I'm surprised that no one's cheering about the choice of director -- Alex Proyas, the same guy that made Dark City and The Crow. Surely he's got enough sci-fi cred to pull this off.
Asimov wrote multiple books and stories based on the Three Laws. Hell, he even worked them into the Foundation series. But the fact that there's a Dr. Susan Calvin character implies that the movie follows Asimov's stories at least a little.
I don't. La Vita e Bella won Best Actor (!) and Best Foreign Film, but not Best Picture or Best Director. But that just backs up the theory that non-English films are handicapped when it comes to Academy Awards.
As far as the MPAA goes, I think they're correct to connect these screeners with piracy. But their proposal throws the baby out with the bathwater. When so much money rides on a ridiculous industry award, screeners help make the fight a little more fair. Especially for art house and foreign films that aren't widely screened.
Rather than suggesting a ban, the MPAA should apply good old-fashioned peer pressure to stop insiders from eroding their own industry. But otherwise, they need to write it off as the cost of doing business.
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I'm surprised that no one's cheering about the choice of director -- Alex Proyas, the same guy that made Dark City and The Crow. Surely he's got enough sci-fi cred to pull this off.
Asimov wrote multiple books and stories based on the Three Laws. Hell, he even worked them into the Foundation series. But the fact that there's a Dr. Susan Calvin character implies that the movie follows Asimov's stories at least a little.
I don't. La Vita e Bella won Best Actor (!) and Best Foreign Film, but not Best Picture or Best Director. But that just backs up the theory that non-English films are handicapped when it comes to Academy Awards.
As far as the MPAA goes, I think they're correct to connect these screeners with piracy. But their proposal throws the baby out with the bathwater. When so much money rides on a ridiculous industry award, screeners help make the fight a little more fair. Especially for art house and foreign films that aren't widely screened.
Rather than suggesting a ban, the MPAA should apply good old-fashioned peer pressure to stop insiders from eroding their own industry. But otherwise, they need to write it off as the cost of doing business.