In fairness, if they’d randomly had someone - anyone, really - occasionally yelling “Boats and hos!” it would have been perfect.

The show has less than five minutes to create an appropriate, tasteful montage that pays tribute to an international community of artists, and not just the big stars you know—in addition to actors, the segment acknowledges directors, producers, composers, production designers, editors, attorneys, agents, executives,…

Agreed. No one wants to squint past the dancers in the foreground to see the list; I don’t know why they insisted on doing it this way again.

My wife and I joked they could have got Will Ferrell to sing int instead. At least he’s in the movie biz.

Perhaps because I’m a bit older, but I wouldn’t mind if “In Memoriam” was longer than 5 minutes. I feel like there’s always someone I didn’t realize was gone, and I also feel like they deserve their time.

There shouldn’t be anything else going on on-stage while this is running.  Just run the video.  Nothing should distract from the remembrance.

Yeah, it’s almost laughable how they never seem to do it right and last night was the worst. I’d honestly cut out all the performances of best song candidates if that’s what it took to allot the appropriate amount of time to honor these people.

Yeah, just because they weren’t famous doesn’t make them “losers.”

They should just show the names and pictures.

The “loser producers and financiers” gets to part of the problem with the In Memoriam and arguably the Oscars as a whole, the tension between whether this is an industry event or a broader cultural one. Those producers and financiers were probably more relevant to more people on that stage and in the auditorium than…

Some of those are pretty notable, not gonna lie. The problem was compounded by setting this to an actual song, which I never like because it really limits them to the finite amount of time of that single song. (By contrast, instrumental background music can be played on an extended loop if need be.) And what made it…

Next year:

“We decided to play a five-minute song while showing only ONE dead person’s face. To choose which one, we put it to Twitter.”

Armageddon and Deep Impact are always the examples I use of lateral thinking. I also bring up A Bug’s Life and Antz. 

Frisco opens with the character going on a rant about being stuck in a rut. He’s basically saying the motivation out loud at the start, without the journey, and just stating his feelings instead of the audience discovering him

You changed my life, baby velociraptor. You thought I was teaching you to hunt, when it was really you who was teaching me all along.

Apparently Dominic Sessa (who played Angus) is only 21 and was an actual student at the prep school they were using for filming! Maybe preppies just age faster or something.

Yeah, it’s not an *original* movie by any means. But it is an extremely well-delivered movie by every regard.

Looking through the stuff, it seems like there are a lot of technical similarities but the subtext of the scenes are entirely different. One of the most laughable claims is that the scene where Angus receives a B on his History exam is copied from the scene in Frisco where the main characters looks at a copy of On The…

The article’s last sentence says the same thing.

Look, once you add Suits to your Netflix queue, that’s nine seasons you gotta get through.