Cooked or floppy raw?I vote sausage fingers fight.
The Oscars
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Repeated attempts to derail now. I’d report you but I know for a fact the mods have much more important things they could be doing with their time on here.
I dunno what kind of win you think this is, you’re directly quoting me - whilst others are reacting to those quotes - and I find it all rather menacing. Why can’t my request of you to stop be enough? Why can’t you remove yourself away from confrontation with me? Surely you don’t conduct yourself like this in Japan. They shy away from any confrontation there.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Floppy raw, please.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Oh come off it, just wind your neck in and pursue your vendetta in private
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It looks the other way round from where I’m sitting
I thought I was losing my mind for a while then, really feeling a bit wigged-out
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Good for you
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
In a general sense, sure, but in the specific sense he stalking about, bollocks. Lets have a look at the list of post NCfOM winners:
Slumdog Millionaire*
The Hurt Locker
The Kings Speech
The Artist*
Argo
12 Years a Slave*
Birdman
Spotlight*
Moonlight
The Shape of Water
Green Book
Parasite*
Nomadland
CODA
I've seen all of them once bar the wank looking Green Book. The asterisked films I've happily watched at least twice and I would have no objection to viewing Shape of Water, Moonlight an even Birdman again. So, specifically, he is talking wank. But he's a right wing turd so of course he'd hate various of those films.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Pretty mixed bunch for me. The King's Speech, or How We Won The War Because The King Didn't Stutter? Load of old wank.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
maybe so, but even with 'mixed' the idea that there hasn't been a single one of note is nonsense.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I gather that that bloke in the tweet is a shitstain, but I have noticed before how the Oscars don't have a impressive hit-rate for identifying great films. That list mostly bears this out for me. Doesn't mean EEAAO won't stand the test of time. I think it's interesting enough that it could.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I always figured the Oscars just chose things according to their own logic and internal trends.
Was actually (pleasantly) surprised EEAAO did so well.
Well yeah.
Yossarian
⏭️
There also tends to be a lot of campaigning and sometimes ruthless tactics, although maybe that's subsided a bit now that Harvey Weinstein is rotting in prison.
From 2014:
Harvey Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax and the current co-chairman of the Weinstein Company, pioneered the modern Oscar campaign. Through a mix of big schmoozy events, whisper campaigns, and old-school cold-calling, Weinstein has developed a reputation over the last 25 years for getting award nominations. The results speak for themselves, with his films having secured more than 300 Academy Award nominations to date.
A Brief History of Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar Campaign Tactics
From screening My Left Foot in Hawaii to hiring Obama’s deputy campaign manager, and all the shady stuff in between.
www.vulture.com
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Definitely feels like this is one of those almost 'rites of passage' realisations that most of us come to at some point.
"Oh, wait, they're not the definitive arbiter of what good cinema is, they're just one of the many different perspectives"
Albeit, quite a loud perspective, in terms of cultural dominance
(Which has maybe been waning over recent years? Ironically, not sure I could say, precisely because I stopped paying a great deal of attention some years ago
)Which is not to get all snooty about 'em. Well, not too much
As I say, simply acknowledging they represent but one cinematic tradition among many.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Oh, and obviously I really enjoyed EEAAO in the cinema, 'cause chaos and ADHD and existentialism and humanity 'n' shit.
Honestly, kinda could have done without the more 'silly' stuff like hotdogs and butt plugs and racoons. But maybe we all have a different version of silly.
E2A: much as I love JLC, I think Stephanie Hsu wos robbed.
Honestly, kinda could have done without the more 'silly' stuff like hotdogs and butt plugs and racoons. But maybe we all have a different version of silly.
E2A: much as I love JLC, I think Stephanie Hsu wos robbed.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
They’re the funny bits though
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Meh, each to their own, they're just not the bits I found funny.
Spinning this off the top of my head, but maybe it's one of those where the comedy simply hinges on whether or not you find the central idea (e.g. "hotdogs for fingers!") funny.
If you do, everything that involves that idea is funny. If not, then it ain't.
Spinning this off the top of my head, but maybe it's one of those where the comedy simply hinges on whether or not you find the central idea (e.g. "hotdogs for fingers!") funny.
If you do, everything that involves that idea is funny. If not, then it ain't.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I liked that they did hotdogs for fingers as if it was going to be a throwaway joke and then turned it into an actual story thread that answered questions like, how did people evolve like that and how would they play the piano. Which then throws up deeper levels of absurdity like the fact people with hotdog fingers still invented the piano.
We also get different iterations of the characters in that world and are given reasons to care about them.
They could have cut twenty minutes but considering how many three-hour epic blockbusters with absolutely nothing new or interesting about them get made every year, I'll let these guys make their movie as long or as short as they want to make it.
We also get different iterations of the characters in that world and are given reasons to care about them.
They could have cut twenty minutes but considering how many three-hour epic blockbusters with absolutely nothing new or interesting about them get made every year, I'll let these guys make their movie as long or as short as they want to make it.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Also a spin on the Dalai Lama ordering a hot dog joke. Make me one with everything.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
I agree. Although I did find the raccoons funny. And the rocks. This is just one of those subjective things, but I’m not generally a fan a whacky/zany humour, so some of those parts of film didn’t personally work for me. On the other hand they did prevent it from being too po-faced, cold and Nolan-esque.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Much as appreciate Nolan's output, yes, it is refreshing to have an antidote to the more earnest sci-fi. If you could call EEAO sci-fi. Its got a sense of fun about it, like Kung Fu Hustle, or earlier stuff like Wing Chun and other comedic HK films.
If you don't mind, please can I ask why you say "this self" rather than me/I? I have noticed it a few times and wondered what the significance is.
That's actually not a bad list IMHO and many of the films do tell you something about what was going on in cinema/the world at the time in one way or another. So that's an achievement in itself. 'Best' is always going to be subjective.
