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Anyone have any Oscars speed run records? I swear it doesn't usually end before midnight.
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Apr 26, 2021 04:18
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It’s usually three hours, it ran over by 15 minutes or so
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Apr 26, 2021 04:21
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Should've cut it a few minutes shorter. What an embarrassing ending. Go to all the trouble to rearrange the normal ending of the show to end on a good note and then it backfires in the worst way possible.
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Apr 26, 2021 04:26
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It was a dumb idea. Hopkins was amazing in The Father and I can’t be mad about his win at all
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Apr 26, 2021 04:41
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If anything it's clear proof that the people putting on the Oscars have no idea about the vote counts. So that's something. Just about everyone was sure Chadwick Boseman would win so can't blame them too much for wanting that to be the showstopper with all the speeches and everything from his sister or some other family.
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Apr 26, 2021 05:43
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Are any of the best picture nominees worthy of a watch? Or any must-see performances? I don't even know who or what was nominated for anything or even who the host was. For many years Mrs Isaboo and I either hosted or attended an Oscar party - complete with dressy-up and drunken shenanigans - but haven't in a long time. We wouldn't in the Covid era anyway, but I just haven't been excited by The Oscars for a while.
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Apr 26, 2021 05:51
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If you like hatewatching Aaron Sorkin I highly recommend Trial of the Chicago 7. loving hate that guy.
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Apr 26, 2021 05:53
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isaboo posted:Are any of the best picture nominees worthy of a watch? Or any must-see performances? I don't even know who or what was nominated for anything or even who the host was. If you watch only one of those films, watch One Night In Miami.
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Apr 26, 2021 06:31
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Mu Zeta posted:If you like hatewatching Aaron Sorkin I highly recommend Trial of the Chicago 7. loving hate that guy. I hate Aaron Sorkin with a passion since Newsroom so when I was saw his name in the credits after having enjoyed the movie I felt thoroughly trolled. To be fair, probably the best thing he has been involved in since The Social Network. Performances are great too. If I'd actually recommend anything off the best picture noms it's The Father. It's relatively short and very well-made.
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Apr 26, 2021 06:51
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MiddleOne posted:I hate Aaron Sorkin with a passion since Newsroom so when I was saw his name in the credits after having enjoyed the movie I felt thoroughly trolled. To be fair, probably the best thing he has been involved in since The Social Network. Performances are great too. Yeah, but it's completely inaccurate to actual history.
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Apr 26, 2021 08:38
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Inaccurate is fine but stuff like entire rooms rising up and clapping because of a stirring speech or showing characters are smart by having them debate grammar in speech writing makes me want to barf.
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Apr 26, 2021 09:02
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, but it's completely inaccurate to actual history. So was The Social Network. 
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Apr 26, 2021 09:13
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Mu Zeta posted:If anything it's clear proof that the people putting on the Oscars have no idea about the vote counts. So that's something. Seems to me like it'd be better if they did know, so fuckups like this don't keep happening.
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Apr 26, 2021 10:14
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isaboo posted:Are any of the best picture nominees worthy of a watch? Or any must-see performances? I don't even know who or what was nominated for anything or even who the host was. Sound of Metal and Nomadland are excellent. Promising Young Woman you’ll either love or fuckin hate - I’m in the former category. Chicago 7 is like most Sorkin, good surface-level but falls apart if you think of it for more than two seconds, but it does have amazing performances, as did The Father. Mank is fine. I missed Judas and didn’t get around to finishing Minari (I was way too tired when I put it on) but what I saw seemed great
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Apr 26, 2021 12:14
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Lurdiak posted:Seems to me like it'd be better if they did know, so fuckups like this don't keep happening. They used to release the winners beforehand to newspapers so they could print in a timely manner. However in 1940 the LA Times put out an edition with the winners before the ceremony.
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Apr 26, 2021 12:30
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MiddleOne posted:So was The Social Network. At least Social Network seemed inaccurate in a way that is getting at some greater truth. But having communists stand up to to yell about the greatness.of the American polticsl system is bile inducing propoganda and I'm glad I never bothered to watch it
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Apr 26, 2021 12:31
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muscles like this! posted:They used to release the winners beforehand to newspapers so they could print in a timely manner. However in 1940 the LA Times put out an edition with the winners before the ceremony. Well if a problem happened nearly 100 years ago it's probably a good idea to never let anyone know anything so people can look like clowns every year.
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Apr 26, 2021 12:47
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isaboo posted:Are any of the best picture nominees worthy of a watch? Or any must-see performances? I don't even know who or what was nominated for anything or even who the host was. Minari and Sound of Metal are fantastic. Minari would've been my pick to sweep the big categories if I had a vote. Judas and The Black Messiah is also really good but I'm not sure it's Best Picture good. I also wasn't too enthused by Nomadland. I think Chloe Zhao's last movie, The Rider, is way better but that may just be because I think that film is amazing on every level. I mean honestly Chadwick should have won because it's the only chance you ever have to give him one but I'll be honest in that I thought Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed both put in better performances.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:07
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Yeun, Ahmed, and Hopkins were all better than Boseman for sure. Honestly maybe even Oldman too although he could have played that role in his sleep
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Apr 26, 2021 13:17
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I didn't see The Father so I can't comment on that performance. It very well may have deserved to win for all I know. The Sound of Metal resonated with me more on a personal level as the whole hearing loss thing is something I've been through up to and including the struggle of looking into getting cochlear implants. I feel like I can't judge if that movie is as good as I think it is because it hits different for me due to my own experiences. X-O fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Apr 26, 2021 |
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Apr 26, 2021 13:51
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I mostly enjoyed Trial of the Chicago 7 when I saw it. It had some really nice, well-edited sequences. But the more I read about the stuff they just loving made up or changed or lied about, it cast this weird, almost nefarious pall over the whole thing. Why tell this story at all, and who benefits from it, if you're going to turn it into some feel-good pablum that undermines the gravitas of what actually happened? Also the ending was laughably terrible even at the time, and knowing it was completely fictionalized to give the story a dramatic "happy" ending just... sucks.
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Apr 26, 2021 15:37
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Arist posted:I mostly enjoyed Trial of the Chicago 7 when I saw it. It had some really nice, well-edited sequences. But the more I read about the stuff they just loving made up or changed or lied about, it cast this weird, almost nefarious pall over the whole thing. Why tell this story at all, and who benefits from it, if you're going to turn it into some feel-good pablum that undermines the gravitas of what actually happened? Also the ending was laughably terrible even at the time, and knowing it was completely fictionalized to give the story a dramatic "happy" ending just... sucks. Hollywood.txt
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Apr 26, 2021 15:48
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https://twitter.com/richsommer/status/1386678733491171336 Now all these men have died, of old age.
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Apr 26, 2021 16:02
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Having finished Shadow and Bone, I think my main problem with the show is that they have combined plots from two different book series, and one is way more interesting than the other: Plot A: Magic teenager from humble origins is the chosen one who must save the world. Plot B: Ocean's Eleven in fantasy Amsterdam, featuring a diverse cast of lovable rogues with hearts of gold who carry the show on their shoulders (along with their emotional support goat).   It's no contest, really. Plot A is still reasonably entertaining, as these things go, but I would have happily traded it away for more Gangs of Magic Amsterdam. I hope they do a proper Six of Crows season later.
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Apr 26, 2021 17:29
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I'm only halfway through, but so far, Plot A was done way, way better by The Witcher. The Plot B stuff is a lot of fun but yeah, feels like it's out of a totally different show. Still, overall it's a fun time if you're in the mood for a YA fantasy show. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone who wasn't specifically looking for that, though.
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Apr 26, 2021 17:41
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A few episodes in to Rutherford Falls, and I'm not feeling it. Did they learn nothing by having Ed Helms as a lead in the later seasons of The Office?
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Apr 26, 2021 18:26
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Cactus posted:Alright I'm starting that tonight. It's terrible. Love to see some 30 year old dude "romancing" a teen.
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Apr 26, 2021 18:42
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SimonChris posted:Having finished Shadow and Bone, I think my main problem with the show is that they have combined plots from two different book series, and one is way more interesting than the other: Oh so it sounds like it's Mistborn only definitely not anywhere nearly as good.
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Apr 26, 2021 19:05
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Timby posted:Let's Be Real is the brainchild of Robert Smigel and Jimmy Kimmel, so there's maybe an outside shot of it being funny? My opinion is that the former president shouldn't be on TV even in the form of parody so they can get the gently caress right out with that. Guy was an insurrectionist traitor that has been the primary contributing reason why we have half a million and counting COVID-19 deaths. Deny the vine light. If we can't toss him in a dark prison hole, zero attention needs to be given.
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Apr 26, 2021 19:07
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IRQ posted:Oh so it sounds like it's Mistborn only definitely not anywhere nearly as good. I would do unholy things for a Mistborn limited series that doesn’t go all Altered Carbon and have a show runner who wants to go off and do their own thing.
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Apr 26, 2021 19:34
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shirunei posted:It's terrible. Love to see some 30 year old dude "romancing" a teen. This was my issue with the Stand remake, but up the number from 30 to 50.
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Apr 26, 2021 19:49
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shirunei posted:It's terrible. Love to see some 30 year old dude "romancing" a teen. That guy is the main villain, and it is explicitly pointed out later that he was just grooming her for nefarious purposes. They even have another character tell her that she just thinks she likes him because he has centuries of experience manipulating dumb teenagers. It's honestly better than a lot of other YA fantasy stuff in this regard. 500 year old vampires/wizards/whatever romancing teenagers is commonly presented as cool and romantic.
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Apr 26, 2021 19:54
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Queue up Twilight.
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Apr 26, 2021 19:56
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X-O posted:Minari and Sound of Metal are fantastic. Minari would've been my pick to sweep the big categories if I had a vote. Judas and The Black Messiah is also really good but I'm not sure it's Best Picture good. I also wasn't too enthused by Nomadland. I think Chloe Zhao's last movie, The Rider, is way better but that may just be because I think that film is amazing on every level. I mean honestly Chadwick should have won because it's the only chance you ever have to give him one but I'll be honest in that I thought Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed both put in better performances. I hated hated hated Sound of Metal and I think a large part of that is how unrealistic the mechanics of that metal band would be with just a drummer and singer guitarist, I know, I'm broken
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Apr 26, 2021 21:27
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SimonChris posted:Having finished Shadow and Bone, I think my main problem with the show is that they have combined plots from two different book series, and one is way more interesting than the other: I'm only two episodes in but I'll cop to being way more into the lovable rogues than the chosen one + love interest (which is still fine tbh, but not as interesting as the rogues).
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Apr 26, 2021 21:53
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Shageletic posted:I hated hated hated Sound of Metal I didn’t even know this was possible
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Apr 26, 2021 21:58
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I watched Mortal Kombat and if you're wondering if they say a thing from they game - they do. They say all the things from the game.
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Apr 26, 2021 22:35
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The new character they introduced was terrible too
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Apr 26, 2021 22:40
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Azhais posted:The new character they introduced was terrible too No idea what the thought process behind that one was
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Apr 26, 2021 22:45
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zoux posted:I watched Mortal Kombat and if you're wondering if they say a thing from they game - they do. They say all the things from the game. They also say the thing from when you annoyed your siblings by cheesing a move they couldn’t figure out a counter to over and over.
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Apr 26, 2021 22:46
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