Don’t mind me folks. Just not running optimally well the last few days.
Hope to be of more value this week.
I will say this – went to “Build A Bear” with my kids yesterday… one of the other fathers turned to me and said “Gee, they sure have some racket going here, don’t they?”
And how, brother… and how.
Haven’t even bothered to look at the Academy Awards. Stopped caring a long time ago. Once, I recall people caring.
At some point the actors and actresses that were showing up were a lot like an eight year old that says something clever at a dinner party and gets a roomful of laughs. Then, devouring the attention, they begin repeating themselves in a doomed attempt to get still more attention using the same lines and behavior, and after a while become really quite odd as their neediness consumes all the good spirits in the room. And these man-child and women-child stars are left still rather clueless as to the source of any value that their work may have had, but continue on, under the false belief that it was some amazing virtue that is inherent in the makeup of their being.
Yes, there are some actors and actresses that I think are absolutely amazing, but those are one in ten thousand, and the rest ought to know better.
I’ve heard all the ridiculous reasons for the hosts they’ve picked and the material they’ve allowed over the years, and trying to keep it relevant to the younger crowd and fresh is about as lame a reason for putting on a classless show as I can think of. Where’s the dignity and sense of decorum? At what point did being devoid of class become synonymous with entertainment?
Yeah, I’m with ya, LK. I quit paying attention to the Academy Awards years ago. I did notice this morning in the news that The King’s Speech won best picture, and that at least is a bright spot. For once in the last few years, it seems to me, they’ve picked a movie that truly deserves the award, rather than being something that wins because the hollywood powers that be are using it to shove their political viewpoint down the collective throat of the public.
I would venture to say that much of today’s cinematic fare is crass and over the top gross and vulgar. There’s very little in the way of comedy nowadays that I like. I’m really sick of the Adam Sandler school of comedy, with grown men trying to be funny by acting like kids and making fart jokes. Whatever happened to dialogue and situations that were truly witty and clever?
I’m not saying entertainment needs to be prudish, not by any means. But certainly they can apply more intelligence and wit to their scripts.
WHAT??!! Black Swan didn’t win Best Picture?? Oh man, that’s terrible! *Slashes wrists*
LK, at least you made it out of the house at all, much less with the chitlins.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve gotten so burned out of the Hollyweird thing. To paraphrase my former boss, Hollywood is “a self-licking ice cream cone”. They feed their own narcissistic tendencies, and don’t produce anything of particular value, other than movies, tv, and lots of noise, signifying nothing. The entertainment industry is just that, for producing entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. And if the masses choose to look at another form of entertainment, or if the entertainment becomes too costly and they quit consuming, the entertainment industry needs to change its business model. But as proven by the audio recording industry, the entertainment industry refuses to change its paradigm and adjust to a new generation. It is no longer hard or expensive to produce decent animation and special effects using computers. So why does it cost more and more to produce a movie? All of the union salaries, maybe? Dunno.
Imagine: the cost to make one blockbuster movie could send the Shuttle to orbit several times over. At least we would get some tangible return for the Shuttle flight, not just a few hours of entertainment. And propaganda… But that’s for another rant.