HuuuuuRRRRR Duuuuurrrrrrrrr!!!! It’s that comment!!!

You’ve successfully performed your wokeness. 5 points to Hufflepuff!!!!

“Lexa’s death fit into an annoying pattern”

What pattern was that? Actors taking other roles and having to be written off? Or necessary deaths of certain characters to move the story forward in a meaningful way? (And are we just ignoring that the main fucking character is a queer woman?)

Yes, queer women and queer folk…

Nope. Discovery was very financially successful for CBS. There is no way they would have greenlight more if it wasn’t holding up.

This smacks more of a fandom-bitching-loudly-online thinking they have more of an outsized effect on an IP than they really do (also see: People who hated TLJ fantasizing that they have…

It will probably be arbitrary, but I would do it by gross. What were the top ten films seen by the most people that year? Then give the award to what they think is the best of those.

In terms of artistic merit, winning would be like being the ‘tallest dwarf’, but hey, its better than nothing.

“If they want to keep the telecast under three hours”

But they would never want this. Think of the missed ad revenue.  

Return of the King was one of the rare moments when the Academy actually gave Best Picture to the film that was the most paradigm-shifting, memorable, and definitive of its time. LOTR permanently changed the entire industry and not even the Academy could deny that.

But after that concession, the Academy re-affixed its…

This cartoon is my sexual identity. 

Yep. How Green Is My Valley winning Best Picture the year Citizen Kane came out is probably the poster-child case for this paradigm.

This all the way. The Academy seems resistant to the idea (with some notable exceptions-that-prove-the-rule) that a sci-fi, action, fantasy, or horror film could be the best film that came out that year. Spotlight was a fine film, but it was ultimately a pretty cut-n-dry procedural. There’s no reason, other than…

I’d rather not see a “Best Popular Film” category and just have the Academy expand it’s horizons a bit and just acknowledge that films in traditionally maligned genres like sci-fi, fantasy, action, and horror are sometimes the “best and most artistic film” out that year.

I think Fury Road, was a great example of the type of film that was both “popular” but also full of a ton of artistic and aesthetic merit. And it was nominated for Best Picture and was viewed as one of the big contenders that actually had a shot. But sadly, the Academy couldn’t let an action film win.

My issue with LaLaLand was that neither Gosling or Stone (who I both like!) had/have the singing and dancing chops required for that type of film.

Go and watch all the Golden Age films LaLaLand was paying homage to. The talent gap in those departments is palpable by comparison. Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron they ain’t. 

From one Jew to another. Jews are an ethnicity.

“my ethnicity is American”

That’s a nationality.

“bitch, you are fucking jewish. do you not know any of your own history? we could have been friends but instead you chose to be trash.”

I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re not trying to erase an entire group of people and are just ignorant, but please educate yourself and stop speaking about what groups you clearly aren’t a part of ‘are’ or ‘are not’. Jews are an ethnic group. You can get DNA tests that will literally…

Definitely don’t agree with cdwag14, but Jews are an ethnic group. There is a religious component, but it’s optional. You don’t have to practice Judaism. You can be 100% Jewish and 100% atheist.

Except over half of Jews in Israel are Sephardic or Mizrahi (aka from North Africa or the Middle East). They’re indistinguishable from Arabs. Are Arabs also white now?

You do realize that there are hundreds of thousands of black Israelis? It’s not like she would have stood out in Tel Aviv.

Said literally everyone in every generation in history ever.