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AFFotD’s 2024 Oscar Guide – All the Other Categories That Aren’t Best Picture or an Acting Category

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

“No we will not watch all the short live action films.”

~Our Exhausted Staff

We’ve done the work of watching every film nominated for Best Film as well as the additional movies from 2024 with nominations for the Acting Categories, and we spent a good 7,000 words doing so. That’s why, for our staff’s sanity, we’ll not be doing a nomination-by-nomination breakdown for the rest of the Oscars to be awarded this Sunday.

Instead, we’ll highlight our predictions, while offering some thoughts if we have something to say about any particular nominated film in any category.

Some of these will just be a name and a film, and our staff thanks the editors for giving them that rest.

AFFotD’s Academy Award Predictions

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AFFotD’s 2023 Oscar Guide – Best Acting Categories

Posted on March 7, 2024 | Leave a comment

“Why do you make us watch ALL of these movies? We’re pretty sure the Academy members don’t even do that.”

~AFFotD’s staff

After watching all ten Best Picture nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards and ranking them accordingly, we’ve continued our sicko tradition of watching all the Oscar-nominated films and giving our predictions.

We’ll soon go into all the other categories with a little less “explaining the movie” sections, but for now, having seen all the nominees for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, let’s dive right into our next set of predictions.

Who Should (and Probably Will) Win in the Academy Award Acting Categories

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AFFotD’s 2024 Oscar Guide – Best Picture

Posted on March 1, 2024 | 1 comment

“Oh God, we’re doing this again?”

~The Entire AFFotD Staff

Last year, our staff made the decision to do write ups-on the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, Best Actors, Best Actresses, and all the rest. Our results? We were pretty accurate actually!

And we put more work into our predictions than, hmm, some multi-million dollar entities that decided to rely on AI. And we’re not gonna take our foot off the gas. Here’s our rundown of the ten Best Picture nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards.

The Official AFFotD Guide to the 2024 Academy Awards (Best Pictures)

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If Variety Can Cheat and Use AI to Write Their Articles So Can We

Posted on February 23, 2024 | 1 comment

“Ugh. Jesus. Well at least we’re literally the last website on the internet to write a hot take on Artificial Intelligence”

~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt

Yes, we used AI to make this image. The prompt was “rich venture capitalist using Artificial Intelligence software to write a bad article –ar 16:9”

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from our staff (our staff holiday party was a booze cruise for Octoberfest that ended up leading to an almost note-for-note Triangle of Sadness situation. Only for us, the rich were okay, and the interns…well we don’t have interns anymore).

Speaking of Academy Award nominated films, friends of the site know we get weird about award season. We gave our predictions for every single major category for the 2023 Oscars (and were surprisingly accurate) and we went through 40 years of cinema to re-distribute Best Picture Oscar winners.

These articles took work. Like, enough work for you to rightfully be concerned about the mental state of our writers. And they received hundreds, maybe even thousands of views, and brought in roughly $3.52 of revenue.

You know who has more than $3.52, a larger staff, and decided to fuck off and do their Oscar preview not with 14,000 words that took 20 hours to create, but with an entirely AI-created article with 15 minutes of edits that is immediately recognizable as being pushed through ChatGPT?

Variety.

Let’s Talk About Variety’s Embarrassing AI-Written Oscar Feature

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A Sicko’s Rundown of Every Show in the Walking Dead Universe

Posted on September 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

“You’re letting me out? .I’m free? I’m FREE? Wait…wh…what is this for? OH GOD WHAT IS THIS FOR!?”

~[Redacted]

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve last heard from [Redacted] so we’ll give you some backstory if you might not recall him. After we sent one of our finest investigative reporters out to eat at a Vegan restaurant, things went a bit sideways. To save his family the shame of doing such a thing as eating a meal in America without meat, we buried his identity, kept him in a locked broom closet, and forced him to review the worst shit imaginable for us.

A 1980s rap video with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, a Rodney Danger rap video, a rap video about recycling. These were his only moments outside of the stuffy darkness. But it wasn’t all just bad white-person old-school rap. Hell, we even made him write a Buzzfeed article back when Buzzfeed was a thing that people actually read. Haha, holy shit, remember Buzzfeed? Back then ChatGPT was just called “unpaid interns” and the end result was about the same.

But anyway. Long story short, we totally forgot we hadn’t let him out since 2014. Then during one of our holiday parties (we believe it was for the anniversary of the release of Rocky IV) we accidentally bumped into our broom closet, freeing [Redacted] who somehow had stayed alive thanks to a leak in the ceiling and the 30 years of prepper-grade rations we always keep in every single closet in our compound.

So we put him to work.

We asked him what he wanted to write about, as a way of apologizing for his decade of solitude, and he said, “Well I left off on the hit AMC show, The Walking Dead, shortly before my last assignment. The first season was great, the second was a little slow, but it seemed to be gaining steam. How about I write about that.”

Oh [Redacted]. You sweet, cursed soul.

[REDACTED] Reviews the Entire Walking Dead, God Bless Him.

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Let’s Review the Wikipedia Page Describing the 2019 Logan Paul Film, Airplane Mode

Posted on July 7, 2023 | Leave a comment

“Haha, no I think legally it would be a crime if I forced any of you to watch this movie in order to write this review.”

~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt, During a Weekly Staff Meeting

We take our role as arbiters of culture very seriously here within the walls of America Fun Fact of the Day. We’ve literally spent 60,000 words talking about Ted Lasso, which increasingly has led to people thinking we’re going dad-core or something, but goddamn it, we still have our finger on the pulse of culture!

So with that, we are going to tell you a movie you have no excuse knowing about. Hell, we have no excuse knowing about it.

This movie was in theaters for exactly one week in a limited release in the year 2019. We honestly do not know if it made a single dollar, as there literally is zero box office information regarding this film. It has a user rating of 1.9 out of 10 on imdb.com, and the only professional review it received basically says, “We, as a society, deserve this.”

We’re not going to review the Logan and Jake Paul “surreal influencer action comedy” that is Airplane Mode. Because that would involve watching that.

Instead, go on a journey with us as we break down the Wikipedia page describing the plot. Trust us…it’s a fucking ride.

We Summarize 2019’s Airplane Mode based off a summary of 2019’s Airplane Mode

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The Definitive Ranking of Every Ted Lasso Character (Season 3)

Posted on June 12, 2023 | 1 comment

“Be Curious. Not Judgmental.”

~Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso, the little show that could (win 11 Emmys), aired its (theoretically) final episode recently. You know the show. You have at least one friend who is like all of our staff members who will gladly talk to you about it without warning, most likely leading to a long, unwelcome conversation.

It’s the story of a college football coach brought over to England to coach a team owned by a spurned ex-wife who hires him to tank her former husband’s favorite team.

What ensues is a heartwarming ensemble sports show that also deals with heavy topics like mental health, divorce, and self-harm. It also is, by far, the most popular Apple TV+ intellectual property. It has a devoted fan base, hundreds of accolades, and is so great that even though it was planned to end after the third season, they won’t rule out a spinoff.

We love it.

For the past two years, we’ve done the aggressive work of ranking every. Single. Character. If they had a name? They got an entry!

We wrote about 61 characters who had a named role in Season 1. By Season 2, that number blew up to 121.

According to the Ted Lasso wiki page, by Season 3 we got up to over 300 characters.

Politely? Fuck that.

We’re changing the rules for this final entry to this series, which might diminish the impact of how different certain characters’ rankings are compared to last year, but no one reading this wants to deal with 20,000 words mostly filled with entries that simply read, “Oh, this is Amy, she was Jamie’s partner in the reality TV series he did at the start of Season 2.”

You don’t want to hear that! You want to see where we ranked Nate now! His journey has been a roller coaster!

So instead of ranking every character who has a line or a name, we’ll start with an honorary “you were on the show good for you” list before ranking characters who have actual impact on the show. This should save you all about 20 extra minutes of reading, so you’re welcome.

Every Ted Lasso Character, Ranked (Season 3)

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Every Comic Actor in the Star Wars Universe

Posted on March 28, 2023 | Leave a comment

“Haha holy shit, this involved a lot more research than I assumed it would need.”

~AffotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt

Listen, we’re not new the the concept of writing very unnecessary Star Wars articles that require a lot of research that doesn’t have a real audience. Do you, the reader, really care how many Academy Award nominees have been in Star Wars movies? Of course not. But we still wrote 4,500 words on that topic.

Since that article, the Star Wars universe has expanded greatly, after Disney bought the rights for Disney for $4 billion (if you want to get a sense on how much money doesn’t matter, that is 1/10 of the price that it cost to purchase Twitter, a product that has never made money, while the movies made since the acquisition alone has grossed $5.5 billion in the box office).

Anyway, with all the TV shows and new movies that have come out, we’ve noticed something. There are multiple generations that grew up with the dream of being a part of the Star Wars universe. And there seems to be one way to increase your chances to find yourself cast in a galaxy far, far away.

You have to be a comedian.

Or at least a comedic actor. We went through all of the Star Wars properties, and compiled every actor that we’d deem “a comic actor” who has played a character in that universe. Now, the definition of a comic actor is purely subjective, so we likely missed some people who you might believe should be on this list, while including people you might not view as comic. We don’t care, there’s no ranking, we’re just listing people, and 90% of you will (rightfully) just skim through this. And you should! Spoiler alert, this is going to be longgggggg.

Anyway, here are come funny folks who can officially say they have a Wookipedia entry.

Apparently the Easiest Way to Get a Star Wars Role Is to Be a Comedy Actor

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Best Batman Performances, Ranked

Posted on March 17, 2023 | 1 comment

“There is no way anyone is going to be completely happy with this list. In fact many will be livid. Let’s run it.”

~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt

There’s a new entry to the Batman franchise, which is about as evergreen of a statement that has ever existed. Batman franchises replicate faster than Tribbles. We’d make a “Being a Batman franchise is like being one of Nick Cannon’s children” joke but we are not hacks, dammit. We have standards.

Batman is basically the pop culture equivalent of bunnies. Their parents always die.

The latest installment that we don’t really need from a franchise that has about a 50% success rate in their attempts to revive the caped crusader is a CW show called Gotham Knights, which premiered March 14th of this year. Not only is it very bad, it has so many baffling ideas behind it we can’t wrap our head around it.

While there is a popular video game of the same name, that game essentially has you playing characters like Robin, Nightwing, Red Hood and Batgirl in a world reeling from the death of Batman. Gotham Knights the TV series also starts with the death of Batman, but instead follows a random group of teen thieves and the adopted son of Bruce Wayne. We are of course talking about…Turner Hayes????(????)

What? Yes that’s right, they made up a completely new character, who doesn’t even know Bruce Wayne was Batman until his death. There is no Alfred. There is no Jim Gordon. Harvey Dent, played by Supernatural‘s Mischa Collins, basically should be named Gordon, as his role is “boss cop”, but no. (Collins is arguably the only good thing in the show, to be fair. There is a Robin, but she’s a random high school girl that met Batman once before he started training her, again without his son knowing. She is introduced with the line, “Wait, aren’t you in my Trig class?”

Ughhhh.

It’s basically Riverdale, but Batman. The writing is bad, the acting is wooden, and it likely won’t get a second season.

But it got us thinking. A lot of people have played Batman over the years. So why not create a subjective list that’ll get Batman fans upset? Sweet! Let’s rank the best Batmans!

AFFotD Determines, Definitively, Once and For All, Who Is the Best Batman

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How Did We Do? AFFotD’s 2023 Academy Awards Rundown

Posted on March 14, 2023 | 2 comments

“…Honestly, better than we should have done.”

~AFFotD’s Film Critic Staff

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Last week, we wrote our Academy Award guide for the Best Picture nominees, listing what each film was about, who should win, and who will win. Yes, we saw every nominated Best Picture film (as well as Best Actress, Actor, Supporting Actress, and Supporting Actress films) because we are deeply unwell.

Then we took a long, long collective nap. We woke up, and the Oscars were airing in two hours. So we rushed together a half-assed rundown where we provided our predictions for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, and a final one where we rushed through the rest of the categories with very little thought or intention.

How did we do? Not bad! We were right on 15 of the awards given, and a few of those were ones we indicated were potential winners, and like four of them were in categories we had not seen a single entry too (we may be movie weirdos but we’re not watching all the Short Live Action nominees, come on, are you kidding us?).

So we might as well do a rundown of a historic night at the Academy Awards, and go through where we nailed it, and where we done goofed.