What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• “Are male film critics afraid of real women and what they do to stories in the shadows and light of cinema?” I’ve noticed, too, that many male critics simply don’t know what to make of it when a movie is *about* women in the same way that most movies are *about* men. Sundance, the Oscars and the Decline of Film Criticism—Not Just a Lady Problem
[This was posted at the Facebook page of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.]
• So fucking depressing. Hollywood, you’ve got male: Female actors, directors shortchanged in testosterone-fuelled industry
• So everyone’s all “Hey Affleck isn’t nom’d but his flick is a Best Pic nom!” But same is true for Bigelow. #wherestheoutrage
• No question that there need to be more women filmmakers, and more honored by the industry. But while I haven’t seen all the films by the other potential female nominees this year, the ones I have seen (apart from Zero Dark Thirty) simply are not among the best films of the year. Nominating women directors for less than great films is NOT a solution. To the Academy: Consider the Women Directors
• An old piece, but fun. Oscar and Me
• I hate to come to *Twilight*’s defense, but it’s *far* from the worst film of 2012… ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2’ Dominates Razzie Awards, Takes Worst Picture & 7 More
The Twilight hate is really played out at this point. It’s too easy a target, and strikes me as a cheap joke when people still keep going on about it. Though the bizarre dream sequence in the new movie is uniquely bad…
Thank you! At least all that’s left for the movies is the MTV Movie Awards, where it will win 7 awards. The we can finally just let it go, right?
Right??
Nope!
Spinoffs.
I don’t know why, but I just didn’t feel any Oscar buzz at all this year – usually I’m predicting winners and taking at least some interest, though I’ve never bothered with the actual show.
Yes, the nomination system stinks. How often can you honestly separate “best director” (of a specific film) from “best picture”? But because both categories are there, the voters often feel that they need to split them across two films.
That’s one of the big fights, isn’t it? Promote the not-so-good to encourage diversity, or pick the best even if they’re all the same sex/colour/orientation/whatever. While I’ve been scathing about them before, I think festivals and awards that are specifically for women, black filmmakers, whatever, are part of the solution – but not all of it.
Darn. Looks like the Razzies have gone mainstream. Was Twilight really worse than Oogieloves?