"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house." --Fran Lebowitz
"Willful ignorance comes at a price." --A. Tecacca

16 February 2016

Why all this consternation about the Academy Awards?

It's a moribund, irrelevant, self-congratulatory circle jerk intended to squeeze more money out of a gullible public in order to grab even more grotesque profits from grotesquely-expensive 'films'. It rewards achievement you say: really? Titanic, Gandhi, Roberto Benigni, Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8.  The whole system is best represented by those jarring out-of-place songs over the final credits that are completely out of character with the content or mood of the movie: inserted merely to troll for a nomination in yet another category and thus the potential for more filthy lucre.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You haven't lived until you pay 5 bucks for a coke and 10 for a bag of stale popcorn greased up with rodent feces flavored / speckled butter while watching the latest flick on the first night at the theatre so that any spoiler alert about the movie cannot yet be printed on social media by those nasty young millennial buggers. All part of that rich American Hollywood experience / schtick.