Apathy Curve: Oscar in the Garbage Can

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Oscar in the Garbage Can

The Oscars are meaningless. We all know that. But why are they meaningless (outside of the ruthless vapidity of the proceedings, of course)? Simple: because they are bought and paid for by Harvey Weinstein.

I stopped paying attention to the Oscars when Shakespeare in Love, one of the crappiest and most boring movies every to disgrace a reel of celluloid, beat out what is arguably the best war film ever made and is unarguably the defining film about World War II: Saving Private Ryan. That "victory" was bought lock, stock and barrel -- if you'll pardon the apropos pun -- by Mr Weinstein. Now you know.

Once again, I shan't be wasting my time.

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