Greetings. Today's Saturday Editon Mack Attack is aimed at Hollywood.
With honcho flick Brokeback Mountain expected to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year and Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman all but a lock for best (actress?) for her role as a pre-op transvestite in TransAmerica, I ask you, what is the future of the Hollywood machine? As a queer-y to their recent low-profit quandry, I would have them ponder this question:
Is Hollywood really putting out films that appeal to the general public any more or has it become intoxicated by a self-imagined importance in the political arena?
Has George Clooney, with his thinly-veiled political rants on celluloid led the entire industry astray? Are the Academy Awards simply now a forum for inappropriate politicizing a la Michael Moore?
That said, the best film I saw in 2005 was Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe, which despite a gay-sounding name, was anything but. What was the best film that you saw in 2005?
posted by G. Mackster @ 12:54 AM
2 Comments:
I have to agree that Cinderella Man was probaly the best movie I saw last year. Thouhg I have to say that The Chronicles of Marnia was the most visually stunning.
I almost forgot Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the 2005 Golden Globe for lead actor in a drama as gay author Truman Capote in "Capote" and the 2005 Screen Actors Guild award for lead actor. He's also the favorite for the Best Actor Ocsar.
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