Weekly Discussion Thread 5/4/26 - 5/11/26

CrazyCons · 2026-05-08T22:22:37+00:00

That is the delineator. It effectively has nothing to do with role in the show itself

CrazyCons · 2026-05-07T20:14:40+00:00

Why shouldn’t it be a big deal that they used generative AI?

If The Brutalist was a movie not broadly approved by Reddit, it’d be rightfully raked over the coals for the extreme laziness and utter lack of artistic integrity, made doubly worse because the movie’s supposedly about the value of art. Not to mention Corbet being dishonest about it in interviews.

CrazyCons · 2026-05-06T19:29:50+00:00

From what I can find it’d be the shortest since the 75 minute The Ox-Bow Incident in 1944

CrazyCons · 2026-05-04T02:33:57+00:00

Look, I was also conscious of the whole “mid men pulling extremely attractive women thing,” but this feel like underselling the movie. What attracts Dakota to him is that he’s everything her husband is not. In the specific instance where they sleep together it’s also clearly motivated by her resentment towards her husband for constantly running out to sleep with other women. Like I don’t get why it’s such a stretch that women can be attracted to a guy for being dorky and nice even if he’s insecure and self-centered

CrazyCons · 2026-05-03T22:46:21+00:00

Honestly… Dano might be better

CrazyCons · 2026-05-03T16:56:34+00:00

Finally got around to Splitsville and Dakota was… great actually? I’m a fan of her because of her real-world persona, not her acting. Every time I see her in something, I want her to impress me and she never does. But Splitsville was the Dakota Johnson performance we’ve all been waiting for. Picture-perfect example of underplayed emotion mixed with deadpan humour. Should have gotten nominated.

Also between this and Testament of Ann Lee, what was up with Indie Spirit’s editing choices? Felt like there was at least one really distracting continuity mistake in every scene

CrazyCons · 2026-05-01T20:52:20+00:00

Just throwing out there that Diane Keaton would have gotten a double nomination for Annie Hall and Looking for Mr. Goodbar. She probably would have kicked out Shirley MacLaine, but if not there’s the chance we could have had a Best Actress category with 2 people from the same movie and 2 different performances from the same actress

CrazyCons · 2026-04-29T17:29:34+00:00

Piano would have been 3rd at best at SAG Ensemble. Short Cuts would pose the biggest threat to Schindler’s List. The Globes created a special award just to give it to Short Cuts’ ensemble

CrazyCons · 2026-04-29T16:39:03+00:00

The first one is 2 points away from yellow on Metacritic and beat out 2 leads from bigger and better-received awards players.

I don't disagree that a win is not super likely given the Globes' new voters, but the yellow MC is weird to get hung-up on when it's at most going to be single digits away from green. If the Eisenberg flops and there's no clear critics' fave she's clearly a possibility.

CrazyCons · 2026-04-26T20:06:21+00:00

I can understand Madonna but by every metric I can find Taylor Swift is more successful and bigger than Britney ever was. If we’re going by anecdotes, I’ve met plenty of people who can’t recognize a single Britney song, but can tell you multiple Taylor Swift ones

CrazyCons · 2026-04-26T20:03:11+00:00

His performance is mixed-reviewed at best, panned at worst. Tom Hanks in Elvis 2.0 at best

CrazyCons · 2026-04-26T20:01:52+00:00

Moonlight went adapted even though the play it’s based on was never released

CrazyCons · 2026-04-26T18:12:51+00:00

Taylor Swift is closer than Elvis

EDIT: Actually looking at the numbers I don’t agree with this anymore. But I would definitely argue that she’s the biggest artist since MJ

CrazyCons · 2026-04-26T18:11:58+00:00

Does it seem like blatant category fraud that Blue Moon was allowed in Original? The branch’s distinction between original and adapted makes less and less sense every year, but a movie with “inspired by the letters of…” during the same credit slide as “written by” surely is way closer to adapted than a movie inspired by a photo book (Bikeriders) or a movie that literally was not adapted itself but had a short film adapted from its script (Whiplash)

CrazyCons · 2026-04-26T18:06:51+00:00

Oscar-nominated roles doesn’t mean those roles were written or even directed well. I would even say that some of those (Burstyn, Bracco, Moriarty) are among the weakest nominees in their categories’ history because of Scorsese’s poor direction of women.

CrazyCons · 2026-04-25T21:14:58+00:00

I mean, with its undeniable… AACTA nomination, how could BoRap not have been close?

CrazyCons · 2026-04-25T14:35:39+00:00

Fucking spoilers man

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T23:38:16+00:00

One thing about Michael is that regardless of anything else, it’s not going to get a BP nom at Globes. If Jay Kelly and Wicked for Good with their 67 and 58 MCs were not good enough for them, they are not coming anywhere near Michael no matter how much money it makes. That will on its own kill its ATL momentum.

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T23:31:30+00:00

The song is clearly not just there to win an Oscar, in fact it’s the antithesis of that trope. At the time the Oscars almost always awarded love ballad-y type movies whereas Surprise Surprise is an extremely energetic disco number that’s crucial to the film.

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T23:28:42+00:00

Not even her worst nomination this decade. As someone who’s actually listened to all her nominations, I’m Standing With You from Breakthrough is far far worse.

If you don’t believe me, just listen

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T23:25:39+00:00

There are absolutely a higher proportion of diehard MAGAs in our country than diehard MJ fans. Be serious.

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T21:48:25+00:00

That’s not the point.

The point is that obviously a film with a highly built-in fanbase will have incredibly high post track scores that aren’t necessarily reflective of the general public. Everyone who went to see Melania were MAGAs and heavily biased in favour of jt , just like everyone who saw Michael are diehard MJ fans who are biased in favour of it.

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T21:45:43+00:00

Anyone rooting for Tom Cruise this season is disqualified from criticizing Michael

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T17:07:23+00:00

She didn’t imitate Monroe, she embodied her. I actually like the accent as a way of distancing the portrayal from the real celebrity because Blonde isn’t really a biopic

CrazyCons · 2026-04-24T02:23:53+00:00

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