The Academy Awards are Sunday night. I have no opinions on them, as chances are I've missed nearly every nominated movie this year (except "Once," which I hope wins every category it's nominated in). For ye readers who are interested in the Oscars, talk about 'em below.
Oscar open thread
Saturday February 23, 2008
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"I was not shocked, however, to see a report of the lowest viewers in history. Homosocialism and making anti-American propaganda films bashing our kids in uniform is not a real popular phenomenon here, or in any free country."
Cleveland, I'm just as anti-homosocialism and anti-anti-Americanism as you are, but I don't think that the reasons you mention are why the Oscars had a low number of viewers. None of the major films nominated this year was either pro-homosexual or anti-American. The reason, as I mentioned above, was that the films this year were perceived as 'serious,''challenging' or 'difficult', hence a lot of your average moviegoers, who tend to like things like "Titanic" and "Spiderman" didn't see them. Basically, no blockbusters, only a few big stars, etc.
As for "Freeheld," it sounds exactly like the sort of preachy, message movie that I hate. I saw enough of these growing up as a fundamentalist Christian -- certainly don't want to see any made by fundamentalist homosexuals, or fundamentalists of any stripe, truth be told.
You may well be correct, Rob, as to why the Oscars had a worst-ever viewing. Still, I like to think that even the mind-numbed masses are beginning to see through the anti-American culture that Hollywood feeds them year after year.
A few days ago I purchased a cable TV movie, "In the Valley of Elah," because it had great reviews and because Tommy Lee Jones never made a movie I regretted watching. Besides, Charlize Theron cleans up pretty well. About three quarters of the way through the movie it became clear that even Tommy Lee Jones was into the Democrat Party's "our troops are just murdering, torturing Bushites". What a disappointment!
In past years I have often joined my wife to watch the last half of the Oscars--she is a liberal, gullible, loving woman in desperate need of political direction. ;-) But this year, "In the Valley of Elah" was the last straw. I simply could not enjoy watching the arrogant, self-congratulating nip and tuck crowd (peppered with grinning but hate-filled homosocialists) act as if our kids were not out there risking their lives for our freedom. I hope that the low viewer numbers indicate others finally have had enough, too.
'A few days ago I purchased a cable TV movie, "In the Valley of Elah," because it had great reviews and because Tommy Lee Jones never made a movie I regretted watching.'
I avoided that one specifically because of the anti-war message. And actually, other than TLJ being nominated for Best Actor in it, that movie wasn't very prominent at all. It certainly wasn't "Brokeback-arama" all over again.
Personally, I found this year's Oscars quite heartening. While they haven't exactly restored my faith in the Academy (any faith I had in Hollywood is long gone), they did demonstrate that on rare occasions they manage to exhibit a modicum of intelligence.
"Homosocialism"??? "gulag"??? You're sounding more and more like "Donny" every day, Cleveland.
Nice, too, how you link "homosocialism" with "anti-American propaganda films". Is treating all citizens equally before the law (like the Constitution promises) somehow "anti-American" now?
Also, you neglected to say WHY you were "shocked, shocked to see the Academy award "Freeheld." Care to tell us now? I'm interested, but could do without the slurs, thanx in advance. (If it's just your anti-homosexual bent, don't bother. We already know that.)
Oh, and exactly which films do you feel were "bashing our kids in uniform"? ("Elah" sounds like it was bashing Bush policies, and if that's the case, good on 'em. No one should have to die because of a lie.)
"BTW, ALL Americans ARE free to actually "marry" the persons they actually love, provided they are single and of age."
Provided they are resident in the State of Massachusetts, you are correct. (And no "pretending" required.) Funny how George W(armonger) Bush has actually had more same-sex marriages created under his, er, 'watch' than jobs.
What's "homosexualism"? Is it anything like religionism?
And I really don't think you are as "free" as you believe. If you threaten people with harm, and/or promote harm to an identifiable person or group, you had BETTER have a good lawyer. And rightly so.
"we still can protect our children from being proselytized by homosexuals with our own tax money"
If gay people actually DID proselytize, you might have a point. What? Do you actually believe the joke chant, "Ten percent is not enough. Recruit! Recruit! Recruit!"??? U 2 funnee. You'd think we get a free toaster oven with every 10 signed up. (Must have missed my stint at the enrollment centre.)
Glad to hear your wallet took a hit. Why a religionist-conservativist would rent an anti-war movie (and then have the gall to gripe about it) escapes me.
Blessings on you and your wife. Good luck with the doling out of her "political direction". Do you still do it with the rod, as per the Bible? ;{O
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