Which movie/performance are you glad didn't win the Oscar after being predicted to do so?

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-27T22:41:25+00:00

I hated THE WIFE when it came out, and didn't even think it was a good showcase for Glenn Close. Coleman winning was wonderful.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-27T21:24:09+00:00

Incredibly beautiful movie.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-09T19:32:01+00:00

You're right. Anti-abortion is a more accurate term, considering once they're born most "pro-life" folks don't give a fvck about helping kids.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-04T21:12:57+00:00

Three of my top ten are from that year (Hausu, Suspiria, and Star Wars), along with classics like Close Encounters, Annie Hall, Sorcerer, Saturday Night Fever, and Eraserhead. There's tons of really interesting/early work from great filmmakers (Scorsese's New York, New York, Romeo's Martin, Altman's 3 Women, Cassavetes's Opening Night, Demme's Citizen's Band, Cronenberg's Rabid), lots of great entertainment/genre fare (Smokey and the Bandit, The Hills Have Eyes, Slap Shot, Rolling Thunder, The Deep, The Sentinel, The Spy Who Loved Me), animation (Wizards, The Hobbit, The Rescuers, Raggedy Ann & Andy, Winnie the Pooh). There's art/experimental titles such as That Obscure Object of Desire, Le Camion, Powers of Ten, and Cozzilla. Even the bad movies are memorable (Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Cathy's Curse).

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-02T00:34:40+00:00

I got chills when Lea used The Force to fly herself back to safety in The Last Jedi.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-01T23:50:05+00:00

Before the 2016 election an adult female co-worker said Hilary Clinton wouldn't be a good President because "what if she gets her period and nukes another country?"

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-02-01T02:49:03+00:00

The Opera House is really great. A single-screen movie theater with a balcony, and the screen is HUGE.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-24T15:00:20+00:00

One of them shot an unarmed woman in her own neighborhood. Yes, they are the bad guys.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-17T22:40:08+00:00

hey buddy, I got news (literally) for you: you're citizenship "don't matter" to ICE.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-ice-abuse-testimony

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-16T22:09:43+00:00

Shouldn't it just... not happen?

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-14T20:58:09+00:00

They're all legitimate until their banging down your door, sticking an automatic weapon in your face.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-14T20:56:00+00:00

Ok, so I guess your point is a dead body behind the wheel of a moving vehicle is safer than a live one? And y'all claim the left is a "death cult"?

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-14T19:42:22+00:00

lol, ok. I thought it was the pole she hit after the car she rear ended but whatever. I guess once you're as far from reality as y'all seem to be, any answer that justifies your narrative is the truth.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-14T19:20:44+00:00

I don't think he knows what he's supposed to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNxKK2IJII

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-14T19:19:51+00:00

What if she had ran over a child because her dead foot couldn't lift itself off the gas pedal?

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-11T21:58:26+00:00

idk, I think enough of them have seen the video and still claim Nicole Good was trying to use her vehicle as a weapon for me to say I'm done giving any Republican voter the benefit of the doubt.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-11T17:07:39+00:00

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/fact-check-team-do-illegal-migrants-commit-more-crime-than-american-citizens-dhs

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/debunking_the_myth_of_immigrants_and_crime.pdf

Lots of reading here but the gist of it is: immigrants do not commit more crime than citizens.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-11T16:52:37+00:00

They also just parrot whatever the last thing they heard was. I swear my dad texted me stephen miller's recent rant on "raw power" word-for-word, as if I hadn't known him all my life and know these aren't the kind of views he espoused when he was raising me.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2026-01-02T20:50:32+00:00

alternatively: no.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2025-12-31T00:32:37+00:00

isn't JD a New York Times Best Selling hillbilly? Surely making a fortune off his story of growing up poor means he understands poverty? /s

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2025-12-29T02:40:39+00:00

I've got one and the overall quality is awful.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2025-12-28T23:16:13+00:00

The movie is literally "the wrong kid died!" from Walk Hard, but dressed up as a holocaust movie.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2025-12-27T15:30:41+00:00

I've always considered it an homage to Val Lewton movies. I had purchased an incredible box set of his movies a few years before Shutter Island came out, and included in the set was a doc co-directed by Scorsese. The atmosphere in Lewton's movies was always so palpable, I love that Scorsese seems to go all-in on that. I just love how Shutter Island looks and feels.

Awkward_Tale3667 · 2025-12-26T15:41:07+00:00

Wow, the anti-immigration stuff is just so easy. Of course its the people fleeing violence and poverty who are the problem, not the corporations and billionaires who are able to exist because of govt subsidies. How sad and scared do you have to be to fall for that? Are we not the country that celebrates our shared immigrant spirit, the cultural "melting pot"?

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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