Yeah these “Please Don’t Destroy” skits routinely get singled out as the best, yet I find them and the trio just aggressively mediocre.  I can’t imagine how bad the rest of the show is.

She’ll be back as soon as there is a new project to promote.  

Superstar?  Really?  She has one thing going for her.  Well, two...

And I heard they blew an obscene amount of money on Noah Baumbach’s film “White Noise.”  Like a crazy amount that definitely didn’t go into the actual production.  

Yeah Netflix is a strange beast.  They’re like a black box.  Other people I know in the industry have described it almost like a secret society.  Damn near impossible to gain admission, but once you’re in, Netflix will give you crazy money for your project, no matter if it never sees the light of day.

Yeah that’s the thing missing from all this, is that the five chosen are very much deserving in their own right. Justine Triet would be my pick for Best Director. All this talk about Gerwig and Barbie really seems to sleight the other five for the great work they did.

Exactly! Well put. Winning an Oscar can be downright detrimental, and serve to highlight more deserving films. No one remembers Driving Miss Daisy, except for the fact that it beat out a once in a generation kind of film like Do the Right Thing.

A lot of our finest filmmakers never received competitive Oscars. Hitchcock. Altman. Kubrick (except for VFX for 2001, which really should’ve gone to Doug Trumbull). There can be as much honor to be held in the company of those who get overlooked, as there is if one is chosen.

He’s wants for his paid hackery the kind of respect that only comes with a proper theatrical release.  Preferably in 70mm, but he’d settle for a 35mm release.

It’s that bad, huh?

Eh, I don’t know about that. Her next movie is Chronicles of Narnia, for Netflix. Don’t get me wrong, I bet it’ll be great, but Academy voters fucking hate Netflix. Hell CODA arguably won because a lot of voters wanted to spite Netflix and its zeal to win BP, by giving Apple+ the honor of being the first streamer to…

Hell, they wouldn’t even recognize Snow White with a BP nom back in 37, despite it being universally regarded at the time as a major artistic breakthrough, one of the greatest films ever made, AND becoming the top grossing movie of all time until Gone with the Wind.  They copped out and gave Disney an honorary Oscar.  

It felt like an Adam McKay movie from the mid 00s suddenly gatecrashed Gerwig’s set.  

God this reminds of the Office, and how they dithered on finding a replacement for Michael Scott, so it turned into a rotating cast and so many resets I finally abandoned that show.  

And Basalone felt like such a cypher. Almost the point of being propagandistic, the way he seeks combat, wins medals, ultimately dies in battle. And Leckie was miscast. I never bought James Badge Dale as a marine, he was too nebeshy. I dare say, even Joseph Mazello I didn’t really get into as Eugene Sledge.

Wow, you nailed it, great take!  This makes a lot of sense.  I had read a number of the books that were later used as the basis for The Pacific, and yeah it’s a real issue they way they joined those texts, full of characters that don’t really connect with one another. Leckie is off fighting for one part of the war,…

Same.  Because I am really not sold on Austin Butler, who strikes me as a blandly attractive actor in the Timothee Chalamet vein, but not very interesting.  

Yeah I have the same thing, I love to revisit BoB, but the Pacific was just one and done for me, and I don’t know why.  Maybe the cast?  I don’t find the actors in The Pacific nearly as compelling.  And perhaps the miniseries is harmed by the fact that the Pacific theater was such a different beast.  BoB was in a…

But what about Buffy Sainte-Marie?