Posts by Rebecca Peterson3

We’ve actually already had a thread dedicated to this topic over on the film board.
To me, cinema is true art, whereas TV series often feel like mass-produced commodities... though I find myself watching both regardless.

bluenomad2 said:To be fair, Mad Men is an incredible TV series. Along with Rectify, it’s easily one of the best things on television right now. Sadly, Rectify rarely gets the credit it deserves.

Modern sitcoms are a disaster. Even the few that are actually good? They're terrible.

It’s classic overestimation.
Rectify is a Solid series, certainly, but it's just one among many and nothing more than that...

I can agree with you regarding sitcoms.

Noah Roberts46 said:The Artist. 🤣
Just a massive, pretentious hipster ego trip...

Linklater 🤣
just a little hop, skip, and a jump...
even before Boyhood, Linklater was basically the director equivalent of a light afternoon distraction...

Jack Murphy5 said:I’m telling you, Boyhood is actually superior to everything else on that list.

I disagree.
Boyhood belongs in the same tier as those films... though perhaps not quite alongside The Artist...

Jack Murphy5 said:Over the last few years, the Academy Award winners list for Best Picture has included:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Hurt Locker
The King's Speech
The Artist
Argo
12 Years a Slave

So now we’re acting like it would be an issue if Boyhood took the trophy, even though it’s arguably a superior film to everything on that list...

It wouldn't be an issue at all; we've grown quite accustomed to seeing mediocrity sweep the statues (sorry, The Artist)...
which one is better than the ones listed above? Birdman, perhaps...

How exactly does one even begin to approach that...

I honestly can't wrap my head around the idea that Boyhood deserves to take home the win... It just feels fundamentally unearned...

Personally, I find the Grand Budapest Hotel to be an incomparably weaker film than Birdman...

Sean Bailey75 said:The fact that they gave the lead actor a name inspired by Goran Visnjic—who played that American doctor, Dr. Kovac, over on ER—really just goes to show how easily the American media adopts names for characters coming from "those parts of the world near Canada." Whether it's Emir, Emil, or Emin, it makes absolutely no difference in the USA; nobody actually pays attention to those distinctions...

I once watched an American series where two Muslims from Srebrenica were named Rajko and Nebojša, so...
When I first started watching Emil Kovač, I really should have just turned it off, but being the masochist that I am, I sat through it until the very end. What a joke...