Most Oscar Nominees Aren't Very Good
Recently, the Academy Awards have been pretty accurate. However, this year, they are once again brain-dead. Here are my comments on the nominees:
Benjamin Button: I thought that this movie sucked. It was one of the most BORING movies I have ever seen. It is also probably the worst waste of Brad Pitt's talent that I have ever seen.
The best display of Brad Pitt's talent was in Twelve Monkeys. Benjamin Button is a stupid bore.
Dark Knight: I thought that this movie sucked. As happens so often, it was mostly a display of special effects. The chase scenes were IDIOTIC.
If you want to se a chase scene, see Bullitt. Chase scenes nowadays, as in Terminator III, or Matrix II/III, or Dark Knight, or others, have become totally STUPID. That is because they are not the slightest bit REAL. They are just a pile of bits & bytes collected from a computer. D.U.M.B.
Doubt: Meryl Streep's performance was excellent, as usual. She was immortal in The Devil Wears Prada.
Gran Torino: This was another incredible Clint Eastwood masterpiece. How did this guy go from acting in spaghetti westerns to churning out one masterpiece after another?
Eastwood has balls. His movies deal directly with controversial issues. Million Dollar Baby dealt with female boxing and euthanasia, the Changling dealt with the abuse of the rights of the mentally ill (or those accused of being mentally ill), and Gran Torino deals with the legitimate complaints of red-blooded, hard-working Americans who have been displaced by massive foreign immigration along with lawless gangs.
Nobody else in Hollywood has the balls to touch any of these issues. Most Hollywood movies are brainless crap. "Doubt" was
about the only other movie dealing with any controversy.
Another thing that pisses me off is that Hollywood charges movie theatres too much for movies. In Fort Lauderdale, there are very few theatres that show the best movies. They seen to just about all show the same crap.
There are several important movies on the Oscar Nominee list that have either not viewed in Fort Lauderdale theatres, or else only viewed in one or two out-of-the-way venues. This is because they are too expensive for movie theatres to afford.
Benjamin Button: I thought that this movie sucked. It was one of the most BORING movies I have ever seen. It is also probably the worst waste of Brad Pitt's talent that I have ever seen.
The best display of Brad Pitt's talent was in Twelve Monkeys. Benjamin Button is a stupid bore.
Dark Knight: I thought that this movie sucked. As happens so often, it was mostly a display of special effects. The chase scenes were IDIOTIC.
If you want to se a chase scene, see Bullitt. Chase scenes nowadays, as in Terminator III, or Matrix II/III, or Dark Knight, or others, have become totally STUPID. That is because they are not the slightest bit REAL. They are just a pile of bits & bytes collected from a computer. D.U.M.B.
Doubt: Meryl Streep's performance was excellent, as usual. She was immortal in The Devil Wears Prada.
Gran Torino: This was another incredible Clint Eastwood masterpiece. How did this guy go from acting in spaghetti westerns to churning out one masterpiece after another?
Eastwood has balls. His movies deal directly with controversial issues. Million Dollar Baby dealt with female boxing and euthanasia, the Changling dealt with the abuse of the rights of the mentally ill (or those accused of being mentally ill), and Gran Torino deals with the legitimate complaints of red-blooded, hard-working Americans who have been displaced by massive foreign immigration along with lawless gangs.
Nobody else in Hollywood has the balls to touch any of these issues. Most Hollywood movies are brainless crap. "Doubt" was
about the only other movie dealing with any controversy.
Another thing that pisses me off is that Hollywood charges movie theatres too much for movies. In Fort Lauderdale, there are very few theatres that show the best movies. They seen to just about all show the same crap.
There are several important movies on the Oscar Nominee list that have either not viewed in Fort Lauderdale theatres, or else only viewed in one or two out-of-the-way venues. This is because they are too expensive for movie theatres to afford.
posted by Jack W. Orf | 7:17 AM
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