Maybe he's one of the few remaining people who think that winning an Oscar, unlike the rest of that Foxcatcher trophy room junk, still actually means something.
― Eric H., Monday, 23 February 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Not saying he's right, necessarily.
preeeeeetty ironic for fennessey to call redmayne's reaction to redmayne's victory "ghastly and exaggerated"
― da croupier, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
We loathe most that which we see in ourselves.
― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 February 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
thought the speech was great (though I'd have guessed him mid 20s tbh)
― rip van wanko, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Rich Juzwiak, in the comment section of his Graham Moore/"I'm Not Gay" piece:
"This is like Dumbledore in reverse."
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 February 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
could you go out on whatever it takes?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 23, 2015 2:12 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This writing borders on hate crime.
― Eric H., Monday, February 23, 2015 3:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fixed that for you
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Monday, 23 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/movies/awardsseason/oscars-show-growing-gap-between-moviegoers-and-academy.html?_r=0
Summary: Oscars are elitist because American Sniper didn't win Best Picture. No, this isn't Fox News.
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
Not gonna bother reading the article, but fwiw, with the exception of Hurt Locker, Birdman is the lowest grossing best picture adjusted for inflation since Marty in 1955.
http://news.moviefone.com/2015/02/23/lowest-grossing-best-picture-winners-oscars/#slide=3358693
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
(Still kind of amazing how singularly low Hurt Locker's gross actually is among best picture winners, adjusted or otherwise. That's a record that's likely to never be toppled.)
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
or by Ava DuVernay's next one? (how about an a-g James Baldwin biopic)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
hurt locker overearned
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I was gonna say: before AS went wide The Grand Budapest Hotel was top grossing nominee. Meanwhile The Imitation Game has quietly and consistently hung around the lower reaches of the top ten and made $85 million..
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
Saw a recap of all the speechifying last night, and piscesx is right, probably more than ever before. I didn't really notice because everything said was what everyone wanted to hear. The famous '70s equivalents--Brando, Bert Schneider, Vanessa Redgrave--were greeted by waves of hostility.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:39 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-nkLmyVIAA5upx.png:large
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Yes
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
100% agreed
― DJP, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
nerdz
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
let he who is without hit points cast the first d20
― DJP, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Redmayne was excellent in Theory of Everything, as was Felicity Jones, but they and the cinematography were the only good things about it. Even at 2 hours it seemed cursory and shallow.
― akm, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Redmayne was excellent. Jones was paint-peelingly boring.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. She was the only nominee who wasn't even praised a little and disappeared from all mention.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
So who's winning? My money is on Birdman.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
It certainly has the profile of a best picture winner.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Emmanuel Lubezki is an excellent cinematographer; I wonder if he'll ever win an Oscar for a non-stunt.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Stunts or no, he should have won for Tree of Life or Children of Men. Or The New World.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
well, Gordon Willis was only nominated for Zelig and The Godfather Part III. That's right, no Pakulas, no Gf i/ii, no Manhattan.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Angelina POW movie will win.
see u in Feb.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 15, 2014 5:19 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
anyway never doubt the milquetoast taste of TIFF audiences, The Imitation Game is totally taking this
― Simon H., Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:41 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
honest question: is birdman winning better or worse than either of those predicted outcomes (one of which wasn't even possible)?
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
i think Birdman is about as shitty as TIG
All things are possible, my son.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
marginally better probably, though I'm not a fan (didn't see either of the other ones lol)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Even second-rate work from the man rightfully cited by last Sunday's best director winner as the preeminent artist working in mainstream films is by default better than most other alternatives.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
(I def hold Lubezki's artistry above practically every director currently working.)
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
best part of the oscars
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/02/23/henry_hobson_interview_meet_the_man_behind_the_oscars_beautiful_animated.html
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
― Eric H.,
didn't know he liked Clint Eastwood
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
ok, tho i don't know how you compare people who have different job descrips, especially when we don't know what cinematography is, precisely, from film to film [sic] in the digital age.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
xxp i was looking at those during the show and being like "these are amazing," followed by "oh god does flipping out over graphic design this mean i've worked in marketing way too fucking long?"
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
*like this
also in part from working in Times Square for 4 years, I found very little of Birdman "beautiful."
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
I've never thought to myself Lubezki's contributions to any given movie made them markedly worse.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
I walked on Birdman after 30 mins and still liked it more that TIG which I sat thru b/c companions
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
we never got into the weirdly condescending NPHarris bit with Oyelowo reading a joke in His Classy Accent but we don't have to.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
one of many weird and uncomfortable audience interaction moments
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
there wasn't one good joke
― goole, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
NPH was legit worse than Franco/Hathaway. Worse than Letterman.
Tho not worse than Billy Crystal, mercifully.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Letterman wasn't bad.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Honestly, tho, I'm glad for it. NPH's armor was due for a little tarnish.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius),
I thought you couldn't watch it
got a feed, how do you think i was on this thread commenting smartguy
NPH's "armor," oh so mighty. i'm glad i have concrete reasons to actively dislike his boring ass now. (yeah, go ahead)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Man, maybe I do need to actually watch this whole thing if it turns out that NPH was worse than Franco and Hathaway. Kinda feel like I need to witness that kind of trainwreck myself.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Letterman was probably the best host of the last 25 years btw cuz he turned the shit into an episode of his show.
He wasn't worse than Franco and Hathaway. Terrence Howard wouldn't have been worse than Franco and Hathaway.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link