I did stuff for it. That year I did stuff for four movies that got nominated for BP. Moonlight was easily my favorite movie out of the nominees. My second choice was Hidden Figures.
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I didnāt see it, but this mini-meme of you not seeing things has been funny, cheers :)
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Thatās true Well, back to the drawing board.
Get on up!
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this Osita guy:Weird take. Sure, but how many people who are gonna vote in the upcoming elections are going to have read his book or listened to his longform podcast?
ā¦ theyāre still gonna vote though.
La La Land ultimately gets there as a movie, but I thought it was pretty offensive that members of the 1 percent in Hollywood made a movie like they were the bottom dregs who just needed a shot to make their dreams come true.
That movie is an allegory for like 95 percent of the industry, played by people who never have known what that was like. I also thought it was like the reverse Casablanca, a movie released at exactly the wrong time for what the world was going through. One of my most amazing movie industry experiences was related to Moonlight, and thatās all Iām gonna say about that.
And hereās something to hit you hard about the timeliness of a movie. Training Day was released a few weeks after September 11. After I had done work for it, and seen it, I told my wife we had to see it in the theater just to see peopleās reactions. That movie is such a gut punch, even more when you consider when it came out. First time I saw it, I told someone I worked with that it would probably never happen, but that Denzel deserved to win the Oscar for that performance. I was shocked it actually happened.
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GOPete decided his path to victory was through cheap shots at someone lower in the polls than himself?
He says Beto is trying to stay relevant with his gun buy-back idea (probably true), and since he doesnāt have every detail worked out itās equivalent to doing nothing about background checks, etc. Beto says theyāre not mutually exclusive. Pete says āI donāt need lessons from you on courageāpolitical or personalā¦ā WTF? He wasnāt lecturing, he was answering your accusation.
Desperation is not a good look.
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Tulsiās path was cheap shot to everyone above her, right?
Beto is launching a kamikaze run at the Overton window of the gun control debate and I love him for that. Just fucking take everyoneās guns, weāll sort out the details later. I am ready to die on that hill with him. Beto is just taking one for the team so maybe someday we have actual meaningful gun control in this country.
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Iām only half-way through, but she seems to be targeting Lizzo specifically. Earlier debates, Biden got her attention. Canāt accuse her of ignoring polls.
Dude like 10 more posts using that (maybe include a hashtag) and itās gonna take off like wildfire
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Training Day is one of my wtf most criminally underrated movies ever, only 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, canāt hate on Denzelās Oscar either although I really liked Russell in a Beautiful Mind too
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Beto is so weird. On one hand, his whole vibe is like this centrist-friendly youth pastor thing where he stands on a table and raps with you. But on the other hand, when it comes to gun control, itās some straight-up punk rock shit, like āweāre grabbing all the guns and Schumer can lick my nuts.ā
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When thinking of it, just realize how different he was than anything else weād seen him in. No one believed he was the bad guy until the one scene you know if youāve seen it. That theater, man. It was just completely deflated at the end of the movie. Normally people get up and walk out, but people just sat there, silent.
The only other time I saw such an interesting reaction in a crowd was when I saw Swordfish in the theater, and some dude screamed, āThatās it?ā over Halle Berryās topless scene.
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72% seems a bit high imo. Denzel was amazing and totally deserved his Oscar. But the movie as a whole was at best a Corman-esque exploitation B-movie. Fun? Yes. Good? No.
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They played with that brilliantly the entire way through. Every time Denzel did something outside the lines they brought it back with some kind of real politik of the streets justification that youāre totally buying. Even after the last Roger scene, right after heās mindfucking Jake in the car really pulling that fatherly shit āyou gotta change things from the inside sonā etc. I didnāt really feel he was lol bad until after Smoky says āthereās nothing out there for youā. And even after that, when Jake makes it back heās like āok you made it youāre a narc youāre inā and Jake is finally calling the bluff. Geeking out, sorry, great great movie.