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  • #16
    Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
    Thinking about the Best Picture nominees, I realize how unsophisticated my tastes in movies are. I thought all of the nominees were very good, but I often don't enjoy the experience of watching a film I know is well crafted if it doesn't really entertain or move me. That was especially true for me with Fences and Moonlight. Both are very well done, and it was interesting to see lives and circumstances with which I'm very unfamiliar, but I really didn't enjoy them. My ranking, in terms of entertainment:

    Hidden Figures
    Hacksaw Ridge
    Hell or High Water
    Arrival
    Lion
    Manchester by the Sea
    La La Land
    Fences
    Moonlight

    La La Land is the presumptive favorite, but I wouldn't be surprised by an upset from any of the other nominees (Lion would be the biggest surprise); it's that close this year.
    Agreed. Moonlight just left me depressed and I am not even sure if that was the goal of the film. It was well done, but I can't say I enjoyed the experience.
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    • #17
      I enjoy movies but I never watch the academy awards. Way too boring for my tastes.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by creekster View Post
        I say Emma stone is a yes. And, like her acting/role, it will not be nearly as profound as she thinks it is.
        Haha! Don't you dare give an inch creek, not one inch!

        All About Eve... it had 14 nominations. All well earned goddammit!
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        • #19
          Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
          I enjoy movies but I never watch the academy awards. Way too boring for my tastes.
          We record the thing and zap through commercials, the technical awards and most of the acceptance speeches. The opening monologue, a few of the presenters, a couple of the musical performances, the film clips and the montage of dead people give us an interesting and entertaining 60 minutes or so. Plus the missus enjoys commenting on the gowns.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
            We record the thing and zap through commercials, the technical awards and most of the acceptance speeches. The opening monologue, a few of the presenters, a couple of the musical performances, the film clips and the montage of dead people give us an interesting and entertaining 60 minutes or so. Plus the missus enjoys commenting on the gowns.
            Gowns?
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            • #21
              Originally posted by Topper View Post
              Gowns?
              Dresses.
              Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
                Haha! Don't you dare give an inch creek, not one inch!

                All About Eve... it had 14 nominations. All well earned goddammit!
                Thanks, but my comment was more about having heard her in an interview once where she came across to me as another one of those artistes who think that their acting really just might save the world. Or at least the seals or something.
                PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Topper View Post
                  Gowns?
                  One of my personal favorites, esp. after host Steve Martin's comment that he was embarrassed to see that he and Bjork were wearing the same thing and he had to change hurriedly out of his swan.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
                    One of my personal favorites, esp. after host Steve Martin's comment that he was embarrassed to see that he and Bjork were wearing the same thing and he had to change hurriedly out of his swan.

                    I wouldn't qualify that as a gown, which invoke the concept of elegance, but rather it looks more like a dust mop.
                    "Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."

                    Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Topper View Post
                      I wouldn't qualify that as a gown, which invoke the concept of elegance, but rather it looks more like a dust mop.
                      After I posted, I looked up Martin's quip and I got it wrong; his actual statement was funnier:

                      I was going to wear my swan, but to me they are so last year. But I'm glad Björk's working again after her disastrous Supreme Court nomination.

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                      • #26
                        Not bad:
                        "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
                          Thinking about the Best Picture nominees, I realize how unsophisticated my tastes in movies are. I thought all of the nominees were very good, but I often don't enjoy the experience of watching a film I know is well crafted if it doesn't really entertain or move me. That was especially true for me with Fences and Moonlight. Both are very well done, and it was interesting to see lives and circumstances with which I'm very unfamiliar, but I really didn't enjoy them. My ranking, in terms of entertainment:

                          Hidden Figures
                          Hacksaw Ridge
                          Hell or High Water
                          Arrival
                          Lion
                          Manchester by the Sea
                          La La Land
                          Fences
                          Moonlight

                          La La Land is the presumptive favorite, but I wouldn't be surprised by an upset from any of the other nominees (Lion would be the biggest surprise); it's that close this year.
                          Hmm. I used to be way into movies, binge watch at Sundance, etc. I haven't seen a single one of those movies except Arrival. This Trump administration is killing me from the inside out.
                          "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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                          • #28
                            That was the cringiest thing I've seen in my life.

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                            • #29
                              Besides PAC, did anyone just see what happened? Was that fake?
                              "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                              "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                              - SeattleUte

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                              • #30
                                he didn't even know where he was
                                Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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