What Do People Think Of The Oscars?

[akirajoel]

Loadsa people seem to think that they're some kind of mark of serious artistic merit - and that if a film wins an oscar then thats the best thing in the world and is well deserved or some such thing and that if a film misses out then their must be something wrong with it.

I hate oscars - and think that most oscar winning films are rubbish and generally rely on large gloups of excessive sentimentally. They generally follow the same formula of rich beautiful actors playing ugly. And are based on outdated notions of what a film is somehow supposed to do.

Of course there can be occasions when good films win oscars - but thats just the laws of probabilty in action. Typically its the dross that wins the day.

Reckon that only stupid people think that they're a definite sign of a film being good.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

ShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShitShit

with the occasional gold nugget.

 

[London_Calling]

Fantastic self-promotion by the Industry. Means feck all in any other context.

 

[kyser_soze]

The only thing I care about is improving on my fucking awful Oscar party score from last year.

And the red carpet coverage to slag off the frocks.

 

[akirajoel]

Phrases that get my goat:

"...surely deserves an Oscar..."
"...would be criminal if it doesn't win an Oscar..."
"...well-won Oscar..."

Etc.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I agree. Often really cheesy films win while great films are ignored.

In fact being an Oscar winner can put me off a film as much as encourage me to watch it. A good example being Million Dollar Baby, which I put off for ages on the grounds that it was an 'Oscar film'. It was actually quite good in the end.

 

[CharlieAddict]

"I'll like to thank all the producers and film agents that allowed me to suck their cocks for this role. God bless you all."

 

[electrogirl]

I like the dresses.

 

[Badgers]

Crap but I watch it!

 

[kyser_soze]

I long for true interactive TV that had software that did live morphing and was hooked up into stuff like light guns or a virtual golf club so you could shoot and see say, Greeny Poltroon's brains smeared all over the podium while she's still blubbing after firing at the screen...

 

[electrogirl]

Crap but I watch it!

The whole thing? I tried to do that once but it was soooo boring. There are so many awards I didn't know or care about..

 

[bmd]

The Oscars should be renamed to 'The english language film promo event with a token foreign film thrown in awards'.

Shit.

 

[Mrs Bradley]

The Oscars have always been too long and overblown, give me the BAFTAS anyday - plus we have Stephen Fry as presenter (gawd bless him)

 

[Snufkin]

John Stewart is presenting the Oscars this year.

 

[akirajoel]

He's wicked.

 

[Juice Terry]

Its certainly no guarrantee of whether a film is good or not.

On the one hand you have classics like Midnight Cowboy, Cuckoos Nest and Deerhunter on the other Forest Gump, Shakespeare in Love and Titanic.

 

[shoddysolutions]

Top 5 Oscars of all time, in no particular order:

1. Oscar Kokoschka
2. Oscar Goldman
3. Oscar Wilde
4. Oscar Peterson
5. Oscar Puffin

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Top 5 Oscars of all time, in no particular order:

1. Oscar Kokoschka
2. Oscar Goldman
3. Oscar Wilde
4. Oscar Peterson
5. Oscar Puffin

Where's Oscar de la Renta?

 

[shoddysolutions]

Where's Oscar de la Renta?

7th place, just behind Oscar the grouch

 

[MysteryGuest]

I think they're very nice.

 

[jugularvein]

they'd be good if they gave the prizes to the right people and the right films