Oh yeah, Messiah is definitely happening. We’re going Godfather 3 up in this bitch.

Exactly. I Don worry about depreciation, because I keep my cars until they start costing more in repairs than replacements. I get the full use out of them.

Man, I barely passed economics (in my defense it was an 8 AM class and the professor was BORING). But even my “Curve starts with C” ass could see this coming.

Maybe, just maybe, just keep your car and don’t trade it in.

Multiple things can intersect and be true at once if you consider the history at play here.

I believe the topic in question is that this app is a national security risk, so I don’t see how “tik tok should exist because of the funny memes” is a relevant defense against that.

The Nissan Altima is the obvious answer, but there’s another that I’ve observed in my commute: Dodge Chargers. They’re getting up there in years and don’t hold value. As a result, they’re landing in buy-here pay-here lots and being snatched up by idiots. 

The could be some humor if the movie was centered around the death of all the members of the band, and it is done as kind of a retrospective with interviews.

You’re definitely entitled to your opinion. I think Goodfellas is the one where there might be a broader consensus that the Academy fucked up though.  That doesn’t make you wrong, of course.

I very much agree. I think there’s a chance that Oppenheimer might not have cleaned up as much if it had been streamer produced.

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the elephant in the room: streaming companies. Streaming companies owned by tech giants have been pouring money into award campaigns for years now, mostly successfully. I got the sense with this years Oscar’s that there was a backlash, and a concerted effort to reward traditional…

Gosling’s putting a big hole in the popular narrative that there are no true “movie stars” anymore.

Why did Scorsese’s Gangs of New York and The Irishman also lose all 10 of their nominations? It was just the competition. Unlucky.

My two cents: I think Scorsese was the wrong person to direct this film, and his role in its making raised expectations and provoked a far greater letdown.

I’ve watched the performance so many times already and still giggle with glee during it. Also whoever came up with putting Billie Eilish behind Gosling at the start deserves a bonus as there was something absolutely heartwarming in watching her barely keeping herself together there.

I’ll see your three Oscars for 12 Years a Slave and raise you five for Green Book. The Oscars do love movies about historical tragedies, but they do love them in particular ways.

Did the AV Club forget that it put not just Oppenheimer, but also Poor Things, ahead of Killers of the Flower Moon in its list of the best picture of 2023? So why all the sudden wailing about the fact that the Academy . . . agreed with you? How is a movie “snubbed” when you think the actual winner was better?

The length didn’t bother me, but it was a dull film. Clearly AV Club is head over heals for it, but Killers was not the best film in many regards. Lily’s win would have been history making and she was well deserving of the nom. After her run at the other shows, I was surprised she didn’t take it home last night.

Becasue it was too long and frequently dull?

Dune is rife with biblical overtones: