Incidentally, the Apple digital copy of Poor Things features a title slate at the very beginning. "Contains Tobacco Depictions"
I find that hilarious, given the content in the film which includes full front nudity, (lots) of sex, stabbing cadavers, a man shooting himself in the foot, handling...
Agree to disagree. Bella shows a lot of compassion towards her fellow humans in her desire to improve the world. She seems on a constant quest to learn how to do that. I think you are ignoring several scenes that indicate that. She also shows Max love towards the end, asking him if he will...
As you pointed out yourself in another message in this thread, that's not entirely true. The scene you pointed out with the poor people 'in the ditch', as she said, completely contradicts your point. She makes several references to how humans can improve, and her desire to make the world...
Easily my favourite film of the year, and, one of those rare films that buries itself in your brain. I found it impossible to get out of my head after the initial viewing, so I saw it twice in theatres. Once released on streaming, it was an instant buy. The Oscars the film won in the early...
Ehh. Once you say something like that, you can't really take it back and say sorry. I mean, you can, just don't expect everybody to forget what a jerk thing that was to say.
It's puzzling as heck that the Academy has SO many different ways they've tried this, and they never learn their lessons about what works and what doesn't. I'm pretty sure that they messed it up so badly this time that they will hear about it - loudly.
The story that Jake linked said it was a creative decision to have Pacino just read the winner, they were worried about time. If they had given him a line or two on the prompter, he would have read them.
"Throughout the evening, we've had the pleasure of viewing the extraordinary work of these film makers. The time has come, to honour one amongst all of these worthy cinematic achievements. And the Oscar goes to...."
Would that have been so hard?
I can't imagine the eruption if Poor Things would have won best pic. I would have loved to see it! Emmas win was absolutely the way that needed to go down. My already salty view of the academy would have become irrevocably sodium rich if she had lost.
Emma looked like she was having a panic...
Sony has a point here. I think if you're hired to act in a film, it's understood that you're not supposed to undermine the box office chances by being critical. It's really easy to disguise your disdain for something by choosing your words carefully. She obviously cares way too much about...
Depends what you consider an upset in the actress category. I know you and I both feel strongly for Emma, but would Lily winning be an upset? From what I am reading online, Emma is not considered to be that far ahead of Lily, if at all. Also, Lily has an advantage or two over Emma with voters...
Respectfully, I don't see how it's possible to have seen Poor Things and conclude that Ruffalos character was Scottish. It's not exactly a minor detail. With respect to the novel, the Scottish location(s) were all nixed for the film. The only Scottish representation would be in the Godwin...
My favourite line of his was just a single word, single syllable, and it took him about four seconds to say it, screaming it at the top of his lungs. Dafoe's performance was excellent as well, I especially loved the voice/accent he found for the part. And then, there's Bella. "God lovely! Like...
I really hope this film is a home run and it puts it back on Disneys radar as a viable franchise. If it's only 'ok', I fear this will be the last we see of Tron for a long time. But no matter how this goes, it WILL be back eventually, because everything gets multiple reboots, eventually.
This discussion reminds me of the backlash against Cloud Atlas. The main theme of the story was people across different times being played by the same actor through these different time periods to illustrate how people are connected to their descendants and to people in the future. A strong...