Ecurb
03-05-2018, 10:47 AM
I briefly tuned in to the Oscars Awards presentation last night. The first thing I saw was Kobe Bryant winning "Best Short animated film" (or something like that) for "Dear Basketball". I can't offer a decent review of the film, although I saw it within the last month or so, because it is so unmemorable. The animation was decent -- a sketch book of basketball drawings coming to life -- but the narration, written and performed by Bryant, was maudlin, self-congratulatory, trite and dull. None of the other nominated animated films was very good (I saw "Dear Basketball" in a compendium of Oscar-nominated animated shorts),but they were all better than this terrible piece of over-worked sports homilies. The film is supposed to be a love story between Kobe and Hoop, but it seemed more a hackneyed love story between Kobe and Kobe.
I turned off the TV, and never turned it back on. As an aside, in the year of Me Too, it seems strange that even in so self-congratulatory a town as L.A., and in such a self-congratulatory TV show as the Oscars, the award would go to an accused rapist, who (as far as I can tell) payed off his accuser so that she dropped the case. (I have no idea if Kobe is actually a rapist, but still.)
I turned off the TV, and never turned it back on. As an aside, in the year of Me Too, it seems strange that even in so self-congratulatory a town as L.A., and in such a self-congratulatory TV show as the Oscars, the award would go to an accused rapist, who (as far as I can tell) payed off his accuser so that she dropped the case. (I have no idea if Kobe is actually a rapist, but still.)