So the Academy, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ‘finally reward’ Scorsese. Fine… let’s just call this one for “Raging Bull” & “Taxi Driver“, & be done with it. And bonus– maybe he’ll stop whining, stop appearing as “incessant film authority” in all those retrospectives, & start working on an actual film 1/2-way as good as those 2 above. Yeah right.
And btw, so much for all those elaborate Price-Waterhouse shennigans re. ‘guarded briefcases’ w/ their ‘secret tabulations’… B/c there just ain’t no way you get Coppola, Spielberg, & Lucas all together to hand-out an oscar, if it ain’t going to Scorsese. Sheeeze, why not just get the ladies from “Deal or No Deal” & be done w/ it; at least they’re waaay better to look at, & seem genuinely compassionate when ppl blow huge deals & go-home w/ peanuts…
But hey– right outta some kind of Howard [no 'K'] Stern’s wet fantasy, we had the parade of those ladies from lesbos:
- Ellen (of course)
- Melissa Etheridge, -aaaand-
- Jody Foster!!!
Hottt! 
But Oscar ’07′s best moment, has just gotta be when “Departed” took-home the brass ring. Based, as announced, on a 2002 “Japanese”[sic] film, which Scorsese always claimed he “didn’t see” yet somehow imitated so slavishly…
Um, can we all just agree that, if the “Best Film of 2007″ is just a thinly-disguised remake of a very recent, emminently watchable foreign film… then maybe Hollywood hasn’t just suffered from “runaway production’ (ie. Canada, Romania, New Zealand). They’ve actually outsourced their creativity as well.
All Hail you auteurs of “Foreign Cinema”– for you’re making the films we’ll be watching tomorrow, & not just subtitled & hidden in grimey art-cinemas & on the waiting list on Netflix. And for all you purveyors of off-shoring, who keep pointing at H-wood saying “the US still provides the entertainment of the world”… well, reality-check, bitches.
Tags: film-making
JUST IN– in the last week, “Infernal Affairs” has ROCKETED up the IMDB “Top 250 Films” (http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?tt0338564) … from #231 “7.9″, to “8.1″, ie. circa ~100 or higher…. right on the heels of “Departed”.
…this is so new, IMDb hasn’t even re-formatted their list!
Why is this so cool?
Well– it tells us one thing: now that ppl are hearing about “Infernal Affairs”, it’s getting it’s rightful rating…
…& once it skunks “Departed”, maybe this kind of abomination (ie, “rebadging” as filmmaking) won’t get so much adulation, let-alone ‘Best Picture’[sic].