don't say that to David Ehrenstein!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
I'm 63. I loved Get Out. Whatever that means.
― banjoboy, Thursday, 22 February 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
jed, do you know what the exclusive meaning of "confirmed bachelor" was in the mid-20th century?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
It meant “hungry boy,” iirc
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
lol
I was finally able to see Lady Bird on its return to a local theater and I'm going to be angry if it gets shut out
I don't need to see this Three Billboards crap to be justifiably angry at it for getting nominations, right?
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
it is very bad
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
I never saw Crash for similar reasons, but is it Crash levels of bad
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
not quite, but it nearly reaches crash levels of hamfistedness
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
There is no such thing as Crash-level badness. Only Crash has ever been that bad.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Monday, 26 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
Three Billboards is its own level of badness.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
The CMBYN Talking Heads t shirt having a picture from 1984 despite the film being set in 1983.. i mean come on costume bloke/lady jeez. Maybe i like film too much and i'm just nitpicking but i mean if it was the wrong Bob Dylan photo or some such we'd never hear the last of it.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
you're just nitpicking
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link
i love when the anonymous Oscar voters call Dunkirk confusing just to remind us they're in their 70s and watched it on their couch while doing a sudoku— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) February 28, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
finally getting to watch Dunkirk the way it was intended to be seen pic.twitter.com/vSqGquIMs4— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) December 20, 2017
― mh, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
two hilarious tweets, nice
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
btw Ed G went gonzo at Slant today and picks Metcalf to take supp actress.
Any chance Jerry Lewis wins the obit montage? Didn't check any of the necrologies.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
I'm hoping we get a Rylance-type surprise -- anything
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
I agreed with Ed's feelings on this one. And tomorrow's.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
http://theweek.com/articles/756341/why-years-best-picture-race-total-crapshoot
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
it turns out i'll be watching at my friend's house (with his son who went to HS with Chalamet), so i don't need pool picks.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
xp that sums up the problem with awards like the Oscars in a nutshell, along with some of the interviews with anonymous voters I've read: people vote for whatever film they feel is "the type of movie that wins Oscars"
it's almost as bad as the thought process that leads producers to demand things get include in high budget films because they're elements needed in blockbusters
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
So, Beatty and Dunaway take two for best picture, eh?
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
:o
if so it's gonna be heavily scripted comedy
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Slant BP pick strikes me as "wishful." (Kinda like Ed's RussiaRussiaRussia doc feature pick, but I think he's got the mindset right there.)
https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/oscar-2018-winner-predictions-picture
"politically acute genre miscegenation" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
that's a lot of adjectives to live down
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
if Slant's picks prove correct and Get Out were to win ONLY Best Picture, it will be interpreted by many as a supreme act of tokenism.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
xps go to bed, old man.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
And you're damned right it'll be tokenism. Until every category gets the ranked-choice treatment.
what's the fewest Oscars a BP has ever won?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
I think Grand Hotel won just the one.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Plus The Broadway Melody and Mutiny on the Bounty
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
In modern times, Spotlight only one two.
wow. 3 movies that have aged about as well as the hamfisted, evasive third act of Get Out will. xp
"politically acute genre miscalculation" works for me btw
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
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Wow. That's dark, Alfred.
― Frederik B, Friday, 2 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
I coined the term "genre miscegenation" with you in mind, as the very thing that irks Oscar voters' Ernest Borgnine demo.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Nah, Ernest Borgnine comp doesn't work re Get Out. He wasn't above *appearing* in shit horror films, at least...
YEP IT WAS GONNA GO THERE
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
anyway Eric i appreciate yr calling Phantom Thread as Should Win (unless that was a combo vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
Also, Grand Hotel is in like the 90th percentile for the first few decades of Oscar winners.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
idgi, the 90th percentile re what?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
Decent pictures to win, I think.
The 1930s had some of the worst winners in history: Cimarron, The Broadway Melody, Cavalcade
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
OK, maybe 90th percentile is a stretch, but it's among the best of everything pre-Gone with the Wind.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
KJB hates it! Immune to all-star power, I guess.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
I'm not crazy about it either.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't kick it out of bed, though, which, admittedly, would be her considering its size.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
her=hard
All Quiet on the Western FrontIt Happened One NightYou Can't Take It with You
Those are the ones that I'll sit still for being called better. None of the rest.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
Of course, of the next decade after that, the only one that's worse than Grand Hotel is Mrs. Miniver.
The last third of You Can't Take It with You is a disgrace, where they tear up the play and turn it into a Capracorn faux class-conflict thing.
(ie GWTW is better)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Right, I'm counting GWTW as the first of the next batch.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
the year crash won (won 3 awards) was also the year martin mcdonagh won his first oscar (for best live short)
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link