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[ian]

No way it's been 30 years without him. I feel like I just saw him in some films recently.

I did see him in some films recently, in fact I see him quite a lot.
but they're all classics now.

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It really sucks we missed out on 30 years of John Candy movies.

No way it's been 30 years without him. I feel like I just saw him in some films recently.

I did see him in some films recently, in fact I see him quite a lot.
but they're all classics now.

Losing him and Farley at a young age really affected me. I had self-esteem issues growing up chubby, so they were kings. It meant a lot to me that these overweight guys were so famous. The movies are absolute classics: Uncle Buck and Planes Trains and Automobiles are still watched at least once a year.

Now as a 37 year old myself, it's absolutely tragic that his family lost John Candy at 43.

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[Bandit]

It really sucks we missed out on 30 years of John Candy movies.

No way it's been 30 years without him. I feel like I just saw him in some films recently.

I did see him in some films recently, in fact I see him quite a lot.
but they're all classics now.

Losing him and Farley at a young age really affected me. I had self-esteem issues growing up chubby, so they were kings. It meant a lot to me that these overweight guys were so famous. The movies are absolute classics: Uncle Buck and Planes Trains and Automobiles are still watched at least once a year.

Now as a 37 year old myself, it's absolutely tragic that his family lost John Candy at 43.

And he wanted to do more drama to be recognized as like Robin Williams as an actor who can do it all.

I remember when Farley died too. I had just watched Beverly Hills Ninja on HBO and was thinking about how funny he was. A few days later he passed away.

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Twitter is a great platform. I saw video of a couple rawdogging it doggystyle when I searched for "Oscars 2024." Kudos to Elon for getting unfiltered hardcore porn in the timeline.

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Best picture
"Oppenheimer" — Winner
"American Fiction"
"Anatomy of a Fall"
"Barbie"
"The Holdovers"
"Killers of the Flower Moon"
"Maestro"
"Past Lives"
"Poor Things"
"The Zone of Interest"

Best supporting actress
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, "The Holdovers" — Winner
Emily Blunt, "Oppenheimer"
Danielle Brooks, "The Color Purple"
America Ferrera, "Barbie"
Jodie Foster, "Nyad"

Best animated short film
"War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko" — Winner
"Letter to a Pig"
"Ninety-Five Senses"
"Our Uniform"
"Pachyderm"

Best animated feature film
"The Boy and the Heron" — Winner
"Elemental"
"Nimona"
"Robot Dreams"
"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"

Best original screenplay
"Anatomy of a Fall" — Winner
"The Holdovers"
"Maestro"
"May December"
"Past Lives"

Best adapted screenplay
"American Fiction" — Winner
"Barbie"
"Oppenheimer"
"Poor Things"
"The Zone of Interest"

Best makeup and hairstyling
"Poor Things" — Winner
"Golda"
"Maestro"
"Oppenheimer"
"Society of the Snow"

Best production design
"Poor Things" — Winner
"Barbie"
"Killers of the Flower Moon"
"Napoleon"
"Oppenheimer"

Best costume design
"Poor Things" — Winner
"Barbie"
"Killers of the Flower Moon"
"Napoleon"
"Oppenheimer"

Best international feature film
"The Zone of Interest," United Kingdom — Winner
"Io Capitano," Italy
"Perfect Days," Japan
"Society of the Snow," Spain
"The Teachers' Lounge," Germany

Best supporting actor
Robert Downey Jr., "Oppenheimer" — Winner
Sterling K. Brown, "American Fiction"
Robert De Niro, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
Ryan Gosling, "Barbie"
Mark Ruffalo, "Poor Things"

Best visual effects
"Godzilla Minus One" — Winner
"The Creator"
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"
"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One"
"Napoleon"

Best film editing
"Oppenheimer" — Winner
"Anatomy of a Fall"
"The Holdovers"
"Killers of the Flower Moon"
"Poor Things"

Best documentary short film
"The Last Repair Shop" — Winner
"The ABCs of Book Banning"
"The Barber of Little Rock"
"Island in Between"
"Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó"

Best documentary feature film
"20 Days in Mariupol" — Winner
"Bobi Wine: The People's President"
"The Eternal Memory"
"Four Daughters"
"To Kill a Tiger"

Best cinematography
"Oppenheimer" — Winner
"El Conde"
"Killers of the Flower Moon"
"Maestro"
"Poor Things"

Best live action short film
"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" — Winner
"The After"
"Invincible"
"Knight of Fortune"
"Red, White and Blue"

Best sound
"The Zone of Interest" — Winner
"The Creator"
"Maestro"
"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One"
"Oppenheimer"

Best original score
"Oppenheimer" — Winner
"American Fiction"
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"
"Killers of the Flower Moon"
"Poor Things"

Best original song
"What Was I Made For?" from "Barbie" — Winner
"It Never Went Away" from "American Symphony"
"I'm Just Ken" from "Barbie"
"The Fire Inside" from "Flamin' Hot"
"Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)" from "Killers of the Flower Moon"

Best actor
Cillian Murphy, "Oppenheimer" — Winner
Bradley Cooper, "Maestro"
Colman Domingo, "Rustin"
Paul Giamatti, "The Holdovers"
Jeffrey Wright, "American Fiction"

Best director
Christopher Nolan, "Oppenheimer" — Winner
Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest"
Yorgos Lanthimos, "Poor Things"
Martin Scorsese, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
Justine Triet, "Anatomy of a Fall"

Best actress
Emma Stone, "Poor Things" — Winner
Annette Bening, "Nyad"
Lily Gladstone, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
Sandra Hüller, "Anatomy of a Fall"
Carey Mulligan, "Maestro"

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Poor Things has to be the Oscar-winning movie with the most scenes of graphic sex ever. I still need to watch Oppenheimer and the others. I almost made it through The Leftovers, but that was a good one too.
 

Oscar Winners

[ian]

I might see some of those movies one day. in the mean time I rewatched some John Candy movies I haven't seen in a while, and a couple I watch all the time. Sure his good ones are really good but I still haven't seen the last 2: Canadian Bacon and wagons east) but I doubt they're as bad as the great outdoors.

Spaceballs is his funniest role and the funniest movie he was in, so far the great outdoors is the worst, and he's still the best part of the movie, I can't explain what happened to Ackroyd, you can put Ackroyd in some pretty bad crap and he usually does a good job, this felt phoned in though.

I have watched all the movies on CRT because charm, my TV's also hide a lot of the grain, which 80's movies all have. Even the 30'-70's didn't have as much grain as the 80's.

Twitter is a great platform. I saw video of a couple rawdogging it doggystyle when I searched for "Oscars 2024."

Disgusting! Where?

The raised awareness of the heimlich maneuver now that it's won all the oscars is a good thing though.

[Bandit]

I might see some of those movies one day. in the mean time I rewatched some John Candy movies I haven't seen in a while, and a couple I watch all the time. Sure his good ones are really good but I still haven't seen the last 2: Canadian Bacon and wagons east) but I doubt they're as bad as the great outdoors.

I haven't watched them since the 90s so maybe I'd enjoy them more as an adult, but I didn't like either of them. Wagons East was especially disappointing because John Candy and Richard Lewis should have done a great film but it's just a bad copy of a Mel Brooks movie without Mel Brooks jokes.

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Sure his good ones are really good but I still haven't seen the last 2: Canadian Bacon and wagons east) but I doubt they're as bad as the great outdoors.

Twitter is a great platform. I saw video of a couple rawdogging it doggystyle when I searched for "Oscars 2024."

Disgusting! Where?

I haven't watched them since the 90s so maybe I'd enjoy them more as an adult, but I didn't like either of them. Wagons East was especially disappointing because John Candy and Richard Lewis should have done a great film but it's just a bad copy of a Mel Brooks movie without Mel Brooks jokes.

That's the biggest crime: Just how half-assed Wagons East was.

I do need to watch Canadian Bacon again. It did not get great reviews in the pixel household, but then the reviewers were under the age of 15. I've wondered whether adult me would like Canadian Bacon more than The Great Outdoors. The latter is pretty funny as a kid that has gone on vacations like that.

[ian]

I liked the great outdoors when I was younger, but it just hasn't held up in my eyes. If John Candy wasn't in it, I simply would not have rewatched it or even finished it if I was watching for the first time today.

An interesting one is Splash. I didn't like it as a teen, but as an adult it's not as bad as I remember.
This was a film I actually read a review on before I watched it back in the day and Ebert said something along the lines of they miscast Hanks and Candy.
He was spot on then, now I'm not so sure. Hanks did a really good job in making this stupid concept of a film work.

[Bandit]

I do need to watch Canadian Bacon again. It did not get great reviews in the pixel household, but then the reviewers were under the age of 15. I've wondered whether adult me would like Canadian Bacon more than The Great Outdoors. The latter is pretty funny as a kid that has gone on vacations like that.

I do remember Rip Torn being hilarious in it. But of course because he's Rip Torn.

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[Bandit]

lol do people think he was humiliated with a physique like that? When he got famous being shirtless every Monday?

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lol do people think he was humiliated with a physique like that? When he got famous being shirtless every Monday?

We're through the looking glass here people

[Bandit]

IMO the sandals were the humiliation ritual.

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Poor Things has to be the Oscar-winning movie with the most scenes of graphic sex ever. I still need to watch Oppenheimer and the others. I almost made it through The Leftovers, but that was a good one too.
 

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