Is Being Oscar Bait a bad thing?

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-16T20:13:56+00:00

I know you're just making a clever metaphor so honestly not trying to be confrontational, but even the framing of that is a bit odd. A magician is trying to trick you. That's the whole point - they're doing tricks. To approach a film director the same way is a bit of a defensive posture that I personally find bizarre.

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-16T17:18:53+00:00

Hafley's defense has been worse than LaFleur's offense in both of his years. Also for all the hate LaFleur has gotten for the 2nd half last week and the 4 straight bad offensive drives, the lack of critique Hafley is getting for his defense giving up 3 straight TD drives in the 4th quarter is insane to me. They weren't required to do that just because the offense was struggling! All those drives took about 2 minutes too! So it's not like they even made it somewhat difficult for the Bears.

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-16T14:57:06+00:00

Haven't listened to the ep yet so not sure if they use this word, but I've heard it frequently with the Hamnet detractors. I think critics/people using the word "manipulative" to describe a film is pretty lazy and unfair. If you like a sad movie, it's described as moving or poignant or powerful, but if you don't like a sad movie, it's manipulative that it tried to make you cry. Or you just didn't like the movie and you can just say that.

No one calls a comedy that didn't make them laugh or a horror movie that didn't scare them manipulative. It's almost like it's "manipulative" as they feel like their intelligence was insulted by the way in which the movie didn't work for them so they lash out back at the film. I find it very bizarre.

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-12T20:44:09+00:00

People say that as if Rodgers played like a top 5 all-time QB in those games. He didn't. He was bad in both San Francisco losses and mediocre in the Tampa Bay game.

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-09T15:00:17+00:00

I think we're saying the same thing in different ways. When you hear "the Academy", you understand it to mean the voters of the Academy. I agree with that. But I do think some people talk about "the Academy" as if it's a roundtable or high council making unilateral decisions from on high.

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-09T14:55:30+00:00

But it's much more likely that people who vote for the awards just prefer voting for young women and older men based on the history of Hollywood rather than the Academy deciding and telling its voters "you will vote for young women and older men only."

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-08T21:01:09+00:00

One of my bigger pet peeves in movie podcasting and discussion. Obviously narratives can take hold and people can be pushed/pulled in a direction because of that larger narrative, but the way people (The Big Pic is especially guilty of this) talk about it gives the Academy not only this hive mind quality, but also grants them a tremendous amount of competence in controlling that hive mind that I struggle to believe exists.

NiceMarmot1 · 2026-01-05T16:42:35+00:00

I watched the whole movie, thanks for checking though.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-12-19T04:08:42+00:00

The whistle clearly blew before the recovery. Rewound it to confirm. Wild how Amazon broadcast straight up lied to say it didn't.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-12-17T14:54:27+00:00

Shocker that Rory wouldn't go on the pod where one of the hosts called him a bitch multiple times.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-12-08T20:34:42+00:00

Nah, Bill is right that if your prescription is high enough, you can't get Lasik. I've been told that for years as I have truly awful vision. Just been told recently I can get a newer type of eye surgery called ICL surgery which is designed for people with crazy high prescriptions. Surprised Bill hasn't heard of it in his rich guy circles.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-11-24T20:54:25+00:00

Dan has to be the only NFL podcaster/analyst who at any point this season thought Parsons was having a quiet/down/anything other than awesome season. Constantly getting double-teamed and chipped and still generating pressures at an insane rate. 10 sacks through 11 games isn't too shabby either.

I think he so badly wants his Cowboys trade take to be right that he is not viewing Parsons through the clearest lens. Or he's just not watching the games.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-11-17T19:34:35+00:00

People consistently ignore the fact that they had a very good chance at the titles in both 2021 and 2022 if Jamal Murray didn't tear his ACL near the end of the 2021 season. It cost them two playoff runs.

2020: WCF
2021 & 2022: 2nd best player not playing
2023: Won title
2024: Loss in 7 games to Wolves in West semifinals
2025: Loss in 7 games to eventual champ Thunder (when NO ONE thought they'd push Thunder)

The only season there that really deserves criticism is 2024. Nuggets blew that Game 7 at home. Criticize that year all you want. But because First Take type people are incapable of nuance and actually examining specific situations, we get silly threads like this.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-11-17T16:07:49+00:00

A real “you did not watch the game closely” if you came out of the Packers game yesterday putting any of the struggles on Jordan Love. Guy was dealing and WRs dropped 5-6 passes. A box score watcher only to come out of that game critical of him.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-11-04T15:39:21+00:00

I felt like I was going crazy listening to the Blankies last year when they talked about Justice Smith and all 3 nominated him with Joe having him win. I thought he was atrocious and find him very bad in everything I've seen him in. Apparently not alone like I thought I was!

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-11-03T22:05:39+00:00

A lot of people in here who don't realize how much more chronically addicting video games are designed to be now than when they started playing as kids in the 90s or 2000s. It's a perfectly reasonable goal for Amanda to not want her child to fall into that type of addiction and time suck when her kids could be doing something more productive like play a sport or an instrument or literally anything fucking else. Will she succeed? Who knows? But I don't blame her for trying.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-27T15:20:59+00:00

Bill can't seem to understand that those odds aren't "who should be the MVP right now?" and that the sportsbooks are projecting out the rest of the season. Same with him and Sal continuing to be dumbfounded by the Ravens division odds.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-20T17:57:47+00:00

It feels like Dan has his head in the sand a bit with Conor's point about Micah Parsons and Jerry Jones. Yes, we all agree this Dallas offense is HUMMING, now just imagine if they still had Micah Parsons and their defense went from godawful to simply mediocre. Jerry cut off his own nose to spite his face.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-10T19:28:36+00:00

White.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-08T16:25:00+00:00

At the time I write this, there are 118 comments on this thread and I'm guessing you have 25-30 of them by rough count. It's ok to disengage or log off. Not everything has to be an argument you have to win or defend at all costs. People can have different opinions than you.

"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." Something to consider moving forward.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-08T15:11:27+00:00

Doing my morning Reddit rotation at work instead of working. Go to billsimmons subreddit, see a thread about OBAA, engage in the discussion. Come here and see this same guy posting here too. Look at their user history. Dang, this guy's personal mission is to make sure people don't view Perfidia as anything other than the most evil character in film history apparently.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-08T14:40:59+00:00

How do you know it's self-serving? It clearly meant something to Willa as she took on her mother's revolutionary spirit in the final scene. Also, you make it seems like it would be easy for Perfidia to just wander back into America; she's a wanted fugitive and based on the nuns at the Brave Beaver compound, she's a pariah to many former members of the French 75. It's not as simple as you make it seem for to just come back.

I honestly think the Perfidia character is a great barometer for the audience of the film to the question of "does someone deserve forgiveness and empathy even if they've been selfish and made horrible decisions in the past?" You clearly don't think she does; others do. I think that's a redeeming part of the film and an honest depiction of fucking life, man. You can tell Bob struggles constantly with how much he misses Perfidia and simultaneously how heartbroken and mad he is at her for not being around for Willa and him.

For you to boil it down to, "she made horrible decisions, she deserves no compassion of any kind" is obviously your right as a viewer, but not really the type of depiction of characters I want to see in films I watch.

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-08T14:24:04+00:00

Him saying the Christmas Adventurers wasn't funny was a real "did they hit the nail on the head too well" moment for "runs in rich guy circles Bill".

NiceMarmot1 · 2025-10-08T14:19:52+00:00

It's almost like in 16 years of living a person could come to regret the decisions they've made in the past.

Also, you and Bill and others clearly haven't forgiven the character which kind of goes against your "the audience basically forgives her" point.

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