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Martin Scorsese's Oscar for Departed as much a sham as Mickelson being credited for Tigers' majors

Tuesday February 27, 2007 | 04:54:55 208 words, 3971 views
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One more thing before this year’s Oscars fade away, only to be recalled by insomniacs who need something more boring than sheep to conjure up. The only thing more egregious than Peter O’Toole being denied Oscar for the eighth time is Martin Scorsese finally getting his for The Departed.

That’s the equivalent of Phil Mickelson receiving credit for Tiger Woods’ 10 majors wins.

Forget for a moment that The Departed isn’t close to as good a movie as Little Miss Sunshine. That’s never the point with the Academy Awards.

The problem is it’s a remake of a much better movie that’s only four years old. A movie that you could have watched in theaters in places like New York and LA.

Hong Kong’s Infernal Affairs was already available to American audiences years ago. The biggest difference is it has a better ending than Scorsese’s remake.

It’s one thing to want to honor Scorsese, another to throw the gold statue at his most unoriginal work. What’s next? Clint Eastwood remakes Million Dollar Baby next year and wins another Oscar for it.

Then again, at least that is Clint Eastwood’s movie.

Even Danny Gans has to think this is messed up.

At least this kind of thing never happens in golf.

Comments:

Comment from: Shivas [Visitor]
Is this supposed to be a golf blog?

Get real! Scorsese's long overdue Oscar was for Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Raqing Bull, Goodfellas, etc... No insider in Hollywood would pretend that it was actually for The Departed...


Btw, what is Martin Scorsese's golf handicap?
Permalink 2007-02-27 @ 12:53
Comment from: Kiel Christianson [Member] Email · http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/authorarchives/christianson.htm
I'd say his handicap is those big eyebrows. Hard to follow the ball in the air.
Permalink 2007-02-27 @ 19:39
Comment from: Bucky [Visitor] Email
Well, you are entitled to an opinion. Too bad it's wrong. Also, what does this have to o with golf?
Permalink 2007-02-28 @ 13:19
Comment from: riley [Visitor] Email
tiger is the the best golfer in the... golf and the academy awards? given some of the winners maybe this blog does make sense. scorsese deserved to get a oscar for raging bull and goodfellas. but the departed? a movie that looks like it ran out of money near the end. if you saw the ending you know exactly what i mean. congrats to scorsese on the oscar. you deserve it. just not for this film
Permalink 2007-02-28 @ 13:40
Comment from: Mike [Visitor] Email
S there anyway that MW is responsible for Martin Scorsese's win? That would really tick off Baldwin.
Permalink 2007-02-28 @ 15:20
Comment from: Clarence [Visitor] Email
I'm sure Scorsese knows the real "score"---that he is a fine director deserving of an Academy Award, except that he won it for the wrong film. The ensemble cast was what made it a no-brainer though. I would have agreed on this if the film was made say, ten or twenty years ago---that would have been innovative cinema.
On Eastwood, I'm not saying he should've won, but he was immediately out of the running because of his two previous wins for the right films (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby). "Letters from Iwo Jima" is a much better directed film that the Departed, relatively speaking. But then, everything is relative with the Oscars.
Permalink 2007-03-01 @ 02:48

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