The 2015 Oscar Post!

[dawn_felagund]

I started doing this last year, since discovering the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg means that I do actually get the opportunity to see many of the Academy Award nominees each year. (We live just far enough from Baltimore and DC to make it impractical to go there just to see a movie, and our local theaters don't tend to show them. Good movies

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[dawn_felagund]

Few people know that Alzheimer's used to be called presenile dementia, which meant it turned up before a person got old. Then doctors didn't want to diagnose if for a while, now it's back to being a thing again. They really need to find effective treatments for it. A cure would be better but I don't see that in the offing anytime soon.

Alzheimer's is probably my greatest fear. To be so afflicted would be to lose the things I value the most. I am less afraid of pain and far less afraid of death.

I remember as a psych undergrad 10ish years ago being taught that Alzheimer's couldn't be diagnosed before death (although there were certain circumstances where a diagnosis was fairly certain) and that it wasn't deadly. I hear references now to both diagnosis and death of Alzheimer's, so I'm assuming thinking has changed on this subject.

Anyway, to come back around to cheerier Oscar territory :D ... I remember seeing discussion of Still Alice now. It is definitely on my to-see list.

the academy always rewards a turn as a real person, especially if it's someone with a disability.

Ah, like they tend to vote for movies about movies! Looking at you, Birdman ... ;)

I agree that Redmayne was phenomenal. Talk about a tough role! But I still would have voted for Cumberbatch; his performance just floored me.

It's still a fun event and I look forward to it every year.

Me too. :) I don't put a whole lot of stock in who wins, but it's fun to debate the choices and then see who actually gets picked. And the months between the announcement of the nominees and the actual awards are some of the best, as there is a pretty good guarantee that there will be something good in theaters (even if we have to drive 45 minutes to Gettysburg to see it! :) November through February, I'm like a kid in a candy store movie-wise. Now we're entering the dry season, but I'm hoping that renting the ones I missed will make that more bearable.

[ignoblebard]

I agree about Alzheimers/Dementia. It robs a person of their personality, everything that makes us who we are. I think people don't die of Alzheimer's per se but of various complications.

LOL about Birdman. I liked that movie but I don't think I would have chosen it over The Imitation Game, and Cumberbatch would have won any other year.

That's what I like about the awards too, the pre-Oscar hype, seeing who and what is getting the buzz and how that fluctuates over the season, which movies sound like something I should seek out and which I can wait for on cable. We don't get a lot of the nominated movies here, especially the smaller independents, but a lot of times they'll play at the theaters after the Oscars and that makes the dry season more bearable.