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by dws1982
Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:18 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Picture and Director 1972
Replies: 49
Views: 8626

Re: Best Picture and Director 1972

It sounds like The Emigrants benefited from a longer release window but we're lucky that even made it in (I assume, I haven't seen it yet). It is really great in my opinion! It and The New Land are pretty impossible to separate in my mind, and if you ever get a chance to watch them in pretty close ...
by dws1982
Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:58 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New Developments III
Replies: 2976
Views: 516508

Re: New Developments III

Sabin wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:57 pm Michael Burry just bet $1.6 billion on a stock market crash

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/investin ... index.html
"Michael Burry has predicted 12 of the last 2 crashes."
--Someone on Twitter
by dws1982
Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:26 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New Developments III
Replies: 2976
Views: 516508

Re: New Developments III

I mainly mean that a large part of his personality has been based on things like medical/vaccine conspiracy theories, which a large segment of the MAGA crowd is super into, and on trying to establish himself as a populist, anti-establishment outsider. (Although he's not, as a Kennedy.)
by dws1982
Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:31 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New Developments III
Replies: 2976
Views: 516508

Re: New Developments III

I think that one thing in Ramaswamay's favor is that he came in kind of unknown, at least to the masses; didn't come in with years of Trump associations like Pence or Haley. Doesn't have the issue of having taken a stance against Trump like Will Hurd or Christie (again) Pence. Hasn't built his whole...
by dws1982
Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:52 pm
Forum: The People
Topic: R.I.P. William Friedkin
Replies: 9
Views: 2306

Re: R.I.P. William Friedkin

His Twelve Angry Men , which wasn't a play originally, but of course has been staged many times since the Lumet film was released, never leaves the courthouse, unlike Lumet's film which ends on the courthouse steps. He makes good use of that juror room. I prefer his film to Lumet's, although I do li...
by dws1982
Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: The People
Topic: R.I.P. William Friedkin
Replies: 9
Views: 2306

Re: R.I.P. William Friedkin

In my research on Coppola (now the earliest surviving Best Director winner), Friedkin has emerged as an interesting supporting character/antagonist to Coppola through that 70's run. Their careers paralleled each other's in interesting ways. He was considered for the directing job that Coppola ultima...
by dws1982
Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: 2023
Topic: Oppenheimer reviews
Replies: 15
Views: 4584

Re: Oppenheimer reviews

It also deserved a better score. I'm in the middle on the score. I think it is effective in the film and well-used, but I miss scores with melodies and themes and such. Many still do, but the cacophony of different sounds and instruments seems to be the trend on the popular scores now. I've seen so...
by dws1982
Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:36 pm
Forum: 2023
Topic: Oppenheimer reviews
Replies: 15
Views: 4584

Re: Oppenheimer reviews

No, although it does suggest somewhat obliquely that she may have been killed as a national security risk, due to her communist associations. (I don't remember if the movie shows it, but she did leave a suicide note, so it was almost definitely suicide.)
by dws1982
Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1969
Replies: 16
Views: 6644

Re: Best Supporting Actress 1969

TCM may be showing Last Summer overnight tonight. "may be" is doing some heavy lifting here. I believe they are, but we may struggle to watch it in a world where even "cable" is done through the internet in many cases. If you look on their schedule on their website, it shows it a...
by dws1982
Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:37 am
Forum: 2023
Topic: Oppenheimer reviews
Replies: 15
Views: 4584

Re: Oppenheimer reviews

Did the Barbenheimer double feature yesterday. Had only planned on Oppenheimer yesterday, but the person I had planned to see this with had something come up. I'll have more thoughts on this later, maybe after more have seen it, and maybe after I've seen it again. It's not a spoiler type of movie, b...
by dws1982
Fri Jul 21, 2023 11:46 am
Forum: 2023
Topic: Barbie reviews
Replies: 18
Views: 4112

Re: Barbie reviews

It's a fun movie, but it's also like five different movies, five different tones all in one, jumping back and forth, and Gerwig is very good at some, like creating Barbieland and Barbie's experiences in the real world, and very very bad at others: anything dealing with corporate Mattel is awful and ...
by dws1982
Wed Jul 12, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: Broadcast Media
Topic: 2023 Emmy Awards
Replies: 60
Views: 53111

Re: 2023 Emmy Awards

I haven't watched The White Lotus , but Haley Lu Richardson (who I've liked in everything I've seen her in) is the type of rising actress who's been in several indie films who I would've expected to get nominated over Simona Tabasco, Sabrina Impacciatore and Meghann Fahy, all of whom I had quite lit...
by dws1982
Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:12 pm
Forum: Broadcast Media
Topic: 2023 Emmy Awards
Replies: 60
Views: 53111

Re: 2023 Emmy Awards

The insane number of choices kind of makes me understand why they'll sometimes have eight nominees in an acting category representing only three or four shows. When the category can include actors from everything including Power Book II: The Ghost to Chicago PD to Bel-Air to Fire Country to Carniva...
by dws1982
Tue Jul 04, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: 95th Academy Awards
Topic: Best Picture 2022
Replies: 5
Views: 2639

Re: Best Picture 2022

Looking back at the Oscar years from around 50 years ago, those lineups have endured pretty well. 1971, Nicholas and Alexandra seems to exist only as a checkmark for Oscar completists, but the others are all still widely available and widely shown today. Even Nicholas and Alexandra will still show u...
by dws1982
Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:30 am
Forum: 2023
Topic: Asteroid City reviews
Replies: 13
Views: 4826

Re: Asteroid City reviews

I think Universal now has a blanket policy where, if a movie grosses less than a certain amount, it goes on VOD something like 18 days after its release. (Although they waived that for Nolan who demanded a 100 day window.) I know that was part of the reason why Fast 10 was on VOD so soon. But that s...

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