Awkward Commas
28/02/2011
“ I think that Steven Spielberg had the best quote of the night when he said the Best Picture winner will go on to join the ranks of great movies and the also-rans will join the ranks of even better movies that didn’t win either. The King’s Speech is now on par with Gone with the Wind (which we had to suffer a completely superfluous montage of at the top of the show), but it is also in the same league as Crash, Around the World in 80 Days and a bunch of other bullshit movies that people don’t think are good anymore. Again, the Oscars are an institution, so they are slow to change and often don’t make the right decisions. But the culture at large will judge, slowly over time, which movies were great this year, and The Social Network (or Winter’s Bone or Black Swan) might be the film they’re studying in 2153 at The University of New Miami as a watershed moment in cinema. „
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