Best Picture Tweets

Less than a week until the Oscars! It's been an interesting season to say the least. There's been a lot of commentaries both about the films and their bigger cultural significance. There were even more quick hot takes and shifting opinions. So with that said, let's take a look at my initial thoughts on the Best Picture nominees via my twitter reactions right after I saw the films.

In the order of when I saw the movies/tweeted about them...

Oh and yeah, I'm going to need a movie, TV show, short documentary... whatever... featuring Shuri, Nakia, and/or Okoye. And I needed this yesterday. #BlackPanther

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) February 19, 2018

So #BlacKkKlansman is great. Go see it. The ending.... is so obvious and yet so perfect. The (majority white) audience I saw it with was completely silent in the end.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) August 12, 2018

I saw A STAR IS BORN today. It's good, even reaching great at times. It's not a masterpiece. More thoughts later.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) October 6, 2018

Oh, I saw BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY today as well and... Queen has a lot of great songs. And... it's certainly a good film for a PG-13 film overseen by the other members of the band.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) November 11, 2018

More thoughts! First, that dance sequence is beyond. Second, Colman/Stone/Weisz are perfect but Nicholas Hoult is the biggest diva of them all. Third, the costumes/locations were so pretty, it hurt. Finally, I'm still surprised at all the bunnies.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) November 25, 2018

On the one hand, I actually ended up really liking THE GREEN BOOK. Mortensen and Ali are so charming, esp. together. On the other hand, I don't disagree with much of this... https://t.co/B0jMqAo5ku

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) December 2, 2018

Acknowledging that Christian Bale is pretty damn good in it, I couldn't wait for VICE to be over. It was interminable.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) January 11, 2019

Finally saw ROMA and it's an absolute wonder. And now knowing the context of THIS shot... gives me tremendous amount of emotion. pic.twitter.com/sJywxbHVar

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) February 15, 2019

And since I saw just a few more films this year which probably should have been nominated for Best Picture, I'll share my initial tweets on those films as well...

FIRST MAN is stupendous. Such audacious filmmaking.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) October 14, 2018

Wow. SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is so very amazing. I am going to be seeing that several more times. Seriously fantastic.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) December 15, 2018

Just saw the movie EIGHT GRADE by Bo Burnham. It's great...
LAUGHED during the banana scene.
CRINGED during the car scene.
CRIED during the fire burning scene.
SQUEED during the first date scene.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) July 22, 2018

And yes Melissa McCarthy is very good in CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Still very humorous as is her brand but with a dash of caustic delightfulness.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) November 18, 2018

I only cried a handful of times. I cannot wait to abuse my AMC subscription seeing this a bazillion times. #CrazyRichAsians

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) August 19, 2018

The Oscars are this coming Sunday on ABC! No host this year. Things can get wild!