This week I've been mostly eating...yetis.

[gfrancie]

I see the oscar nominations have come out. It looks like they are going to give Martin Scorsese his oscar. I am betting it is more of a body of work, paying the dues oscar then anything else.

My brother Tom will be excited.

I see the movie "Sideways" got a few nods. My Mother refers to the movie "Sideways" as "that yuppie wine movie." I think she would normally might go and see it but because it has been playing forever at the local movie theater and the people who tend to flock to that sort of movie (and then wax poetical about it in line at the local coffeehouse) annoy the life out of her and anyone else; she wants to avoid the film like the plague.

Where I grew up there is this contingent of fleece-wearing guilty liberals who drink fair-trade coffee and when they go the comedies showing at The Rose they never laugh they merely smile. I would hate to see these sorts at an Ingmar Bergman festival. For all their talk about equality and being into other cultures they live in a pretty white place. I'm just saying.

So yeah, no yuppie wine movies for my Mom.


There are a few movies I need to see before the Oscar's air. I think Mr. Jenner and I will put that on our list of things to do. Along with looking at paint samples and calling a builder to fix the balcony and steps leading to the house.

Comments

[duhbigman.livejournal.com]

If Scorsese wins, I won't complain. I'll just rationalize it as the Oscar he should have won for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas.
(That's what I did when Spielberg won for Shaving Ryan's Privates -- also an inferior movie, but I shrugged it off as his award for E.T.)

Of course, you could tell your Mom that Sideways isn't a yuppie wine movie, it's a "self-centred losers who can't make relationships work" movie.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

The thing is my Mother really adores movies. This woman sees all sorts of things and she has a broad taste. But I think she gets sick of being told what one should like and what is chic.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with your mom on that. It reminds me of reading Cold Mountain when it was on the New York Times bestseller's list. I would have the book with me on the bus, and complete strangers would come up to me and tell me that it was a good book. Like I asked for their opinion. And then I didn't really like it all that much. It was fine, but it just wasn't an incredible work of literature. If only people could come up with something better to say than, "I liked it. It was a good book."

Generally I've come to the conclusion that if the masses like it, I won't. It won't be disturbing enough, or provide a new, different perspective. Maybe it's just an attraction to edgy-ness or something.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Exactly!
My Mom likes a lot of popular stuff as well. I think she just doesn't dig trendy hipster crap.