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2018 Oscar predictions

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  • Oh well. On Any Given Sunday I guess...

    At least they didn't go insane and give it to one of the nominated pieces of crap.

    WSS

  • You got every one right.   Time to buy lottery tickets.

  • You got every one right.   Time to buy lottery tickets.

    @the-gipper said:

    You got every one right.   Time to buy lottery tickets.

    I did not. My original prediction was the shape of water but I thought the tide had turned toward three billboards. Should have stayed with my gut feeling.

    WSS

  • @the-gipper said:

    You got every one right.   Time to buy lottery tickets.

    I did not. My original prediction was the shape of water but I thought the tide had turned toward three billboards. Should have stayed with my gut feeling.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    I did not. My original prediction was the shape of water but I thought the tide had turned toward three billboards. Should have stayed with my gut feeling.

    WSS

    OK, I see.  I know that you were touting the Shape of Water. 

    I still have seen none of the ones that won any of the acting awards, or best picture. 

  • @westside-steve said:

    I did not. My original prediction was the shape of water but I thought the tide had turned toward three billboards. Should have stayed with my gut feeling.

    WSS

    OK, I see.  I know that you were touting the Shape of Water. 

    I still have seen none of the ones that won any of the acting awards, or best picture. 

    @the-gipper said:

    OK, I see.  I know that you were touting the Shape of Water. 

    I still have seen none of the ones that won any of the acting awards, or best picture. 

    Please don't watch "The Shape of Water" Gip. It's so bad, I'd probably watch menopause the musical over it.

  • @the-gipper said:

    OK, I see.  I know that you were touting the Shape of Water. 

    I still have seen none of the ones that won any of the acting awards, or best picture. 

    Please don't watch "The Shape of Water" Gip. It's so bad, I'd probably watch menopause the musical over it.

    @stillmotion said:

    Please don't watch "The Shape of Water" Gip. It's so bad, I'd probably watch menopause the musical over it.

    I had the same feeling about The Phantom Thread...which you raved over. 

  • @stillmotion said:

    Please don't watch "The Shape of Water" Gip. It's so bad, I'd probably watch menopause the musical over it.

    I had the same feeling about The Phantom Thread...which you raved over. 

    @the-gipper said:

    I had the same feeling about The Phantom Thread...which you raved over. 

    Hahaha, well, Paul Thomas Anderson isn't for everyone. 

  • @the-gipper said:

    I had the same feeling about The Phantom Thread...which you raved over. 

    Hahaha, well, Paul Thomas Anderson isn't for everyone. 

    @stillmotion said:

    Hahaha, well, Paul Thomas Anderson isn't for everyone. 

    As for myself I have either loved or liked almost everything he's done. Phantom thread just left me cold. I've been meaning to watch Hard Eight.

    WSS

  • @stillmotion said:

    Hahaha, well, Paul Thomas Anderson isn't for everyone. 

    As for myself I have either loved or liked almost everything he's done. Phantom thread just left me cold. I've been meaning to watch Hard Eight.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    As for myself I have either loved or liked almost everything he's done. Phantom thread just left me cold. I've been meaning to watch Hard Eight.

    WSS

    Yes, I agree with this.   In fact, I noticed that Anderson's production company is named "Ghoulardi Entertainment (or Productions) or some thing.  

    By the way....I did watch The Shape of Water last night.  It was good.  Best Picture of the Year good?  Not so sure....but as good as any of the other Nominees for that award that I have seen so far.

    If the Three Billboards movie had won instead, that would have been about as equally as good.

  • Well I think it cost any movie at least a small amount of points seeing it on your TV at home.

    WSS

  • @stillmotion said:

    Hahaha, well, Paul Thomas Anderson isn't for everyone. 

    As for myself I have either loved or liked almost everything he's done. Phantom thread just left me cold. I've been meaning to watch Hard Eight.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    As for myself I have either loved or liked almost everything he's done. Phantom thread just left me cold. I've been meaning to watch Hard Eight.

    WSS

    Hard Eight is amazing if you like gambling movies or gangster movies. I personally loved it. Also, I saw a screening of Robert Altman's gambling epic "California Split" at the AFI conservatory starring Elliott Gould and George Segal. Film was so epic, it left me speechless and made me laugh my tail off.

    I hated "The Master" until I researched the deeper meaning of it. Now I love it, on 70mm it's amazing. First viewing I didn't even know it was about Scientology. 

  • Gambling and crooks are the bases of some of my favorite flicks. You see House of Games? Loved the Master from the get.

    And Magnolia.

    WSS

  • The Awards show btw was the least watched since 2012. As really it seems that not a lot of interest this year as hardly anybody heard from those movies in the mainstream one

    Short attention spans?!

  • Saw Ladybird last night.   It wasn't much.   In fact, it seemed basically like an elongated episode of Roseanne which Laurie Metcalf was in.  Issues of a teenage girl and the relationship she has with a bitchy mom.   Metcalf was nominated...and she was OK.   She was good, but it was nothing better than what she did on Roseanne or as Sheldon's mother in the Big Bang Theory.  Didn't care much at all about the teenage girl and her issues.  

    So,  a B for the performances, which were good but not special.   A C for the story which was by no means special at all.