Pic of the Day: “Down in Texas, where I come from, we just go out and get a man and string him up.” “That’s right!”
Pic of the Day: “A big Totoro was here with me.” “You don’t mean a big one like what’s in our picture books, do you?” “Mm-hmm. And I climbed up on top of him. And he was furry! And he had a big mouth! And there was a little one. And one this big. And a great big one sleeping by himself.” “Oh!”
Pic of the Day: “Oskar, listen… Hit back. You’ve never hit back… Have you? So do it. Hit back. Hard.” “There are three of them.” “Hit back even harder. Hit harder than you dare, then they’ll stop.” “What if…?” “Then I’ll help you.”
Pic of the Day: “My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consigliore of mine, I think it’s time you told your Don what everyone seems to know.” “I didn’t tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.” “But you needed a drink first. And now you’ve had your drink.” “They shot Sonny on the causeway. He’s dead.” “I want no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a meeting with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now.”
Pic of the Day: “It’s silly, but I love you. I wanted to see you, to see if I’d want to see you.”
Pic of the Day: “Is this a courting or a donnybrook? Have the good manners not to hit the man until he’s your husband and entitled to hit you back.”
Pic of the Day: “I think we can do nothing to stop the march of time.” “Believe me, I don’t know who is going to win this war in the end, whatever it is will be the end of the Rauffensteins and the Boeldieus.”
Pic of the Day: “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”
Pic of the Day: “Remember, you will only have time for just one shot. If you need another, the risk is yours.” “I don’t take risks.”
Pic of the Day: “Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph! Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!”
Pic of the Day: ♫ “I never meant to cause you any sorrow / I never meant to cause you any pain / I only wanted to one time to see you laughing / I only wanted to see you / Laughing in the purple rain.” ♫
Pic of the Day: ♫ “Cruella De Vil / Cruella De Vil / If she doesn’t scare you / No evil thing will / To see her is to take a sudden chill / Cruella, Cruella / She’s like a spider waiting / For the kill / Look out for Cruella De Vil.” ♫
Pic of the Day: “I should tell you this.” “What?” “I saw your wife in the street yesterday.” “So what?” “She was with some guy. Probably a friend. Just thought you should know.”
Pic of the Day: “What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family… my father built…” “The Wayne legacy is more than bricks and mortar, sir.” “I wanted to save Gotham. I failed.” “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” “You still haven’t given up on me?” “Never.”
Pic of the Day: “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that. And I think I am fine.”
Pic of the Day: “Remember, once you’re inside you’re on your own.” “Oh, you mean I can’t count on you?” “No.” “Good!”
The Oscar Quest: Reconsidered (Best Supporting Actress, 2013-2014)
The Oscar Quest began in May of 2010. I finished about fifteen months later, and wrote it up for this site. That was essentially the first thing I did on here. Five years have passed since then. I’ve grown as a person. My tastes have changed, matured (or gotten more immature, in some cases). So it feels fitting, on the five year anniversary of the site and of the Oscar Quest, to revisit it.
I want to see just how my opinions about things have changed over the past five years. I didn’t do any particular work or catch-up for this. I didn’t go back and watch all the movies again. Some I went back to see naturally, others I haven’t watched in five years. I really just want to go back and rewrite the whole thing as a more mature person, less concerned with making points about certain categories and films than with just analyzing the whole thing as objectively as I can to give people who are interested as much information as possible.
This is the more mature version of the Oscar Quest. Updated, more in-depth, as objective as possible, less hostile. You can still read the old articles, but know that those are of a certain time, and these represent the present. (more…)
