Art is dead.
It had no business being up for an Oscar.
I thought No Country for Old Men was a very good movie. But then I love all of the Cohen Brothers movies, starting with the first one I saw: Blood Simple.
Anyone remember that old one?
What I notice are the message movies. The oil barron. Wow, that was a stretch. Greed? Oh those pescky republicans need to be taken down a notch. You know damned well that’s what they producers were thinking.
I’m sick of this anti-American swill, and I’m tired of the globalist nonsense that sees foreign actors and actresses all the rage today in our effort to force multi-culturalism all the way down the digestive tract of U. S. Citizens.
I love people of all races, nationalities and places on the planet. Is it okay if I love my own race too? Evidently not. Nah, don’t root for one of those people. Ewwwwwwwwwwww...
Ever since “Midnight Cowboy” swept the Oscars forty years ago it has to be dark and depressing to be “authentic.”
Nowadays, if it isn’t dark/violent/sexed up, it’s automatically considered “family fare” and presumably beneath serious attention.
Mitch is a whiner.
Some ideas aren’t all Disney-fodder and aren’t meant “for the whole family”.
Get over it, Mitch.
And the Oscar for most depressing
And who cares. The acting is poor, and without conviction. I wish we had the old actors and actresses back. John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Etc. they made it come real
I watched about 30 seconds of the pre-hype then went to the NASCAR races. The Rain break was better than the Oscars ever were.
I don’t watch negative, depressing movies. I have my own problems in my own life, and I tend to deal with them rather nicely, thank you. So, I sure as hell don’t need to hear about someone else screwing up everything around them. Geesh, I hate Hollywierd. Movies are a “slice of life.”
Hollywood used to try to give us uplifting, positive slices of life that helped us cope or briefly escape — either of which is acceptable. Now, the leftwing movie moguls and their airheaded “stars” insist upon foisting the most negatives slices of life they can find on us — and telling us that’s all there is.
My idea of a happy ending now would be for everyone in Hollywierd — with the possible exception of Arnold the Pig — to drop dead.
Mitch hits it on the head!
This was actually the best crop of Best PIcture nominees in a long time.
Why do we go to the movies?
To look into the mirror.
You don't need to spend $10 on "depressing, dark and disturbing" when Lou Dobbs gives it away for free every day. ;~))
I stopped watching The Oscars after Smokey and the Bandit got snubbed.
Juno was an average indy movie of no better quality than Garden State or the Battle of Shaker Heights. I have no idea how it was nominated. Michael Clayton was an average movie that was carried by the acting of Clooney and the guy from Batman Begins (forgot his name).
There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were excellent vehicles for the talents of the actors and directors of the movie’s, but they lacked a message that stuck with you. The best movie of the year, I believe, was 3:10 to Yuma. The acting was on par with the two aforementioned movies, but the movie had a uplifting theme, i.e. redemption.
I think Transformers should have won more.
Two thumbs up. Positive, uplifting and well deserving of the best screenplay Oscar.
It doesn’t bother me so much that a lot of these films are dark and depressing. I love Film Noir and those are very dark and downbeat films sometimes. What bothers me is that so many modern films suck and are hostile to our military and/or culture. It’s one thing to criticize an occasional aspect of our culture, but another to beat it until it’s dead and then keep beating it.
I didn’t see any of this artistic crap.