The Oscar Hangover

Great movies come out every so often, and more often than not the greater ones get the recognition they deserve. But now that the nominations are in for the upcoming Academy Awards (The Oscars), I’m disappointed to see that a great movie hasn’t been nominated. Which one you ask?…The Hangover of course; this movie has all the necessary elements that make it a great movie plus one extra one that makes it just exceptional; it’s the only movie since I can remember that makes you laugh from beginning to end, literally, and for some odd reason it has gotten zero recognition from the academy. Making someone laugh is something that is taken for granted these days. It’s an extraordinary achievement, and being able to keep it up for an entire movie is something just exceptional. Hence, I ask myself what’s the deal with the Academy Awards? It seems like the only categories of movies that get nominated are of the same exact genre every freaking year. What am I getting at?…Unless the movies being considered are a serious drama or based on some best-seller novel or a big budget movie, it has practically NO CHANCE of getting nominated. This really frustrates me, because there are so many good movies out there that do not get the deserving recognition. I mean, making a funny movie is an art just like making an “artsy” film or some touching movie, and it seems like the Academy doesn’t see it that way. I’m not being biased, because it’s an actual fact that the Best Picture prize has never been given to a film noir, science fiction or an animated film; and rarely are horror, fantasy, comedy and westerns recognized. So, from the looks of it, The Hangover and many other comedies in the future will remain unrecognized and undeserving useless the committee has some biased interest in it or whatever it is they look for to nominate a movie.

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