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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OK, now I remember. I can’t access YouTube from work, but I remember the scene now that you mentioned Fink.
You missed out on some good films.
I'm didn't neither.
No Country was excellent until they killed off Josh Brolin.
Brolin carried the movie. It fizzled thereafter into a dumb movie IMO.
TD was nominated for four, Sweeney for three and won one. But that’s not the point. The point is that the Oscars consistently go to dark, twisted portrayals of wretched humans. Who needs more of that in their life?
Are you talking about acting awards? Actors love playing characters like that and it generally is the sort of acting that gets attention. The Best Picture winners tend to be fairly conservative (Unforgiven, Schindler’s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Return of the King) with an exception here and there (American Beauty).
Hey, when are the Oscars anyway?
Yes, I understand it is fiction. What I mean is how liberals take a modern mindset and liberal values and force them onto past eras.
Go to amazon.com and read some of the one-star reviews of the novel.
All fiction is written with the mindset of the time it’s written. Shakespeare’s plays reflect Elizebthan English ideas and attitudes not those of whatever time he was writing about.
Besides the story is told as a flashback from the present. So retrospective hindsight is built in.
In fact, when you think back on it, there's virtually no one actually killed on camera except that deputy near the beginning. In every other case I can think of, it happens offscreen. What you get a lot of is the prelude or the aftermath of violence and not the violence itself. And the most terrifying scene in the movie, with the store clerk, doesn't have anyone getting hurt at all.
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