Agreed that I missed having the little clips when they read the nominees.

Between Pacino and the La La Land Best Picture debacle, can we also retire having legends come out to read Best Picture. It's a good idea but most of the time I just end up thinking how old they look and wonder why they let them out there.

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in memoriam pic.twitter.com/40aylCHBO2

— nick (@nick_pants) March 11, 2024

All I could think of during that.

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So glad I'm not the only one who's seen Step Brothers so many times that Ave Maria has subconsciously become comedic. I started smiling at the beginning and couldn't figure out why, then it hit me.



Thinking back on the show last night and that might be the most enjoyable Oscars I've watched, it was great. I didn't get to watch every minute but the show felt pretty tight overall, not too much fat to cut IMO. This is the first Oscars in a while I've seen a lot of the nominated pictures, which could have helped. Several of the nominated pictures dropped on streaming services recently which helped in that regard. Personal highlight had to be the Gosling performance, so much fun. Having the former winners introduce the nominees was hit and miss for me, depending on who and what they were saying. Some of the speeches were fun, some were genuine and heartfelt, some were written by someone else and read from a teleprompter. Kimmel kept politics out until he was prompted by Trump himself. If the biggest flub of the evening was Pacino forgetting to announce the best picture nominees, that's not too bad.

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The Oscars was helped by the fact that two biggest films of the year were legit nominees and not the "extra nominees" that unjustly get in each year.

As for KotFM, I think the film was ultimately hurt by its decision to change the main characters from the book and eliminate the suspense in mystery (although Kimmel made a very open reference to the book, not the movie, in his monologue). As I said on the film thread at that time, this was a book tailor made for a crime mystery, and Scorsese diced it into a by-the-numbers, low-drama snoozefest.

I never read the book, but I can see what you are saying and agree.

The movie was hurt by the fact that you saw all sides. You saw scenes with just the whites, just the Indians, and both. It just left me thinking "Are these people idiots? How can they not piece together who is killing them?" It made both sides look kind of dumb.

Killer Moon Flowers got the praise it deserved: None.

I haven't watched an Oscars in years, but it was on last night and i stopped down and was entertained by pretty much all of it. Anecdotal evidence that it was a step in the right direction if it could cause me to pay attention. I particularly enjoyed how the brought out the past winners to talk about each nominee. I thought that was a good update. Made it seem like each person nominated was winning just be being on the stage compared to other years. I enjoyed it.

The highlight was Cage and Giamatti for sure in that portion. I loved Cage's delivery. "Would I have done it? Hell yes. But you did do it. And you were brilliant again. Bravo!"

Nicolas Cage honors Paul Giamatti at the #Oscars pic.twitter.com/zad4DdTpiq

— Vulture (@vulture) March 11, 2024

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I never read the book, but I can see what you are saying and agree.

The movie was hurt by the fact that you saw all sides. You saw scenes with just the whites, just the Indians, and both. It just left me thinking "Are these people idiots? How can they not piece together who is killing them?" It made both sides look kind of dumb.

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Exactly.

My thoughts about last night:

He's incredible.

I don't know how many times I've watched this but it's always funny.

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Because Stone absolutely carried Poor Things. Every last scene. She had far more heavy lifting to do. Whereas Gladstone had what amounted to a glorified supporting role. She made a phenomenal impact, and was the soul that movie, but in a dead heat I understand giving Stone the edge due to her sheer workload/responsibility. Never mind the evolution her character underwent over the course of the movie.

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Don't think how much you are in the movie should matter, but it's obviously fine to think she did a better job. And the people voting did too.

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Anthony Hopkins famously won Best Actor for his 17 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs.

Nic Cage and Mark Hamill are the best guys at leaning into the fandom around them and celebrating it.

Last night's highlight at my house was trying to explain to a pair of 12 year olds who (or what) Slash is.

Definitely Not A Cop said:

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My thoughts about last night:

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According to Jeff Sneider on FYC, it wasn't the real dog from Anatomy of a Fall.

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Agreed that I missed having the little clips when they read the nominees.

Between Pacino and the La La Land Best Picture debacle, can we also retire having legends come out to read Best Picture. It's a good idea but most of the time I just end up thinking how old they look and wonder why they let them out there.

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Warren Beatty had zero fault in the La La Land fiasco. They gave him the wrong envelope, which would have confused anyone.

As far as Pacino, I believe the jury's still out. I personally think he just gave zero effs and wanted to go ahead and read the winning film. I actually applaud his action.

This. The Moonlight fiasco was solely on the production team, not the presenters.

Pacino clearly didn't rehearse and gave zero ****s. Though now I wonder if maybe they didn't purposely have him unprepared to manufacture another viral moment.

The Moonlight fiasco was more on the Oscars giving a movie that had no business winning best picture the award because "#OSCARSSOWHITE"

Random trivial complaint - but I was kind of annoyed that Michelle Yeoh basically spoiled the end of Anatomy of a Fall while praising the best actress nominee. That's a movie I have gotten really excited to watch through hearing some increasing buzz and word of mouth. And she pretty much gave away the ending... It's not like that movie was Oppenheimer or Barbie and the whole world saw it.

Oh well, maybe it's not important to the plot... still looking forward to catching it and Past Lives this week

Same.

While it does spoil it a bit it still doesn't spoil it completely. It's still very much worth a watch.

Also, yes the Moonlight thing was on the accountants, but I feel like a younger presenter might have been with it enough to realize that it said "Emma Stone - La La Land" and spoke up. Dunaway seemed so perplexed and blurted it out, though Beatty seemed with it enough to not announce.

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Because Stone absolutely carried Poor Things. Every last scene. She had far more heavy lifting to do. Whereas Gladstone had what amounted to a glorified supporting role. She made a phenomenal impact, and was the soul that movie, but in a dead heat I understand giving Stone the edge due to her sheer workload/responsibility. Never mind the evolution her character underwent over the course of the movie.

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Don't think how much you are in the movie should matter, but it's obviously fine to think she did a better job. And the people voting did too.

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Anthony Hopkins famously won Best Actor for his 17 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs.

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Yea in a vacuum the time on screen argument falls apart because of this precedence.

I will say, however, (granted as someone who did not see KofFM) that even in that limited screen time for Hopkins he really made that movie what it was and propelled it to the next level.

I'd feel the same if I hadn't seen it.

In reference to Pacino, they were showing the clips of every best picture nomination after every commercial break. So I kind of wonder if it was intended for Pacino to not have to say every single one again. Now that being said, his presentation absolutely left a lot to be desired.

In case you missed the Batman part.

Does Arnold know this isn't his Batman?

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He's incredible.

I don't know how many times I've watched this but it's always funny.

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One more thing about this:

Cage and Samburg don't so much as crack a smile thru that entire segment. Even with those great lines they deliver.

It makes it that much more apparent that Nick Cage is one of the greatest actors of our time.

I really enjoyed. This seemed like a more old school Oscar production, which I like. When they tried to make it "cool" by changing things up over the last few years is when I lose interest. Remember the year they made some of those poor winners accept their Oscars in the middle of the aisle?

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The Moonlight fiasco was more on the Oscars giving a movie that had no business winning best picture the award because "#OSCARSSOWHITE"

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Crash?

hold on her filmography…… might start stanning an editor pic.twitter.com/0FwWnMcoAT

— hannah (@cinemaswifts) March 11, 2024

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hold on her filmography…… might start stanning an editor pic.twitter.com/0FwWnMcoAT

— hannah (@cinemaswifts) March 11, 2024

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Yeah, but other than that, what has she done?

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hold on her filmography…… might start stanning an editor pic.twitter.com/0FwWnMcoAT

— hannah (@cinemaswifts) March 11, 2024

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Yeah, but other than that, what has she done?

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Frances Ha

Sydney Sweeney at the Oscar after-party. pic.twitter.com/C0kc2UWpzQ

— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) March 11, 2024

Had no idea this dude with Goslin is Wolfgang Van Halen - Eddie's son.

It was on entertainment weekly. It is a website. Not sure why you're coming at me about "stealing it"

I'm very impressed with her speed in that dress

Best dressed was definitely: anna joy Taylor, Hailee steinfeld, and Carey mulligan.
I think this was one of the most tasteful red carpets we have had in a while. Some really gorgeous looks.

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Best dressed was definitely: anna joy Taylor, Hailee steinfeld, and Carey mulligan.
I think this was one of the most tasteful red carpets we have had in a while. Some really gorgeous looks.

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Are we counting the Vanity Fair party? I nominate Emily Ratajkowski.

Not linking since I don't want to risk a banhammer.