I loved it. Too bad everyone seems to think it was just so-so at best.

I think too many people went into The Vast of Night through their own expectations but probably also the trailer so didn’t really give it a fair shake. For what it is and wants to accomplish, I thought it worked REALLY well. I hope it gets more due at some point. 

The Vast of Night is phenomenal, definitely worth a watch. Not absolutely perfect, but pretty much every time it swings for the fences in terms of style or audacity it nails it consistently.

Do not, under any circumstances, watch Primer on a streaming service. There’s separating art and artist and then there’s…

And we know Peele could have chimed in on how to direct a scene where an ape goes berzerk on some naughty humans.

So did all the other directors who were nominated, and numerous others than never got a nomination as well.

But adapted screenplay makes no sense... what story is it adapted from exactly

From the decades of material (novels, animated films, marketing material, etc.) establishing who the characters are. It’s no different to Glass Onion being nominated as an adapted screenplay last year (despite Knives Out qualifying as original). The Academy’s rules of screenplay categorisation have long been…

“surely there is enough going on in the American and international political sphere right now that Clinton has better things to offer commentary about, if at all”

It’s interesting (read: tragic) how quickly people have gone from laughing at the Academy for planning to bring in an audience award to specifically recognise popular films, to complaining that the biggest film of the year only got nominated in 8 categories including Best Picture.

How is Barbie NOT a historical thing that exists?

Godzilla deserves it, but won’t win.

Just goes to show how different people are, because I was just thinking that this was one of the worst years in history for film. I agree that both Oppenheimer and Barbie were very high quality productions, but surely we can do better? 2023 was just a weird year.

If they were equal categories, I’d agree entirely but Gosling, like Ferrara was nominated for Supporting.
That being said, I do think Robbie deserves a nomination. She was fantastic in Barbie and carried the movie, allowing for Gosling to get the amount of laughs that he did. The burden of the levity of the film’s…

The basics are that Barbie is existing “Intellectual Property”, so it is an adaptation.

Y’all need to copy and paste a little better from other web sites. Poor Things did not “dominate” with 13 nods. It had 11. Oppenheimer, which for some reason wasn’t mentioned at all in the text (other than the copy and paste list of nominees) was the one with 13 nominations. 

Yes.

Because utilitarianism is valid actually but lots of people don’t want to admit it because it means one day someone or something they’re emotionally attached to might be sacrificed for some larger number of equally important people or things.

“There wasn’t enough justification for losing two entities for the sake of one.”

American Graffiti is great. THX-1138 is full of interesting moments, even if it doesn’t gel together satisfactorily as a movie. Bur after making the original Star Wars Lucas realized for a variety of reasons that he didn’t enjoy filmmaking, and didn’t direct another movie in its entirety until Phantom Menace. And it…

I remember when that catalog came in the mail. Still have it, too. The Naboo starfighter was also one of the Episode I launch sets, and I still have it (though no idea where Little Ani is currently).