I kept forgetting that The Reader is the fifth movie that is up for Best Picture, mostly due to the fact that no one has seen this movie. So I looked up its scores on MetaCritic and Rotten Tomatoes.
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/reader?q=the%20reader
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009498-reader/
Don't worry, I just put the links there as proof on that I'm not making shit up. It has a 58 on MetaCritic (38 reviews), and has a 59 on Rotten Tomatoes (157 reviews). So ultimately I feel like I have been personally fucked in the ass. As someone who considers Wall-E the Best Picture of the Year, and sees that it has a 93 on MetaCritic (39 reviews), and a 96 on Rotten Tomatoes (217 reviews), I feel extremely slighted by the AMPAS. I feel like they don't get it, Wall-E has been one of the highest grossing films of the year, and has received the best ratings of any movie released this year. Those old fucks need to get off their high horses and come to a strong realization that movies that are animated, and if you want to throw Batman into the mix, are about caped crusaders should be more than considered but given credit because more reviewers have a chance to trash these movies, but instead they laud them with universal praise. Instead they allow movies like The Reader, whose rating on MetaCritic only places them 2 points ahead of Twilight. Also, they could get rid of the extremely overrated Frost/Nixon, made by their golden boy, Ron Howard, or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie I really like, but can recognize its fatal flaws. The Golden Globes are much better and truer in respect to how the public feels, as apposed to people who hold their noses up to those that have to actually pay to see a movie.
P.S. Being a Night Host allows me to do a lot of thinking, or perhaps over thinking. This is just me venting. Also, 114Bers are hot.
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Wall-E was never gonna get a best picture nom. I'm okay with that. Not because I didn't like it, but really, what did you expect? Of course it's hoity-toity white dudes jerking off about all the deeper context of shit or whatever. I'll expand more on this thought later.
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ReplyDeleteI think they indeed do get it. It's just that for Wall-E to win best pic, they'd have to get rid of the best Animated Pictures, or at least alter it so it's judged solely on "animation" other than "good movie-ness." And if they get rid of the Animated Pictures category, they're fucking over all other cartoons that aren't as spectacularly good as Wall-E, preventing them from getting any sort of Oscar recognition.
It's sort of like a self-imposed check on their self-aware biases.
Granted, most cartoon movies suck dick, but I think that's beyond the point. I for one, really don't give a shit. A good movie is a good movie, regardless of what other dudes think. I think we, except for Grady, could all learn from "The Maltese Falcon" that just because old dudes jerk off over a movie doesn't make it good.
At least this shit is better than the Grammy's.
Personally I'm not a fan of Best Animated Feature because Pixar will just win it every year they have an entry, as they should because they blow everyone else out of the water. I realize it's rarely the case, but occasionally a cartoon does transcend genres, and in this case it's Wall-E. Cartoons are gimmicky, so if they're good enough to be nominated for Best Picture, then you know they're amazing. And in this case, obviously, I feel Wall-E should, and would win if old d-bags were honest with themselves. Also, there's a bunch of movies each one of us could list off that deserve to be up for Best Picture instead of The Reader.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Do people actually watch the Grammy's?
Here's a question: Is "Animated Movie" a genre? I think not.
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