Posted on 03/16/2026 12:24:32 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The Oscars, once Hollywood's premier celebration of cinematic artistry, have increasingly come under fire for prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates over pure merit and storytelling excellence. Titled "Why the Oscars Suck: Diversity, Equity Inclusion Standards Fail Art," this critique highlights how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Representation and Inclusion Standards-introduced in 2020 and fully enforced for Best Picture eligibility since 2024-have transformed the awards into what many view as a politicized checklist rather than a genuine honor for filmmaking achievement.
(Excerpt) Read more at smobserved.com ...
Ford v. Ferrari was refreshingly free of DEI nonsense. It came out in late 2019.
John Stossel on Hollyweird awards:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3272524442942632
I never watch a movie produced after about 2000.
I didn’t like “Braveheart” because of the anachronisms, especially with the costuming. It was like a movie set during the Civil War in which the soldiers wore tricorn hats and Kevlar flak jackets.
I’ve never seen Braveheart.
Last time I went to a movie theatre was I think 2018 or maybe before when I saw the 1931 movie, Frankenstein finally on the big screen.
I have seen the movie on tv of course but because it was on the big screen I was surprised to see in one seen Karloff’s monster with a tear in his eye. Could not see that on a tv screen.
That may be true but their movies were entertaining up until now which is mostly crap.
“No Country for Bad Authors” sucked like a Dyson.
Well, that would be like comparing William Shakespeare to a sit-com writer.
And I don’t think they included Duval in the memorial in the Oscars last night.
I think it goes by year—the Oscars in March honor everyone who passed on during the previous calendar year. If I have that right, he will be honored at the 2027 Oscars since he died this year. Reiner and Redford died last year.
Bringing back old hit shows is not exactly progress.
Don’t remember the last time I went to the theater to watch a Hollywood movie. We have gone to watch the Kendrick Brothers Christian movies, Still Hope earlier this year and the Blue Angels documentary a couple years ago. Every time we have gone the theater was almost totally deserted - no lines at the ticket booths, no lines at the snack counter, nothing. No trouble getting a parking place close to the door. Not like years ago when the theater was a busy place with kids and teens everywhere.
Braveheart was a great film.
Yeah, the 110 lb girl beating all the guys in football was over the top. It ruined the movie for what it could have been.
Braveheart is a must see movie. It was about the Tea Party and Mel Gibson was amazing. His speech about freedom was one of the greats of all time.
Aye, you can go home and you will be safe. But one day years from now when you are lying in your beds would you wish you could trade all of those days to today for just one day of freedom? FREEDOM!
Last time I was in a theater was 2010 to see the remake of True Grit.
A 6 plex built about 25 years ago. Now permanently closed.
Every time I checked on line it had 4 super and horror movies on, a kiddie show and another teen show. Now all closed.
Last Oscar I watched was MC’d by Bob Hope.Way back in the mid 1970s.
I just watched the second to last Bond movie that Daniel Craig made. Spectre(2015). It was actually very well done.
The were two women and both were put together just right.
They also were not fighters. At least physically. They were feminine.
I actually think the Daniel Craig Bond was the best of all the actors. He played a flawed person that occasionally got the living crap beat out of himself. Meaning the fight scenes were brutal and realistic.
In this one Bond literally gets throw around a train car by a much bigger guy. The girl tries to intervene and she gets knocked out by ONE back hand by the 250+ pound brute. The only thing that saves Bond is trying a handy rope around his neck that is also tied to a half dozen empty beer kegs. Which eventually pull the brute out the open door of the moving rail car. Just before he was going to finish off Bond.
Basically, Bond was getting his A$$ kicked by this much bigger guy. Even though the girl shot the guy. He kept coming.
It was kind of sad at the end because the British men that save the day(MI6 -007) agents probably don’t really exist today because the current state of the UK. A toothless former tiger.
The 2010 True Grit remake was a great movie, watched it at home on the big screen, watched it several times.
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