Sunday, 07 March 2010
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I Will Never Watch The Academy Awards Again
It is no longer about film making, hasn't been for a long time. It is about financing and hype. A personality contest.Precious deserves the Oscar in all categories if you ask me.The fact that there are now 10 nominees makes it more difficult for the little guy. It may seem that it provides more opportunity, but that is just the illusion. I'm not going to go on about it, don't really care that much.
I'm just to shitting my opinion here which I know has little value.
The fact that Avatar was nominated makes me want to vomit.Sure I saw it and enjoyed it and yes it is a great ride, but without the special effects, what is is? Certainly not Oscar worthy.You aren't going to be stupid enough to continue to support this underhanded corporate charade are you?I will continue to watch my movies for free off of Pirate video sites and begin to check DVDS out of the library and buy used DVDS off of Ebay really cheaply, and even bootlegs off of the street, just to go against the corporation of Hollywood.
Of course I will go to the movies, I can't help that. I have to see Alice. I want to see Shutter Island but I'm about to start the book... I love movies when there is time...
I will buy DVDs at the local thrift store if I need to and save any theater going for only the worthy, which is becoming a rarer and rarer treat.
I'm going to make it a point to watch all of the OLD classics and OLD movies ( I love old movies ) I have not seen yet over new crap that comes out.
I need to make a blog about two old movies I just watched for free last week online!
I am really angry about what they have done, when I bother to think about it...
...There is an Oscar party that happens every two years at a friend's place and you bet on the Oscars. There is a large grid that gets checked off as the show is televised during the party and the top 3 winners get the pot. The ballots go all over the world. It was last year. I wonder what the host is going to do next year now. It may go on but the grid will have to be much larger.
What do you think about the Oscars and Today's Hollywood?
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Today's Hollywood isnt all that great I admit but I still have some old & new favorite actors & actresses to watch. But I support the Academy Awards because the voters are people in the industry, not just studio heads who pick who they think should win. And yes, being the girl I am, I love watching the fashions & jewelry I cant afford.
This year though to see Precious & the Blind Side nominated gives me hope that Hollywood isnt as shallow as we think it is.
i agree completely. avatar is definitely not quality cinema. it's entertaining, but it's not great. it didn't deserve all the hype, and it certainly does not deserve oscars.
what about the short films and documentaries? :/
Im so happy to hear about movies I haven't seen yet
Only award show I watch is the VGA's. But even that is getting to be like any other award show now. All hype, no substance. Also I hate hearing actors and other celebrities stand on a podium and talk about politics and shit like they actually know what real people go through.
AiW was disappointing
Hollywood has lost its class.
Today's Hollywood is a lot of bullcrap with actors like Megan Fox and people like her however I'm glad we have legends like Meryl and Morgan still acting :) I'd have to say that direction got a lot better these years compared to before and even though there arent great actors to look out for there are a plenty of good ones like Emily Blunt,The girl from Precious,Anna Kendrick ( the majority of the good ones act in Indie)
Avatar absolutely deserved the awards it got, and should've gotten best director.
Up in the Air deserved more awards.
Avatar isn't original, but it's extremely cleanly executed.
Also, seriously? Piracy as a form of social protest? You might as well just admit that you want free movies like the rest of us, mate. Dressing it up in anti-corporate drivel doesn't make it any more moral.
Avatar was good but its all computerized. Im glad Hurt locker won most awards....definitely well deserved. I think Jeremy Renner makes a pretty damn good actor...shouda won lead actor
Oh come on. The only reason Avatar was even a runner this year is because it was a generally horrible year in film history (and James Cameron hype). Let's compare it to a good year.
1994 - Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction.
Do you think with films like these, Avatar would even be in that list? And I hate it when people cite Precious as a good film. These people seem to be ignoring that there were 2 amazing actors and 7000 crap actors (Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz and who ever that teacher was were horrible). The ending was also severely anti-climatic, which works sometimes (Shawshank Redemption) but in this case it just left something to be desired. Camera shots were also horrible.
Avatar and Hurt Locker had good direction and good camera work in their favour, which is the technical stuff the Academy still has to pay attention to. A good story does not make a best motion picture winner. It has to be an all rounded effort.
Zzzzzzz....
I enjoyed the Oscars and I agree with strictlyskinny that I enjoy hearing about movies I haven't seen/heard of. I liked seeing NPH do a very out-of-place but entertaining musical number, the...interesting interpretive dancing preceding best score, and thought the individual pep talks to the best actor/actress nominees were very cute. I'm sure we all agree that Hollywood is very corporate (in my opinion, always has been), but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy it. But I don't put much stock into who actually wins, I just enjoy seeing who gets nominated and the on-stage antics that ensue.
As a committed film fanatic for more than fifty years I am sad and elated all at the same time. The Hurt Locker is a totally deserving winner. However, I am unconvinced that it won on merit. I think it won on politics. I almost hate the risk averse approach of Hollywood. My son won't go with me any more because I can tell him the plot before it happens. French and small English films, a few Japanese and Italian films and the odd Chinese film from Singapore are on my agenda at the moment. I'm looking for enlightenment and education as much as entertainment. Having just seen Andy Garcia's The Lost City, a great idea, adequately executed, but tainted with compromise, I'm even more convinced that Hollywood has creative leprosy.
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Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin? Seriously?
Spam & Canned Ham. You choose the order.
If movies were awarded on creativity, originality, et al, why wouldn't a film like Ink ever get nominated?
I REFUSE to watch ANY Award show. They are useless and all they do is pump up celebrities into being some kind of a GOD where they are just human beings doing their jobs like the rest of us. Where are the award shows for the layman folk like us? I want an award for getting up and going to work every day! I want an award for being on time! How about an award for having no road rage? Award shows should be done away with altogther. I love the movies, but dont see why people who are just doing their jobs should be treated as anything other than what they are. PEOPLE LIKE THE REST OF US NOT GODS.
Well, SOMEONE didn't get what they wanted....
Ugh. Avatar should burn. It's not a unique story. It's nothing without the 3D effects...
It should not win. Ever.
sorry buddy your statement is flawed "I will continue to watch my movies for free off of Pirate video
sites and begin to check DVDS out of the library and buy used DVDS off
of Ebay really cheaply, and even bootlegs off of the street, just to
go against the corporation of Hollywood."
how are you HELPING THE HARD WORKERS who make the movies? they work just like you do. do you work full time? do you go to school? how would you feel if i copied your paper frame for frame and claimed it was mine. You need to buy movies to support them to make more Legally. stealing is wrong. You are an idiot. they wanted to expand the catagories because hmpfh last year, Walle didnt get a best picture nod, dark knight didnt. for 82 years they felt bad! the last time they did 10 nods was 1943 numbskull and casablanca walked away with it. you clearly need to research before stateing a narrowmined opinion.
@Viewtiful_Justin@xanga - i agree!!! i was so happy Hurt Locket won.
Avatar was completely deserving of all the visual awards it won, but I too wanted to vomit when it was announced that Avatar had been nominated for best picture. Expanding the category to 10 was an attempt by the Academy to be more populist, but The Hurt Locker ended up winning anyway. I did think though, that Up in the Air was completely robbed of the best adapted screenplay. Precious was a good movie, and very strong in the acting department, but Up in the Air just had a much better script. Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe were much more deserving of the best actress award; on her performance in The Blind Side alone, Sandra Bullock was not deserving of it, but she's been in the industry for so long and has always been excellent, so it was more of an achievement award.
Come on. The storyline in Avatar was paper-thin, no doubt. But it was still a compelling story that made you invest in the characters. And as for the film-making... you can't tell me that it didn't break away from the norm.
On the other hand... the two films you noted, Shutter Island and Alice in Wonderland leave much to be desired.
Scorsesse may be a great director, but Shutter Island fell flat. Interesting plot-line (although predictable) but poor directorial choices and execution overall. (Good lord, those dream/ flashback sequences need to be re-edited and possibly re-shot altogether.)
And Alice in Wonderland.... really? While I can certainly see the merit in the re-telling and stylizing of a classic story, I feel like Tim Burton is churning these things out in his sleep.
I'm all one for stylistic signature, but come on. His once edgy "style" is now a borderline commercial gimmick.
Sure, the Oscars are political. It can't be avoided. But what can be done is that those who truly love film and the industry provide pressure and support for the focus to be moved back on the art of film itself.
I was really happy The Hurt Locker won best picture and the director awards. It went in as the under dog. Yes, Precious should have been nominated more and I wish that it would have gotten more awards but it was nice to see that it was nominated period. I was really upset that Avatar won as many awards as it did but you can't get everything you want.
@Lauren_Vogue@xanga - =) agree