To this day, I wonder about what could have been had Halloween stuck to Carpenter’s initial idea of being an anthology series where each movie simply shared the through line of taking place on/around Halloween.

Unfortunately, the fact they made Halloween 2 a direct sequel basically made that impossible, as proven by…

I’d like to believe they may doctor it in for next year due to the late US release date, but then I remember how Your Name got similarly hosed.

As it stands, I see Best Animated Short shaking out one of three ways.
Kitbull and Hair Love are the two main front runners, naturally. But in the event they manage to vote-split, I could see Memorable having a fighting chance (bittersweet as Hell, but also visually impressive for what it’s doing.)

Personally, would be…

To be fair, Best Original Song is prettymuch THE category for “...why did you not nominate/award *?”

Like, more than any other category, their track record for missed calls at both the nomination and award level is striking.

This is...honestly why I’m not sure I can ever bring myself to watch the movie now.

For a while I was finally starting to get out of the headspace of viewing it as the film that fucked over Saving Private Ryan and take it on its own terms.

Then the Weinstein allegations kicked into high gear.
Now there’s a part of me…

Not QUITE that simple.
Though there are certainly films in the Oscar’s past that feel like they thought it was (cue the famous discussion from Tropic Thunder about just how far to take your mentally handicapped performance here.)

I know they’re working on it for film, but I honestly feel like Ex Machina is a story that would be better served by a television format.

Also, I keep going back and forth on The Wicked + The Divine. It’s got a lot of potential, but I can’t help but see the ways it could go incredibly awry and so I stop myself from…

...I’m just imagining this turning into a really messed up version of Dolarhyde’s speech from Red Dragon.

“YOU OWE IT AWE!”

That’s the act of a good/concerned citizen.
The hero straight-up craps in the bag and puts it back on the shelf.

As the meme says it best...

What can I say except YIKES?

Okay, I’ve not checked out the original story there, so I’m gonna have to ask for context here. Had always thought the pinnacle of his racism went to The Horror at Red Hook - aka, the one even he looked at after and went “Holy shit...”

They’re both fine terms to apply in this context.

See, my first thought is imagining him giving that entire ‘start of the voyage’ speech to the crew. The one that is basically Ishmael’s first sign of ‘Okay, this guy MIGHT be insane’

Queequeg maybe.
Tashtego would be kind of a stretch. He’s one of the Pequod’s harpooners, but definitely more of a secondary character.

That said, given the upshot of this promotion, even Queequeg might have been dicey (let’s put it this way - one of his first scenes in the book, he’s revealed to be carrying around a…

...okay, I apparently missed one huge piece of info here. What the what? @ the Neo-Nazi serial killer connection

there’s no evidence against the idea of a revenge-obsessed whaler in 18th century New England

It was a ways back, but to this day, one of the single biggest laughs of the show for me goes to his deadpan with a very slight dash of smug delivery on the line
“But then I remembered something - I’m a naughty bitch.”

I more love the idea of them trying to issue commands to Satanic babies.
Ignoring the whole bit where Satan’s entire shtick was looking at God’s commands and going “Nah, fuck that!”

or, to paraphrase Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby:
“COMMAND? WHO ARE YOU TO COMMAND ANYTHING?!”

I’m genuinely kind of surprised there isn’t more fiction running on the theory that the modern evangelicals/the prosperity gospel are the new ‘greatest trick the devil ever pulled’

Seriously, what better way to get revenge on the guy who kicked you out than to foster a group of death-hungry, avaricious monsters in…

Actually, I’m in agreement with you. TBoH may be more purely Trevorrow, but the point I was going for is that something like JW is a better gauge of how he could fare because, like SW, there’s a lot more filters/checks/committee in play as opposed to the fact TBoH is...yeah, that’s a very unique brand of ‘what the…