I miss the days when movies like The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Unforgiven, Schindler’s List, Silence of the Lambs, Patton, Rocky, The Departed, Forrest Gump, Platoon, etc won Best Picture. You know actual great movies that will be remembered forever not overrated shit like this movie, Green Book, The Artist, Moonlight, Nomadland, etc that people have already forgotten about
shareRealize that an entire new generation of dumbed down Academy jurors are calling the shots.
shareIt's one thing that a film like this wins the Best Picture, but to sweep the board as well? This was no more than a poorer imitation of The Matrix played for laughs, only The Matrix never even got nominated whereas this one wins BP.
Film quality is generally going down but it isn't just that this is an overrated, not especially great movie, it's that there are clear politics involved with the Oscars. It's become a sham. We all know if Top Gun had a much more ethnic cast it would probably be sharing the awards with EEAAO now. Black Panther is a great example, being the only comic book/superhero movie nominated for an Oscar, when it wouldn't even make a top 20 of best movies of that genre. Because of the race of its cast it gets elevated.
Back in the day I dared to say that while I didn't think Black Panther was a bad movie, it wasn't good enough to be nominated for best picture. I guess you know what kind of card was played by its fans to dismiss my criticism.
shareYeah. Sometimes I think about it too.
Best Picture used to be about Great movies. The ones everyone knew about, saw and remember 20 ears later. Now in the past 15 years that category downgranded so much. From having Schindler's List and Forrest Gump as winners they now have Coda and Moonlight - movies no one saw or heard of. Then they wonder why no one watches their stupid award show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture
I look back at past winners and I think Great Downfall started around 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire) or 2009 (The Hurt Locker). That when they started giving award to some random small budget boring movies no one cares about.
But the early signs were even back in 2004 (Million Dollar Baby) and 2005 (Crash). 2004 probably should have gone to The Aviator and 2005 to Brokeback Mountain. At least those movies left impression in history. While those who won were forgotten next week.
And big problem also is - Hollywood doesnt make movies scale of Gladiator, Rain Man, Forrest Gump and Titanic anymore. They simply dont have what to chose from. Now there are only Comic books movies that make money and some low budget pretensions crap. And nothing in between like Dances with Wolves, A Few Good Men, The Fugitive, The Shawshank Redemption, L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, The Green Mile - movies who would not be super-blockbusters but will star movie stars and be interesting and memorable and made some decent money.
When you look back at Best Pisture nominees - from 1987 to 2002 it was peak Hollywood. So many legendary movies among nominees.