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Nomination was eventually withdrawn.
Emily: To come clean, my nomination was more of an impulsive straw man nomination. Paul was talking about how a Flying Lotus song samples Return to Oz, so I said "why don't you nominate it?" I should have held my tongue, listening instead to my 7-year-old who declared Flying Lotus to be Nightmare Music. Being that the rules wouldn't let Paul nominate the movie, we did what any good power couple would do and flouted them. For that, I am sorry.
Additionally, holy hell those wheelies. I had forgotten them, and thanks to Jeff, they have come squeaking back into my consciousness. It definitely violates Ziemba Content Protocol or whatever it's called. There are enough terrible images from 2020 to sear into our children's minds; we need not add to them.
Lest we dare each other into voting for it, or risk Ranked Choice Sorcery somehow causing a Brexit-style calamity ahead of our Bad Movie Night, I hereby move to withdraw my poorly considered nomination.
Brain Trust response: Withdrawal accepted given that Return to Oz may violate The Fortnightly Film Society's Amalgamated and Consolidated Ziemba Protocols re: Suitability of Audiovisual Content for Viewing by Children™, but I would like to eulogize Emily's choice and to say that I probably would have picked it as my #1. I've never seen it and it looks like some truly weird shit. Also, although X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Batman & Robin are both camp classics (more than comic book movies), I applaud Return to Oz for being based not on some heavily corporatized Marvel or DC bologna but rather on the type of totally bananas early-to-mid-20th century pulp fantasy / sci-fi property that has arisen time and time again in the Fortnightly Film Society's august rosters of winners and nominees (see also John Carter, Flash Gordon, Barbarella, Dick Tracy, Valerian and Laurentine, James Bond, The Lone Ranger, The Phantom, The Shadow, and others). So, in conclusion, many bittersweet valedictions and hosannas of praise to a nomination that was too beautiful for this world. |
