Re: The Sparrow

On 2008-05-13 22:38:01 -0700, Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> On 2008-05-13 22:07:09 -0700, Gene <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> 
>> Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:2008051321215064440-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>>> Does it matter?  How many awards would it need to win for it
>> to be
>>> arrogant to have missed it and not to seek it out?
>> 
>> If it won for Best Picture, Best Director, or Best Screenplay,
>> I think it would have been kind of snotty to blow it off.
> 
> Really?
> 
> My movie-going over the years has been pretty snotty, by that 
> yardstick.  I haven't seen this past year's winners in any of those 
> four categories (Screenplay having two awards).  At least not yet.
> 
> Since 2000, I'm surprised to find I've actually seen six of eight Best 
> Picture winners, but I don't think it was snotty or arrogant to miss 
> the other two.  I've seen four of eight Best Director winners, two of 
> eight Best Original Screenplay winners and three of eight Best Adapted 
> Screenplay winners.
> 
> I don't think it's arrogant not to go to award-winning movies, and I 
> don't think doing other things means I blew them off, because I was 
> never actually assigned to go.  I do think it would be arrogant of the 
> Academy if they were to assume that their votes mean everyone's got to 
> go see the winners.

Out of curiosity, I checked what won the Oscard back when THE LAST 
STARFIGHTER was eligible.

I saw the winner of Best Adapted Screenplay - PLACES IN THE HEART.  The 
other three categories were won by AMADEUS, which I may get around to 
seeing someday, but I don't think it's untoward that I haven't gotten 
around to it.

Of all the films nominated that year, I've seen BEVERLY HILLS COP, THE 
COTTON CLUB, COUNTRY, FOOTLOOSE, GHOSTBUSTERS, GREYSTOKE, INDIANA JONES 
AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, THE KARATE KID, THE NATURAL, PLACES IN THE 
HEART, ROMANCING THE STONE, SPLASH, STARMAN and SWING ****FT.

Which means I missed AMADEUS, THE KILLING FIELDS, A SOLDIER'S STORY and 
others, but it was out of either disinterest, time or money issues, or 
a desire on the part of whoever my date was to see something else.  Or, 
in the case of GHOSTBUSTERS, which I saw many times, because there was 
a cheap theater four blocks away from my sweltering apartment that 
played GHOSTBUSTERS all summer long, so I'd go see it during the day 
every weekend and write at night.

But it didn't occur to me to think it was arrogant of me not to see them.

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