OT: The Movies Thread

[nuraman00]

2017 Oscars predictions and Show Thread.

89th Academy Awards - Wikipedia

Best Picture

Arrival – Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde
Fences – Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, and Todd Black
Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic and David Permut
Hell or High Water – Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn
Hidden Figures – Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi
La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt
Lion – Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Angie Fielder
Manchester by the Sea – Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, and Kevin J. Walsh
Moonlight – Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner


Best Director

Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight

Best Actor

Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea as Lee Chandler
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge as Desmond T. Doss
Ryan Gosling – La La Land as Sebastian Wilder
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic as Ben Cash
Denzel Washington – Fences as Troy Maxson


Best Actress

Isabelle Huppert – Elle as Michèle Leblanc
Ruth Negga – Loving as Mildred Loving
Natalie Portman – Jackie as Jackie Kennedy
Emma Stone – La La Land as Mia Dolan
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight as Juan
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water as Marcus Hamilton
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea as Patrick Chandler
Dev Patel – Lion as Saroo Brierley
Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals as Detective Bobby Andes


Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson
Naomie Harris – Moonlight as Paula
Nicole Kidman – Lion as Sue Brierley
Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures as Dorothy Vaughan
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea as Randi

 

[nuraman00]

Haven't seen any of the movies.

But:

Spoiler

Best Picture


La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt



Best Director


Denis Villeneuve – Arrival



Best Actor


Denzel Washington – Fences as Troy Maxson



Best Actress


Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins



Best Supporting Actor


Mahershala Ali – Moonlight as Juan



Best Supporting Actress


Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson

 

[nuraman00]

"There's only one 'Braveheart' in this room, and he's not going to unite us either."

 

[nuraman00]

"I want to thank Donald Trump because last year, everyone was talking about how the Oscars were racist."

 

[nuraman00]

Was that kid in the Walmart commercial trying to send his infant sister into outer space?



Did he hope that aliens would abduct her?

 

[nuraman00]

I feel like the projected 3 hours are going by fast.

 

[nuraman00]

The one year, when compared to recent years, that I don't see a bit about how the integrity of the results are secured by Price Waterhouse Cooper, they have a screw up where the wrong envelope is mixed in for the Best Picture results.

Funny.



Apparently this also happened in 1964 too, for another category.


Oscars Blows It, Gives Best Picture To Wrong Film; Chaos On Stage As ‘Moonlight’ Wins

 

[nuraman00]

I heard on the radio that there's supposed to be duplicate copies of the winners in the envelope for each award.



(Maybe so that if there's two presenters, they can open/read it at the same time?)



Only this time, one of the duplicates was accidentally for Best Actress, in the Best Picture envelope.



That kind of explains how they found the corrected one, even though the erroneous one was still open from when Fay read it.

 

[nuraman00]

She didn't realize it was the wrong envelope, she just quickly read it.

 

[nuraman00]

Who passed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope? What really happened when La La Land won over Moonlight



(Also explains about the two envelop thing. I haven't fully read it though.)

 

[nuraman00]

A living producer was shown in the picture of the "In Memoriam" segment.



Oscars 'In Memoriam' included photo of woman still alive

 

[nuraman00]

There was a new envelope design this year.

It might have been harder to see what the award was for, on each envelope.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/movies/oscars-best-picture-moonlight-academy-awards.html?_r=0

 

[nuraman00]

She didn't realize it was the wrong envelope, she just quickly read it.

This picture makes it seem obvious from the front (first Twitter pic).

And this picture makes it seem obvious from the back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/...t&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

 

[nuraman00]

One of the tourists at the Oscars, Gary from Chicago, had just been released from prison, serving 20 years there.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/...star-days-after-release-from-prison.html?_r=0

 

[nuraman00]

Predictions:

Best Picture - Lady Bird
Best Director - “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan
Best Actor - Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Best Actress - Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Supporting Actor - Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Supporting Actress - Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Best Foreign Film - “A Fantastic Woman” (Chile)

Best Animated - “Ferdinand,” Carlos Saldanha
Best Costume - “Darkest Hour,” Jacqueline Durran
Best Makeup - “Darkest Hour,” Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick

Tiebreaker:

Best Song - “Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” Mary J. Blige
Best Sound Editing - “Dunkirk,” Alex Gibson, Richard King

 

[nuraman00]

Have you read any of the "My Teacher is an Alien" series? How about "Me and the Weirdos" or "My Fat Summer"?

Yes.

* My Teacher Is An Alien
* My Teacher Fried My Brains
* My Teacher Glows In The Dark
* My Teacher Flunked The Planet.


I think I read the 3rd one first, then bought the 4th, then checked out the first two from the library. I liked them all, probably the 2nd one the most.


I don't know if I read "One Fat Summer" or not. It sounds like I might have, but could be a false memory.

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I loved that series. In that order. I tend to like the original/first in a series most, because it has most of the time most original stuff, most explanations, and most energy to discuss the story. Good authors can do well in all of them, it's just when comparing them. Plus, my teacher actually was an alien, so that made the story closer to me than say One Fat Summer, where I wasn't fat. I did like the daily improvements the character in that book made and the observations he made about girls.

I think since I owned the 4th, and probably the 3rd, I just remember them more. I read them a few times.

Since I checked the first two out from the library, I only read them once each. So I don't remember as much.

We haven't talked about books in a long time. Should I read any book from "My Fat Summer" or "Me and the Weirdos"?

 

[MHSL82]

We haven't talked about books in a long time. Should I read any book from "My Fat Summer" or "Me and the Weirdos"?

One Fat Summer is more grownup, less formulaic/predictable. I loved both. My kid read Me and the Weirdos to me.

 

[nuraman00]

Thanks. Maybe I'll try the latter one first.

 

[nuraman00]

Also, why does the title "flunked the planet" make sense? I don't know if I understood that. Or maybe if I did, I forgot now.

Is it because Hoo-Lan couldn't find any redeeming qualities about humans on earth?

Therefore he gave the human race a F grade?

Something about the wording of the title has always bothered me.

 

[nuraman00]

Also, I don't like how they change book covers.

This is the one I had:

I like it. It looks "realistic".

This next one is one that I see right now. I don't like it, it looks too cartoony.

Here's another one I see right now. Pretty cool, again, I like how the boy looks like a real person.

Here's another one. I don't like the cartoonish look again:

Here's another one. The colors are a little similar to the first one, so it is ok. But the first one is still better.