An Oscar Hangover Cure

February 26th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest

And now it’s time for a bunch of catty nonsense about the Oscars. It’s the same bad review every year. It’s as if the bitchiness of the red carpet rubs off on everyone: “oh, what a horrible outfit; oh, what a horrible Oscars.” What poor taste it would be simply to enjoy it!

I don’t think the pundits actually know whether they enjoyed it or not; they know how they’re supposed to feel.

Apparently there were not enough “big, emotionally rewarding moments”. And:

“the most international Oscars ever,” and that prediction seemed to come true. But it meant that many of the films cited were largely obscure to the national audience. Weren’t the Oscars invented to honor American films? Apparently not anymore.

More nonsense:

I almost never think this, much less write it or say it, but, at the risk of sounding smug, I have to say I could have written a better monologue.

(But couldn’t you have written a better article?)

Americans increasingly demand that their philistinism be catered to: racier jokes, more American movies, more “big” moments, more crying, and for God’s sake couldn’t we have done more to honor the troops?

Actually, it was superb, and Ellen Degeneres supplied it with the required self-deprecating minimalism. Yes, it is a four-plus hour awards show, a wide target for your criticisms: stop being so lazy.