February 2012
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fucking fuckity fuck fuckfuughFHAHGH FUCK
FUCK
COMCAST
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oh my god i don’t want to do work anymore akafjioWAFASDFKLA
not like i’ve been doing any work for the past hour or so
BUT STILL
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getting my hopes up way too high about cbs holmes
pollums:
I really hope they do Seinfeld New York and not Friends or Sex in the City New York
A Study in Soup Nazi
it’s CBS so it’s gonna be way worse then seinfeld or even friends or sex in the city
we are talking The Big Baskervilles Theory
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jesus christ sherlock fandom can you just, i don’t know, not
i don’t even know why everyone’s screaming at each other about the casting when the show is just going to be terrible
because american tv, especially american tv about crimes, is the worst
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this blog will now be renamed “sarah whinges on and on about art”
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luxjacopo asked: OK LAST ONE i also have a mom who likes happy ending stuff but honestly i think part of that is that conservatism has a more black and white view and that "good guy win bad guy punished" is more comforting/acceptable than anything ambiguous or difficult. also if u google "dan harmon interview digitalspy" he has something interesting to say on the topic w answering "Why do...
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luxjacopo asked: i also think that most of the high art films i've seen/enjoyed don't always correspond to what rich white people want. my favorite ~socially aware~ film is Do the Right Thing which imo is the polar opposite of something like The Help. I'd also have to say that it doesn't make you classist if you appreciate a carefully woven narrative, expert mise-en-scene, great acting, great...
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luxjacopo asked: I think high art in film and high art as in operas, classical music, etc aren't really the same because of cost (a ticket is a ticket is a ticket- we're all able to see cinema together regardless of class). i mean there are still barriers and trends (the type of movies educated vs noneducated people see, etc) but as long as you can get to the theater and pay $5-10 you're good...
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uglychu replied to your post: RE: if it’s that fucking bad why do it at all?— I always wonder about this! i think there’s a weird dynamic between film as high art and low art, and how much high art corresponds with “catered to white upper class tastes”. some times it seems socially aware films are made PURPOSEFULLY to assuage AND guilt rich white people? (like Slumdog Millionaire) i personally...
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fannybaws asked: Ugh thank you for acknowledging Melancholia. Even the Independent Spirit awards refused to give it props and it's such a perfect piece of cinema. Dunst was /amazing/ in it. Her facial expressions alone killed me. Also enjoyed your other commentary!
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pollums asked: RE: if it’s that fucking bad why do it at all?-- I always wonder about this! i think there's a weird dynamic between film as high art and low art, and how much high art corresponds with "catered to white upper class tastes". some times it seems socially aware films are made PURPOSEFULLY to assuage AND guilt rich white people? (like Slumdog Millionaire) i personally think the...
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pollums replied to your post: supporting female actor
the Help actually had a pretty interesting ending pointing out how white saviorism doesn’t help anyone but Emma Stone, and how the black characters are still fucked over in the end. the last shot is really symbolic and unsettling
thanks for this! I would never have known. I still don’t think I’ll watch it, but this is heartening at...
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that's all folks!
That’s it for this year’s Oddscars! I hope you enjoyed the brief coverage of the awards presented this year. I didn’t really have the time or effort to do screenplay awards, since that would require a bit more research or at least a better memory than I have to judge properly.
If you have bones to pick with my picks, please drop me a line in my ask, as I love talking movies and...
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best film
MELANCHOLIA
This was a tough year for this category, because I saw SO MANY amazing movies! Drive, Bridesmaids, Beginners, Tinker Tailor, The Guard, The Artist, ALL were great in my opinion. But the best for me, the one that hit me the hardest in the heart bone, was Melancholia. This movie was not for everyone, but I guess in the way that The Tree of Life was for nostalgic white men with daddy...
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best director
BEST DIRECTOR: Nicholas Winding Refn for DRIVE
I don’t really know what the criteria are for best director. You made a really good movie? Movies are so much more than the sum of their actors and directors, and it literally does take a village to make them most of the time. But that said, it’s a category and I picked Refn. Look at this weird-ass baby-headed director man. Drive was a...
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best female actor
Kirsten Dunst as Justine in MELANCHOLIA
I came to this movie with a negative opinion of Kirsten Dunst, and now I can say I am absolutely a convert. She was haunting as Justine, the incredibly depressed heroine of von Trier’s incredibly depressing end-of-the-world tale. Justine is a difficult character, and I have friends who came away from the film despising her, as she doesn’t make...
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best male actor
Michael Shannon as Curtis in TAKE SHELTER
Michael Shannon is kind of in danger of becoming typecast as mentally unstable, but that just means YOU are in danger of having your FACE acted off! Real talk, he’s amazing. This entire movie is such an absorbing, immersive experience, and the lynch pin is his performance as the ambiguously schizophrenic, friendly giant dad Curtis. Talking about...
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supporting female actor
Melissa McCarthy as Megan in BRIDESMAIDS
McCarthy gets the Oddscar for taking a role that frankly could have been a disaster and making it the absolute highlight of the movie. Megan could have been played solely for laughter in a way that would have been much more cruel. Instead, she was completely refreshing as a female comedy character that is funny and relatable and heart-warming and also a...
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Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud in A DANGEROUS METHOD
Okay, full disclosure, I spent a lot of my time as a graduate student reading and studying Freud, and I have a deep admiration for the man, so that totally colors my judgement. But I found Viggo absolutely hypnotic as Freud, in a movie that was otherwise pretty lackluster. Everything about him was different from any other role I’ve...
borken asked: omg i was trying to go to your tumblr and i guess typoed and went to someone called sarahptor WAT and i was scrolling so confused. WHO IS THIS IMPOSTOR
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borken replied to your post: because i hate work and i do what i want, i’m…
omg pls da oddscars! i was thinking about posting some of my Vodskars later
HOLY SHIT YES YES YES YES YES DO THIS
we need more alternative awards shows tbh
that take place on our tumblrs
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because i hate work and i do what i want, i’m gonna post the winners of the 2012 oddscars. the ceremony took place last night quietly and with little fanfare, as everyone involved met in their pjs in the dreamlands of unknown kadath after getting home from the oscars. everyone had beer and cheese bread and talked shit about the industry for about half an hour before passing around the...
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uglychu:
feministpaddy replied to your post: IF SQUIRTLE ISN’T YOUR STARTER POKEMON
“Oh right I should have chosen Charmander too” - things you may say to me
NEVER.
SQUIRTLE 4 LYFE. 12+ YEARS GOIN STRONG.
FUCK BOTH OF YOU BULBASAUR IS WHERE IT IS AT
DON’T MAKE ME GET OUT THE WRESTLING GIFS
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i think i’ve officially given up on the oscars, i watched five minutes and just turned it off in disgust
meanwhile this weekend i watched Valhalla Rising and holy shit it was so good!!!!
fannybaws:
Of course the people who run Universities and colleges want you to think you’ve got an inferior intellect if you don’t attend. That’s just good business sense.
But don’t you listen to them. Opportunities to learn are everywhere.
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