It's not like the best pictures get nominated or win, but this push to somehow be popular AND artsy is baffling. It's like pro sports that fiddle with the rules to increase their viewership. It makes something that's canned and fake even faker.
There's a stupid, snobby disdain for popularity, the kind of sneering refrain you find for rockers who 'sell out'. What the
**** is the point of making movies anyway except to entertain people? "Oh, my film is not to entertain, but to enlighten and to provoke thought about the grave injustices and ..." And
**** you. I don't need you to make a movie to preach at me about how YOU think the world should be, not unless it's a damn good movie, like say Mississippi Burning, which also entertains. If I'm going to pay to watch the thing it better be entertaining or I'm not going. I can go to church if I want to get lectured and harangued - and guess what I don't go to church!