Looking at it from a purely gender-neutral, heads-up perspective, I feel she was indeed snubbed because her film was as purely creative and unique as anything we saw this year.  I expect the portion of people who rolled their eyes when they heard someone was making a Barbie movie was 90%+, but that anyone who knows…

I try to be. 

Thinks awards are arbitrary jokes and also thinks that only movies about certain subjects deserve them

Margot Robbie>Emma Stone.

Is there a category for ‘Can’t understand the dialogue because the director lacks faith in the audience to understand emotional elements of the story and therefore inappropriately heaps soundtrack elements all over his movie, almost destroying it at times’?

would have liked a song nomination for asteroid city, but i’m hoping wes anderson wins for short.

Right? How did anyone know what the screenplay contained, given that we couldn’t hear the dialogue?

Man, FUCK Nolan getting a nom for adapted screenplay. His dumb first person scene description bullshit should be disqualifying for any kind of fucking writing awards.

My Snub list:

The Gerwig snub is the worst of the lot. She did something that showed remarkable creativity and craft based upon a doll that already had a bunch of silly little-kid cartoons associated with it. The only anyone didn’t think it would be a disastrous idea from the very beginning was that her name was attached to it. 

Almost like the academy doesn’t like women directors

is he handsome or is he just tall?

Meanwhile The Criterion Channel has been absolutely kicking everyone’s ass up, down, and sideways with their truly inventive topical curation of late. Cat films, motherfuckers, I’m a talking a whole section of big-mood cat films. It’s great.

Even more annoying is the lack of research or context: Netflix has carried older movies this whole time, and while the 1974 movies are new to it right now they’ve carried them previously. Netflix has been cycling old movies in and out since time immemorial. The news is the actual *section* highlighting these movies.

If they’d never made The Talented Mr. Ripley, it would have been more shocking.

everything about saltburn is designed to drive social media posts, streaming numbers, tiktok edits, etc. its a post-cinema movie. really bad sign for the future unfortunately!

Such a weird movie. It’s actually super straightforward (like a middle school production of The Talented Mr. Ripley). I saw every “twist” coming a mile away. But then, they throw in three or four bonkers scenes to try to convince you you’re watching something transgressive. Watch Titane and tell me again how bonkers…

it’s so funny how nebulous and manipulatable the charts are now that it’s not tied to physical sales in any way.

“While Synderverse closer Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom clocked in as this year’s number one film”

A solid B? Nah. No way. I can’t go any higher than a C- and that might be kind. Complete waste of Emma Stone. Most of the writing was tepid. Overly reliant on musicals that weren’t that good or catchy. Plus the sound was off on that Naked one where I could barely hear it, not that it mattered because it was a one note…