Oscars 2019

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

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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

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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

Yup.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ConfusedDimpledAlbatross-size_restricted.gif

Ca-poh-tay

At the very least, I'm happy that Crash's entire legacy, only a decade-and-a-half later, boils down to "Worst Best Picture Winner Ever."

I liked Phillip Seymour Hoffman's humility in his acceptance speech, that he recognized it was the role of his life and was grateful he got the opportunity

ok watching the clip again it doesn't seem at all like I remembered it, not that great, why can't these people keep it short?

ultimately I was disappointed that Heath Ledger didn't win for one of my favorite performances ever

Good Will Hunting was much more frightening than The Silence of the Lambs

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

That's not Elizabeth Berridge! BANG

Good Will Hunting was much more frightening than The Silence of the Lambs

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 22, 2019 7:35 PM (three minutes ago)

lol

certainly Matt Damon and Robin Williams seemed more like cannibals than that squishy little Welshman

The best/worst thing I can say about GWH, 20 years later, is that I remember so little of it.

http://metrograph.com/uploads/films/image-1-1528474415-726x388.jpg

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some mashed potatoes and a nice feckin' Guinness."

I just read the new Williams bio, and I believe he throttled Damon so hard in one scene he drew blood. Oscar for that!

Well, no, he didnt finish the job

Also:

Matt Damon after 2002 >>>>>>> Robin Williams film career

one of the friends I watch films with thinks that Matt Damon is completely personality-free, but in my opinion his Brett Kavanaugh impersonation on SNL disproves that.

I think that distinction goes to Ryan Gosling. As much as I like his musical talent I'm still waiting for him to show us who he is. I know the role called for it to some extent, but he was such a zombie in First Man

very strange cutoff, Alfred, as the best performance Damon ever gave was in Gerry (2002). Only his Scott Thorson comes close. (I didn't see any of that Bourne shit.)

I include Gerry, Morbs. There and in the Bourne films he learned to use his blankness for comic or creepy effect.

Time to drop Stanley Donen into the end of that obit reel and piss off all the Burt Reynolds fans.

ah yes, the core audience for stuntman and alligator-wrestling movies from 40 years ago have been clutching their hankies to their faces for six months, waiting breathlessly to see an photo of an old man in a thick salt & pepper wig appear for 0.8 seconds, three hours into a TV show of people they’ve never heard of giving speeches about their children

Damon’s blankness is totally weaponised in The Informant! btw. The entire film is built on his endless layers of affectless cover being peeled away to reveal even greater inscrutability beneath.

i'd really like to snog him.

sic, have u heard Oscar fallout before, cuz that's all true

I guess I'm comfortable with these predictions, and god have mercy on our souls.

all to be blessedly forgotten by Thursday

Just when will it be Amy Adams's year?!

She's pretty good. Why is she entitled to win when Garbo never did?

she should've won in 2005 and that's that

it’s true, 2005 was garbo’s year and everyone knew it