Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

The Oscars were this weekend. How exciting.  The event started off with 12 hours of pre-show coverage which featured inept cardboard cut out tv personalities hired for looks not talent who talked about movies that neither they nor the rest of us had seen.  Somebody realized that early on and so they focused mainly on fashion.  Good escape route people.

Lots has been made of Billy Crystals face.  Seems the old Jew got a face life or something, but I ask WHY, when you're not even doing movies anymore.  His last movie was Analyze That, one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen.

The biggest news about this years Oscars was Sasha Baron Cohen, who wanted and did, show up dressed as the Dictator for his upcoming movie. He even spilled Kim Jong Il's ashes on Ryan Seacrest.  Oh, poor Ryan.

And that was it.  There was nothing interesting nor compelling about this years Oscars, but you already knew that before the nominee's were even announced two months back since 2011 was easily one of the worst years for movies in decades. Attendance was at a 16 year low, and almost all of the nominated films were flops or only modest money makers.

Then the telecast is 4 hours long of Hollywood jerking itself off, albeit rather incompetently, for the world to watch.  How these bastards can be so self congratulatory after the year of shit we were given is beyond me.

The Oscars is a great view into how out of touch Hollywood and these people are. And what amazes me is that Hollywood seems incapable of putting on an Oscars telecast that doesn't put a man on cocaine to sleep.  So much self indulgence serves only to bore the public watching rich people wipe each others asses while the rest of us are trying to figure out how to pay our rent.  Movies are supposed to provide Escapism, but 2011 proved that the public was looking to in fact escape Hollywood itself and the trash, spoon fed, overly reliant on CGI and one dimensional characters it provides.

I've seen more depth in fucking Tom and Jerry Cartoons.

So good job Hollywood on continuing to be so reliant on letting us down and providing us with crap movies and an Oscars ceremony that is less entertaining the a child's funeral.

Keep up the good work.