Another Perfect Catastrophe » Andromeda Strain 2008 http://anotherperfect.com Unfocused, Biased, Irreverent & Irrelevant. A bit like you. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 An open letter to all members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: http://anotherperfect.com/an-open-letter-to-all-members-of-the-academy-of-television-arts-and-sciences/ http://anotherperfect.com/an-open-letter-to-all-members-of-the-academy-of-television-arts-and-sciences/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:48:00 +0000 Jeremy http://anotherperfect.com/wordpress/?p=7 Did you even watch Andromeda Strain? I know you received a screener of it. Was “For Your Consideration” and “Produced by Ridley Scott” all you needed to know about it to carbon copy its’ name back onto the nominations form?

4 hours of the most embarrassing, mindless dreck I watched this year–an absolute slap in the face to the original (which didn’t have a single element that wasn’t far and away superior–37 years ago–to this committee-stamped low budget travesty) gets SEVEN god-damned nominations?

Let’s put that in a little perspective. 13 hours of Battlestar Galactica got 6 nominations (counting one for a short-form featurette). The final Season of THE WIRE got exactly ONE NOMINATION–and THE WIRE has never been nominated for Best Drama. But, again, Andromeda Strain 2008 gets SEVEN NOMINATIONS.

I really hope whatever payola or influence peddling the production company used on you was worth both your personal dignity and whatever little dignity was left in your academy. I now have more respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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