[OFF TOPIC] Movies & TV Series Thread

[Federer91 3,065]

David Lynch has died  One of the most unique minds in the history of cinema & TV. Sad day.

[konig 1,582]

If you didnt watch the animated movie "The War Of The Rohirrim", make a favor to yourself and dont watch it.

[konig 1,582]

29 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

David Lynch has died  One of the most unique minds in the history of cinema & TV. Sad day.

I really hate him for the movie "mulholland drive", first time ever i dont understand AT ALL a movie and a friend of mine, big fan of Lynch, convinced me to go to the cinme to watch it......

 

Two hour afters that, i have a big headache and want to scape from the cinema, the movie finish after 3 hours with the half part of spectators than it starts.

[MatiReimundo 465]

For anyone interested, 2 movies released in digital (meaning for buy, rent or to watch in your reliable pirate page) this week regarding the Olympics. One was The Fire Inside, a biographical film about Claressa Shields, two times olympic gold medallist in boxing and the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.

 

The other is September 5, which is a drama film who narrates the coverage of a US TV network during the terrorist attack against the israeli delegation in the Munich 1972 Olympics. This movie got an Academy Award (Oscars) nomination in Best Original Screenplay.

Edited February 4, 2025 by MatiReimundo

[Dragon 2,042]

1 hour ago, MatiReimundo said:

For anyone interested, 2 movies released in digital (meaning for buy, rent or to watch in your reliable pirate page) this week regarding the Olympics. One was The Fire Inside, a biographical film about Claressa Shields, two times olympic gold medallist in boxing and the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.

 

The other is September 5, which is a drama film who narrates the coverage of a US TV network during the terrorist attack against the israeli delegation in the Munich 1972 Olympics. This movie got an Academy Award (Oscars) nomination in Best Original Screenplay.

My friends at the "Keep the Flame Alive" podcast have a review of "The Fire Inside"

https://flamealivepod.com/movie-club-the-fire-inside/

[bestmen 2,908]

This is my thread not totallympics..you can't  create interresting one by yourself  ...modo the voodoo 

[mrv86 3,255]

For those who have not yet hear, almost two weeks ago, a group of Mexican creators, led by a trans-woman, released on Youtube their own"homage" to Emilia Pérez, called "Johanne Sacrebleu".

 

On their own words, it's a film "about France and French society, made by people who have never lived in France nor speak French", a clear allusion to the overall egolatry of European and US critics that praised and rewarded Emilia Perez and their Audiard in particular.

 

Here is the link for those who are curious.

 

 

Keeping my mind free of nationalism, I must say that the arrogance of Emilia Perez and their PR's is just that, arrogance. It lacks a good script, the music is no better than musical parodies from bad sitcoms, and the performances suffer as a result of that, probably Saldana being the acceptable one, but far from deserving a Best Supporting (or Best Actress as other would argue) nomination.

 

That being said, I didn't expect much from the politically correct Hollywood community; they wanted to put a transgender person on the spotlight, yet when said person turned out to be a piece of shit human being (there's no proof to the contrary, Gascon has always been an arrogant asshole, even before her gender reassignment), every other participant of this mockery of good cinema and of true representation and visibility has quickly try to save their own flesh. Pathethic.

[Monzanator 4,806]

Looks like Gascon has self-sabotaged anyway after someone dug out the old tweets about George Floyd, Islam and whatever else. Yeah, a film about Mexico made by Europeans. What could possibly go wrong? I read Selena Gomez had to le-learn Spanish to even make it passable on-screen? I'd never suspect she forgot how to speak Spanish fluently 

[Grassmarket 4,089]

Sad news: Gene Hackman is dead.  Always one of my favourites in the 70s & 80s.  

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14442071/Gene-Hackman-wife-Betsy-Arakawa-dead-Santa-Fe-home.html?ico=comment-anchor#comments

[vinipereira 3,462]

Don't know if anyone cares about this award, but I'm here once again with my annual Oscar predictions post. Last year I predicted 17/23 winners and this year it will probably be worse since I'm not certain about my predictions in many categories. Of course I'm more invested this year since for the first time ever we have a brazilian movie nominated for Best Picture, and could be our first win ever in any category (it has a shot in International Film, although I always expect the worst from the Oscars and the very worst this year is 'Emilia Pérez' ).

 

For Best Picture, it's either 'Anora' or 'Conclave', a hard to call to make since I don't know which one is more liked (for me both are good if not memorable movies). I watched all 35 feature films and 15 short films nominated, so I leave a personal ranking of all the categories, as well as some names I wish were nominated.

 

["will win" is my prediction / "could win", my alternate prediction / "should win", my personal ranking / "shoud have been nominated", a way to remember other notable work].

 

Spoiler

Best Picture

WILL WIN: Anora

COULD WIN: Conclave

SHOULD WIN: 1. I'm Still Here; 2. The Substance; 3. Nickel Boys; 4. Conclave; 5. The Brutalist; 6. Wicked; 7. Anora; 8. Dune: Part Two; 9. A Complete Unknown; 10. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Challengers

 

 

Directing

WILL WIN: Anora, Sean Baker

COULD WIN: The Brutalist, Brady Corbet

SHOULD WIN: 1. The Substance, Coralie Fargeat; 2. The Brutalist, Brady Corbet; 3. Anora, Sean Baker; 4. Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard; 5. A Complete Unknown, James Mangold.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof

 

 

Actor in a Leading Role

WILL WIN: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

COULD WIN: Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

SHOULD WIN: 1. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave; 2. Colman Domingo, Sing Sing; 3. Adrien Brody, The Brutalist; 4. Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice; 5. Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Daniel Craig, Queer

 

 

Actress in a Leading Role

WILL WIN: Mikey Madison, Anora

COULD WIN: Demi Moore, The Substance

SHOULD WIN: 1. Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here; 2. Demi Moore, The Substance; 3. Mikey Madison, Anora; 4. Cynthia Erivo, Wicked; 5. Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

 

 

Actor in a Supporting Role

WILL WIN: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

COULD WIN: Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

SHOULD WIN: 1. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain; 2. Guy Pearce, The Brutalist; 3. Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice; 4. Yura Borisov, Anora; 5. Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Selton Mello, I'm Still Here

 

 

Actress in a Supporting Role

WILL WIN: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

COULD WIN: Isabella Rossellini, Conclave

SHOULD WIN: I probably wouldn't nominate any of the five, but if I were forced to rank them: 1. Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez; 2. Felicity Jones, The Brutalist; 3. Ariana Grande, Wicked; 4. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave; 5. Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Joan Chen, Dìdi

 

 

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

WILL WIN: Conclave

COULD WIN: Nickel Boys

SHOULD WIN: 1. Nickel Boys; 2. Conclave; 3. Sing Sing; 4. A Complete Unknown; 5. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: I'm Still Here

 

 

Writing (Original Screenplay)

WILL WIN: A Real Pain

COULD WIN: Anora

SHOULD WIN: 1. The Substance; 2. A Real Pain; 3. Anora; 4. The Brutalist; 5. September 5.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: All We Imagine as Light

 

 

Animated Feature Film

WILL WIN: The Wild Robot

COULD WIN: Flow

SHOULD WIN: 1. Flow; 2. The Wild Robot; 3. Memoir of a Snail; 4. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl; 5. Inside Out 2.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Orion and the Dark

 

 

Documentary Feature

WILL WIN: Porcelain War

COULD WIN: No Other Land

SHOULD WIN: 1. No Other Land; 2. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat; 3. Sugarcane; 4. Black Box Diaries; 5. Porcelain War.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Dahomey

 

 

International Feature Film

WILL WIN: Emilia Pérez (France)

COULD WIN: I'm Still Here (Brazil)

SHOULD WIN: 1. I'm Still Here (Brazil); 2. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany); 3. Flow (Latvia); 4. The Girl with the Needle (Denmark); 5. Emilia Pérez (France).

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Out of the eligible movies, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Thailand) and Universal Language (Canada) are both great, but All We Imagine as Light (India) and The Count of Monte Cristo (France) should've been nominated if they were selected by their countries.

 

 

Cinematography

WILL WIN: The Brutalist

COULD WIN: Nosferatu

SHOULD WIN: 1. The Brutalist; 2. Maria; 3. Nosferatu; 4. Dune: Part Two; 5. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Nickel Boys

 

 

Film Editing

WILL WIN: Conclave

COULD WIN: Anora

SHOULD WIN: Another category that my picks would be completely different, but... 1. Conclave; 2. The Brutalist; 3. Wicked; 4. Anora; 5. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Challengers, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, The Substance etc.

 

 

Costume Design

WILL WIN: Wicked

COULD WIN: Nosferatu

SHOULD WIN: 1. Wicked; 2. Nosferatu; 3. A Complete Unknown; 4. Conclave; 5. Gladiator II.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Queer

 

 

Production Design

WILL WIN: Wicked

COULD WIN: The Brutalist

SHOULD WIN: 1. Wicked; 2. The Brutalist; 3. Dune: Part Two; 4. Nosferatu; 5. Conclave.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: The Count of Monte Cristo

 

 

Makeup and Hairstyling

WILL WIN: The Substance

COULD WIN: Wicked

SHOULD WIN: 1. The Substance; 2. A Different Man; 3. Nosferatu; 4. Wicked; 5. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: The Girl with the Needle

 

 

Music (Original Score)

WILL WIN: Conclave

COULD WIN: The Brutalist

SHOULD WIN: 1. Conclave; 2. The Brutalist; 3. The Wild Robot; 4. Wicked; 5. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Challengers, The Room Next Door, The Substance... another depressing category.

 

 

Music (Original Song)

WILL WIN: "El Mal", Emilia Pérez

COULD WIN: "Like a Bird", Sing Sing

SHOULD WIN: The only good song here is the Sing Sing one, trash category honestly (how in the hell is Diane Warren nominated every year for the most forgettable songs ever written?). If I had to rank: 1. "Like a Bird", Sing Sing; 2. "Never Too Late", Elton John: Never Too Late; 3. "El Mal", Emilia Pérez; 4. "The Journey", The Six Triple Eight; 5. "Mi Camino", Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: "La Vaginoplastia", Emilia Pérez  jk, "Kiss the Sky", The Wild Robot

 

 

Sound

WILL WIN: A Complete Unknown

COULD WIN: Dune: Part Two

SHOULD WIN: 1. Dune: Part Two; 2. Wicked; 3. A Complete Unknown; 4. The Wild Robot; 5. Emilia Pérez.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: The Substance

 

 

Visual Effects

WILL WIN: Dune: Part Two

COULD WIN: Wicked

SHOULD WIN: 1. Dune: Part Two; 2. Better Man; 3. Alien: Romulus; 4. Wicked; 5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

 

 

Short Film (Animated)

WILL WIN: Yuck!

COULD WIN: Beautiful Men

SHOULD WIN: 1. Yuck!; 2. Magic Candies; 3. In the Shadow of the Cypress; 4. Wander to Wonder; 5. Beautiful Men.

 

 

Short Film (Documentary)

WILL WIN: I Am Ready, Warden

COULD WIN: The Only Girl in the Orchestra

SHOULD WIN: 1. Instruments of a Beating Heart; 2. Incident; 3. Death by Numbers; 4. I Am Ready, Warden; 5. The Only Girl in the Orchestra.

 

 

Short Film (Live Action)

WILL WIN: A Lien

COULD WIN: The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

SHOULD WIN: 1. The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent; 2. I'm Not a Robot; 3. Anuja; 4. A Lien; 5. The Last Ranger.

 

Edited March 3, 2025 by vinipereira