5'9" so…average. And I'm not complaining, as women are usually not disgusted by me. I've just noticed this and all my tall friends concur. Even women who say height doesn't matter, suddenly care when a tall guy enters the room.

I don't think there's a limit. I've seen women nearly faint in front of guys who were pushing 7' and yet looked like Rocky Dennis.

As a man of average height, I've come to learn that all men over 6'5" are considered sex symbols.

Every comment is, in its own way, a declaration of our misery.

I feel this way too, though I'll say that even the snobbiest of my film nerd friends who saw Hidden Figures said it was well-crafted and not as broadly sanded-down for mass consumption as you'd think, so I'm actually interested in seeing it.

How cute! I'll bet you used that to eat baby food wherever you went!

Gallant would surely disapprove of my attitude.

A take-charge nurse sounds like the kind of character who could quite easily be charged with Disorderly conduct.

With his co-host, the American Yum Yum Clown Monkey.

Agreed.

Jimmy Two Times. He'll host the show twice each night, host the show twice each night.

Yes, which is fine. More people would see it if it won, but the nomination raises its profile, and that's enough.

Oh I know. It absolutely makes sense as an approach. I just hated the approach AND the story. I never read the book but based on my reaction to the movie, I might like it even less.

I was not talking about the "how important stories are" thing at the end, between two horrible actors in a terribly written scene, but the visual approach of the whole movie.

The Red Turtle is likely a long shot since, per your note about catching up with it on streaming, I fear that Academy voters likely watched it at home. And it's the kind of movie that really needs the big screen to work best. It will still be transporting but likely less so with the distractions of home viewing.

In the sense that it was like a Highlights magazine come to life, yes.

Elle is so great. I was really hoping it would be nominated, especially because it's a deeply subversive movie dressed up like the usual foreign film Oscar fare.

Agreed on art direction in The Love Witch, though for me it's neck-and-neck with The Handmaiden. Both those movies are gorgeously designed.

I absolutely despise that movie. Storybook bullshit.

I believe it played some festivals prior to airing on TV.