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Kobe Bryant now has the same number of Oscars as Dicaprio.


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Posts: 30297 | Location: Elv. 7,000 feet, Utah | Registered: October 29, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Kimmel flat out admits why they make the stupid shit they do...

Kimmel: We Make Films 'To Upset Mike Pence.' That's True, And It's An Important Admission.
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On Sunday evening, ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel dropped an absolute stinker of a performance — bland, flat, and politically correct. But he did drop one joke that landed: a joke targeting Vice President Mike Pence, but accidentally exposing Hollywood for what it is. Noting that many of the nominated films were seen by virtually no one, Kimmel stated, “That’s not the point. We don’t make films like Call Me By Your Name for money. We make them to upset Mike Pence.” Call Me By Your Name is a gay seduction story between a 24-year-old and a 17-year-old.
When I wrote Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story Of How The Left Took Over Your TVback in 2011, I interviewed dozens of Hollywood insiders — show creators, writers, producers, and executives. Many of them admitted outright that they purposefully stacked their shows with leftist messages; a few even said that they openly discriminated against conservatives in their business. But nearly all of them excused such discrimination by claiming that they were responding to the market — they explained that their leftist content is what Americans wanted to watch, and that their ratings were evidence that they weren’t just propagandists.
That wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now.
Hollywood simply does not make “message” films from the Right. They mock such films. In fact, films that carry any non-leftist message are trashed by the critics, derided as fascistic and simplistic. So Death Wish (both the original and the remake) become “problematic,” but stories of fish sex become tales of heroism and beauty. And Death Wish was intended to be big budget — it was meant to drive ticket sales, which is how it was made in the first place. Nobody thinks The Shape of Water was going to bust the cash register, but it got made because it’s chock full of symbolism about the evils of “repressive” America.
Kimmel told the truth, which is why his joke landed. Hollywood does greenlight films so that its creators can brag to each other at cocktail parties about how much they ticked off Mike Pence. The dirty little secret is that the more they tick off Mike Pence, the fewer Americans overall bother watching the messages they’re so eager to dispense.
 
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What's really telling is this bit from the VF article: Perhaps more alarming than the ratings decline is the fact that social chatter surrounding the event dipped this year as well. According to Fizziology, social conversation dropped 28 percent compared to last year—although it’s likely that this discrepancy can be attributed to last year’s best picture flub...

They try to play it off that there wasn't controversy to talk about, but hint at the fact that no one gives a shit unless there's manufactured drama. So just like the StupidBowl people are sick and tired of the left wing political hijacking of TV and sporting events. Let them keep digging their graves I say.



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At least Variety doesn't get it- "But whatever the reason for the Oscars’ ratings decline, it was not lack of interest in Hollywood and the nominated films more broadly."


More broadly? Get Out, was prominently featured in the Oscars. In my opinion it shouldn't have been even nominated for Best Picture or best actor. It was some half baked horror movie and just doesn't belong in the top films of the year but we have to have "inclusion."

Hollyweird, instead of just focusing on making good films and stories with good cinematography, acting, directing, etc, is hell bent on inclusion, diversity and all this other PC crap rather than focusing on making good film. I've watched the Oscars for 30-35 years and it was never this politically charged. MeToo, Time's UP (which I do support), inclusion, diversity, all were big sticking points for them to get their political messages across. This year, particularly it was the women. The Academy knee jerked, which most of the people behind the mic saying "Women AND men" instead of the other way around. Lots of digs that more women weren't doing X, like say directing, or cinematography. It was a classless Oscars and my bet is the ratings suffered because many of us tried to watch but it was so over the top political, we switched it off. It was like millenials crying for free stuff. Hunger Games, Divergent, Red Sparrow, Atomic Blonde, Underworld, Wonder Woman, we are seeing a lot of female lead big budget films. The tide is turning for women without all the crying at the Oscars by them. What Weinstein did and some others is terrible, unforgivable, and is indeed Time Up for all that bs. But the audience watching the Oscars didn't do all that shit. Punish everyone for the sin of a few?

I was at a small get together on Saturday night. Some of these subjects were brought up by a matriarch. I let her know that I'm in full support of Time's Up as I'm tired of women being harassed in any way in our society as I highly respect them. But I was quick to remind her of the double standard that exists and how many women are hypocrites. They need to change also. They need to ask men out, come pick them up, take them on a date, pay for the night, go to work, pay bills, etc. You can't have it both ways or you are a hypocrite. I don't expect you to clean, make sammiches, or anything traditional, but if you want to be treated equal, then honey that means money too. This cherry picking needs to stop.



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Didn’t watch the shit show. Haven’t been to a movie in, what 10 or 15 years. Besides NCIS was on!


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Besides the leftist rhetoric, the movies themselves are horrible. I like what one reviewer had to say (https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/oscars-become-mediocre-awards-show-best-anti-human-propaganda.html):
So, what did win the major awards?
A bestiality movie attacking traditional American values and promoting abuse. A movie about a 24-year-old graduate intern abusively seducing a 17-year-old boy who himself is fornicating with a teenage girl his own age. A movie from Chile about a man, who’s undergone one of those mythical “sex change” operations and who becomes a better woman than any other woman, including the ex-wife of his dead lover. A horror movie about an old white man and his white friends trying to put his brain inside the body of a young black man. A story about a rape and murder that occurred in a small Missouri town where a bunch of small-minded people live. A movie about an Olympic ice skater with a terrible mother and even more terrible friends who decide to break the leg of her closest competitor.
 
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Kobe Bryant now has the same number of Oscars as Dicaprio.


And Gary Oldman. Oh, and Kobe may be a rapist. There's that, too.
 
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I have always loved movies and still do. I think I've been to five so far this year and except for the shit-show starwars fail (a deals a deal, my wife went with me to see Dead Pool, so...) they have been pretty good. the Darkest Hour is fabulous, Hostiles is epic, it's going to stay among my favorite shoot-em-ups.

With that, I'd like to say that you couldn't pay me to watch the oscars for all the reasons listed here except that movies suck. Fact is you could pay me to watch, but the price would be steep and I'd never tell anyone about the shameful conduct I had to engage in to get a new F150 King Ranch.


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In 2014 there were 43.7 million viewers for the Oscars telecast.

Every year from 2014 to this year, TV viewership has been in a descent.

This year—26.5 million, an almost 40% drop in 4 years. Well earned


26.5 million adds up to less than 1% of americans watched, and most of them were probably Liberals on both coasts.
 
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26.5 million adds up to less than 1% of americans watched, and most of them were probably Liberals on both coasts.

Well.... < 10% anyway.... Wink
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Self congratulatory bullshit.
 
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I love movies. and I love watching the Oscars. I have always wanted to go back in time to see Ben Hur win all those awards. My wife and I watched Titanic as newlyweds and then watched the Oscars that year as well. But I told her this year that the Academy Awards was on and she wanted to watch something else.

Somewhere around 2010 it really started to die on us, we didn't watch last year, and didn't watch this year. Hollywood makes movies I love, still. I buy them, I watch them on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and RedBox,etc. But the awards show is a farce now. Maybe it always has been, I don't know.

AS for going to movies, mostly I do not. Not because of the movies but because of people. people talking, on their phones, being assholes. So I have a nice 3D HD 65" and a badass surround system and I just wait for the Bluray. when two tickets, popcorn and drinks is $50-60 I paid back myself for the system in just a few months.



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Movies these days don't generally get nominated unless the serve the liberal agenda in some way.




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I stopped being interested in the awards when it became apparent to me that only movies I wouldn't bother to see were usually the winners. That point occurred long before the current political situation arose.

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I love movies and watch hundreds of them every year, at home. Some of them deserve a big screen and better sound system so I occasinally visit the theaters.
A lot of movies turn out to be a total waste of time and one wonders why are they even been made?

The Oscars hasn't been about movies or their industry in years.

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