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I thought a thread for general news and discussion of the movie industry might be interesting. I’ll start by serving a nice cocktail…
The Academy Awards are wrecking cinema.
It’s too much a playground for wannabe artistes and socially enlightened posers. It’s to the point that a shoe-in for sweeping the show seems culpable of rape and homicide.
The purpose of the enterprise is to gain as much commercial success as possible by providing the greatest entertainment possible to the widest possible audience. The awards as currently constituted are too much a diversion of some of the best resources away from the core mission.
Solution? Maybe require the films to earn a threshold amount at the DOMESTIC box office (it’s the AMERICAN ACADEMY…) to become eligible for any of the awards. Set the sales bar high enough to exclude the artsy and important prestige nonsense.
The industry should provide the best artistic product in the films targeted to the mass audiences. Send the best talent and attention there. 😃