As Kahneman pointed out a while back, people appear to believe in the Law of Small Numbers rather than the Law of Large Numbers.

Its “okay” script got a Screenplay nomination! Bizarre to me.

It didn’t get Cinematography, although that would have been more deserved than Adapted Screenplay, which it bizarrely WAS nominated for.

To confirm I wasn’t just spouting hot air, The Whale was #2 in Gold Derby’s predictions for Adapted Screenplay, while Top Gun: Maverick was #7:

Best Adapted Screenplay is the bigger joke. Given how well The Whale had been doing with precursors, I thought that would get in.

That’s a real Bummonator.

An “important” AVC comment? You’ve given me my laugh for the day.

I liked the film adaptation of Haunting of Hill House, but I think the TV series was a fundamentally bad idea from the conception, as illustrated by its face-plant of an ending completely inconsistent with what had been leaving up to it.

Back when I worked in the suburbs I would get the Baconator fairly regularly for lunch.

For an established I.P. like Santa Claus

Not even the Rat Pack original.

The only one of his credits I’ve seen is Gone in 60 Seconds, and I have no memory of him in it (or most of that film).

What I found bizarre about “Shirley” is that they tried to contrast their original character as a mother-to-be with the childless Shirley Jackson... when the real Shirley wrote extensively about her brood of “savages”!

Ethan and Maya Hawke have kicked off production on their first collaboration together

What joke? The only note for this one is adding a Roman numeral to the title:

Our greatest traditions really are dying.

Do the fairy tales still fart?

Derivative of Hitchcock’s Rebecca? Moshfegh has said Hathaway’s character was named after that.

2016's Lady Macbeth (which notably launched the career of Florence Pugh)