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I feel sort of required to do an
Oscar post here before taking off for the weekend, since between the beefcake we're nominally about movies here at MNPP (though you'd be hard-pressed to tell with how shitty I've been at writing reviews as of late) and the Oscars are, you know, the big golden kahuna. I will of course be watching the ceremony, and no doubt - since an opinion kept inside one's self for too long is a ticking time-bomb, bad for the spleen - live-tweeting it too, so if you don't follow me already
follow me right here.
Most of the big prizes this year will apparently be going to movies I don't like - the Best Picture nominees are a barren wasteland, save a couple, of loathing; the two front-runners,
Boyhood (
my review) and
Birdman (
my review) are amongst my least favorite movies of the year, and the suggested-by-some spoiler (
American Sniper) I have avoided and avoided like the plague. If I had a vote it would go to
Selma, the lone movie I unabashedly love that's nominated. (
Grand Budapest would be a perfectly fine choice, as well.)
Of the Best Actor nominees, well we already discussed their asses
(Have you voted?), but I never actually got around to who I'd vote for and god, I don't even know. I don't really love any of the performances (keep in mind again I have not seen
American Sniper). I suppose I waver back and forth between Carell and Redmayne, but I really do consider Steve's role a Supporting performance, and Redmayne... well this is silly, but I kind of hate the idea of somebody getting an Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking. Oh Eddie's perfectly fine (in a tremendously unremarkable film) but it's such a boring and obvious choice. If Jake had made it for
Nightcrawler or David Oyelowo for
Selma, we'd be singing a different tune.
Julianne Moore winning an Oscar is golden. Best Actress is the one big category I'm most down with. She's wonderful and deserving in
Still Alice, without even having to tread into the murky waters of "overdue." All I ask is...
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For the record I also think Reese Witherspoon is wonderful in Wild, and Marion Cotillard is amazing in Two Days One Night. But I'd still give it to Juli over them.
As for Supporting Actor, I'm down with JK too. He's a ball of fire in Whiplash - your eyes, they be fixated on his every terrifying little twitch and sneer. Oh but I think Mark Ruffalo's pretty great in Foxcatcher too - he probably gives my favorite performance in that film, but it's so fundamentally (and typically of him) un-showy a turn he'll just have to keep trooping on doing his thing unrewarded for awhile. At least he got to wrestle with Channing a bunch.
Patricia Arquette seems like a lovely woman, really, and I'm sure she'll show off her warmth and good humor up there on stage accepting her statue, but man do I not get the love for that
Boyhood performance in the slightest. This has nothing to do with my beloved Laura Dern being nominated either - I felt this way well before I'd seen
Wild, and as great as I think Dern is in
Wild I don't think she's given enough to do to really warrant an Oscar on the basis of that role alone. I mean out of the nominees I'd give it to her, hands down. And if we're talking bodies of work, oh my god, Dern Dern Dern a billion times Dern. But this isn't my favorite group of nominations, overall.
I actually don't know what (save Juli) I'd be most excited to see on Sunday. I'm feeling pretty unenthusiastic about the nominations. I guess if Dan Gilroy won for his
Nightcrawler script I'd probably end up with a collapsed lung, but that might be it.
What about y'all?
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2 comments:
I feel ya on the Supporting Actress lineup. I actually that I would maybe have to vote for Streep out of all of those performances due to the difficulty of pulling off Sondheim. So out of curiosity, who would make your top 5?
I prefer when she wears black and very red lips.
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