Yeah, I should've gone for "lol the guy who picked The Birth of a Nation as his favourite movie wants to go off about gauging excellence and credibility" (which I admit is technically an ad hominem, hence why I went for the two-word meme instead).
Okay, I'll be serious now. I see a question like "Why don't they pick the best people to win?" and am prompted to ask "How do you know they didn't?", a question that I don't necessarily think you can answer objectively regardless of which side of the argument you're on. It's the Academy. They've made all kinds of questionable choices over the years all across both artistic and ideological spectra and this particular choice ultimately seems kind of minor - if we're already getting eight or nine nominees a year anyway then jacking it up to ten doesn't seem like that much of a stretch (and it still remains to be seen if this will actually have the intended effect of acknowledging quote-unquote diversity or just end up going to whichever above-average blockbuster the Academy wants to acknowledge in lieu of having a "popular film" category).
Okay, I'll be serious now. I see a question like "Why don't they pick the best people to win?" and am prompted to ask "How do you know they didn't?", a question that I don't necessarily think you can answer objectively regardless of which side of the argument you're on. It's the Academy. They've made all kinds of questionable choices over the years all across both artistic and ideological spectra and this particular choice ultimately seems kind of minor - if we're already getting eight or nine nominees a year anyway then jacking it up to ten doesn't seem like that much of a stretch (and it still remains to be seen if this will actually have the intended effect of acknowledging quote-unquote diversity or just end up going to whichever above-average blockbuster the Academy wants to acknowledge in lieu of having a "popular film" category).
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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0
I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.