It seems every year there's at least (but usually) one film that pisses me off for 2 reasons. 1) It got made. 2) It's getting recognized by the Academy with a ton of nominations.
Last year it was American Hustle, this year it's Boyhood.
Last year was a great outcome. American Hustle got nominated for a bunch of Oscars, critics drinking the kool aid raved about it, and for some reason it had a ton of buzz around it. I guess some of that was the heat coming off of Silver Linings Playbook, for David O. Russell, J-Law, and Brad-Coop. American Hustle sucked. I couldn't remember one scene from it. Nothing memorable. The actors did a great job, the wigs were.... cool. But that's it.
Then it was Oscar night and the best thing ever happened. Snub city for American Hustle! It was so so so good. Faith restored in The Academy and the Universe.
I'm hoping to high heaven the same thing happens with Boyhood. I hated Boyhood. HATED. There was nothing good about it, except Ethan Hawke. Patricia Arquette can't act, the dude who played the boy was hated, and a bit of a douche, there was no story, nothing happened, no conflict, it shouldn't have been about the boy cause more happened to the mom, it was way way too long, it was gimmicky with the whole "this took 12 years to shoot" thing - which means Linklater used about 15 minutes of film for just over a decade. That's not impressive! What's impressive is Dallas Buyers Club being shot for 2 weeks. So it's a terrible movie, fine, whatever. Then to add insult to injury, it gets a bunch of Oscar nominations. Ugh! Really?! This is why people hate the Oscars. Cause Dancing With Wolves beat out Goodfellas, and no one could give 2 shits about Dancing With Wolves now. What has Kevin Costner directed since? Martin Scorsese is a legend.
I just hope the Academy doesn't make the same mistake. I hope Boyhood goes the way of American Hustle and doesn't win a thing - cause it doesn't deserve it.
I think Birdman will sweep. Birdman is revolutionary. Grand Budapest Hotel should win a bunch too. My favorite movie of 2014 is Whiplash. Go see it! Amazing movie. Nightcrawler was great too. Broke a lot of rules in screenwriting and it's just a great, engrossing movie. I'm so glad last year churned out some fantastic movies, and Boyhood should be happy to even be in the same arena as those greats. I have faith that there's too many great film nominated for Boyhood to win.
Guess this was more of a post about how much I hate Boyhood. Ha. oops. Oh well.
Alright I need a beer.
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