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Why I'm skipping the Oscars this year
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| Jan. 13, 2006
| Ben Shapiro
Posted on 01/13/2006 7:54:16 AM PST by Millicent_Hornswaggle
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Hmmm, I won't be watching, either.
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
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posted on
01/13/2006 7:56:47 AM PST
by
jdm
(WWW-WEBMASTER (My grandfather swears it's his email address))
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
I haven't watched since the invention of cable and we got more than one channel.
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posted on
01/13/2006 7:57:07 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
Still, Hollywood had to take a shot at mainstream America, and they found their vehicle in "Philadelphia," throwing their honorary liberal activism award to Tom Hanks for his weak performance as a dying AIDS-stricken gay lawyer in "Philadelphia." Unbelievably, Hanks' cheesy hospital-bed routine beat out Liam Neeson in "Schindler's List" and Daniel Day Lewis in "In the Name of the Father." "Philadelphia" is, clinically speaking, a maudlin, ham-handed attempt at social commentary. That is SO right. I would say that another nadir was the year that "American Beauty" was lauded.
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
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posted on
01/13/2006 7:58:58 AM PST
by
VOA
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:00:39 AM PST
by
pleikumud
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
They still do the Oscars? Hmmmm.....
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:01:09 AM PST
by
Preachin'
(Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
I have gone to the theatre once in the last 4 or 5 years. And it has nothing to do with ridiculous box office ticket prices. Let's face it, most of today's movies stink. I got talked into seeing "The Lord of War" with Nick Cage. Not wanting to be rude, I sat through it without uttering a single word.
Thank goodness for DVD's of the older (and far better stuff). I find myself going back to the 40's and 50's stuff. Simple special effects, movies with a story line and an actual plot and, in my opinion, much better acting.
Like everything the liberals touch, the movie industry is experiencing the midas touch in reverse; everything turns to dung.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:02:39 AM PST
by
stm
To: jdm
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
The Oscars' predilection for 'Disease of the Week' acting is a long standing problem but his thesis that only actors playing positive characters are worthy of awards doesn't make much sense.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:03:38 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
I skip the Oscar's every year. I skip all of the garbage that they throw into movie theaters also.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:04:13 AM PST
by
asp1
To: stm
I can proudly say that I haven't stepped foot in a movie theater in more than 10 years!!
I can barely stand the IFC on cable.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:06:52 AM PST
by
yobid
(What we have here is a failure to communicate)
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
By the way, don't believe the "hit movie" hype -- this supposed blockbuster has netted a grand total of $8 million.Is this abomination in wide release yet? It'll be interesting to see if the general public believes the hype.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:10:41 AM PST
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
Yep. Hollywood has covered all the taboo, hot-button issues. Gays, AIDS, serial killers, warm and fuzzy abortionists--I mean, what's left? A movie glorifying pedophilia? Nah----Hollywood would never do that would they?
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
"If you're crazy, gay, have a disability or are a member of a minority race, you'll likely be nominated for an Oscar..." The "critics" are crazy, gay, have a disability or are a members of a minority race.
...so WTF's expected of their "nominations"?
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:12:33 AM PST
by
Landru
(A sucker's born every minute & now we're swamped by 'em.)
To: Landru
Critics don't vote for the Oscars.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:13:27 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
The Oscars only provide insight into what Hollywood thinks. Since I already know what Hollywood thinks, and I don't care all that much about what Hollywood thinks, I have no reason to watch.
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
What's the Oscars? Seriously, I haven't watch the Oscars for at least the past 20 years.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:15:41 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
("We must...all hang together or...we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin)
To: Millicent_Hornswaggle
It used to be "must see TV" in my house growing up, but the outlandish movies finally got to us.
I stopped watching about the time they all started wearing red ribbons. That just sort of pushed home how they were trying to indocrinate us.
Last year, however, was my first year of not watching the Tonys. I used to love all the broadway show excerpts, but last year the "gayness" was just way over the top.
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posted on
01/13/2006 8:17:32 AM PST
by
I still care
(You don't demonstrate tolerance for minorities by apologising for your own heritage- John Howard)
To: stm
"Like everything the liberals touch, the movie industry is experiencing the midas touch in reverse; everything turns to dung."
These people ACTUALLY think, in a perverse way that, they are doing good things. However, self-destruction via implosion is occurring to the Hoolywood crowd.
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