I highly recommend Drive My Car. Although the relationship between the protagonist and his wife is a little twisted due to the death of their child, I found it highly engrossing.
I will not be watching tonight. Wanda Sykes?! Amy Schumer?!
Is Don't Look Up a comedy or a drama?!
I cannot stand Richard Williams or Serena Williams in real life. Why would I go see a biopic featuring them?!
We are watching the end of our culture and our civilization. Does anyone but Ross Dou(bt)that?
ping
The Oscars are declining because more and more normal people don’t care about Hollyweird.
For discussion.....
All the good movies were made years ago. Nothing but dreck anymore.
Oscars? As in wieners, the Meyers type?
Just before the Trump rally last night I was watching a made for tv movie from 1985 “Reunion at Fairborough.” It was free on youtube, staring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr. Good movie.
Movies will still be made but their dominance they once held in the culture is over. A big chunk of the reason is the internet. Wokeism is another big chunk. Movies are no longer bigger than life and the stars are no longer glamorous. When you begin to feel superior to them a lot of the magic just evaporates.
Probably that good movies are too expensive to make nowadays. People with the money to throw around rather steal elections than make good movies.
Good. Except taking my daughter to a few kids movies when she was young, I have not been to the movies since 2000 and have no intention of returning. Wanted to see Ford vs Ferrari but waited until it came to TV.
Last time i watched the Oscars, the Exorcist was up for best picture.
Will the press announce the winners somewhere? I’ll need to avoid that a well.
Don’t look up is a piece of cellulite trash
I’d watch the Oscars if they’d brought in Ricky Gervais to host. Otherwise, I’ll pass.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/golden-globes-ricky-gervais-speech-greta-thunberg-jeffrey-epstein/
Doris Day was a fine human being who turned down the starring role in The Graduate because the movie, she said, was trash.
Then comes whores like Jane Fonda who spearheaded the movement to turn America's ladies into street sluts, and she succeeded.
Our cultural revolution of the 60s was largely the fault of whores, pimps and fags that ruled the entertainment industry.
“I will not be watching tonight. Wanda Sykes?! Amy Schumer?!”
Not the slightest trace of humor in either one of those slugs. Add Trevor Noah for the hat trick.
Drive My Car is excellent. So is CODA. Those would be my top two picks for Best Picture. Borges will probably be along sooner or later to plug WSS. These are all worthy films. The woke sensibility films that will p*** off freepers are The Power of the Dog and Don’t Look Up. The other nominees are ... well, take your pick, but I wouldn’t nuke them on political grounds. If the woke mafia block votes for an agenda film while the sane people split their votes among the others, Dog will win. That’s how highly motivated factions win outsized influence. If CODA wins, I will regard it as a good night. Drive My Car is considered the favorite for Best International Film.
The Russ Douthat article is behind a paywall but from the lead, it sounds on target. The streamers are swallowing the film industry. They will slowly turn everything into tv, which is a different animal. We are at risk of losing an art form which, when done well (which is difficult and rare), can have extraordinary power. We will miss real movies when they are gone. TV movies and series aren’t the same.
As a political matter, the triumph of the streamers will mean that a handful of the wokest companies will be the gatekeepers on distribution. Over time they will push their politics into content creation at the earliest stages. Have an idea? Talk to the DEI committee and political commissars before even sketching an outline. The current film industry, bad as it is, still has room for independent voices. I’m not sure that will still be the case in the future.
The business model is broken.
Scripts and acting are driven by ideology. The cinematography is largly computer based and is more about technology than art.
This all fits with the mode of presentation being now one’s TV ala-video game, rather than a sit-down theatre where a movie was once an event.