this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
2 points (75.0% liked)

Movies

12666 readers
36 users here now

Lemmy

Welcome to Movies, a community for discussing movies, film news, box office, and more! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about movies and movie related things. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!


Related Communities:

!books@lemmy.world - Discussing books and book-related things.

!comicbooks@lemmy.world - A place to discuss comic books of all types.

!marvelstudios@lemmy.world - LW's home for all things MCU.


While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

  1. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.

  2. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.

  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed

  4. Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.

    Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.

    Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

If Ethan Hawk doesn't win best actor for his performance in Blue Moon, I'm giving up on love and everything holy. Here's why.

This was a humiliating and triumphant portrayal of a man who history would never point to as defining in any way. But this kind of man is integral to out way of being. Further, he is completely benign—he hurts no one in his wake of love and understanding.

Mr.Hawk had nothing to gain by portraying himself in this manner. Other than being spectacularly written, this is not an attractive role, it exposes a darkness and ability to inhabit such. It is a life-goal type role, one which an actor would only accept after a lifetime of success. It is a swan song.

Best actor, as an Oscar, has always gone to the wealthier player, the guy who has shown his nuts, his talent, over years—not for a few pictures. It is an achievement award, not a decision abou who did the best job this one time (which is the best actress award).

We must give this year's award to the m I st skilled, most dedicated, and consistent actor who has shown over time, over countless ugly years, they are a true 'best actor'. Given the opportunity ti accept and portray such an inauspicious charachter—almost every line, for countless bars...please.

Please.

no comments (yet)
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
there doesn't seem to be anything here