Posted on 03/27/2022 11:00:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Everyone has a theory about the decline of the Academy Awards, the sinking ratings that have led to endless Oscar reinventions. The show is too long; no, the show is too desperate to pander to short attention spans. The movies are too woke; no, the academy voters aren’t diverse enough. Hollywood makes too many superhero movies; no, the academy doesn’t nominate enough superhero movies. (A querulous voice from the back row: Why can’t they just bring back Billy Crystal?)
My favored theory is that the Oscars are declining because the movies they were made to showcase have been slowly disappearing. The ideal Oscar nominee is a high-middlebrow movie, aspiring to real artistry and sometimes achieving it, that’s made to be watched on the big screen, with famous stars, vivid cinematography and a memorable score. It’s neither a difficult film for the art-house crowd nor a comic-book blockbuster but a film for the largest possible audience of serious adults — the kind of movie that was commonplace in the not-so-distant days when Oscar races regularly threw up conflicts in which every moviegoer had a stake: “Titanic” against “L.A. Confidential,” “Saving Private Ryan” against “Shakespeare in Love,” “Braveheart” against “Sense and Sensibility” against “Apollo 13.”
That analysis explains why this year’s Academy Awards — reworked yet again, with various technical awards taped in advance and a trio of hosts added — have a particular sense of an ending about them. There are 10 best picture nominees, and many of them look like the kind of Oscar movies that the show so desperately needs. “West Side Story”: Steven Spielberg directing an update of a classic musical! “King Richard”: a stirring sports movie lifted by a bravura Will Smith performance! “Dune”: an epic adaptation of a science-fiction classic! “Don’t Look Up”...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Thanks I’ll check it out.
Cruise finally hitting the wall? He lasted a lot longer than most. Didn’t they shoot Top Gun 2 in 2018 or so too?
They’re almost all dead. But even the last ones around still need to be hunted down.
Why should the passage of time wipe away what they did?
“The Master Race’’
Yeah, right.
That’s probably about the age I was when my Dad took me to see it. In our local movie theater on a Saturday night.
Man, I’d forgotten what that was like. A local movie theater.
Yeah that scene with Holden was great and he gets killed himself and Guinness , in the ultimate irony as he picks himself up from the mortar blast, tries to straighten up as a British officer before he collapses and say’s “What have I done?’’ as the whole damn bridge goes into the river.
End all non-western (ie non-European) immigration if you want to even begin to preserve our culture.
Do not expect movies or tv shows to get better.
This will not help at all....
Oscars CANCELS films that aren’t woke enough
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10651869/Academy-disqualify-films-not-black-queer-disabled-workers-set.html
Fact is ...Hollywood is 100% “Dead-In-The-Water”!!! Tinsel town will continue to die as is our once great, powerful nation republic!!! Sad days for our once wonderful land, from sea to shinning sea!!!!!! IMHO, any American that watches the idiotic award shows ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer...by a long shot!!! Big...monster waste of time!!! We have not gone to see a theater movie in at least the last ten years!!! Better off watching the “Hallmark Movie Channel!!! It blows “Hollywood away”!!!
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