Thoughts on the movie aside, this is a pretty shrewd move on the part of the marketing.
Either the movie winds up as controversial as the poster is advertising, or it underwhelms, and all those soundbites basically give people a list of names to look at and go “THIS is what you were all so afraid of?”

SOON.
The clock is ticking. Less than a decade until the screenings may begin.

On the literal level, yes.
But at the same time, the movie makes it pretty clear the ritual is part of an actual demonic pact the family got into to maintain its wealth and prosperity.

It’s sort of like Brian Yuzna’s Society or John Carpenter’s They Live - yes, there’s aliens/demons, but at the core of each, there’s the…

If it’s tough to figure out why, it’s likely that it tripped the MPAA’s ‘You PG-13s get one ‘fuck.’ As a treat. More than that, YOU TAKE THE R.’

Sad, but true.
Also, slightly ironic. For a series where one of the main building blocks was Kurosawa’s samurai films, its production backstory gets the old Rashomon treatment pretty regularly.

On the one hand - I get where the VFX community is coming from. Especially where the Oscars are concerned (remember the VFX company behind Life of Pi getting played off as they tried to explain how rough it was getting in that industry, only to get played off and then have their company go under within a year of said…

Right there with you on Bilbo.
When I look back at the things that I would say were kind of my ‘nerd foundation’ (for lack of a better term for it) those two Tolkien movies were one of the biggies (I’ll admit as I’ve gotten older that RotK is...honestly a mess of a movie now, albeit with some great casting at parts,…

A-bloody-men.

Several years later, I still find it odd that, out of all the songs in La La Land, they gave the award to probably one of the blandest offerings of that movie.
(I mean, I wasn’t a huge fan of the film in general, but it had better entries, even among the nominees.

...also, Sing Street got fucking hosed. I…

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.