Yeah, well most movies that get Oscar nominations don't appeal to the mass audience, mostly just the objectively dedicated and cinema-buff types. To quote Christian Slater talking with Saul Rubinek in True Romance, they're "unwatchable movies based off unreadable books". The rest of the world, who is busy in the theater watching Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich movies for the explosions and then complaining about it after the credits for being mindless action, only picks up on or realizes that the movie exists until after the fact, when it's already up for consideration. Hell, critical acclaim is usually half the advertisement that the movies that end up scoring big in the Oscars get. Otherwise, the casual audience isn't going to the theater to ponder over the sociopolitical metaphors in the abstract foreground of a post-modern, avant-garde piece of arthouse swill. Anyone who's seen the Onion Movie knows exactly which scene I'm thinking of right now. If not, sorry, it ain't on Youtube.
Bookmarks