Glenn Beck Knows Why Selma Was Snubbed

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-knows-why-selma-was-snubbed-hint-its-not-about-race/ ^

[MNDude]

Glenn Beck watched Selma and believes he knows why the critically-acclaimed civil rights film was snubbed by the Academy in multiple Oscar categories next week: progressivism.

And if you haven’t seen the film, here’s the spoiler-free explanation of how LBJ is portrayed: like a politician.

[Sergio]

...when was the last world war 2 movie made

"Fury" and "Unbreakable" were released this year.

[Mouton]

I stand corrected on those.

[tanknetter]

You’re dead wrong about Red Tails. Occams Razor applies.

It was bad because George Lucas directed it.

[tanknetter]

Thats probably part of it too.

The biggest threat to Progressivism and the Progressive narrative isn’t opposition. Opposition only serves to validate and strengthen it.

The big threat is apathy. The danger is overreach. Which I believe has happened. It’s why the Dems are trying, desperately, to dump race and gender messaging and refocus on economics and class The race and gender struff isn’t just getting stale, increasingly it’s counterproductive.

[tanknetter]

Also that movie about the Brit Enigma code breakers. And Monuments Men (that was within the last year, right?)

[exit82]

Agree, just a correction. RFK was killed in June. MLK died in April.

We were losing over 300 men a week in Vietnam inn 1968.

Lots of protests, including the DNC Convention in Chicago in August.

A difficult year.

[Cymbaline]

12 Years A Slave won all kinds of awards. So did the academy all of a sudden become racist this year?

[ifinnegan]

Re-read my post.

12 Years a Slave was a cause célèbre that had the buzz.

[DuncanWaring]

Johnson’s “health issue” - people were sick of him.

[AU72]

Have a new category for African-American Movies, Directors, Actors, Actresses, Writer, etc.

Problem solved.

[Sergio]

Yes, both “The Monuments Men” and “The Imitation Game” were released in 2014 as well. However, it does seem to be cyclic, with everyone in Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon with multiple movies in the same genre coming out at about the same time.

[who knows what evil?]

Glenn needs to dispatch his ‘Ghandi’ persona ASAP...there must be a pill or something...

[BatGuano]

Too bad that LBJ did pass away before he could live in shame for the War on Poverty or the Great Society or Escalating the war in Vietnam. The turkey couldn’t even pronounce the name of the country he sent our soldiers to die in.

In my view there is no way any movie or book can portray LBJ as a good president or even good human being!

[Mouton]

I think monument workers misses the year.

[RansomOttawa]

We won WW2, when was the last world war 2 movie made, besides Saving Pvt Ryan which was a made up story.

• The Thin Red Line
• Band of Brothers
• Enemy at the Gates
• Pearl Harbor
• U-571
• Inglourious Basterds
• Downfall
• Amen
• Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Valkyrie
• Red Tails

Those are just the ones I"ve seen, along with a few others I happened to think of while I was making up the list. They're not all great, and they're not all about American Marines storming the beaches, but if I can come up with a dozen from memory, there's got to be a ton of them out there that I haven't seen or heard of.

Also, with the U.S. in active combat in the Middle East, I imagine that filmmakers feel their production dollars are better spent producing contemporary war movies. (Which I would also think are cheaper to produce since they don't require scrounging for period-appropriate props and costumes.)

[BatGuano]

I lived in Selma, AL for 13 months, Sept. 1962 to Oct. 1963.
The town was ready to bust open then, the E. Pettus bridge demos etc. At the time, blacks outnumbered whites about 70% to 30%. Separate but equal schools, 9 Baptist churches, Roman Catholic church was a small house that had a sign “St. ___’s RC church” on the porch. It was strange to a young man from the Northeast. The riots began after I had left, being stoked by “visitors from the North.”
I am not planning to see the film. I did not take sides in the issues but was turned off by Dallas County Sheriff Clark, the poster boy for calling Our policemen “Pigs.” A dark side of our history, for sure!

[Mouton]

I am glad you spent the time dredging up those pictures to point out my comment about ww2 movies was off the mark. The main point of my comment was Selma sucks.

[onedoug]

There were no screeners sent out to Academy people.

[ifinnegan]

Yes. That was the first reason I mentioned: “...was snubbed because it wasn’t seen that much by Academy voters...”

[longfellow]

I heard Robert Downey Jr. was offered the MLK Jr. role after he did pineapple express.