Arthur WyattFeb 23, 2023
So last night we concluded our yearly project of trying to watch all the nominees for Best Picture (really an excuse to watch a bunch of movies since the Oscars are trash and the actual ceremony will no doubt be disappointing) - so now I get to do the second funnest part after making a big spreadsheet - ranking them! Thread: #oscars #movies #film #oscarWatch
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Top Gun: Maverick - “he pressed the fire control - and the Suppressive Persons exploded” This is basically Top Gun: the next generation hung around the plot from Iron Eagle II and as stupid as that sounds. Kind of wish I’d seen it in IMAX where the plane stuff would be more impressive, as is I’m scratching my head why people went so loopy for it. Much debate in this house as to if Jon Hamm is playing his role ironically. #topGun #maverick #tomCruse #ironEagle
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Avatar: the Way of Water - I like these movies fine? They are basucally Disnsy pics with simple Disney morality Way longer than it should be and they need to find a new plot point beyond “the kids get captured”. The VFX awards should be completely in the bag, and the Oscar for “most money” but like Top Gun I can’t imagine what it’s doing here other than that. #avatar #smurfs #fernGully #vfx #money
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The Fabelmans - basically an extended episode of “The Wonder Years”. A syrupy version of the early years of Spielberg life just isn’t that interesting to me. The last scene is great though. #stevenSpielberg #TheFablemans #wonderOfCinema #davidLynch
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The Banshees of Innershin - do not watch with elderly relatives expecting a Last of the Summer Wine meets Father Ted type thing. It’s totally that, but with intermittent gory mutilation as well. May be a parable of some kind. Won big at the Golden Globes for some reason. #fatherTed #lastOfTheSummerWine #bodyHorror #fingers
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All Quiet on the Western front - war… is bad. WWI baddest of all - except maybe Vietnam. Per movies they were both very wet which seems to be the hardest thing of all. Manages to make the French terrifying. #AllQuietOnTheWesternFront #war #wwi #tanks #trenches #eggs
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Elvis - extreme Baz Luhrmann. The first half is a Romp, and I particularly enjoy the scenes with the Colonel creeping around the edges like literal Satan waiting to set up a deal. Loosely speaking a biopic so like all of them tapers off towards the end but does include an amazing extended sequence about the 1968 Christmas Special - which is also amazing and you should see it. #elvis #theColonel #music #biopic #walkHard
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Triangle of Sadness - for me the middle ranked entry in the 2023 Shitty Rich People Cinematic Universe trilogy, above Glass Onion but below The Menu. The best bits are on the boat, with what comes after feeling a little “we are having An Allegory”, but it’s funny as hell throughout. #triangleOfSadness #richPeople #socialism
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Women Talking - the last one we saw! Might be a bit of recency bias but I really liked it - very much the “this movie feels like it was a play” of this year (it wasn’t, it was a novel) with amazing performances and great, slightly stagey dialogue. Though that might be the setting. Highly recommended. #womenTalking #SarahPolley #MiriamToews #theOneThatFeelsLikeAPlay
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Everything Everywhere All at Once - if you follow me you know what this is - multiversal Michelle Yeoh Kung Fu movie by the directors of the Turn Down for What video with an extended Raccacoonie sub plot - of course I love this. #everythingBagel #Raccacoonie #everywhere #allAtOnce
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Tar - more of a Film film. Slow moving, utterly absorbing. Tightly focused on Cate Blanchet playing a terrible but fascinating person. Deeply tied into a very specific nerd world (classical music) which I always love. Try not to get spoiled on the ending which is AMAZING. #tar #filmFilm #CateBlanchett #mahler #nintendo #capcom
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Anyway these are my deep important thoughts and #Nope totally should have got a nomination but didn’t, because as previously mentioned the Oscars are stupid.
Show threadOldAndCrankyFeb 27, 2023
@arthurwyatt the end made me burst out laughing and then I stood up and applauded. What a film!
Show threadArthur WyattFeb 27, 2023
@OldAndCranky I love it and I don’t want to tell anyone who hasn’t seen it.
Show threadMark BoszkoFeb 24, 2023
@arthurwyatt I really wanted to like this, but I did not find it funny and wanted everyone to die.
Show threadArthur WyattFeb 24, 2023
@swizzlevixen it was definitely not a “liking any of the characters” kind of a film. Except maybe Captain Woody Harrelson, he’s fun.
Show threadMark BoszkoFeb 24, 2023
@arthurwyatt I have a hard time with not liking anybody I guess. Terrible people being terrible to each other is not my jam. Except for maybe Arrested Development.
Show threadArthur WyattFeb 24, 2023
@swizzlevixen Tar is also a terrible person film, but a very watchable terrible person.
Show threadBrigonosMacGiollaChomhgaillFeb 23, 2023
@arthurwyatt I watched The Fabelmans right after Roland Emmerich's Midway, which also features a scene with John Ford. He may very well have directed good films, but he apparently did not appear in any.