Listen, aside from the first six minutes, the first forty minutes of this movie are fire. I couldn’t look away.
But then the movie has no idea what to do with itself.
Nobody can be an American Psycho quite like non-American psycho Christian Bale.
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100 classic movie lines
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80s movies
Awesome, totally awesome
I sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chambers, Danny. Didn’t want to but felt I owed it to them.
Sometimes you gotta say “what the fuck”
Lighten up Francis
It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses" and "We’re on a mission from God
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Crash (1996)
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avengers infinity is on in the waiting room. i don’t get what people like about these films.
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Hallelujah.
IIRC, clovis primarily hates Avengers: Infinity War on the basis of all the flaws he saw in it when he definitely watched it.
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I have never tried gefiltefish but I am pretty confident I won’t like it. 
As a finicky eater, that isn’t the flex you think it is… :)
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Maybe he meant lutefisk.
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I did. Just a brain fart.
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It Was Just an Accident
I feel quite confident in saying that this got hosed for Best Picture. Great, thought-provoking film with very well written characters. The 100 minutes went by very quickly. Some minor points off because the parts with the pregnant woman got a little silly. But there’s a lot more good than bad here, especially the beginning and the end.
I’d have this above the Bugonia/Secret Agent/Train Dreams tier of BP nominees. I think above Hamnet too. I’m certainly left interested to see more from Jahar Panahi.
8/10
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It did. And in the field it’s in (read: the stupid one that left No Other Choice out), it should win Best International Feature. Instead the betting odds indicate that it’s got almost no chance.
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Colbert is a huge LOTR nerd. If he had this lady on his show, we could power all the AI data centers from the resulting fusion reaction.
Watched F1, which is basically Major League on a race track.
While it’s the front runner for Sound at the Oscars, I didn’t really like the mix. The dialog was incessantly low and the sound for the races should have been way better. Those cars are insanely loud and the only time you got a sense of it was when the car fired up in the garage. Either they used production sound poorly, which should have been a massive part of a movie like this, or they chose not great library stuff or stock footage from the F1 circuit.
I don’t think Sinners or OBAA are great mixes, so I’m not sure where to rank them. I don’t think they’ll give it to Frankenstein or Sirat. I think it will be Sinners or F1 as I put Sinners slightly ahead of OBAA in overall mix quality. If Dead Reckoning Part 1 was up this year it definitely would have won.
Edited for more bluster:
If you knew absolutely nothing about F1, there’s no chance this movie could have landed for you at all. I know some about it, but really not much. The final race, because of what I know was essentially a joke. They somehow had to make Max Verstappen disappear from the race to even have a chance to wrap the story anywhere near the way they wanted. They explained nothing about who people were, what the goals of the races were or anything. It was just like let’s watch Brad Pitt and Damson Idris run each other off the track most of the movie. Let’s also just say the big midpoint moment is patently unbelievable (JP just having his hands burned in that crash and returning to action in essentially 3 or 4 weeks). Like 90% of the success of the team was due to essentially on track cheating…just lol.
You had to leave your head at the door for so much of the movie, which is why the Academy voters put it in Best Picture. They had lost their minds watching the movie at some point. Hilariously, in the final race my wife fell asleep multiple times. A+ job on getting to the point, movie.
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