Oscars 2018

i'da thought people who are into the wah would opt for dunkirk over the awful biopic, but then that anonymous voter interview showed up...

I'm fairly certain at this point that Lady Bird will get nothing.

The FIlm Experience podcast speculated on (hoped for) a possible Adrien Brody spoiler in Best Actor but conceded the folly of Sony Picture Classics's not promoting the hell out of Chalamet and knocking a very easy trophy out of Oldman's hands.

just reminding flappy bird that Peele is an amateur next to Spielberg, and the films show it

lol

i mean yes Peele has directed... 2? films, spielberg dozens, but boy the post sucked

no, it didn't. the last 35 minutes of Get Out sucked.

I'm fairly certain at this point that Lady Bird will get nothing.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:17 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this sucks

knocking a very easy trophy out of Oldman's hands

You are familiar with what wins Oscars, yes? Chalamet didn't have a chance in hell to win this, no matter how much SPC flogged him.

who's been flogging Chalamet? in what dungeon?

You are familiar with what wins Oscars, yes? Chalamet didn't have a chance in hell to win this, no matter how much SPC flogged him.

― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.)

I wasn't even thinking of Chalamet – I had Kaluuya in mind. Until the TV award juggernauts Oldman looked like frontrunner for obv reasons but not a lock, i.e. no real enthusiasm.

If it were either Chalamet or Kaluuya alone in a category full of Gary Oldmans and Denzel Washingtons -- the actual Adrian Brody scenario set-up -- then yes, maybe they would've had a shot. And even then, Brody was playing a Holocaust survivor, so.

and Kaluuya's playing the lead in 2017's favorite mainstream talking point movie.

it evens out

Ask three people over the age of 50 what they thought of Get Out.

I'd argue that Get Out gets knocked out of the best picture race by the second or third pass, tbh.

It's true, we oldtimers know The Stepford Wives when we see it. (even if we never saw the original)

Maybe there's just enough reflexive Day-Lewis voters to engineer an upset (who are also closeted gay men who like to get poisoned). Not betting on it though.

have you seen the fashion choices of Academy members? Not happening.

Phantom Thread is not going to win anything

Maybe Best Score

Nope: https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/oscar-2018-winner-predictions-costume-design

oh right, duh

"closeted gay men who like to get poisoned" is one of the less popular craigslist personals sections

easier to find your soulmate then

he's not gay.

don't say that to David Ehrenstein!

I'm 63. I loved Get Out. Whatever that means.

jed, do you know what the exclusive meaning of "confirmed bachelor" was in the mid-20th century?

It meant “hungry boy,” iirc

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?

it is very bad

I never saw Crash for similar reasons, but is it Crash levels of bad

not quite, but it nearly reaches crash levels of hamfistedness

There is no such thing as Crash-level badness. Only Crash has ever been that bad.

Three Billboards is its own level of badness.

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.

you're just nitpicking

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

finally getting to watch Dunkirk the way it was intended to be seen pic.twitter.com/vSqGquIMs4

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) December 20, 2017

two hilarious tweets, nice

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.

I'm hoping we get a Rylance-type surprise -- anything

I agreed with Ed's feelings on this one. And tomorrow's.

http://theweek.com/articles/756341/why-years-best-picture-race-total-crapshoot

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.

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

So, Beatty and Dunaway take two for best picture, eh?

:o

if so it's gonna be heavily scripted comedy

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

that's a lot of adjectives to live down