#reminds me of when they were doing i tonya and they were like ok margot start th routine and we’ll bring in the double when you need to stop

[harleybarbarahandler]

stumbled across this thread from 2020 yesterday… holy shit margot is a real life metahuman

[edmundminoredinfilm]

Final rankings and a few sentences about every 2017 movie I saw...

1. THE SHAPE OF WATER - The Academy owes Guillermo del Toro big time after it overlooked his 2006 masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth. Hopefully justice prevails and del Toro takes home both Best Picture and Best Director. This movie is a perfect fairy tale.

2. BABY DRIVER - I don’t even know how to say how good this movie was in just a sentence or two so instead I’ll throw a curveball: “Was He Slow?” should have been nominated for Best Original Song.

3. DUNKIRK - Never has a movie with such little dialogue emotionally moved me the way Dunkirk did. On top of that, the timeline structure is fantastic, Hans Zimmer kills it and all the sound is majorly on point in this one.

4. A GHOST STORY - Did it not get award season love because of its minuscule budget, summer release date or Casey Affleck? I’m sure it’s a combination of the three but it deserved several nominations and a win for its cinematography.

5. THE FLORIDA PROJECT - The most surprising snub in the Best Picture category. If Willem Dafoe wins for Supporting Actor, it isn’t just the Academy making up for Florida’s lack of nominations, he was really good.

6. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME - The cinematography and musical choices remind me a ton of The Graduate. The parallels to The Graduate don’t stop there though: thematically CMBYN is The Graduate for 2018 teenagers, despite being set in the 1980’s.

7. MUDBOUND - I’m opposed to nominating Netflix movies for Oscars but if you’re going to nominate them, this is the movie to nominate. Also, if there were an ensemble acting award this would definitely be in the top three of the year.

8. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI - Frances McDormand is overwhelmingly good, as are Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. The screenplay is great. I understand that some have ideological issues with the film, and I’m not say that I don’t, but regardless of the film’s worldview, it is still so well put together.

9. PHANTOM THREAD - The production design is wonderful. The Academy certainly nominated the wrong actress from this movie though, snubbing Vicky Krieps and nominating Lesley Manville, who wasn’t bad but I didn’t think was anything special.

10. THE DARKEST HOUR - My expectations were low but I was blown away by the cinematography and on the edge of my seat the whole movie. Also, I would say you can sign me up to watch any movie with Lily James, but she’s in the upcoming Mamma Mia sequel...

11. BLADE RUNNER 2049 - The best sci-fi movie since Mad Max and a worthy follow up to the original Blade Runner, one of the best science fiction movies ever.

12. COCO - I ugly cried in a way only Pixar can make me do.

13. LADY BIRD -  A strong script and a good movie. My hat is off to Greta Gerwig, who not only captured the Catholic high school environment so well, but also has made the first great period piece of the early 2000′s.

14. HOSTILES - Christian Bale’s performance in this definitely was top 5 for male leads this year. Even though it wasn’t seen by lots of people, I’m surprised by this snub since James Franco’s bid for a nomination fell short because of allegations.

15. GET OUT - One of the most original concepts of the year for a movie. More so than any other movie this year, Get Out has me excited for what its director and writer, Jordan Peele, might do next.

16. THE DISASTER ARTIST - The Franco allegations did this one in, but it certainly deserved that nomination for Adapted Screenplay, and probably a nomination for James Franco.

17. MOLLY’S GAME - The dialogue is fantastic, but I know that’s not going to get you to go out and see this. Here’s what will: Michael Cera plays a high stakes poker player in it.

18. LOVING VINCENT - The flawlessness of the animation isn’t just impressive because it’s beautiful, it’s also impressive because of the direction it must have taken to get the 125 painters that worked on it on the same page. Coco is fantastic and deserving of the Animated Picture Award, but it’s a bit sad such a unique movie won’t win Animated Picture this year.

19. I, TONYA - Margot Robbie is excellent and the movie is really funny. However, I think she is done a disservice by having to play both 23 year-old Tonya and 15 year-old Tonya; she just seemed to old to play the latter.

20. THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES - Adam Sandler is particularly good in this one. I also thought “Genius Girl” should have gotten some consideration for Original Song, if we’re nominating Netflix movies for Oscars.

21. THE BEGUILED - A bit surprised that Sofia Coppola didn’t get any love during awards season but that doesn’t mean this movie wasn’t good. The movie has great ensemble acting and chilling cinematography.

22. LOGAN - The Academy got the nomination that this movie deserved wrong: while the screenplay didn’t deserve its nomination, Dafne Keen, who plays the young girl, X-23, ought have been nominated for supporting actress. The screenplay doesn’t deserve the nomination because the dialogue is nothing overwhelming and, while the movie may break barriers for super hero movies, so much of it has been seen before, especially an old guy that everyone used to love but now he’s a jerk who is addicted to boozing. I’ve seen it before.

23. KONG: SKULL ISLAND -  My favorite “popcorn movie” of the year. Explosions and monsters make for a fun movie here, and while the visuals effects are good, they aren’t Shape of Water level good (The Academy makes another mistake).

24. FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL - Good acting from Annette Bening and Jamie Bell is a bit wasted in this movie as the screenplay fails to really show why Gloria Graham’s last few years merit a feature length film.

25. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL 2 - Another good “popcorn movie.” Unsurprisingly good soundtrack and one of the best PG-13 Marvel movies since Tobey McGuire stopped being Spider-Man.

26. ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD - Christopher Plummer’s nomination is an absolute virtue signaling joke by the Academy. That said, it’s a decent movie if you’re looking for a thrill.

27. THE BIG SICK - It’s a great real life story and a good movie, but this was one of the most overrated pictures of 2017. Why would we start giving Judd Apatow-produced movies Oscar nominations now when we overlooked far better movies like Funny People and Forgetting Sarah Marshall?

28. LEGO BATMAN - I am so ****ing mad that Boss Baby is nominated for Animated Picture instead of this Batman movie, a movie we desperately needed after Batman v. Superman.

29. ROMAN J. ISRAEL ESQ. - Denzel’s acting is good, but not Oscar-nominated good in this movie. Also, the dialogue is fine but lacks what you might expect from a legal drama billing top talent like Denzel and Colin Farrell.

30. WONDER WOMAN - It has an OK story but I was underwhelmed by the special effects and I expect top notch ones from a movie like this.

31. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING - It’s not Tobey McGuire, and that’s a bummer, but it’s also not Andrew Garfield, and that’s a good thing.

32. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI - Put great special effects and the Star Wars name on any average plot with pretty bad acting and watch the profits flow in.

33. WONDER WHEEL - It is a visually beautiful recreation of 1950’s Coney Island. Other than that, the film features a wide range of really good to pretty bad acting and Woody Allen’s most tone deaf screenplay to date (and I am a fan of lots of his movies).

34. THE POST - No one would accuse it of being All the President’s Men or Spotlight, but, given its nominations I guess some thought it was a good journalism movie? Yawn.

35. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - It was pretty to look at?

36. BOSS BABY - See Lego Batman.

37. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS - Michelle Pfeiffer really deserves a  Razzie for this one. The ending implied a sequel would be coming, but I don’t think anyone wants that.

38. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5 - I didn’t even bother to Google what the real name of this movie was. I forget everything about this movie that I saw only about half a year ago; that is probably a good thing.