"The Star Trek 'Look'"

[Admiral Buzzkill]

...while Shakespeare in Love is largely forgotten.

It's really not.

 

[RAMA]

The question in this case is not about TOS's production but whether or not the newer shows were well designed (as opposed to just more sophisticated).

Uh-uh; don't try to wiggle. The disagreement isn't about whether or not they're well designed but whether they are better designed. You know that, too.

Shakespeare in Love winning best picture was when the Oscars jumped the shark.

Nope. Loved the script, loved the humor, loved the cast. I didn't see another movie that year that I enjoyed more, although the other Elizabethan movie with Cate Blanchett was good in its way too. I liked "Saving Private Ryan," too.

This is all entirely a matter of taste. The members of the Academy do not submit score sheets ranking discreet qualities and categories of artistic and technical merit; they just vote for the movies that they like the most and/or that they think will positively affect the image and success of the business (their personal career interests occupying the epicenter of "the business" for each of them).

Either way, I'm right.

 

[RAMA]

1997 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture: Titanic.

Popularity contests don't actually mean something's great.

Those are industry awards though, not People's Choice or or Golden Globes...I think the creative arts people take a little more care with their awards because its the only recognition they get...otherwise their work is often not even supposed to be noticed. In any case, I can cite independent, professional opinions that support mine while the reverse position can't.

RAMA

 

[Captain Robert April]

^ The hell it can't...