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I’m always talking about Million Dollar Baby. I’m quoting MDB (I usually call it MDB for short). I’m watching it all the time. I’m projecting it on the sides of buildings so other people can watch it.
Chicago still has pull with musical heads. Million Dolar Baby had its time in the spotlight as well, it just only asted a couple years.
Moulin Rouge should have won the year before, I will die on this hill.
Chicago rocks though, Bob Fosse is a GOAT, and the cast really rocks.
Chicago is a really fun musical, but cowards are afraid of musicals
Pretty much all of these are good movies. It’s not a “what will people find a reason to keep watching” award, either; people rewatch cult classics for decades and that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re great films.
They said “good”, not necessarily “best in class of the year”. Most of those movies aren’t ones I’d call bad, even if a lot I’d argue are safe and middling. That’s usually the criticism of the a Oscars from the film community.
I also don’t think good has to do with widely seen or not either. Popularity is not an indication of quality.
I mean I don’t know anyone else who saw Neptune Frost or the latest Weerasethakul film
CODA
I’ve seen over 3100 films and I have absolutely no idea what “CODA” is.
edit: Oh, that is literally the title. I figured people were abbreviating something, like with EEAAO or whatever, haven’t seen that one either I haven’t been on a film kick for a couple years now.
Oh damn Idk why you said ‘lol’ after the Green Book. I really liked the film but now I’m afraid some things flew right over my head :|
2 hours and 19 minutes counts as incredibly long now? Guess he has never seen The Lord of the Rings.
To be fair he comes from a lineage of making cheap shit that couldn’t reach a 90min runtime.
Someone years ago told me he was, but they could have been mistaken. Now I’m googling and thinking I might have just believed this for years but he definitely has a lot of Hollywood connections if not.
From this article
He grew up in LA where both of his parents worked in Hollywood; his father was a composer and his mother worked as an executive for a TV company. In a strange coincidence, his cousin is Mara Wilson, who is best known for playing Matilda in the beloved 90s family film.
According to the aforementioned book, after he graduated from Harvard Law School he began interviewing TV executives about liberalism in the television world. This is where he met Goldberg, who was the former head of programming for ABC and was once president of 20th Century Fox.
:edgeworth-shrug:
My wife throws on LotR any time she’s got the flu or on really long airplane rides, because she’s seen it so many times that she can just kinda slip in and out on consciousness without feeling like she’s missed anything. Its the perfect “I’ve got 12 hours to kill, now what?” movie experience.
He’s a monkey throwing shit against the wall and seeing what he can get to generate controversy or praise. It’s literally how he makes a living.
And why he belongs in a gulag.
No Country is only 17 minutes shorter than EEAAAO this fucking buffoon. you’re telling me the length of the trailers before a movie starts is a dealbreaker?
also very funny when idiots try to couch culture-war complaints in “legitimate” critical language. :think-mark: what if i told you things being ‘overlong’ is not a function of the goddamn runtime? theres not a magic number that deems movie good or bad, its about pacing motherfucker, not some number you can look up without ever watching the fucking thing
oh no, not a Bizarre movie. Movies aren’t supposed to be weird.
this is probably the least disgusting thing Ben said that day, but something about his proud philistinism in the guise of erudition is grating. I wonder what his beef with the troop-sucking Hurt Locker was? Just that it was directed by a woman? Maybe he just didn’t see it.
