Blogger has allegedly straightened out their comments section so that they don't vanish or screw up the system so I opened them up on this post to try it.
The Oscars are Here----A bunch of movies nobody has seen, apparently movies that nobody wants to see, and made by some really talented people who just may be out to lunch. Martin Scorsese gave us a movie called The Aviator, about a man young people have never heard of (Howard Hughes) and those who have heard of him don't much care for him. Clint Eastwood has given us a grim drama, Million Dollar Baby, with great acting, directing, and screenplay but nobody wants to see a picture about mercy killings. Johnny Depp, who everybody thinks is a good actor but has no box office appeal, is in a movie called Finding Neverland, which is about a child molester who could write children's books. Ray has a Ray Charles imitator, Jamie Foxx, singing in a movie nobody really wanted to see. And Sideways, a twisted story about boomers finding wine and and stray pussy that people can't get worked up about either, starring nobody. Then we have the movie called Vera Drake that is about Hollywood's favorite people, after artistic pedophiles: abortionists.
Not one of the movies America really liked were nominated. Passion of the You Know Who was frozen out of every category in spite of grossing a billion world wide. Shrek 2 did half a billion and counting got zero, ditto for Harry Potter, Meet the Fockers, or any one of twenty other movies that have grossed more than the nominated movies. So the elites nominated what?
I'm one straight guy who ain't watching.
2/26/2005
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I think all of America is stupid and the nominated pictures are the best made. Passion was religious shit passed off as a movie. The Academy is right.
I have a rule or three.
1. I don't see movies that the two fags on ABC like...Ebert???
2. I don't see movies that the fags at the NYT like either.
3. If somebody isn't either killed or fucked during the first ten minutes I walk
The only way you could have dragged me to see Passion was if Paris Hilton was the one being crucified, preferably after blowing all the Roman soldiers.
You are straight? You write like a woman who can't think and has no taste.
It is the responsibility of the so called elites to lead the army of less educated and less aware to the shores of the forces that shape our lives. The Acadamy is trying to do that. It makes no difference how many people pay to see the movies. Everybody ignored Van Gough and an army of other great artists until after they were dead. All great art is ignored by the so-called public for a while. I would vomit if a piece of trash like Shrek or Meet the Fockers won for best picture just because the majority liked them. The majority is always wrong. Always.
Only you LA assholes care about the awards. Nobody anywhere else does. I hate all of them
I liked Shrek and Shrek II.
Could it be that the the big green ogre don't get no respect in Oscarville because Shrek gives off no homoertic vibrations, and because the meddlesome King and Fairy godmother are obvious caricatures of Hollywood nabobs?
As far as being interested in the Oscar TV show, Chris Rock was right: hardly any heterosexual M's watch that thing. Hmmm, come to think of it, that little RockAfro dude seems suspiciously dapper himself, if you get my drift.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
"The majority is always wrong. Always."
Always?1939 Best Picture Nominees:
"GONE WITH THE WIND", "Dark Victory", "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", "Love Affair", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Ninotchka", "Of Mice and Men", "Stagecoach", "The Wizard of Oz", "Wuthering Heights"
1962 Best Picture Nominees:
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA", "The Longest Day", "The Music Man", "Mutiny on the Bounty", "To Kill a Mockingbird"
(Yes, '39 isn't quite fair, but I couldn't resist.)
[ "The majority is always wrong. Always." ]
Does that apply to popular sentiments in EUtopia or in US states that vote Democrat??
As for the myth of the beautiful loser artist:
Bill Shakespeare was a box office success whilst still active in the theatre, as were Euripedes and Aeshylus.
Most of the big names in classical music -- Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner (whoops !), both Strausses, Stravinsky, and some Russians whose names I can't spell right off were well-recognized and enjoyed haute bourgeois success during their lifetimes.
Not ever artist is Vincent Van G.
--david . davenport.1 @ Netzero.com
My Girlfriend and me saw Aviator last night. We gave it an hour and a half. What a boring movie. Who in their right mind wants to sit through a fake Katherine Hepburn and a Howard Hughes whatever? Booooorrring.
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