I recently moved from Tampa to a more central and rural part of Florida for work where there’s significantly less street lamps and lighting, and it’s crazy how blinding some of the new headlights on newer vehicles are, especially trucks. Hard to tell in a decently sized city, but in rural areas you’d easily be…

I’m really good at getting guys to have a hard-on for me, but you’re taking it to a rather weird level. 

You’re absolutely right on all fronts.

To be clear, I’m not defending Tesla or Musk or the executives. I was just intuiting a possibility based upon the cross-section of Tesla owners, video gamers, fanboys of Elon musk, and a technological climate that has shifted due to the prevalence of relatively high speed internet…

Exactly.

Margot Robbie is an absolutely beautiful actress who is a good performer, but the roles she’s gotten in her most notable films play up traits that tend to disguise a range that isn’t as expansive of other performers. She’s always beautiful (even in I, Tonya), she’s always charming, she always has good comedic…

In my opinion, Margot is a good actress with a rather limited range, which is why all of her major roles play up how beauty, her decent comedic timing, and her charm. She’s had a very successful career, but she’s gonna have to break out of that mold if she’s ever gonna get across that final hurdle of winning an Oscar…

But to not recognize that Margot Robbie and Gerwig made something timeless out of a subject that nobody was expecting?

I’m a videogamer, and I can’t help but think that the permeation of video gaming has played into this, especially when you think of Tesla’s popularity amongst the very age group (which I’m in) where video games have become the most popular form of media entertainment.

We’ve gotten so used to video games being released…

unless we want to get into a conversation about Gladstone being a supporting actress...

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of the Academy voters think that Noah Baumbach functioned as a sort of shadow “co-director”, since he’s both her husband, her co-writer, and an award-winning director in his own right (although not credited). If that’s the case, it certainly wouldn’t have been helped by the…

The issue is that people at the time said that Emma didn’t deserve to win, let alone that Adams got snubbed. That doesn’t invalidate that Margot, while good in the movie, played a role that didn’t necessarily require her to exhibit groundbreaking acting talent or go outside of her range. Hell, if you look at Margot’s…

There’s also the fact that the Best Picture award goes to the producers of the movie, and there’s always the real possibility that the director isn’t a producer on the movie, so there isn’t necessarily an automatic overlap (for example, Coda in 2021 won Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, but wasn’t nominated…

I love David Fincher, and The Killer was a beautiful movie to watch, but it was Fincher’s worst movie since Alien 3. So many good things on paper, but the execution was poor (and the story of the assassin being targeted after a failed hit is played out, to the point where attempting to play it straight almost comes…

Keoghan was never gonna get a nomination over the 5 guys who did get nominated, and I think Leo was probably 6th place.

Honestly, Rosamund Pike deserved a nomination for Supporting Actress, and I’d give her the nomination that Emily Blunt got. Oppenheimer was my favorite movie of the year, but until today, I completely…

I haven’t seen Saltburn but it’s seemingly been polarizing enough that it’s not surprising it couldn’t muster enough votes to be nominated.

Nyad likely appealed to the older academy voters who have a soft spot for a legendary, but older actress like Annette. Frankly, there’s always at least one older actor (talking about age 70+) who gets a nomination seemingly out of nowhere for a movie that very few people likely watched. Not to take anything away from…

Exactly.

The question that people need to ask is, “Okay, if you put Margot in, who do you take out?” Looking at the nominations, the immediate two names are Annette Benning and Sandra Huller. Mulligan, Stone, and Gladstone are too good in their respective roles (and I think Gladstone is a lock), while Nyad and Anatomy…

Your early morning contribution has been noted. Cheers.

Yeah, DeSantis (who, lets be clear, I don’t like) did almost everything wrong from the very start, which are the unforced errors I was speaking about. He would’ve always had a hard time overcoming Trump, but running a campaign that tried to do two mutually exclusive things (I’m both more radical-right than Trump, but…

The thirst over Adam Driver is one of those situations where it’s clear that what straight women find hot is often the diametric opposite of what gay men find hot, because you almost  never hear gay men talking lustingly about Adam Driver (and as a gay man myself, Driver has one of the weirdest faces I’ve seen and…

Having agency at moments is far different than being the active protagonist.

She only goes to Calvin Coolidge (and, most importantly, as part of an entire delegation) after we’ve witnessed half a dozen of just her family members get killed/die. In reality, the number of Osage who were killed by that point was nearly 60…