The 90th Academy Awards (March 4, 2018) TV Show • Page 23

you're acting like shape of billboards has such an important musical moment in the middle of the movie for 80 year old white dudes like they're not going to all turn the movie off the second time she jacks off timed by the cooking of an egg

 

It did! It was a great moment for sure.

 

I think you’re underestimating how much Hollywood loves movies about itself.

 

And you're acting like it doesn't have the most nominations, multiple guild wins, and many, many elements that older Oscar voters really respond to. I don't want either of them to win any more than you do, but they're the frontrunners for a reason. Upsets happen but the odds are in their favor.

 

Yes exactly, and movies that pay homage to Hollywood as well. How else do we explain giving Best Director to Damien Chazelle over Barry Jenkins last year?

 

I think we are all forgetting the artist won picture, director and actor. Lol wtf.

 

The Oscars are also highly political and like people they know and GDT is the biggest schmoozer in the world and is like the only likeable one who can work the room left

 

I'm not forgetting it. It's why I picked The Shape of Water for Best Picture. I hope I'm wrong, I really do. Just like I was overjoyed to be wrong last year when I picked La La Land.

 

I mean, I really enjoy Shape of Water. I’d be fine if it won. Three billboards is the only one I’d really not like to win..well, anything.

 

Phantom Thread isn't going to win, so I'd be happy if anything but Three Billboards or Darkest Hour won (not that DH has a chance either).

 

Haven't seen Three Billboards yet but everything I've seen on it gives me the impression that I'd really like it. What's the big critique?

 

lol

 

I’ll give a serious answer. Can’t speak for anyone else, but for me personally the problem is that it’s a movie that has a lot of great actors in it doing their best to salvage a mostly mediocre script that tries to be profound and say something about injustice and racism but falls on its face. It’s a movie that, because of who is involved, should’ve been great but in the end is just a complete missed opportunity with some good performances in it.

 

Interesting. Excited to check it out soon. I'm sure I'll at least enjoy it for the performances if nothing else.

 

The performances are mostly bad. Sam Rockwell does the type of wild overacting that wins awards, but overall it is clear that the director let the actors go as big as they wanted, regardless of the actual need of the scene.

 

McDormand was good. Harrelson was standard Harrelson. Rockwell was cartoonishly broad and bad and he’s a very good actor so that was disappointing. Peter Dinklage had the only restrained, human performance in the movie.

 

would have been nice if they wrote him a character that wasn't like "hey you know he's a little person right"

 

Yeah, this movie was intentionally grotesque.

 

I loved Three Billboards

 

I enjoyed it when I saw, but like others, thinking about it more and more caused me to like it less and I'm pretty positive that rewatching would continue that. Seems like it'll age worse than Crash did

 

Three Billboards isn't good but the hyperbole surrounding it is kind of out of control. It’s way better than Crash, in my opinion, not that that means much. I’d rather rewatch Three Billboards any day over that.

 

quick q for y'all

what happens during the first 30m-1hour of the broadcast? if I tune in at 6pst will I miss any of the big awards (best picture/actor/actress) or any features by musicians? (sufjan stevens haha)

 

One of The Supporting categories is always fiest

 

Yeah they almost always hand out Best Supporting Actor as the first award of the night, every year. You might miss one of the performances but they usually don't front load them.

 

Y’all..Adam Rippon is wearing a casual harness to the Oscars and I can’t handle this