'A Hole in the World'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I took one for the team and ahemed Hacksaw Ridge tonight.
It was good, but I don't think Best Picture good. Where the Hollywoodification of Hidden Figures hit me hard afterward, I felt it while watching Hacksaw. I can't even point to one thing, maybe the score was super manipulative.
Sam Worthington is the one who lost it for me on accents, I think. Might have been a similar looking other guy.
Watched 20th Century Women today and really liked it. Part of it was the time frame, but really there is so much to like about it. To start with, the casting is absolutely stellar. This film should have gotten more Oscar love than just screenplay.
Today's movies were 13th and Hell or High Water.
Hell or High Water was better than both LaLaLand and Hacksaw Ridge. Jeff Bridges was great and the music was wonderful.
I really liked Hell or High Water.
Saw Loving. It sat with me much like Brooklyn did last year. I liked it. There was a lot of silence. Obviously the story is very important and the racist assholes sound as stupid as those against marriage equality do.
So, that Oscar show was cray cray right? I ended up staying for the entire thing and for once, it was worth it.
I went to bed at 10 when they'd just gotten to cinematography. Even if I had stayed up, I probably would have turned off the TV without listening to the whole La La Land speech, so I still would have missed it.
I fell asleep at some point and so missed the Best Actor win (which I am more than fine with, blechh!), but woke up just in time for Best Picture.
I had turned it off when Casey Affleck won, but was still following on twitter, so quickly turned it back on when everyone started tweeting "WTF?" I had a massive headache and couldn't sleep so I stayed up way too late reading tweets about what had happened. So awful for LaLaLand people, but...it was not dull. And I was happy to see Moonlight win.
I haven't seen alot of movies recently but I was happy that Moonlight won and sad for the Lala Land connections.