I just don’t think the salad-tossing matched the crazy energy of the frantic, table-quaking tough-steak-cutting of the first sketch, and I don’t know if they’re going to come up with a basic physical activity that can be as funny. Lisa’s other quirks were kind of the dressing on the main joke that was the relentless…

Unless it opens a plot hole, who cares. I’m fine with cool but purposeless visuals in a visual medium.

DEATH HAS SPOKEN!

HAVING MOST OF A THEATER JOIN IN THE SINGING OF A POPULAR SONG COULD BE A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. NEVERTHELESS, I CAN SEE HOW THE CAST AND SOME/MANY/MOST AUDIENCE MEMBERS, HAVING PAID TO HEAR PROFESSIONALS, MIGHT NOT APPRECIATE IT. THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS: LEAN IN. ADVERTISE PERFORMANCES WHERE JOINING IN IS ALLOWED AND…

When I saw Jersey Boys there was a woman behind me who would not stop singing along to all the songs. It was infuriating. People really don’t know how to act in public anymore.  

Which is odd because I don’t even remember “I Will Always Love You” being in it.

“Two women were forcibly pulled out of the theater by security”

progressive Gen-Z values and songs that sound like they could be Ariana Grande or Kesha singles

It seems crazy that no one seems to have actually seen it which probably didn’t help.

I’m pretty sure Sanderson had the burden of proof in this instance and he struggled with that. His texts and emails about fame and such didn’t help. It seems crazy that no one seems to have actually seen it which probably didn’t help.

Running out of ideas for slideshows? 

A common theme of many of the films that have taken top awards only to be scrutinized anew with the gift of hindsight is the “white savior” narrative.

Oh I so tire of the drubbing How Green Was My Valley gets, for having the temerity to receive the Academy’s recognition over Citizen Kane.  I can’t even compare the films, because they are so different, but Valley is a marvelous film in its own right, one of John Ford’s very best, and ought to be regarded on its own…

Chicago is great cinema, and an amazing adaptation of a musical imo 

Any Best Picture winner that features a song called “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” and a 16-year-old title character being trained as a courtesan is not going to play well in 2023.Best Picture should have gone to the powerful and provocative The Defiant Ones.

Two thoughts,

I might be in the minority here but I would probably add the Dark Knight Rises to the list. It suffers the same problems as Godfather III, uninterested director, lazy production values and placing the quality supporting cast in the backseat. 

catch me on the right day and die hard with a vengeance is my fave of the bunch, but i’m glad to see it made neither list!

I’m not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night and it seems like Warner has a good case.

A few years ago, shit like this would have clearly been the work of Harvey Weinstein playing press games to try and drag down EEAAO’s Oscar chances. Like, smellable from ten miles away. But now it’s just the internet.