2023 Oscar Noms

[jeremyp]

With its bland and faux-universal life lessons that cheaply ethicalize expensive sensationalism, the film comes off as a sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie.

That's funny I thought they were talking about Top Gun! Chacun a Son Gout.

[jeremyp]

I've seen 6 of the nominated films. Will watch 2 more soon. So far I don't see Mr. Oscar! Great entertainment, little depth (Top Gun, Avatar). Nuanced intellectualism (Tar, Women Talking) Basic War Story dystopia (All Quiet OWF). I know, latter is foreign film.

[Atticus]

My actual movie-theater-going has diminished from 60/year pre-C19 to about 6/year post-C19.
In 2022 only 2 theater movies blew me away.

Top Gun 2
Elvis

TG2 because of the visuals (maybe because I was Navy Air also, though not F-18s!).
Elvis because I didn't expect a lot and got a great film (Tom Hanks' miscasting notwithstanding).