The Oscar Quest: Reconsidered (Best Director, 1927/28)
The Oscar Quest began in May of 2010. I finished about fifteen months later, and wrote it up for this site. That was essentially the first thing I did on here. Five years have passed since then. I’ve grown as a person. My tastes have changed, matured (or gotten more immature, in some cases). So it feels fitting, on the five year anniversary of the site and of the Oscar Quest, to revisit it.
I want to see just how my opinions about things have changed over the past five years. I didn’t do any particular work or catch-up for this. I didn’t go back and watch all the movies again. Some I went back to see naturally, others I haven’t watched in five years. I really just want to go back and rewrite the whole thing as a more mature person, less concerned with making points about certain categories and films than with just analyzing the whole thing as objectively as I can to give people who are interested as much information as possible.
This is the more mature version of the Oscar Quest. Updated, more in-depth, as objective as possible, less hostile. You can still read the old articles, but know that those are of a certain time, and these represent the present. (more…)
Pic of the Day: “Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you’re breaking my concentration. You’re distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?” “Yeah.” “Now, we’re going to make a new rule. When you come in here and you hear me typing or whether you don’t hear me typing, or whatever the fuck you hear me doing; when I’m in here, it means that I am working, that means don’t come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?” “Yeah.” “Good. Now why don’t you start right now and get the fuck out of here?”
Pic of the Day: “What the hell is going on? What the fuck did I do wrong? Tell me!” “You blabbed, Quaid! You blabbed about Mars!” “Are you crazy? I don’t even know anything about Mars!” “You should have listened to me, Quaid. I was there to keep you out of trouble.” “Harry, you’re making a big mistake. You got me mixed up with somebody else.”
Pic of the Day: “Is it true you rescued a human from drowning?” “Daddy, I had to.” “Contact between the human world and the mer world is strictly forbidden. Ariel, you know that! Everyone knows that.” “He would have died.” “One less human to worry about!”
Pic of the Day: “You don’t like me, Bond. You don’t like my methods. You think I’m an accountant, a bean counter more interested in my numbers than your instincts.” “The thought had occurred to me.” “Good, because I think you’re a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you.” “Point taken.”
Pic of the Day: “When the ship docks, I’m getting off with you.” “This is crazy.” “I know. It doesn’t make any sense. That’s why I trust it”
Pic of the Day: “He’s a man from outer space and we’re taking him to his spaceship.” “Well, can’t he just beam up?” “This is reality, Greg.”
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