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Stop me if you've heard this one: What does a Grateful Dead fan say when you take away his drugs? "This band sucks!"
It's sort of how I felt watching the Oscars. For the first time in years, I had no money on it. So I just watched it as a show. And boy is it boring.
Making it even duller, almost every favorite won. Luckily, there were two moments when the unexpected happened, and they almost saved the evening.
First, for best song, Three 6 Mafia won for "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp." Wonderful. (I could hear the sound of millions across America clicking off the TV at that point.)
That held me for a while. Then, when it looked like there wouldn't be a surprise for any of the big awards, the biggest of all was an upset. Crash beat out favorite Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture. If you're gonna have an upset, that's the time to do it. Well done.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:25 AM
1 Comments:
I get your point, but I do feel, on an aesthetic level, there's something special about seeing movies in a theatre, and I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to make that case. Showing special moments, even from old movies, was an attempt to get across the spectacle and big emotions that movies are best at producing.
As a commercial factor, by the way, Hollywood is frightened by its vanishing audience. Maybe they're mistaken--maybe DVD sales and the like will more than make up for the lost revenues--but for quite a while, theatrical gross has been the engine that runs the revenue machine. Big DVD sales, for instance, generally follow big theatrical.
Also, let's face it, there's a hierarchy in Hollywood, and the last thing the Oscar people want are everyone to watch their product first on the home screen. Once that happens, they might as well be giving out (ugh) Emmys.
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