Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

Possibly.

Which of these would you say were totally undeserving of an Oscar for best film?

  • 2023 - “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
  • 2022 - “CODA”
  • 2021 - “Nomadland”
  • 2020 - “Parasite”
  • 2019 - “Green Book”
  • 2018 - “The Shape of Water”
  • 2017 - “Moonlight”
  • 2016 - “Spotlight”
  • 2015 - “Birdman”
  • 2014 - “12 Years a Slave”
  • 2013 - “Argo”
  • 2012 - “The Artist”
  • 2011 - “The King’s Speech”
  • 2010 - “The Hurt Locker”
  • 2009 - “Slumdog Millionaire”
  • 2008 - “No Country for Old Men”
  • 2007 - “The Departed”
  • 2006 - “Crash”
  • 2005 - “Million Dollar Baby”
  • 2004 - “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”

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The Dark Knight was terrific.

Shortly after that, mainstream superhero movies went PG to appeal to a younger audience. So lame.

Part of why I liked Joker was that it broke away from those PG movies. It really appealed to my taste in comic book movies.

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Yeah it’s a great movie. It just makes me feel anxious and depressed while I’m watching it. I don’t enjoy the experience. Not the definition of a rewatchable for me.

Have not seen. This looks funny!!! Good because the article saying Seth Rogen was laughing his head off is not exactly a guarantee lol.

Having said that if not for the article I’d say the title will forever be in contention with one of Paul Walker’s first and best movies.

Truckers gone mad was revisited in this also surprisingly excellent Russell Crowe thriller.

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Why is nobody talking about the faith based Christian values movie Freedom that tackles the taboo subject of child trafficking?

:face_vomiting:

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I’m sure my aunts have some thoughts.

Apparently one of the stories going around are the powers that be tried to suppress this movie for five years.

The moral panic where the dumbest people on earth think millions of white kids are being kidnapped is wild.

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Joyride is ok. Super odd movie with insane whiplash tone from super raunchy to super sentimental. It’s also the shortest movie I’ve seen in a really long time.

Or how about “Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities” by the Epoch Times. Hard hitting and Im sure entirely factual.

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It is almost exactly a carbon copy of the 80s moral/satanic/stranger danger panic. Its insane. We’ve seen this before. They are following the exact same playbook.

I guess nobody alive in 2023 has heard the phrase “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”

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Nobody on the right has. For a group of people obsessed with taking us all back to the “good old days” they never know anything at all about history.

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Yes but if a conservative’s goal is to keep repeating history as often as possible :thinking::thinking::thinking:

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I’m really enjoying Russell Crowe’s second act as a Nic Cage-style self-aware B-movie actor. The Pope’s Exorcist is on my to-watch list just because look at my guy cruising around in a Lambretta scooter in Rome just living his best life.

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Watched and enjoyed Cruella. No surprise that Emma Stone and Emma Thompson are pretty electric every time they get a one-on-one scene together. Also refreshing to see Paul Walter Hauser in a lighter role since I’ve been watching Black Bird on Apple TV+ and he’s been creeping me the fuck out.

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

8/10

A documentary about Rock Hudson. For those who don’t know Rock Hudson was one of the main leading men in the 60s to 70s, who was also gay. The documentary starts with his first roles, talks about his leading man status in conjunction with his closeted gay life, his diagnosis with AIDS and his shameful death.

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Rewatched MI6 this weekend to make sure I’m not missing any plot points going into the new one, didn’t remember how little plot there actually was. (also like half of the dialogue is a Simon Pegg comic relief line). The action scenes are still great though.

And now I’ll be watching multiple times every day the MI5 Alec Baldwin monologue to keep myself hyped :

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They know enough. Black people used to be slaves. MAGA.

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