![]() ![]() Makeup and HairstylingĪnalysis: It’s a tough call, but this ultimately comes down to a battle of the fat suits. It’s a testament to Carter’s talent and professionalism that she smiled and nodded through it and realized their aesthetic. Jordan’s Creed III has a lot to do with his not-so-subtle involvement, but I can imagine how insufferable Ruth’s Pinterest board must’ve been as Coogler continued to share and build on his exhaustive research in trying to find the look for Namor’s tribe. Coogler is arguably the greatest working writer and director in his prime that we have right now, and I think the wild success of Michael B. This was accomplished in a way that draws clear allusions to the South American indigenous cultures they’re modeled on, to tell a complex story about how oppressed societies are pitted against each other by imperialism.Īnd on the other hand, I’m guessing 80% of the people reading this saw the film where I did, at the BAM Harvey Theater, and if you did, you saw the little featurette that ran before the film. Carter for two reasons here: One, she built on the work she did in Black Panther’s first installment, creating a style and signature for the tribe that opposes and threatens the way of life in Wakanda. I keep bumping on the basic, both idiotic and obvious question: Is this scrappy, funky, treacly film really deserving of its place in a deified inner circle of films that echo throughout Oscars history? Particularly because, as the reader will soon discover, I feel there is a film worthy of that same dominant greatness being treated as a glorified afterthought? Let’s peruse the odds, get you acquainted with the contenders in each of the major categories, and conduct a therapy session that delves deep into my feelings and reservations in considering what may go down, what may not go down, and actually should go down Sunday night:Īnalysis: I’m leaning towards Ms. It’s the headline triumph that should be an unqualified feel-good success for this entire, glorious, dying enterprise.Īnd yet, I remain on brand in my mild dissatisfaction with what seems like an inevitable loose-end-tying conclusion. It’s an indie crowd-pleaser that did shockingly tidy business at a time the terrain was still tepid and unsure for movies. Its references are more John Woo and Ant-Man than Bergman and Ozu. It was a spring release from a boutique, fledgling hipster brand. And yet, with all that diversity in the offing, one film towers above them all, perhaps appropriately, a film that straddles headrush kettle-corn-flicks and slow-release Sour Patch edible cinema.Įverything Everywhere All At Once breaks nearly every rule on record for what makes an Oscar colossus. It’s a high/low blend of billion dollar dumbass blockbusters and the fabled, endangered, little-seen but well-regarded highbrow dramas for adults. It all resulted in an Oscar field those of us still invested in the pageant have clamored for since the nominees for Best Picture expanded from five to a maximum of 10 in the wake of the infamous Dark Knight snub. The studios finally got what they wanted in their generational quest to cut out the “middleman” represented by movie theaters, only to realize the magic and the margins of their business require physical space and physical tickets. The financials of the business are forever changed and our expectations, how we regard good films across budget and genre, have shifted as well.įranchise filmmaking accomplished its ultimate goal of gutting the industry, just in time for the comic book industrial complex to run out of ideas and visual style and revert to the cheap shlock its pointy critics always accused it of being. Not the fallow COVID-19 period of 2020, or the bizarre glut of COVID-hampered or held-over bad-to-mediocre contenders that typified 2021, but a real honest-to-God movie year that could hold its own against any of the past 10 pre-COVID “glory years” in film.Īnd yet, we may never actually recover from COVID and the havoc it wreaked on the theater industry, how it accelerated the streaming model - what was a looming issue for the very few remaining depraved adults such as myself who still live for the ancient ritual of going to the movies. ![]() And this won’t just be any year for the Oscars - in many senses, 2022 was the first year that played out with a sense of normalcy. ![]() Sunday, we return to what we can all agree is the last, relevant, standing awards show: the Oscars. Here is who we think will win (and who should win.) ![]()
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