All those white dudes, and still no room for Ralph Fiennes, because great comic performances will never get the shiny statues. (Tony Revolori earned but didn't get a nomination, too, which would have offset the white dudeitude at least just a little bit (Good God, he's only Emmett's age; he's just a zygote)).
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
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JZ - Jan 15, 2015 10:21:06 am PST #28239 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JZ - Jan 15, 2015 10:23:50 am PST #28240 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Snowpiercer was incredible.
I would've loved to have seen GOTG nominated for best adapted screenplay (co-authored by a woman, who also came up with the idea and wrote the original draft), and even though I haven't read or seen it all the writerly people I know who have are severely pissed that Gillian Flynn and Gone Girl were passed over.
Vonnie K - Jan 15, 2015 10:39:11 am PST #28241 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I would have loved to see Snowpiercer nominated for anything, but most of all for directing. It had such a loopy, distinctive voice and tone.
I, too, loved Ralph Fiennes in Grand Budapest Hotel. I'm kinda puzzled to see Robert Duvall nominated for The Judge. I thought that film was critically panned (didn't see it myself.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2015 10:39:21 am PST #28242 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gone Girl was an excellent adaptation, I thought. Managed to streamline pretty well.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2015 10:40:17 am PST #28243 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Linda Holmes is great, as ever, on the noms: [link]
Vonnie K - Jan 15, 2015 10:45:09 am PST #28244 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I've only seen three out of the 8 Best Pic nominees. What the hell is American Sniper? I haven't even heard of it.
Meryl Streep in Into the Woods, really? I guess she was entertaining enough in the role, but c'mon. That just feels lazy.
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2015 10:46:37 am PST #28245 of 30000
brillig
She's an Important Actor. I think the Academy thinks they have to. Or they've giving them to older actors on the gamble that "Oh, this is their last movie, I bet, better award them with something."
Jesse - Jan 15, 2015 10:47:04 am PST #28246 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
American Sniper does not look appealing to me from the ads. It's Bradley Cooper... as a sniper.
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2015 10:48:19 am PST #28247 of 30000
brillig
It's Bradley Cooper... as a sniper.
It's Bradley Cooper--as you've never seen him before.
It's true, it's in the ads.
Zenkitty - Jan 15, 2015 10:48:47 am PST #28248 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Robert Duvall was excellent in The Judge, which was an excellent movie. (RDJ was fucking excellent in that movie too.) But while I agree with that nom, overall the Oscars can kiss my wide white ass. They have rarely ever been anything but Hollywood money masturbating itself. The fact that the lineup is almost all white men this year really isn't a huge surprise.