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Am I Alone In Having NOT Watched Any Oscar Movies? [Monday Morning Vanity]
FreeRepublic ^ | February 25, 2019 | Reno89519

Posted on 02/25/2019 5:14:31 AM PST by Reno89519

Reading through the list of Oscar winners, I realize that I have not watched a single one of these movies. Not one. Not only not the winners, but none of the nominees. Am I alone in this?


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: oscars
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To: Reno89519
I was just curious, so....

Oscars: ABC's Renewed Contract Allows for More Creative Influence

...ABC has the rights to this 💩fest until 2028!

ROTF!!!

21 posted on 02/25/2019 5:26:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Reno89519

Forgettable movies made by forgettable artists.
Not only have the nominations NOT been seen, have no idea as to the list of nominations nor do I care to buy a clue.

Life is too short to waste snippets of time watching garbage.


22 posted on 02/25/2019 5:26:05 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: dfwgator

Don’t worry, dfwgator. Here’s how you handle that conversation for ANY movie that makes it to the Oscars.

THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE MOVIE DFWGATOR DIDNT SEE.

Q: Hey did you see that movie that made it to the Oscars?
dfwgator: Oh, YES! I was really moved by the themes of oppression and sacrifice.
Q: I was practically in tears!
dfwgator: Practically? I was bawling. Both tears of empathy as well as guilt, you know?
Q: Yep.
dfwgator: The privileged capitalist hegemony has a LOT of making up to do.
Q: Wow! You really get it, dfwgator!
dfwgator: Well, sometimes it’s time to fight the power, you know?
Q: Yep. Hey let’s grab an arugula salad and Macchiato sometime! I’d love to talk race-gaze close analysis, vaginal semiology and Lacanian feminist film theory with you. Laura Mulvey... Susan Sontag... Let’s really get into it!
dfwgator: Cool! Hey - did you see Missing in Action 2? It was actually as good as the first!

AND THAT’S HOW YOU DO IT. (But can you tell when dfwgator screwed up?)


23 posted on 02/25/2019 5:26:24 AM PST by golux
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To: Reno89519

Not a one for me. Probably the first time in a couple of decades. But I seldom see them all either. Still—0 for 9!

Maybe more a reflection of my year than anything. Might well have seen Roma and A Star is Born otherwise.


24 posted on 02/25/2019 5:26:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Reno89519

I don’t pay attention to any of the “awards” as they are all about virtue signalling and promoting a left-wing viewpoint. It’s like the boy in high school putting on a dress for the high school prom. He will automatically win homecoming queen lest the school be thought of as backwards and bigoted. Sorry girls but the boy in the dress will always win the homecoming crown by default. And apply the same standards to movies, TV shows and music. For instance, the Grammys have been a joke for decades. If a recording wins a Grammy, chances are, it’s not very good music. Didn’t Jimmy Carter win a couple Grammys for spoken word recording (he basically read his book out loud). I mean, come on! No doubt Obama will read a book out loud next year and get a Grammy as well. It means NOTHING! It’s all a joke.


25 posted on 02/25/2019 5:27:12 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: pepsionice

Of course pepsionice won’t pay 10 bucks for a Coke!


26 posted on 02/25/2019 5:27:26 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Reno89519

You’re not alone. I haven’t seen any of them, either. The only movie I went to see in a theater last year was “They Shall Not Grow Old.”

I can usually find something on Netflix of Amazon streaming, but the only time I go to a theater to watch a movie is if my daughter wants to see it, which is getting rarer these days.


27 posted on 02/25/2019 5:27:28 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Reno89519

Liberals giving awards to liberals. Meaningless.


28 posted on 02/25/2019 5:28:13 AM PST by donozark (There are no flamingos in Venezuela.)
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To: Reno89519

I’ve not seen one of them either.
And have missed absolutely nothing.


29 posted on 02/25/2019 5:28:15 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Reno89519; dfwgator

Like dfwgator, the only one I would have watched was “They Shall Not Grow Old”, but irritatingly, I cannot find anyplace in my area showing it.

I stopped watching the Oscars about 25 years ago simply because I thought the movies that won weren’t the best movies, and saw it as a sham.

And that was before it completely turned into what it is now, even though there has always been politicking of various things, now any pretense is gone.

The only movies generally considered are “woke” movies by minorities. It is, and has been for a long time, a contest to see who can out-virtue signal each other.


30 posted on 02/25/2019 5:28:19 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Reno89519

Listen to Marc Martel’s video channel, more entertaining than the movie “BBohemian Rhapsody”. What an amazing talent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCxE2Lh458


31 posted on 02/25/2019 5:29:40 AM PST by maggief
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To: cweese

“The Death of Stalin” is outstanding.


32 posted on 02/25/2019 5:29:45 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Reno89519

The Mule; that’s it in two years. Who could actually care about Hollywood aside from movies Eastwood makes?


33 posted on 02/25/2019 5:29:55 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Reno89519

nope


34 posted on 02/25/2019 5:30:23 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Reno89519

I do not know or care what won Oscars.


35 posted on 02/25/2019 5:30:45 AM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: Reno89519
I haven't been to a movie theater in 25-30 years.
The last time I watched the Oscars Johnny Carson was the host.
EFF Hollyweird.
36 posted on 02/25/2019 5:30:48 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Reno89519
This is not your grandfathers Hollywood

The history of The Hollywood canteen


37 posted on 02/25/2019 5:32:03 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Reno89519

not only do I not watch these liberal agenda movies, I refuse to watch the self congratulatory crap ass shows like the oscars.


38 posted on 02/25/2019 5:33:37 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: golux

Hahahahahahah...love it! I would try it, but after two words, the tone of my voice, and the look on my face, my cover would be blown!

When I say “Oh, YES!” the utter sarcasm and distaste would be so evident, it would be like one of those situations where a non-toxic sarcastic overtone would (like a rat in an experiment that dies due to an overload of a non-toxic substance like peanut butter force fed to it in massive quantities) simply overpower and kill any doubt on the part of the other person!


39 posted on 02/25/2019 5:33:42 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: looois

The Enemy Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6oZED1Hm8


40 posted on 02/25/2019 5:35:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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