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HAS ANYBODY SAID IT YET? BOYCOTT THE OSCARS (Oscars Live Thread)
3-4-06 | freedom4me

Posted on 03/05/2006 1:43:20 PM PST by freedom4me

I suppose on this thread it goes without saying, but I'll say in anyway...BOYCOTT THE OSCARS tonight.

I want the ratings for this year's program go into the toilet (where most the nominated movies belong). I won't waste my money to see the films, my electricity to watch the Oscars, or my time watching to witness Hollywood's self-adulation fest.

Pass it on...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bbm; hollyweird; oscars
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To: fatima

BrokeButt Mountain got three - Director, Adapted Screenplay and Original Score.


In best Groucho Marx impersonation....
That sure was an original score - ba da bum....


1,881 posted on 03/05/2006 8:34:50 PM PST by Dashing Dasher ( I prayed, 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.)
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To: Jhensy

I think Hollywood figured out if they gave "Broken-back" the best picture award then another 50 million people would stop going to the movies.

They couldn't afford to lose any more at the box office.


1,882 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:04 PM PST by Cedar
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To: chpmass

you're welcome back anytime...the metro population has about tripled and shows no signs of slowing down

boomtown


1,883 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:07 PM PST by wardaddy ("hillbilly car wash owner outta control")
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To: Shortstop7
Well now that I think about it I did not spend one dime to watch the contenders but I did get the Penguin movie.
1,884 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:12 PM PST by fatima (Just say it if it is for love-have no regrets.)
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To: Alouette
Everybody is a racist.

Really?! LOL.

1,885 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:14 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Don't get me started!)
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To: Actually_in_Tokyo

I appreciated the Barney Fife updates.


1,886 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:14 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: nutmeg

My ultra-conservative son said the same thing - - 'Crash' is not an overly judgmental film, nor is it accusatory , overbearing, politically correct, or in-your-face in any way. He says it's a flat-out great movie.

I think the Academy got it right.
Let the, "Oh that'th thimply ridiculeth", wails of the sodomy community begin.


1,887 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:20 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: altura
I wonder if anyone will go see Crash now? It still doesn't sound like a movie I would like at all.

Feel free to skip it, unless you like to beaten over the head with a message that is both contrived and trite.

Some decent performances are buried under the sanctimony, however.

1,888 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:29 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Actually_in_Tokyo

Thank you. That is my oscar!


1,889 posted on 03/05/2006 8:35:46 PM PST by altura
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To: JCEccles

You didn't like it I take it. Didn't you get a tear in your eye, when the cynical and hardened got in touch with their conscience and refused to cross the line into the abyss? Most have some good in them, along with the bad. The movie captured that essential human aspect.


1,890 posted on 03/05/2006 8:36:34 PM PST by Torie
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To: HHFi

Celebrity does funny things to writers.


1,891 posted on 03/05/2006 8:36:35 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Cedar

As if they didn't make their true feelings already clear by the HYPE for the last few months...


1,892 posted on 03/05/2006 8:36:43 PM PST by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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To: JCEccles

I remember in my military service days going to movies helped past the time. Brokeback Mountain don't think would make it pass the base command. Course I was in the USMC maybe the Navy would let it slide.


1,893 posted on 03/05/2006 8:36:44 PM PST by eternity (What's it all about...Alfie?)
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To: altura
One of my favorite Oscar quotes,

"At least the Titanic had the dignity to go down in under three hours."

-Johnny Carson
1,894 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:09 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: altura

Well deserved!


1,895 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:16 PM PST by Actually_in_Tokyo
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To: BunnySlippers

Pamela Anderson looks like trailer trash!


1,896 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:38 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: La Enchiladita

The movies that I want to see now are: Walk the Line, and Pride and Prejudice.


1,897 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:41 PM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 29-34)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Missed the third -Thanks Dashing Dasher-good eye:)


1,898 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:47 PM PST by fatima (Just say it if it is for love-have no regrets.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Your son is right.


1,899 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:51 PM PST by voreddy
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To: altura

I found it to be quite interesting. I wouldn't pan it until you see it. It has some pretty good twists to it. It's not a bad movie.


1,900 posted on 03/05/2006 8:37:55 PM PST by WillT
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