Dan Laustsen Puns

Rotten Tomatoes: 83% (7.00 in average rating) with 6 top critic reviews

Metacritic: 71/100 (11 critics)

As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie.

> A gorgeous, fantastically sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature and the way entire systems — from carnies and con men to shrinks and Sunday preachers — are engineered to exploit it.

-Peter Debruge, Variety

> Stunningly-detailed, with an A-list cast up and down the line, it’s a gorgeous and gloomy dip into the dark side, immersive and bleak from start to finish.

-Roger Moore, Movie Nation: 3.5/4

> With a semi-playful nod to the 1945 film Detour and more than a few rain-drenched streets, Nightmare Alley pays tribute to noir. But it’s also its own dark snow globe, luminous and finely faceted, and one of del Toro’s most fluent features.

-Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

> This sordid excavation into the hollowness of a human soul is a strange fit for a director who’s spent his career searching for magic in the darkest margins of our world, but del Toro’s natural empathy for even the most damnable creatures he finds there sparks new life into “Nightmare Alley” as it narrows towards its inevitable dead end.

-David Ehrlich, Indiewire: Grade B

> The period details are impeccable, the look and feel are seductive, but the muddled script lacks the killer instinct of its central figures.

-Tim Grierson, Screen Daily

> From a rain-soaked carnival midway to a glossy, Art Deco therapist’s office, everything in Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley looks gorgeous. There just doesn’t seem to be a lot going on under the art direction.

-Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

BEST PICTURE

• Licorice Pizza*
• Being the Ricardos
• Belfast
• Don't Look Up
• Dune
• King Richard
• Licorice Pizza
• The Power of the Dog
• tick, tick... Boom!
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR

• Steven Spielberg - West Side Story*
• Denis Villeneuve - Dune
• Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
• Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
• Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST ACTOR

• Will Smith - King Richard*
• Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
• Leonardo DiCaprio - Don't Look Up
• Andrew Garfield - tick, tick... Boom!
• Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST ACTRESS

• Rachel Ziegler - West Side Story*
• Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
• Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
• Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
• Kristen Stewart - Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Ciarán Hinds - Belfast*
• Mike Faist - West Side Story
• Jared Leto - House of Gucci
• J. K. Simmons - Being the Ricardos
• Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Kathryn Hunter - The Tragedy of Macbeth*
• Caitríona Balfe - Belfast
• Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
• Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
• Aujanue Ellis - King Richard

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson*
• Being the Ricardos - Aaron Sorkin
• Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
• Don't Look Up - Adam McKay/David Sirola
• King Richard - Zach Baylin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion*
• CODA - Sian Heder
• The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal
• The Tragedy of Macbeth - Joel Coen
• West Side Story - Tony Kushner

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• Encanto*
• Belle
• Flee
• Luca
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

• The Worst Person in the World (Norway)*
• Compartment No. 6 (Finland)
• Drive My Car (Japan)
• Flee (Denmark)
• A Hero (Iran)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• The Rescue*
• Ascension
• The First Wave
• Flee
• Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Dune - Hans Zimmer*
• The French Dispatch - Alexandre Desplat
• The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood
• Spencer - Jonny Greenwood
• The Tragedy of Macbeth - Carter Burwell

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• "Be Alive" - King Richard*
• "Colombia, Mi Encanto"

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

Rotten Tomatoes: 69% (6.60 in average rating) with 13 top critic reviews

Metacritic: 69/100 (8 critics)

As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie.

> A gorgeous, fantastically sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature and the way entire systems — from carnies and con men to shrinks and Sunday preachers — are engineered to exploit it.

-Peter Debruge, Variety

> Stunningly-detailed, with an A-list cast up and down the line, it’s a gorgeous and gloomy dip into the dark side, immersive and bleak from start to finish.

-Roger Moore, Movie Nation: 3.5/4

> With a semi-playful nod to the 1945 film Detour and more than a few rain-drenched streets, Nightmare Alley pays tribute to noir. But it’s also its own dark snow globe, luminous and finely faceted, and one of del Toro’s most fluent features.

-Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

> This sordid excavation into the hollowness of a human soul is a strange fit for a director who’s spent his career searching for magic in the darkest margins of our world, but del Toro’s natural empathy for even the most damnable creatures he finds there sparks new life into “Nightmare Alley” as it narrows towards its inevitable dead end.

-David Ehrlich, Indiewire: Grade B

> The period details are impeccable, the look and feel are seductive, but the muddled script lacks the killer instinct of its central figures.

-Tim Grierson, Screen Daily

> From a rain-soaked carnival midway to a glossy, Art Deco therapist’s office, everything in Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley looks gorgeous. There just doesn’t seem to be a lot going on under the art direction.

-Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

Best Picture

Belfast

Don’t Look Up

Dune

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Nightmare Alley

The Power of the Dog

Tick, Tick...Boom!

The Tragedy of Macbeth

West Side Story

Alternates-

Being the Ricardos

C’mon C’mon

CODA

Cyrano

The French Dispatch

A Hero

House of Gucci

The Lost Daughter

Passing

Spencer

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Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Alternate-

Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Guillermo del Toro (Nightmare Alley)

Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard)

Pablo Lorraine (Spencer)

Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up)

———————————————————

Best Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up)

Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick...Boom!)

Will Smith (King Richard)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Alternates-

Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)

Bradley Cooper (Nightmare Alley)

Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)

Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)

Joaquin Phoenix (C’mon, C’mon)

———————————————————

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)

Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

Alternates-

Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

Jodie Comer (The Last Duel)

Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

Frances McDormand (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

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Best Supporting Actor

Jamie Dornan (Belfast)

Mike Faist (West Side Story)

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Jared Leto (House of Gucci)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Alternates-

David Alvarez (West Side Story)

Jon Bernthal (King Richard)

Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)

Robin de Jesus (Tick, Tick...Boom!)

Mark Rylance (Don’t Look Up)

———————————————————

Best Supporting Actress

Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Meryl Streep (Don’t Look Up)

Alternates-

Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)

Judi Dench (Belfast)

Marlee Matlin (CODA)

Rita Moreno (West Side Story)

Ruth Negga (Passing)

———————————————————

Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Zach Baylin (King Richard)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Adam McKay and David Sirota (Don’t Look Up)

Mike Mills (C’mon, C’mon)

Alternates-

Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinne

Best Picture

Belfast

Don’t Look Up

Dune

The French Dispatch

The Last Duel

Nightmare Alley

The Power of the Dog

Soggy Bottom

The Tragedy of Macbeth

West Side Story

Alternates-

C’mon, C’mon

CODA

House of Gucci

Eternals

The Humans

Last Night in Soho

Parallel Mothers

Red Rocket

Spencer

Tick, Tick...Boom!

———————————————————

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Guillermo del Toro (Nightmare Alley)

Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Alternate-

Paul Thomas Anderson (Soggy Bottom)

Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch)

Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Ridley Scott (The Last Duel)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

———————————————————

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper (Nightmare Alley)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up)

Will Smith (King Richard)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Alternates-

Matt Damon (The Last Duel)

Adam Driver (House of Gucci)

Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick...Boom!)

Joaquin Phoenix (C’mon, C’mon)

Simon Rex (Red Rocket)

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Best Actress

Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)

Jodie Comer (The Last Duel)

Jennifer Hudson (Respect)

Frances McDormand (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Alternates-

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)

Jennifer Lawrence (Don’t Look Up)

Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

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Best Supporting Actor

Adam Driver (The Last Duel)

Corey Hawkins (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Jason Isaacs (Mass)

Richard Jenkins (The Humans)

Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

Alternates-

David Alvarez (West Side Story)

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Jared Leto (House of Gucci)

Al Pacino (House of Gucci)

Mark Rylance (Don’t Look Up)

———————————————————

Best Supporting Actress

Judi Dench (Belfast)

Ann Dowd (Mass)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans)

Meryl Streep (Don’t Look Up)

Alternates-

Toni Collette (Nightmare Alley)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Marlee Matlin (CODA)

Olga Merediz (In the Heights)

Anya Taylor-Joy (Last Night in Soho)

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Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson (Soggy Bottom)

Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman (The French Dispatch)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Adam McKay and David Sirota (Don’t Look Up)

Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Ca

Best Picture

Belfast

Don’t Look Up

The Humans

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Nightmare Alley

The Power of the Dog

Spencer

The Tragedy of Macbeth

West Side Story

Alternates-

Being the Ricardos

C’mon, C’mon

Cyrano

Dune

Eternals

The French Dispatch

House of Gucci

The Last Duel

The Lost Daughter

Tick, Tick...Boom!

———————————————————

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Guillermo del Toro (Nightmare Alley)

Pablo Lorraine (Spencer)

Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up)

Alternate-

Pedro Almodóvar (Parallel Mothers)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

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Best Actor

Bradley Cooper (Nightmare Alley)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up)

Will Smith (King Richard)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Alternates-

Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)

Adam Driver (House of Gucci)

Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick...Boom!)

Oscar Isaac (The Card Counter)

Joaquin Phoenix (C’mon, C’mon)

———————————————————

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

Jennifer Hudson (Respect)

Frances McDormand (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Alternates-

Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)

Jennifer Lawrence (Don’t Look Up)

Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

———————————————————

Best Supporting Actor

Jamie Dornan (Belfast)

Corey Hawkins (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Richard Jenkins (The Humans)

Jared Leto (House of Gucci)

Mark Rylance (Don’t Look Up)

Alternates-

David Alvarez (West Side Story)

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Jason Isaacs (Mass)

Al Pacino (House of Gucci)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

———————————————————

Best Supporting Actress

Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans)

Meryl Streep (Don’t Look Up)

Alternates-

Jodie Comer (The Last Duel)

Judi Dench (Belfast)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Ann Dowd (Mass)

Marlee Matlin (CODA)

———————————————————

Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman (The French Dispatch)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Steven Knight (Spencer)

Adam McKay and David Sirota (Don’t Look Up)

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