The Oscars

[mousepod]

NA,

Ordinary People over Raging Bull? Really?

Between now and the time I move to LA, I must refine my movie salon/podcast plan.

I'm thinking we need to have a couple of double features, pitting an award winner against a movie that some think should have won. Differing opinions, especially among opinionated movie buffs like us, should prove to be highly entertaining.

Maybe this needs to be a thread before we start programming our festival.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

However, in 1976 I probably would've voted for Network over Taxi Driver.

I loved Network, but it stands out more for me as a collection of speeches rather than a coherent story. It's been a while since I saw it, but I think the idea that a network would actually kill someone on the air for ratings would either strike me as extremely silly or unremarkable.

Rocky was the better movie. Whenever I think about films of the 70s, I tend to sum it up as a bunch of men yelling at each other in service of some idea. Rocky, the character, did very little yelling. He was the epitome of cool.

[€uroMeinke]

So what I really want to know is how these Academy Awards were made "carbon neutral" or whatever the buzzword was. Did the stars carpool in electric vehicles? Did they all come in through the closed redline station? Were those spotlights all compact fluorescents? Ot did they just plant a bunch of trees somewhere?

Thinking of the pageantry, the closed metro station and streets, all that Tule - how did they pull it off, or even calculate it. I find the claim hard to swallow as much as I may support the cause.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by mousepod

NA,

Ordinary People over Raging Bull? Really?

Totally. I LOVED Ordinary People when I saw it and Raging Bull not so much. But, remember, I have a hard time with violence and seem to lire (or is it just relate to) f'ed up relationships. (Interiors IS my favorite Woody Allen, after all.)

[Alex]

I too would be hard torn to choose between Ordinary People and Raging Bull. Though ultimately I'd probably go with Raging Bull. But it would shift with my mood.

[Gemini Cricket]

I loved Ordinary People, too. I was/am that kid. And Mary Tyler Moore's character is my mom. Love love that film. 1st time as director for Robert Redford, I believe.

[€uroMeinke]

For those interested - NPR did a piece on West Bank Story

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm really curious about Infernal Affairs now. I think I need to Netflix it.

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Scorsese dyes his eyebrows, yes?

I was asking this same question on IM last night. No one would answer me. I say yes, and I think that's just freaky.

[Not Afraid]

I remember having a conversation with someone about this subject recently. Apparently, eyebrows don't always go grey when the rest of the hair does.

I found this little tidbit:

A recent study demonstrated that people 50-70 years of age with dark eyebrows but grey hair are significantly more likely to have type II diabetes than those with both grey eyebrows and grey hair.