The Favourite is favourite to win Oscars. You have to be joking.

Tired of Donald Trump and Theresa May and everything that goes with them, I shall take a brief diversion and focus on the Oscar nominations. Yet again the Academy has gone mad. In 2017 the Academy nominated La la Land on the Best Picture list after one of the biggest marketing hypes in the history of Hollywood. Like everyone else I went to see La La Land expecting an amazing cinema experience. It was fun, quite entertaining, fairly jolly, sweet in places and I like Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. But Oscar material? Never. It was just an enjoyable film without knocking your socks off. In 2012, The Artist, a silent movie, won everything at the Oscars because and only because it was a celebration of Hollywood's silent movie era. I thought the film was boring. Quite cute but basically boring. NOT Oscar material for me. Now here we go again. The Favourite is running away with Oscar nominations, including best film. Have you seen it?!!! It's a pretty terrible film, the plot is all over the place, where it's understandable it's pointless and silly and sometimes boring. I am a fan of Olivia Coleman and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone and all of them act very well, especially Rachel Weisz who is often stunning in her haughtiness. But some reviewers said the film was so funny there was a laugh a minute, and likened it to the classic 1980 disaster parody, Airplane! Oh please!! In the cinema I went to to see The Favourite there wasn't so much as a titter throughout the whole 121 minutes. Nothing was funny, except perhaps once when Emma Stone kneed a suitor in the lower region. But compare this dire film with Airplane! which was genuinely hilarious slapstick entertainment is an insult. The Favourite has more lesbianism in it than any film I have ever seen but that didn't make it funny. It was actually pretty gross. There is nothing in this film which merits consideration for an Oscar. The worst component was the music. For some of the film the music was just ordinary swingalong stuff but in two long passages the "music" consisted of a single drum beat followed by a single note from, I think, a cello, repeated again and again and again and again until I felt like shouting out "SHUT UP". The Favourite is probably my most unfavourite film of the last decade. Compare it with Bohemian Rhapsody which was slammed by many of the critics. Take it from me, the criticising critics, probably the same ones who praised The Favourite, don't know a good film when it is shoved under their noses. Bohemian Rhapsody is a joy of a film with awesome music and a stunning lead performance by Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. I could see this film again and again. It deserves several Oscars, certainly for lead male actor. But the way things are, The Favourite will scoop up everything. Such drivel!!