#Oscar Review

[ancientsstudies]

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

ig credit: vintagesoul_reads.

[filmloversociety]

Barbie (2023) + letterboxd reviews (from letterboxd instagram)

[oldshowbiz]

1970.

Hollywood's perverts appeared on the stage and the repulsive, degenerate, and obscene Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture.

[hsboo03]

Yesterday I saw Robot Dreams, it was a beautiful experience, it simply portrays something as beautiful as first love, loss, grief, overcoming and the ability to love again without losing the memories of the one we once loved, simply beautiful. With you a little drawing of the real couple. Rascal is the standard. 🍓🏵️🌺🌷

My thoughts are with you ☀️

Holding hands with your heart to see you ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Only blue talk and love 💫

Remember, how we knew love was here to stay 🪼🌸🌷🌺

[acrosstobear]

mclaren Part 1 of our ‘little half term’ celebrations. 🥳

[boycritter]

astronaut boy forgets stars still exist when he's not looking at them

can we please talk about the storm after the calm

my therapist asked me how i was and i linked him to a diagram on eutrophication

i now have 3 poems published on eunoia review! it would be cool if you checked them out :D

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

POOR THINGS

Some people have disagreed with me about my Poor Things review. However, my questions about the film have largely gone unanswered and the points I’ve raised haven’t really been addressed.

Yes, there were gowns beautiful gowns but is anyone going to talk about the fact that she was a child? Or that women face the risk of pregnancies when they have unprotected sex? Or menstruation being a thing? Or how the financially coercive nature of sex work prevents women from giving genuine consent to sex?

Should a man even be directing this movie?

When the upper classes create films about sex and sex work it always seems limited and disingenuous. They really made a movie about a child in a woman’s body having sex in situations where men are constantly taking advantage of her, called it “feminist” and patted themselves on the back for it.

Angelica Bastien put it best when she wrote: “But there’s a corroded spirit to the story, like it’s intermittently possessed by an edgelord who’s unaware most women menstruate, and an early-wave white feminist who believes having sex is the most empowering thing a woman can do. (For all the fucking, there is no menstrual blood!)”

The most problematic - but unexamined - aspect of contemporary discussions around sexual ethics, is the concept of consent. The powerful men (and women) who made this movie clearly live in a sexually privileged world and can afford to think of this movie as "feminist".

I wonder if they even know what intersectionality is.

[the---hermit]

Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast by Oscar Wilde

I read this collection of quotes a couple of years ago, and ever since I have wanted a physical copy of this book. I decided it was finally time to get one and have a reread. I love Wilde and this collection of quotes feels a lot like a trip into his brain, it got me really motivated to finally pick up The Ballad Of Reading Gaol.

[balimode]

This dress is so glamorous and gorgeous already, but the extra touch of the names of young women who were killed during protests in Iran... wow. What a fucking queen.

[tumblingxelian]

Hello again!

Sorry it took me so long to cover these but they are here now, my reviews and analysis for RWBY Beyond!

[laflamejpeg]

Photo Stills From One of My Favorite Movies of All Time “Waves” (2019).

[askmovieslate]

Jamesy: In all honesty though, it's great that it won so many.

Movie Slate: Weren't you bitching and moaning about the Oscars being stupid a few weeks ago?

Jamesy: Yepp!

Movie Slate: You make no sense!

Jamesy: And if it hadn't won any Oscars you'd be seeing me all mopey and upset, that much I can guarantee.

Movie Slate: Ugh, see the shit I have to put up with Goji?

[scribble-dribble-writes]

I was reading reviews about how everything everywhere all at once was incredible and how it makes you cry because of a rock with googly eyes and I thought to myself that I was the one who was going to prove this theory wrong. That I will watch it and not be impacted by it.

Let me tell how incredibly horrendously astronomically wrong I was, because I sobbed like a tiny baby

Even more so I hugged my mom and I cried with the sudden realization of time and that in any universe I will take the one I am in now, whatever specks of time it affords

The bloody googly eyes rock and sweet sweet Waymond, I couldn't finish it without crying and in the end I felt like my mind was understood but I was also calmed by it.

That I can have everything be everywhere, all at once. Because that means I'm living in the present for it to happen. I saw the movie at the right time and I want it so badly to win best picture because no other movie in the last year can compare to the sheer chaos and art and understanding it made me feel in two and half hours.

A movie of a lifetime 👀

[acrosstobear]

mclaren A big day at the MTC today! 🏆🧡

[sicksadlit]

If a book is banned, this is probably why.

[iolaussharpe-24]

I've realized something.

Brian Petsos movies don't have a lot of fans. Oscar Isaac fans like his characters in Brian Petsos movies. We don't talk about Revenge for Jolly!; we talk about Cecil. We don't talk about Ticky Tacky unless we're praising Lucien and/or comparing/connecting him to Anselm. We don't talk about Lightningface; we talk about how pathetic Basil is and compare him to Steven Grant. We don't talk about Big Gold Brick unless it's to bash it, talk about the cast, and obsess over Anselm. I didn't think this at first, because I just assumed I was the wrong kind of viewer for Petsos projects (I previously mentioned that they kind of reminded me of Jim Jarmusch movies), but the more I've looked around online at reviews and discussions, I've been finding this pattern of negativity. It seems like everyone just kind of agrees that Brian Petsos doesn't really make good movies, but Oscar Isaac makes them worth seeing at least once. And, yes, I am aware that there are things Petsos has done without Isaac, but when you search 'Brian Petsos' the first things that come up are the ones that Oscar Isaac is a part of. This includes The Letter Room, which was written and directed by Elvira Lind but Petsos does have a part in solely as an actor. Even on his IMDb page, there's little to nothing about him but half of the available information is, and I quote, "frequently works with Oscar Isaac". In my opinion, that's pretty telling on it's own. I'm not trying to be mean here, I just think this is kind of an interesting thing to note. If you disagree, please let me know. I'd be happy to debate this. Personally speaking, I've watched Revenge for Jolly!, Ticky Tacky, Lightningface, and a tiny bit of Big Gold Brick. (For the record, I know that Petsos didn't direct Revenge for Jolly! but he wrote and starred in it.)

One thing I will say in Petsos' favor: There's very clearly a lot of genuine passion and love in his work and it does show. Interviews with him, the proud displays of nonsensical strangeness, and the fact that he's able to keep making movies all reflect that. You can tell that the people involved are having fun and I think that's the most important part. I think his weakness (to me) is that his projects feel like they lack something. Revenge for Jolly! didn't feel like it was going anywhere for most of it's runtime. Like it wanted to be and do something but didn't know how. It had fairly decent moments... in the first half. But those moments only landed out of shock value, and they very quickly became predictable. (Also, what was up with that bar scene?) Ticky Tacky and Lightningface felt flat. Like bread that didn't rise. Maybe they needed more time to really explore their premises and characters. Like, if we saw Lucien and Claire together before he finds out about the cheating, or if we get to know Basil before the lightning strike. Both of these are about people going crazy, but without that sense of who they used to be, it doesn't really hit that hard and leaves you wondering 'what the hell did I just watch and why?' This is one thing I think Revenge for Jolly! understood, because we get to see Harry, Jolly, and Cecil before the inciting incident of the movie. We get a sense of their relationships with one another. I can't speak for Big Gold Brick because I haven't seen it in full so I'm not going to bother saying anything for the bits I saw either. That's just not fair for anybody.