I'm always talking about Million Dollar Baby. I'm quoting MDB (I usually call it MDB for short). I'm watching it all the time. I'm projecting it on the sides of buildings so other people can watch it.
It's been a while since I've seen it but I actually really liked Million Dollar Baby when I saw it
Chicago still has pull with musical heads. Million Dolar Baby had its time in the spotlight as well, it just only asted a couple years.
Moulin Rouge should have won the year before, I will die on this hill.
Chicago rocks though, Bob Fosse is a GOAT, and the cast really rocks.
Chicago is a really fun musical, but cowards are afraid of musicals
This is me also talking about Chicago. And while I've not rewatched it in a while, I'll definitely revisit individual songs kinda semi-regularly.
I do find the chorus entering my head every once in a while.
i mean yeah if you wanna be depressed and watch a ton of torture porn. has the full gamut of whatever violence you can think of
Pretty much all of these are good movies. It's not a "what will people find a reason to keep watching" award, either; people rewatch cult classics for decades and that doesn't necessarily mean they're great films.
They said "good", not necessarily "best in class of the year". Most of those movies aren't ones I'd call bad, even if a lot I'd argue are safe and middling. That's usually the criticism of the a Oscars from the film community.
I also don't think good has to do with widely seen or not either. Popularity is not an indication of quality.
I mean I don't know anyone else who saw Neptune Frost or the latest Weerasethakul film
CODA
I've seen over 3100 films and I have absolutely no idea what "CODA" is.
edit: Oh, that is literally the title. I figured people were abbreviating something, like with EEAAO or whatever, haven't seen that one either I haven't been on a film kick for a couple years now.
I mean Will Smith Slap happened at that oscars, think that factors in for CODA (still aint seent it tho)
Oh damn Idk why you said 'lol' after the Green Book. I really liked the film but now I'm afraid some things flew right over my head :|
The Favourite was excellent imo In particular it portrays the british aristocracy hilariously but also disturbingly as the monsters they were/are
yeah, it was a beautifully made movie, but the ending was inane liberal tripe. they get the only racist cop (in Colorado in the 70s???) fired, everyone goes out for malts, and we get a newsreel reminding us to be afraid of Trump supporters (but not good cops). For a while I was trying to figure out if Lee was being ironic, but he really did just turn into a wealthy simpering lapdog of white supremacy.
I guess those were the other nominees? Of those, BlacKkKlansman I guess. Hereditary was good if I recall, overall not a year with anything standout. Lots of fun little things. I liked Splice.
In a year or two we'll have enough specific emojis Hexbear can abandon text entirely.
(2018) Green Book: lol
Will always have a special place in my heart because of its intense racism against Italians. :anti-italian-action:
I feel like on Crash, The Artist, and Green Book are the only ones that just appeared to win and Oscar, few people saw, and then vanished.
2 hours and 19 minutes counts as incredibly long now? Guess he has never seen The Lord of the Rings.
To be fair he comes from a lineage of making cheap shit that couldn't reach a 90min runtime.
Is he related to this producer? I know he's cousins with Mara Wilson.
Someone years ago told me he was, but they could have been mistaken. Now I'm googling and thinking I might have just believed this for years but he definitely has a lot of Hollywood connections if not.
From this article
He grew up in LA where both of his parents worked in Hollywood; his father was a composer and his mother worked as an executive for a TV company. In a strange coincidence, his cousin is Mara Wilson, who is best known for playing Matilda in the beloved 90s family film.
According to the aforementioned book, after he graduated from Harvard Law School he began interviewing TV executives about liberalism in the television world. This is where he met Goldberg, who was the former head of programming for ABC and was once president of 20th Century Fox.
:edgeworth-shrug:
Yeah I remember him using his composer dad as justification for why rap isn't music. Pretty funny he sucks so much ass as a writer he couldn't nepo baby his way into the industry.
My wife throws on LotR any time she's got the flu or on really long airplane rides, because she's seen it so many times that she can just kinda slip in and out on consciousness without feeling like she's missed anything. Its the perfect "I've got 12 hours to kill, now what?" movie experience.
He’s a monkey throwing shit against the wall and seeing what he can get to generate controversy or praise. It’s literally how he makes a living.
And why he belongs in a gulag.
No Country is only 17 minutes shorter than EEAAAO this fucking buffoon. you're telling me the length of the trailers before a movie starts is a dealbreaker?
also very funny when idiots try to couch culture-war complaints in "legitimate" critical language. :think-mark: what if i told you things being 'overlong' is not a function of the goddamn runtime? theres not a magic number that deems movie good or bad, its about pacing motherfucker, not some number you can look up without ever watching the fucking thing
oh no, not a Bizarre movie. Movies aren't supposed to be weird.
this is probably the least disgusting thing Ben said that day, but something about his proud philistinism in the guise of erudition is grating. I wonder what his beef with the troop-sucking Hurt Locker was? Just that it was directed by a woman? Maybe he just didn't see it.
A failed screenwriter tweets to prove how not bitter he is. More at eleven.
I legitimately do not understand how anyone takes this pathetic loser seriously. He sounds exactly like a middle schooler with no friends that's just desperate for attention. This is the same mf who said rap isn't music. That's literally the same shit I was saying at 8 years old
I legitimately do not understand how anyone takes this pathetic loser seriously.
He's just so heavily syndicated and self-promoted that you're not allowed to ignore him. Ben Shapiro has the sweetest sugar daddies in the business. He's like the Ron Jerome of right-wing pundits - entirely past his prime but so influential that he still shows up in every third thing that's produced.
And because he never truly gets weird with it, a la Rod Dreher, he just entrenches himself further into the business forever. In another ten or fifteen years, when Tucker Carlson finally gets busted dick deep in a pile of sex muppets, Ben will be the bitter old guy they replace him with.
overlong
the guy who can't achieve a WAP thinks its good to be short
Maybe Ben would’ve liked it more if the movie included a split screen with subway surfers gameplay on the bottom
2 hours and 19 minutes is not that long for a movie. That’s shorter than many great and widely liked movies (The Departed, just to name one) and and is only 17 minutes longer than No Country For Old Men, which Ben praises here.
Whoa, you're telling me in 5 years movies that aren't sequel bait won't be watched again? That's wild. Luckily everyone still talks about A Few Dollars More and Rambo
The Dollar Trilogy was only a trilogy in America. It was 3 movies made by mostly the same dudes but wasn't intended to be a trilogy.
No country for Old Men (2007)
some movie about some asshole walking around rambling incoherently and murdering everyone, OF COURSE Ben Shapiro would think that's peak cinematography.
im just saying it's got all it's bases covered and eyes dotted and teas crossed.
It's also only like 15 minutes shorter than the supposedly "overlong" EEAAO.
Its a classic case of "good movie that conservatives like for all the wrong reasons". Probably why Ben treats it like a favorite porno rather than a deeply disturbing morality play.
OF COURSE Ben Shapiro would think that’s peak cinematography
a guy with a weird girly haircut like he's a JoJo character: conservatives worst nightmare
I think he's ultimately right about No Country for Old Men being the most rewatchable of all the winners since it. Argo is rewatchable but only if you have bad politics and like to eat CIA propaganda as an extracurricular activity.
Rewatchability doesn't make a movie better though, that's the specious claim he slips in. I'm probably not going to rewatch Moonlight ever but that doesn't mean it isn't the best Best Picture win in 15 years. I think Oceans 11 is very rewatchable but that doesn't mean it's a great movie it just means it goes down easy and is enjoyable to watch.
Oceans 11 is very rewatchable but that doesn’t mean it’s a great movie
Banger soundtrack though. Respect to David Holmes.
Don't get me wrong I think it's about as well-made a movie of that type as you're going to get, I just wouldn't say that makes it better than movies who succeed in telling more ambitious stories well.
