Anonymous wrote:Avengers Endgame should’ve gotten a Best Picture nomination. Return of the King won Best Picture as essentially “congrats for finishing an epic cycle”, Avengers could’ve gotten a similar nod.

I am a huge LOTR fan, but I agree with this. I think Fellowship should've won Best Picture in 2002 (it lost out to A Beautiful Mind). Looking at the other Best Picture nominees for 2004--Mystic River, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander, and Seabiscuit--I don't know if any of those were a shoo-in for Best Picture so I don't necessarily think ROTK was an upset win in this category.

Kind of like Martin Scorcese finally winning Best Director for "The Departed." That felt like a "finally, here's your award" consolation prize, as The Departed is nowhere near his best work.

Avengers Endgame should’ve gotten a Best Picture nomination. Return of the King won Best Picture as essentially “congrats for finishing an epic cycle”, Avengers could’ve gotten a similar nod.

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Anonymous wrote:Modern TV and movies focusing on “diversity and wokeness” are ruining entertainment. Give me good stories and characters over representation.

As a POC, I couldn’t disagree more.

As another POC I heartily agree with the op…see the most recent seasons of survivor for example. Yes these types of conversations are important and have their place in media, but not looking for a lesson/lecture from my trashy tv guilty pleasures.

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Brene Brown is just okay. I find her more of a marketing/sales person.

Totally. I have tried hard to get into her stuff and find it all sneaky and duplicitous self-aggrandizing, suburban mom life coach, instagram quote emptiness. And that she does this under the guise of being a serious academic who studies shame and authenticity - omg.

She reminds me of Glennon Doyle only with a PhD

Aziz is PAINFULLY unfunny and the most obvious creep I’ve ever seen. Just gross af stranger danger vibes.

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Brene Brown is just okay. I find her more of a marketing/sales person.

Totally. I have tried hard to get into her stuff and find it all sneaky and duplicitous self-aggrandizing, suburban mom life coach, instagram quote emptiness. And that she does this under the guise of being a serious academic who studies shame and authenticity - omg.

Her very early stuff was thought-provoking and interesting. And I truly gained a lot from listening to her audiobook re parenting (I think it’s Audible only? I’ve never seen it anywhere else.)

But these days, she’s putting out so much content (podcast, book, Netflix) and seems to have strayed far from her core strengths. I try not to be cynical, but it just doesn’t feel authentic. It feels more like she hired a consultant or two to help her “grow the brand” and here we are. It’s too much.

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Brene Brown is just okay. I find her more of a marketing/sales person.

Totally. I have tried hard to get into her stuff and find it all sneaky and duplicitous self-aggrandizing, suburban mom life coach, instagram quote emptiness. And that she does this under the guise of being a serious academic who studies shame and authenticity - omg.

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Anonymous wrote:Forrest Gump is a terrible, rambling, boring movie. I literally thought it was never going to end. Tom's "accent" is embarrassing and way over the top. And it's even worse when people try to imitate it to quote their favorite lines. 🤮

Agreed! As a youth, I was heavily into movies, read monthly movie magazines, and paid a lot of attention to the Oscars. The year Forrest Gump won the Oscar, I made a clean break with all of it and never went back.

I did the same thing when Crash won the Oscar for BP.

See also Green Book

And Moonlight. Fine movie but not BP. I feel that way about most of the BP movies from the past 20 years--Birdman, The Shape of Water, CODA.....though I do like Forrest Gump.

I’m still embarrassed by the Hamilton craze and am thankful that people have finally started to STFU about that terrible tripe.

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Anonymous wrote:Aziz!! I don't even like him but that was the one that killed me. It was so obvious that woman was having visions of being his girlfriend and then he had the audacity to treat her like a booty call (didn't even ask what kind of wine she preferred!) And she wanted revenge. It's a situation every woman can relate to but the solution is to NOT hop into bed on the first date, not to ruin the guy's life.

If you go to some man's apartment on a first date, he will try to fuk you. Everyone knows this. She should not have gone over there. Out to dinner and bye or out for coffee and then bye.

She didn't mind the sex, she minded that he didn't immediately propose marriage afterward and start buying her clothes to wear on the red carpet.

Anonymous wrote:These type of threads always bring out the racists. “Taylor Swift is better than Beyoncé” …”everything is too diverse and woke”….”I hate Lin Manuel Miranda”…

I was thinking that as well. In addition, people always rail vs. George Clooney and Brat Pitt...so weird.

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Brene Brown is just okay. I find her more of a marketing/sales person.

Yes. Agreed. Her followers act as if everything she says is a revelation … and it’s not.

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Brene Brown is just okay. I find her more of a marketing/sales person.

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Anonymous wrote:These type of threads always bring out the racists. “Taylor Swift is better than Beyoncé” …”everything is too diverse and woke”….”I hate Lin Manuel Miranda”…

You’re the racist one and nuts.

+1 cherry picking comments to turn it into race. Everything isn’t about race. Plenty of people on this thread bashed Taylor Swift. It isn’t racist to say you don’t link Beyonce. It literally just means you don’t like Boyce.

Anonymous wrote:Aziz!! I don't even like him but that was the one that killed me. It was so obvious that woman was having visions of being his girlfriend and then he had the audacity to treat her like a booty call (didn't even ask what kind of wine she preferred!) And she wanted revenge. It's a situation every woman can relate to but the solution is to NOT hop into bed on the first date, not to ruin the guy's life.

If you go to some man's apartment on a first date, he will try to fuk you. Everyone knows this. She should not have gone over there. Out to dinner and bye or out for coffee and then bye.