The most memorable part of signs is where Mel Gibson vengefully starts eating mashed potatoes, which makes his kids cry, and then he starts crying while mashed potatoes fall out of his mouth.

He's up there.

I watched it once around the time it first was released on video and hated it, and then a few months ago got an urge to rewatch it, thinking it might at least be fun-bad. It wasn't. It is just plain terrible. The old man talking about hot dogs and the excruciating scenes with Marky Mark and Zooey talking to each…

There is one episode of Better Call Saul with a really depressing backstory for a supporting character, and its effectiveness is like 80% dependent on your goodwill towards him from Breaking Bad, as he is not given enough screentime or personality on BCS for you to care about his backstory very much. Other than that,…

Season 8 is one of the most consistent of the entire series, IMO. It actually has a pretty consistent story that continues every week and it was a delight seeing Doggett interact with all the old character mainstays (Krycek, etc). Of course, then season 9 happened and undid all the good work 8 did. :(

No way, First Person Shooter is way worse! Or Jump the Shark!

The Fall is quite a popular series and it's basically a star vehicle. I haven't seen Duchovny in anything since the X Files but have seen her in a few things. YMMV apparently.

AJ's bad, but on rewatch, I found I just couldn't even make it past the first two episodes of season 2 because of Janice. Most characters on that show are unpleasant, but I couldn't even watch her again.

Yeah, that would be just what we need, a great female lead changed so she's defined by her love life ala all those damn YA adaptations.

God no, I LOVED Brooklyn and Room and really liked Creed, but Creed is simply the best Rocky sequel, it's not really anything stand-out. I love that it exists and it was a great mainstream vehicle that will hopefully get Ryan Coogler and MBJ a lot more exposure, but best picture nominee material? Heck no.

Agreed totally, none of the films getting "snubbed" were particularly worthy, they're no better than many other films that got "snubbed." The only thing that really looks bad on paper is the one film directed, written by, and starring primarily people of color only received a nominee for the white guy, but I wouldn't…

I hate that color correction, though it looks like they were going more for the awful late-Spielberg "nostalgia" version of teal and orange than the Nolan washed-out thing. Still looks awful and makes me feel ill.

I liked Zuckuss, too. The only lame one was Dengar. Guy with bandages around his head and a potbelly-enhancing suit of armor? AWESOME!

Yeah, I sort of wondered if that was also offensive on some level, but I've never seen complaints about that and saw a ton about Jared Leto. I don't pretend to understand the distinction.

Do you have a source for that? Last serious attempt at statistical analysis that I saw placed it at 3.8%. I'm interested in being proven wrong.

No, because Eddie Redmayne is a CIS white male, and thus him playing a trans character is like a white man in blackface and will be looked back on as just as ludicrous and offensive as blackface is now (I think that was the argument with Jared Leto). I can sort of buy that, tbh.

Yeah, Slumdog was right up there with Crash on the undeserving winner list for me.

Well, I'm not saying they SHOULD make up 4% of the films nominated or whatever, I'm just saying that it's more than fine where it is right now especially considering populations. But yeah, I guess I must be a crazy bigot or something. :P

I HATED the big short and considered it the Entourage of prestige pictures, but Carol was still about 5 slots under the other stuff I'd have nominated. I'd have nominated Tangerine over it, if we're just talking LGBT stuff.

Agreed with your first paragraph completely. This article is ridiculous, especially in the face of the racial argument this year. LGBTQ is OVER-represented in the Oscars, if anything, considering they're what, 4% of the population? Less?