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  2. Comment on “One Battle After Another” wins six Oscars including Best Picture in ~movies

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    Sinners ended up winning cinematography, making history as the first female cinematographer to win the category. Before this year the closest woman to winning the category was Mandy Walker who...

    Sinners ended up winning cinematography, making history as the first female cinematographer to win the category. Before this year the closest woman to winning the category was Mandy Walker who lensed Elvis (2022). So congrats to Autumn Durald.

    This was also the first time since the 2022 ceremony that I’ve correctly predicted all four acting categories correctly. Last year I went 2/4 and the year before I went 3/4 (I regret not predicting Stone for Poor Things so badly).

    This is also the best three win stretch in Picture ever I think. Oppenheimer, Anora, and One Battle After Another are all masterpieces. And interestingly enough they’re all very American (Nolan is half American so I’m still counting that). And are deconstructions of Americana, the American Dream, and the American way of life.

    And such a change from the beginning of the year which was quite weak with Nomadland, CODA, and EEAAO.

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  4. Comment on The man behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. Is David Ellison Hollywood’s nepo baby king? in ~movies

  6. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    The Secret Agent This was the last Best Picture nominee I had to watch. I tried watching it five different times and I kept struggling to do it. It is so slooooow. I never really understood what...

    The Secret Agent

    This was the last Best Picture nominee I had to watch. I tried watching it five different times and I kept struggling to do it. It is so slooooow. I never really understood what the hell was happening. And it was so hard to pay attention to.

    In a way it reminded me of Zero Dark Thirty, which I had the same issue with. Where I tried watching it four times over and over cause my attention would drift until I just went whatever and let it play.

    Last year’s Brazilian awards film Im Still Here I thought was a tight and engaging thriller and this was just the complete opposite.

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  7. Comment on 'Buffy' reboot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar dead at Hulu in ~tv

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    Chloe Zhao directed a 90 minute pilot but I guess they didn’t like it lol

    Chloe Zhao directed a 90 minute pilot but I guess they didn’t like it lol

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  8. Comment on Razzie Awards winners: Ice Cube starrer ‘War of the Worlds’ named Worst Picture of the Year in ~movies

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    Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is awesome

    Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is awesome

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  9. Comment on Razzie Awards winners: Ice Cube starrer ‘War of the Worlds’ named Worst Picture of the Year in ~movies

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    It was shot during those pandemic restrictions but just shelved for a long time. Originally with Universal until they sold it to Amazon

    It was shot during those pandemic restrictions but just shelved for a long time. Originally with Universal until they sold it to Amazon

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  11. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I was kind of mulling over the award season. And specifically two things. The first was Chalamet, there were some anonymous ballots where one of the voters directly went “fuck that guy.” Because...

    I was kind of mulling over the award season. And specifically two things.

    The first was Chalamet, there were some anonymous ballots where one of the voters directly went “fuck that guy.” Because of his erratic behavior, saying he’s been putting great performances and that he deserved the Oscar. This and that. And also that his long term girlfriend is Kylie Jenner who nobody in the industry respects, but he was trying to sophisticate her by saying she gave him a strong foundation and yadda yadda. And now she’s trying to start acting and she’s been associating herself with more serious artist types like XCX (she was in The Moment). And it’s pretty interesting how much all of that affects voters.

    Leo had an issue, he never went “I want an Oscar” despite it being obvious. But he was known as a player, he was known for dating a bunch of models. Not a “respectable” man. Which is why it took him until his 40s to win. He just had to wait it out for the industry to be like, okay he’s clearly one of the greats despite his personal life being the way it is. So a similar thing is gonna happen with Chalamet, I think his team is probably gonna beg him to get a different girlfriend and date a serious actress or musician or something.

    The second one was Teyana Taylor. I think in that role and in that film that’s been steamrolling the awards season, it’s a role that should be sweeping the Supporting Actress category. But the issue is that Taylor is not perceived as a serious actress. She comes from the music world and reality TV and was heavily associated with Kanye. So I think if Keke Palmer, who is a similar age, but is seen as a more serious actress, was cast in the role instead she would have swept the category easily. It would make her the first Nickelodeon star to win, but also really like the first person that started in that children’s tv Nick/Disney world to win.

    So those were just some thoughts I had about the whole ordeal.

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  12. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    The Bride This was terrible. The trailer was growing on me, and I thought I might enjoy the obvious b-movie homage that this is... nope. I did not care for Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost...

    The Bride

    This was terrible. The trailer was growing on me, and I thought I might enjoy the obvious b-movie homage that this is... nope. I did not care for Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost Daughter. It was terribly directed, the entire thing was shot on a close up. And that translates here, because she's clearly trying to have interesting visuals but I don't think her mind is able to work in that way. This is the same cinematographer as Joker 2, and it's very obviously going for the same vibe. But Todd Phillips actually knows how to make interesting visuals, as much as I didn't care for Joker 2 Phillips at least had that locked down.

    Gyllenhaal is also a terrible director of actors, somehow despite being an actress herself (albeit a weak one). All the performances in The Lost Daughter are overwrought and that's the case here as well even with Bale. Buckley I don't think is a particularly good actress, but she has a strange and poorly written character and was clearly instructed to scream and shout. Colman I thought was the only one that came out of The Lost Daughter alright.

    Tangent: Buckley got a semi-surprise nomination in Supporting Actress for The Lost Daughter, but I thought if anyone was deserving of that it would be Dakota Johnson. She's also a weak actress but that was probably the strongest performance of her career.

    The Bride is so cringe inducing. There's a scene where Buckley is shouting METOO over and over. Just completely outdated, Gyllenhaal has terrible instincts, she's pretentious, self-important. I don't know why she was given almost 100 million dollars to make this movie, but I really hope she doesn't threaten us with another one.

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  14. 2026 Oscar predictions

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    Picture: One Battle After Another This became a tight race with Sinners late in the game. The obvious parallel here is 1917 and Parasite. 1917 won PGA, DGA, and BAFTA just like OBAA did. Parasite...

    Picture: One Battle After Another

    This became a tight race with Sinners late in the game. The obvious parallel here is 1917 and Parasite. 1917 won PGA, DGA, and BAFTA just like OBAA did. Parasite won SAG Ensemble and went on to win Picture from there.

    I’m betting on OBAA being stronger than 1917. Notably 1917 was never in contention to win a Screenplay or an Acting award the way OBAA is. And OBAA is nominated in Film Editing and the front-runner in that category which 1917 missed.

    I have correctly predicted every Picture winner since The Shape of Water but this is the first year where I’m in danger of losing that streak.

    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another

    Whether Sinners ends up winning Picture, I think this goes to PTA regardless.

    Original Screenplay: Sinners

    Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another

    Lead Actor: Michael B. Jordan - Sinners

    After Chalamet shot himself in the foot with his unorthodox press run for Marty Supreme, Jordan is the only one in the category going in with an industry award as the BAFTA awarded a British actor.

    I think Chalamet really fucked up his chances to win for a while and will now win well into his 40s or even into his 50s. He should have played it better.

    Lead Actress: Jessie Buckley - Hamnet

    Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan - Weapons

    After winning SAG it seems like it’s heading that way. Mosaku won the BAFTA but she had a homefield advantage. This is also an opportunity to award a veteran actress who never got her due, and will be supported by young people who enjoyed Weapons.

    Supporting Actor: Sean Penn - One Battle After Another

    Despite not campaigning and not appearing at the majority of the award shows (or perhaps because of that) Penn ended up winning both the SAG and BAFTA. Essentially sleepwalking to his third Oscar.

    Original Score: Sinners

    Original Song: Golden from KPop Demon Hunters

    Sound: F1

    Casting: Sinners

    Production Design: Frankenstein

    Cinematography: One Battle After Another

    Sinners was originally the front-runner and would have made history as the first female cinematographer to win. However it lost both the ASC and BAFTA for Cinematography.

    Makeup and Hairstyling: Frankenstein

    Costume Design: Frankenstein

    Film Editing: One Battle After Another

    Sinners won the ACE Drama awards and OBAA won the ACE Comedy award. This category used to be correlated with Sound but since the sound categories were merged it has now correlated with Picture.

    VFX: Avatar: Fire and Ash

    Animated Feature: KPop Demon Hunters

    Documentary Feature: The Perfect Neighbor

    International Feature: Sentimental Value

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  15. Comment on Why do I almost never catch colds anymore? in ~health

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    Also it’s become part of the Western culture now to wear masks when you’re sick which wasn’t the case pre-pandemic, which was mostly seen as an East Asian thing.

    Also it’s become part of the Western culture now to wear masks when you’re sick which wasn’t the case pre-pandemic, which was mostly seen as an East Asian thing.

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  18. Comment on New York Times quiz: Who’s a better writer: AI or humans? in ~tech

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    I think they’re trying to say to just go with your gut and not try to analyze if it’s “correctly” written or try to sus out which is the AI one.

    I think they’re trying to say to just go with your gut and not try to analyze if it’s “correctly” written or try to sus out which is the AI one.

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  20. Comment on New York Times quiz: Who’s a better writer: AI or humans? in ~tech

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    I’ve used LLM’s often for bullshit but I’ve gotten used to the way it writes and the metaphors and similes it likes to use. It’s repetitive and seems to be consistent among different prompts. It...

    I’ve used LLM’s often for bullshit but I’ve gotten used to the way it writes and the metaphors and similes it likes to use. It’s repetitive and seems to be consistent among different prompts. It actually takes a bit of work to get it to sound somewhat natural which at that point you might as well write the thing yourself.

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