Mel Gibson may be a racist drunk, but he is also one of the most important film makers working today. (Hate the sin, love the sinner.)
Talk about shattering the Hollywood blockbuster formula!
Apocalypto is great. What a film.
Too bloody? Perhaps. But depictions of the “noble savage” historically have erred on the noble side. Fact is that North American indigenous populations were more savage than noble.
Life was hard on this continent.
No doubt Forest Whitaker will win best actor. For me he will always be Idi Amin just as Ben Kingsley will always be Gandhi.
Helen Mirren deserves the statue for “best actor female”. (What is wrong with “actress”, again?) But for her career body of work. Mirren’s performance in The Queen was very good, but not nearly as good as Forest Whitaker.
Jennifer Hudson’s natural, believable performance in Dream Girls will still be studied by film students in 50 years. No one will remember Mirren in The Queen.
But Rudy Youngblood wins the McAcademy Award for best actor. He was unbelievably good in Apocalyptic, McBest Film of 2007.
Rick McCharles 