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...But I wanted Moonlight to win, so that's what I put on my oscar ballot. Just, you know, on the off chance it would cause the universe to rewrite itself and make Moonlight the winner.
...But I wanted Moonlight to win, so that's what I put on my oscar ballot. Just, you know, on the off chance it would cause the universe to rewrite itself and make Moonlight the winner.
And holy shit it worked!
Whoever controls wandering controls the Oscars.
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...But I wanted Moonlight to win, so that's what I put on my oscar ballot. Just, you know, on the off chance it would cause the universe to rewrite itself and make Moonlight the winner.
And holy shit it worked!
Had you entered the Oscar prediction pool in SE++... you would have tied for 1st place.
That's surprising but, fuck, I'm down with Moonlight winning.
Glad Emma Stone won though. That was the big one for me. She fucking deserved it. There's a whole audition scene near the start of the movie that is her basically just showing off.
That's surprising but, fuck, I'm down with Moonlight winning.
Glad Emma Stone won though. That was the big one for me. She fucking deserved it. There's a whole audition scene near the start of the movie that is her basically just showing off.
That's surprising but, fuck, I'm down with Moonlight winning.
Glad Emma Stone won though. That was the big one for me. She fucking deserved it. There's a whole audition scene near the start of the movie that is her basically just showing off.
Yeah, the pretzel-thespianism of acting like someone acting, distractedly and poorly, pretty much demands an Oscar.
It's definitely more impressive than choking down a bison liver and getting bear-fucked.
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That's surprising but, fuck, I'm down with Moonlight winning.
Glad Emma Stone won though. That was the big one for me. She fucking deserved it. There's a whole audition scene near the start of the movie that is her basically just showing off.
Hey, she technically won twice!
Only person to ever win Best Picture as the Best Picture.
1) Disingenuous comparison when SS has Killer Croc, Enchantress etc in it
2) Best Make-Up does not mean 'Best Special Effects Make-Up'
3) I still think STB should have won
1) Disingenuous comparison when SS has Killer Croc, Enchantress etc in it
2) Best Make-Up does not mean 'Best Special Effects Make-Up'
3) I still think STB should have won
*ahem*
Katana's costume was pretty cool, but I don't think that falls in the make up category.
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As somebody who works in live TV, my empathy panic flared up something fierce watching the video of the Best Picture going wrong.
simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
edited February 2017
Yeah, I want to point out that tweet's comparison is about as unbiased as those Facebook posts your uncle posts comparing a set of lyrics from a particular Led Zeppelin song to something by Nicki Minaj and claiming it proves the decline of modern music; it's a cherry picked example to go from a highly produced prosthetic to Harley Quinn's getup, when there were plenty of examples in each film of both well-produced prosthetics and minimal makeup.
Suicide Squad was nominated, it went through the process of elimination until it was in the final three, and then it won. You might not have liked the film - lord knows I think Crash didn't deserve an Oscar - but that's entirely separate from the solid and noteworthy work done by the makeup and hairstyle team for Suicide Squad.
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Watching that ending this morning it seemed to be karma for hollywood's endless lecturing and preening. There was less confusion in a chinese movie script than in that envelope last night.
I haven't seen Beatty flounder that badly since Ishtar.
Fay Dunaway, moer liek Faye Runaway after that debacle m i rite. Did anyone get the license plate of that bus Beatty threw Dunaway under?
I'm sad that Lin Manuel Miranda didn't become the youngest person ever to gain the EGOT, but it was too much to hope that his song would edge in over La La Land's duo. I'm also miffed that the boring as hell "City of Stars" won over the far better "Fools Who Dream" but again I'm not shocked.
Apparently Mahershala Ali is the first Muslim actor ever to win an Oscar. I honestly thought there'd be someone else before him but nope.
I found the mix up funny but felt so bad for everyone involved, especially everyone making the mental switch from "Woohoo! We won!" to "Oh wait, no we didn't..." and poor Faye Dunaway who obviously thought Warren was struggling to read the result rather than trying to let her know something was amiss and thought she was helping when she read out the wrong movie. I do think everyone handled the resulting chaos really well.
I found the mix up funny but felt so bad for everyone involved, especially everyone making the mental switch from "Woohoo! We won!" to "Oh wait, no we didn't..." and poor Faye Dunaway who obviously thought Warren was struggling to read the result rather than trying to let her know something was amiss and thought she was helping when she read out the wrong movie. I do think everyone handled the resulting chaos really well.
Yeah there was definitely a "Oh no Warren is having a senior moment, I better help" thing when it really was a legitimate something is wrong reaction. Utterly painful to watch but everyone handled it as gracefully as possible.
...But I wanted Moonlight to win, so that's what I put on my oscar ballot. Just, you know, on the off chance it would cause the universe to rewrite itself and make Moonlight the winner.
And holy shit it worked!
Had you entered the Oscar prediction pool in SE++... you would have tied for 1st place.
I am kicking myself for not entering, but I dunno if I would've made the same picks if I did enter. Different dynamics at play - at home I play against people who don't really research who the favorites are like I do, and I like to pick a few underdogs in part to handicap myself a bit
I'm sad that Lin Manuel Miranda didn't become the youngest person ever to gain the EGOT, but it was too much to hope that his song would edge in over La La Land's duo. I'm also miffed that the boring as hell "City of Stars" won over the far better "Fools Who Dream" but again I'm not shocked.
I liked the regular "City of Stars" before it was drummed into our heads by the trailer. By the third or fourth time I was done with it. However, I love the version they do in the film as a duet, and I especially love Emma Stone starting to laugh twice while singing it, since they're such wonderfully warm, natural, imperfect moments.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I'm sad that Lin Manuel Miranda didn't become the youngest person ever to gain the EGOT, but it was too much to hope that his song would edge in over La La Land's duo. I'm also miffed that the boring as hell "City of Stars" won over the far better "Fools Who Dream" but again I'm not shocked.
I liked the regular "City of Stars" before it was drummed into our heads by the trailer. By the third or fourth time I was done with it. However, I love the version they do in the film as a duet, and I especially love Emma Stone starting to laugh twice while singing it, since they're such wonderfully warm, natural, imperfect moments.
I think that's my problem. I went to see La La Land and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and clever and a fresh take on a very old fashioned movie format that managed to do something completely new. The thing is, I was looking forward to it because I love musicals, both on film and in theater, and of all the songs in the movie, Fools Who Dream was the only one that stuck with me.
The rest? Nothing. I remember singing and dancing but nothing else. I'm aware of the melody of City of Stars, but aside from those three words I can't tell you any of the lyrics. I can remember the big opening number where everyone's stuck in traffic, but I have no idea what the song was actually about. Somewhere in the Crowd registered a bit more with me, but I still couldn't tell you what any of the lyrics were. Aside from Fools Who Dream, none of the songs were memorable, and they're still not even though I've listened to them all more than once.
That's really unusual for me. I can't think of another musical I've seen where I just wasn't interested in hearing the songs again, never mind coming out not humming a single one of them. The imagery in Fools Who Dream was about the only thing that stuck with me. Heck, the only song lyrics I remembered coming out of La La Land (aside from those that featured the title of the song) were "The water was freezing / she spent a month sneezing / she said she'd do it again."
It might just be I've been spoiled by the likes of Wicked, Les Miserables and years of catchy Disney movies, but I was surprised at what a let down for me the actual musical element of La La Land was.
I think that's my problem. I went to see La La Land and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and clever and a fresh take on a very old fashioned movie format that managed to do something completely new. The thing is, I was looking forward to it because I love musicals, both on film and in theater, and of all the songs in the movie, Fools Who Dream was the only one that stuck with me.
The rest? Nothing. I remember singing and dancing but nothing else. I'm aware of the melody of City of Stars, but aside from those three words I can't tell you any of the lyrics. I can remember the big opening number where everyone's stuck in traffic, but I have no idea what the song was actually about. Somewhere in the Crowd registered a bit more with me, but I still couldn't tell you what any of the lyrics were. Aside from Fools Who Dream, none of the songs were memorable, and they're still not even though I've listened to them all more than once.
That's really unusual for me. I can't think of another musical I've seen where I just wasn't interested in hearing the songs again, never mind coming out not humming a single one of them. The imagery in Fools Who Dream was about the only thing that stuck with me. Heck, the only song lyrics I remembered coming out of La La Land (aside from those that featured the title of the song) were "The water was freezing / she spent a month sneezing / she said she'd do it again."
It might just be I've been spoiled by the likes of Wicked, Les Miserables and years of catchy Disney movies, but I was surprised at what a let down for me the actual musical element of La La Land was.
I also like "Fools Who Dream" best, but especially "Another Day of Sun" has grown on me a lot, so much so that I've been oddly obsessed by the song for the last two weeks. Similarly, I've come to really love the "City of Stars" duet. When I'd just left the cinema, though, I couldn't remember a single tune. I can imagine the one or the other happening, but the combination of the two strikes me as odd.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I'm sad that Lin Manuel Miranda didn't become the youngest person ever to gain the EGOT, but it was too much to hope that his song would edge in over La La Land's duo. I'm also miffed that the boring as hell "City of Stars" won over the far better "Fools Who Dream" but again I'm not shocked.
I liked the regular "City of Stars" before it was drummed into our heads by the trailer. By the third or fourth time I was done with it. However, I love the version they do in the film as a duet, and I especially love Emma Stone starting to laugh twice while singing it, since they're such wonderfully warm, natural, imperfect moments.
I think that's my problem. I went to see La La Land and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and clever and a fresh take on a very old fashioned movie format that managed to do something completely new. The thing is, I was looking forward to it because I love musicals, both on film and in theater, and of all the songs in the movie, Fools Who Dream was the only one that stuck with me.
The rest? Nothing. I remember singing and dancing but nothing else. I'm aware of the melody of City of Stars, but aside from those three words I can't tell you any of the lyrics. I can remember the big opening number where everyone's stuck in traffic, but I have no idea what the song was actually about. Somewhere in the Crowd registered a bit more with me, but I still couldn't tell you what any of the lyrics were. Aside from Fools Who Dream, none of the songs were memorable, and they're still not even though I've listened to them all more than once.
That's really unusual for me. I can't think of another musical I've seen where I just wasn't interested in hearing the songs again, never mind coming out not humming a single one of them. The imagery in Fools Who Dream was about the only thing that stuck with me. Heck, the only song lyrics I remembered coming out of La La Land (aside from those that featured the title of the song) were "The water was freezing / she spent a month sneezing / she said she'd do it again."
It might just be I've been spoiled by the likes of Wicked, Les Miserables and years of catchy Disney movies, but I was surprised at what a let down for me the actual musical element of La La Land was.
I also think the way in which La La Land seeks to evoke old Hollywood is particularly soulless and inelegant. I think the decision to make it a modern setting while still evoking that period was the correct choice, but for me it never really gets past anything other than "hey remember old hollywood, pretty great huh??"
The closest it gets is the end fantasy sequence, where they start making movie references one after another, but it's again still just referential in nature.
La La Land feels like someone at a party who starts the conversation with "they don't make them like they used to," but then can't really articulate what they mean by that.
I still liked the movie, but I didn't agree with the critical acclaim it started rolling with at all. And I especially rolled my eyes out of my head when the director started talking about how it was so hard to make the movie and how no one believed in him. Like, are you serious, dude? No one believed in a movie about actors and LA and how hard it is to be living a creative life but how fulfilling it is and how wonderful you all are? Give me a fucking break.
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...But I wanted Moonlight to win, so that's what I put on my oscar ballot. Just, you know, on the off chance it would cause the universe to rewrite itself and make Moonlight the winner.
And holy shit it worked!
Whoever controls wandering controls the Oscars.
Had you entered the Oscar prediction pool in SE++... you would have tied for 1st place.
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Glad Emma Stone won though. That was the big one for me. She fucking deserved it. There's a whole audition scene near the start of the movie that is her basically just showing off.
Hey, she technically won twice!
Yeah, the pretzel-thespianism of acting like someone acting, distractedly and poorly, pretty much demands an Oscar.
It's definitely more impressive than choking down a bison liver and getting bear-fucked.
Only person to ever win Best Picture as the Best Picture.
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I can tell you that, we're in an episode of Black Mirror.
correct, Portman said earlier that she wouldn't be attending due to her pregnancy.
1) Disingenuous comparison when SS has Killer Croc, Enchantress etc in it
2) Best Make-Up does not mean 'Best Special Effects Make-Up'
3) I still think STB should have won
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I don't think that also having some good makeup makes up for it
*ahem*
Katana's costume was pretty cool, but I don't think that falls in the make up category.
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Suicide Squad was nominated, it went through the process of elimination until it was in the final three, and then it won. You might not have liked the film - lord knows I think Crash didn't deserve an Oscar - but that's entirely separate from the solid and noteworthy work done by the makeup and hairstyle team for Suicide Squad.
I haven't seen Beatty flounder that badly since Ishtar.
Fay Dunaway, moer liek Faye Runaway after that debacle m i rite. Did anyone get the license plate of that bus Beatty threw Dunaway under?
Also a movie thats more than a bit racist
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I saw him and Gillian Anderson in a Streetcar named desire and he was really really good
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Well, when you're right for five minutes, you're right.
Come on though, what does the makeup and hairstyling crew on the film have to do with that?
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Apparently Mahershala Ali is the first Muslim actor ever to win an Oscar. I honestly thought there'd be someone else before him but nope.
I found the mix up funny but felt so bad for everyone involved, especially everyone making the mental switch from "Woohoo! We won!" to "Oh wait, no we didn't..." and poor Faye Dunaway who obviously thought Warren was struggling to read the result rather than trying to let her know something was amiss and thought she was helping when she read out the wrong movie. I do think everyone handled the resulting chaos really well.
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*checks*
Bloody disgrace.
I know, right?! I don't think he even got a lifetime achievement oh-crap-better-give-this-guy-something-before-he-dies award.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I think that's my problem. I went to see La La Land and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and clever and a fresh take on a very old fashioned movie format that managed to do something completely new. The thing is, I was looking forward to it because I love musicals, both on film and in theater, and of all the songs in the movie, Fools Who Dream was the only one that stuck with me.
The rest? Nothing. I remember singing and dancing but nothing else. I'm aware of the melody of City of Stars, but aside from those three words I can't tell you any of the lyrics. I can remember the big opening number where everyone's stuck in traffic, but I have no idea what the song was actually about. Somewhere in the Crowd registered a bit more with me, but I still couldn't tell you what any of the lyrics were. Aside from Fools Who Dream, none of the songs were memorable, and they're still not even though I've listened to them all more than once.
That's really unusual for me. I can't think of another musical I've seen where I just wasn't interested in hearing the songs again, never mind coming out not humming a single one of them. The imagery in Fools Who Dream was about the only thing that stuck with me. Heck, the only song lyrics I remembered coming out of La La Land (aside from those that featured the title of the song) were "The water was freezing / she spent a month sneezing / she said she'd do it again."
It might just be I've been spoiled by the likes of Wicked, Les Miserables and years of catchy Disney movies, but I was surprised at what a let down for me the actual musical element of La La Land was.
Yes that's correct. Boycotting because of the Muslim ban.
Oh. I thought he was actually prevented from attending.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I think that was the Syrian guy associated with the short film that won.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I also think the way in which La La Land seeks to evoke old Hollywood is particularly soulless and inelegant. I think the decision to make it a modern setting while still evoking that period was the correct choice, but for me it never really gets past anything other than "hey remember old hollywood, pretty great huh??"
The closest it gets is the end fantasy sequence, where they start making movie references one after another, but it's again still just referential in nature.
La La Land feels like someone at a party who starts the conversation with "they don't make them like they used to," but then can't really articulate what they mean by that.
I still liked the movie, but I didn't agree with the critical acclaim it started rolling with at all. And I especially rolled my eyes out of my head when the director started talking about how it was so hard to make the movie and how no one believed in him. Like, are you serious, dude? No one believed in a movie about actors and LA and how hard it is to be living a creative life but how fulfilling it is and how wonderful you all are? Give me a fucking break.
Does it count as a boycott if they refuse to let you into the country? Fuck off fox.