The Academy Awards top movies that won this year were yawners. I should be more politically correct, I guess, but I just don't get it. There's the story about a gay black kid abused by his crack head mother who grows into a gay black man drug pusher and has (big surprise) lots of issues. He barely speaks throughout the whole film. Then there's a film about a sullen janitor who watches his children die in a fire and also barely speaks. And then there's a musical about a tortured piano player who barely speaks but sings and dances.
What's the deal?
Critics LOVED these films. REALLY? Two of them were like bad reality TV and I felt no empathy for the characters at all and the third was like watching the movie that I really detested when it came out ... Moulin Rouge.
It's called Collateral Beauty. I saw it at the movie theater and rented it tonight again.
How stupid and classless am I? I think it's one of the best films I ever saw.
Will Smith stars as an ad man who loses his only child to cancer and writes letters to the three abstract elements he blames for her demise: Love, Time and Death. Then he is visited by each in the form of actors hired by his employees.
The rest of the movie is brilliant ... well acted, beautifully written and you will cry your eyes out throughout the whole thing.
Just my opinion, but then again I'm old fashioned. I like movies that ... um ... entertain.
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