It's such a pathetic ratings grab for the broadcast while ALSO being an excuse for never giving Best Picture to something like Black Panther.
Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.
'Lessons'
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Jessica - Aug 08, 2018 10:57:35 am PDT #1642 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Scola - Aug 08, 2018 11:00:41 am PDT #1643 of 3463
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Birth. Movies. Death. said they should just call it "Best Cape".
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 08, 2018 3:17:56 pm PDT #1644 of 3463
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's such a pathetic ratings grab for the broadcast while ALSO being an excuse for never giving Best Picture to something like Black Panther.
If it's the first winner they can underscore the insult by making the statue a golden lawn jockey!
Dana - Aug 08, 2018 3:23:24 pm PDT #1645 of 3463
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, the comment I saw on Twitter was that really, this was the year they decided to create a category that's basically separate but equal?
DavidS - Aug 08, 2018 4:01:24 pm PDT #1646 of 3463
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
New Oscar category "Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film"
They already have this and it is called: The Boxoffice!
Toddson - Aug 09, 2018 8:17:27 am PDT #1647 of 3463
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
eep! trailer for The Meg
askye - Aug 09, 2018 5:41:27 pm PDT #1648 of 3463
Thrive to spite them
One of the local radio stations has Mario Lopez's syndicated show thing like Ryan Seacrest. He has a spot for it and it sounds like he's saying "The Mag". It annoys me every time I hear it.
Toddson - Aug 13, 2018 12:23:17 pm PDT #1649 of 3463
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This seemed relevant to the Buffistas.
Vonnie K - Aug 15, 2018 11:30:51 am PDT #1650 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I started listening to the Empire podcast interview with Christopher McQuarrie re. MI - Fallout, who is a terrific interviewee -- witty and fun and full of great anecdotes. It's over 2 hours long and only the first part (!), but within the first 30 mins, there have already been some super juicy bits: [link]
I long considered the plots to be secondary in this franchise, but I had no idea just how secondary. For example, the big climactic helicopter chase in Kashmir ? Totally started ass-backward. To wit, Tom Cruise long wanted to try a big stunt like that, and the thing he was trying to do was so crazy that the ONLY country that would let him do the stunt was New Zealand. So they decided to film it there, except New Zealand is not a site for a global conflict. So they reverse-searched for a likely place whose scenery resembled New Zealand and came up with Kashmir. Once they decided that was the location, they had to devise a plot to get everyone over there.
This seems a CRAZYPANTS way of making a $200 million+ budget film but apparently it all worked out? Also, McQuarrie said he lucked out when Tom Cruise broke his ankle and forced the production into a 6-week break, which gave him the chance to edit the footage they had and come up with a better way of moving the story forward and strengthening the team dynamic.
Jessica - Aug 15, 2018 11:32:08 am PDT #1651 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I mean, it seems like a pretty reasonable way to write a Mission Impossible film though, right?