When I saw the Oscars over the weekend, I thought âœwow, this is lame.â And apparently, Iâ™m not alone. Mainstream journalists pointed out Jon Stewart was the best part of the show and the these Hollywood celebrities are way out of touch. I have to agree. Despite Stewartâ™s valiant efforts, the show was more like a funeral service than a glitzy celebration of movies. And the acceptance speeches were as stiff and wooden as a corpse laid out on a slab. Reese Withspoonâ™s acceptance speech was nauseatingly fake and obviously practiced. This is not what we want or care about from movies.
I donâ™t give two shits about Crash or what ever the âœimportantâ movie du jour is. The movies I saw and liked were totally snubbed â“ King Kong, Batman Begins, Mirrormask and â¦The Goblet of Fire. Yep, Iâ™m a geek and you know what, weâ™re the only ones who even care about movies anymore. They ignore us and yet Hollywood canâ™t figure out why no one is buying tickets.
Anyway, back to the awards show. They kept showing montages over and over again of Hollywood classics. I couldnâ™t help but think I was watching some old geezer getting out his photo album to say âœlook how cool I was in my prime!â And speaking of living in the past - the pres of the Academy blathered on about how great movies are in the theater and that no one will ever want to watch movies at home. Wow, didnâ™t anyone tell him, TVs came out in the middle of the last century? Once Apple gets around to fully launching their movie download service and set-top media box, movie theaters will die. And you know what, most people wonâ™t care.
The movie industry, as it is today, is doomed.
- Hollywood is Doomed
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shanesemler- March 7th, 2006
- Power of the Dark Crystal
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- shanesemler
- February 15th, 2006
This might be old news to some but it's new to me and I'm excited about it - Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory) is directing the sequel to The Dark Crystal! The Dark Crystal is at the top of my list of favorite movies and I think it's awesome that Jim Henson Company has the guts, imagination and intelligence to get a talented cartoon producer like Tartakovsky to work on this project. This is super cool news! Read about it here!
