oscars 2018 — Page 4

This thing is so stupidly long. Watching it with others else I wouldn’t be watching it at all. I suffer for my art.

Roger Deakins won, and that’s all I care about.

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

Wouldn’t “sound editing” be, well, the editing of the audio? In conjunction with the editing of the image? Like, you put one bang here, and then another bang three seconds later. There, you’ve done some sound editing.

Not exactly.

JEDIT: this seems to explain it pretty well https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/movies/sound-mixing-sound-editing-explainer.amp.html

Well, that’s pretty much what I meant. I guess looking back at my post I didn’t do too good a job. 😃

Sound editing is finding the right sounds and placing them where they’re supposed to go, mixing is of course layering all the different sounds with proper volume levels and, in the case of three-dimensional sound, panning the different sounds across different speakers.

Adam West and George Romero were both was surprisingly absent from the In Memoriam.

DominicCobb said:

Romero was there.

Was he? Hm. Guess I was too focused on looking for West. My bad.

Disappointing that Shape of Water won. It was an OK movie.

So happy to see Jordan Peele win original screenplay!!! As well as Deakins for cinematography which he so deserves for not only Blade Runner, but for the rest of his career as well. These were my two favorite wins.

And Dunkirk robbed Baby Driver of the sound/film editing pair of awards.

I am a little disappointed Grinding Nemo won Best Picture and about Baby Driver, but Deakins winning as well as Coco winning makes me alright with how it turned out.

I’m curious, do any of you think that the Academy Awards hold any real weight? It seems like most people just complain about how they picked the wrong movies or actors every single year, which implies that the Academy is clueless or biased or wrong, etc. etc. so I don’t get why people watch them.

I didn’t really care about the Academy Awards this year, with the one exception being Lady Bird - which I haven’t yet seen but which is steeped in my home town of Sacramento (and which of course I therefore intend to see).

But one issue I had is with regards to “Call Me by Your Name”. I saw it in the theater partly because my wife really wanted to see it, and also because we had heard that it was great. There is no doubt that it is a beautiful movie, all taking place in one of my favorite parts of the world. The cinematography, scenery, photography, and color were all amazing. And I absolutely have no problem whatsoever with gays being prominently portrayed in popular films, in whatever manner. However, by the end of the film I found myself very bothered by this particular movie, and by the next day even a bit angered by it. I’m glad that it didn’t win best picture, and so at the risk of losing my lifetime membership in the liberal club, let me explain why:

My problem has nothing to do with the two protagonists being gay, or with their activities in full display. Rather, it has to do with their ages, and the behavior of the boy’s parents. Today, Hollywood is trying to extricate itself from a longstanding culture of sexual oppression. The film portrays a relationship between a minor and an adult friend of the minor’s family. I found it utterly inconceivable that the parents, clearly knowing that this was taking place right under their roof, were totally ok with it and even encouraging it. I can’t imagine any parent behaving this way - generally parents are very protective of their children from predatory adults, as well they should be. At the end of the movie, the boy’s father told his son what I thought was a largely incomprehensible and certainly highly unrealistic “speech”, basically saying how beautiful the experience was and implying that he was jealous of it. Again, I couldn’t imagine any parent behaving in this way.

As we left the theater, I noticed that about half of the people in the small audience were rather scuzzy-looking older men, viewing the movie by themselves. I even wondered if this was some sort of soft-porn film pushing NMBLA values, and suggesting that parents should be OK and even encourage their kids to engage in sexual relationships with adults – basically to not interfere if uncle Roy wants to get off with your son. From the looks of the audience, it sure appeared to be serving that demographic. What a strange product for Hollywood to be putting on a pedestal, at this of all times while they are facing so many charges of sexual misconduct.

In reading the movie reviews on IMDB, it seems that about 90% of the reviews are wildly positive, with about 10% of respondents exactly echoing my concerns. Some of those negative reviews were even written by gay viewers. Did anyone here get the same vibe that I did? Or have I just lost my cultural sensitivity permit?