Posted on 02/25/2008 12:20:00 PM PST by Caleb1411
I'm didn't watch the Oscars. Normally I do. But I've spent enough time and money on the most depressing, dark and disturbed lineup of movies I ever can remember. I don't need to see them get rewarded.
Am I the only one who remembers when they actually gave Oscars to movies that had happy endings? There's not one happy ending in this lot unless you consider an unplanned teenage pregnancy resulting in someone else's adoption a happy ending. That's the big payoff in "Juno."
Otherwise, you have "There Will Be Blood," in which a tyrannical oil baron destroys everyone and everything around him; "No Country For Old Men," in which a serial killer destroys everything and everyone around him; "Michael Clayton," in which greed gets nearly everyone killed; and "Atonement," in which a false accusation ruins the lives of all involved.
Um. Remind me again.
Why do we go to the movies?
THERE'S NO DEBATE HERE
Now, I'm not a Pollyanna. I enjoy films. I collect them. And I understand that not every story ends with music swirling and heroes walking off into a sunset.
But lately there's this sense that unless a movie is dark, violent and hopeless, it can't be "real." It can't be "art." It can't truly "matter." I put these words in quotes because it feels as if critics and awards committees define things that way.
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>>If you want to see some really interesting acting, rent The Notebook. Two old pros just kicking the crap out of young pretty actors. Basically stealing the movie.<<
That was the LONGEST movie I’ve ever watched. I love James Garner and James Marsden but neither of them were on the screen long enough to make it interesting.
I made the mistake of renting Jarhead thinking it was a war movie.
Did you see Zodiac? My favorite film from last year and one of the best crime films ever made.
Didn’t a group of Texans try to throw the Dem nomination away from from FDR in 1944? The Texas Regulars?
I have not. Thank you for the recommendation.
I remember when you’d occasionally have a leftist spout something political at the awards, and they’d be seen as a troublemaker. Now it’s become the status quo, giving the awards all the entertainment value of a Nuremburg rally.
I watch my Frank Capra collection over and over. Now there was a director that really loved America, Americans, and the American dream.
The violence I can handle...it’s the movies that find it necessary to say the F word literally every other word that I can’t stand.
Gone Baby Gone could have been a good movie if not for that.
(As was “The Departed”.)
You know more about that than I do. I'm sure there was some anti-New Deal sentiment in some sectors of the Democrat party (Martin Dees comes to mind). But FDR was wildly popular to most white Southerners, and to this day white Southern "yellow dog" Democrats invoke Lincoln and Hoover as their two bogies. Wonder what the "FDR-was-the-second-coming-of-Lincoln" people think of that???
Capra was the son of an immigrant. Though he was somewhat light hearted about his own movies, he called them Capra-corn.
I didn't see that one, thankfully.
I didn’t have to see any of them. I read all about them on IMDB. Short of Juno, same old Hollywood dribble.
And with a nephew that runs a theater, I don’t have to pay to see any of them.
Check out your local library......
Great movie, but “Tranformers” was cool. Nice modern day US military kicking ass!
the Coen brothers make anything but Hollywood dribble. There Will Be Blood is the sort of film that’s not supposed to be get made anymore. Actually Juno was the closest to conventional fare amongst them.
Capra’s films were considered left-wing agitprop by many at the time. ‘Mr Smtih Goes To Washington’, with its depiction of American goverment as corrupt was probably used as anti American propaganda overseas. ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is about an evil capitalist.
I loved that movie!
“I ain’t afraid’a’ya’!”
“I’ll tell him when I see him.”
Great cast, great writing...the Coen brothers are magnificent!
Ed
It’s a Wonderful Life bombed when it was released, the only reason it got a second chance is because some moron screwed up the copyright.
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