Soderbergh soothes the studios with expert, intelligent crowd-pleasers like Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven then shifts gear for more esoteric, personal projects (Solaris, Full Frontal).
This year, the Academy moved from paper ballots to online polling, so it's possible that older and conservative members might have been flummoxed, allowing a younger and more tech-savvy demographic to hold sway.But another reason why there are so many oddities and outliers on the list could be the absence of well-crafted, intelligent, crowd-pleasing movies coming from the Hollywood mainstream.
It is, after all, their ranks that would be expanded, and such a thoughtful, intelligent, and increasingly well-informed crowd is unlikely to sit by as their betters make decisions that will have a profound (and possibly negative) affect on their futures.
"It's an intelligent, literate crowd," says Hiddleston, who will be going again this year to support Jim Jarmusch's vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive.
The approach taken by the authors, to proclaim conclusions based on belief rather than evidence, is particularly troubling given that the subject matter of selection and evolution is often the victim of such an approach from the creationist and intelligent design crowd.
The first game in Livestrong was the first time Cotton had seen a truly rabid, intelligent, engaged soccer crowd in Kansas City.
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