but yes, it is funny.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
It's perfectly okay to say Get Out does many things right and wittily, is not a great film, yet deserves to win anyway.
yeah PT is a better movie but GO winning would be more fun
― Simon H., Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
yep
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link
well, PT winning would be more excellent fun.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
the kinda fun I hate. xp
I'm soooo glad Charles Burnett and Melvin van Peebles remain unknowns while cinematic neophytes are blazing Oscar trails
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
the kinda fun I hate
Oh, so everything.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
btw isn't You Can't Take It With You too *screwball* for you?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
well yeah we can only have one kind of black filmmaker, right?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
still, the BP tabulation method is fucking insane, eliminating low finishers and crediting 2nd/3rd place votes til one gets over 50%?
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
The most obvious downside for something like an award I guess is you can potentially pick a winner that a majority weakly support rather than one a plurality strongly support. (Whereas this is potentially desirable in a political contest.)
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link
I said I can imagine and accept arguments for it being better than Grand Hotel. I didn't outline a referendum on my own taste.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
No, in 2016-17 Oscar terms, just the kind who can't do third acts.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
Whereas this is potentially desirable in a political contest.
yep, the alt-right is quakin'
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
strike that, i misinterpreted yr post
yesssss: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-get-filmmakers-played-race-card-just-sick-meryl-streep-1090440/item/best-original-screenplay-2018-brutally-honest-oscars-ballot-2-1090472?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
lmfao:
At a talkback, he [del Toro] said, “I wrote a love story because I really think that if we love each other more, it will solve a lot of the problems in the world today.” I hadn’t thought about things that way and I liked that.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link
Oscar voter unfamiliar with Buddha, Jesus, Beatles
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 07:07 (six years ago) link
In Call Me by Your Name,] one guy [Armie Hammer] comes off as a 35-year-old hitting on a 17-year-old [22-year-old Timothee Chalamet], and that just bothered me
Here's the real reason why SPC was afraid to promote this thing.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
I eliminated The Post first. To me, it was the most boring movie. I remember that era, and that Kay Graham flew in to LBJ’s parties every weekend down on his ranch — that I would have liked to have seen!
Oscar voter otm
“I wrote a love story because I really think that if we love each other more, it will solve a lot of the problems in the world today.”
Please let be mixing up del Toro and Tommy Wiseau.
― jmm, Saturday, 3 March 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
oldman was dreadful to the point of surrealism, in case anyone's been wondering.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
Like our president, say.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Would totally watch Trump in prosthetics playing Churchill.
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
I'd watch him prosthetics playing Trump.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
watching the audience react to darkest hour was a hundred times more alienating and baffling than the 2016 election
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
Mayfair showing pretty muted. Where did you see it?
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
i'm in hawaii. muted is what i'm complaining about: you wait for the raucous laughter and it never comes
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
Ah, I see. Over here I'd heard report of rounds of applause at the end and the like, which was what I failed to experience.
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
a lot of impressed and moved talk in the lobby afterwards; the worst thing you can get anyone to say about it is that the movie isn't as good as oldman's performance, when in fact they are exactly suited for each other
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
anyway, sobering (in that interview) to see streep-sickness finally afflict the most resilient among us.
"i loved get out until its creators claimed it was about race" is presumably the premise of get out 2
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
That left it down to Darkest Hour and The Shape of Water.
OK, time to shuffle off the mortal voter roll.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Just heard the crazy system for voting best picture, which I guess takes into account second and third and so on choices (I think). Maybe this was on NPR? Anyway, they sort of theorized that Dunkirk and Get Out had the best underdog chances, because they were the most liked and made the most money so would perhaps appear on enough ballots in second or third (or first) place to get enough total votes to win.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Also, had two (female) friends of mine wonder if they would have liked Call Me By Your Name (which they loved) as much if it was set in Indiana and not Italy.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
a lake house in Indianapolis, say.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
I'm ruling Dunkirk out on the basis of most Academy members viewing these films on screeners (and, as someone commented here, probably doing sudoku at the same time).
Call Me By Your Name feels like a good outside bet to me.
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Yeah a preferential ballot is crazy, Oscars should use a good rational voting system like the Electoral College
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
no shot for CMBYN as bp: we did gay last year
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Nah.
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
roughly i think the odds are
3 Billboards 40%Shape 35%Lady Bird 15%Get Out 10%
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
CMBYN is also probably the least watched of any of the nominees
― jmm, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Get Out? Surely the voters will think they did black last year ;)
xpost
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
that's different.
has 538 weighed in?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
rly can't see get out winning, despite its being well-positioned to sneak in. the anthony lane review wrung its hands over the movie supposedly proposing we "cannot live together". imagine how oscar voters feel.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Academy kremlinology feels more fun than ever this year. One thing I always want to know (so much I just asked my first ever Quora question about it, to zero response):
Someone, at some point, tabulates the votes and knows what came second, how big the margin was etc. Does this knowledge go to their graves, or is it preserved in some secret Academy archive vault? I'd love it if after 50 years or whatever, this information was released.
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
Call Me stands the least chance in hell of winning.
It's The Shape of Water, Three Billboards, or Get Out. If TB wins Best Screenplay early, start pouring drinks.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
So, am I crazy for predicting Lady Bird, as I did when my parents asked a while back?
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Not gonna happen.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
that oscar voter "eliminated" an awful lot of movies despite it being a preferential voting system.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Three Billboards is gonna sweep isn't it, although i think Greta is an outside shout for Director.
This can't have hurt
https://subscription-assets.timeinc.com/current/1850_top1_205_thumb.jpg
― piscesx, Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
Watched Pan's Labyrinth with my wife and older daughter last night. They both loved it, and boy is that movie better than Shape of Water. (And yeah, Del Toro really likes stabbing and shooting people in the face). As my daughter (who has not seen SoW) astutely observed, the horrific sadistic violence in Pan's at least makes thematic sense because its perpetrated by horrific sadistic capital F fascists in the midst of fascist Spain, not gratuitously in some government facility in '50s Baltimore or wherever by an inexplicable psychopath.
(Had to look it up, and Pan's lost best foreign film to The Lives of Others, which is fair enough. But had it been nominated for Best Picture, as it might of, say, this year, it sure would have beat the fucking Departed.)
Over dinner last night my wife, who had gone running that morning and talked Oscars with her pals, stated "Boy, no one likes Three Billboards, do they?" She has been tasked with bringing a dish to an Oscar theme party. She is bringing Three Cheeseboards.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Lives of Others is among the most awful of foreign film winners. Sentimental hogwash.
Why, after all these decades, are you confusing Oscar winners with quality?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link