Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Mr. Movie reviews: Oscar Night

Jon Stewart, he was okay. The whole show is getting old. They moved to single presenters to make stuff move, but that cut down on the competitiveness. It made things a little more boring. Sure there are a lot of disappointing choices.

No choice was as disappointing to me as best feature documentary. It is quite obvious that a majority of the academy didn’t see “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” or “Street Fight.” These two films are immense in their meaning. Either one points to the illusion of democracy in this country, and are rallying cries for reform. Whales have been eating penguins for a long time, and we have all been breeding for a long time. Our democracy is a fragile flower in comparison to those natural occurrences. We can do something about our government. So seeing a movie may not be a lot to do, but it is a start.