The Swamp

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:30 pm**

I’ve seen that with my cousins, of whom the oldest has autism. He’s about 6 years older but until this year were in HS together because you can go in AZ until age 21. But she’s constantly being pushed aside because of her brothers needs. Fortunately she’s a great kid and loves her brother to death. But it has an impact. I was heartened to see how awesome all kids are (by and large) with special needs kids. It’s nothing like when we went to school. In a lot of ways this country is on the right track.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:23 am**

We finally watched 'Get Out'. What a great movie, on a whole bunch of levels.

And there's no way in hell its going to win Best Picture.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:51 am**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:23 am We finally watched 'Get Out'. What a great movie, on a whole bunch of levels.

And there's no way in hell its going to win Best Picture.

Yet to see Lady Bird or Shape of Water, but Get Out would be a richly deserving winner of Best Original Screenplay. That script is air tight.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:27 am**

I hope Shape of Water doesn't win that category just because there's a chance it's plagiarized. Get Out would be my pick in that one. I was underwhelmed by Lady BIrd, but I think that's because I've lived that movie the past few months.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:47 am**

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:27 am I hope Shape of Water doesn't win that category just because there's a chance it's plagiarized. Get Out would be my pick in that one. I was underwhelmed by Lady BIrd, but I think that's because I've lived that movie the past few months.

Normally, I dismiss these plagiarism cries. But in this particular case, it sounds like there's something to it.

And there's a Canadian version of Lady Bird showing nightly at my house.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:50 am**

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:47 am
A_B wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:27 am I hope Shape of Water doesn't win that category just because there's a chance it's plagiarized. Get Out would be my pick in that one. I was underwhelmed by Lady BIrd, but I think that's because I've lived that movie the past few months.
Normally, I dismiss these plagiarism cries. But in this particular case, it sounds like there's something to it.

And there's a Canadian version of Lady Bird showing nightly at my house.

Yeah, I wanted to be happy that Abe Sapien was getting work again, but it sure seems too similar to warrant a "original screenplay" nod, let alone a win. For the unintiated, here is The Ringer's rundown of the case.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:16 pm**

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:27 am I hope Shape of Water doesn't win that category just because there's a chance it's plagiarized. Get Out would be my pick in that one. I was underwhelmed by Lady BIrd, but I think that's because I've lived that movie the past few months.

I thought Lady Bird was excellent, but I've seen that movie (or close to it) before. I've never seen anything quite like Get Out before. Closest we could come up with was a 'Woke Shaun of the Dead'.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:18 pm**

And I thought Get Out was basically like every horror movie ever (with an admittedly great twist).

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:25 pm**

brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:18 pm And I thought Get Out was basically like every horror movie ever (with an admittedly great twist).

We must watch different kinds of horror movies!

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:27 pm**

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:25 pm
brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:18 pm And I thought Get Out was basically like every horror movie ever (with an admittedly great twist).
We must watch different kinds of horror movies!

Horror is an inaccurate word. Let me revise that to "thriller".

Either way, I'm not shitting on Get Out. It was a very good movie. I don't think it was in the top 10 best movies of last year though.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:53 am**

The Post....BORING as heckfire. No clue why it got any nominations.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:00 am**

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:53 am No clue why it got any nominations.

Really?

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:04 am**

rass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:00 am
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:53 am No clue why it got any nominations.
Really?

Well, yeah, you're right...I know why, but it didn't deserve any of them.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:38 am**

I should say that I didn't have the best viewing experience...it took an hour to watch the first 11 minutes due to a friend of the wife who is becoming a source of constant drama so the woman was constantly checking her phone.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2018 10:30 am**

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:04 am
rass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:00 am
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:53 am No clue why it got any nominations.
Really?
Well, yeah, you're right...I know why, but it didn't deserve any of them.

Drew Magary in Deadspin wrote:Here is yet another disposable Tom Brokaw wet dream, featuring white journalists in bad pants saving the world from all the Bad People by doing some Good, Old Fashioned Shoe Leather Journalism. The DVD of this movie includes a commentary from Aaron Sorkin where he freebases coke and then screams “WHERE ARE TODAY’S EDWARD R. MURROWS?!” at the top of his lungs. I wouldn’t watch this even if you told me the Trump pee tape was hidden inside it.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:13 am**

One of the other contestants waiting to appear on "Jeopardy!" was a young writer who had a crew job on Sorkin's The Newsroom. Sounds like he's a complete lunatic and a total asshole to his staff.

FWIW.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:34 pm**

I just watched Get Out and loved it. Only one thing that bothered me a little...

[+] spoiler: How did he get the cotton from the chair into his ears if his hands were strapped to the arms of the chair?

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:43 pm**

Jerloma wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:34 pm I just watched Get Out and loved it. Only one thing that bothered me a little...

[+] spoiler
How did he get the cotton from the chair into his ears if his hands were strapped to the arms of the chair?

That's a good question.

Saw Baby Driver last night. Good fun. And while there's no point in expecting anything vaguely realistic from such a mental film...

[+] spoiler: If Baby took part in a series of crimes that led to the deaths and shootings of that many cops, he'd have been getting a lethal injection instead of the girl at the end!

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:51 pm**

Jerloma wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:34 pm I just watched Get Out and loved it. Only one thing that bothered me a little...

[+] spoiler
How did he get the cotton from the chair into his ears if his hands were strapped to the arms of the chair?

>> Didn't at one point he was shown trying to bite through the straps? In theory that means he could get his head down close enough to his hands to put the cotton in.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:12 pm**

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:41 pm**

So... Kobe now has as many Oscars as Scorsese.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:50 pm**

That much closer to being the first EEGOT winner.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:07 pm**

I was thinking more EGOAT, with the “A” standing for “Acquittal”.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:16 pm**

Everyone forgets about the time Paul Mokeski won Best Sound Effects Editing.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:17 pm**

I thought Lebron won for the return of the king when they came back from 3-1.

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:10 am**

I’ll probably never see The Shape Of Water so Oscar-wise last year might as well never have happened.

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:34 am**

Learned last night that Guillermo del Toro lives in Toronto as well as Los Angeles.

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:15 am**

brian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:10 am I’ll probably never see The Shape Of Water so Oscar-wise last year might as well never have happened.

+1

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2018 9:29 am**

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:28 pm**

Just Michael Shannon, sitting in the Old Town Ale House (epic dive bar) in Chicago, watching the Oscars.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:52 pm**

Of Best Picture winners, I have seen...

1 of the last 20
3 of the last 26
5 of the last 30

12 overall

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:55 pm**

19 (Never saw The Artist)
25
29
44

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:56 pm**

I'll go see The Artist and we can clean up on trivia night together

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:02 pm**

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:52 pm Of Best Picture winners, I have seen...

1 of the last 20
3 of the last 26
5 of the last 30

12 overall

Was that 1 the Lord of the Rings?

I've seen 6 of the last 20. But that was 5 out of 6 from 1998-2003, plus The King's Speech. And Lord of the Rings is probably the only one I saw before the award was given (or in a theater).

I think I've seen every one of the winners from the 1990s except the English Patient, though almost all on video.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:03 pm**

The Departed

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:04 pm**

15 of last 20
20 of last 25
23 of last 30 (and literally just watched The Last Emperor last night. Incredible flick).

38 overall.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:29 pm**

All the favorites won, excepting Best Picture, which was the least of a favorite.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:12 pm

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:32 pm**

I've not seen 7 of the winners since 1950 counting Shape of Water which I haven't seen yet

i think the worst one I saw was Dances with Wolves. Absolute snub to Goodfellas (i think they were the same year)

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:36 pm**

That one doesn't bug me as much as Crash. I'm no Dances With Wolves fanboi and Goodfellas is definitely better, but DWW is at least a very, very good film in my opinion. Crash is just garbage (though the other candidates that year weren't that great. Brokeback Mountain should have won though.)

ETA: If we're going to get into the weeds, DWW has a pretty horrible script and Costner is not a good actor, but it's a gorgeous movie and that counts for something.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:40 pm**

Don't even get me fucking started on Crash. Fucking garbage.

So I'm at 54 total. Oldest I saw was All Quiet On the Western Front (1930), most recent was Moonlight (2016)

By decade:
30s: 3
40s: 2
50s: 7
60s: 5
70s: 9 (all but KvsK)
80s: 6
90s: 9 (all but DWW in one sitting)
00s: 10
10s: Only 3, but there are mitigating factors there.

My longest streak is 20 (Silence of the Lambs to The King's Speech), second longest is 10 (Midnight Cowboy to The Deer Hunter).

And Steve, don't waste your time on The English Patient. Go spend those three hours refinishing your deck.

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