That's fair, and I know the feeling. There are plenty of dubs I just cannot watch especially after getting used to subs. I think Disney's dubs are an exception from a combination of high quality and watching them before I knew about subs.

The only time they've done that was with Ponyo, which was still fine, hardly ruined, also had great performances from Fey and Neeson. Though I prefer subs as a rule, I like some of Disney's dubs, the world's a better place with Michael Keaton's Marco, Claire Danes' San, and Phil Hartman's Jiji in it.

99 shares a lot of similarities with Parks, a show that (I understand) draws a ton of internet traffic. I bet Fox thinks having a Schur show in their stable will net them lucrative Netflix/hulu/what have you contracts. Though given how slow they are to upload episodes to both those sites, there's still some kinks to…

Still can't bring myself to watch episode 7 or 8 of this season, it's just so boring now.

Fair.

Beach episode! So kawaii!

Just for you, I'll stop talking about something I like forever.

Do you understand how a vote works? The reason American Hustle was favored is because a lot of people voted for it, that's what the information was representing. Slightly more people voted for 12 Years a Slave, but by all accounts the number was slight.

You're right, sorry, that was bad wording. Practically shut out.

Our people tell the same story.

Dude

If you don't care, that's fine, whatever. My sympathy is more with Duvernay who was just denied a significant career boost, but you are perfectly in the right to disagree I guess.

Drat, I used the wrong semantics and now my whole argument is bust.

It's morally gray and doesn't fit a standard narrative, just like all people and institutions in real life.

The hundreds of examples are "every other film that's won Best Picture"

I love Grand Budapest hotel though. Talking about overly melodramatic things like Imitation Game.

There's no Joe Academy picking these awards, it's a consensus of hundreds, the same hundreds who make the movies we watch. And if hundreds of people who are making the decisions of what we see in movies think we want to see more American Snipers and less Selmas then of course I'm mad.

I mean, Imitation Game, and Theory of Everything didn't transcend their format either, I'd say even less. What struck me about Selma is how Duvernay
A) Actually chipped away at the myth of MLK by portraying him as a more dimensional and interesting figure.
B) Focused a lot on the people around MLK too. His wife and the…

I'd even call Johnson's character sympathetic! He goes through the classic politician arc of "wants to do thing that is morally right, but can't because politics, but then does it anyways in the end" that The West Wing time and time again to lionize Martin Sheen. Everyone saying it villainizes him wasn't even paying…

One counter example doesn't invalidate a word like "historically". You can have exceptions and still follow a trend over time.