LOL I bet I'm Memento-ish about it. "LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT SAM JENKINS" because surely I would have remembered that? Somehow? NOPE.
I am coming to the conclusion that popular reception is the worst form of historical memory.
'BUT HER EMAILS' is like the political form of it, hah.
(Is that what happened with Gary Oldman? I didn't understand his nomination and I don't understand his win. Playing Winston Churchill is like its own subgenre by now. The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books each had entire articles about this phenomenon!)
I was beboggled, too, until people In The Know helpfully told me he apparently has won every award in the award season so far, so he was guaranteed to win this one. I dunno. He and Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread and The Post all came out of nowhere at me. I sorta wanted to see The Post, but I have an anaphylactic reaction to Tom Hanks. Apparently if you track the awards all season long you can tell who's going to win? *hands*
I do not believe the protagonist of A Fantastic Woman dies. I am fairly confident I'd have seen it mentioned if she did. I suspect I will even try to watch the movie at some point. I just have a limited capacity for emotionally brutal, however beautiful, right now.
Yeah, seriously, especially if it involves gender issues and being forcibly outed and mistreated. I really do want to see it, tho.
*RASPBERRY*
The idea of Platoon being Oscar-worthy seems really....weird, now, altho I remember its being seen as very Big and Important at the time.
Varda has never won an Oscar unless you count her honorary award last year. This is, I believe the technical term is, bullshit.
THIS IS THE WRONG UNIVERSE, WE TOOK A LEFT TURN SOMEWHERE
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LOL I bet I'm Memento-ish about it. "LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT SAM JENKINS" because surely I would have remembered that? Somehow? NOPE.
I am coming to the conclusion that popular reception is the worst form of historical memory.
'BUT HER EMAILS' is like the political form of it, hah.
(Is that what happened with Gary Oldman? I didn't understand his nomination and I don't understand his win. Playing Winston Churchill is like its own subgenre by now. The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books each had entire articles about this phenomenon!)
I was beboggled, too, until people In The Know helpfully told me he apparently has won every award in the award season so far, so he was guaranteed to win this one. I dunno. He and Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread and The Post all came out of nowhere at me. I sorta wanted to see The Post, but I have an anaphylactic reaction to Tom Hanks. Apparently if you track the awards all season long you can tell who's going to win? *hands*
I do not believe the protagonist of A Fantastic Woman dies. I am fairly confident I'd have seen it mentioned if she did. I suspect I will even try to watch the movie at some point. I just have a limited capacity for emotionally brutal, however beautiful, right now.
Yeah, seriously, especially if it involves gender issues and being forcibly outed and mistreated. I really do want to see it, tho.
*RASPBERRY*
The idea of Platoon being Oscar-worthy seems really....weird, now, altho I remember its being seen as very Big and Important at the time.
Varda has never won an Oscar unless you count her honorary award last year. This is, I believe the technical term is, bullshit.
THIS IS THE WRONG UNIVERSE, WE TOOK A LEFT TURN SOMEWHERE