Filleting Nemo [Hollyweird Self-Congratulation Night warm-up]

The Tarpeian Rock ^ | 3/5/06 | Anthony P. Schiavo, Jr.

[Antoninus]

Not watching the Brokeback Oscars tonight. This article sums up my feelings about Hollywood nicely.

[southernerwithanattitude]

Hammer met nail squarely and solidly.

[LowOiL]

This article sums up my feelings about Hollywood nicely.

You can put me in the "Amen corner" on your side. I will not be watching either.

[45Auto]

The New Left, epitomized by the crap produced by Hollyweirdos, has mistaken "libertine" for "liberty".

[SandRat]

Take heed! The stain that is Hollyweird and Liberalism is all explained as it was long ago.


Isa 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.


Isa 2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.


Isa 2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:


Isa 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:


Isa 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.


Isa 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.


Isa 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


Isa 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low:


Isa 2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,


Isa 2:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up,


Isa 2:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,


Isa 2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.


Isa 2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


Isa 2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.


Isa 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.


Isa 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


Isa 2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.


Isa 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,


Isa 3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,


Isa 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.


Isa 3:4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.


Isa 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.


Isa 3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:


Isa 3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.


Isa 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings [are] against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.


Isa 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.


Isa 3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.


Isa 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.


Isa 3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.


Isa 3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.


Isa 3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.


Isa 3:15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.


Isa 3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:


Isa 3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.


Isa 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of [their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their] cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon,


Isa 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,


Isa 3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,


Isa 3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,


Isa 3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,


Isa 3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.


Isa 3:24 And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.


Isa 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.


Isa 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.

[popdonnelly]

Fed up with Hollywood? Don't watch the Oscars, and don't go out and see any of the winners.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[painter]

DITTO'S to that!

[gitmo]

I enjoyed Finding Nemo.

[painter]

Fed up with Hollywood? Don't watch the Oscars, and don't go out and see any of the winners.

Except for Narnia for wich they were nominated for in a puny catagory. You know they throw a few bread crumbs our way so they can say:"We respect what you like too."

[Slings and Arrows]

[SauronOfMordor]

Naria grossed to within a fraction of a percent of the latest Harry Potter. Expect the whole series to be produced in short order. I hope they keep the quality up.

Mainstream Hollywood seems to have been taken over by a culture of license and homosexuality. Their problem is that they don't know how to produce films that mainstream America has any interest in seeing. Look for the independents to overturn the established studios.

I'm waiting to see what Mel Gibson's "Icon Productions" has coming out

[The Fop]

In terms of the decline of quality in movies, you can trace things back to the dawn of the "made for TV movie" in the mid-1970's.

Made for TV movies emphasized plot over dialogue and character. It was all about getting the plot from Point A to Point B to Point C. Whatever lame dialogue and character development there was in these movies only served to advance the plot. So in that sense, made for TV movies were the antithesis of the kind of dialogue driven movies of yesteryear, such as the great Hepburn & Tracy movies like "Desk Set", which hardly had any plot at all, but magnificent dialogue.

Now you've got all these directors who started out doing TV who are now doing big budget Hollywood films of made for TV movie quality. The biggest offenders are Garry Marshall, Rob Reiner and Ron Howard. Howard's "Apollo 13" was a perfect example of a made for TV movie that actually received Oscar nominations for (gasp) acting. Reiner's "The American President" makes some of the early made for TV movies like "5 Desperate Women" and "Fairhaven Home" look like "Gone With The Wind".

At least the snot nosed left wing European movie directors are capable of making intelligent films. Right now, I think that the best movies are coming out of Spain. They may have some decadent themes, but at least they don't insult the intelligence of a 5th grader. That's because foreign films aren't designed to make mega millions. They appeal to a core audience of art house theater lovers, as opposed to Hollywood films that try to make big bucks off the people that the left wing directors have nothing but contempt for.

There's two really annoying tricks that contemporary Hollywood directors use over and over again as a cheap shortcut to trying to develop their movie's characters. One is "the party scene", in which the main character is shown dancing to really loud salsa music and throwing back shots of Tequila. The point of these scenes is to show the wild and free spirited nature of the main character, and to keep the audience from falling asleep (that's why they make the salsa music really loud.......2 to 1 odds that they'll either be playing "Hot Hot Hot" or some Gloria Estefan hit from the 80's). Then there's "the best friend scene", in which we get to see how close the main character is to their best friend. As they hug and cry, they'll say things like "your the only one I can talk to" or "you know how much I depend on you". The point of these scenes is to show you that the main character is capable confiding in and bonding with other people. In many cases the "best friend" is either a gay man or a lesbian woman. If you want to see a really pathetic example of this (though I hate to condone torture), go rent "Under A Tuscan Sun" starring Diane Lane. My wife likes Diane Lane, so we rented it. It was GHASTLY. Lane's best friend in the movie is the new multi-culti "it girl", Sandra Oh. She plays a lesbian, and of course, there is the obligatory scene where her lesbian lover leaves her for a man. So she shows up at Diane Lane's Italian villa and lots of crying and hugging and affirmation of best friend-om occurs.

Needless to say, I won't be watching the Oscars.

[TASMANIANRED]

Holly wood could use a Sodom and Gomorrah moment.

[Trillian]

"A week or so later, I opened a can of sardines and announced, “Guess what we're having for lunch today? Nemo!” And let me tell you, I’ve never seen a kid eat a sardine with such gusto. After he was done, he proudly announced, “Nemo was delicious!”

Lol.. sounds like a day in our home.

[painter]

I think you are right about the Independents. Mel Gibson made a boat load of money on The Passion of Christ which gives him the opportunity to thumb his nose at hollywierd.

By the way,which studio filmed bareback mountain?

[Fiddlstix]

Not watching the Brokeback Oscars tonight. This article sums up my feelings about Hollywood nicely.

Ditto!

[Question_Assumptions]

Try watching The Incredibles. It's an excellent movie with a nuclear family that takes shots at all sorts of liberal sacred cows. Heck, it even has a church wedding. Amazingly enough, it's a Disney movie.

[SpyGuy]

Fed up with Hollywood? Don't watch the Oscars, and don't go out and see any of the winners.

Or any of the losers, for that matter.

[Scotswife]

The article reminded of how I felt when I watched Kingdom of Heaven.
It was so cliche and predictably lefty anti-religious.
It was so bad - it was too distracting trying to follow the plot. But that's ok - the plot stunk too.