Slumdog was glossy and the music was great. I don't know if it's Best Pic either but I'm beginning to care less and less about who/what the Academy picks for their awards. For me, a movie validated with an Oscar doesn't mean much any more. I don' know if it's just me getting older or having worked in the industry for a period of time but movies that I love are ones that impact me personally or which have such a unique and interesting take on a subject that it makes me take notice. Some awards can be bought and can be way too political to deserve much merit.
Milk was not perfect but it hit me in a specific way that many, many others before it have not. That makes it a good picture, that makes it important to me. And, ironically, the awards
Milk won are also political. Not sure if it would have won the two it won if Prop 8 didn't rear its ugly head close to its release. But I guess the Oscars mean stuff to lots of people and if it makes people actually watch the film then I guess I'm fine with that aspect of the awards thang regarding
Milk and my own gay activism. I guess if you've read this far, you've realized that I'm just thinking 'out loud' and am rambling.
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On a completely different note, Jackie Earle Haley is apparently going to be the new Freddy Krueger in the new
Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I'm sure that'll make him some dough, but I'm not sure I'd accept the part in fear of being type-cast as Freddy.