THE COVE, finalist for Academy Award Best Documentary nomination
THE COVE, finalist for Academy Award Best Documentary nomination
#1THE COVE, finalist for Academy Award Best Documentary nomination
Posted: 12/19/09 at 8:46pm
I just finished watching THE COVE, the third of the fifteen films in the final running for an Oscar nomination this year (the other two I have seen being EVERY LITTLE STEP and FOOD, INC., in addition to the non-finalist films OUTRAGE, CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY, and THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE).
For those that have seen it, what are your thoughts? Personally, I don't see why it is getting all the acclaim that it is. It's a great film and an incredible story they went to high lengths to expose. But I don't think it's a "lock" to win like all the pundits are predicting.
I'd much rather see FOOD, INC. win. It's a more important issue, I think, and a much better film. It doesn't have the action-adventure aspect that THE COVE has, but it does have the secrecy and scandals to uncover.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
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