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Heh, same here. For me, this time it was how amused Kevin looked after Diane said "You are so old to be have the way you do" to Jake. His face just cracks me up.

For real. I can't wait for the opportunity to use that, even though no one is going to get it because I know no one who watches this show. But hey, maybe that'll just make it funnier! This one ends up on my 'favourite episodes' list, for sure. So many laughs. I love Kevin, and how he brought Jake an orange soda with a straw from when when they had 'other children' over. Oh, and OF COURSE Amy loves corduroy, bless her heart.

Oh, nice catch! I knew that Nacho is usually short for Ignacio, but I didn't remember to make that connection. Interesting, and hopefully means we'll see more of him. And agreed, I enjoy what he does with Vic on Orphan Black, but he was completely different and really good here.

I remember when I watched Good Will Hunting for the first time, Matt Damon's big breakdown scene made me sort of - uncomfortable, somehow, and I'm not sure if it was because it was realistic or because I felt like it was over the top. But he sure doesn't hold back.

Agreed, trailers are part of the fun of the movies for me - it's just the commercials that bug. My favourite movie-going experience was going to a screening of The Room for the first time. I've been several times now, but that first time when you didn't know what you were in for? Pillow fights during the gross sex scenes, plastic spoons-throwing, everyone constantly yelling at the characters and the movie in general... Hilarious. My face hurt for two days afterwards because I never stopped grinning the whole time. If there's ever a screening near you and you've never been I can't recommend it enough!

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't call it , but amazing is the word. The bits where were certainly "hell yeah!" moments for me.

I agree that Stringer had got used to running things and not having anyone telling him how it was gonna be or not. And I think the fact that Avon still had the "I want my corners" attitude and was about to go to full-on war on Marlo played a big part, too. To Stringer they'd moved beyond that, and he knew that open war in the streets would just bring the police closer to them. That stuff was small time to him; they had bigger fish to fry now and Avon was messing all that up.

I don't think any scene on this show broke my heart more than that one. Even then, probably terrified of what was going to happen, he knew Carver was feeling just as badly and tried to take some of the weight off. Randy was such a sweet kid and his storyline hit me the hardest of all the boys', for some reason. Maybe because what what happened to him could so easily have been avoided. I've never made it all the way through 4x13, in that I've never watched Bodie's last scene. The first time I watched, when I realised what was about to happen I found a reason to get up and leave the room for a minute, and I still just can't bring myself to watch it. I never would've thought it after the first season, but Bodie really grew into one of my favourite characters. As did Carver, equally unexpectedly. Serving under Bunny was clearly the best thing that could've happened to him, because he's nearly unrecognisable from the guy he was in the first season - and it feels earned. He spent season 3 learning and came out on the other side. I just wish he'd gone straight from leaving Randy at the group home to beat Herc's ass.

I feel like there's been some backlash for Julianne Moore (not in the actual awards circles, obviously, but in general) over the idea that she's winning all these awards and will go on to win the big one mostly because it's time, it's the typical role that gets you an Oscar and it'll be a make-up award for the times she didn't win, but I'm with you - I think she's absolutely amazing in Still Alice and would deserve the award whether she'd been nominated several times before or not. It was one of my favourite performances of the year, no question.

I think I cackled at that for five minutes. And then some more reading it again now.

The idea of turning Cats into a live action/CGI movie sounds like a disaster to me. A spectacular one I might watch for the hell of it, but a disaster nonetheless! I don't know how Into the Woods has fared at the box office, but Sweeney Todd did relatively well, didn't it? If there were to be another Sondheim movie musical I'm kind of curious about how Assassins would turn out, and if the public would take to it at all considering its topic - I'd probably agree with the earlier discussion in that the subject might put people off... I rather like Sweeney Todd, and Assassins certainly can certainly have a dark and creepy vibe to it if done the right way, too, even while being funny, but like Rinaldo says I'm not sure how you'd handle its - disjointedness? - in a movie. I'd still kinda love to see it, though.

Lars and the Real Girl sounds weird to a lot of people on a different level than Her, I think, probably because of the 'sex doll' part. But I'm with the rest, I love that movie - I liked Her quite a bit, but I definitely prefer Lars. I still think Joaquín Phoenix deserved a nomination for this performance, though. He was really good.

I feel like one of the saddest lines in the whole show belongs to Bodie during his talk with McNulty in 4x13: "I feel old." I don't know why, but something about it hits me. Not to mention a minute later: "The game is rigged, man. We like them little bitches on a chessboard." (I may have attempted to re-watch the end of season 4, and failed.)

Oh man, I can't believe I didn't think of that one. It was an epic thing. (And great, now I have the remix of it stuck on my head. Damn, that was catchy.)

It's a good shout, but... Yeah, Hooper's win is the one that annoys me the most. Anyone but him in that category that year - although I was also pulling for Fincher - which was a pretty damn good year for film on the whole, I thought. (Wasn't it in 2011, though?) That was also the year when Christopher Nolan was snubbed of even a nomination for Director for Inception, which still eats at me sometimes.

Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one! Yeah, there's an unpopular opinion for you - I don't feel like it was snubbed at the Oscars. It didn't do anything for me at all, no matter how much I wanted to love it.

I'm genuinely sad that Pride didn't get in at all - I thought with the Golden Globe nomination it could happen, and I think with better marketing it might've. The Full Monty and Billy Elliot managed it. Selma doesn't open here for another few months, so I can't speak for it myself, but no director/lead actor nom seems like one hell of a snub. Did Get on Up completely sneak under the radar when it came out? I've been excited to see how that was going to do and didn't even realise it'd already premiered in the US.

The Grand Budapest Hotel is nominated in every major category it qualifies for, except for... Ralph Fiennes in Lead Actor, as the character who pretty much carries the entire movie. That makes no sense whatsoever. I'm pulling for Julianne Moore, JK Simmons and Whiplash in general. A really weak year for me.

Dandesun, I'd say that's my order, too, with it being very close between Evans and Pratt. I hadn't heard that, and now I'm trying to guess which line that was! My first thought was "you may have network connectivity problems", and the second was "I don't know who Al Gore is and now I'm afraid to ask".

It really was. I was so on edge and uncomfortable all the way through - it was so tense, somehow. Simmons was fantastic, just awesomely menacing, and I think in another year Miles Teller would've gotten some buzz, too. The last scene was incredibly well done. The whole film was gorgeously shot, but the last scene was dizzying and claustrophobic and stressful all at once.

I’d never heard about this particular strike-related story, either - it seems not many had, really. Mike Jackson was one of the major sources and visited the set regularly, and he was so pleased the story was finally being told because he’d been afraid it would die with them. They trimmed it down, some, obviously - there were apparently a lot more members in the original LGSM group than the movie showed and several other branches around the country, too - but it’s great that more people are going to know about the events thanks to the film. I was blubbering like a child at the end, as were most of the others in the cinema as well, it seemed. Happy tears, mostly, But that last scene was such a wonderful, victorious note to end on. Everyone who knew Mark back then seems to agree Ben Schnetzer was perfect portraying him, which I can believe. There’s an amateur documentary of sorts available on YouTube called Dancing in Dulais, which was filmed by the activists at the time where you can see the real Mark Ashton and others in action, which is really cool! (I recognised Mike, Steph and Stella, too. And Siân.) Schnetzer does seem to have nailed it. Apparently in Wales, "They still talk about Mark Ashton as if he were Joan of Arc."

A shame, and completely ridiculous. The whole movie is about the LGBT community, erasing that from the marketing makes no sense.

Ah, that explains this round, at least! Thanks.

I would love for JK Simmons to get recognition for this role. Agreed, he killed it - he was so terrifying and nailed every moment of being an abusive bastard, including the moments where he would come off as 'nice'. He was just chilling. I was kind of hoping for Ben Schnetzer to snag a BAFTA nomination for his portrayal of Mark Ashton in Pride (described as 'breathtakingly realistic' by one of Mark's friends, and I believe it), but it was always going to be a long shot with the competition this year. But Imelda Staunton got a 'best supporting actress' nom, at least! The Selma thing is strange. I can't imagine voters seeing it and just ignoring it, so it must be the mishandling.

I feel like I'm mentioning this movie all over the board at the moment (and I'll probably continue to do so for a while), but surely there has to be someone who's seen the recent Pride, about how LGSM was formed during the miner's strike in the UK? It only had a limited release in the US in September (around the same time it premiered in the UK), I think, but I believe it's out on DVD now. It's just such a warm film - one reviewer said, "I watched this entire film from start to finish with tears in my eyes and a smile plastered across my face", which pretty much sums it up for me, too. Watching it was like getting a big hug. Is it predictable? Well, I suppose. But so's the fact that Saturday comes after Friday, and no one complains about that. *g* It's rare to see a movie with LGBT+ themes that focusses on something good happening in the community, one that shows that not everything is about suffering.