Academy Awards Nomination

Well, now I know God is a jokester. Didn't want "Revenant" to get any notice, it got twelve. Fuck this town and its high school shit. Everyone wants to get on Leo's good side. And the director, Innirratu. The guy is annoying. His speeches are intolerably dull. As are his movies.

It's not just sour grapes but the sense of what Best Picture means nowadays. I don't think "Carol" is Best Picture material, but it does call back a heyday of when Hollywood was glamorous. Leo gets raped by bear, a little dirt and mud and he's...an actor? So it seems. Or maybe he needs to suffer.

In the cinematography department, we have Roger Deakins again nominated for "Sicario." He's the Susan Lucci of this award. Nominated so many times because...his name is Roger Deakins. Poor bastard is going to lose again. They should've nominated him for "Hail, Caesar!" to make it a fair fight. It's glamorous and pretty and stupid voters would've fell for it. Or maybe that's for next year's nomination when he can lose to another digital movie. "Sicario" is really bad looking. Well, bad looking for Deakins. It's flat and looks like "Cops." And it's nominated. What a joke. "Carol" should win, but "The Revenant" will, because of press, and because most voters don't know what cinematography entails. A pretty landscape and shot with no lights. Could it start a trend? No you dumb fucking yontzkes...Stanley Kubrick was doing this for decades.

Incidentally, I've been told that "The Revenant" is a remake of a movie called "A Man In The Wilderness" to which all the old timers are implying is a better movie. The lesson here is timing. We're really starved for character pieces. If you think about "The Martian"...it's a one man show. This movie is dumb. Dumber than dumb. Proves Hollywood is dumb. I mean, it's smart in terms of the science, but dumb because it's not really a story. Think long and hard about this story and you will vomit with the lack of story. I'd rather read a manual on how a keyboard works.

So, I'm pissed again (big surprise). It goes to show the machine we've become. Great stories are dead. I do want to catch "Spotlight." It deals with some heavy subjects that remind me of the Alan Pakula style true tales stuff. I think with all the "Datelines" or "20/20" nothing really shocks us anymore.