Jake Gittes

Some of these new emojis you guys got going are the stuff of nightmares.

I can't wait to keep owning after I totally won the winter game.

Even though I couldn't fucking stand Lion as long as this guy keeps getting people like Rooney and Phoenix in his movies I guess I'll be obligated to see them. That set photo might still end up being worth more than the entire movie though.

Congrats. Unlike BATB that there is one good movie.

1. DDL 2. Dujardin 3. McConaughey 4. Firth 5. Di Caprio 1. Blanchett 2. Portman 3. Stone 4. Larson 5. Lawrence 1. Bale 2. Rylance 3. Waltz 4. Simmons 5. Plummer 6. Ali 7. Leto 1. Arquette 2. Davis 3. Lupita 4. Vikander 5. Leo 6. Hathaway Supporting Actor has by far the strongest recent track record (and that's not even counting 2007-2009 when they were awarding one all-time great performance after another). All except Leto are really solid and 4 or 5 out of seven are excellent. Actress and Supporting Actress are fine overall but have their share of clunkers. Actor is a clusterfuck except for DDL (and almost certainly Affleck but I still haven't seen MBTS).

1. 12 Years a Slave 2. The Artist 3. Spotlight 4. Moonlight 5. Argo 6. The King's Speech 7. Birdman

It just never feels like any genuine effort went into anything other than the visuals. The movie doesn't bother with tension instead just going straight for the money shots (kind of an opposite of Godzilla '14 in that sense), every single character (and there are like 15 to keep track of) is an instantly forgettable stock type yet the movie spends half an hour introducing them and then more time trying to make the audience give a shit about them, John C. Reilly is the only one who looks like he's really having fun, the dialogue is so uninspired that the script actually has the characters joke about it (which doesn't make it any smarter), the soundtrack is just totally random '70s tunes (including inevitably some Bowie and some stuff that was already better used in say Dazed and Confused) playing over scenes for no meaningful reason, there's a bunch of references to Vietnam and visual callbacks to war movies and it all rings completely hollow too. The action is fine, and the monsters look great, but everything around that is just one enormous pile of nothing, and so it robs the action of any stakes as well. To paraphrase Veep, it's a Frankenstein monster if the monster was made entirely of dead parts of other blockbusters.

There were no other challengers. There. Were. No. Other. Challengers.

Let's see. The BP winners of 2009 and 2010 had Guy Pearce in them, those in 2011 and 2012 had John Goodman, those in 2014 and 2015 had Michael Keaton. 12 Years a Slave is an outlier, however, like the following year's winner Birdman, it was distributed by Fox Searchlight. Going by that logic, next year's winner will either be distributed by A24, or have someone from Moonlight in it.

I may be slightly overreacting because I didn't get a lot of sleep today and been watching almost nothing but old musicals over the past week, but this movie is so full of shit

If nothing else this once again brings more perspective to the whole thing. All over again, you spend six months gradually becoming more and more emotionally invested in all this stuff against your better judgment, and after all the endless predictions and arguments and everything it ends with two people almost as old as Tele having no idea how to properly deal with being handed the wrong piece of paper.

Gonna go have a nap. In the meantime here's the most accurate summation of tonight as far as I'm concerned

If the Oscars really knew their shit American Honey and Elle would have taken care of most of the awards

I'm gonna go read a book or something. This is some idiocy for the ages.

What in the what?

What the fuck am I hearing

I don't get it.

Can someone PM me a link to a stream please?

I'd say the same for Jaws, Nashville and Barry Lyndon in '75. From '76 Taxi Driver is the only one I'm really crazy about.

'75 had the greatest lineup ever. And the weakest movie won lol. If Amour was nominated recently I don't see why Cries and Whispers wouldn't. And if Clockwork was as huge a deal today as it was back then, I could definitely see that too. Wolf of Wall Street would probably be the best comparison out of recent nominees.

A History of Violence should have swept. Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay. The fact that it was only nominated for two Oscars...

The true best supporting actor of the year.

He was the last great one I'd say. Eight years ago.

I was actually halfway expecting Son of Saul to get Picture & Director nominations last year a la Amour. SPC probably just didn't push it enough.

Go do that right the hell now