The 91st Academy Awards (February 24, 2019) TV Show • Page 15

Sigh. Okay. It seems like you're genuinely unaware of how your line of questioning would make me feel that way. I hope you take this as a learning opportunity, maybe back off the next time you step on someone's toes.

 

Toni Collette. I know she wasn’t even in the conversation, but her performance was sublime and the biggest snub to me. She set a new standard for emotional, unhinged acting. Hereditary may be a “genre flick,” but it wasn’t nearly under the radar enough to justify Toni Collette’s exclusion from the Academy.

 

I genuinely don't know what you're talking about. A learning opportunity for what? You're doing what tons of people have done in this thread -- not explaining anything while simultaneously expecting me to know what you're thinking.

 

Honestly this user does this a lot. Feigns ignorance about really emotional subjects and then gets huffy when people don’t want to engage in difficult conversations that only go in circles.

 

The best actress category could easily be as large as BP this year and there would still be incredible performances left out. She absolutely deserves the recognition for it, I still think about that role all the time.

 

What the fuck are you talking about? I'm not feigning ignorance about anything and I never do, asshole.

Aren't the person who had a conniption over @Morrissey not using "in my opinion" when talking about sci-fi movies? Lol

 

Just realized Driver was nominated for BlackKklansman but Washington wasn’t. His pronunciation of the word “white” earned the award alone.

 

I have seen you in multiple discussions berate people for not spelling out in great detail why certain things are difficult for them or why they cause concern. Instead of just backing up and realizing that you can do the tiniest bit of research, you constantly ask women or POC to write theses on major issues to appease you. I’m talking like many many times in many many different sections of this site. Like literally what you’ve done all day today.

 

I remember telling M&R to cool it when he asked someone to unpack their bad experiences at comedy clubs. He basically called me a white knight and told me to fuck off. That was all I needed to know to never engage again.

 

Huh.

 

Thank you for remembering this. I just got a long PM about wanting specifics and that was 100% the one that came to mind and I wrote back about.

 

I PM'd EAShirts because I don't want this thread to literally become about me, but you didn't tell me to "cool it,” I asked a question, someone answered, I asked a further question, and you came in extremely condescending towards me acting as if I was harassing them. So yeah, telling you to fuck off seemed pretty warranted

 

I feel like this thread currently sums up the noms pretty well honestly. Lol.

 

jfc wow

 

The only bad thing about Spider-Verse being so incredible and winning every award is that it’s going to probably extend its run in theaters and potentially push back the blu-ray/digital release lol

 

Oh I almost forgot to be upset about Widows getting nothing. I need to do that.

 

Can we talk about the biggest snub in Oscars history: THIS WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG

 

If y’all haven’t seen Minding the Gap, I think it’s better than all the best picture noms and highly recommend it.

 

That soundtrack was so amazing.

 

I’m not sure a film’s social significance alone can determine its quality or impact, but it’s also a moot point because I can’t think of a socially significant film that wasn’t significant in its quality in tandem with its social importance. If a filmmaker has the heart and brains to make something of true social significance, the quality of the film is naturally going to follow suit, right? Same principle applies to why you never hear amazing lyrics backed by awful music.

As far as Black Panther goes, I hear people (I’m referring to friends of mine) say its social statements distracted people from its lack of quality, but none of them seem to acknowledge that the film’s writing, acting, and character development are all objectively above and beyond typical Marvel fare and serve to boost the rich themes the movie possesses. They go into the film biased because they think others are biased. It’s weird, especially because it ignores the emotional/cultural impact films like Black Panther rightfully have on both a social AND artistic level. It’s racially insensitive, but it’s also artistically tone deaf.

Not trying to keep that conversation going, I’ve just had a lot of frustrating convos about this with my friends. Movie deserves all the recognition.

 

There’s also a difference between saying that films are truly problematic like BoRhap awarding abusers or Green Book erasing the stories of their subjects/elevating racist and problematic creators and being upset at their inclusion and questioning the morals of a film itself.

 

The only thing I know about Black Panther is that one of my students was not allowed to see it because his father heard that black people were beating up white people at the movie. I did put it on for my students during exams but the only scene I saw was when the guy from Creed shot a bunch of people at a museum.

Green Book and Vice are terrible, and I am pretty sure Bohemian Rhapsody is as well without seeing it. To define something as a snub implies that it would have had a realistic chance, so I can't say that something like Zama or Western was snubbed because those people would never watch it. First Reformed might have been something some of them could sit through, though, but the thinkpieces would have been so exhausting and stupid.

 

My favorite Marvel Studios film is Guardians 2. *shrug*

 

This is one of those odd takes that I can kind of respect for some reason.

 

I’ve only ever seen I think 4 Marvel films in theaters, two of which were GOTG. I also saw Age of Ultron because I’ll pay for anything James Spader is in.