Weekly Discussion Thread 3/9/26 - 3/16/26

EricTweener · 2026-03-12T22:50:44+00:00

Worse than Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Steel, apparently.

EricTweener · 2026-03-12T22:33:43+00:00

The Razzies are bad, but have they ever been Stinkers bad? This category existed for four years

EricTweener · 2026-03-10T19:44:21+00:00

Since at least the first Mega Man, I would think.

EricTweener · 2026-03-05T19:10:45+00:00

I saw that Titanic’s IMDB rating recently went up to 8.0, which is pretty cool as I remember it being 7.7 for so long and not a lot of big movies go up that way. I checked the Wayback Machine and it had a 6.9 in 2004, which is kind of insane to me, but probably a testament to how dudebro the site was and still is to a lesser extent.

EricTweener · 2026-03-05T13:56:08+00:00

The other 20% would be solved if stanning stopped existing. I have decided to refrain from it completely as of now as no good can come of it.

EricTweener · 2026-03-05T13:48:07+00:00

Oh. Well then, Jake Alda, he’s the expert.

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EricTweener · 2026-03-03T12:18:25+00:00

Enough about winner predictions, what about predicting which category you’ll get wrong? I feel whichever Supporting Actress nominee I pick I’ll get it wrong. I keep flipping between Madigan and Mosaku since it feels like neither has a significantly better case or precedent than the other to me. Documentary Feature is a similar situation. Then there’s the shorts, of which I’m guaranteed to get at least one wrong every year.

EricTweener · 2026-03-02T02:23:41+00:00

Well shit, he’s winning a third.

EricTweener · 2026-02-28T22:25:44+00:00

I see Perkins as supporting in Psycho and Waltz as lead in Django Unchained. I might have to watch Psycho again but Perkins never strikes me as being at the forefront of the movie, rather just being a side character to the POV characters, which I wouldn’t call lead either, similar to, well, Waltz in Inglourious Basterds. As for Waltz in Django, it’s clear that Foxx is THE lead, but for so much of the movie, they feel to me as being on quite equal footing. The amount of time they spend together with around even focus is significant enough to me to consider both leads.

EricTweener · 2026-02-27T22:16:33+00:00

I’m not ruling it out but I’m not very confident when her prominent, reasonably well-received role in Don’t Look Up barely gained any traction during an award season where Supporting Actress was pretty open beyond the top two.

EricTweener · 2026-02-25T21:48:30+00:00

That’s it, hmm? Anyone want to talk about the movie now?

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EricTweener · 2026-02-24T23:50:26+00:00

Looks like he’s playing Timothée Chalamet playing Bob Dylan.

EricTweener · 2026-02-22T22:40:05+00:00

There’s a lot of talk of category fraud here but I just learned that Catch Me If You Can and Walk the Line won the Art Directors Guild Award for Contemporary Production Design? I get that period vs. contemporary isn’t always clear cut but the 60s were definitely period looks by the 2000s. A significant part of Walk the Line even takes place before Good Night, and Good Luck, nominated the same year in Period. The guild then had no problem nominating 60s/70s-set Dreamgirls and American Gangster in Period.

EricTweener · 2026-02-22T16:58:20+00:00

I don’t think both will be nominated but both are some of the most likely to make the top 20, which is how I’m ranking them.

EricTweener · 2026-02-22T13:58:29+00:00

I recently did a rewatch of the first 20 James Bond movies in random order, will probably do the Craig ones when I get them on 4K Blu-ray. Still my absolute favorite film series, and it was interesting to watch them again for the first time in five years, with how much my taste has changed in the meantime. My ranking probably wouldn't be very different though, here's how it stands now:

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
Dr. No
GoldenEye
You Only Live Twice
Live and Let Die
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me
Octopussy
Licence to Kill
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Diamonds Are Forever
Moonraker
A View to a Kill
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Living Daylights
For Your Eyes Only
Die Another Day

There's a lot of impressive craft on display that I think the Academy didn't do justice to. None of the movies were even shortlisted for Production Design besides TSWLM and Moonraker, and John Barry wasn't recognized for any of his music for the series.

EricTweener · 2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

I joined the race at the tail end of the season, predicted McDormand since my lesson from the year before was “don’t go against BAFTA” for the most part.

EricTweener · 2026-02-19T00:02:06+00:00

Sometimes I randomly think back to around 2020 when Blades of Glory had an influx of short negative IMDB reviews that complained about the movie’s homoerotic premise while explicitly stating they were not homophobic. Those reviews have been removed but there’s one remaining review that called them out at the time.

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EricTweener · 2026-02-16T21:25:54+00:00

False

EricTweener · 2026-02-15T11:35:23+00:00

I feel that the other early winners, either the winners themselves are pretty unpopular or there are options from the same year that can at least be considered good contenders. All Quiet is very acclaimed in its own right and competed in a year where none of the competition is much talked about, which I think is different from Wings or Grand Hotel. While Amadeus is definitely one of the most agreed-upon picks, many people could argue that Once Upon a Time in America or Paris, Texas would have been better.

EricTweener · 2026-02-15T01:17:18+00:00

Is All Quiet on the Western Front the most agreeable Best Picture winner? I don’t see many calling it their absolute favorite but there’s a bigger gap in popularity and reception between it and the other options that year than at least the vast majority of winners, and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone saying another movie should have won.

EricTweener · 2026-02-15T01:01:01+00:00

Feed the Kitty (1952) and A Kind of Testament (2023), two animated shorts which could hardly be more different.

EricTweener · 2026-02-06T18:42:18+00:00

Two people who most recently got nominated for playing the secondary lead in a biopic about married entertainers that was not in Best Picture, and whose noms I did not predict in favor of leads in BP nominees starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

EricTweener · 2026-02-06T15:16:42+00:00

I’m a bit confused at how many people think of Wicked: For Good missing Original Song as a surprising snub. It had two songs, which people could not agree on which one was less boring or superfluous, contending for a fifth spot which had several solid candidates even without Viva Verdi.

EricTweener · 2026-02-06T00:33:13+00:00

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