I'll give it a watch.
Posted on 12/11/2018 9:26:23 AM PST by Rummyfan
On Monday I received an email from the Motion Picture Academy informing me that if I didn't pay my dues, I wouldn't be able to vote in the Oscar nominations in a couple of weeks. I debated for a few minutes. Dues have inflated since I joined in the eighties and are now a hefty $450 per annum. Nevertheless, spendthrift that I am, I bit the proverbial bullet and went for it. Call it the inability to break a bad habit. Or an addiction to the non-stop influx of screeners that arrive at my door every December, not that I watch many of them. (I suspect I'm not alone in that.)
But it wasn't just the money that had made me hesitate. On one level, I wouldn't have re-upped up for $4.50, let alone $450. I mean -- what was the point of this? Does anybody care who wins the Oscar anymore? I certainly don't -- and I'm a voter.
Even the recent dust-up over the Oscars now having no host, since Kevin Hart ankled (as they used to say in Variety) over obscure homophobic tweets for which he had apologized years ago -- talk about tempest in a tea pot -- was of little interest to me. Drudge apparently felt otherwise, having put the "scandal" briefly at the top of his page, but I suspect not many feel similarly and that this year the Oscars will continue on their downward spiral toward life support.
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Maybe my general ignorance of mass media means I haven’t been clued in to the worthwhile offerings being produced, but I’d love to take in a well-done, compelling story, made for normal adults. If for no other reason than to prove they’re not extinct.
She who once referred to Harvey Weinstein, granddad of the #Me Too Movement, as “a God”......
Argo was a good movie.
More people probably no Edith Head from the Incredibles than the Oscars. And only hardcore Coen fans know about Roger Deakins. People don’t actually pay attention to the Oscars. They watch for the “beautiful people”, when they’re over they move on. It’s the ultimate in fleeting entertainment.
I’ve see many. Don’t think I watched any stinkers this year. The best movies I watched this year were 50 year old Spaghetti Westerns, they had a cool restropective at my local arthouse. But good movies are still being made. When in doubt go Coen or Wes Anderson. Great directors that tell interesting stories. Don’t know if they’re for “normal” adults, don’t know any.
Since the Oscars are traditionally one of the most watched TV broadcasts of the year it makes perfect to say that they do a lot to expose names like that to a large amount of people. Obviously neither Head or Deakins are household names but more people know about them because of the Oscars.
The Coen Brothers’ latest film was made directly for Netflix and is supposed to be pretty good. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”.
Oscar rating are in the vicinity of prime time football. Good, but 2 days after a football most folks who watched can’t remember the name of that receiver that caughtthat 3rd quarter deep ball if they didn’t already know. Just like the Oscars, 2 days later nobody remembers who got the costuming award. They heard the name, they saw the speech, then they heard another name and another speech, and by the time they went to bed all those names and speeches were gone from their brain.
That’s on my vacation watch list. Along with lots of other stuff.
Well compared to what then? What exposes people to members of some arcane culture the names of which they DO retain?
Nothing. There’s a reason they’re arcane cultures, because most people just aren’t interested beyond a surface level if that much. Oscars are like Olympic sports, people are only interested in them for 2 weeks every 4 years. Doesn’t matter how many people watch Olympic swimming nobody watches non-Olympic swimming. Doesn’t matter how many see some cinematographer get an Oscar, nobody cares who cinematographers are and most folks don’t even know what they do. The nerds that are actually interested in this stuff read the books and play the commentaries and extras.
I should have guessed this, after all I have learned about Whollyweird.
Why is it even on TV? If it offends people, take it off the air.
Big comic book movies. I believe they make these - other than to make money, the obvious reason - because in the fantasy realm they are set in the makers don't have to be concerned with offending anyone. But as for any movie dealing with reality, with life in the 21st century... fugeddaboutit. That leaves genre flicks like Westerns and period pieces - one I have seen advertised is The Favorite. And of course the recycling of old TV shows into full-length features, which has been an undertaking that has met with very spotty success. Even The Artist, which won Best Picture, had been done before and better: Singing in the Rain.
Indeed.
LOL!
I'll give it a watch.
The upscale theaters offer stadium seating in what are almost La-Z-Boy recliners and waiter service. They keep upgrading the amenities and service in order to attract moviegoers.
Awards, awards, awards. That's all they do is give each other awards. Is there any other profession that does it to that degree? No!
Or Thelma Schoonmaker, editor of just about every Martin Scorsese flick...
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