well Barb I am inclined to agree with you - I already quit watching the Emmy's since I do not watch network television any more - there just is no point to seeing who won for what show, when I could care less. Unfortunately, the Oscars were always the one night of the whole year that I would definitely be glued to the tv. Now it too seems irrelevant, not just because BBM lost for Best Picture when we all know it was the best to come along in many years, decades even, but also because there just isn't anything worth seeing this year so far - maybe the next few months will bring some new films that are Oscar worthy. Do you think BBM ruined us for other movies for awhile? I know that personally, I never had a movie touch me like this one did and I have seen hundreds of them.
I did see Superman Returns and it was good and entertaining, but not an Oscar calibre film except maybe special effects or something like that. Where are the good movies these days? Ones that make you think and draw your own conclusions, ones that make you smile or laugh at life's absurdities, ones that blow your mind with improbabilities and twists, ones that tear your heart out and leave you wilted and emotional - the kind of movies that I remember and lost myself in for most of my life. Do they exist or has Hollywood settled for the least common denominator and foisted a plethora of Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Rob Schneider, Jack Black and various other 30-somethings on the film-going public who do the same movies over and over again? I know they can't all be BBM or even on par with it, but give us something that has a hint of intelligence or wit in the writing, enough acting to forget it is a movie, a director who knows how to get actors to make mediocre roles better, and maybe a soupcon of atmosphere or ambiance to tide us over till the next "great" movie comes along. Too much to ask??
I don't know, but I think the Oscars need revamping before they ever see the kind of audience that they apparently want. First the voters will have to become honest and actually
see the movies nominated - that alone will go a long way into making the Academy Awards worth my time to watch again. It's not the fact that BBM lost to Crash, it's that the voting was so skewed by those who never took the time to watch it and therefore were dishonest in their voting, causing an imbalance that was unfair to both films as well as the 3 other nominees.
<-------------off my soapbox now......................
