Posted on 02/07/2005 3:03:09 PM PST by EveningStar
Medved on O'Reilly tonight to debate Million Dollar Baby.
Fox: 8 Easter / 5 Pacific
It's called the "willful suspension of disbelief", and it's not the actor's problem. It's the individual moviegoers' responsibility to make that choice or not. I do, and I have little respect for those who can't also make the seperation (it's so damn EASY to do, after all).
Frankly, I don't base my judgment of people on their movie going habits. One movie in a thousand approaches serious art and has something lasting to say about the human condition - the rest is entertainment for the masses.
Hollywood is the part of the movie INDUSTRY. Their main goal is to 1) Make Money and 2) push their cultural/ political agenda. As a conservative, I have no desire to finance their left-wing agenda and will only give them my hard-earned dollars when I know it meets MY standards.
Of course, I'll watch anything for free on TV.
I respect anyone who thinks otherwise. If you enjoy Kill Bill, or Valley of the Dolls, or Million Dollar Baby, or Alec Baldwin - Fine - but don't expect me to agree.
You said ALL parapalegics. I'm saying, PROVE IT.
TPOTC wasn't snubbed! It was nominated for 3 awards two of them very important. Cinematography is more important to a movie then acting. A movie can get by with bad acting but if its badly lit? Forget it! It becomes geniunely painful and fatiguing to watch. I think it has a good chance of winning that particular Oscar.
I appreciate your opinion, but mine is that it was snubbed. Not that it matters. The impact that it made on me was great, as was the impact that other more "accepted" films have.
The academy need to get their heads out of their collective rumps, and look at a movie for what it is artistically, and put their liberal politics aside.
They have picked some amazing winners over the years. Some that stand out are "Marty", "The Best Years of our Lives", "Casablanca", "Rainman". amd "Schlinder's List"...films that had meaning.
Then you have films such as "American Beauty" and "Silence of the Lambs" in the latter years. Kind of shows you what direction the academy, and Hollywood in general, is going.
I said all paraplegics have thoughts of suicide and despair. Do you think that's incorrect? If I'm erring on the side of hyperbole, then let's say 95%.
It sure doesn't change the fact that apparently you have never had even ONE conversation with ONE paraplegic, and thus, you've never had ONE occasion to speak with them about their current feelings contrasted to how they felt when they were first injured.
And that's a real shame.
Do yourself a favor and walk or run or skip to the nearest rehab hospital and talk to the first guy you meet confined to a wheelchair. It'll do you good.
You pompous ass.
Dude, the only cite between you and me has been mine of Ebert's review of the "The Woodsman." You haven't cited anything! The guy here who can't get past the smokescreen of his own rhetoric and ad hominem is you. So get on with what you promised and go peddle it somewhere else.
The perfect punctuation to your sophomoric comments.
The Best Picture Winners over the years tend to be fairly conservative with an exception here and there (American Beauty). Look over a list. Do yout think anything less then a Best Pic nomination is a snub? It wasn't case a of politics but a case of 5 other movies getting more votes. My two favorite films of last year weren't nominated either. I don't attribute this to conspiracies. :-)
Actually I think you had the better argument in that exchange. When you backed Hildy into a corner in that exchange she resorted to ad hominem attacks about your age, which is disgraceful and irrelevant.
Medved's signature line with respect to the homeless is, quote: "They should all be arrested or thrown into mental institutions." He advocates a strict "Law and Order" approach to people down on their luck while simultaneously advocating Bush's amnesty plan for MILLIONS of illegal aliens.
With the entire universe of issues to discuss in one of the most interesting times in world history, he constantly pursues his personal jihad against the homeless.
He is truly pathological.
Medved doesn't know squat about being so poor you can't afford rent or the forces at work at that end of the financial spectrum. He is a wealthy, ivy-league educated, elitist who lives on an exclusive island community and sends his kids to private school. His wife is a psychologist; they are a dual-income family. His chances of ever being even remotely close to homeless are nil, yet he is an expert on it.
How one (particularly someone who claims to be an Orthodox Jew) can be such a prick to the homeless RELENTLESSLY is beyond me. It is a very sick pathology.
You'll never hear a Dennis Prager or Rabbi Lapin behave that way.
Congratulations for admitting that a sense of propriety has little value to you. Perhaps that is why you have been so crude and insulting to many on this forum.
Travel to the "Garment District" of downtown Los Angeles and inhale deeply and smell the urine and human waste. Now consider trying to run a buisness in this part of town.
Some of the vagrants are mentally ill, others are publically intoxicated, and others are having "bad luck." Some, not all, should be institutionalized. Some, not all, should be arrested. Others should be given training to get a job.
The tough love of welfare reform was denounced when it was passed. Thank goodness it has. Now it's time to deal with this other societal problem.
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