Training day, Denzel, Oscars and Scorsese
Watched Training day.
Pathetic. Even better: utter crap. But will give it a humble 4/10
Denzel washington sucks in this movie and no surprise he won the ‘Best actor’ oscar. Same old ‘over the top’ bad guy routine with irritating gimmicks throughout. I heard it was bad but couldn’t be worse. Tainted Oscars ditched his “Malcolm X” (the year Pacino was ‘compensated’ for his earlier miss) and even “Hurricane” (close but spacey was brilliant in “American beauty”).
Oscar has always been a sham. No doubt over it! Turned into a show business now. But I watch for an entirely different reason. Like last year it was nice when Clint joked ‘he is a kid’ compared to Lumet. Pacino presenting lifetime achievement award to Lumet (they both made a good and a very average movie together) and the speech. These are special moments. It has definitely turned into one major spectacle.
I appreciate they compensated Charlie Kaufman for “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”. A great script writer and should have already won before.
But one thing I appreciated ‘the most’ was not awarding Martin Scorsese. Its lame to award him now. It will only reaffirm the poor judgmental skills of the jury and extreme prejudice against Martin’s better efforts of the past. I hope someday he wins it as that provides him an opportunity to shrug it off.
Or maybe just go talk in a Travis bickle style “You awarding to me? You awarding to me? You awarding to me? Then who the hell else are you awarding to? You awarding to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who do the fuck do you think you’re awarding to?” .
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LOL! Good one. I would say that I did not find Training Day, Oscar material in anyway. But from a pure American point of view - Denzel always had this pure, good guy image, which he shattered with his role in the movie. So perhaps the Oscar panel was blown away by this 180 twist in his onscreen character. Yes, just like the awards in India, I do think there exists a “rotation” system in the way awards are given away.
Interesting points.
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You are spot on there about Denzel. He is more comfortable in a decent black man role than a nigga (no disrespect or racism intended). Although the academy now has adapted a new habit of awarding/nominating black guys frequently. But that was a clear case where they infact practiced it profoundly. You don’t award him for respectful roles and give one to a disgrace intead. How fickle the jury really are? Samuel L Jackson is much better in those roles but wasn’t awarded as expected by the academy.
Tom hanks is another nice guy who failed miserably as a Irish mobster in Road to perdition. He was good as a father but lacked the expressions to believe he could kill ruthlessly as much in the movie. Neither does he has the skill to do an eccentric role. Let him and Denzel stick to what they got than do something and fail as badly!
Only reason Denzel got the oscar for Training day was because he got robbed of it for his work in The Hurricane (1999) when politicking studios screwed him over.
Aww..come ooon. Road to Perdition was great. Sam Mendez’ cold and theatrical style is exactly what it needed. I thought Hanks pulled off the gangster thing very well. And he wasn’t an Irish gangster, he was an irish american gangster. Maybe people were expecting that other oirish fook, Gabriel Byrne from Miller’s Crossing.
Yeah Maybe I was little harsh towards Tom. I ‘WAS’ a big fan of Tom but disappointed a lot over the years. He performed a subdued performance than powerful enforcing eccentricism thats synonymous with a gangster/mobster flick. He had no screen presence. As I said he was good as a father but I wasn’t convinced about him being Italian-American mobster.
Road to perdition is a good film with great performance by Newman and Law but not hanks IMO. Miller’s crossing is again a great film with great performance by byrne unlike hanks. Coen brothers script cannot go wrong. Maybe ‘over the top’ we can argue, MC is no way can be as effective without Byrne. While RTP could even have gone without hanks.
Road to perdition had a brilliant cinematography and good direction by mendes(one of the very in hollywood who have done good in different subjects). I believe American beauty is one great achievement that he needs to work his socks out(than now) to surpass.Jarhead is a disappointment compared to his earlier efforts