Anyone give a shit about the Oscars?

[anarky]

"Weakest Led Zeppelin album" > 99.9% of all other music.

[Tom Foolery]

The only reason I know the Oscars were last night, is because my wife showed me a clip of Ahnuld Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito doing a bit where they called out “Batman” Michael Keaton in the audience.

Don’t know who won what.

This topic is so little visited, the last post in it was from anarky…

[jjreason]

I still haven't seen Oppenheimer or Killers.... I swear I'll get around to it some day. I actually did like Barbie, but it sounds like the Oscar people didn't.

[Tom Foolery]

Best Pic winner Anora is on Hulu/D+ so I thought I’d watch it to see what the rumpus was. After watching it, I can only assume that no other movies were released in 2024 and this movie was chosen by default having no other competition in the category. Similarly, I can only assume no other women acted in any movie last year and she won the Oscar by default. It wasn’t a BAD movie. But it was an entirely pointless movie with no satisfactory conclusion.
I also fail to understand how this qualifies as a comedy as there wasn’t a single funny moment anywhere in the movie.

[anarky]

Damn. It kinda sounded like another weird hidden gem like Poor Things, but maybe I won't check it out after all.

[Tom Foolery]

Rejoice! After 100 years, the Academy is finally making a Best Stunt category. They won’t implement it for a couple years, but it’s long overdue.

Now let commence the reckless speculation on what retroactively should have won the award for all the previous awards ceremonies….

[Ran]

Rejoice! After 100 years, the Academy is finally making a Best Stunt category. They won’t implement it for a couple years, but it’s long overdue.

Now let commence the reckless speculation on what retroactively should have won the award for all the previous awards ceremonies….

Probably just going to hand it to Tom Cruise. I have actively avoided Tom Cruise movies since the mid-90s. I was tricked into seeing Mission: Impossible 2 in 1999, and the last thing I saw him in was his cameo in Austin Powers. I hope someone who deserves the Oscar for best stunt gets it, and not that douche bag.

[anarky]

Ran, have you not seen Tropic Thunder? Correct this immediately, please.

Side note, Cruise is uncharacteristically hilarious in it.

[Ran]

It looks familiar, so I might have seen part of Tropic Thunder.