Posted on 02/24/2017 6:14:42 AM PST by jalisco555
The film that walks away with the Best Picture statue at Sunday’s Academy Awards will earn a place forever in the history books — but perhaps not on viewers’ screens.
The cream of the crop of Hollywood’s golden age gained immortality. They are rerun and ritually rewatched endlessly, and remain regular pop-culture presences. But nowadays it seems like the Best Picture winner shines for one week in February and then — much like former Knick Jeremy Lin — is mostly forgotten.
Anyone watched last year’s winner, “Spotlight,” lately? Plan on revisiting 2011’s “The Artist” every year?
It’s pretty clear that recent Best Picture winners probably won’t have the cultural longevity of past honorees, such as 1942’s “Casablanca,” 1939’s “Gone With the Wind” and 1965’s “The Sound of Music".
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Never been a big fan of spending my time watching millionaires and multi-millionaires slap each other on the back, tell each other what a great job they did and handing out trophies for it. Not to mention the now obligatory lefty political rants insulting the right......No thanks.
Having said all that, I thought “Come hell or high water” was a good flick though. lol
They overlooked the Hobbit trilogy several years ago after giving a Best Picture Oscar to the third installment of The Lord of the Rings, over a decade ago. Those are quality films the will live forever on cable.
Gladiator was historically ridiculous but immensely entertaining. I rewatch it from time to time. What recent winner can you say that about?
Birdman Interesting, eccentric, funny. But a Best Picture?
Spotlight. Still haven't seen it.
Some recent flicks that should have won Best Picture:
The Fighter
American Sniper
to name two...
Come Hell or High Water was great, Jeff Bridges particularly so. Would love to see him win an award, but they're going to give it to the Black muslim who played a kind-hearted drug dealer (is there any other kind?!). It's a make-up call for no black nominees last year...
I barely made it through the Hobbit films. I probably would have loved them if they'd simply followed the book, but by padding the story into three films in an attempt to make The Hobbit as epic as Lord of the Rings they lost me. All they did was add endless Orc battles to each film. I think if they edited the films down to 1 or 2 films they'd have something. To me they were yawners. I can't imagine what the "extended editions" must be like.
Loved the LOTR trilogy, though. A bit of padding there, too (notably in The Two Towers), but over-all, quite well done.
I like Birdman a lot, and I watch it when it is on, but I can see how it’s not going to have universal appeal. Before that one I have to go back a decade to find another one I really liked in No Country for Old Men (big Coen brothers fan). That wasn’t commercially successful either. Maybe The Departed was the last to appeal to consumers and critics alike?
David Muir and ABC were full of FakeNews last evening trying to hype up the Academy Awards show, which will be on.... ABC (Who knew?!?)
The battle scene in the first ten minutes is incredible. But it was never explained why Maximus had an Aussie accent... Nor how he could ride a horse from Germany to Spain in just a couple of days...
Who is Oscar and why should I care?
Maybe it’s true that the best talent has migrated to television with it’s ability to tell a story in long-form.
It is for “best of the year”. Some years that could mean the one that sucked the least. It does not necessarily imply a good movie or memorable performance. The Oscar has almost become a participation trophy.
The Oscars are as phony as Hillary’s polling numbers were, the results are rigged and have nothing to do with artistic merit...
The actual show itself is like the Special Olympics for extreme narcissists...the big difference being the Hollywood set would have advised and supported the abortion of the Special Olympians, God’s innocent children...
The Academy should go back to five nominations for best tim. With 10 nominations, a nomination is no longer a big deal.
2010 - King’s Speech - worth watching (but True Grit should have won, and Black Swan was also better than the winner)
2011 - The Artist - clever (Hugo and Moneyball were better)
2012 - Argo - not worth watching (Life of Pi and Lincoln were each far better, the problem with Lincoln is that it is difficult to distinguish Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance from the movie, and the history is more wrong than is allowed by artistic license)
2013 - Birdman - haven’t seen it (American Sniper is a wonderful movie)
2014 - Spotlight - haven’t seen it
COMMON THEME of winners: self-absorbed Holleywierd. Better films often lose to worse. Pro-America films can’t win.
It was predictable that American Sniper, despite being commercially and artistically successful, couldn’t be permitted to win.
Its the technicians and cameramen that do all the work to make those pictures. They are the only ones who should be recognized. Actors..just read what ever is put in front of them.
I never heard of half or more of the nominees. They seem to come from a select group of movies circulated only among select people.
That’s actually pretty standard. Yes you can cherry pick a few BP winners from the past that remained popular/ relevant for a long time. But for the most part they fade into obscurity like everything else. Kind of like NFL drafts, you really don’t know for 4 or 5 years who was really good. And of course these days they have the problem of sheer volume, with 4 major releases a week and usually 4 arthouse release a week that’s 400 movies a year, it’s really hard to stay relevant through that much noise.
The only ‘films’ of any merit (and that's debatable) that Hollywood creates are designed to impress each other - - to win awards and prizes.
Kind of like newspapers have taken to covering the news for the benefit of the guy sitting one desk over in the newsroom... and for ‘prizes’... That's why their product's crap - garbage. So-called ‘elites’ have become insensitive, self-absorbed assh*les. (Note: the only ‘prize’ worth winning is the respect and trust of your readers and audience - get a clue guys) It's embarrassing.
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