IF I'M GOING TO MAKE A FAKE MOVIE, IT'S GOING TO BE A FAKE HIT: Six different films win in the six major categories, and tonight's awards ceremony was otherwise distinguished by the high quality of the live singing performances and horrid misogyny of its host's attempts at humor.
As I wrote in October, I thought Argo was some pretty damn fun filmmaking, but flawed as history. I'm glad we're in an era, though, that Best Picture is allowed to go to a movie that's fun, or funny, and we're leagues away from the 1980s-1990s era of Best Picture too often going to Most Important Picture. True, the wins for The Artist and Argo may just be a different way for Hollywood to hail itself ... but that may be unavoidable. Now I've just got this urge to see Life of Pi while it's still on the big screen in 3D...
