I didn't watch the Oscars, but somebody who did and knew I only cared about "Flow" gave me this minimalistic update:
Here's a Hollywood Reporter report about what I see was an upset: "Independent Movie ’Flow’ Wins Best Animated Feature in Upset/‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘The Wild Robot’ from powerhouses Disney and DreamWorks were also nominated in the category."
“I am really moved by the warm reception,” said [director Gints] Zilbalodis while accepting the Oscar. “I am hoping it will open doors to independent animation or filmmakers around the world.”
Flow cost a reported $3.7 million to make. By comparison, DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot cost $78 million and Disney’s Inside Out 2 cost $200 million.... Flow also made history becoming the first Latvian film to win at the Oscars... After the win, host Conan O’Brien joked: “Your move, Estonia.”
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It reminds me only of some Vaudeville joke about wanting to see the old lady Flo again. Can't google it owing to countless post menopausal articles interfering.
"Can't google it owing to countless post menopausal articles interfering."
This is what A.I. is for.
I was rooting for the latest Wallace and Gromit feature, but with 3 statues and 3 more nominations already I can see recognizing another animator with an Oscar.
Nobody watches the Oscars and apparently the movies the Oscars are about.
Good riddance.
I saw "The Substance." It was not a bad film, but it didn't seem like anything special. There have been too many sci-fi or futuristic horror films for anything to really stand out. Speaking of sci-fi, I also saw "Dune: Part II." If you're a fan of the novels you might love it, but it seems to me like the film world is so saturated with "Star Wars" knockoffs that it's hard to get enthusiastic about the movie.
This weekend I watched "The Apprentice." Jeremy Strong was quite good as Roy Cohn. But Roy Cohn, or somebody playing Roy Cohn could always create a stir. You don't need to be a great actor to get attention in that role. The actor playing Trump struck me as a non-entity. He wasn't much like Trump. I understand that they didn't just want to do an impersonation, but I didn't see much value in this performance.
The reviews were all written from an anti-Trump point of view and the few reviewers who didn't like the movie disapproved because they thought it was not anti-Trump enough. The film was not bad at the beginning where the young, naive Trump falls under Cohn's influence, but it fell apart in the second part where Trump has become so much like Cohn that he rejects his former mentor. The script was lousy and the plot contrived. Throughout the film there wasn't much thought given to distinguishing what was true from what wasn't, and what was damning compared to what was life as usual.
For example, after the sickly Roy Cohn leaves Mar-a-lago, we get a scene of servants spraying disinfectants in the dining room and scrubbing down the wheelchair Cohn used. The point apparently was to show Trump's callousness, but did Trump order this? Was this atypical in the early days of AIDS (or COVID)? Might it not be standard procedure even now to clean wheelchairs after they are used?
Th Dylan movie is pretty good. And xlnt if your musical life was changed by his first three albums.
Flow won because it was original, uniquely animated and left the viewer with profound questions unlike the other “major” studio releases that were cookie cutter obvious in plot and direction. The main thing about the film was the proof that you don’t need to spend a hundred million dollars to produce a winner, as long as it has vision. A rare good guy win.
Most disappointing award was Adrian Brodie for best actor - his earlier collaboration and win with Polanski disqualified him from any semblance of human decency and the overarching ideal of the film he won in this year was utter woke trash. (Chalamet should have won for the Dylan biopic)
Lazarus said...
Speaking of sci-fi, I also saw "Dune: Part II." If you're a fan of the novels you might love it, but it seems to me like the film world is so saturated with "Star Wars" knockoffs that it's hard to get enthusiastic about the movie.
I guess it can seem that way, but I think it really demonstrates how much Star Wars actually borrowed from the Dune novels.
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