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This year’s Oscars and more reasons why not to see movies in theaters
March 8th, 2006
The goal of this year’s 78th Annual Academy Awards was to keep things classy and show that the award show hasn’t lost touch with today’s movie-goers. The results however, were the complete opposite: an inappropriate host, poor choices for Oscar winners and pleading to movie-goers to see movies in theaters.
Let’s start with the host, Jon Stewart. Now, I’m a fan of The Daily Show and his work, but from when he was announced to host the show, it was clear the he wasn’t the right person for the job. In the end, he succeeded in doing what he does best. But of course critics were negative of this because he didn’t do things like past hosts. I really don’t know why they expected him to. Chris Rock last year was in the same situation and could be considered more successful than Stewart only because he wasn’t really himself.
“And the Oscar for best film goes to… Brokeback Mou — I mean, Crash?!”
— What everyone was thinking
Yes, Crash (or a worthy sequel to Grand Canyon), a movie that deals with racial issues that are still evident in today’s society and not to mention a movie that has a broader audience appeal than one about two gay cowboys. I saw Crash and do consider it a really good movie that everyone should see. I also don’t have anything against gay cowboys. But, the reason the ‘Oscar Buzz’ was around Brokeback Mountain as the clear winner is because everyone knows that’s the type of movie the Oscar is normally given to.
And winner for best song, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” by Oscar-award-winning 3-6 Mafia from the movie Hustle & Flow. A deserving win. At least that’s what someone like me would think since I’m in the 18-24 year old demographic. Which is what they were going for along with marking down the day in history they gave an Oscar to hip-hop music.
“A director doesn’t shoot a scene thinking, ‘won’t that look great on the DVD.’”
— President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Yes he does. Since the boom of DVDs, studios have taken into consideration DVD sales when budgeting the production of a movie.
There were other ridiculous comments made towards getting people to see movies a theater, or more accurately a multiplex. Jake Gyllenhaal couldn’t even say his line about portable DVD players with a straight face. No-one mentioned anything about home theater systems, probably because they couldn’t think of any argument against them. And the reminiscing of the old days of going to see movies in theaters has no relevance to today’s movie-goers. Younger audiences fully embrace new technology to see movies in other ways and older audiences realize that “they don’t make ‘em like they used to”.
Tags: ideas, movies, oscars, theaters
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