Ok, but that wasn't really the crux of the argument the author made.

I guess that's true, but the movie is already a pretty far cry from what actually happened, so telling you what happened in the closing credits of The Revenant would be like adding a true ending to a mostly fake story.

This is not what a "scientific explanation" is, this is what a smart guy going "oh this is maybe a thing that I can say applies here" is.

Yup, I think that is exactly what happened. You can tell because the thesis changes from "there is a pattern of the Oscars ignoring LGBT films" to "well maybe it doesn't ignore them, but they don't win best picture, which is all that really counts" to "also movies where the gay character dies don't count, even if…

I also kind of resent how the author dismissed Capote because the main character died in the closing credits in the usual sort of "update on what's happened since this story" cards. Of course they mention that he has died since the story! He was an actual person who actually died! That doesn't mean that the death…

I find it odd that this article does not mention Milk, which was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 2, or The Imitation Game, which also got 8 noms (which seemed to be more than most people thought it deserved) and one win. Leaving these out those notable exceptions weakens the argument quite a bit.

The locals are trying to fancy them up, they are really just sand.

A fighting chicken?

I think he's onto something. Type smart, not hard.

I hear that laudanum is some good shit.

I would very much like to meet a person who has more ethanol in their blood than water.

Then what would be satisfactory proof? We can't go back in time and test him, not that The Clear would have showed up in a test anyway. The guy was convicted on obstruction of justice charges for evading questions about whether he used steroids. (The conviction was later overturned, not because he wasn't being…

You don't gain two shoe sizes from not being on steroids. Whether it can be proven or not, I think it is pretty clear to everyone that he used them, and in breaking one of the sport's most hallowed records under their influence, he destroyed destroyed something really special about the game and did way more lasting…

The Hall is different from the MLB, and I have no idea why they go along with the MLB's bans. In my opinion they should let both in, especially if Barry Bonds is allowed to be eligible.

I am disappointed that this article didn't mention my favorite thing about old-timey baseball: that the audience would stand in the outfield and along the fowl lines, which is fucking insane and possibly part of the reason Chief Wilson was able to hit so many triples.

I honestly cannot imagine how This is Life didn't get a nom but Pawn Stars did. Unless they consider it a documentary series. But then why wouldn't Parts Unknown be a documentary series? I give up.

Of course it sucks, but that doesn't mean the genre to which it belongs does not exist.

That is probably because a lot of the old sci-fi films and tv shows were kind of both (War of the Worlds, Godzilla, Plan 9 from Outer Space), and you still occasionally get something following in that mold. But yeah, it does seem a bit antiquated.

(Mild Quasi-spoilers) I also saw The Revenant this weekend, but I was much more impressed than it sounds like you were. The visuals were absolutely gorgeous, especially that one shot in the final fight scene by the river with the sunlight reflecting off the mountaintops in the background. I thought it was pretty…

At least that's sort of close. I am an American and spent a semester in Manchester, and I never really knew until I got there how similar a northern English accent is to a Scottish one. Geographically, it makes sense, of course, but so many of the Brits we hear, especially in the states, are from the south.