Oscar winners, 2020

Ive always liked Laura Dern. Though, I dont think this scene is particularly impressive…

I saw only three of those movies, and never heard of most of them. I happened to see Marriage Story on Netflix with my wife one night. It was a forgettable movie, imo. It was okay, I guess, but I never really cared about any of the characters. I thought Dern did a good job, but I thought it was a standard-issue professional performance. I was surprised to see she was even nominated.

I was also surprised to learn it was Pitt’s first Oscar. He’s done some good work, and while I liked his performance in this, I didn’t think that if I was looking at his filmography, I would point to Once Upon a Time and say, “Now THAT was a film where he just nailed it.”

That’s your Hollywood minute from me, the guy who finds himself less and less interested in watching moving pictures the older he gets.

Didnt realize this was the guy that did “Snowpiercer” which is one of my favorite films.

And Geez, i havent seen reviews like this in a while:

“….On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 99% based on 393 reviews, with an average rating of 9.38/10. The website’s critical consensus reads: “An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft.”[54] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on reviews from 52 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[55]

Writing for the New York Times, A.O. Scott described the film as “wildly entertaining, the kind of smart, generous, aesthetically-energized movie that obliterates the tired distinctions between art films and popcorn movies.”[56] Bilge Ebiri of NY Mag wrote that Parasite is “a work that is itself in a state of constant, agitated transformation—a nerve-racking masterpiece whose spell lingers long after its haunting final image.”[57] In his five-star review of the film, Dave Calhoun of Time Out praised the social commentary and stated that “This is a dazzling work, surprising and fully gripping from beginning to end, full of big bangs and small wonders.”[58] Variety’s Jessica Kiang described the film as “a wild, wild ride,” writing that “Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous, so 2019: Parasite is a tick fat with the bitter blood of class rage.”… wikipedia

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Didn’t know that he directed Snowpiercer too. One of my all-time favorites as well. I need to see Parasite, which will likely come back to theaters due to the Oscar.

Saw Marriage Story, and thought it was good, but not sure it was Oscar-worthy. I’m a big fan of Noah Baumback’s work, though, especially his Kicking and Screaming, which I re-watch every few years. I think it’s one of the best coming of age/college/post-college movies ever made . . . despite its very modest budget. Perhaps because of that.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000876/

The most baffling reaction (this season) to a film for me was The Irishman, which I really wanted to like, but couldn’t. Scorsese is a master, and perhaps much of the love for that movie was really directed at his life-time of work, which is also the case, IMO, for the main actors. I just didn’t buy any of them in their roles. Just thought each one of them was twenty, thirty years past what was being asked of them to portray.

Good speech by Joaquin. I haven’t seen Joker yet, either.

I havent seen Joker yet either. I’ll see it at some point.

I figured Parasite would never make it to WV, so i bought a used dvd on the evil-amazon. Lookin forward to seein it. I’m gonna avoid the spoilers till then.

In the vid i posted on writers and film, Joe Abercrombie alludes to the fact that the best story telling seems to be done on the small screen these days as opposed to the Big Budget Theater releases. Parasite is an exception that, i spose.

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