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⌈ Secret Post #2546 ⌋

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Comments

[writerserenyty]

I think she's a good actress, and I adored Silver Linings Playbook, but I don't think that was really an Oscar worthy performance (IMO Bradley Cooper was better in that movie). But it was probably the good old "well we didn't give her an Oscar for Winter's Bone so.... now it's time!" logic that dictates so much of the Oscars lately.

[sootyowl]

All of this.

The Oscars on a whole are a joke now.

[writerserenyty]

I mean, I generally like them sometimes, but there's so much politics involved that it's never REALLY picking the best movie/actor/etc. Like Argo winning last year; I saw it, and it was a fine movie. But would it have been picked if people didn't think Ben Affleck had been snubbed?

I think the nominations are generally good guidelines of some of the best movies of the year (despite Avatar getting nominated...), but the winners aren't always representative.

[sootyowl]

I will watch the Oscars, but they really are politics that don't have much merit in what movie/actor etc is the best. I always just picture a bunch of older people in a room drinking wine and eating cheese, while looking at a big white board that says "who needs more Oscars and who we owe an Oscar to." Then it all comes down to picking names out of a hat.

I do think they are good guidelines, like you said, but I don't think winning an Oscar is such an exalted award as they make it to be.

[silvereriena]

My mom and I only watch the Oscars for the dresses, really. :D

[sootyowl]

The before and after shows are the best :)

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, I think you're right about the Oscar being for "Winter's Bone". But,unfortunately, that seems to be the way the Oscars work. Whoops, looks like we missed the boat - fix it this year. See "Chicago" winning Best Picture in lieu of the far superior "Moulin Rouge".

And, grrr, this Oscar talk just reminded me that Peter O'Toole never won an Oscar (honoraries are meant to rectify oversights). Travesty!

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, was Moulin Rouge seriously considered for an Oscar? I'd never heard of it until a year or two ago (when Luhrman's Gatsy was announced), and I just watched it over the summer and found it overall pretty mediocre.

[(Anonymous)]

Moulin Rouge was awful.

[(Anonymous)]

But I agree with the AYRT that it was a superior movie to Chicago.

Renee Zellwegger was not the right choice for Roxie.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I thought Bradley was horrible in this (but then I think he's a terrible actor). The movie was boring as hell until Jen arrived for me.

[(Anonymous)]

"Lately"? The Oscars have *always* been like that! Even Elizabeth Taylor admitted she won her Oscar for BUtterfield 8 in 1960 because she'd nearly died the year before (from peritonitis, I believe). See also Ellen Burstyn, who should've won for The Exorcist in 1973 but ended up winning the following year for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The Academy *frequently* plays catchup with worthy nominees.