April 14th
Finally, this site is updated. April is films about rabbits month so stay tuned to see which films I’ve chosen for recommendation. In the coming weeks I’ll also be working on getting up some reviews I haven’t posted or written yet.
I saw on the news today that Sigourney Weaver said something to the fact that Kathryn Bigelow only won the oscar because she was a woman and because the academy likes to award small films that no one sees. Fact: Hurt Locker is amazing. I don’t care who directed it, if you forget for a minute who did direct it you can see it’s masterfully put together and well controlled. I don’t care if a kid directed it. Bigelow did a better job creating a cohesive, strong, moving human drama than any of the other directors nominated. Fact: the academy tends not to give the big awards to animated films, or even comedies for that matter. That doesn’t mean Avatar should have won. I’ll say this once – Avatar is crap filmmaking at it’s best. The best of the worst crap out there. Poor dialogue, no story, no real “acting”, it’s basically a cartoon. Way to go Cameron, you have yet again produced another piece of self-indulgent tripe. Fact: Sigourney Weaver doesn’t know good filmmaking, she is after all, an actor – in a James Cameron “film”. Even Jason Reitman knows Bigelow’s win was well-deserved and I usually don’t have good things to say about him but at least he knows a masterful piece of art when he sees it and acknowledges it as such.
I’m glad the Hurt Locker beat out Avatar. Who cares if it’s a small film? Just because a film cost millions of dollars to make and made billions at the box office doesn’t mean it’s a landmark in cinema? It just means people are transfixed by the hype surrounding it and are too stupid to know a genuine film from a genuine piece of crap.