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Rush Limbaugh: Hollywood Simply Refuses to Learn
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 1/25/05 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 01/25/2005 6:03:59 PM PST by wagglebee

The Academy Award nominations came out today. Nothing. Well, three minor nominations for The Passion of the Christ, and, let's see, there was nothing for Fahrenheit 9/11. And that's because that idiot, Michael Moore, decided to keep the movie out of the documentary category and instead hold out for the best picture category. It's a cut and paste job. What is he thinking? I mean, I wouldn't even call that a documentary. It's a basement cut and paste job. To call that thing a movie is an absolute disgrace to people who take movie making seriously.

So we're not surprised about Mel Gibson. Let me ask you this. The academy said, "Well, we didn't go see it." Can I give you a couple of analogies on this? Let's say that some company we have never heard of before, or maybe we've heard of the guy but he's always been chump change, comes out with a computer that just runs rings around anything Apple makes or Hewlett Packard or has an operating system that outdoes anything Windows or the Mac OS have even conceived of, do you think, folks, that the existing computer executives from Apple, to Microsoft, to Dell, to Gateway, whoever, wouldn't go look at that computer to find out what's so hot about it? You know damn well they would.

Let's say that some guy named Tucker comes along and invents or produces an automobile that gets 85 miles to the gallon, it weighs five thousand pounds, it's got a V12 in it, and it just has every bell and whistle on it in the world, and as such outsells everything on the market, do you think GM and Chrysler, whoever else, would not send executives to look at that car to figure out how they did it? Of course they would. Yet we are to believe that the voting members of the academy didn't go see Passion of the Christ, and they haven't studied it to find out why it set box office records! We're asked to believe that they didn't do any of this. (interruption) I know, I believe it, too. I can actually believe that they are so obstinate and that they are so stubborn that they are in denial about why The Passion of the Christ succeeded so well and are purposely avoiding it, and Mel Gibson did not -- you know, what happens here at academy time, all these studios produce screeners, DVDs of the movies and they send them to all the members of the academy, and they want them to watch them. Gibson didn't do that. Thus, the voting members of the academy, said, "Well, we haven't seen it." And I'm sure they didn't pay the freight to go to a theater to see it, there's just no way. We know a whole bunch of reasons why they wouldn't go see it. So I can believe in this one instance, the one business that will not learn from its competitors because they're so obstinate and stubborn out there, they'd rather go to Sundance and fall down in the snow wearing a Robert Redford sweatshirt than they would learn what it is the American movie-going public actually wants to see.

So, anyway, Gibson is not upset about this, folks. He didn't even get in on the marketing phase of the movie to the voting members of the academy. I mean, you can say religious bigotry is at work, come up with any reason you want to say that the movie got snubbed, but understand this from Mel Gibson's point of view. He doesn't need no stinking Oscar. He's got $700 million from the American movie-going public and around the world. That's what that $35 million of his own money invested in this movie produced, a box office of around 700 million. He'll take that, he even said so earlier this year. His audience is his award. The movie-going public was his audience and that's who he targeted, he wasn't targeting the academy, so don't feel bad for Mel Gibson and don't even get mad wasting any energy over the academy. Their actions are totally understandable here and you might, if you enjoy schadenfreude, and that is feeling happy over someone else's misery, then have a little schadenfreude over what happened to that bloated bigot, Michael Moore, and that cut-and-paste job of a Super-8 thing called a movie, Fahrenheit 9/11.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academyawards; dittoheads; farenheit911; hollyweird; hollywoodleft; melgibson; michaelmoore; oscars; passionofthechrist; rushlimbaugh; schadenfreude
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His audience is his award. The movie-going public was his audience and that's who he targeted, he wasn't targeting the academy, so don't feel bad for Mel Gibson and don't even get mad wasting any energy over the academy.

And the movie's success proved what the audiences really wanted.

1 posted on 01/25/2005 6:03:59 PM PST by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

I liked the fact that he pointed out how Hillary Swank gets euthanized in Million Dollar Baby and it's glorified by those with no respect for human life.


2 posted on 01/25/2005 6:07:19 PM PST by Ron in Acreage (Kerry is (no longer) a threat to national security)
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To: wagglebee

I don't get the emphasis on awards for "The Passion." It was a huge popular and financial success, and it will be meaningful for people for many years to come. WHO CARES what a bunch of leftist noodles think?


3 posted on 01/25/2005 6:09:05 PM PST by Tax-chick (Wielder of the Dread Words of Power, "Bless your heart, honey!")
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To: wagglebee

Absolutely.

Not only that, but Gibson got his message to an audience that Michael Moore could only ever dream of reaching.

And, there wasn't a word of English in the whole thing!


4 posted on 01/25/2005 6:09:20 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: wagglebee
The Passion is an example of all the good things about the art of moviemaking. The photography, editing, acting, music, etc. How the movie made people think about so many things and the emotions it brought out in people.

The fact that James Caviezel was not selected for best actor shows how much this whole "Academy" process and the people involved in it are a joke.

5 posted on 01/25/2005 6:09:36 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Denny Crane: "I look to two things: First to God and then to Fox News.")
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To: wagglebee

Oh Oscars are bunch of crap and movies are terrible. I have enjoyed 24 series more than 95% movies I have seen in last year anyway.


6 posted on 01/25/2005 6:17:24 PM PST by mel
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To: isthisnickcool

schadenfreud.


7 posted on 01/25/2005 6:21:34 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (Welcome to my addiction.)
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To: mel

I hear about "24" all the time, but I've never watched it. I guess maybe I should rent the first season on DVD.


8 posted on 01/25/2005 6:22:28 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." --r President Bush, 1/20/05)
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I quit watching the Academy Awards...... gee I never watched all of the Academy Awards... I'd flip in here and there.. but it's all just kinda pathetic now isn't it?

I saw the episode when Brando let some Indian.... Native American squaw yap on about something but I was so busy laughing that I never heard what she said.

I saw Rocky win for Best Picture or Actor or Song... and that's about all I remember.

Didn't Howard Stern float in on wires once and do "Fartman"... or "Buttman"?...

Just ignore them.... they're pathetic. Don't buy their crap and just look at them when they spew political and social commentary and say.... "...Oh yeah...I'm going to listen to high school graduate, who reads lines, confuses roles they play with reality and in past times would be a juggler, prose reader or eater of chicken heads at the fair.???"

9 posted on 01/25/2005 6:23:29 PM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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To: Dick Vomer

Best part of Oscars is the live thread on FR.


10 posted on 01/25/2005 6:25:35 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: mel

Return of the King won last year, which was well deserved. They finally did something right.


11 posted on 01/25/2005 6:32:59 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tax-chick

let's just put it this way. The Nobel Prize was a joke for years, but when they admitted they gave it to Carter in an attempt to rib Bush, like he cares, it officially lost any credibility it may have still aspired to.

We've known the score at the Oscars for years, the sun of the Passion and those asscociated finally cemented their irrelevency.


12 posted on 01/25/2005 6:38:57 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: isthisnickcool

I'm not upset about the nominations that "The Passion" didn't receive, and I'm happy with the ones it did receive. The cinematography, I felt, was Oscar-worthy as soon as I saw a preview; the same with the score. This is separate and apart from the content of the film. I figured the Academy would at least put on the appearance of being objective and above obvious bias and throw a couple of bones to the film in the form of technical awards, so I'm not surprised at these nominations. I think the film also deserves an Oscar for costume.

I'm not surprised or upset that none of the actors got nominated; I mean, it's not an actor-driven movie, but a story-driven movie. And I can't help it, but I just have this wierd feeling about anybody winning an Oscar for portraying Jesus. In my mind, there's something irreverent and tacky at the thought of winning an Oscar for Jesus. (Imagine the jokes if he lost--everybody would talk about how the winner "beat Jesus".) Jesus isn't merely a "role", like "Hamlet". It's more than that. It's above worldly accolades. But if I was going to give any acting awards to the film I would give them to Maia Morgenstern and Hristo Shopov. I thought they did a great job and I hope to see them in more films in the future.


13 posted on 01/25/2005 6:39:12 PM PST by wimpycat (As God is my witness, I'll never be "outraged" again!)
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To: Soul Seeker

correction- the scorn of the


14 posted on 01/25/2005 6:39:38 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: wagglebee

Twenty years from now, people will still be watching and talking about "The Passion of The Christ" as opposed to the silly movies that were nominated for "Best Picture".


15 posted on 01/25/2005 6:40:24 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: Soul Seeker

Thanks, that one lost me for a minute. You're right, it's all a farce. But I'll probably look at the clothes in "People" magazine, anyway :-).


16 posted on 01/25/2005 6:41:26 PM PST by Tax-chick (Wielder of the Dread Words of Power, "Bless your heart, honey!")
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To: Ron in Acreage

Hillary Swank gets euthanized?

Maybe, I WILL pay to see that!

--Travis--


17 posted on 01/25/2005 6:45:49 PM PST by TravisABQ
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To: Tax-chick

And does anyone remember who won the big one last year...I don't and I do not care..


18 posted on 01/25/2005 6:48:07 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: Kimmers

Not me. I might have seen it, if it was rated PG and in my county library :-).


19 posted on 01/25/2005 6:53:13 PM PST by Tax-chick (Wielder of the Dread Words of Power, "Bless your heart, honey!")
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To: All

so what can we as FR do for counter "programing"?

I would just derive a very guilty pleasure from the Oscars being out rated by something the left would really really hate. Perhaps the Victorias Secret fashion show. (only this time somebody please buy them a tripod) Perhaps a football game or some REAL rollerball. (support little league rollerball)


20 posted on 01/25/2005 7:10:44 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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