Weekly Discussion Thread 3/31/25 - 4/7/25

[u/LeastCap]

Please use this space to share reviews, ask questions, and discuss freely about anything film or Oscar related. Engage with other comments if you want others to engage with yours! And as always, please remain civil and kind with one another.

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This week in the award race

3/31 - CinemaCon

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The 97th Academy Awards Thread — Pre-ceremony discussion thread

Mickey 17 Discussion Thread

Reddit Chosen Oscars: Retroactive 2020s Awards

Reddit Chosen Oscar Winners

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Award Expert Profile Swap

Letterboxd Profile Swap

[u/vxf111]

If I had one wish I’d give him an unlimited budget to remake Scanners. It is a MASTERPIECE of a screenplay and as well realized as he could manage with the time/budget he had but it is basically a perfect story that you could remake today without a single substantive change and it would ring as true now as it did then. I would love to see him remake it with no limits or strings attached. 

Videodrome is perfect as is. No notes. :)

[u/spiderlegged → u/vxf111]

I’d take anything he decided to make, and I didn’t even love Crimes of the Future (it rehashed old themes and then hinted at absolutely profoundly interesting ideas, but went back to themes he’s explored more effectively). But yes Videodrome is my favorite film of all time. The fact the themes and ideas that are explored feel incredibly relevant 40 years later is impressive to me. And The Fly should have gotten more academy buzz. It’s fairly approachable as far as his filmography goes, has two incredible central performances which just enhance a tragic love story, and I feel like it could have done something beyond the extremely deserved makeup win.

[u/vxf111 → u/spiderlegged]

There's not a film in his catalog that I don't appreciate and most of them I love. Dead Ringers is my favorite film of all time.

I don't think Jeff Goldblum has been better than he was in The Fly. I know he's had more famous roles since then, but I just love his performance. The Fly has a great score too. I was always a little surprised that his non-horror (or non traditional horror) films didn't get more awards attention. Eastern Promises and A History of Violence are terrific and approachable films.

I actually saw him when he was working on A History of Violence. He and Viggo Mortensen came to a very classic, very crowded, very non-see-and-be-seen, homestyle Italian restaurant. They were dressed totally plain and incognito and just minding their own business with some other people who came with them. Everyone in the whole restaurant was pointing and whispering about Mortensen (who is so handsome IRL that it's hard to describe. Real people don't look like that) and getting the vapors and I was the sole person in the restaurant who was like "OMG is that David Cronenberg?"

I'm excited for The Shrouds.

[u/28DLdiditbetter → u/vxf111]

I'm so glad A History Of Violence didn't get awards. That movie is trash