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Ozymandias

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  1. Oppenheimer winning makes the #OscarsSoWhite ! But for real, I thought Killers of the Flower Moon was gonna get it(which I would've been fine with tbh) or one of the other 8 movies nominated(that I don't even know the names of because that's how little I care lol) but I guess maybe the Academy voters are realizing their industry is in a shrinking spiral(thanks to the quality/nature of their output + competition from video games, youtube, etc) and needed to award a smash hit more than 12 people saw and won't be totally forgotten about in 3 months.
  2. Very nice for Arrakis. I'll be seeing it again on Tuesday with some people who haven't seen it yet. Last time I saw a movie more than once at the theater was Fury Road.
  3. Just looked at Metacritic and the one red on there is some dumbass whining about 'white messiah' even though that part was a lot more nuanced than something like Avatar. Go figure.
  4. Just got out and this is a very, very good movie and I didn't even care all that much for Part 1. Its nice seeing a passion project of this scale that doesn't feel like producer driven corporate dreck. At no point during this movie was my cynical brain counting the beats or the committee mandates that dominate so much media these days. I wish this guy and Nolan could pump out movies once a year because I barely go to the movies anymore. Not quite as good as LOTR imo, but this is very much Fury Road level
  5. Method acting isn't real, its just a pointless tryhard thing some of these pretenders do on the side to make it feel like they have a real job.
  6. I would've said Holocaust movies are played out but man anti-semitism is like the zombie that keeps making a comeback whenever you think its just about dead.
  7. The 2000s was the last relevant decade the Oscars had with Gladiator, LOTR, Departed, and No Country For Old Men. Nothing of note has won since. Nobody cares about the Oscars anymore except cinephiles and some twitter personalities. DUNE 2 isn't winning, not depressing enough, same with Oppenheimer.
  8. Latest one would be True Detective: Night Country which I tapped out halfway through. I have no doubt this will at the very least be a well made movie because Denis Villnueve is a real filmmaker with a voice and not some corporate checklist hack, but will it be truly great like a lot of the Dunebros pretend Part 1 is? I hope so.
  9. I'm glad the reviews seem to be a lot better than Part 1 which I found to be well made but quite dry, but I'll wait to see it myself before calling this a big W as I'm increasingly finding critics to be out of their fucking minds of late.
  10. Navalny dying on the same day Ukraine loses its most heavily fortified city on the front line. What a coincidence.
  11. Well, if the last Ridley movie was a misfire it would be on-brand for him to win with the next one
  12. Disney can get fucked(for other reasons) but Gina Carano and her youtuber fans have absolutely no self-awareness here.
  13. Anyone watching the latest True Detective? I just tapped out on the latest episode 4. I just don't care, its a tediously trite self important mess with boring ass characters. I’m not hate watching it because I was never invested in it enough to feel a sense of disappointment. Worse than Season 2, at least that one is funny-bad and endlessly quotable as opposed to this dumb slog.
  14. Most movies made before 1960 aren't worth watching
  15. This looks likes it could be one of those fake movie ideas the CIA cooked up in another ARGO-like situation but actually got made.
  16. Supreme Leader Trump will block its release next year.
  17. disappointed she didn't somehow tie the Barbie snubs to Russia
  18. Thats classic social media for ya. BARBIE is on Max and I got distracted about an hour in and never went back to finish it, just don't care enough. Nothing against it at all, its just not for me(which is fine, Hollywood!). I get why it was such a smash hit though, it tapped into an under-served market because its a movie about a woman for women which is exceedingly rare in current year Hollywood where every lead role is written like its gender neutral because studios have seemingly adopted this mantra that there are no longer target audiences outside of certain genres like horror - everything must appeal to everyone, everywhere, at all times. Anyways, if the Academy knows whats best for them they'd give everything to Oppenheimer in order to postpone their slide into cultural irrelevancy. Not since Lord of the Rings and Gladiator do they have an opportunity to award a film that is a perfect marriage of art and commercial success instead of some obscure depressing shit 12 people saw and will be completely forgotten 3 months after the Awards ceremony.
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