Stewart
January 24th, 2003, 11:04 AM
When FotR went to the Oscars I was quite excited, here one of my favorite movies was nominated for quite a few major awards. It was almost unheard of at the time for a film of the Fantasy/Sci-Fi genre to get such attention from the Academy. And indeed it won a good few awards, but all of them crappy ones. The major awards that count were of course won by the same old stuff that wins every year. Some movie about a person persevearing against grea odds to fix a problem in their crappy lives (A Beautiful Mind). Why didn't the Lord of the Rings win Best Picture? I mean it had a plot that had for decades enthralled millions of people, it had small people taking on tremendous burdens and succumbing to pains that few other movies could ever match. A beautiful script, actors, director and still it was given the booby prizes. Why? It's a fantasy/sci-fi film. There have been a lot of good fantasy/sci-fi films throughout history. But the problem is not enough people take them seriously! Perhaps the most dramatic moment in any movie I had ever seen was when Boromir, riddled with arrows fought on untill his last breath, or Gandalf bellowing "You shall not pass!" to the Balrog. But the very fact that it is orcs firing these arrows and a demonic Balrog Gandalf a wizard was fighting is what held the movie back.
So I now pose my question. If a science fiction or fantasy movie were to come out that had a story, cast and director that did everthing perfectly would it even stand a chance against the heavy hitting blockbusters of the "normal" genres?
So I now pose my question. If a science fiction or fantasy movie were to come out that had a story, cast and director that did everthing perfectly would it even stand a chance against the heavy hitting blockbusters of the "normal" genres?