The Oscars took place last weekend, and as expected an obscure, artsy film took home the “Best Picture” award. Despite the fact that “Top Gun: Maverick” basically saved Hollywood, and broke new ground for realism and stunts, as well as having an excellent, woke -free story the Tom Cruise flick never had a prayer.
The movie that won, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” was a nice story, as it starred the Korean born actor Ke Huy Quan, that famously played Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. He received the award from Harrison Ford, but the movie was long, confusing, and by many accounts poorly edited. Shapiro correctly questioned whether anyone will care about this movie in five years. The Daily Wire reports:
“In five years, nobody will watch ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’” the podcast host tweeted.
“The movie is meh,” he added. “It is overlong (2 hrs 19 min!), confused, and generally bizarre. In fact, nobody has watched a single best picture winner five years later since 2007’s ‘No Country For Old Men.’”
Shapiro isn’t wrong. The Academy eschews big budget pictures in favor of woke, inclusive, and diverse films. Top Gun: Maverick featured none of the wokeness or virtue signaling of the other nominees, thus having effectively no chance to take the award. In fact, it was rumored that Tom Cruise didn’t bother attending for this reason. Daily Wire continued:
One user wrote, “Agree. I did enjoy it although it was hard work at times. But I’ve had the chance to watch it again multiple times and I haven’t wanted to. I can quote you every line of dialogue from ‘No Country,’ that gets rewatched at least annually.”
Another account tweeted, “I went to that movie with high expectations, but walked out 20 minutes later. The intellectual part of my mind couldn’t convince the rest of my mind that it was worth staying.”
Another tweeted, “Agreed. It was entertaining but also not groundbreaking or spectacular. ‘Top Gun’ was actually closer to being just generally good, broke some serious ground in terms of realism and special effects, had a strong story, and should have been rewarded as such. But here we are. Woke.”
Shapiro went on to double down on his prediction.
In five years hence, we will look at the numbers and see how many people are still watching ‘Everywhere Everything All at Once’ forever for all time,” the DW host said. “I think the answer’s going to be nil.”
“In fact, let me name for you the films that have won best picture in the last fifteen years, and you tell me if you have ever rewatched any of them,” he added before listing films like “CODA,” “Nomadland,” “Parasite,” “Green Book,” “The Shape of Water,” and more.
“You want to know why the Oscars are failing, guys,” Shapiro continued. “Because you won’t nominate films that people like to watch. That people enjoy watching and don’t feel obligated to watch.”
As a rule, I have given up on Hollywood, and haven’t seen any of the nominated pictures in years, except of course for Top Gun: Maverick. Why is this? The exact reason Shapiro points out. I’m simply not interested. I need a reason to go to the movies, and none of the films outside of Maverick were compelling enough to merit my entertainment dollar.
Perhaps Hollywood will wake up and come to its senses, but we are talking about Hollywood, so I might actually watch one of these movies before that happens, which is to say never.
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