That bad a year for film, I guess.

You don’t include all the tweet sounds and other stylistic quirks if you’re not attempting to make a playful film. Though you’re right that it’s supposed to be traumatic as well. Neither aspect really worked for me, sadly. Most of the film is just the protagonist sitting or standing around watching other people do…

Not quite sure what Katie and Alex saw in Zola. I felt similarly about Zola and House of Gucci. Both films wanted to be a fun romp with a playful tone, but neither had the right plot to support that kind of tone. I found both to be more boring than fun.

I think the shallow read is one that’s going to slip away with age.

Nickelback has sold 50 million albums. There’s clearly a ton of people who love or at least loved them.

Is this a bit?

That’s the documentary, not the narrative film.

Yeah. I still don’t know what Sokin was thinking. Kidman kind of pulled it off, but it was too much to ask for Bardem to get anywhere close to Desi. At least the movie was crappy anyway, so it’s no big loss.

I’ve seen all of the other nominees and they’re great. The yak movie has a lot to live up to.

The homosexual aspect of the film is pretty well publicized. Not what people are referring to when they say there are shocking revelations. At least I hope not. Because that would be dumb. It was obvious from the trailer. And I say that as a card-carrying straight guy.

Javier Bardem really transformed himself into Javier Bardem in old timey clothes. Masterful performance.

A lot of prognosticators had Being the Ricardos tabbed as a Best Picture nominee. So the fact that it only got acting noms seems like a small mercy.

My real question is how the yak movie got in there over A Hero and the other shortlisted films. Bhutan must have mounted one hell of a campaign. 

Better than I expected for sure. Drive My Car and Nightmare Alley getting in there over Being the Ricardos and tick, tick...BOOM! is a win.

You nailed it. If you don’t live in a place with good public transportation, you have literally no choice but to buy a $200,000 sports car. No other alternative. Buying austentatious, overpriced toys and bragging about them on the internet is simply “participating in society.”

Exactly. There’s also normal people level nice shit and austentatious asshole nice shit.

Do people expect him to donate 90% of his income and live in artificial poverty for the sake of an image?

I know, right? Man had a busy year.

Neither would make my personal Best Picture list, but I completely agree that In the Heights was the more impressive of the two Miranda-linked musicals. It’s so much more lively and visually sumptuous than Tick... Tick... BOOM!

Memoria and West Side Story are good though?