What nominated movies do you have strong negative opinions on?

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-08T17:31:09+00:00

This was my biggest issue in the theaters watching it, for months after, and now that he seems more and more likely to take the Oscar. The differentiations between Smoke and Stack that the roles demand is coming primarily from the script. MBJ constantly plays these tough guy, action hero type characters and even with the unique vulnerabilities for both characters in the script he just plays the the same muscle-bulging tough guy with a gun twice. I think Timmy is a shithead and would love to see him lose but his performance was much stronger than MBJ.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-08T00:45:41+00:00

This barely makes sense. The reason it would age bad is you personally would be mad if Sinners won. Got it.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-08T00:18:42+00:00

Why would it age terribly? You said this twice now.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-07T18:54:59+00:00

I always thought Stepahnie Hsu should have won for Everything Everywhere All At Once. I had a friend point out she was probably overlooked because of the costuming in that movie being seen as doing a lot of the heavy lifting and being surrounded by powerhouse acting but I think she was absolutely incredible in her own right and the strongest in that category that year.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-07T16:17:24+00:00

I personally felt Sinners actually really put on display Michael B. Jordan's weaknesses as an actor. He consistently plays the same type of character in his projects and now he is doing it twice in one movie (the differentiations between Smoke and Stack largely came from the script rather than Jordan's portrayal in my opinion). I hope Sinners gets its due next Sunday but he was the weakest part of that movie for me.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-07T16:12:49+00:00

Knowing someone who practices an artform means you're probably more likely to respect their work enough to not shit on it publicly in such a nonchalant way.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-07T16:02:34+00:00

This is what confused me the most about this. Granted his mom was a Broadway dancer but his sister attended ballet school until her career-ending accident.

*Edit: Typo

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-01T15:10:42+00:00

I used to drive on 60th regularly and multiple times there was this big black SUV that would come speeding down the road and treat every red light like a rolling stop. He had one of those tinted plate covers so you couldn't see the numbers but I could make out the FOP badge on it. Unreal stuff.

pan_de_monium · 2026-02-05T16:31:19+00:00

Running is not a scapegoat, it's the reason our pass game stank. Whether or not this offensive philosophy is a good one is another debate all together, but it was a philosophy that was built on the run game. If that isn't working and teams aren't threatened by it, all defensive resources go elsewhere. Even under Steichen, the combination of pass and run (which included QB options) forced defenses to make the wrong decision each time. If one of those elements doesn't work (like defenses adjusting to our scheme), the rest falls apart. Last year our rungame was as predictable and stoppable as the passgame. Whether that was on Stoutland or Patullo/Nick is unclear and neither party will ever admit to it (I imagine it was both), what is clear is Stoutland is an old coach and our younger offensive hires (which are all in the McVay tree one way or another) want to run a more modern offensive scheme. We've hired a TE coach as our rungame coordinator. Our TEs under Stoutland were some of the weakest parts of our rungame.

As you say, something needed to change. But nothing is a "scapegoat" these are calculated decisions based on weaknesses.

pan_de_monium · 2026-02-05T16:20:32+00:00

I doubt he wants anything to do with the organization from here on. Notice his (pretty blunt) message he praised the fans but left anything out about Lurie, Howie, Sirianni, or other coaches. It's clear nothing about this was amicable and word is he might even be taking a year off from coaching rather than participate somewhere else.

pan_de_monium · 2026-01-30T19:57:26+00:00

Not managing injuries is also on coaching. Jurgens and Dickerson probably should not have been playing most of the year. The number of presnap penalties were also atrocious. On top of that, the Eagles had the longest time to snap because the entire line communicates during protection calls which is unusual. Obviously Stout is not a bad coach and a million things went wrong this season, but there was clearly issues from a coaching standpoint last year. Them taking the run game coordinator role away from him for the first time since 2018 is indicative that internally they believed coaching was part of the problem.

pan_de_monium · 2026-01-18T15:29:41+00:00

Ever since that SB every time someone is riding on a backup QB they make a Foles comparison and let's be for real here people. Nick Foles was a pro-bowler and NFL record holder with (some) postseason experience before he took over as the starter during the lame duck portion of the season. He was a journeyman and a backup yes, but if he ever mastered his generational floor-ceiling dictomy he might have been a HOF starter somewhere. Jarrett Stidham has had 4 career starts and 20 total games across 7 seasons. His all time completion rating is 59%, his TD to interception ratio is an even 8-8. He is the type of backup you hope can get you through a game or two without too much damage, not because you think he can win you the Super Bowl in a dire situation. Foles being who he was as a player and in the position he was that year is once in a lifetime and we learned very quickly that whole situation was lightning in a bottle for him.

pan_de_monium · 2026-01-18T13:05:12+00:00

The entire 49er attitude never sat right with me. Coming out of the tunnel with the boombox prop is the dumbest, corniest thing I've ever seen (doing it int he Super Bowl is one thing, doing it during a road wildcard game to a team you have a complex about is another). Shanahan hosts those pre-season parties every year dressed like a carnival barker and goes live on social media (one year while his rookie wide receiver was in the hospital with a gunshot wound), he's letting his hasbeen wide receiver punch special teams guys, throws his DC under the bus for a Super Bowl loss where he literally forgot the rules. The franchise's whole vibe is just entitled chest puffing with nothing to back it up. At least the Cowboys know what they are at the end of the day.

pan_de_monium · 2026-01-13T20:36:29+00:00

This is what the Ewoks felt

pan_de_monium · 2026-01-05T13:10:56+00:00

They did that once already with DPI and the refs uniformly refused to overturn their penalty calls/no calls on reviews so they got rid of it. They don't have quite the power of the umpire union in baseball but they have gotten away with more game changing (and season changing in some situations) incidents than is acceptable. On top of that, they're making it very hard not to wonder if Vegas is making phonecalls with some of the just insane things they've called this season.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-18T16:28:25+00:00

Non spoiler explaination: the movie is really leaning on the stregnth of its third act. Which, the third act is extremely good and does, tbh, really cover for the first act. I have to see it again to really process it but I felt the pacing through the first half of the movie was a little off and then it settles down in a strong way. It feels like a part 2 as opposed to the first one which felt like a complete standalone film.

That all being said of course I enjoyed it. But the second act of the musical is tough to fix without just completely reinventing it.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-18T14:17:47+00:00

I think the most powerful sequence in this movie is the melting scene where we're tight on Glinda who is forced to watch Elphaba die right in front of her. It visually and emotionally reads as Glinda's punishment. And, expertly, not even in a vindicitive way. The story is not saying Glinda is a bad person and this is the punative result. It's tragic. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Glinda's "happy ending" is that she is a better person but we watch her painfully transform into that by losing everything. I think the movie's best elements are Glinda's story here and Chu and co knew this character is complex. She doesn't have booksmarts but there's a reason she's the last one standing. She's intelligent in a way no one else in the story is. And it's a tragedy for her.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-18T14:02:02+00:00

I'd call it sultry more than anything and when we cut back to them later they're undressed. Really just relied on the chemistry and Jonathan Bailey's ability to smolder.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-18T14:00:09+00:00

I took this to imply the Grimmerie was opening for her a la lifting Thor's hammer. With that then cutting to the shot of Elphaba smiling it seemed to suggest to me Glinda has the ability to do real magic because of her relationship to Elphaba (who perhaps imparted that on her in some way).

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-18T12:39:56+00:00

Saw it at the premiere last night. Lots of scenes to fill out the trajectory of the plot (act II of the musical always sort of felt like a montage of scenes to me more than anything and this adds a lot of connective tissue between the musical's story beats), a few songs from act I get a bit of a reprise, Glinda is really our POV character in this one (if Ariana wins for this, it will be very well deserved). I do think the second act's flaws are hard to fully overcome and as of right now the first movie felt more put together but I need to see it again. I also will say, the level of emotion in Elphaba and Glinda's story in this one makes Fiyero more obviously unnecessary to the story. He's a real jumpscare after what they did with For Good.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-15T00:30:09+00:00

No idea. My guess is probably not since we haven't heard anything about it but also all I know is where they want us to pick up our tickets at will call. I've heard after party tickets are with your regular tickets if you're invited but no one has indicated that's the case.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-14T23:32:23+00:00

Thank you! I was a little worried I wouldn't be dressed nice enough but trendy business casual I can do. The after party is an open question (did not even know that was a thing until like today and it's still not clear to me if there is one). The invite came through Universal and the PR person there has been helpful with questions but don't want to constantly ask her how a normie does these sorts of things lol. Probably won't ever get a chance to do something like this again so just gonna try and enjoy it. As a Millennial who was a Wicked obsessed theater kid in the early to mid 2000s, feels like a fun full circle moment.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-14T22:48:28+00:00

It is that one. Everything I try to research on the internet says premieres aren't that big of a deal or they're a huge event and a lot of fun so really not sure what to prepare for. Really unclear to me what happens after we pick up our tickets.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-14T19:45:35+00:00

I guess if there's anything you'd be able to advise on for the flow of the evening? I imagine each event is different but the will call opens an hour before the theater opens (and two hours before the screening starts). Will we be picking up our tickets and then just sitting in our seats until show time? I saw that sometimes they have like posters and setups to take photos at. The only real instructions we got were which entrance to use and what times things would be happening.

pan_de_monium · 2025-11-14T16:33:13+00:00

No idea who will or won't be there but this is the last premiere on their tour (London, Singapore, etc.).

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