How Oscars proved those critics wrong
BOHEMIaN rHaPsODY has won four Oscars, not to mention Golden Globes and Baftas, so you would imagine the film critics would be magnanimous and admit they got it wrong when they slated the movie. Not a bit of it! Disgruntled reviewers are still venting their spleen. When will they realise they are blind to what the paying public actually wants from a film? My wife and I went to see Bohemian rhapsody with a degree of trepidation having read several negative reviews, but we came away delighted. Is it time for reviewers to recognise films for their entertainment value and not expect them all to be a tour de
force of avant garde philosophical clap-trap? There have been complaints about timeline inaccuracies in Bohemian rhapsody, but I think the spirit of the subject is more important than pinpointing which year an event occurred. as for the lack of salacious details about Freddie Mercury, obviously the decision was taken to respect his private life.
WILLIAM BROWN, Braintree, Essex. THE Oscars prove yet again that film-making is one of the few areas in these dumbed-down times that has maintained its standards.
JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks. WHaT a ghastly, back-slapping orgy the Oscars are!
GRAHAM ANDREWS, Bideford, Devon. JUsT about the only thing that was accurate in The Favourite was the Queen’s name. The plot was ludicrous and the obscenities, including a word condemned by most of society today, that were scattered throughout the film were a disgrace. Why is sex and obscene language considered mandatory in films and on TV? It’s the same with the advert for a treatment for an intimate feminine issue during Coronation street. Olivia Colman’s acceptance speech was not hilarious, as some have described it. Why can’t actors deliver a serious speech instead of inane gibberish? It’s time that the Oscars and other self-obsessed awards were condemned to the dustbin.
GEOFF COOLING, Whitby, N. Yorks. HOWEVEr much Olivia Colman deserved to win an Oscar, she again proved that without a script, actors have great difficulty in stringing together a few coherent words.
JOHN COLLINS, Chelmsford, Essex.