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  1. ^something, something by far the best film of last year which sadly didn't get more awards.
  2. Stop trying to poop @Deadlines? What Deadlines? and get to work giving us a box office prediction. Will Dune 2 get the 700-800 Million USD @Ser Rodrigo Belmonte II needs to make a third one?
  3. I just read that Dune 3 is probably going to be a thing. I'm a bit surprised, since apparently Villeneuve wants to write and direct it himself. He must really be into the source material to spent his creative prime years solely on this property
  4. The Guardian apparently published this article last week: Sharon Stone names producer who ‘told her to sleep with co-star’ | Sharon Stone | The Guardian She details why she think she didn't get any bigger roles after this. It's quite sad really. Ah yes, I love that film. The beginning of Leo's luck with the ladies, I'm sure of it.
  5. I had not. It's a beautiful trailer. Made me speechless with emotion for a bit. Thanks for the recommendation.
  6. I spent quite a bit of time staring at the screen this week. I saw Dune 2 in theatre, the latest episode of Shogun and finally Casino. Dune 2 was marvellous, well worth the (IMAX) price of entry. Visually it's stunning, even better than the first film. However, the biggest step up was in terms of engagement. The first one could be a bit ponderous at times, but I thought this second film zipped along tremendously well. The latest episode of Shogun gets pretty much the same review as all of them so far. Visually, it's breath-taking. I like the actors, but the story is not always gripping me. I have picked up the book and have now surpassed the point we arrived in the show, so curious how that will influence my appreciation of the rest of the show. We then switched to Casino, which I have to admit was a disappointment. The first hour was all voice over and I'm just not a fan of it as a storytelling device. Scorsese is pretty much the only director who can sometimes get away with it, but in Casino it was just too much. It also felt a bit like an inferior knock-off to Goodfellas in some parts, particularly with Joe Pesci's character. Like, his performance was legitimately great, but it felt very similar to the ground he already thread on in Goodfellas. I hear that his performances as mobsters are often regarded as the most realistic ever by former gang members, so I can't blame him too much for it, but still I can't pretend to say that I was gripped by the film. On the upside, I did feel like Sharon Stone gave a great performance in the film. Very out there and it actually makes me wonder how she wasn't able to build on this in her later career, because of the top of my mind, I can't think of a meatier role for women in a Scorsese film than this. So yeah, I'm glad to have finally seen it, but I don't believe I'll rewatch it any time soon.
  7. Saw the latest episode. I'm still enjoying the visual representation of the time period, but I do think the story gets progressively less engaging for me. This was also the first episode I saw after having read the associated parts in the source novel (I believe I'll be able to finish the novel by the time I'll see episode 5) and I wasn't a big fan of some of the adaptation choices made. So still, pretty good, but a bit on the decline. I hope it recovers.
  8. What a stunning film. Visually, I would be very surprised if anything else came close this year. However, Furiosa is still coming, so it might be a very interesting year for the technical awards. This film was meant to be seen in IMAX. I also thought that it was a lot more gripping than the first film. I would definitely be curious to know more about this universe.
  9. Ah well, de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum! I'll leave it here before your user name inspires you to Castamere me I enjoyed Oppenheimer when I watched it, but I think it's quite similar to something like Silence. Great, but you watch it once and forget about most of it afterwards.
  10. I think you're a bit harsh on her. She's got some genuinely good songs as far as I'm concerned, she just doesn't bring those to the movies. I remember not being impressed by her Bond song, but weak competition might also have been a factor. Not sure who else was nominated that year, but she might genuinely have been the best of the bunch. A bit like Cillian Murphy this year to be honest. Love the actor and I think he gave a very good performance as Oppenheimer, but his category was strangely weak this year in my opinion. Good for him to get an Award out of it, but Oppenheimer wouldn't crack my top 3 of Cillian Murphy performances. In her category, I think you have to go back as far as Nathalie Portman's 2010 turn in Black Swann to find anything even remotely comparable.
  11. That's the trouble with these things always, you cannot compensate one "undeserved" win with another in my opinion. It just creates a domino effect. Think of all the creatives who got an award just because they never previously earned one (in this year's Oscars, you had Christopher Nolan and RDJ in that category) and had a passable entry in the competition. These wins screw other people out of awards that will then at one point will have to screw other people out of awards for their career Oscar. For example Mark Ruffalo and Ryan Gosling have both been nominated several times and are quite popular, chances are they'll shank someone in the coming years who might have been a more deserving winner. And it then gets even more complicated when someone who previously got a career oscar gives an outstanding performance. I can't comment on the fact that Stone was an undeserved winner on her first turn (I haven't seen many of the other films that had female leads nominated in the year of La La Land), but this year I thought she gave far and away the best performance out of all nominated thespians (including the male performers I might add, if this was a unified category, she would have smoked Cillian Murphy on merit). So it's a shame for Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon and Native American representation in general, but at least she didn't lose to an RDJ-in-Oppenheimer-type of performance. She was genuinely outmatched by the best performance by a leading actress in recent memory in my opinion.
  12. Very pleased to see that Emma Stone won her Best Actress Award. She deserved it as her performance in Poor Things really was out of this world. For the rest, no big surprises, although as always I feel like the Academy made a lot of boring choices. The poorest choices this year in my opinion were: Robert Downey Jr. for Supporting Actor. I think both Mark Ruffalo and Ryan Gosling gave better performances this year. Off the two, I would probably have given the slight edge to Ryan Gosling, who stole the Barbie movie out from underneath Margot Robbie, which is quite an achievement. Billy Eilish for best song, which I thought was odd, because it wasn't memorable at all. If I think of any original song from Barbie, it's just Ken, so I would have given that nod too to Ryan Gosling Best VFX should have gone to the Creator, on that I definitely agree with @Ran I'd given Best Picture, Best Director and Best cinematography to Poor Things (in that order of preference) over Oppenheimer. Heck, Glazer for Best Director would also have been better come to think of it.
  13. Started reading the novel. Liked it so far. I have a busy week ahead, but I think I'll be able to outpace the show by episode 5.
  14. Watched the third episode of Shogun. Not as good as the two first ones, but it remains the most aesthetically pleasing show on television. Still mightily intrigued by it overall, though I hope the plotting gets a bit tighter in the coming episodes. Also rewatched Tropic Thunder. It still holds up after all these years, I laughed out loud quite a few times.
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