Yeah. People are always saying how TV sucks right now, but I don't remember there being better shows on tv. There will always be crap but theres still a lot of smart, funny television.Originally Posted by gwahir
Yeah. People are always saying how TV sucks right now, but I don't remember there being better shows on tv. There will always be crap but theres still a lot of smart, funny television.
I was dissapointed not to see it nominated. 8 nominations is still good but I was hoping to see it get a best picture nod and maybe a nod for best director. I haven't seen many movies this year, so I cannot complain too much, but sometimes you feel that the academy can be snooty to certain genres. Action movies aren't always known for their pure awesomeness and are usually meant for adrenaline rushes.
Dark Knight was different in my opinion. It broke the mould for the superhero/action genre, the very fact it has an oscar buzz is credit to just how good a movie it was. And let us not forget, it still got 8 nominations.
I am annoyed at the tendancy for the academy to go for drama's. By all accounts Slumdog Millionaire is a superb film but the rest of the movies I have seen very mixed reviews. There were some mixed reviews of the Dark Knight but they were largely positive, it is in the top 10 on IMDB, Empire had a top 100 movies list, it was in the top 20 if I remember right, it is either the 2nd or 3rd highest grossing film of all time, whilst this isn't really a measure of quality, I mention it to highlight the point that this movie generated alot of buzz and for that I'd have liked to seen it get nominated.
That isn't to say the academy didn't just disregard it because it was a Batman movie, but sometimes you wonder. I wonder what a superhero would need to do to win a best picture Oscar. With the fantasy genre, it took the LOTR, which in my opinion was one of the best movie trilogies ever made. The fantasy genre does have alot of crap movies, and it took something LOTR special to get a move from that genre noticed. It was benchmark epic. Even then the first 2 movies lost out on best picture which annoyed me. Whilst ROTK was awesome, I actually thought the first 2 were better movies. Some people said ROTK did so well at the oscars because the first 2 had been ignored to an extent. My point being, these films probably weren't treated with the respect and fairness other movies would have got and I think a large part of that is down to genre and snootiness/favouritism towards certain genres.
The 21st century has seen the best and the worst television there's ever been.
All of the arts suffer from this "classicist" syndrome. Theatre (especially musicals -- god how people long for the day of Rogers and Hammerstein), TV, movies, literature and art art. Everyone goes around saying how nothing good is made in any of these fields any more.
The only one of those about which that statement is even vaguely true is literature (books), I think, and it's only got some truth to it.
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