Billy Bathsalt: jake3988: I saw an article a few days ago on Yahoo showing where every single best picture winner in history can be streamed (assuming it's available for streaming, a decent number aren't available anywhere.  Which is dumb.)

So... I decided to watch them.  I realize that technically I could have used justwatch to find them myself, but manually searching for 80+ movies on there would've taken forever.

First up...

It Happened One Night, 1934 (Tubi):A rich heiress in Miami wants to marry her love that her dad disapproves of, so she runs away, taking a bus to New York City.  On the bus, she meets Cary Grant and they share some moments and she ends up falling in love with him instead.  It's one of the few black and white movies that has a coherent plot and actually takes place in numerous sets and locations.  It's pretty decent.  (A side note that Spaceballs parodies the wedding scene and the setup of the movie.  And I'm guessing that John Hughes was also inspired by the movie when he made planes, trains, and automobiles as there's a number of similarities)

Next up:
Watching On The Waterfront on HBO MAX, but I'm only 1/3 of the way through it, so I'm finishing that up.  So far it's a boring slog, but hopefully it improves.

I also got a notification that Violent Night is on redbox now, so I'm probably grabbing that.  It looked pretty good from the trailers.  Thought about seeing it in theatres, but ultimately did not.

/And hopefully with all the nominations EEAAO drops back on redbox again so I can finally watch it.  I anticipate it'll win best picture, so may as well get that out of the way too.

Put Clark Gable on the bus with Claudette Colbert instead of Cary Grant.  Speaking of Cary Grant, I just watched Operation Petticoat because it was free on Youtube.  They paint their submarine pink because there isn't enough red or gray primer to do the whole boat.

yakmans_dad: Livingwith Bill Nighy. A fantastic movie. A reimagining of Kurosawa's Ikiru by Ishiguro. There's a, scene near the middle of the movie where the hero (Nighy) is breaking loose of his somber, straight-laced life by going out on a few nights of drinking. All of his cut-off emotions come out when he has a bar pianist play the Scottish ballad The Rowan Tree, and he sings along. You get around 10 seconds to marvel that Nighy could sing at all and then the performance seems to quit being a performance, and you're gone too. It could be that my reaction was augmented by the fact that Nighy and I are around the same age, but I can't remember many scenes  in the movies that are more affecting.

There doesn't seem to be a clip of Nighy singing on Youtube -- the song that's up is by a professional singer. And she's fine, but she isn't inthe song the way Nighy and the character are.

There's a structural detail of the movie that I wonder about. The two last scenes could be swapped in time and you wouldn't know, but the tone of the movie would turn 180 degrees depending upon the order in which they're played. I know that Ishiguro is a Catholic, and the order in which the scenes are displayed now gives the movie an unironic, hope-filled tone. Very much like a scene from the Gospels in which Jesus talks to a Roman soldier. Put the previous scene last and the movie becomes sour, ironic, and mocking. I can't remember another movie where that kind of change is possible. Again: without changing a single frame.