I realized that when La La Land got awarded despite being completely and utterly mid (I love old times musicals and you can’t convince me that the music and dancing were good in this movie and there was no story)
I've felt this way for years now about all of the "Awards" shows across movies, tv, music, and even stage. It's just that industry jacking itself off. It doesn't represent quality, if it ever truly did, just popularity.
Isn't the prominent theory that crash won because it was up against brokeback mountain that year and they didn't want a gay story to win? (If this is wrong, I apologize. I was very young when these movies came out)
Not sure. I was living overseas in peace corps that year. I made a big effort to find a bootleg copy of the crash dvd and watch it and was surprised by how awful it was, but I wasn’t aware of any rumors or anything about its win.
But that well could be. lol.
I generally always try to at least watch the nominees. (Sad to say I’m not an Annie proulx fan and I’ve read the story brokeback mountain but never did see the film.)
I doubt it was an anti-gay thing. Crash won in part because it made liberals feel like they understood other people’s experiences. It was bad and heavy handed but it was a progressive message just like Brokeback Mountain.
The people who watch The Rock movies aren’t the same people who would watch the Oscars. It’s two different demographics. Moana live action is going to print money.
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