots of TV movies are excellent in the 2000s.

I ranked the 2010 winners.

I saw The Silence of the Lambs again last week. Otm about Demme's framing and editing choices even when the introduction of Lecter and his fellow prisoners in hell is way overstated (the music, the antics). There are a couple car sequences with Starling and Jack Crawford that are small treasures of sexual and professional tension.

spotlight is mediocre. artless. like a made for tv thing. no stellar performances either.

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, February 22, 2019

Nonsense, and lots of TV movies are excellent in the 2000s.

― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 22, 2019 12:31 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like a bad one from the 90s then

Nah. The procedural grind of journalism was caught without sentimentality. If Mark Ruffalo hadn't been allowed to huff and puff and blow the newspaper down, it'd be a minor masterpiece.

ruffalo is bad, but so is the script

No one needs to watch any of these, but ...

Worth The Watch
The Silence Of The Lambs
Schindler's List
Titanic
The Departed

No Need To Watch But Up To You
Forrest Gump
The English Patient
Million Dollar Baby
Slumdog Millionaire
12 Years A Slave
Spotlight

Do Not Watch
Braveheart
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
The King's Speech
The Artist

Burn
Crash

Burn
Crash

I see what you did there

http://i.imgur.com/1tFLZMR.gif

Spotlight really is a very good film.

too...brute for singing

^another inscrutable Alfred post ;)

of the Best Picture awards of the last 30 years, Silence of the Lambs and Moonlight were the ones I really enjoyed seeing win

see the above gif for the answer

ok lol. I remember liking Amadeus in 1985. I wonder what I would think about it today

Alfred's obsession with the biggest, fattest fuck from Amadeus is one of his selling points that I'm here for.

of the Best Picture awards of the last 30 years, Silence of the Lambs and Moonlight were the ones I really enjoyed seeing win

I loved seeing the thin-gruel noir of L.A. Confidential and especially the no-homo emo bullshit of Good Will Hunting stand absolutely no chance against Titanic.

The worst noir (which L.A. Confidential isn't) is better than the best disaster flick (which Titanic isn't).

Alfred's obsession with the biggest, fattest fuck from Amadeus is one of his selling points that I'm here for.

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, February 22, 2019 9:16 PM

https://media1.giphy.com/media/2lNJQ6Q3DK7hC/source.gif

lol

someone important to me was thrilled by Titanic, my love for him made me love the film

biggest disappointment was Crash. after Ang Lee won best director I was really hoping that Brokeback Mountain would win. even Jack Nicholson looked dismayed when he announced the winner