Everything Everywhere is the first movie to have three actress nominations since Mrs. Miniver in 1942.

I think you’re forgetting how many best-of-2022 lists Top Gun: Maverick ended up on. Even AVClub put it at #6. Just go to the movie’s accolades page on Wikipedia. It was a huge hit for critics and audiences alike.

It very much is dark, strange, and slow. The performances made it for me.

it’s on Showtime, probably not being cross-hosted for a while

I watched “RRR” over the weekend in a theater (how it needs to be viewed), and while it’s a WILDLY entertaining movie, tons of fun, it’s not a “best picture” level film.  The story itself is fantastic, but the characters are mostly 2-dimensional, and there is some really hokey acting (although perfect for what the…

it is definitely dark, strange and slow. you’re bang on. that appeals to some and turns off others. i loved it but it’s not for everyone.

 I get giving Avatar production and visual nominations, but to put in the best picture category is a joke. 

I do think Everything Everywhere and Tar had the most reaction from me, in very different ways. Excellent films.

Hiking in a storm seems like a bad idea, regardless of whether or not you have Warlock powers.

I think the idea is that the monster egg was comparably small when it dropped into the ocean (a month or so before the main action?) and then grew to kaiju size in the ocean. There isn’t a huge time jump there because the romantic leads are still awkward around each other about their hookup when the main action takes…

Does that mean he still finds acorns occasionally?

He’s not escaping anything, not even mentally. He will live out the rest of his days in an underfunded state facility mostly alone and incapable of understanding where he is or what happened to him. Neurodegenerative diseases are possibly the closest thing to Hell on Earth.

“Only now” that he’s 70 years old? Well yeah, he wasn’t going to be in cognitive decline decades ago when he started to abuse people. Yeah this doesn’t feel fair but it’s not that far-fetched that a 70-year-old man in awful shape (who’s probably done a lot of drugs) would be in cognitive decline.

Blessing in disguise. They wouldn’t have had the faintest idea what to do with her.

If you ever had to deal with someone with dementia, its a far, far worse punishment than jail will ever be. Its a long slow drawn out slide until the mind is gone and finally ends in death. You are basically just sitting in your body, no memory, most of the time can’t even talk. You pretty much are just sitting there…

My mom died of dementia last year and it is not an escape by any means. People think dementia is just confusion or memory loss, but it’s so much worse than that. As their brain degenerates, their body slowly shuts down. They lose control of basic bodily functions and become incontinent. In end stage dementia, the brain…

I can say from experience they do NOT teach that the first day of law school. 

I doubt he was able to fake it well enough for the prosecution’s medical expert to determine he isn’t competent. 

Well, I guess it’s unfortunate that he won’t see any jail time, but frankly as someone who’s seen multiple family members succumb to dementia, I don’t feel like he’s gotten off scot free or anything.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a movie that lives up to a David Lynch comparison in the past few decades of “If David Lynch directed _____” or “David Lynch meets _______”