It is a little hard to put into words . . .

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2013)

. . . onz feelings when a one-trick pony stunt movie such as THE ARTIST is voted upon by 6,000 Hollywood insiders as the BEST PICTURE of an entire year?! Surely it was not the only 2011 movie that had a cute dog in it. Do they automatically give the "best" picture award to whichever film has the best marketing people? Doesn't this duplicate the CLEO awards? Maybe THE ARTIST could sneak into onz top five for the year, but to place it at the very pinnacle of success seems a poke in the eye of the average American movie goer. When they expanded the nominations list for best picture from the five it had been set at since the 1940s to a maximum of 10, they said this would guarantee that at least a few of the movies average Americans actually saw and found entertaining would get nominated, such as Bat Man, Superman, Iron Man, X-Men, James Bond, Star Trek, Star Wars, Die Hard, Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games-type movies. Instead, we get even WORSE nominees than when the limit was five--and the tenth rung movies are MORE LIKELY TO WIN now that they are on the ballot. This just proves that the Hollywood people try to elect the movie they feel will make the American public either 1)the angriest, or 2)the most puzzled. Watch THE ARTIST and decide for yourself which of these goals the millionaires were going for with their votes in 2011.