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Monday, February 16, 2009
Oscar nominees: How bad did they mess it up?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Next Sunday is the Oscars, the event we love to hate.
Seriously, can you think of anything else that so many people say is long and boring and not worth watching and then we all watch it anyway? And the next day we complain about how long and boring it was?
But there’s more to whine about than that. We can also fuss about what movies and actors got overlooked in the nominations. And this year there were a couple of doozies.
Have you seen “Gran Torino,” the amazing Clint Eastwood movie? It didn’t get one single nomination, and it was as good or better than any of the Best Picture nominees. And Eastwood himself, non-nominated for Best Actor, could whip all five of the nominees and then go sit on his porch and sip a beer and not even be breathing hard.
How about “Wall-E,” possibly the best animated movie ever made? It has so much more heart than the over-rated “Benjamin Button.” Heck, there were 10 or 20 movies in 2008 better than “Benjamin Button,” from “Dark Knight” to — heck yeah! — “Tropic Thunder.”
Do you have a problem with this year’s nominations? What got in? What got left out?
If you can’t remember who’s nominated, you can check it out here. Sound off. You’ll feel better.
Come back tomorrow, and we’ll talk about another Oscar topic.
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