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In 1998, one of the greatest movies ever made, "Saving Private Ryan" - was snubbed by the liberal activist wack job voting academy members.

They didn't want to "glorify war", so they voted for an insipid, conceited, smug movie, "Shakespeare in Love" as Best Picture.

Thirteen years later, "Saving Private Ryan" has established itself as the best and most realistic depiction of battle ever put on screen, and "Shakespeare in Love" is a forgotten film whose DVD sales are below that of "The Secret Life of Bacteria: A Documentary."

Hollywood is still capable of great things, but it seems it cannot get out of its own atheistic, liberal, Marxist, misguided world view long enough to remedy the situation.

My daughter gave me this as a Christmas present (I refused to see it when it was in the theaters).

I listened to part of the story line when they had it on the home theater while I was in the kitchen cooking. It was drivel: Dances With Wolves Via Pocahontas Meets Native/African American Global Warming Earth Worshiping Pagans Against White Capitalist Marines And Republicans.

I couldn't enjoy it. I don't know, maybe my problem is I am not a stupid mindless Democrat with an IQ of 70 who thinks this kind of claptrap is so great.

But, then again, I remember an anti-Nazi who attended a rally in Germany in 1936 saying he "desperately wanted to be like the crowd, and be caught up in this swoon of joy, but my rational mind kept getting in the way."

They didn't want to "glorify war", so they voted for an insipid, conceited, smug movie, "Shakespeare in Love" as Best Picture.

The reason Shakespeare in Love won best picture is that while most Oscar categories are only voted on by the branch memberships--directors choosing directors, costume people choosing costume people--everyone gets to vote for Best Picture. Because of the way Academy memberships have been given out over the years, the largest branch in the academy, and thus the largest voting bloc, are the actors. And what was Shakespeare in Love about? Actors. Theater people. It's a big wet sloppy kiss to everyone who e'er trod the stage. And actors, not being known for their brightness, couldn't see past the strokes they were being given. That film could not have been more precisely targeted by the Weinsteins to win an Oscar. Ryan never had a chance (and I'll actually argue that once you get off the beach, it's a very good war movie, but not the greatest ever).