Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

RiskyFlush · January 24, 2023, 6:27am

beetlejuice · January 24, 2023, 6:34am

[crying] thank you, chef

Rugby · January 24, 2023, 6:56am

I liked the Road. The movie was mostly good

what the ACTUAL fuck was that scene with the beatle. The whole point of the movie was how do you maintain your humanity in the complete absence of hope. So… they modified the movie to add hope

Rugby · January 24, 2023, 7:00am

Sorry if this has been posted.

Very interesting nerding out on what’s happening with movie audio and why we all need subtitles.

runout · January 24, 2023, 11:43am

The whole video I’m going, “Huh? I don’t get that at all.”

Get to the end to find out why: I’m super picky about audio, I never use the built in speakers in any device. Tablet/phone/PC is always good headphones, tv is always good sound system. Does anyone here actually rely on the built in speakers of any device they use?

spidercrab · January 24, 2023, 1:26pm

I was flipping mindlessly through movies last night and turned on Better Off Dead. I forgot how great this movie is, and I couldn’t believe how many of the lines I was thinking to myself before they were spoken. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this movie, but it’s obviously deeply ingrained.

Newly discovered information:
The lead singer of the band also played Dottie in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

Krayz · January 24, 2023, 1:28pm

Sometimes it can be hard to erase the sins of the previous generations, but all one can hope is the kid is smart enough to not become a Purdue or UK fan

Being serious, yeah high school years sounds like the right time. Of course watch Breaking Away right after to properly make him a real Indiana boy, not some West Lafayette train enjoyer

eyebooger · January 24, 2023, 2:03pm

I haven’t seen all of these yet, but I feel pretty confident in saying that RRR got hosed.

https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1617882609673207811

econophile · January 24, 2023, 2:04pm

Respect for Everything Everywhere All at Once

econophile · January 24, 2023, 2:10pm

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”)
Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”)
Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)
Hong Chau (“The Whale”)
Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Animated Feature Film

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix)
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (A24)
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (DreamWorks Animation)
“The Sea Beast” (Netflix)
“Turning Red” (Pixar)

Best Animated Short Film

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse” (Apple TV+)
“The Flying Sailor”
“Ice Merchants”
“My Year of Dicks”
“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

Best Costume Design

“Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (Focus Features)

Best Live Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye” (Floodlight Pictures)
“Ivalu” (M&M Productions)
“Le Pupille” (Disney+)
“Night Ride”
“The Red Suitcase” (Cynefilms)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
“The Whale” (A24)

Best Original Score

“All Quiet on the Western Front”
“Babylon”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Fabelmans”

Best Sound

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Adapted Screenplay

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Netflix)
“Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)
“Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Best Original Screenplay

“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
“The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)
“Tár” (Focus Features)
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon) “An Irish Goodbye” (Floodlight Pictures)

Best Cinematography

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Netflix)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
“Empire of Light” (Searchlight Pictures)
“Tár” (Focus Features)

Best Documentary Feature Film

“All That Breathes” (HBO Documentary Films)
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon)
“Fire of Love” (National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon)
“A House Made of Splinters”
“Navalny” (CNN/Warner Bros.)

Best Documentary Short Film

“The Elephant Whisperers” (Netflix)
“Haulout”
“How Do You Measure a Year?” (Jay Rosenblatt Films)
“The Martha Mitchell Effect” (Netflix)
“Stranger at the Gate”

Best Film Editing

“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
“Tár”
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)

Best International Feature Film

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
“Close” (Belgium)
“EO” (Poland)
“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)

Best Original Song

“Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman”
“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”
“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Naatu Naatu” from “RRR”
“This Is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Production Design

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)
“Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros)
“The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)

Best Visual Effects

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) Austin Butler (“Elvis”)

Best Lead Actor

Austin Butler (“Elvis”)
Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”)
Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”)
Bill Nighy (“Living”)

Best Lead Actress

Cate Blanchett (“Tár”)
Ana de Armas (“Blonde”)
Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”)
Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”)
Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Director

Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”)
Todd Field (“Tár”)
Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
“The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)
“Tár” (Focus Features)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
“Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

dlk9s · January 24, 2023, 2:19pm

I would guess most people use their TV’s built-in speakers. Probably lower percentage than it was a decade ago with plenty of inexpensive soundbars on the market.

pvn · January 24, 2023, 2:57pm

eyebooger · January 24, 2023, 3:26pm

RRR got no other nominations, but at least we’re going to see a banger performance at the ceremony:

https://twitter.com/RRRMovie/status/1617884085539729410

Trolly · January 24, 2023, 4:08pm

No cinematography nomination for The Batman? C’mon, that movie looked amazing.

RiskyFlush · January 24, 2023, 4:13pm

Top Gun: Maverick deserves Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects

I smile seeing it listed with Best Picture. LOL at the promo materials from now on saying Oscar-nominated Top Gun: Maverick. It’s a good movie I just

dlk9s · January 24, 2023, 4:23pm

Yeah, I didn’t really get all the hype. I very much enjoyed it, but people were talking like it was one of the best movies of all time and now it’s up for Best Picture when it was basically a remake of the first one. Again, really good movie, but putting it in the pantheon seems a bit much.

RiskyFlush · January 24, 2023, 4:45pm

My hobby is using Photoshop to make alternate versions of movies or brand new stuff no one would ever make.

I read stuff like Michael Bay explaining what he would have done for a sequel to The Rock, and then I make fake pitch boards, screenshots, and plot outlines.

https://medium.com/@TransgenderSoapbox/the-unproduced-sequel-to-the-rock-well-unfortunately-never-see-f98a34f65083?sk=c9026d6bf9aaf3e84054102530775b68

Or the conspiracy theory that David Lynch has a secret unreleased movie. What could it be???

So I have a special fascination with the ability of AI to help explore this kind of art, like below with Jodorowsky’s Matrix.

The persistent AI-based imperfections are fine for me because if they’re that cool it would be easy for a human to clean up the silly stuff like how often it gets hands wrong.

Their IG has another where they illustrated Lord of the Rings if it had been made as live action in the 80s.

Really fucking cool.

lol_lmao · January 24, 2023, 6:50pm

I just saw that this is the first time in 88 years that all of the Best Actor nominees are first timers

lol_lmao · January 24, 2023, 6:52pm

I’ve only seen Elvis and Maverick so far of the Best Picture nominees so we have some movie watching to do at my house.

I am sad that The Whale did not get nominated because I really think it was better at least than both of those.

lol_lmao · January 24, 2023, 6:53pm

Agreed, it’s a good classic summer flick but best picture? Come on, man