Posted on 02/25/2005 11:22:14 AM PST by jbemis
Blanchett gives probably the best performance of any kind in the last year. Scorsese is still one of the greatest living directors. If this is an indicator of this guy's taste, his opinion doesn't mean much.
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Agreed. Anybody that dismisses Scorsese's work out-of-hand like that is not very credible as a film critic.
Glad to see someone call it like it is.
Slamming all the other films nominated for Best Pic isn't the best argument for Gibson's film.
That being said, I won't be watching the Academy Awards again for the thousandth year in a row. They've become boring and repetitive and trite and predictable.
It wasn't too long ago that H'wood was promoting Der Bingle and Ingrid in "The Bells of St. Mary's" (and wasn't himself in St. Mary's JHS at the time?) and 'Duke' Wayne and Maureen O'Sullivan in a couple of other award-winning flicks.....and Barry Fitzgerald was the epitome of H'wood Irish-Catholicism for decades.
Eastwood was my anti-hero hero in the 'spaghetti westerns' and the 'Dirty Harry' flicks.
It must be the CA smog that makes guys like him decide that a Tonya Harding look-a-like film is worth making.
I haven't set foot in a movie theater in 20 years; (1) because there was nothing worth paying $10 to see and (2) nobody in charge seems to want to tell the a**holes that they're not watching TV and "keep your mouth shut."
I gambled on "Master and Commander" at the video store last year and since then I have rented it three times, read all 21 of Patrick O'Brian's novels and was blessed with the Collectors Edition DVD from my son for mybirthday last month.
Thank God the Sisters of Mercy taught me to love reading!!!!!
"Slamming all the other films nominated for Best Pic isn't the best argument for Gibson's film."
Agreed. "POTC" might've been an inspiring movie for religious movie goers, but watching a guy get beaten, bloodied, and stuck up on a cross for 2 hours isn't great cinema. I guess since I grew up Catholic, was an altar boy who helped with Stations of The Cross every Lent, and read the accounts of the Crucifiction literally, I just wasn't that in awe nor surprised or shocked by "POTC".
Guess after seeing The Passion, mobs ran out to destroy Jews. But Hollywood and the pundits would admit they were wrong if they recognized The Passion.
Do many consider The Passion to be entertainment?
So? It's their awards show. They can award it to anyone they want for any reason, good or bad. Witness the fact that they "honored" Michael Moore a couple of years ago for a very poorly made piece of hideous propoganda.
But it's still THEIR awards show.
Now don't get me wrong, I 100% agree with and applaud what this author wrote (I even agree with his reviews of the other films, down the line). What I disagree with is the unstated assumption that Hollywood ought to behave any differently. We get to criticize them, but we shouldn't expect them to change who they are.
Now, if we want to we can have our own awards show. We've had plenty of threads about "best picture" and other such categories (I liked the "best guy flick" the other day). But I bet there are FReepers out there who could actually organize an alternative film awards process that would represent the views of real people and not Hollywood robots.
So, any takers? Anybody think they have the organizing skills to get something like this off the ground?
I bet if we did it we could get the folks at the Liberty Film Festival interested in at least looking at what we come up with. Maybe an alternative to the Oscars (the Ronnys?) given 6 month's off cycle, around the 4th of July.
The last movie I enjoyed was Sixth Sense. That's about six years old now?
Well OK if all you saw was just 'a guy'.
They'll just settle for their stupid "Jesus is my homeboy" T-shirts and their red Kabbalah bracelets and Kabbalah water because religion to them is an accessory, like a new handbag or new yoga position.
I really don't care about "The Passion" getting accolades from Hollywood or not. They've (Hollywood) left their "containers" behind ages ago...
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