There are two big celebs I’ve heard normal working Joes in the industry complain about working with/for/around. Ellen and Will Smith. Take it for what you will.
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There are two big celebs I’ve heard normal working Joes in the industry complain about working with/for/around. Ellen and Will Smith. Take it for what you will.
Most of Hoffman's best-known stuff (Straw Dogs, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, etc.) are in the 1970s with the exception of The Graduate (and he's fine but not exceptional in that) and Midnight Cowboy (which was 1969... same year as Wayne winning Best Actor in True Grit).
You have a good case with Newman. Cool Hand Luke was 1967 and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was 1969 along with Redford. Redford is like Hoffman... more of a 1970s creature.
You might be able to throw Eastwood in there depending on what you think of the Leone westerns. But he wasn't nominated for an Academy Award until 1976 for The Outlaw Josie Wales. There's definitely a transition from "cheesy" Old Hollywood acting to a more naturalistic style in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Judge Heston by the latter and he's fine/even great. By the latter he's overwrought.
I don't disagree.
We host Thanksgiving every year and my annual tradition is having The Godfather on while prepping the food. Love it.
Reminds me of this --
One of my high school teacher's sons is a trainer for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He used to come back and volunteer at some school events, and I asked him who were the most disliked guys in the NBA.
He told me without hesitation...
"On the T-Wolves? Ken Love. Prima donna. League-wide? Kobe. His own universe of *******. Guys hate him."
I didn't see anything after the altercation; did Chris Rock make any jokes at Will Smith's expense after it?
I think he should've leaned into it way harder, then had security at the ready. Probably not something the Academy would want for a guy who was almost certainly going to win though.
- Will Smith everyone, this will the pinnacle of his career and it'll be a pretty big hit tomorrow morning.
- How was Will Smith ever cast as Mohammed Ali? With a right like that, he should've never been an option.
- I know how the alien in Independence Day feels.
I think he should've leaned into it way harder, then had security at the ready. Probably not something the Academy would want for a guy who was almost certainly going to win though.
- Will Smith everyone, this will the pinnacle of his career and it'll be a pretty big hit tomorrow morning.
- How was Will Smith ever cast as Mohammed Ali? With a right like that, he should've never been an option.
- I know how the alien in Independence Day feels.
There was a pretty clear point when Smith is yelling after the smack where Rock starts to say something and catches himself. Seemed like he was going to lay into him and decided to stop.
Toni Collette in Hereditary. An hour and 30 minutes watching her slowly go bat **** crazy
I was a little disappointed The Last Starfighter didn't make his cut either.
Is that sci-fi or horror, though?
I know the two can blend to some degree (e.g., Alien or Jurassic Park or The Thing).
Heck, 2001: A Space Odyssey has horror elements. HAL is rather unnerving.
You won't find any disagreement from me that horror is another genre the Academy disrespects.
Get Out should have won Best Picture a few years ago.
Not sure if it's been mentioned already about last night but whoever decided to put 30 backup dancers on stage during In Memoriam to completely distract from the individuals being honored should be fired.
I know of some folks in small town Iowa who created a swingers club among friends/neighbors.
Shockingly it didn't go so well.
Yeah, I thought Rock handled it about as good as one could. I didn't realize she had a medical condition, so the original joke wasn't great. However, the reaction from Will was 10x what it should've been in my opinion.
I know a guy with alopecia and every single follicle of hair fell out, so her case seems pretty mind. I suppose that's the difference between a $100m net worth and $0.5M net work.
Will Smith forgot to say "welcome to Earth" when he hit Chris Rock.
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It's horror but it's the same way. The academy doesn't usually recognize the performances in horror.
He's just trying to prove to his wife that he isn't a cuck. You don't walk that far to open hand slap a dude.
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I WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT WHEN IT HAPPENED!
Every other year or so the producers decide to add a live performance during the In Memoriam, which would be fine - except then they keep showing the singer and leaving out some of the video tributes. Or like last night, drawing attention away and actually obscuring some of the names on the screen. It’s the last time some of these people will have their names mentioned in public, stop disrespecting them with cheesy musical performances.
I don’t remember the first time some producer decided to do this - for years and years it was only the video montage of all the pictures and names with just the orchestra playing, and that’s all it needs to be. But no, let’s have people singing (and now dancing!) and ask viewers to go online to see the whole In Memoriam.
It’s always been a pet peeve of mine. It’s incredibly disrespectful and I hate it.
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