What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• Jean Dujardin promises to be a bad boy at the Oscars… “Oh putain!” It’s Jean Dujardin
• Why aren’t the Oscar-nominated doc shorts on iTunes, like @ShortsHD says they are?
• More on the Times vs Tesla (with the interesting note that Broder did not know his use of the car was being recorded)… 3 Important Takeaways from the NYT/Tesla Battle
• I’m starting to explore Sundance Now. This month there’s an intriguing collection of sex stories that Hollywood would never touch, like a look at the lives of real prostitutes and a doc on women’s body issues and feminist takes on porn. All streaming on demand. Cool. Sundance Now Doc Club: Naked Tales
• God help us, some brands now think there’s some sort of street cred in being hacked. After Burger King and Jeep fall victim, MTV and BET hack themselves for publicity
• What is this sorcery?! OH GOD IT’S LIKE AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
• All your suspicions about how Academy members cast their Oscar votes are accurate. An Oscar Voter’s Brutally Honest Ballot
Well, much of what that director complained about struck me as arbitrary and petty, except I agree completely w/ the assessment of Tarantino. I really liked Resevoir Dogs; but can take or leave most of the rest and definitely want to *leave* Inglorious Basterds and am not planning on seeing Django.
Oh, and Broder’s an idiot.
It would be nice if the voting were independent – none of the “I know this isn’t going to win category A, but I think it should get something, so I’ll vote for it in B” – but I can’t see any practical way to achieve it.
That at least shows consideration of various factors, people putting thought into their vote. It’s not ideal but it reflects an honest desire to reward quality and not have the awards come out looking like a joke.
What’s hilariously dumb is the “I didn’t like Jennifer Lawrence on SNL” and “I can’t pronounce their name” mentality that you hear from this guy.
A movie blogger wrote a while back that, for all that we think of Hollywood as this smarmy, elitist cocktail party, large chunks of it are more like frat houses. This guy certainly seems emblematic of that.