Oscar Contest Archive

[ibrmacf]

I'm having an issue where after I log into the forums and then navigate to the Oscars Contest page, it still says that I'm not logged in, hence I can't submit my picks.

[Randall]

I just submitted my totally uninformed picks. Having only seen Spidey and Oppenheimer, I didn't have much to go on.

[ibrmacf]

OK I seem to have gotten it to work now. I had to use my phone.

[James]

Sorry about that! Not sure what the issue was. Only thing I can think of is if you had privacy mode enabled or cookies disabled.

[Ben]

Ready to make my picks tomorrow, after seeing Poor Things tonight, which I’m really lookimg forward to. Then I think I've managed to see most of the more mainstream films and nominations, albeit apart from Oppenheimer, which I really just can’t muster up the enthusiasm or hours for, but know it’s going to take the big awards anyway, since it’s Nolan's time, and so just because.


Not that it was nominated for the Oscars, but was elsewhere, but we did Saltburn a few nights back, and…yeah. Emerald Fennell never seems to fail when taking someone else's concept — in this case Harold Pinter's The Servant — and just…making it again, if a bit more extreme.

Most people have said it’s "gross", but I just found it more weird than anything, with a lack of logic in wanting to be that weird that didn’t ever add up. And the poncey, artsy-fartsy use of the Academy ratio was surely a case of "trying too hard" if ever we saw one, which I had kind of feared from the Kubrickian trailer. Oh, if she only had the talent of one of Stanley's fingernails, Fennell might make better films, as opposed to the riffs on many things we’ve seen many times before.

Then again, if you’re going to rip anyone off, Pinter isn’t a bad place to start…! It’s just the annoyance that the "kids" seeing it are totally unaware that "the twist" is nothing new, and far, far, far from the mind-blowing revelation it thinks it is. Must try harder..

[EricJ]

And once again, the annual tradition, as a public service to those who had no idea what the OTHER eight nominated Pictures were about, but weren't planning to subject themselves to Poor Things:

[James]

I'm having an issue where after I log into the forums and then navigate to the Oscars Contest page, it still says that I'm not logged in, hence I can't submit my picks.

ibrmacf and now another user had issues with the ballot not automatically recognizing they were logged in to the forum. If anyone has this issue here are a few ideas to try:

- make sure you're not using private mode, incognito mode, or the like
- make sure cookies are enabled in your browser, or at least for animatedviews.com and forum.animatedviews.com
- log out of the forum then log back in but make sure the "remember me" option is selected
- try using your phone

If none of these work, just email me your picks along with your forum name and email and I'll manually get you entered.

For next year, I'll make a back-up ballot that lets you enter your forum details yourself for when the automatic ballot doesn't work.

Sorry about the trouble to those having this issue!

[Ben]

…but weren't planning to subject themselves to Poor Things…

And that would be a shame…for level-headed, intelligent viewers willing to look outside their usual box.

Just ran it tonight and, boy, what an experience. Totally mental, b@t$#!t crazy, but beautiful, strange and compelling, like the best of Gilliam. I hope it does really well on Sunday.

[Randall]

Oh, good. That's the one other nominee I'm most interested in checking out. Sounds right up my alley.

[Ben]

Yeah…not sure this is your kind of thing, though…

Did you see The Lobster and Killing Of A Sacred Deer? They’d be pointers towards if you thought you might enjoy it. It’s very graphic! I even had to look away at one shot early on (those that have seen will know the one). There are Burton-esque elements, too, but they’re likewise taken to their "illogically logical" and graphic extremes…

I’m torn on getting the disc. After watching I felt that I’d seen it and that was good enough, but it’s a bit like EEAAO in that it’s been sticking with me. I didn’t return to EE until months later, and then loved it, so this might happen here.

I think I’ll skip for now. The HD I have isn’t going to be markedly different from the Blu only disc release (and the sole making of that’s on there was uploaded to YouTube as part of the marketing, so that’s easily seen too), but if it does well on Sunday (and Sony) there may be a 4K down the line.

I’m thinking I’m waiting to see how I feel about it in a few weeks/months, and willing to miss the slip if need be. I lucked out on EE because not many people bought it and I got one with the slip, so I might be lucky here too since not many people seem willing to check it out.

Like Saltburn or Triangle Of Sadness, it’s going to be an acquired taste, for sure, but unlike those films, it’s not crap! It’s not one I’d be too thrilled to double dip on, though, so am committed to waiting a while, but could just see a 4K with a director/Stone commentary pushing me over the edge.

[Randall]

Poor Things is on D+ Canada now, so I'll give it a look. Sounds fascinating.

[Ben]

Oh, hey! It’s on D+ here too! So much for the trouble I went through to borrow a screener!

Very interested to know what you think…

[James]

I think next year, maybe we need to end the contest earlier than usual. It always feels like int the last few days some people might be trying to game the game but entering more than once with very tiny changes to their picks. I can't 100% prove it, but I do log IP addresses and timestamps so the circumstantial evidence is compelling.

[Ben]

The only reason I leave mine so late is that I’m literally trying to cram in screeners and the final few biggies that I haven’t seen yet, but I did just enter once, last night. I'm sure there would be people trying to rig it somehow…such is the sad way of things it seems…

[James]

I wasn't accusing you!