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Post by jdv on Mar 10, 2023 13:21:06 GMT -5
WITH award show ratings all setting all-time lows in the past few years - including the Oscars - the obvious answer is "low".
But how low? There are multiple strikes against the show before the first notes are heard, starting with the host, Jimmy Kimmel. A more un-funny, more disliked host can hardly be imagined.
That combined with the fact that other vastly funnier people are available - like Billy Crystal and Kevin Hart - make a double whammy of stupid.
Perhaps an even bigger problem is just how loathsome most of the "stars" have become. When at least half the country wouldn't pee on them to put them out if they were on fire, it's an indication that maybe just maybe the luster of Hollywood "stars" has dimmed. Any way, not a whole lot of star wattage will be present, in part b/c it simply doesn't exist anymore.
Lastly it's the movies themselves. Comparing movies from 1986 - when TOP GUN 1 came out - to movies released in 2022 is a one way ass-whipping.
PLATOON, ALIENS, CROCODILE DUNDEE, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, BLUE VELVET, FX, THE FLY, HEARTBREAK RIDGE, HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, HIGHLANDER, MANHUNTER, THE MISSION, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, PRETTY IN PINK, STAR TREK 4 - all of which destroy everything other than TOP GUN II.
Seriously, there seems to be a secret competition to make the worst movies possible. When JACKASS FOREVER is arguably the 2nd best film released in 2022 (maybe 3rd if you're a BATMAN fan), it's a pretty damning indictment. Not that JACKASS or BATMAN were nominated.
Who wants to watch millionaires give each awards and preach about how evil & dumb we are for trash flicks? The answer in no one. Thus I'm guessing we'll see an all-new record low.
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Post by Warpig on Mar 10, 2023 13:51:45 GMT -5
Who wants to watch millionaires give each awards and preach about how evil & dumb we are for trash flicks? The answer in no one. Thus I'm guessing we'll see an all-new record low. Well, exactly, and I think this is the key part here. These assholes have so worn out their welcome it's not funny. I used to be able to do the whole "Separate art from artist" thing, but that is extremely hard to do these days when they're SO insufferable. |
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Post by jdv on Mar 10, 2023 14:42:50 GMT -5
It's impossible when the "art" is lower than whale shit.
Put another way, would you rather watch DON'T LOOK UP - which is somehow nominated for best picture - or HOUSE, from 1986?
I rest my case.
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Post by jdv on Mar 13, 2023 20:33:15 GMT -5
And the initial ratings are in, are they're just as bad as I predicted, 2nd worst of all time (despite all the ads featuring TOP GUN II), with a pathetic 16 million.
By way of contrast, Tucker Carlson got 4.5 million viewers last week on a basic cable station. CHICAGO FIRE averages 7 million viewers per episode.
Naturally, TOP GUN won only one Oscar, that for sound editing. No wonder St. Thomas Cruise the 1st did not attend (neither did Cameron; AVATAR 2 won only for best SFX). Thus the two movies which together grossed more than all other films nominated combined managed only 2 wins, and none in categories which "normals" care about.
I tuned in only for a few seconds, just in time to see Brendon Fraser literally whaling on stage. His man-tears were so distastefully silly and stupid that I may now have to burn all of my copies of THE MUMMY. You'd think he'd just cured cancer or stopped WWIII instead of winning an award now worth less than a bag of hamsters. And even if he had cured cancer, it would have been an over re-action.
Part and parcel I suppose for a group of people who are as far removed from mainstream America as can be possible.
2013: 40.3 million
2014: 43.7 million
2015: 37.3 million
2016: 34.4 million
2017: 32.9 million
2018: 26.5 million
2019: 29.6 million
2020: 23.6 million
2021: 10.4 million (virus year)
2022: 16.6 million
2023: 16 million
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Post by jdv on Mar 14, 2023 12:22:58 GMT -5
There was one, brief, highlight when, the guy who played Short Round in INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, gave a very gracious speech for his win for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE:
"My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow I ended up here, on Hollywood’s biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream.”
“Thank you to my mom for the sacrifices you made to get me here. To my little brother David, who calls me every day just to remind me to take good care of myself. I love you, brother."
“I owe everything to the love of my life, my wife, Echo, who, month after month, year after year, for 20 years, told me that one day, one day, my time will come. Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive. Thank you, thank you so much for welcoming me back. I love you.”
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Classy guy.
And there was a slight correction to the initial ratings - the show garnered 18 million viewers, not 16. Which means it was the 3rd worst rated Oscars of all time, not second.
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Post by Warpig on Mar 14, 2023 15:01:19 GMT -5
Who doesn't like Short-Round? You remember him? From back when Hollywood produced these things called "MOVIES"?
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Post by jdv on Mar 14, 2023 15:04:33 GMT -5
Mo-what nows?
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Post by Warpig on Mar 14, 2023 15:27:48 GMT -5
Something that was lost, long, long ago....
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