HOLLYWOOD, CA — A simmering undercurrent of resentment bubbled to the surface Sunday night as Joseph McGinty Nichol’s groundbreaking new comedy feature, “Family Switch” was nowhere to be found on the nominees list for best picture this year at the Oscars. Yet again, a perfectly good film with a cast & plot engineered optimally by Netflix’s algorithms to be bearable to all, but enjoyable to none, found itself overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Cast and crew have refrained to comment. Speculators believe that the silence against the bullying Academy is driven largely by all involved in the making of the film knowing it was an absolute pile of dogshit. When asked about the controversy, John Pingus, a Silverlake man, told reporters, “They probably want to just not comment and hope that nobody notices they were even snubbed so that nobody knows this movie was made and they can still get casted in good parts in the future. They probably don’t even like people saying they were snubbed because then people know this movie is a thing and that they were in it. I didn’t know about this movie ’til you asked me about it.”
“It’s a slap in the face,” remarked film critic, Sarah Thompson. “I had to write a review on this thing. That means I had to watch it. Why do I do this job when I have to watch these films? Why do people watch these Netflix films that are fully devoid of anything remotely artistic?”
As the glittering ceremony unfolded, a palpable sense of discontent lingered in the air of Hollywood, as yet another film, this time one heralded as: “90 minutes of pure agony insidiously disguised as family-friendly mediocrity” went inexplicably unnoticed on this year’s nominee list.
