Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

I simply meant that they picked a slate with a strong bias towards movies strongly focused on events and times explicitly not now.

I think that having 8 out of 9 movies with significant portions a decade (9 years for Moneyball) or more in the past is an interesting quirk. I see no conspiracy and would barely speculate on whether any zeitgeist among the Academy produced the result.

But maybe when I'm as old as you I'll scoff at the idea of a decade being a significant distance in the past.

That said, the result is decidedly meh. It wasn't a strong year but I'd be disappointed if Hugo, War Horse, or Midnight in Paris won. I suspect I'd be disappointed if The Help or Extremely Close won.

Moneyball is my favorite of the six I've seen but I'd be ok with The Artist simply for it having the balls to be so far outside of convention (even if it then manages to be a thoroughly conventional movie).