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Friday, February 22, 2013 at 1:25PM Drama
Mashable on the glory of the Oscar envelopes. May they never go digital
The Village Voice Nick Pinkerton remembers the late great critic Andrew Sarris
The Advocate ten reasons to watch the Oscars on Sunday. (I linked to the most succinct universal one!)
MovieLine taxi cab survey of who will win the Oscars. It's not the names that will be called out when the envelopes are open. (New Yorkers apparently still think Lincoln is going to sweep!)
Horror
THR a director votes on the Oscars. In detail. (I know you've probably read this already but just in case... there's a lot to discuss)
Salon will Jack Nicholson be presenting Best Picture yet again on Sunday night? (As I've long complained and long tried to help them the Oscar producers never have any imagination in this one area)
Slate announces that the musical genre is never coming back by essentially changing the argument of what people who say it's back mean when they say, "the musical genre is back!" Yes, agreed, the movie musical genre will never be what it was back when it was the most popular genre and everyone knew the showtunes. But do not agree that it's not back. We've had a steady clip of musicals ever since that glorious one two three punch of Hedwig, Dancer in the Dark and Moulin Rouge! got the ball rolling again just over a decade ago.
Comedy
The Onion "Johnny Depp now made entirely of scarves and bracelets"
Happy Place the six types of people who watch the Oscars - this is a fun concept but it leaves out too many types... including Oscar Fanatics who are busy cataloguing it all in their head to reference for years and years to come. Hypothetically speaking. I've heard those people exist.
Vulture Best Picture as pie charts. I didn't want to like this -- i wasn't in a snark mood -- but they're funny
Babble six year olds judge the Oscars by their posters... kids say the darndest things. Some are alarmingly accurate but I love that Les Misérables is about faeires and Argo is an earthquake... teehee. My favorite might be Silver Linings Playbook...
This is a movie about building things and it's a happy, good movie. The two people are inventors that invent things that have to do with fish because of all those little scribbles that look like fish. They work together. He's also really, really tall and she likes to wear her hair really, really high.
Hee. I would totally see a movie about Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence inventing fishy paraphenalia. She's right that Bradley Cooper is tall ~ 6'1"!
Reader Comments (10)
The kid saying what the movies are about is great. Some are extremely accurate and some are just hilarious. Love the Argo one. An earthquale. lol Well, I'd rather see that movie. ;)
Thank you for posting that link to the brutal Oscar ballot commentary. Hilarious! And most of it was right on the money.
And I agree, ZD30 should win BP and, like him, it makes me sad that it won't. Argo is not BP material.
But that comment about Riva...that was harsh! I hated myself for laughing.
THR Ballot- This is like when you see those interviews of people voting for the Presidential election and why so-and-so candidate. When they are on your side, it is painful and something you would rather not see, hear, or read the thought process on, and this reads like that even though I agree on some of the choices. That Wallis comment though...
Poor William Friedkin had to respond to the accusations he was the director with the ballot. Considering Friedkin actually thought Fake Michael Haneke was real on twitter and praised him, should have put out of consideration.
And as far as modern movie musicals, I am a total sucker for Christophe Honore musical movies. They're modern, they're pop, they're long (I loved the music of Beloved but it was so, so long), but they're so frank and honest about human sexuality.
Again, I am so jealous of that Zero Dark Thirty pie chart. I wish I invented it for the Broadcast News quip alone.
CMG -- the broadcast news quip is truly genius.
Except for the part about the male lead being tall and the female lead's big hair, the description of "Silver Linings Playbook" is a pretty good match for "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen".
Loved the pie charts. I didn't always agree with the director, but I respect his points, some of which I had to consider. Was nice to see I'm not the only one who saw Les Miz that way. I would also vote for Bigelow. I felt she did the most amazing work this year even though I don't think the film is as good as Hurt Locker.
Love the Argo= Wag the Dog reference. Great way to summarize a movie. I felt I was the only one who had seen that movie, back in the day. Maybe it's time to revisit it.
Hee! I'm 6'1'', too. Does that make me compatible with Bradley Cooper? On bad days I can shrink to 6', which is closer to McGregor's 5'101/2'' ;).
Now I'm checking heigths in IMDB, everyone is so tall! Di Caprio, Day Lewis, Jackman, Tom Hiddleston... Just everyone, except the few well-known shorter ones.
I can't believe people are all just "that guy is so crazy and funny and totally right" about that anonymous director. I don't generally like to treat 'Hollywood' as a single entity, but he really did strike me as everything that is wrong with Hollywood, and specifically the Oscars.
A person who would think that way about "Quvenzhane" and her stupid parents, Michael Haneke hating human beings, No looking weird for some reason, Beasts making no sense (I don't care if he disliked the film, or if its story ultimately amounted to nonsense or whatever, but if he couldn't even understand it, that strikes me as a very limited intellect given way too much power).
And it was especially disturbing that he could come up with really specific jargon about top lighting and match cuts but didn't know the first thing about analysing or even describing performances... Seriously it hurt me to read that piece.
Obviously it was just confirming suspicions I already had, but I can't believe a single voter could go ahead and so efficiently confirm *every single* negative suspicion I've ever had about Ampass.
And why do we salivate and obsess over Oscars???? I mean seriously.
Nathaniel, I think Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas will be presenting Best Picture. According to JF's tweet at least.