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Post by jdv on Mar 28, 2022 12:59:23 GMT -5
IN ONE WAY, the Oscars last night a perfect reflection of the trash that is Hollywood - low wattage stars, TV movies winning top prizes, violently stupid primadonnas, wildly unfunny hosts obsessed with politics - all while managing to both forget the people that actually made classic movies, and the people that actually pay to see movies.
Because I don't hate myself, I only watched during the commercial breaks during TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLIA (which was being shown on Comet TV), thus I missed much of the "entertainment" provided by such beloved comedians Wanda Sykes and Amy Schummer....
...Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little. Where was I? Oh yeah, the train wreck.
From the attacks on free speech and comedy (Will Smith slapping the shit out of Chris Rock over a very mild joke), to not even nominating the best two movies of 2021 - DUNE and SPIDERMAN - for best pic or director, to giving Betty White (who's literally been in fewer movies than I have) 3 minutes during the "In Memorium" segment while giving Alan Ladd Jr - the only studio exec in Hollywood with the balls to green-light STAR WARS a blip on the screen, to making jokes about Florida's new law anti-grooming law (which I'm sure people around the world were riveted by), to a sad looking Spielberg & Coppala who can remember when their industry wasn't run by maniacs, to letting Smith blab on and on after winning for best actor (despite the Academy's instance today that they will not tolerate violence),to having a TV movie win best pic, it was a shit show of biblical proportions.
I mean truly horrible. And that was just the 20 minutes I could stand watching.
The show itself will likely see record new rating lows and because the Oscars ain't the WWE, no one will care when they get together a year from now to celebrate all the great movies from this year....
...And by "great" I of course mean shit.
The show is now a celebration of trash - literal trash - no better then the meanest trailer park in the poorest side of town.
Bizarre, utterly out of touch with real people "stars" who couldn't fill a theater if their lives depended on it. To wit, none of the movies nominated excepting SPIDERMAN (which was only nominated for SFX awards) actually made any money. Even DUNE only broke even.
Sadly, the show is a reflection not just on Hollywood, but of our culture as a whole right now. Thank God for GODZILLA movies....
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Post by Warpig on Mar 28, 2022 13:42:29 GMT -5
A culture in descent, a nation falling apart.
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Post by jdv on Mar 28, 2022 13:47:43 GMT -5
A national TV network put on a show where the hosts were openly against a law aimed at preventing grooming children for sex, a show where a presenter was violently attacked, then gave said attacker an award and ten minutes of time to speak.
So yeah, we're on a freight train going down....
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Post by jdv on Mar 29, 2022 10:44:17 GMT -5
The show itself will likely see record new rating lows and because the Oscars ain't the WWE, no one will care when they get together a year from now to celebrate all the great movies from this year....
...And by "great" I of course mean shit.
Missed it by this much.....
"A paltry 15.4 million viewers tuned into Sunday night’s debacle of an Oscar telecast, the second-worst in the history of a telecast that just a few years ago was attracting 30 to 40 million viewers without breaking a sweat." -----------------------------
Last year's Oscars remains the king of the crap heap w/ just 10.5 million viewers.
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Post by Warpig on Mar 29, 2022 12:00:45 GMT -5
Well, again; why would anyone watch? What's worth even talking about giving an award TO?
Who are the "Stars" people even want to see?
Because of Social Media and 24/7 coverage, it's entirely possible we see TOO MUCH of so-called "Stars".
Back in the Pre-Smartphone Era (aka - Pre-Krell), seeing stars was something you didn't do that often, so when you did see one it was significant.
Nowadays? Ho-Hum.
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Post by jdv on Mar 29, 2022 15:42:43 GMT -5
Well, the reason to still watch is because it's about movies, which remain the greatest (potential) art form man's yet invented. And, long ago, the show was fun to watch - there was singing of good songs with a full orchestra, dance routines, and of course comedy. Johnny Carson had one of the best jokes ever when he quipped, "I see a lot of new faces in the crowd tonight. Most of them are on the old faces." Billy Crystal is still alive, right? Heck, a dead Carson in a moldering casket would still be funnier than Wanda Sykes. A low bar to be sure as as cat turds are also funnier. In other words, even when the movies are shit - which the past 15 years have provided a mountain of them - the show could still be fun. That time, sadly, has passed.
Lastly, 'member Ricky Gerveis? How he delivered the best ratings for the Golden Globes ever? But when he joked about Harvey Weinstein, and the audience groaned. He reminded them that they were his friends, not his.
There's perhaps nothing sillier than Hollywood celebrities lecturing people about morals.
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Post by Warpig on Mar 30, 2022 9:25:01 GMT -5
"Any of you "stars" here this evening been to Epstein Island?" "Lookin' at you Tom Hanks, and YOU Will Smith!"
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Post by jdv on Mar 30, 2022 11:49:41 GMT -5
And there's this fun fact: "Now, today comes the revelation that Pfizer, which will soon be competing to sell the most therapeutics for alopecia sufferers, was a major sponsor of the Oscars. Which it hadn’t sponsored before. And which coincidentally featured a bizarre incident that focused the world’s attention on alopecia. Pfizer — together with COVID-jab partner BioNTech — was a major sponsor of Sunday’s Oscars award ceremony, a broadcast that unexpectedly shone an un-missable spotlight on the hair-loss disease alopecia. In one heck of a coincidence, Pfizer just happens to be in a race for market dominance of its soon-to-be-released cure for — you guessed it — alopecia." ---------------------- You don't say.... pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/03/29/hmm-oscars-sponsor-pfizer-coincidentally-in-race-to-market-cure-for-alopecia-n1585249 |
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Post by Warpig on Mar 30, 2022 13:01:35 GMT -5
Wow.
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