TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

Czechoslovakia would have fallen eventually, but the Germans would pay a steep price and wouldn't get the Czech arms industry intact.  That could significantly imp[act the events of a year later (especially not M-L Pact).

Seems reasonable.
For some reason, Gamelin believed Czechoslovakia doomed following the Anschluss (Bohemia could be attacked from the South as well I guess).
That, and giving Czechs blueprints of Maginot line-style fortifications, then deserting them shows policy coherence was not very valued.

Well obviously one may presume whatever Gamelin thought was probably wrong

But it was the French Air Force who said they would lose almost immediately and needed more time along with the British basically assuring the French that if they didn't appease the Germans they wouldn't go along with it that killed their nerve. But even in the event the French knew it was a stupid idea, at least the leadership. They just felt given what the British and what the air force were thinking they had no choice but now they were "contemptible". I read all those documents of those meetings in graduate school when I was researching America's policy towards Munich and the occupation of the Czech lands (results...um...there really wasn't one...I could find).

But yeah it was definitely not coherent as it was a sudden reversal of France's entire eastern European policy of the previous 18 years with predictably catastrophic results as the whole point had always been to make sure Germany fights France while also fighting on an Eastern Front. Whoops.

[Syt]

Bojack Horseman, the 2006 flashback episode in Season 3. Mr Peanutbutter (the Golden Retriever) about his gig prospects: "Michael Vick made me a very strange offer." 

I understood that reference thanks to this forum's old NFL threads.

[The Larch]

Oscar nominations are in!

BEST PICTURE

- Belfast
- CODA
- Don't Look Up
- Drive my Car
- Dune
- King Richard
- Licorice Pizza
- Nightmare Alley
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR

- Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
- Ryusuke Yamaguchi (Drive my Car)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
- Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
- Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

BEST ACTOR

- Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
- Benedict Cumberbacht (The Power of the Dog)
- Andrew Garfield (Tick Tick Boom)
- Will Smith (King Richard)
- Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

BEST ACTRESS

- Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
- Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
- Penélope Cruz (Paralel Mothers)
- Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
- Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

BEST SUP. ACTOR

- Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
- Troy Kotsur (CODA)
- Ciaran Hinds (Belfast)
- J. K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
- Jessee Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

BEST SUP. ACTRESS

- Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
- Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
- Judi Dench (Belfast)
- Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
- Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

- Belfast
- King Richard
- Licorice Pizza
- Don't Look Up
- The Worst Person in the World

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

- CODA
- Drive my Car
- Dune
- The Power of the Dog
- The Lost Daughter


Overall, The Power of the Dog leads the number of nominations with 12, followed by Dune with 10 and then Belfast and West Side Story with 7 each.

[celedhring]

Mom has been pestering me to watch Belfast for a while, I guess there's no way I can avoid it now 

I just don't care for all those "I'm gonna talk about my coming of age" autobiographical movies.

[The Larch]

Mom has been pestering me to watch Belfast for a while, I guess there's no way I can avoid it now 

I just don't care for all those "I'm gonna talk about my coming of age" autobiographical movies.

Look on the bright side, it's only 97 minutes long. 

My mom wants to watch Drive my Car, which runs for almost 3 hours. 

[Eddie Teach]

I have seen exactly 0 of those. 

[The Larch]

Not even Dune?

[Eddie Teach]

Don't have HBO atm.

[The Larch]

Don't have HBO atm.

It was shown on cinemas.

[Josephus]

I only saw one movie this year...or this past two years, really.

Nightmare Alley. Decent film. It ain't gonna win though.

My bet is on Belfast. Though I haven't seen it.

[Josquius]

Speaking of shitty coming of age movies... I've seen on amazon a movie called "Giddy Stratospheres"... The trailer featuring the long blondes track of the same name. The long blondes. A beloved but not quite mainstream indie band of the late noughties whose career was unfairly cut short by the lead guitarist and song writer suffering a stroke.
The film... From the trailer and synopsis it sounds like the kind of thing seen a million times before. A coming of age tale set to a backdrop of a time in the past when the music was better but the world was obviously flawed.
Only rather than the typical 80s it's now 2008.
My life is a failure and I am old and over it.

[Sheilbh]

I've not seen Belfast - but I've seen the trailer and I suspect it's exactly the sort of film the Oscars will love.

Separately I wonder if, now we know there'll be a Part 2, they'll treat Dune a bit like LOTR and save the awards for the final installment?

[Grey Fox]

I've seen Don't Look Up. It wasn't good.

I've heard of Dune & The Power of the Dog.

[The Larch]

Separately I wonder if, now we know there'll be a Part 2, they'll treat Dune a bit like LOTR and save the awards for the final installment?

I think so, otherwise Villeneuve would/should have been nominated for Best Director as well.

[Admiral Yi]

Oscar nominations are in!

BEST PICTURE

- Don't Look Up

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

- Don't Look Up