Drinking Again

“The fact of the matter is that this Oscar race is a wake-up call to what the awards really stand for…nothing. They get it wrong more than they get it right…FACT. In the past decade we have been spoiled by Oscar winners that didn’t fit the usual Oscar cliche. It led many to think we were seeing the rebirth of the Oscars and ‘could we finally respect their decisions’? If The Social Network, Inception or Black Swan wins then yes, the Oscars will have turned a new leaf. If The King’s Speech or The Fighter wins then no, the Oscars are the Oscars.” — Awards Daily‘s Sasha Stone quoting a 15 year-old kid from New Zealand, in an “editorial” called “Why Mark Zuckerberg Was Always Destined To Get No Further Than The Oscar Bike Room.”

Or, as I’ve put it a few times…forget it. I’ve said it too often. I feel like a condemned man sitting in a cell with some crackers, a hunk of brie cheese and a bottle of white wine, waiting to be hung.

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29 thoughts on “Drinking Again”

  2. Oh good grief! People are being slaughtered in Libya and in our country, rights are being voted away by a party that knows not what it does but seems intent on doing it anyway. The oscars are so down on the list of things to be concerned about………let the toothless wonders have their night of phony glamour and dopey choices and have a good laugh on it. Actually crackers, brie cheese and a good bottle of whine sound about right.

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  3. Really looking forward to Sunday, both because I love watching the Oscars, and so we can stop endlessly debating this shit. There are a million more interesting things to talk about. In the 15 years or so I’ve really been into movies, my favorite film of the year has won Best Picture exactly once: No Country For Old Men. So as far as I’m concerned they get it wrong pretty much every year. The best movie of last year was Inception, hands down, followed by True Grit.

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  4. I agree–the Oscars will NOT redeem itself if THE KING’S SPEECH, THE FIGHTER or THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT win for Best Picture. It’ll just confirm that it’s still being run by a bunch of old geezers.

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  5. I’m not sure how a ‘Kids Are All Right’ win means the geezers are still in charge. Did the older voters suddenly change their minds about films centered around gay people?

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  6. That’s interesting, Breedlove. I’d say in the 30 years I’ve been very interested in movies, my favorite has won only three times: Schindler’s List, Shakespeare in Love and The Departed. Inception could make it a fourth, but I doubt it.

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  8. Hey, Jeff, I’ve been trying to tell you for a year or so that the OSCARS MEAN NOTHING. I am glad you finally agree, but what about all those thousands of column inches that seem to indicate otherwise??

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  10. Haven’t watched the Oscars in four years. If it was two hours, then yes, maybe. It’s so fucking drawn out, can’t stand it. I will read a book and find out who won Monday morning. Of course all the talk on tv will be who won/who wore what/who went to which party.

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  13. “Hey, Jeff, I’ve been trying to tell you for a year or so that the OSCARS MEAN NOTHING. I am glad you finally agree”

    I have to invoke Lee Corso with a “Not so fast, my friend”. This has come up on threads on this site over the past few weeks, and Jeff has made it very clear that he believes that the Oscars DO mean something–that there is some historical footnote that will always cast some ray of favorable light on a film that wins Best Picture. From where I sit, there are simply too many Dances With Wolves and Crash and Chicago’s–Chicago!!??–to legimitize the award.

    No doubt, there is a minor industry that is created every January and February over debates and prognostitations, and I’m sure it drives traffic to websites that cater to the frenzy. But does the Oscar really mean anything? Other than receiving the introduction “Ladies and Gentlemen, Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding Jr.” at the next chicken and peas banquet you are working, no.

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  14. Could we GET any more melodramatic? I’ve said it before but TSN really is not THAT much better than TKS. Personally I am apathetic to both. I would be much more happy to see Black Swan take it home- which of course, doesn’t stand a chance.

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  15. The Oscars mean what they’ve always meant. It’s a very small group of people who try to out spend each other, to push their product. Has very little to do with “let’s honor the best.” With so many beautifully made movies made each year, how can anyone say one is better than the other? Years ago, Liz Taylor won for Butterfield 8. Not because it was the best performance. She came close to death that year, after they snubbed her the year before, because she “stole” Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds. They now felt sorry for her, so she won for a so-so movie. Anyone remember Butterfield 8? It’s a silly insiders game…always has been. The key word there is “game.”

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  16. Alright gang — let’s own up to it.

    Who placed the inception in bill weber’s head to be an insufferable, humorless douchebag in this thread?

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  17. C’mon. Could THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT be any more sugar-coated for the old geezers? Let’s thorw in a little bi-sexuality to appease the old timers (or anyone with old-fashioned, traditional values) that one day a woman can be gay and the next day she can be straight. Isn’t that what these old geezers want to think? That gay can change their sexual orientation this easily? But in all honesty, my common denominator amongst THE KING’S SPEECH, THE FIGHTER and THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT is that they’re all weak films. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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  18. Isn’t that what these old geezers want to think? That gay can change their sexual orientation this easily?

    yes there are plenty of old geezers who think “gay” can change their orientation at the drop of a hat, of course the characters are bisexual so I don’t know what “change” you’re referring to here

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  19. so has there been an unusual number of deaths in the Academy this year, or an unusually high influx of new members? Otherwise I have no idea how anyone could conclude a Social Network victory would represent a sea change and not another Best Picture winner taking home the prize for the same reasons as every other Best Picture winner.

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  20. The oscars were terrible this year, the people that pick those awards are just.. bad.

    I guess it does just confirm that they are all old geezers. They definitely went for the safe bet on the documentary as well, exit through the gift shop was one of the most interesting films I’ve seen in that genre in the last couple years.

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