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Rageaholic posted:In my quest to watch all the Best Picture nominees (I'm at 9 out of 10 now and seeing the last one on Tuesday), I just watched Maestro, and let me tell you: that poo poo sucked rear end. It was pure Oscar bait that had nothing going for it. The cinematography was probably the best part of the whole thing, but even that wasn't great. Bradley Cooper wears a fake nose in order to play a Jewish person and I really just wish he would stop acting. And directing, too. I don't think I've liked anything he's done in the last decade. Well, I liked 10 Cloverfield Lane, but not because of him. It really looked like purestrain Oscar bait that will be instantly forgotten after the ceremony, just like Shakespeare in love and The Artist. Everyone wishes they could forget Crash (the bad one). Awards shows are such a massive waste of time, who cares.
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priznat posted:It really looked like purestrain Oscar bait that will be instantly forgotten after the ceremony, just like Shakespeare in love and The Artist. Everyone wishes they could forget Crash (the bad one).
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watched the matrix at the alamo I could write a novel about this film. just fantastic. the thing I noticed this time around was that neo & friends never kill any police officers. more specifically, every armed individual they kill is either an agent who has possessed a cop, or the person helpfully has the word "security" stitched onto their uniform god bless our nation's finest  
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TIP posted:
called it, that hacky AI george carlin routine was written by real human hacks https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/
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TIP posted:called it, that hacky AI george carlin routine was written by real human hacks lol, I hope they put their stupid podcast “on hiatus” and never come back.
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priznat posted:It really looked like purestrain Oscar bait that will be instantly forgotten after the ceremony, just like Shakespeare in love and The Artist. Everyone wishes they could forget Crash (the bad one). Agreed. I used to watch the Oscars every year when young, it just seemed like something everyone did. Then my eyes were opened when I asked my first girlfriend when I was 15 if she wanted to get together to watch the Oscars, and her response was "... Oscars? Pfft, who gives a poo poo." It was true, why should I give a poo poo about rich people giving each other awards for playing make believe. Never looked back.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Agreed. I will say there are a couple exceptions: if the host is someone cool you could check out the monologue then bail, and/or if there are some songs that will get performed by artists. Now they’re mostly (all?) sterile lipsyncs so probably less so. But neither of those are compelling enough for me personally to watch any or put much weight into the nominees or winners.
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Jan 29, 2024 05:57
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maybe someone will slap the poo poo out of the host
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priznat posted:if the host is someone cool lol
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Jan 29, 2024 06:05
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it's me. I'm hosting the oscars
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kalel posted:it's me. I'm hosting the oscars Make sure you do a bit about the pros and cons of all the races. Comedy gold!
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PostNouveau posted:maybe someone will slap the poo poo out of the host Honestly i think they should just let will smith host next time
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Milo and POTUS posted:Honestly i think they should just let will smith host next time then they should hire that evil younger clone of will smith to smack him in the face half way through.
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Jan 29, 2024 06:31
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kalel is billy crystal?
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Yeah I uh couldn’t actually think of any examples lol. More like if the host will bomb horrifically and you can watch a car wreck.
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Non Compos Mentis posted:kalel is billy crystal? "Kalal, no!" we scream, as he starts preparing the makeup for his famous Sammy David Jr impression.
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smh at the losers itt that don't have oscar fever
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Watching the showgirls vid, I had remembered the show manager guy being Michael Ironside but it was another guy who looks so much like him
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Smith committing assault was the only interesting thing too happen at the Oscars for decades. I don't understand the appeal of giving it any attention. Even the actors don't look like they want to be there.
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Mega Comrade posted:Smith committing assault was the only interesting thing too happen at the Oscars for decades. I don't understand the appeal of giving it any attention.
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tbf Anthony hopkins choosing to spend time with his kitty and go to sleep is a much better use of time than watching most things
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the best host was letterman and you could tell because all the hollywood sickos hated him
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:the best host was letterman and you could tell because all the hollywood sickos hated him I actually watched that one and the reactions to stuff like “Oprah? Uma. Uma? Oprah.” Was just hilarious. God they hated him
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priznat posted:Watching the showgirls vid, I had remembered the show manager guy being Michael Ironside but it was another guy who looks so much like him Alan Rachins. He was also a lead in LA Law where he played a piece of poo poo scumbag attorney (but he ended up in a lot of funny scenarios).
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It's no Ace Cable Awards....
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Agreed. I think I stopped watching them around 1997, mainly because I was an edgy teenage dork and performatively not caring was invigorating. Speaking now as an edgy middle aged dork, I still can’t make myself care because it’s just an industry award and podcasts/social media have given me WAY too much access to celebrities already; I don’t need to tune in to an award or late night show to see who they congratulate, what stunt they pull, and if they alert us to the plight of X. Not caring isn’t invigorating anymore, however. I’m just tired. So tired. Please bury me. Put my blu ray of True Stories in the coffin. If a 4k version is released please dig me up and swap them out. E: Editing my posts is highly invigorating, and may be the only thing keeping me alive. mysterious frankie fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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I get all the info I need from the On Cinema Oscar Special.
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last week my parents were talking about how much they liked Maestro so I felt safe putting it in the same bin as Tar from last year
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Sankara posted:I still haven't seen the last one. Not sure I ever will. Same, I watch a lot of terrible poo poo but that's a bridge too far. I prefer fun terrible.
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I didn't care much about the Oscars, then I discovered the podcast This Had Oscar Buzz, which is kind of like BotW but for Oscar-bait. The hosts are two film critics who have a frighteningly encyclopedic knowledge of film and the mechanics of how Oscar campaigns are run. While they cover films that were Oscar failures, they also talk a lot about the "state of the race" for the current year. When you're able to see the Oscars less as a dumb ceremony and more as the six-to-nine-month long reality-TV-style competition that it actually is, the whole thing becomes a lot more interesting.
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Dijkstracula posted:last week my parents were talking about how much they liked Maestro so I felt safe putting it in the same bin as Tar from last year tar hosed. maybe your parents are complicated human beings with their own inner lives. perhaps they have a unique combination of interests that can't be categorized or put into a box. namaste
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trying to craft a joke about the Black Eyed Peas re-watching Tar but maybe it's best left as an exercise to the reader
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Tar was worth it for the ending humiliation
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Still can't believe EEaaO won last year. I mean I liked it, but a wacky action comedy with an extended butt plug scene is not normal oscar material. Until the mawkish last act that dragged on way too long. That's more like it.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Still can't believe EEaaO won last year. I mean I liked it, but a wacky action comedy with an extended butt plug scene is not normal oscar material. 2022 was a not great year for movies but also gently caress the Oscars, the less people talk about it hopefully the better.
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Mozi posted:trying to craft a joke about the Black Eyed Peas re-watching Tar but maybe it's best left as an exercise to the reader I'm so tar-thousand and eight you're so tar-thousand and late
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poisonpill posted:In honor of Rey getting her own trilogy, what’s the most baffling wtf part of the sequels? The amount of passionate defense of those films/characters/actors by people when they came out. There is stuff that seems like it should be massively significant, maybe that gets undone by the power creep the Force gets its hands on over the course of the franchise in general or just the story of the movies. Force Projection and Ghosts in both films is way overpowered. But the most baffling part? This is maybe less a story thing and more a bigger picture issue compared to the rest of the franchise. Ending Episode 7 with Rey finding Luke means that wherever they go in Episode 8, that scene's been told and now we absolutely have to follow everything that was shown from there. There's no room left to rethink their first encounter or have any more set up or have any more mystery of 'will she finally find Luke in the next film?!" kind of stuff. This ties into another baffling thing about Episode 8: The movie picks up what seems like just a few days/hours after the previous film. So, that has the additional problem of now Disney doesn't have as large a window of time to monetize/expand/develop the story between episodes to keep the sequel trilogy alive during the time AFTER the movies finished being made. You don't have a chance to say, "Well, Poe and Finn went on a series of random adventures as told in these comic books that also document their strengthening friendship. Rey had numerous learning experiences on her way to find Luke in this cartoon series. These books showcase the changing situations of the galaxy between the two films through the eyes of Kylo and Hux taking orders from Snoke. Etc."
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See I'm happy about that because that's less sw content
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The only Oscars I watched in the last 20 years or so was the year Fury Road got a ton of nominations. I was rooting for it hard. But as a youth, I used to watch it religiously. I also used to go to the movies and watch almost every movie - dramas and sometimes even romances. In the theater!
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bitterandtwisted posted:Still can't believe EEaaO won last year. I mean I liked it, but a wacky action comedy with an extended butt plug scene is not normal oscar material. What? That's *perfect* Oscar material.
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