true to form the Academy nominated the least interesting combination.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
Absofuckinglutely.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
btw all you people going, "You know, my girl/boyfriend are catching up on Oscar movies and are gonna give Foxcatcher a chance," I'm warning you now.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Carell, Cooper, Cumberbatch, Keaton, Redmayne
vs.
Fiennes, Gyllenhaal, Oyelowo, Spall
You could put literally anyone in the latter group -- Wahlberg in Transformers, McConaughey in Interstellar, Sorbo in God's Not Dead -- to bring it up to five and it would still be unquestionably the better group.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
forgot about wahlberg, intense perf
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/53b0f1bceab8ea2863981c82/mark-wahlberg-running-transformers-4.gif
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Jon Langford in Revenge of the Mekons
xp
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Beautiful shot.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Enough of a rooting interest for the Boyhood categories and Citizenfour that I'll probably watch a little more of the show than usual. Very disappointed that Yo La Tengo's 40 seconds in Boyhood doesn't qualify anywhere--Best Wim Wenders Imitation or something.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 January 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
http://graphics.latimes.com/oscar-nominees-2015/
Observers were quick to point out that the 87th Academy Award nominees lack racial diversity. All the finalists in the best actor and supporting actor categories are white. “Birdman” director Alejandro Inarritu is the only non-white nominee in the best director category.
The lack of diversity prompted the hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite on Twitter. An L.A. Times study in 2012 revealed that 94% of Oscar voters who choose the nominees were white and 77% male. Blacks represented 2% of the academy while Latinos were even fewer.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
As was widely expected, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced a slate of Best Picture nominees on Thursday morning that have gone largely unseen by general moviegoers so far.
Ahead of nominations, the eight movies nominated for Best Picture had earned a combined $203.1 million. That's the lowest total since the Academy expanded the field beyond five nominees—and by a large margin, too. The previous low was 2011, when the movies had earned a combined $519 million ahead of nominations.
The highest-grossing Best Picture nominee this year is The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is writer/director Wes Anderson's biggest movie ever with $59.1 million. Budapest opened back in March—a few weeks after last year's Oscar ceremony—and is already available to watch on HBO. Therefore, don't expect any kind of serious theatrical re-release here.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 January 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
At least now everyone can see the expansion experiment was a total failure.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Friday, 16 January 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Cranky old Bob Lefsetz was ranting that the Oscars are out of touch with real people like him who uh, just watch Breaking Bad and stuff and don't go to the movies.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
ignoring Interstellar, Lego, Guardians, Gone Girl.. yeah i'd say that was out of touch. i guess they've been through this a few times before; the late 60s, the mid 80s etc. i recall hearing that the nod/s for Beverly Hills Cop in 84 were a sop to more populist movies. obviously the massively out of touch late 60s era is documented in that Pictures At A Revolution book. for it to be *news* everywhere, that the Oscars are now so bland and uniform really does 'The Academy' no favours.
― piscesx, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
ignoring Interstellar, Lego, Guardians, Gone Girl.. yeah i'd say that was out of touch.
Maybe you'd like them to nominate the box-office chart so they'd be even more like the fucking Grammys.
Interstellar was shit btw, tech nominations are more than enough for that geekwank.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
15 nominations btwn Budapest and Boyhood is about as "in touch" as they get from my POV
can we plz throw "populist" in the goddamn garbage can re film, music etc
that shit is populAR
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
The lack of anything egregiously Blind Side-esque in the best picture noms is kinda heartening.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
The Lego Movie and Gone Girl were critical hits, bub.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah not enough for me to see em tho
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Let a little populism into your life, Morbs.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
It would be nice for them to recognise that making a Marvel blockbuster as witty and imaginative as GotG is harder than making a solid biopic of a troubled Brit scientist but that will never happen.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Unusually good year for big box-office movies. At least half of these got great reviews:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2014
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah Re-Model, Stranger by the Lake was also eligible, so talk to the hand.
http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/2014_reminder_list.pdf
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Someone should add up the total cost of, say, those top 20 movies. And then we can all barf together as one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, January 15, 2015 4:35 PM
even punch up with Eisenberg in Night Moves
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Sez you.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
that Mr. Peabody & Sherman gross proves that brats and their parents will watch anything
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Just for the sake of argument, here's my subjective list of the 2014 movies that made over $50M that based on critical/popular reception would not be incredibly outlandish to consider as best picture nominees:
4 The LEGO Movie WB $257,760,692 3,890 $69,050,279 3,775 2/7 9/415 Interstellar Par. $185,136,958 3,561 $47,510,360 3,561 11/5 -17 Gone Girl Fox $167,210,252 3,284 $37,513,109 3,014 10/3 -25 Into the Woods BV $107,130,087 2,833 $31,051,923 2,440 12/25 -53 The Grand Budapest Hotel FoxS $59,100,318 1,467 $811,166 4 3/7 8/
In other words, the Academy basically did just about all they could this year frankly.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
On which chart is The Judge
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
You're half right. Unfortunately, they don't let you leave little kids alone at the movies; it's a bigger scam than 3D. Fortunately, my kids had no interest in seeing this, though that has no bearing on their brattiness.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
if anything i thought parents wd drag the kids to that under the delusion it wd be like the early '60s toons.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.oscars.org/about/join-academy
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/02/oscar-voters-meet-the-academys-youngest-members.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
That's the thing that I found really weird about the Peabody & Sherman movie -- not even the parents of today's kids grew up with Rocky & Bullwinkle. I mean, I saw it once in a while the Bozo Show, but it wasn't a cherished childhood memory.
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
You're gonna love the upcoming Kukla, Fran & Ollie CGI snarkfest.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
If they made an "iPad: The Movie," it would top the box office for months.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnoLmCqT30
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
The Force Majeure director reaction video has to be a stunt, right?
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Friday, 16 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTWqLmnjt0
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Friday, 16 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
i have not seen the movie but as i gather it's kind of a black comedy this could be a gag on their part
then again, europeans (and most directors really) Take Their Shit Very Seriously
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
wait so how bad is that Sherman & Peabody movie they are showing it as a $1 night movie at my kid's elementary school on Friday night
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
fwiw I have never understood why those original R&B cartoons were considered good/funny
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
oh u r lucky i don't FP
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
kinda bewildered by the idea that the "parents of today's kids" didn't grow up w/ rocky and bullwinkle because it was always on when i was a kid on at least one channel, it's like the law&order of kids' shows. maybe that's not the case anymore but it sure was in the late 80s/early 90s.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Born 1975. Did not grow up watching R&B, though I was at least aware of it. But no, not even the barest tinge of nostalgia when that Peabody movie came out. At least no more than when this popped up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-pqvOPnNEk
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
And this was 20 years ago!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Morbs:
http://thesciencedog.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/strawman-full.jpg
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
that wasnt me
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Born in 1969 and I watched R&B like a motherfucker when I was a kid. I have them on DVD and everything.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Rocky And Bullwinkle was on kids Tv a fair bit in the 80s in the UK iirc.
― piscesx, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
i want Shakey to clarify if he didnt think the Bullwinkle cartoons were funny, or just the Peabody ones, so we know how much of a tar base we need for the feathers.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link