Posted 5:34 PM by Gene

This is a genuinely irritating article. For starters it says that today's movies stink, but in a way that tries to tap-dance around the idea by merely insisting one particular film is very very VERY good. Second, it says an animated feature could win the best-picture Os-CAR®. That did not seem so self-evident when the A-CA-de-MY® invented the Best Picture Os-CAR® for Animated Features. This category, Mike tells us, has created a "ghetto" that prevents such films from being taken seriously. We cringe because the A-CA-de-MY® had one chance to give a Best Picture Os-CAR® to a movie that defined animation, and muffed it. If Snow White didn't win the prize why should its successors? (Of course it was a little more difficult for Snow White to earn an Os-CAR® given that movies may not have stunk quite as badly in 1937.) Third, it points out that Hollywood's Scarlet Letter is a G. That's supremely annoying by itself because it sums up all the biz' superiority over its customers and how it would rather engage in collective immolation than make a picture that appeals to everyone. Finally, this is yet another how-many-angels debate over an award that goes to the picture with the best vote-getting campaign and the best blurbs from news hacks, which does not mean the WINNER will be ANY GOOD.