HAS ANYBODY SAID IT YET? BOYCOTT THE OSCARS (Oscars Live Thread)

3-4-06 | freedom4me

[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...

[TomGuy]

Imagine if one of these stars got caught between one of those open microphones on the Red Carpet and a US Senator running for President. The results would be disasterous -- for the movie star.

[SauronOfMordor]

Used to be that the other networks would 'challenge' a big event by broadcasting their own. Not any more, it seems. Some of the best nights for TV were when the big 3 actually competed and tried to out-program the others.

These days, the Big 3 have to also compete with all the cable channels, plus DVDs and the Internet for viewer eyes. It makes more sense for them to cooperate

[Getready]

Don't forget, they will make movies to attract you. Then
they will use the profit to make movies that advance to, (and
what I call "soft-brainwash") the public that lefty policies
and unnnatural families, or behaviours, are good. So Bonnie
and Clyde are romanticized, cops are always corrupt,
cannibals are interesting, religious folks are narrow
minded and blighted, big business is ONLY stealing money (except
the entertainment big business, of course).
I say the medium has passed it's time. Movies, (i.e. ideas
with "moving" images) can be done on a shoe string budget
nowadays. No need for mountains of equipment, high strung
actors, directors, producers, any more.

[JerseyDvl]

LOL, I deserve that one :)

[JennysCool]

Ha! What an interesting job that must have been!

[Lil'freeper]

Well, I guess this thread is as good a place as any for the required editorializing of what the 'beautiful' people are wearing.

For instance.... who knew that a tarpaulin could double as a dress???

[Lil'freeper]

When plastic surgery goes very, very wrong....

[LisaMalia]

LOL...yeah, Jon Stewart is the best they can come up with. That's pretty sad.

[television is just wrong]

We used to go to the oscars. Back stage passes. I will not even watch it this time around. I'm so disgusted with the alterior motive.

[Lil'freeper]

This one could have been a Project Runway project: "Make a dress suitable for a slasher movie out of materiels purchased at a craft store. You have ten minutes...."

[HairOfTheDog]

We're sitting here wondering who the really pretty gal is who they keep showing... she's light brunette, her hair is up, and I think she's wearing a yellow dress.

[HairOfTheDog]

She's been graffitied ;~D.

[LisaMalia]

Other than a few jokes perhaps (I've heard a few second hand in the past; there will probably be some brokeback humor this year), the Academy Awards are a complete and pathetic waste of time.

Look for our Vice President to be on the receiving end of the "jokes". That's the best Jon Stewart will have to offer, he's such a no-talent liberal. I'm sure he's giddy with the thought of it. The hollyweird "elite" don't have a clue.

Is it any wonder I've been watching "The Andy Griffith Show" marathon this weekend?

[ChicagoHebrew]

I'm boycotting the Oscars like I'm boycotting homosexual sex.

[Lil'freeper]

Michelle Williams from Brokeback:

[LisaMalia]

That dress would pay my rent and utilities for a couple years, I'm sure. I just love it when they say, "who are you wearing", like they're wearing a person...Arrrrgggggg!

[Texas Songwriter]

I'll be missing the fudgepackers gala.

[HairOfTheDog]

Nope... not that one. Darker skin brunette.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jessica Alba.

[Lil'freeper]

Kiera Knightly could have done better. She looks like she has to waddle like a mermaide in this getup.