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Showing posts with label Oscars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscars. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2022

 Every MKE based mf'er who is applauding Will Smith - that's the idiotic thinking that got 200+ people murdered in this town last year. Grow up.

Oh. And #this




Will Smith should face sanctions from the Academy

 

Listen, y’all think that because someone plays a character that’s relatable or warm and fuzzy, that’s how they are in real life. A further reminder, you don’t know anyone that is famous.



I posted about Wil Smith's deplorable outburst almost immediately after it happened, but deleted it thinking maybe it was an odd, staged attack. That doesn't appear to be the case. So for the record, Smith deserves to face criminal charges and/or, at the least, a ban from the Academy. What an as$hole thing to do.
Instead, 15 minutes after assaulting someone for saying something he didn't like, Smith is handed an Oscar, gives a laughable speech about being a "vessel of love" . . . and is given a standing ovation by the audience of Hollywood elites who not so long ago also called Harvey Weinstein a "god."
Hollywood, 2022.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

My Oscar Picks

 My Best Picture Oscar predictions:

No chance: Little Women, The Irishman, Ford v Ferrari
Long shot: Parasite, Marriage Story, Joker
In the running: Once upon a time ..., Jojo Rabbit, 1917
That's not the order *I'd* choose to put them in, just the way I think the Academy votes this year.
I believe, despite it being far from the best movie (nd in many ways merely average) that 1917 will take the prize. It's technically superb, which the professionals adore, it has the weighty subject matter the Academy loves, and it even has mild nods towards "diversity," with its inclusion of some colonial soldiers.
No one will remember it in five years, but there ya go.
Edit: For the record, I think, in a Dannyworld, that The Irishman should take it, but would not regret Marriage Story or JoJo Rabbit winning.
UPDATE

Congratulations on the Oscar! You're the best stunt man in the business Cliff!

Parasite didn't deserve Best Picture. It's almost a laughable decision. Congrats to them tho.

Monday, February 25, 2019

Oh No!

 DANGIT! I missed the Oscar's again. That's like, 20 years in a row.

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Sunday, February 24, 2013

 Big congrats to Jennifer Lawrence (best actress) and Argo for Best Picture!

Saturday, February 23, 2013

My Thoughts - The Oscars

I'm getting really sick of the Oscar hype. I love movies (obviously) and I adore the Oscars, but in the end it's just a bunch of pretty millionaires arguing over which pretty millionaire gets a gold statue for doing the job they're paid to do. It's not worth as much ink as it generates.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Lost: '316' and some Oscar notes

I hope to put up an AI post before the Wednesday results show. I'd also like to do a post on a new reality show I've taken a shine to, but that might have to wait. In the meantime the standard Lost post . . well, the following will have to do:

I was pretty disappointed with episode '316', which brought the six back to the island. Cue a long and revoltingly juvenile explanation about the means of how to return: the Losties must play dress up and recreate as best as possible the circumstances and actions of the original flight. They must do this on board another jet which, presumably, will meet a predicted demise and carry the group back to the island.

Ok, what hooey. It reeks of 'Dork', and seems quite illogical. This isn't a one-time means of transport, this is the recommended way and means of travel to the island. You're telling me Ben did this each and every time he left the island? Please. And don't start waving the 'time jump' garbage at me. According to the same speech the island has always been moving around. So why the masqurade?

The only real mystery of the episode was the sudden and unexpected enlistment of many of the Oceanic Six. What spurred their sudden change of heart? Where is Aaron? What's with the guitar?

(my guess is that Aaron is now back with Ghost Claire, Charlie convinced Hurley, and Ben had Sayid arrested . . . but I still don't get why he's on his way to Guam)

What happened to the plane? The episode makes you think/hope that the plane survives and that the Six are merely 'picked' off the flight and tossed into the jungle. I'm not sure. That 'fake' flight 815 wreck had to come from somewhere, and it'd be a juicy if tragic twist to have the pilot (who's name escapes me) wind up as the very corpse that inspired him to seek the truth about the crash of 815.

A few loose ends:

1. Obviously the Jack/Kate/Hurley made the jump, but wound up far earlier in the islands time stream than expected, early enough to encounter the Dharma Initiative (and Jin). How will that play out? Are Ben/Sayid/Sun some other 'time' on the island?

2. I could care less if John blames Jack and killed himself over it (which I don't buy). Blah blah. I wouldn't have believed you either, ya kook.

3. Yeah, I get it. '316' is the name of the episode, the flight involved, and of course the famous biblical verse from the Book of John. Tie that in to the vein of faith/doubt that runs through it - and the outright reference to Thomas by Ben - and voila, you have the theme of the day. Leading us to the next point . .

4. Even if he isn't religious, or formally schooled in the Christian faith, Jack is a literate and educated man. Is it likely he wouldn't know of the story of Doubting Thomas, even if only from the cultural shorthand the incident inspires? There should have been a third, more naive person in the scene to shout out those nods to the obvious, not Jack.

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Oscar notes:

1. What a bore. Pretentious and boring from start to finish, it was livened only by Heath Ledger's win (kudos) and Ben Stiller's hit (and miss) J. Phoenix imitation.

2. What an awful idea to have former winners announce the nominees! Could the Oscars work harder to present Hollywood as an obnoxious industry, populated with people with an exaggerated sense of self worth?

3. Not having seen the nominated films, I'm still comfortable making this prediction: twenty years from now - ten years from now - none of the 'big' films will be remembered or widely viewed. Instead, Wall-E and The Dark Knight will fill that bill.

4. All complaining aside, I'd rather win an Oscar than a Pulitzer any day.