sigh

I absolutely despise the Oscars... wait scratch that. I absolutely despise just about all of the award shows they insist on jamming down my throat. I think its just one large ego trip for everyone in Hollywood, and a way to say "I'm better than you nyah nyah" to everyone who didn't get nominated and everyone else in the country. Over half the people involved are talentless hacks with huge egos, and the other half just enjoy film making and get no recognition for it. Quite honestly I think the majority of the actors and actresses should make little more than their stage counterparts do for theater shows. Now I know what you people are going to say, that without people getting paid that much we wouldn't have such big and well done movies. I just have to ask you though.... out of the movies that have come in the past year, how many of them have you actually, truly enjoyed? There is a list here that lists the movies of 2006 by how much it made. Just go through the list and count how many you truly enjoyed and then calculate the percentage of the total it is. You'll be surprised at how few good movies hollywood puts out. (be careful counting the movies, I counted fearless the first time through and remembered this was done in Asia and not by hollywood)


Edit: Here is another fun thing to do, go through the list of movies and count how many are a remake or a sequel. Makes you wonder what happened to fresh ideas. Again you'll have to careful, they like to hide that they are ripping off another movie. The Departed is a remake of a korean movie called Infernal Affairs, they just americanized it so we could better understand it (apparently we can't read subtitles or understand asian movies very well, we must be idiots)