I like that essentially 3 (great) genre movies have won in the past 4 years. It seems like Oscar is trying to make for all that terrible Oscar-bait that won in the past.
Must you be oblique, sir?
I hate the argument you are trying to make, I hate it every time you or someone else tries to make it, and I'm not about to stop hating an argument I find to be preposterous.
It wasn't really an argument. I said "It seems", maybe I should have wrote "it feels". Of course, the Academy isn't 10 people in a room and they aren't consciously apologizing. I'm not an idiot.
That's not the argument I'm talking about, I'm talking about the Oscar bait sentiment, or the idea that Oscar bait exists.
Are you saying that "A Beautiful Mind", "Shakespeare In Love", "The Cider House Rules"(fu*k, almost any Miramax film from this era), "The Hours", "Mystic River"(I actually kind of like this movie, but still) and so on and so forth aren't Oscar-Bait? I'm sorry, but I find your refusal to acknowledge the term (though I respect it) ridiculous. Well-meaning middle-brow drama often made for the late-year period (I wonder why) ruled the Oscars for many, many years. It's absurd not to think so. Which is not to say something like "No Country For Old Men" or "The Departed" didn't have people behind it pushing it incredibly hard for Oscars, but the films themselves are not emblematic of the type of movie that fits the labeling. Thank goodness.