I saw the trailer for this entirely too many times (i.e. any number of times at all). By the end of that run, "I'm trying to fix my mind" was as branded into my consciousness as "Tell the truth! … Tell the truth!".

The Village Voice review of this is a mini-masterpiece.

Not mentioned in this review:

Oh man, if ever there was a movie that demanded a Spoiler Space, it's this one. I've read about the two twists to this movie, and oh boy, they are howlers.

Question: Why didn't Warner Bros. just rerelease this obvious masterpiece instead of bringing Collateral Beauty into the world?

"In fact, Collateral Damage was a more nuanced look at parental grief than Collateral Beauty, which is really saying something since Collateral Damage was an Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle in which a terrorist asked Schwarzenegger, “When are you going to kill me?” and he replied, “Now!” and then threw an ax through his…

Moonlight has been moved to the Adapted Screenplay race, Kenneth Lonergan can finally buy that award polish he's been saving up for

Well, that's too much Hoyte van Hoytema magic already, god knows what seeing the whole movie will be like.

I guarantee more people have brought up The Tree of Life than Moneyball since the Oscars. I've honestly thought about Moneyball (which, again, I thought was a very good movie) less than I've thought about The Artist since the ceremony.

Of all the nominees that year, you pick Moneyball? I love Moneyball, but that movie has exactly the same level of cultural impact as The Artist, i.e. none. The Tree of Life is the one in that field that has really stuck around.

I mean, in an ideal world Alden Ehrenreich would've been the surprise Supporting Actor nominee and not goddamn Simon Helberg, but your point is very solid nonetheless.

No way on Supporting Actress, Viola Davis's name is already being engraved on the statue.

I didn't see that edit when I replied.

Viola Davis was nominated.

They put shoes on his knees.

I utterly loathed him and his blank face in Godzilla, and was stunned to see him be legitimately terrifying in Nocturnal Animals.

I'll tell you now!

Hail, Caesar! is great (and much more complicated than a lot of people give it credit for), but it made no money and was released in February, so I'm not surprised. Hell, Burn After Reading made more money later in the year and was ignored too.

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I am insanely jealous of you on both counts.