[85th Academy Awards Ceremony Thread SADNESS]

Beating Riva is fine, it's already happened and I'll get over it with copious amounts of sex, booze, and ciggies.

 

But, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE AND ONLY EVER ONE MERYL STREEP IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. NO ONE WILL EVER BE LIKE MERYL EVER AGAIN. JUST LOOK AT HER PRESENTATION TODAY. ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, DIVINE, AND ONE OF A KIND. 

LOL.

 

Relax, what I meant was JLaw would get nominated many times just like Meryl. I know there will be only one Meryl Streep.

[85th Academy Awards Ceremony Thread SADNESS]

Seth Macfarlane was pretty good actually. I really enjoyed the show this year.

 

Also, JLaw is gonna be the next Meryl Streep.

[85th Academy Awards Ceremony Thread SADNESS]

Wow I'm not so good at predicting this year. I got 5 categories wrong.

Btw, what happened in the end? Seth is supposed to sing, right? They cut it here and ended the broadcast abruptly.

[85th Academy Awards Ceremony Thread SADNESS]

So Life of Pi wins the most Oscars this year. Congrats to Lee! So well deserved.

And bye-bye best picture for Lincoln.

[85th Academy Awards Ceremony Thread SADNESS]

Okay, seriously now. We had people rooting for Hugo and The Artist last year, people rooting for TKS and TSN, same goes for THL and Avatar... But this year, is anyone rooting for Argo? All across the board I feel that nobody is really happy that Argo is winning, like we accept it but it wasn't anyone's favorite. I'm just so bored that Argo is winning, I don't even care anymore, just so random.

I'm rooting for Argo.

[JAPAN BOX OFFICE | Demon Slayer breaks all time record for OW]

3D is what they're doing wrong. Japanese people could not give less of a shit about 3D.

Well, they actually LOVED 3D. Just look at Avatar, Alice, and TS3, the only Hollywood movies that crossed 10 billion yen in the last 5 years. They even made their own 3D movies. But then they got bored pretty quickly. Maybe the ticket price is too expensive, I don't know.

 

Skyfall is already the highest grossing Bond movie btw, so it's pretty good actually. But I can understand how Ted is so successful. Japanese already love the cute teddy bear. To make him a drunk, party-loving guy is imginative and different. And Japan IS imaginative and different. That's why Ghibli, and especially Miyazaki's animations are dominating the all time box office.

[JAPAN BOX OFFICE | Demon Slayer breaks all time record for OW]

Those were 15 years later and in 3D

Like what has been stated earlier, there's no inflation in Japan. In Yen, Die Hard 3 made around 8.2 billion, while HP8 made 9.6 billion, TS3 10.8 billion, Alice 11.8 billion. So we can compare and say that HP8, TS3 and Alice made a lot more than Die Hard 3.

 

But yes, there's 3D so they are on around the same level, attendance-wise, with Alice probably still higher than Die Hard. So the fact that Die Hard made that much IS amazing.

[A Good Day to Die Hard OS thread]

BOM says it opened with $1.8m in Indonesia. I think that number is for 5 days. If that holds, that is big, summer big. With no competition until March, it can get $4m+, probably enough for top 10 of 2013. Die Hard 4 was in the top 10 for 2007 too (with $1.75m total). So I guess we love this franchise.