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.
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...
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?!?)
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.
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.
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.
Meryl Streep is queen of the garbage heap... show some pride guys... tell her it's tacky to charge designers to wear their gowns... waaaaaay to cheap. Tacky moneygrubber... just like Hillary.
For the most part today’s American offerings don’t have mature adult actors or mature adult scripts.
Two shows I have liked are Foyle’s War and The Crown.
The Crown, done by Netflix, is 99.9 percent clean but there is one use of the word ‘cu*t’ and one use of the word “fu*k”. Absolutely no call for that. Guess Netflix thinks a show can’t succeed without some dirt.
Oscars were LAST Sunday? Guess I’m outta touch.
Here is the list of nominees and winners of best picture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#1920s
Just about every year you can find pictures that have stood the test of time better than the winner.
The fact that Citizen Kane didn’t win it’s year is most telling.
That’s because modern movies suck. The left is picking these movies because it shows how much smarter they are than we are.
Back in the day there were comparatively few films in total - so good ones stood out more. Today the catalog, especially if you factor in millions of hours of TV programming, has grown to such vast proportions that any individual film has a much harder time to stand out. Oh, and CGI...meh.
Last Oscar winner I liked was THE LIVES OF OTHERS. But, no gunshots, no super-powers, and it was in German with subtitles. Hard to believe it still won.