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In Reply to: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink posted by clarkjohnsen on March 16, 2004 at 14:23:06:
I enjoy the award shows - not because they're awarding the best films which rarely happens but because they are for some strange reason enjoyable. More so the predictions and arguments preceding and following.The smaller award shows such as Cannes are a different beast. There are three main groups of films. Films as entertainments - giant roller coaster films that are fun while you watch - Alla Raiders of the Lost Ark or B-grade horror films you laugh at - art films attempting to be cerebral - some work most don't which is why only a minority hold the to high regard. Then there are the crossover which manage to entertain and be cerebral.
There are good and bad in all three groups...to not recognize one group or to devalue one group is shallow mindedness.
The Academy is an example of this not rewarding comedies or horror films because they're deemed "Lower" than some other form. I agree they are lower in that the best drama is generally better than the best comedy or should be weighted higher. But most years a black comedy or some other genre is done as well as it can be done and it will lose to something like Ghandi.
There is a reason tha E.T. gets a wide theatrical release every decade...one is it can sell more tickets to each new generation, the other is that it tells such a wide appealing story and is a master at that story that people will go and watch it again. The kids in 1982 will now take their own kids to see it.
The notion of a classic or a masterpiece can fit few other films than Jaws or E.T. Movies that some dim witted individuals passed of as nothing more than thriller or special effects movies continue to be popular well after the special effects. Jaws and E.T. don't hold up any longer(even with the few touch ups). Films that are nearly 25 and 30 years old still managing to impact "MOST" movie goers is impressive no matter how a few in the minority whine.
And contrary to their conceited belief systems it is not just the unwashed masses who revere them. This is different than a film which grosses lots of cash and is forgotten three years down the road. Ace Ventura like McMovies. People go to movies because there isn't much else to do and it's still relatively inixpensive - just because a movie makes lots of cash doesn't mean the people who went to see it LIKED it.
Films that get re-released to a wide audience ten year later and then 20 years later however does. Even cult hits like Rocky Horror Picture have their audiences that see more in it than I but ti means something to them.
A Clockwork Orange is always re-released down here - not a wide release but I bet it's not the only city. At least they nominated it - shows the Academy had something going for it.
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- Re: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink - RGA 13:43:34 03/17/04 (7)
- Vancouver Canada. NT - RGA 20:55:14 03/17/04 (0)
- Re: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink - Victor Khomenko 14:53:25 03/17/04 (4)
- Re: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink - RGA 20:53:18 03/17/04 (3)
- Re: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink - Victor Khomenko 04:12:41 03/18/04 (2)
- Gladiator was a POS - RGA 21:56:18 03/18/04 (1)
- BTW - RGA 22:11:34 03/18/04 (0)
- Pretty much agree. Where's "down here"? nt - clarkjohnsen 14:33:17 03/17/04 (0)
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