PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Shape of Water. Not good!

Twas good

It’s the on the short list of worst Best Picture winners

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:It’s the on the short list of worst Best Picture winners

It was aight.

swishnicholson wrote:

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:It’s the on the short list of worst Best Picture winners

It was aight.

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Except when the cat died. That sucked

Though I'd have to also say that while there are uninspired choices among Best Picture winners, and ones that are personally annoying (Crash, I'm looking at you) I'd have trouble singling any out as actually "bad" films (of the ones I've seen.)

A lot of best pictures are bad.

Crash, the English patient, driving miss daisy, the artist, and probably green book come to mind immediately

just ooc, have you not seen any of those movies or just not seen Green Book? for me, the most annoying thing about the Oscars is whole troves of people talking shit on or boosting up movies they've never seen

That's fair and tbh I haven't seen the artist but get over yourself the academy. I also couldn't tell you a thing about most of them that I saw when I was young except I didn't care for them but that may not be fair given I was a child. Looking through the recent list from this century now I could add Argo, The King's Speech, Lord of the Rings (RotK), and Chicago. Might not say they were all bad but I didn't really like them.

I guess I mean it's not controversial to say that the academy doesn't exactly always get it right.

yeah, I agree they suck in general from nominating to picking the winners. Chicago is the funniest one to me; what a mess of a movie

Houshphandzadeh wrote:yeah, I agree they suck in general from nominating to picking the winners. Chicago is the funniest one to me; what a mess of a movie

Haha I loved Chicago

Thanks to the 31 Day of Oscar on TCM, I was able to watch Pygmalion again. What a terrific film.

JUburton wrote:A lot of best pictures are bad.

Crash, the English patient, driving miss daisy, the artist, and probably green book come to mind immediately

English Patient was a gorgeously filmed movie, and an adequate translation of a difficult to film novel (that I loved even more). I enjoyed watching it a lot. Crash I already mentioned as one of my least enjoyable movie-going experiences, as I found it a incredibly pretentious and attempted to attack issues that were clearly well beyond the filmmakers abilities (see Grand Canyon for the rare film that actually outdoes it in this way). But it was technically well made- in fact one of the annoyances was the strenuous amount of work that was put into getting it together, all pretty much wasted on this project. But I'd still hesitate to call it a "bad" film. Enjoyed The Artist-yeah, it's trapped in it's own conceit, and I think we can wait another 50 years before someone makes another attempt, but it was a again well-made, often strikingly so, plus well-acted and entertaining.. Have I ever watched Driving Miss Daisy all the way through? Don't think so. However, Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and a Pulitzer Prize winning play. If they were just there sitting in chairs reading the script, I'm not sure how you come up with a bad film. Haven't see Green Book and probably won't.

That's not to say there weren't better films made that year. The Academy does like to play it safe, and there are certainly recent films like Argo and King's Speech that were winners and by no means great films-although I enjoyed both of those, too, and I don't think the field was great either year.

I also REALLY liked Shakespeare in Love, so my opinion is likely not valid.

Early reviews for Us are great. 100% on RT

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Early reviews for Us are great. 100% on RT

It looks great. Terrifying but great.

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CalvinBall wrote:Free Solo on at 9 on Nat Geo

nice thx

this was awesome AND for those who missed it, I watched it on demand. It's out there for you.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:yeah, I agree they suck in general from nominating to picking the winners. Chicago is the funniest one to me; what a mess of a movie

As mentioned above, generally disagree with the first half of the statement, there are just a lot of years where there isn't "great" product (though they could certainly stand to expand their boundaries beyond the US more often). However, Chicago is a good counter-argument. That one truly is a mess. Enjoyed hooting at Richard Gere's "dancing" though.

Roger Ebert loved it, though, so what do we know?

Watched White Boy Rick over the weekend. I didn’t know anything about it going in, not sure what I was expecting, but that was not it. It was still good though, sad fucking story

I thought the Theranos documentary on HBO was good, even if it didn't really advance the story. The inside look at a malfunctioning Edison might be the scariest thing I see this year

did you listen to the drop out podcast? wondering how it compared

CalvinBall wrote:did you listen to the drop out podcast? wondering how it compared

The documentary was higher quality, but the podcast did have some good nuggets like what Elizabeth is up to now and people talking about hearing her talk in a normal voice at certain times. ABC showed a TV version of The Drop Out as 20/20 last week.