Everything wrong turned out right
“This year, producers and actors went for Little Miss Sunshine, directors liked The Departed, and the Globes went with Babel. So the Bagger can confidently say, with all the authority of his one year of experience, that The Win in best picture is up for grabs.
“If Little Miss were to sneak past the best the studios and their specialty divisions had to offer, it would be yet another message that the longshot is sometimes the best shot. Everything that was wrong about this film turned out to be the right. Too many cooks came up with something audiences loved and at least some factions of the Academy find compelling.” — from David Carr‘s riff about Sunday night’s SAG Awards and what that ceremony (possibly) foretells.
It’s down to two: Little Miss Sunshine and Babel. So basically, it’s down to nothing special.
I actually despised this film. I saw it on DVD, and boy am I glad I didn’t spend money to see it at a theater. If this thing wins, I’ll be able to sympathize with how ticked off people were last year when Crash won and they had hated that.
Please please please don’t win.
I didn’t hate the movie at all but for the Academy to possibly call it “the best picture of the year” FOREVER is really a lot to swallow. Hopefully they will vote with that in mind: Twenty years from now will society look back on the best movie of 2006 and feel comfortable with the choice? Little Miss Sunshine’s win is in its nominations.
I don’t know why we’re so surprised an unworthy film is likely to win Best Picture. Last year, the absolutely worst film to ever even get nominated ended up winning. And run down a list of recent winners: A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, Gladiator, American Beauty, etc. Mediocrity abounds.
My, David Carr certainly is being presumptuous considering that the DGA haven’t announced their winner yet.