Dave's Top Eight

1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars)
2. Sounds Like Sunday by Janet Paschal (reviewed 5/07) (5 Stars)
3. True To The Call by Kingdom Heirs (reviewed 3/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Revival by Gold City (reviewed 10/06) (4 1/2 Stars)
5. Get Away Jordan by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (reviewed 2/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
6. Breakin' Chains by Three Bridges (reviewed 5/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
7. Big Sky by The Isaacs (reviewed 4/07)
8. Skywriting by Mercy's Well (reviewed 7/07)

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February 26, 2007

More On The Oscars

Responding to my Oscar comments from early this morning, reader JM wrote to ask:
"Do you believe that Rated R movies are winning in such large percentages of the categories due to a bias toward filthy movies or due to a lack of quality among movies with PG or PG-13 ratings? It's likely some combination of both, but I personally believe the latter has more to do with it than the former. I have to admit as an avid movie watcher that I can think of very few movies I thought of as Oscar-worthy this year that didn't carry an R rating."

JM had some other comments about Christian produced music and movies vs. music and movies produced by the secular marketplace. Here's how I replied to JM's email:
What you've asked is a fair question regarding the quality of R films vs. PG and PG-13 films. I do think there are PG and PG-13 films that are every bit as well made as The Departed, which won Best Picture and three other awards. Sometimes they get nominated...Will Smith for The Pursuit Of Happyness, for example, but they rarely win...only if the award is for some non-content specific award like Visual Effects, which the PG-13 rated Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won.

Fortunately, the animation category, so far, has been kept safe. I guess the Academy thinks of it as the one required nod to family oriented movies.

By the way, I think decent quality Christian films are so few and far between, I wasn't even considering them as part of the equation. I was just noting that R rated films (often films carrying one of the stronger brands of R ratings) are the films that get the most Oscars.

This is nothing new, by the way. Silence Of The Lambs, Midnight Cowboy, etc. all paved the way for this to become the norm rather than the exception.

I like turning the movie industry's own words against them. If you'll notice in my post, I wrote the headline, then used the MPAA's own words to describe the content of each movie that won. The industry is saying these are the best films they're capable of producing.

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