4 thoughts on “Feb 8th – Oscar Weekend Is Here – Our Oscar Pages”
STEVE: Please see posts today from First in the Field [in response to WH]-Jace escapes again by the skin of his teeth! He invariably demonstrates in his flicks the appropriateness to action movies of that time-worn line “With one bound he was free!”
However I am sure that the Part 2 list throws hand grenades into several of your comfort zones! Many of those listed are unknown to me as they are to First in the Field; but I suppose it’s possible that next time I come across them, many of their number will be brandishing Oscars!
Actually I watched Parker and found it entertaining enough. It is no classic – Jace doesn’t do classics – but with J Lo co-starring there could be said to be at least on a basic level “something for everybody” in it.
Jace’s 2015 Wild Card is showing at 11.05 PM this Thursday on our 5STAR Channel over here and I have it marked down for viewing. What fool on this site said that Bob couldn’t exist outside HIS comfort zone? My TV review magazine awards it a respectable 3 stars [who really needs Hirsch?] and says “Anne Heche and Sofia Viagra – sorry Vergara- add the glamour.”
Jace is certainly no fool: where The Meg is absent “Stathy” is careful to people his movies with eye-catching females, though I suppose he has to have someone to take off his shirt for; but any thoughts yourself about Wild Card? You know I would also welcome them.
The Oscars do go at times to some very deserving people: take Marlon Brando for instance and – well Marlon Brando again. However just as often they are about a lot of relatively ordinary people scratching and patting each other on the back and engaging in the hyperbole that everyone there is some kind of genius or at least “great guy”.
The Work Horse doesn’t like negativity on his site and probably likes to get into the swing of Oscar Night by convincing himself that all the nominees and winners are at least half as wonderful as Micklewhite, Leach, Willis and The Thin Woman and – well again Sir Maurice, Archie, Brucie and “Thins”.
However whilst I agree with WH that we should stay away from controversial things like political opinion, religious convictions and negativity such as private life gossip, I don’t think it is very healthy to have a completely sanitized site in relation to at least movie matters.
[Like that sewer in Guys and Dolls into which the gambling community had gone underground; was peopled with Damon Runyon’s well-dressed characters in flashy suits such as Sinatra’s Nathan Detroit , Brando’s Sky Masterson and Sheldon Leonard’s “Brucie” -sorry “Harry The Horse”; but was made to look on screen like an ice cream parlor in which birthday parties were being held with the celebrators singing gambling songs like “Luck be a lady tonight” and “I’ve got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere!”]
George C, Marlon and I were never completely comfortable with the Oscars with Brando suggesting they should really be called The Bankers’ Awards and the Great Scottie labeling them a “Meat Parade”. In the past they have also been spoken of as “Fashion Parades” and some cynics have remarked that they are really a stable that is opened up annually for a herd of “Clothes Horses” and “Show Ponies” to stomp around.
I personally have no fancy tags to throw at the proceedings and whilst I don’t want to be a “party pooper” and will give honor where honor is due, I do like to keep things in proportion.
So I acknowledge that many of those swanning-about trying unconvincingly to look and sound modest but all the time inwardly screaming [as Paul Newman gigolo did outwardly in 1962’s Sweet Bird of Youth] “What about ME! What about ME?” are not much beyond being ‘famous for being famous’ and couldn’t be relied upon to open a can of beans let alone a movie.
Accordingly I’ll help kick off the comments on this page by bringing some advance- balance to matters via the list in Part 2.
WhatCulture SITE: 20 WORST PERFORMANCES OF PAST DECADE
“Too bad they give out just 4 Razzies a year.” WhatCulture
Disclaimer: Many of these people I’ve never heard of so please forgive me if I have slightly misspelt some of the names.
20/Jai Courtney/A Good Day to Die Hard – sorry Work Horse
19/Kellan Lutz/Legend of Hercules
18/Ronda Rousey/Mile 22
17/Sharlo Copley/Oldboy
16/Entire cast of Slender Man
15/Ken Jeong/ The Hangover Trilogy
14/Die Antwood/Chappie
13/Nicolas Cage/Trespass
12/Cara Delevinge/Suicide Squad
11/Johnny Depp/Mortdecai
10/Chad Donella/Saw 3
9/Sam Worthington/the Clash of the Titans films.
8/Leslie Mann/The Other Woman
7/Marlon Wyans/50 Shades of Blacks
6/Entire cast of Movie 23
5/Entire Cast of Left Behind
4/Kevin James/The Grown Ups movies
3/Nicola Peltz/The Last Airbender
2/Kirsten Stewart/The Twilight Saga
1/Adam Sandler/Jack and Jill
Our major Oscar winning picks.
Best Picture – 1917 – Parasite is the only one that can beat it.
Best Director – Sam Mendes
Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix
Best Actress – Renée Zellweger
Best Supporting Actor – Brad Pitt
Best Supporting Actress – Laura Dern
Original Screenplay – Parasite
Adapted Screenplay – Jojo Rabbit
STEVE: Please see posts today from First in the Field [in response to WH]-Jace escapes again by the skin of his teeth! He invariably demonstrates in his flicks the appropriateness to action movies of that time-worn line “With one bound he was free!”
However I am sure that the Part 2 list throws hand grenades into several of your comfort zones! Many of those listed are unknown to me as they are to First in the Field; but I suppose it’s possible that next time I come across them, many of their number will be brandishing Oscars!
Actually I watched Parker and found it entertaining enough. It is no classic – Jace doesn’t do classics – but with J Lo co-starring there could be said to be at least on a basic level “something for everybody” in it.
Jace’s 2015 Wild Card is showing at 11.05 PM this Thursday on our 5STAR Channel over here and I have it marked down for viewing. What fool on this site said that Bob couldn’t exist outside HIS comfort zone? My TV review magazine awards it a respectable 3 stars [who really needs Hirsch?] and says “Anne Heche and Sofia Viagra – sorry Vergara- add the glamour.”
Jace is certainly no fool: where The Meg is absent “Stathy” is careful to people his movies with eye-catching females, though I suppose he has to have someone to take off his shirt for; but any thoughts yourself about Wild Card? You know I would also welcome them.
The Oscars do go at times to some very deserving people: take Marlon Brando for instance and – well Marlon Brando again. However just as often they are about a lot of relatively ordinary people scratching and patting each other on the back and engaging in the hyperbole that everyone there is some kind of genius or at least “great guy”.
The Work Horse doesn’t like negativity on his site and probably likes to get into the swing of Oscar Night by convincing himself that all the nominees and winners are at least half as wonderful as Micklewhite, Leach, Willis and The Thin Woman and – well again Sir Maurice, Archie, Brucie and “Thins”.
However whilst I agree with WH that we should stay away from controversial things like political opinion, religious convictions and negativity such as private life gossip, I don’t think it is very healthy to have a completely sanitized site in relation to at least movie matters.
[Like that sewer in Guys and Dolls into which the gambling community had gone underground; was peopled with Damon Runyon’s well-dressed characters in flashy suits such as Sinatra’s Nathan Detroit , Brando’s Sky Masterson and Sheldon Leonard’s “Brucie” -sorry “Harry The Horse”; but was made to look on screen like an ice cream parlor in which birthday parties were being held with the celebrators singing gambling songs like “Luck be a lady tonight” and “I’ve got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere!”]
George C, Marlon and I were never completely comfortable with the Oscars with Brando suggesting they should really be called The Bankers’ Awards and the Great Scottie labeling them a “Meat Parade”. In the past they have also been spoken of as “Fashion Parades” and some cynics have remarked that they are really a stable that is opened up annually for a herd of “Clothes Horses” and “Show Ponies” to stomp around.
I personally have no fancy tags to throw at the proceedings and whilst I don’t want to be a “party pooper” and will give honor where honor is due, I do like to keep things in proportion.
So I acknowledge that many of those swanning-about trying unconvincingly to look and sound modest but all the time inwardly screaming [as Paul Newman gigolo did outwardly in 1962’s Sweet Bird of Youth] “What about ME! What about ME?” are not much beyond being ‘famous for being famous’ and couldn’t be relied upon to open a can of beans let alone a movie.
Accordingly I’ll help kick off the comments on this page by bringing some advance- balance to matters via the list in Part 2.
WhatCulture SITE: 20 WORST PERFORMANCES OF PAST DECADE
“Too bad they give out just 4 Razzies a year.” WhatCulture
Disclaimer: Many of these people I’ve never heard of so please forgive me if I have slightly misspelt some of the names.
20/Jai Courtney/A Good Day to Die Hard – sorry Work Horse
19/Kellan Lutz/Legend of Hercules
18/Ronda Rousey/Mile 22
17/Sharlo Copley/Oldboy
16/Entire cast of Slender Man
15/Ken Jeong/ The Hangover Trilogy
14/Die Antwood/Chappie
13/Nicolas Cage/Trespass
12/Cara Delevinge/Suicide Squad
11/Johnny Depp/Mortdecai
10/Chad Donella/Saw 3
9/Sam Worthington/the Clash of the Titans films.
8/Leslie Mann/The Other Woman
7/Marlon Wyans/50 Shades of Blacks
6/Entire cast of Movie 23
5/Entire Cast of Left Behind
4/Kevin James/The Grown Ups movies
3/Nicola Peltz/The Last Airbender
2/Kirsten Stewart/The Twilight Saga
1/Adam Sandler/Jack and Jill
Our major Oscar winning picks.
Best Picture – 1917 – Parasite is the only one that can beat it.
Best Director – Sam Mendes
Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix
Best Actress – Renée Zellweger
Best Supporting Actor – Brad Pitt
Best Supporting Actress – Laura Dern
Original Screenplay – Parasite
Adapted Screenplay – Jojo Rabbit