The HDMI cable-th Nash's Corner Awards (part 2/4 music and etcinema)
Before more fezies are handed out we'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the bands that Nash has been listening to this past year as part of his musical phases.
E.L.O.
Talking Heads
Supertramp
Fleetwood Mac (though that was more recent)
George Harrison
George Harrison
Jonathan Coulton
They Might Be Giants
And special life time achievement to Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers. Tom you will be missed.
They Might Be Giants
And special life time achievement to Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers. Tom you will be missed.
This concludes bands that have been a part of Nash's musical phases. Let's return the awards for the movies. But before we begin I'd like to make a disclaimer. There are a lot of movies I saw this year but I'm going to begin with the ones not nominated for best picture. These awards are to throw attention to films you might have missed starting with...
Kimi No Na Wa (Your Name):
*Oh this is some weeb crap... so why am I crying!
*People are totally judging me for this
Okay, okay, okay, I realize that this movie is anime stuff that most of my audience will probably never want to watch and the other half is thinking 'we are so over this' but damn it this movie was fantastic. It subverts expectations, it gets you to care for these character and above all is just so heart warming. I admit it I'm a sucker for a well told love story. Trust me you just have to watch it. (Also thank you to Gabriel David Giron Vives for getting me to watch it.)
Casablanca:
*Still watching it all these years later
*Always finding something new
I first saw this movie in the 5th grade in class one time (why I'll never know) I then watched it one other time after that and loved the movie but I hadn't seen it in recent memory until this year. I watched because a bunch (and by that I mean about two) of my friends had seen it recently and told me that it wasn't really that good. I rewatched and I still loved it. (And no it is not because this is the movie my girlfriend and I bonded over...)
Endless Poetry:
*WTF did I just watch
*but whatever it was it was absolutely beautiful
This movie is a Spanish surrealist autobiography and it is fantastic. But my god you will be confused you will be stunned by it's visually beautiful and is the greatest anti-fascist message I've seen. It's playing at the Texas Theater Again this weekend.
Raw:
*Truly Blood Curdling
*Worlds Worst Brazilian
I forgot this film even came out this year. It's some pretty scary mind altering stuff. The world needs more truly feminist horror.
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts:
*Best Sequel
*A great escape from the Bog of Realism.
I love Don Hertzfeld and he's in peak form with his latest short.
Sita Sings The Blues:
*F#@$ YOU COPYRIGHT
*Most Creative Art Style
I just want to hock this movie to you... you have no excuse not to watch it... it's in the public domain... and it's on you tube... for free... put there by the creator... here have a link...go...NOW!
And now the moment you've been waiting for my thoughts on the best picture nominees. And we'll be covering them in revers alphabetical order.
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri:
*I Feel Like I've watched Fargo For the First Time Again
*What You Mean It's Not Him... TEASE!!!
It's a great fiasco of a film. I feel like I've seen the whole town and all the little interconnections between the people of the town. I don't think it's exceptionally made but it is exceptionally written.
The Shape Of Water:
*The Perfect Fair Tale For My Future Children
*Pure Eldritch Fantasy
I had recently written an essay about how do you take back the works of H.P. Lovecraft and this, this is how you do it. The villain of Shape of Water would be a typical Lovecraft Protagonist but his madness is cast as illogical by the other characters.
The Post:
*Most Oscar Bait
*But It's good Oscar Bait
I think no more needs to be said.
Phantom Thread:
*Sigmund Freud Would Have a Field Day With These Characters
*Most Romantic Poisoning
As a character study of a relationship between two people it's amazing. As a film it kinda drags at times I think this would've been better as a novel. Still like it though.
Lady Bird:
*Purity of Genre
*Funniest Abortion Joke
Oh god did I really go with that award... well no turning back. Lady Bird knows what it wants to be, it is a coming of age story in the purist sense of the world. All I need is for Greta Gerwig to have included a line about how only a total phony would wear a red hunting cap and we would be complete.
Get Out:
*Wait that came out in 2017 I thought it came out in 2016
**Looks at Hands* What Have I Done With THESE HANDS!!!
I'll be honest I saw the movie a long time ago so my memory is really hazy but when I left the theater I recall saying that it was one of the two movies to actually scare me on a deeper level. That is really hard to do to me.
Dunkirk:
*Best Audio
*Oh Hey a Movie About England and WWII
I could gawk over this audio for hours. It unifies the whole film together so no matter what story you're in it keep the tension going through out.
Darkest Hour:
*Best Performance
*Oh Hey a Movie About England and WWII
There is never a moment in this whole movie where I don't believe Gary Oldman is playing Winston Churchill. He is Winston Churchill.
Call Me By Your Name:
*SO MUCH POTENTIAL
*Oh no, this is another La La Land isn't.
Okay Like La La Land from last years oscars I don't seem to like this film as much as everyone else. Call Me By Your Name frustrates me. There is a whole lot of potential here in this film and it falls flat. We don't know much about our characters and the aspects we do know aren't folded in to their flirtation so we don't experience them as characters. On top of that there are no stake to there relationship. I wanna take this movie and re-edit it but here's on change I'd make. I'd make it so that Emilio is pondering if he should go away for three days with his boyfriend and question if he'll allow himself to get hurt and then his dad gives the monologue which causes him to grow as a character.
Alright that's all the movies... so who do I think will win best picture. I think the answer is quite obvious once you know how the academy votes. You see they don't just vote once and the they're done. That would be to easy. You see the academy members rank their favorites and then one movie needs to get 50% of the vote. If none of them do they drop the biggest loser and redistribute the votes as if they never ran. This has the unintended side of effect of the second favorite usually winning. And so I predict that Lady Bird will win best picture.
If you think about it it's no one favorite movie of the nine but it is a lot of people second or third favorite and that's what makes it deadly.
Next Time: the Books and the Plays
Raw:
*Truly Blood Curdling
*Worlds Worst Brazilian
I forgot this film even came out this year. It's some pretty scary mind altering stuff. The world needs more truly feminist horror.
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts:
*Best Sequel
*A great escape from the Bog of Realism.
I love Don Hertzfeld and he's in peak form with his latest short.
Sita Sings The Blues:
*F#@$ YOU COPYRIGHT
*Most Creative Art Style
I just want to hock this movie to you... you have no excuse not to watch it... it's in the public domain... and it's on you tube... for free... put there by the creator... here have a link...go...NOW!
And now the moment you've been waiting for my thoughts on the best picture nominees. And we'll be covering them in revers alphabetical order.
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri:
*I Feel Like I've watched Fargo For the First Time Again
*What You Mean It's Not Him... TEASE!!!
It's a great fiasco of a film. I feel like I've seen the whole town and all the little interconnections between the people of the town. I don't think it's exceptionally made but it is exceptionally written.
The Shape Of Water:
*The Perfect Fair Tale For My Future Children
*Pure Eldritch Fantasy
I had recently written an essay about how do you take back the works of H.P. Lovecraft and this, this is how you do it. The villain of Shape of Water would be a typical Lovecraft Protagonist but his madness is cast as illogical by the other characters.
The Post:
*Most Oscar Bait
*But It's good Oscar Bait
I think no more needs to be said.
Phantom Thread:
*Sigmund Freud Would Have a Field Day With These Characters
*Most Romantic Poisoning
As a character study of a relationship between two people it's amazing. As a film it kinda drags at times I think this would've been better as a novel. Still like it though.
Lady Bird:
*Purity of Genre
*Funniest Abortion Joke
Oh god did I really go with that award... well no turning back. Lady Bird knows what it wants to be, it is a coming of age story in the purist sense of the world. All I need is for Greta Gerwig to have included a line about how only a total phony would wear a red hunting cap and we would be complete.
Get Out:
*Wait that came out in 2017 I thought it came out in 2016
**Looks at Hands* What Have I Done With THESE HANDS!!!
I'll be honest I saw the movie a long time ago so my memory is really hazy but when I left the theater I recall saying that it was one of the two movies to actually scare me on a deeper level. That is really hard to do to me.
Dunkirk:
*Best Audio
*Oh Hey a Movie About England and WWII
I could gawk over this audio for hours. It unifies the whole film together so no matter what story you're in it keep the tension going through out.
Darkest Hour:
*Best Performance
*Oh Hey a Movie About England and WWII
There is never a moment in this whole movie where I don't believe Gary Oldman is playing Winston Churchill. He is Winston Churchill.
Call Me By Your Name:
*SO MUCH POTENTIAL
*Oh no, this is another La La Land isn't.
Okay Like La La Land from last years oscars I don't seem to like this film as much as everyone else. Call Me By Your Name frustrates me. There is a whole lot of potential here in this film and it falls flat. We don't know much about our characters and the aspects we do know aren't folded in to their flirtation so we don't experience them as characters. On top of that there are no stake to there relationship. I wanna take this movie and re-edit it but here's on change I'd make. I'd make it so that Emilio is pondering if he should go away for three days with his boyfriend and question if he'll allow himself to get hurt and then his dad gives the monologue which causes him to grow as a character.
Alright that's all the movies... so who do I think will win best picture. I think the answer is quite obvious once you know how the academy votes. You see they don't just vote once and the they're done. That would be to easy. You see the academy members rank their favorites and then one movie needs to get 50% of the vote. If none of them do they drop the biggest loser and redistribute the votes as if they never ran. This has the unintended side of effect of the second favorite usually winning. And so I predict that Lady Bird will win best picture.
If you think about it it's no one favorite movie of the nine but it is a lot of people second or third favorite and that's what makes it deadly.
Next Time: the Books and the Plays
The musical phases were kind of understandable, I was listening to five of those bands this year. Do you have a twitter, Nash?
ReplyDeleteI'm Noah, the now Junior that goes to Booker.