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Originally Posted by SNR
I have a friend who goes apeshit about the Oscars every year. Knows all kinds of movie trivia. Goes out and spends hundreds of dollars each month that the Criterion Collection does a half off sale. Reads books about filmmaking. Likes musicals. Actually watches the Tony awards.
Has never seen The Wizard of Oz.
It's ****ing stunning to me. I give her shit that she knows nothing about movies and movie history because of that.
How can you be that intense about movies and never have seen the ****ing Wizard of ****ing Oz?
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I have come to truly loath the Oscars.
I think a lot of Academy members are either lazy, don't see all the films or are too heavily influenced by the big money campaigns.
The show is basically just a wank fest to promote their industry, and that's fine. But a lot of years it doesn't do a good job of representing the "best". I made a post earlier about how a lot of the best picture winners in the 70s and 80s nobody really cares much about anymore.