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Frances McDormand absolutely killed it at the Oscars last night, winning her third Oscars award for her performance in Nomadland. Everyone tuning in on Twitter was not only impressed by her performance and three Oscars, but also due to her super lowkey appearance and hilariously quirky energy at Oscars 2021. She looked confident AF wearing zero makeup in a simple black dress, essentially barking to the rooftops after winning her Oscar. In her speech, she also gave a shoutout to movie theaters, and how we must revive them after what the owners have endured in the past year. Scroll down for the best tweets celebrating Frances McDormand from the past year. 

Award shows are always unpredictable, but now that the world is completely flipped upside down, there's an additional fun layer of 'What the hell is going on?' at every televised event. Still, for many of us, it's an evening we can all take to pretend things are almost back to normal, and find comfort in all of the mishaps and uncomfortable speeches that consistently take place. This year there were no falls on the red carpet, or awards that had to be revoked. But there were definitely a lot of other things to comment on. Twitter thankfully covered all the bases very quickly.

Everything always looks better in the movies. Women have naturally blown-out hair, flawless skin, and super cool professions that they're crazy passionate about. In the media world, there's never a dull day at work, which we all know couldn't be farther from the truth. A Reddit user started a thread about what media gets wrong about people's jobs, and the women of Reddit really pulled through on this one. Scroll down to find out if everything you've been seeing in the movies has been one big lie. 

Simply put, Legally Blonde is, and will forever be, iconic. But we all knew that. What you might not have already known is that it's been exactly 20 years since it was released! It's now becoming clearer than ever that this movie was seriously ahead of its time. A female protagonist who seeks further education whilst consistently sticking to who she is. She changed for no man! It's basically the opposite storyline as Sandra Dee's in Grease. Sorry, but it's true.

Before you rewatch Legally Blonde for the 50th time, let's enjoy these spot-on tweets.

There are a lot of amazing actors out there, some of them, however, have one very successful role and that becomes all that they are recognized for cough cough, Ferris Bueller, cough cough. There are other movie stars that are able to completely transform themselves into every role that comes their way, sometimes to the point that you forget who the actor even was in the first place.

The newest way to explain how some actors just 'get it,' is by tweeting some of their famous roles and saying, 'They UNDERSTOOD the assignment.' It might not make sense to you now, but, rest assured, after you see a couple of these, it'll start to make sense.

In the last couple of years, 'Netflix and Chill' has become a staple in our internet meme vernacular. In case you're from another planet and need to gain more insight into Earth's strange culture, 'Netflix and Chill' is actually code for going over to someone's house and hooking up while a mediocre film plays in the background. So for those of you that were looking forward to watching a film, sorry in advance. Make plans for another night. People on Twitter have been bringing back the phrase in their own quirky ways, and we're so here for it. Scroll down to get a gist of what we mean. 

It's no secret that nerds have been taking the world by storm. After all, where TF would we be without Steve Jobs and his crazy innovative contributions to the world?! Probably sending nude photographs via snail mail or something along those lines - ain't nobody got time for that! I'd take brains over brawns any day - not to mention the money comes along with all the genius ideas going on in their nerd heads. I'm not a gold digger, but I'm also not not a gold digger either. The sexy nerd isn't a new phenomenon. They've been blossoming in pop culture for the past couple of decades. Even though these characters don't really exist, we haven't stopped thinking about them since we first saw them on-screen. We've compiled a list of the sexiest fictional nerds of all time for your viewing pleasure below. 

Romantic comedies are classics. Even though they all seem to have the same plot, they're still our guilty pleasure and we can't help coming back for more. Whether it be the generic plot or the extremely unrealistic events in the movie, the genre is very easy to make fun of. Another thing we love doing when it comes to this genre is yearning for the rom-com lifestyle when our lives are unfortunately anything but. The rom-com comes up on Twitter plenty, and naturally, we documented the best tweets about rom-coms from this week. Scroll down to check 'em out. 

With Valentine's day recently out of the way, we've now entered the yearly 8-month limbo before Halloween. The Valloween Lull, as it is popularly called by absolutely no one, is a difficult time during which we languish with neither romance nor terror to stimulate us. So to tide you over, let's talk about a uniquely Valloween-appropriate phenomenon: sex in horror movies. It's a well-documented trope that having sex in a horror film is a surefire way to get killed, especially if you're a woman...unlike in real life, where women NEVER get backlash for their sexual choices. So, gentle reader, grab some tea and a cozy blanket, and let's have look at the sexiest sex scenes just before the murderiest murder scenes on film!

Sometimes it can be so difficult to watch movies with the most unrealistic plot-lines and characters. But it also can be really hilarious as well. Like how do these directors think we are buying these ideas? It can become so predictable, maybe they know though that we secretly crave a little predictability in our films, especially these days when everything else in the world is an utter mess. These Twitter users completely matched the absurdity of these films in their tweets.

The 2021 Golden Globes was definitely an award show to remember. There was a delicate combination of awkward celeb cameos, lagging videos, and a whole lot of people just looking straight up miserable as they continuously forget they are on camera. The Golden Globes was actually very relfective of the current time. At least they tried though, and we still have these delicious tweets to enjoy for the next few days. Enjoy!

When we're feeling down, there's nothing like a good romantic comedy to give us those warm fuzzies. At least, up until the credits roll and we see our sad selves reflected in the dark screen covered in chocolate ice cream stains with no one to love but the neighbor's cat! Am I right ladies??

….Ladies?

Ahem...well anyway, have you ever thought about how screwed the economy would be if women in real life were all bakery-owners or journalists like they all are in rom-coms? Did screenwriters just learn about like three career options and then drop out of school or something? A lot of the time the jobs don't even seem to fit the characters. So let's think...what would make more sense for these women? Read on...

We all know the Hallmark Christmas movie standard plot: big city girl tryna have it all has to go live in a small town right before Christmas, learns from the small-town folks to be happy with a simple life, falls in love with a down-to-earth local guy, and celebrates Christmas the way the Founding Fathers intended. By the end, she leaves her heathen, er, I mean, big-city life behind to stay in her new home for good. And it's great! Sometimes she goes somewhere besides a small town, but always somewhere outside her comfort zone where she can act lovably clueless so that her beau-of-the-people can roll his eyes and show her the RIGHT way to churn butter or whatever they do out there.

Sadly, as these ladies get humbled, so do their outfits. So let's take a look at how they look before they learn the true meaning of Christmas, and try to answer the age-old question: is happiness worth the boring clothes?

Hollywood has done us a disservice in the way they dramatize romance. Life isn't full of cute random men declaring their love for us or dancing in the street singing their hearts out about how they can't live without us. Alas, if only real life were a romantic comedy. But did you ever stop to think about just how messed up some of the things that Hollywood portrays as 'romantic' in movies are? If half of those things happened in real life—I'm talking about stopping weddings, breaking into people's houses to leave flowers, and casual stalking— then they would be creepy AF and probably lead to arrests. Here are some of the things that are romantic in movies but creepy in real life.

Back in the not-so-distant-past when movie theatres were open, there was nothing better than going to your local cinema with your gal pals on a Saturday night, armed with snacks to watch the latest rom-com. A big bucket of sweet and salty popcorn and two hours of Matthew McConaughey? Yes, please! But one thing that never failed to enhance our cinematic experience was the thrill of sneaking real food into the movie theatre and getting away with it. Whether it was a slice of pizza in our purse or a burrito up our sleeve, everything tasted better when we knew we'd snuck it past security. Twitter user @LocalSoundwave asked people to share the foods they've snuck into movie theatres, and the responses reveal just how daring people are. Oh, the guilty thrills of doing something wrong!

Disney and Pixar movies are notorious for having those naughty one-liners that totally go over children's heads and are aimed at adults instead. Those jokes that you look back on as an adult and wonder how on earth they made their way into a children's show. The ones that would destroy a child's innocence if they genuinely understood the innuendos that were slipped in (see what I did there?) between the lines. A Reddit thread asked people for the best sexual innuendos from a movie or television show they were blissfully unaware of as children, and the results will evoke horror, as you realize that all your childhood favorite movies are ruined forever.