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After watching last night's Oscars, I realized two things.
1. I'm so glad I don't go to the movies that much anymore, because if Crash is the best movie of last year, I'm not missing anything.
2. The best actor/actress category has to be refined.
This second one comes from my friend Joe, who brought up a great point last night. He says people who portray famous people in a movie shouldn't be eligible for an Oscar. And you know what, he's right. I mean, Reese Witherspoon and Phil Hoffman did a nice job, but really all they are doing is imitating someone famous. All they had to prepare for their role was watch film of the person and do whatever they did. Piece of cake. I mean, Jim Carrey had to come up with character of Lloyd Christmas all by himself. All HOffman did was imitate Capote. I'm sure somewhere Rich Little is kicking himself somewhere, realizing he could've won about 100 Oscars in his prime.
Plus, if you play someone famous, and do it well, most movie-goers are blown away by your performance because they have a point of reference to judge your performance against.
Now, back to Crash. If you haven't seen it - DON'T. Ir you really want to, don't read on. If you have seen it, my biggest complaint is the movie is too far-fetched. I mean, of the thousands of cops running around L.A., how it is that Matt Dillon pulls over a dame one night and the next day, he's the first cop on call when she's involved in an accident. And for Ryan Witherspoon, the same thing happens to him. I mean, that wouldn't happen in a town of 15,000 people, let alone L.A. It was too forced, too coincidental. I think Oscar voters would rather come off as homophobic than racist and that's why this flick won instead of Brokeback.
To me, the best movie of last year was "Batman Begins" but that's just me.
8 comments:
I'm totally with you when you say these actors should be ineligible for Academy Awards when portraying famous people. I've been saying that for years, and never was it more of an issue than last night.
Of the five cats nominated for Best Actor, three were there for their imitating famous people on screen -- Yanni Cash, Trumayng Capote and Eddie R. Murrow.
Further, I think it's time the Academy banned nominations for chicks who play dudes, really ugly chicks or anything in between . First Hillary the Skank for "Boys Don't Cry", then Charlize Theron for "Monster," and this year Felicity Huffman for "Trans America" (though she didn't win).
Enough already! We get it! And while we're on the subject, why wasn't Joyce Hyser nominated for "Just One of the Guys" back in the day?! That movie is a classic!
One thing, though, and I feel you on the unlikelyness of certain aspects of it, but "Crash" was a kickass flick and when they announced it as Best Picture I was thrilled!
My problem with Crash was it was so far-fetched.
When the Chinese dude was in the hospital and the daughter of the Persian shop owner was the nurse, I starting laughing because it was so preposterous.
The acting was great, but, to be honest, King Kong was more believable than that flick.
I;m with you and dames playing dudes or ugly dames, too.
Another thing about hte Oscars, I didn't realize it, but they left Don Knotts out of the dead-guy montage. What a friggin crime.
The bottom line, the show 4 hours of Hollywood patting itself on the back.
The fact that "Team America, World Police" didn't win best picture last year is all you need to know.
One other thing, I think Giamatti is being black balled for being in the Stern flick. I really do.
Either that or he's being black-balled because the Academy are huge Pete Rose fans!
Also, did Don Knotts do movies? I can't recall anything but the occasional cameo. Perhaps he wasn't a member of the Academy?
Finally, I think you missed the point with Crash. I think it was intentionally farfetched, to show how people's lives could, indeed, CRASH into one another in the most unexpected, round-about ways, and how one never knows when a past deed could come back to bite them in the rump or reward them.
Oh, and I feel you on Team America. One of the Top 5 movies of the last 5 years!
Cat, Knotts was in dozens of flicks, plenty of Disney Flicks - including the awesome Gus, and of course, the Incredible Mr. Limpett.
As for Crash, you are almost making my arguement. The fact that it had to be far-fetched to prove their point shows what a flawed premise it is.
Really, the Dillon and Phillipe stuff is my only complaint.
The stuff with the locksmith and his kid was the highlight of the film.
Cat,
1. What's up with you deleting the first comment here?
2. Agreed on banning imitators.
Jamie Foxx did a hell of a job last year imitating Ray Charles, but the overall movie blew.
Furthermore, he didn't sing his own songs. River Phoenix's brother did that in Walk The Line, and didn't win. There's no justice.
3. There should also be a ban on retards.
Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man.
That's it. No more. No more Sean Penn in I Am Sam. No Billy Bob in Sling Blade, umm hmm.
4. As far as Crash goes, it was a good movie, but all the plot twists were so obvious after a while, was it really that big a surprise when Sandra Bullock said the Mexican was her best friend or Ryan W. shot the black dude in his car?
5. March of the Penguins was nice, but Murderball was clearly better. It got jobbed in the documentary category.
Agreed on everything you say. I don't who made the first comment or who deleted it.
Nice Crash analysis. Again, coincidences like that wouldn't happen in a town of 200 people.
And when Mr. Witherspoon picked up the dude, he had country music playing and they were talking about hockey. It was so dumb. And then Witherspoon burns up his car and the other dude is there and it starts snowing and Ludacriss lets the oriental slaves go. C'mon.
You know, the more I think about it, that movie sucked. I'm getting wound up now.
I laughed my arse off when Bullock fell down the stairs. The whole movie became comical after a while.
I still say Batman Begins was the best movie I saw last year.
I just found some similar thoughts, and I thought I'd pass along the link to the post: http://www.drunkenbee.com/archives/000311.html
I don't think I'm going to take the time out of my life to see this flick.
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