22 Replies to “Embrace Hollywood”

  2. Yeah, the rapists and child molesters and their enablers are mighty pleased with themselves tonight.

  3. And a movie glorifying the exact same behaviour that got Kevin Spacey ostracized from Hollywoood just won for Adapted Screenplay. Well colour me surprised…

  4. They just needed to throw a few of their own under the bus so they could get back to business as usual.

  5. TCM finished its annual 31 Days of Oscar festival last night.
    The last few days featured Best Actor and Best Picture winners. It’s clearly evident that Hollywood’s standards have slid considerably in the past 30 or so years.
    The previous weekend, it showed There Will Be Blood, a movie I thought was pointless and boring. Daniel Day-Lewis is a talented actor, but he certainly didn’t demonstrate it in that movie, for which he got the Best Actor Oscar. His character wasn’t particularly well developed and he seemed to wear the same expression throughout the entire movie. I shudder to think what the competition was like.
    TCM also showed a number of Best Picture winners, including The Best Years of Our Lives (one of the two best English-language movies ever made, in my opinion, the other one being Lawrence of Arabia), The Bridge on the River Kwai, Patton, A Man For All Seasons, and, last night, Braveheart.
    Just how Braveheart won and could be considered to be in the same league as the other movies I mentioned mystifies me. I found it to be ponderously boring and unconvincing, as well as far too long. To think that Apollo 13, a far better-paced and exciting movie, lost out to it….
    George C. Scott, when he won his Best Actor for his portrayal of General George S. Patton, turned it down on the grounds that he thought that the Oscars were little more than a popularity contest. I’ve often wondered if he wasn’t right.

  6. Used to be fan of movies. Took courses at SAIT in Calgary on movie making.
    Haven’t watched the Oscars for some years now. The one that know better than I, turned it on. After 3rd mention of “gender”, turned it off and watched the curious way paint dry’s.

  7. Well I would love to help you out by watching and then commenting on these self congratulatory creatures,however there is some paint drying in the basement that is more exciting.

  9. Did you know? … that without Hollywood, there would never have been an Abraham Lincoln … freed slaves … equal opportunity, love, peace, justice, or unity? Isn’t that amazing!? I am always soooo thrilled to see movie clips about all the ways that Hollywood has … “made the American people want to be a better man”, woman, or any one of the 58 gender-types they’ve filmed in action. Thanks Hollywood! … we’d be nothing but beer swilling, cousin copulating, mouth breathing, Bible-belted, assault rifle-blasting, mass-murdering, Timothy McVeigh’s … without your transformative technicolor sermons.
    Yeaayyy … yyy y yay y yyy *cough* *cough*

  10. Indeed. After all, those who made such monumental and pivotal cinematic epics essential to the existence of human civilization (e. g., The Hangover and Bridesmaids) exist on a higher plane and, therefore, are entitled–nay, obligated–to lecture the rest of us about how we should live.

  12. Today Hollywood wouldn’t make movies like ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ or ‘Patton’
    No women and not enough black actors.

  13. I think I stopped watching the Oscars after Bob Hope stopped being their MC. I agree with Kate on this, in fact I prefer the Walmartians, not for their relative attractiveness but within that group one would find far fewer poseurs. And they’re much funnier.

  14. In one of the commentaries on my DVD copy of Blackhawk Down, it was mentioned that certain people criticized the movie for not showing more black American soldiers. The commentator pointed out that the film was based on actual events during peacekeeping operations in Somalia in late 1993 and that most of the Army personnel in the units portrayed was white.
    Of course, what would one expect from people who complained that the recent movie about Dunkirk didn’t have enough black actors in it? Why let facts interfere with a political objective?

  15. I pretty much gave up on watching the Oscar ceremonies when Vanessa Redgrave used it as an opportunity for some political grandstanding 40 years ago, much to the chagrin of the audience.
    She received a verbal reprimand later in the proceedings from Paddy Chayefsky, who criticized her for acting as if her receiving an award was a pivotal event in history.
    Even earlier, I recall Marlon Brando skipped the ceremony when he won an Oscar for The Godfather. His representative used that as an opportunity to make some political statement.

  18. FYI. If you pay for cable you pay for CNN, MSNBC, etc. They get a cut even if you don’t have them in a bundle. I cancelled cable two months ago and haven’t missed a beat. Netflix, and books.
    Liberate yourselves.

  19. It all started with “bring out the knaves”. They’ve been slowly taking over ever since.

  21. Oh yest I forgot the oscars were on last night. I watched some episodes of a show about buying homes in rural England, the scenery was a lot nicer the watching a bunch of plastic phonies patting each other on the backs and making political statements. Truthfully I haven’t watched that package of nonsense for nearly a decade.

  22. Didn’t watch the Superbowl and survived. Didn’t watch the Oscars either and still around although the mainstream media is trying it’s hardest to feed us all the sanctimonious blather these overpaid putzes spout. nothing to see or hear, keep moving on.

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