Posted on 12/28/2005 8:28:19 AM PST by Zender500
Dr. Ted Baehr, founder of the Christian Film & Television Commission™, one of the top advocacy groups in Hollywood, predicts that Americans moviegoers will reject the top movie choices for the 63rd annual Golden Globes Awards.
"They've already rejected three of the five choices for Best Drama," Dr. Baehr said about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's choices, which include BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN; THE CONSTANT GARDENER; GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK; A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE; and MATCH POINT.
"These movies aren't that good," said Dr. Baehr, who noted that the Commission's flagship, MOVIEGUIDE®, at its Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala, has a better track record than the Globes and any other film critic association, when it comes to picking the kind of award-winning movies that Americans really want to see.
He predicted that moviegoers will reject both BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, an explicit, "boring" movie about two homosexual cowboys punching sheep, and each other, and Woody Allen's new "slow-paced" atheist drama, MATCH POINT, when they open wide next month.
"These kinds of boring, politically correct movies tend to make much less than $10 million at the box office," he said. "This is not even a drop in the bucket when compared to the box office numbers for a movie like THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, the classic Christian created by C.S. Lewis, which made more than $67 million in three days.
"Do you want your daughter or niece seeing two cowboys sodomize each other?" Dr. Baehr asked, referring to Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
Dr. Baehr said that THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a "left-wing diatribe" and that GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK is "a distorted, revisionist picture" of the fight against Communism in the 1950s.
"A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is just a very odd choice," Dr. Baehr added. "I don't know what to make of the mindset that would pick such a mediocre, unsuccessful movie like this for an award."
Finally, Dr. Baehr said that, while he can see why the HFPA nominated THE PRODUCERS and WALK THE LINE for Best Musical or Comedy, one of their picks, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, has no music and is a heavy family drama, not a comedy.
"The mostly out of work people who pick the Golden Gropes must be getting senile," he concluded. "Of course, in reality, there are less than 100 members in the HFPA and less than 90 of them can vote. Many of them don't even work in the news media anymore. Furthermore, they only add about two members each year. The whole thing is a sham which the Hollywood studios promote because it helps sell tickets."
I watched them the year Mel Gibson got an award for Braveheart.
I won't lie...I was watching for him (OK, and some of the dresses were really purdy too ;) )
"Spin" has nothing to do with it. Either the movie is attracting an audience or it isn't. Are you suggesting this movie won't attract liberals?
"No amount of Cinematography is going to turn
this pigs butt into a silky camisol."
Well said but never underestimate the taste of liberals, especially Oscar voters.
Oh, I have not doubt it will win at
'The 1st Annual (Everybody-Fully-Outta-Da-Closet)
Flaming Pervscer Awards Party.'
A night of blatent "in-your-face-deviance' to be
shoved into every viewers face that wastes any of
their time to watch this Monster Mash.
They will think of themselves as being "militantly
cool"...
What they will actually be doing is "showing their asses"
to a world wide audience....If ya know the expression...
And it won't make back its production cost (13 million).
Does the author suggest that only successful, box office hits are worthy of awards? Is he looking for quality, content or profit...or all of the above?
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