The notion that a movie like this would even be considered for Best Picture just goes to show how far Hollywood has fallen IMO:


Barbie In Running For Best Picture At Oscars

Well, I never took "Best Picture" seriously from the Academy. Hell, Citizen Kane lost To How Green Was My Valley for Best Pic in 1942. And Ordinary People beat Raging Bull.

The Academy Awards were always a sham.

Would anything different be expected from the clueless airheads that is hollywood?

Annie Hall beat Star Wars.

A few months ago, I decided to actually watch Annie Hall. It’s Woodie Allen yapping for an hour and a half. I could be wrong though because I turned it off after 45 minutes as that was all I could stand of Woodie Allen’s yapping.

I’m not shocked that a movie about a narcissist would win best picture in Hollywood.

The worse part is that people flocked to theaters to see it. It says a lot about the general public and nothing good.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Annie Hall beat Star Wars.

This!!! I still remember watching the '77 film year Oscars as a 9 year old kid, excited to see Star Wars win best picture. It certainly was the best picture for that year.
Afterall, which movie actually changed popular culture for 40+ years, it wasnt Annie Hall!

In a year where Taylor Swift is the Time Magazine Person of the Year ('That's so metal!'), I would expect Barbie to win as Best Picture...

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Annie Hall beat Star Wars.

Yeah, Hollyweird just loved Annie Hall.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
A few months ago, I decided to actually watch Annie Hall. It’s Woodie Allen yapping for an hour and a half. I could be wrong though because I turned it off after 45 minutes ...

I watched one Woody Allen movie a long time ago. I don't recall whether I made it through the whole thing, but whatever movie it was (might've been Annie Hall) cured me of ever watching another Woody Allen flick ever again.

Saving Private Ryan lost to shakespeare in love. Proof yet again the academy takes it in the ass.

Up against Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie doesn't stand a chance. Probably in any category it will win as it checks more boxes. We rented Barbie last week and regret it. Horrible movie in my opinion.

I think it's a given that Oppenheimer will win Best Picture given how Hollywood and liberals in general seemed to orgasm over the movie in the past year.

It’s not peak Hollywood until Hollywood catches up with Idiocracy and awards best picture to the movie “Ass”.

Here's the good news: With digital streaming, you have almost 100 years of film to choose from. I have been watching old movies without a care in the world of what Hollywood is doing now. I just screened Full Metal Jacket for the gazillionth time and I enjoyed it more than I would any movie made today.

I watched Barbie late one night on some extra cable channel. (Just out of curiosity of course) Horrible flick.

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Originally posted by Veeper:
It’s not peak Hollywood until Hollywood catches up with Idiocracy and awards best picture to the movie “Ass”.

+1 They haven't reached their relative extrenum yet...

Throwing a little calculus at y'all with relative extrenum

Barbie is all about new-age girl power. My wife and 17yo daughter absolutely loved it. Watched it 2 or 3 times. As a 50-something white guy, I found it tolerable and slightly amusing but hardly a cultural watershed.

Until recent years you could at least make a case for the nominations. Only occasionally does the best film of the year win the Oscar for best film. I mean I love the first four Rocky films but Rocky beat out Taxi Driver? Are you fucking kidding me? The Academy has a history of absolutely robbery but Barbie being nominated? LMAO. That’s a got damn awful film. Even if you compared it to pop music, it’s awful pop music, just awful. Academy is just a bunch of woke bullshit and even for them, this is a new low.

maybe the awards show can hit another ratings low this year.

fun fact: until the early 2000's they had 40 to 50 million viewers. Now it's 10 to 12 million.

people just don't care to see a bunch of Hollywood types stroke each other. Or in the case of Will Smith, strike each other.

speaking of which, is Will Smith back again this year?

I think we reached 'max Hollywood' about twenty years ago.
Since then it's been mostly reworks of previous ideas; very few original ideas emerging.

Last time I went to a theater was Top Gun Maverick, and only to take the Civil Air Patrol troop. Before that, Fury with grandson, and probably before that the original Terminator. Would probably take something as awesome as Terminator to get me in again. I could have done Maverick at home.