You’re doing God’s work here, my friend. I salute you.

OH, you have got to see this clip. It is DELICIOUS  

Those are some serious shoes to fill! Amazing you saw that.

The also offered the one-line role of Evita’s aunt to Patti, who promptly refused.

True true. Although one could argue that Evita is really not that good at all. The slowed the score WAY down to accommodate her breathy, barely controlled voice. Just compare the insane heat and energy Patti Lupone brought to “Buenos Aires” to Madonna’s slow, painful, modulated down version. It’s night and day.

I remember hearing that. What a shame. Such a fab house.

Fascinating. I knew it was inspired by Hitchcock (obvious homages to his shooting style and subject matter), but I love the tidbit about Charade (also a fave).

It’s a seriously great movie. And the fact that it’s Harrison Ford, an actor who is routinely cast as the good guy and hero, makes it that much better a twist. You’re positive the issue is going to be with the neighbor, and that the whole car accident the year before just made her kind of jumpy, and then IT ALL COMES…

I too love this movie. What about towards the end, when she *SPOILER ALERT* has been rendered almost comatose by the drug he gives her, and the camera moves from above her to underneath the floor looking up? Seriously brilliant camera work there.

I think her point may be that a person who plays the cello is a “cellist,” not a “celloist.”

I somewhat inexplicably LOVE this movie. I remember seeing it in the movie theatre with my mom and her bestie, in a packed theatre that was filled with 90% women, and the entire audience just so. freaking. INTO. IT. Shrieks and screams out loud at all the jump scares, it was one of the most entertaining movie theatre…

Yup, yup, yup to all of it.

It bugs me how much they’ve already cut out the technical awards. Remember the year they had those individuals deliver their speeches from their seats? Disrespectful bullshit.

It’s like you and I share a brain (I am a fellow Oscar nerd). TOTALLY agree. Get them to attend, but keep them in their place.

“Actually, is this all just about Black Panther? That movie broke so many records, is this just a way for the old racist coots that vote to not have to truly acknowledge Black Panther?”

I get what you’re saying. But, there have been a number of films that were technological production marvels and ahead of their times that were widely ignored by the Academy (example: 2001: A Space Odyssey). I think the overall consensus is that they seem to be pretty loose on what qualifies as a “excellent” film based…

I understand your point, but the argument of “the plot was one that has been seen countless times before” I don’t think holds up. Not that it wasn’t a standard superhero plot, but rather that this distinction should in any way be used to separate an excellent film from an okay film. I don’t remember who said it, but…

I understand your point. But, by that measurement, a LARGE number of movies that have been nominated for, and even won, Best Picture are hardly deserving.

I would wager that at least half of the movies that have won this honor beat out a far more deserving movie. And even when it doesn’t, it can still somehow manage to upstage the better film that did win (I’m looking at you, La La Land).

The Academy unfortunately has a history of rewarding some of the safer, or more self-serving movies that title. In 1969, Oliver! won Best Picture. Do you know what other movie came out that year (and wasn’t nominated for BP)? 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who could talk at length…