Swag at the Movies

The Oscars were boring. Same as last year, same as next year. Let's hear about this year's travesties. Scorcese gets his Oscar for a remake that's not even as good as the original, that's not even his best movie, that's not even in his top 5 movies, and that's not even in this year's top 5 movies. Forest Whitaker gets an Oscar for playing a role that he had not one, but two blueprints for (1)Idi Amin, 2) the incomparable Yaphet Kotto playing Idi Amin) while arguably the greatest actor of all time remains unrewarded for 40+ years of classics. Peter O'Toole without an Oscar should be on the UN's docket of human rights abuses. The man was Lawrence of Arabia, Lord Jim, Mr. Chips, King Henry II (twice), amongst other brilliant roles. He deserved statuettes for The Ruling Class, The Lion in Winter, Beckett and The Stunt Man, and his 8 nominations and consolation lifetime achievement Oscar will have to do. Criminal. I'm not advocating giving out the award to make up for past misses, but this year didn't even feature any runaway legendary performances. My biggest surprise was that The Prestige had 0 nominations. Not acceptable. In other movie news, I rented Crossover, the movie about underground streetball tournaments for money. Think White Men Can't Jump, meets Walter Hill's Crossroads on the And1 Tour. Worst movie I've ever seen. I don't even mean that in a loose hyperbolic sense. It was honestly the blurst movie ever. It did feature Wayne Brady, and a couple nasty dunks. But other than that, it didn't even feature that much street balling. And the acting was so bad, they might as well have just had real And1 guys act in it. Hot Sauce was in it, and was not any worse than any of the other actors. Atrocious.