TJPC
Senior HTF Member
Don't any of you people own a PVR? A 4 hour show -- commercials, boring thank yous, anything else you are not interested in = 1 hour. My God we haven't watched a live show since our first Beta machine in 1986.
There are entire swaths of movies that are inaccessible to non-academy members. If you can find even one of the Foreign Language films in any given year, good luck. The short films across the board don't play anywhere unless they're the animated ones from Pixar or Disney. I only got to see live and animated shorts because they popped up on On Demand the day before the Oscars.
Blockbusters exist for the Academy sometimes if they have critical acclaim. Titanic, Avatar, and LOTR:ROTK were huge hits that won Best Picture. Many more have been nominated, even as recently as last year (The Martian). This year happens to be especially low grossing, which probably is why it was the lowest ratings in 9 years.
Don't any of you people own a PVR? A 4 hour show -- commercials, boring thank yous, anything else you are not interested in = 1 hour. My God we haven't watched a live show since our first Beta machine in 1986.
It's not much of a secret that blockbusters these days are cinematic junk food. A good script and believable characters are given short shrift in favor of FX. I've read that quite often, such films are built around FX sequences rather than a good script. That wasn't the case with popular movies of yesteryear. Yet another reason for me not to bother with the Oscars or much of Hollywood's current "product".Blockbusters exist for the Academy sometimes if they have critical acclaim. Titanic, Avatar, and LOTR:ROTK were huge hits that won Best Picture. Many more have been nominated, even as recently as last year (The Martian). This year happens to be especially low grossing, which probably is why it was the lowest ratings in 9 years.
I personally am not going to watch Nate Parker's film ever. Just because he refused to address it and refused to apologize even a little bit.
I don't know how you can soften the violence considering what actually happened in that slave revolt.I'm in a minority but I didn't like The Birth Of A Nation. The performances are excellent but the movie went from being a thoughtful drama for 90 minutes and became a violent revenge movie for the last 20 minutes. I realize it's following history but I felt that the movie morphing into Death Wish II for its finale ran it off the rails.
You can't but it just felt like such sudden departure from the first 3/4 of the movie that it was like a different movie to me.I don't know how you can soften the violence considering what actually happened in that slave revolt.
You couldn't hardly make some of this stuff up...
It looked like Denzel Washington had tears in his eyes when Affleck said it. Not happy tears.One thing is for sure, they have to fire Brian Cullinan.
What was with that Denzel Washington moment when Casey Affleck won and mentioned him? Denzel was not happy at all. No attempt at smiling or acknowledge him.
If you work in the industry or have friends that do and are up for awards...OK, I can see wanting to watch this. If you don't work in the industry and have no connection to it...this is an amazingly meaningless show. Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and there was no internet people had reason to watch this show because there were not daily opportunities to see (and in many cases even interact with) actors and filmmakers.
Now you can pretty much watch a new video of the celebrity of your choice any time you want. You can tweet with them, facebook with them, chat with them...whatever. Basically it is now like you have a hard time keeping them out of your life. Plus I mean at my age I honestly don't care what any of them are doing, saying, who they like politically or don't like, and I certainly don't want or need to hear their thoughts on if the president is a boob. I already know the answer to that and I think it is pretty damn obvious.
Basically, this is a show that does not need to take up 4 or more hours of television. They should just broadcast or put on the internet a highlight reel of the winners and what they said. Keep it to under an hour and we're done. The rest of the bombast they can keep and I don't think anybody would lose any sleep over it.