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Least surprising win for Mad Max. This kind of movie is a shoe-in for sound editing.
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Did they actually just give Will Smith the middle finger for his boycott? I think that's hilarious.
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Wow. Max is having himself an evening. (He'll have a lot less reason to be mad tomorrow. . . .)
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That tickertape thing at the bottom of the screen is a brilliant idea. Keeps them from having to thank half the planet up at the mike.
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Probably thought showing the bear once again damaged his chance at winning an Oscar. . . .
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Tomorrow's headline: "Mad Max pulls off a Return of the King"
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There are presenters who try to be funny . . . and then there's Steve Carrell and Tina Fey, showing them how it's done. So simple, but laugh-out-loud hilarious.
I had a feeling Mad Max might take some of these categories. How are skirts from the 50s supposed to keep up with a look like that?
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On 2/27/2016 at 2:53 PM, Koray Savas said:
Sorry, but not fast traveling is just stupid, in my opinion.
Because we choose a different style of play than you, it's . . . stupid. Okay. I guess. Still wouldn't change it for the world.
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See? Now that's how you do it. You would think a gaggle of actors would be able to pull off a prompted speech better than they almost always do. But when you see J.K. Simmons do it, you realize how cringeworthy the rest of that crowd is. He's just a great guy.
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That has to be the most un-Bond Bond song of all time. Not a fan.
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Okay . . . they could've skipped the speech and just done the movie clips. That was pretty funny.
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The Big Short is probably the nominated movie I most regret missing to this point.
Annnnnd . . . here we go with the political crap.
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Wow . . . interesting how they're playing it by order this year. Nice change of pace.
Jeez--could they have chosen more drab and nondescript examples from what are supposed to be the best screenplays of the year?
5 minutes ago, KK. said:I like that he's targeting the industry as a whole and less the Oscars themselves.
But it did drag.
Got awkward for him, too. This has to be the toughest hosting job on earth. Even the best performers freeze up a bit every year.
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Works for me. Not so much for the audience, though. The Hollywood left has absolutely no idea how to take being called racist.
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This is good. By hitting it hard, and up front, he's letting everyone laugh it off. Made a great point about the whole Actor/Actress thing.
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Holy crap. . . ! Stuck it to Jada!
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Pretty good opening montage. This has always been one of my favorite elements of the Oscars.
He shaved. Huh.
Great opening line. I think it's good they're getting this out of the way right off the bat.
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Apparently so. Looks like it's about to get rolling, too. (I never watch the red carpet crap.)
The only prediction I'm making at this point is that they'll use Horner's music for the In Memoriam segment.
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2 hours ago, TheGreyPilgrim said:
I just can't stand the political pontification and this year will be bad I'm sure. It seriously makes me uncomfortable, far more than anything else that goes on at these things. I'm about as apolitical a person as you'll find anywhere. I don't want it involved with this stuff. I leave the "activist artist" way of thinking bullshit to others.
Ditto. I don't see why these people think their voices matter more than anyone else's (guess it's the egos). We're here to honor and celebrate your achievements in film, not your opinions, so give it a rest already.
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5 hours ago, KK. said:
And honestly, I don't have high hopes for Chris Rock as the host.
Me neither. Aside from Hugh JACKMAN (who was a surprisingly talented and classy showman), I haven't really enjoyed a host since the golden days of Crystal.
4 hours ago, hornist said:So is this the official oscar-thread where people will post their comments during the show?
That's my question too. Actually, one of the best parts of watching the ceremonies over the past few years has been the live commentary we do here. Makes it a more tolerable experience.
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Missed seeing this earlier. Slocombe was a master. He made us feel the humidity of the jungle, the smoky chill of the Nepalese tavern, and the heat of the desert in Raiders. He managed to strike the perfect balance between a stylized and documentary feel with that movie. He was as important to its success as Spielberg (and Williams, for that matter).
On 2/23/2016 at 1:12 AM, Quintus said:Raiders is one of my favorites from him, I always loved how oily and 'lived in' it looked, like a monochrome noir given colour; for me it became the signature Lucasfilm aesthetic which I'd want all other adventure movies to look like (which they never did). Raiders always felt visually authentic compared to its sequels, it somehow looked like a much older film than it was, like a David Lean classic. Deft sleight of hand indeed. RIP.
Exactly, and well put.
He'll be missed.
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Never really joined in on this thread before. Not sure why. After taking a break (of several years) from playing anything, over the better part of the last year I've gotten back into things. I'm one to commit to a single game until I've wrung every last secret and challenge out of it. There's this sense in which, given the time and effort that hundreds of people have put into the thing, I figure someone needs to check out all those details. I'm an open-worlder, too; one of my all-time favorites was Skyrim, which I played to death. I tend to go for as much real-time and complete reality as I can in those sorts of games, too. For instance, I avoid fast-traveling altogether. I want to get to know the world that these designers have put so much time and thought into, the same way I'd have to if I lived there. It's the closest thing to living out Aragorn's life experiences.
Since coming back to it, I've focused mainly on the early installments of the Assassin's Creed series, the Uncharted games (I recently finished the second one), and the first three Arkham games, which I felt were a phenomenal experience (particularly the second and third, which really opened the world up). I'm thinking on going after the new Tomb Raider next, although I didn't really enjoy the first in this new series all that much. I cut my teeth on the original Core games; the original TR remains high on my top 10 list. I still play through it every few years, just to remember the amazing feeling we had when it first came out, that sense of being deep underground and exploring all those ancient civilizations. The newer TRs just don't replicate that sensation any more. I like combat, sure, and the way it's handled in the Uncharted games does it pretty well. But TR should have the corner on the exploration thing, and it just doesn't any more. Disappointing.
I may just hit the third Uncharted, then Arkham Knight. I've gotta do something while I kill time until this summer . . . when a new game will hit the shelves that I cannot wait to play. Discussion on that, however, will have to wait for another post. . . .
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53 minutes ago, Cerebral Cortex said:
Okay, now I'm really starting to get excited.
Nicholas Meyers joins new Star Trek TV series as writer and executive producerArright. I'm in.
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Agreed on that, too. A couple of pieces represent the best of that score--which is, granted, some terrific material--but the majority of it is forgettable. I think Horner did a much better job of spreading the good stuff around a lot further and to better effect in A Perfect Storm.
23 minutes ago, Thor said:Ooh, this is tricky. I need to think a bit.
You've got four months. Take your time!
88th Annual Academy Awards Discussion (2016 Oscars for 2015 films)
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Annnd the other shoe-in for MM. These were expected.