The Oscars
Ya know, I kinda just don't care this year. My interests have their peaks and troughs, even the career worthy one, and I haven't felt like doing much movie going lately. I think the only movies I've seen in theaters in the past two and a half months are Frost/Nixon and Coraline. What this has highlighted for me is how counter-productively
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And yeah, WALL-E should win best picture, and agreed on "best animated" being a ghetto. It's the same sort of bullshit as when Gaiman's Midsummer Night's Dream won a World Fantasy Award and then they disqualified all comics. Actually, it's even worse than that, given that the argument with the WFA was that a combination of words and pictures conveys meaning on a different level to the point that it's unfair to compare the two. I can almost get behind that.
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Part of the problem is me I think. I saw Oliver Stone's Nixon when I was 11, and I watched it with my Dad, who protested at the capitol during the war. Watching that movie was like being imprinted with a natural enemy, and the enemy was Anthony Hopkins' rendition of Nixon, the King Lear version if you will. So Langella, great actor though he is, just doesn't seem right as Nixon to me. I have the same problem with Philip Baker Hall in Secret Honor, which I should by rights love since it's an Altman movie. (In defense of my Dad he took me to see Nixon because I was the sort of kid who liked to leaf through the house library's copies of The Pentagon Papers and The Watergate Hearings for fun)
Objectively speaking though I actually have ethical objections to how Ron Howard presented the story. Peter Morgan's screenplay is fine; just like he did with The Queen he tells a great story by imagining the inner motivations of a public figure (For instance he made up the late night Frost/Nixon phone call), but ( ... )
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