Like a curtain pulled back to expose an ugly truth, the resolution of the writer’s strike comes just in time to save, potentially, the most nondescript and blasé Academy Awards show in recent memory.
And I LOVE movies and I’m not impressed with this year’s nominees.
One of the big problems that the Academy Awards has this year is that many of the nominated films have little true starpower.
While Daniel Day-Lewis gives an amazing performance in “There Will Be Blood,” not a lot of people have seen the film and the ones who did weren’t that impressed. Other smaller films such as “Juno,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “No Country For Old Men,” “The Savages,” “Away From Her” and “Atonement” are not films that make people sprint to the box office.
Aside from George Clooney and Johnny Depp, the major acting categories don’t have any other actors that public truly clamors for.
Maybe 2007 was a bad year; maybe recognizable names such as Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington not being nominated took away some of the star power.
At the end of the day, the Oscar’s are just another excuse for studios to make more money promoting their “award-winning films,” while Oscar winners can demand more money for future projects. We get to see hopefully and entertaining show, which most years runs entirely too long.
Also, with Ruby Dee as the only Black Oscar nominee with a small chance to win, the show takes on even more of a sense of abandonment than usual.
Whatever it is, this year’s show just feels like something I’ll watch because I have to instead of it being the other way around.
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