'Red America' gets the blues over left-leaning Oscars

Yahoo ^ | Mar 7 | AFP

[george76]

The divide between conservative and liberal America was on full display at the Oscars, with both the winners and losers championing social and political topics heralded by the left.

Across the United States, in blogs and on call-in radio talk shows, conservatives seethed that their point of view was not represented in the choice films honored with nominations -- let alone among those given awards.

"This year's Oscar nominees include stories of homosexual sheep herders, a transvestite and Japanese prostitutes," ...

American conservatives are accustomed to frowning at liberal Hollywood, but they were more disaffected than ever by the left-of-center themes of this year's Oscar nominees.

the conservative Concerned Women for America (CWA)...complained that the few Hollywood films it approved of had loads of popular appeal and impressive box office, but "got the cold shoulder from Hollywood elitists."

Conservative America long has been at odds with liberal Tinseltown, championing films with religious overtones like the blockbuster "Passion of the Christ," which was snubbed at the 2004 Oscars.

This year another hit with Christian overtones was the film "The Chronicles of Narnia...which has raked in more than 637 million dollars in ticket receipts around the world...

Narnia's ticket sales nearly equaled those of the five best picture Oscar nominees combined.

"This year's anticipated Oscar-winning movies, reviewed in light of their box office appeal, reveal Hollywood's true motives.

They are far less concerned about entertaining people than they are with trying to shape the culture and advance a political agenda."

"If you want to be truly courageous and take actual risks then make a movie that gives conservatives a fair shake or, God forbid, make a movie where a Liberal is the bad guy."

[kb2614]

I didn't get the "blues" over the Oscars. I simply don't give a crap about the cult of celebrity. I...just...don't...care. It's really that simple.

[Tzimisce]

I'm not blue about the Oscars - in fact, I'm pretty happy. I love to see these people continue to ram their philosophy/lifestyle on everyone. It is losing them BIG TIME and they haven't figured it out yet.

So keep it coming lefties. :)

[KurtZ]

I don't think the Oscars should be about rewarding movies based on how much money they make, or they might turn into the Grammys. On the other hand, a movie shouldn't be rewarded based only on the message it is sending. The only movies I've seen out of the best picture category was Crash and Munich. I thought Crash was horrible and Munich was slightly above average, even if i disagreed with its message. So if you forget the conservative message in Chronicles of Narnia, does anyone really believe it should be nominated for best picture?

Then again, my taste in movies is not what you would call "mainstream". Best movies in my opinion are Trainspotting, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now, and Full Metal Jacket. Movies that definitely don't represent my values, but IMO, great movies.

[Candor7]

Hey, I don't go to the theaters to watch that Hollywood shite anymore.

I get DVD videos of John Wayne movies and play 'em at home, along with Clint Eastwood, and Arnold the Governator movies, with the odd Sean Connery movie.

Who wants to watch a couple of shite packin cowboys cheat on their wifes and horses?

And Japanese prostitutes? Been there done that.

Sooner or later Hollywood is gonna tank, just like the MSM!!!

I would sooner watch DVD Brollywood movies from India than that shite they are turning out in California.

[claudiustg]

I don't really care what Hollywood does as long as The Sopranos airs on the 12th.

[george76]

"Yahoo and Hollow-wood understand this?..."

No, they do not get it.

They will never get it.

They are not part of the real world. They do not work real jobs.

[jwh_Denver]

The artsy fartsy crowd are never going to vote for a blockbuster film which the "serfs" liked. And we hate the crap they say they like.

[Humidston]

If every conservative in this country spent the amount of money we spent on movies last year, all those phony so-called "stars" would be on welfare.

Or back waiting tables where they started.

[Soul Seeker]

Agreed.

I forgot it was on until I flipped through the channels and saw stars primping. Even then it took a minute to remember it was Oscar Night. I just don't care anymore. Three years ago I passionately hated them. Now I find them irrelevant and do not even pay attention. Hollywood ought to make note. When passion, even hate, turns to apathy they are in trouble. That usually signals a permanent downturn if they can't even incite reaction anymore.

[oldenuff2no]

If hollyweird has a few more years like the last one, it will dry up and blow away.

[Myrddin]

I didn't waste time watching the Oscars. I was doing something useful. My wife is very pleased with the new American Standard Champion toilet with elongated bowl installed in the master bathroom. When it was done, it made a sound very similar to the Oscar ratings, but definitely more useful.

[Politicalmom]

And you're dating this wench because..???

: )

[george76]

LOL

[JCEccles]

Hollywood no longer makes movies for the public. It makes movies for itself that it hopes will be a thumb in the eye of the public.

The business reality is, Hollywood cannot long continue to spend $100 million to make a movie that only grosses $60 million or less.

[george76]

They were hoping that we were seething...

I would rather watch paint dry.

[george76]

Good.

Let them spend $100 million to gross $60 million.

That means less political money for the DUmmies. George Soros will be on his own, soon.

[phelanw]

Note to Yahoo: I'm not seething, I'm really very calm. I'm not playing your game, I'm giving you no satisfaction whatsoever. I'm also not spending my $ on trash. The wife and I went to see Harrison Ford in Firewall the other night in East Peoria. It's so similar to a dozen other films (Clear and Present Danger, Gibson in the one where his son gets kidnapped, etc) but it was decent enntertainment. The screen with rump ranger sheep herders was empty. Rump ranger sheep herders evidently don't play in East Peoria.

[weegee]

The Academy showed tremendous disrespect to conservative actors of earlier eras with a montage of clips of old westerns to show "evidence" of gay cowboys in earlier works.

[phelanw]

Well, actually it was Sunnyland, not East Peoria. But close.

[A Jovial Cad]

Ah, but even some "FReepers" think Hollywood in general and the Oscars in particular did a just jim-dandy job this year...

"talking sense to the crazies"

...and think they're doing all of us other benighted FReepers some kind of favor by peddling leftist horsecrap talking points over and over and over and...