The Oscars: Why does anyone care?
The Oscars were a couple of weeks ago, hosted by alleged funnyman Seth MacFarlane. You know what really grinds my gears? (family guy reference) The fact that people care about the Oscars. My favorite movies of 2012 included The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Hobbit, none of which were nominated for best picture. Argo won the award, and don’t get me wrong, I liked Argo, but it seems like the movies that win are always the really well-made, well-acted, well-choreographed, boring movies. Yes, I thought Argo was a bit boring. Everyone loves it, and I can see why. Like I said, it was very well-done. But I was bored.
Les Miserables (sp?) was also nominated. This has already been made into a better movie twice, and also this has been a play for years and all they did was just take the play and film it, which they already have on PBS (they play it during pledge drives to get people to donate. They should consider playing good shows at times other then pledge drives). Russell Crowe’s singing actually made me laugh throughout.
Lincoln was another movie that was very educational, well-made, but slow, long, and boring. That seems to be a trend of best picture nominees: slow, long, and booring. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of my favorite actors, and I’m glad he won best actor, but I’d like to see him go to the Oscars in character as the character of the movie he’s currently working on. It would have been fun to see him go out as the milkshake guy from There Will Be Blood because people wouldn’t have seen the movie yet and would have wondered what was going on. Why’s Daniel talking like that? Whatever.
Silver Linings Playbook was one of the movies that I actually really liked, and would have liked to see it win. I thought it was much better then David O. Russell’s last movie, The Fighter, which earned all kinds of unearned accolades.
Django Unchained: okay, but really overrated. Over-the-top, almost too Tarantino-ish. Amour: didn’t see. Sounds like another boring one. Life of Pi: liked it. Zero Dark Thirty: haven’t seen yet, but actually really want to.
Anyway, back to my original premise: the best movies are never nominated for anything, so why do we care? Oh, and Seth MacFarlane wasn’t very good.