You didn’t actually watch it did you
Ballet training is often brutal on young & teen girls; dating a former ballerina involves walking slowly due to your partner’s permanently damaged feet. And dancing professionally is a dicey career in a realm rife with eating disorders. Behind the beauty lurks a lot of misery.
Sinners is timeless; it would have been resonant in the 1970s, and it will still reverberate 50 years hence. That IMO makes it a better movie. But OBAA perfectly captured its own time: the militarized paranoia of Trump 2.0. I prefer Sinners but get how the Academy could have leaned toward OBAA.
Sinners was a more complex, layered, and beautiful film. It will be studied in film school forever. But OBAA was also fantastic, calling out in advance the dystopian, militarized America of Trump 2.0. PTA has piled up an incredible body of work, and the Academy sometimes just decides, “it’s time.”
The joke is about two predominantly white “highbrow” art forms that are supposedly fading, and one that’s predominantly black. There are a thousand versions of this fairly lame anti-elite humor - eg, re: wine connoisseurship, or modern art. It’s not racist. It’s just low-effort.
Three roles. The (comparatively) gentle Stack as a vampire was a third character with a newly feral quality.
And in a subtly distinct third role: Vampire Stack.
Also: “top European prosecutor”? Is that an actual job title? Wouldn’t this person have a name? This is bot propaganda.
Wanna trade?
There’s also the fact that the “I Lied to You” scene mid-movie is up there with the long tracking shot that opens Orson Welles’s “Touch of Evil” as one of the greatest sequences ever captured on film.
Given that the US has a bloody track record it’s all the more imperative to forget about demanding perfection in a presidential candidate, when that has never happened, and vote for the distinctly less bad one. If lives will necessarily be lost due to US acts, let’s at least focus on harm reduction.
Sinners will be studied in film school forever.
IMO Lindo was better. But the Academy loves whatever it is Penn does. He is now tied for most acting Oscars ever.
He was fantastic, but let’s not forget that MBJ played *three* characters and gave them all subtle individual differences: twins Smoke & Stack—and vampire Stack. That whole cast was actually outrageously good.
Horror or classic literary adaptation?
Right up there with any one scene in any film, eg, Orson Welles’s long opening tracking shot in “Touch of Evil.” Just a masterclass in showing *and* telling. An incredible song. And visuals that blew the roof off.
Masterpiece. Three or four genres seamlessly blended. It’s almost impossible to describe why the plot works and how it all coheres, but does it ever.
Please. Supporting USAID and keeping solders out of our cities and preventing ICE raids on daycares and restaurants and not invading Iran—these are Harris voter standards. Let’s say she was the same as Trump on Gaza, even though she wasn’t. There would be a million fewer deaths on the US conscience.
“GOP” and “Dem” are not fixed identities. Eg, MA voted for Reagan—twice! Today, Trump has driven lots of former Rs into the D camp. Many tech titans have joined MAGA. In a two-party system, coalitions are needed to win—and 51% of voters never agree on everything. We can align around stopping Trump.
Otherwise decent post ruined by obnoxious credentialism. That pitch doesn’t even warm hearts in Cambridge, let alone the rest of our increasingly unequal, unfair, society in which upwards mobility has been stymied for nearly everyone. But Go Crimson, eh?
“I campaigned for and donated to Harris.” No, you didn’t.
And Trump is Reagan’s direct heir: the endless and effortless lying; the Teflon; the corrupt aides and insane ideologue cabinet members; the nonstop undermining of the public sector; the jingoism—all enabled by preternatural media skills.
Looks quite legit. Maybe a touch more pasta water for enhanced creaminess?
Disagree. Award-worthy acting (eg, MBJ subtly portraying 3 distinct characters), gorgeous cinematography, and wild genre-bending: depression gangster pic meets The Color Purple meets horror film meets musical. Totally original vision to contrast Jim Crow vs Irish colonial oppression. Utterly unique.
Of course Kamala supported retribution against Hamas after 10/7. But she would not have offered Bibi Trump’s blank check for war, which has now spilled into multiple countries. As we lost USAID and gained a domestic ICE invasion. Trump fully empowered Bibi—and so did the “anti-genocide” leftists.
Well said.
Party alignment isn’t set in stone. Harris won college graduates by double digits. Prior to Obama, that demographic historically voted R. These folks are informed and donate—and actually vote. What sunk Harris was Biden’s unpopularity, and having just 100 days to campaign. Not some ex-Rs liking her.
Nonsense. Any president would have supported aggressive action against Hamas after 10/7. But things would have played out very differently under Harris instead of Trump. As Bibi knew. And you do, too.
Bibi campaigned actively for one candidate. It wasn’t Harris. He knew which one would give him a free hand, and he got it. The successful campaign to label Harris as “pro-genocide” set the Gaza war ablaze.
Saw MJ score 54 in the old Chicago Coliseum. It wasn’t his highest scoring game, but what was amazing was how effortlessly and almost quietly he piled up the points, totally in the flow of the game. I am convinced he could have scored much more throughout his career had he been more ball-dominant.
