John Maybury, director of the crappy “The Jacket“, has come out an blasted this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby and it’s director Clint Eastwood.
The Attack didn’t just stop there. This guy, who has directed a grand total of 1 major motion picture, and a bad one at that, has decided that he would also take some shots at Martin Scorsese. The good folks over at Contact Music give us this:
Marybury fumes, “It was really depressing to watch that programme, that corporate programme… to see how much crap won. Especially you know when the director who made PLAY MISTY FOR ME, one of my favourite films of all time, won for such a piece of s**t√É‚Äö√¢‚Ǩ¬¶ But can you believe that the man who made Play Misty for Me made Million Dollar Baby?”
Maybury also took the opportunity to slam another big winner on the night – MARTIN SCORSESE’s THE AVIATOR, which picked up five statuettes, including Best Supporting Actress for CATE BLANCHETT.
He explains, “I don’t buy into this thing of five-hour, four-hour, three-hour√É‚Äö√¢‚Ǩ¬¶ Imagine if The Aviator had been 40 minutes shorter. It would have won every f**king Oscar last night.
Don’t get me wrong. EVERYONE is entitled to an opinion, but when you’re in a field you don’t take shots at legends in the same field. Can you imagine the uproar that would happen if Kobe Bryant came out and started taking shots at Michael Jordon? Or if George Bush started blasting George Washington? A-Rod started insulting Babe Ruth?
But what if it’s even worse. Imagine a second stringer on the Toronto Raptors insulting Michael Jordon? Or some minor league 3rd baseman was insulting the Babe? We’d just all laugh our collective asses off at him. Well that’s exactly what’s happening here. An unproven Big League director, who hasn’t done squat, starts bad mouthing the legends.
Let the fans, the critics and maybe even actors or producers criticize Eastwood or other directors. You don’t slam guys who are great at a job you yourself suck at, or at least are totally unproven at. That’s why you’ll never see me criticize other movie websites. Just my two cents worth.
