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The First Part of 2000: Any Oscar Contenders?© Nicholas Moreau
Jun 16, 2000
The summer movies are here! First, I again hope everyone enjoyed my nine-week journey reliving the 25 films that I thought were the best of the 1990's. Now it's back to some Oscar talk this week, and my first official preview of the 73rd Annual Academy Awards, still about 9 months away. We're close to the halfway point of the year 2000, and so far, I'm sad to report that the first six months of the new millennium have been pretty bad ones for film. After those last four wonderful months of 1999, when one quality film after another was being released, it's really a let down. I only see two or three films that have the slightest of chances to score some Oscar nominations in the major categories come February 2000, and it may be a long shot for the films to remain in Academy voters' minds come time to mark their ballots. It was especially depressing thinking of the terrible slate of films that represent the 2000 crop so far, after watching the American Film Institute honor the 100 greatest comedy films of all time this past week on CBS. Seeing those great films again made thinking about the most current films even more depressing. I think it's about 98% certain that all of the major 73rd Annual Academy Award nominations will come for films yet to be released. I mean, think of the films released so far in 2000, and realize how really bad this movie going time is right now. From the high a few months ago, closing 1999 with films like Magnolia, American Beauty, The Hurricane, The Insider, The Straight Story and more, look what we have had now ... one of the most worthless pieces of celluloid ever thrown onto the public. John Travolta in the incomprehensible and frankly unwatchable-it's-so-awful BATTLEFIELD: EARTH.
REINDEER GAMES with Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck? No Oscar contender there ...
Madonna tried real hard with Rupert Everett in THE NEXT BEST THING, but nothing going ...
THE FLINTSTONES IN VIVA ROCK VEGAS, did we really need this film?
Kim Basinger's disappointment I DREAMED OF AFRICA.
And most recently, the disappointment of GONE IN 60 SECONDS. There have been some worthwhile films here and there ...
Disney's DINOSAUR was a beautiful technological marvel, but the dinosaurs talking made it less of the awesome experience it could have been.
MISSION TO MARS started great, had great visual effects, had some great performances by some great actors, then got incredibly cheesy and downright strange by the end, trying to be the next 2001 or something.
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