The 18.9 appears to be an all-time low for the Oscars...
Posted on 03/05/2018 7:10:00 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Last night’s ceremony drew a 18.9 Live+Same Day rating in the metered market households. That was off 16% from last year’s 22.4 rating, which was a nine-year low. The 18.9 appears to be an all-time low for the Oscars, below the previous low ratings point for the Oscars, logged with the 2008 telecast (21.9), hosted by Jon Stewart, when No Country For Old Men won Best Picture.
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I don't know if Meryl Streep was again on it. But she is creepy, called Weinstein "God," as fake as they come.
The 18.9 appears to be an all-time low for the Oscars...
Even if the Oscars weren’t political, no one would watch them. They are a relic of the past. People just don’t like watching these awards shows anymore. Plus, a lot less people watch television, period. So the old days of getting 50 million people to watch a show like this are gone.
As expected.
I believe this is due to more than two things, but the two that come to mind are:
1. Nearly every movie, today is junk. They are either sequels of junk or remakes of junk. Hollywood chooses the artsy-fartsy films to nominate for Oscars and most people have not seen them. In the good old days when people actually saw the movies (Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, etc.) people were invested in the outcome and watched to see who won. Not anymore.
2. When you promise to insult and castigate a president that half of your potential audience supports, surprise, surprise, half your audience doesn’t show up.
The Oscars long ago ceased to be awards for film excellence and became a 3.5 hour TV show. It has been a liberal political rally since Brando sent an Indian up to blather on. Each year it becomes a bit more partisan and loses a few percent of its remaining conservative viewers. Most of them are now gone and the majority of the lost viewership is probably from movie afficionados who find the nominations unrepresentative of the films they liked.
The Oscars are just like the state of “Arizona” mentioned in the great movie “An Officer & A Gentleman”, “Filled with Steers (studs) & Queers”. Thanks, Richard Gere. End of story.
The Oscar is leading the post-humanist post-sexual revolution.
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
Depravity Piled Higher and Deeper.
Stupid author thinks 2005 was in the last decade
Hollyweird thinks people care about the drivel and propaganda they shovel at us.
Haven’t seen a movie in a while but when I do I want to be entertained not lectured
Combination of the manifestation of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Hopium Withdrawal, virtue-signalling, perversion-endorsing, liberal dog whistles, and the simple act of producing some really BAD movies. That’s a formula for BAD rating.
Not low enough.
“Celebrities” walk the red carpet in gala fashion while the California homeless defecate on the streets.
You know who I am impressed with? People who can build a factory. From the planners archetects ans engineera, to the draftsmen, to the people who hire the contractors, to those that order all the materials From the surveyors, to the land clearers, to the pipe fitters, concrete guys, iron workers, mill wrights, and welders. The electricians, lighting, conduit benders, controls engineers, network engineers, plumbers. The managers and expediters that make sure all of the resources to the last detail are where they need to be at the correct time, to the safety people that make sure rules are followed to minimize risks while hundreds of people of many disciplines are working simultaneously on dangerous tasks. To the accountants who keep track of the capital and make sure the bills are paid. To the process engineers, to the lawers who make sure the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed. To the people who get the services connected, and the people who make sure environmental practices are followed. I can go on.
You know what doesn’t impress me? People who read words written by others in front if a camera. Dont get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with acting as a career. But the need to have non stop awards shows is distasteful enough, but when you combine that with the over the top sneering condescending “we are royalty, and the smartest ever and all of you deplorable peasants who are conservative or voted for trump are both stupid and evil.” It makes me want to puke
That was "Oklahoma."
The same line was used in "Full Metal Jacket", but it was "Texas" in that movie.
Wow....really a relic of the past? That’s only because Hollyweird puts out garbage and I am not interested in that. I used to watch for several reasons.... the opening monologue used to be smart and funny and I could get a sense of movies I might want to see
Now all that’s there is hubris and bitterness and garbage....oh and self congratulatory virtue signaling
If she's using "decade" to mean the aughts, she's correct.
California is becoming a septic tank and Hollywood is a sewage pipe from it to the rest of the world.
Marketing. The Oscars were conceived as a marketing ploy back when movies were in turmoil over the introduction of "talkies," and scandals were cutting into business. Audiences of the day were far more socially conservative than now.
Louis B. Mayer started them as a way, he said, to unite and control the five main branches of the movie business: actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers. Mayer knew what nitwits populated the industry even then. He said, "I found the best way to handle them was to hang medals all over them." The Oscars helped to market movies and those who worked in them as somehow special, glamorous, above mere ordinary people. It worked and spawned innumerable copycats.
Hollywood has been poisoning the culture for years. Now many people see it.
Never watched it; don’t know who was nominated; don’t know who won; put me in the “I simply don’t care, don’t buy your products” column!
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