It's just not relevant what Libs think in regards to The Passion.
Agree. These self anointed "Celebrities" can spend all of their time exchanging awards until Hell freezes over for all it really means. Getting an award from these Takers is akin to getting an endorsement for your Presidential bid from Al Gore - Pointless, irrelevant and time consuming.
From my perspective, who cares The Passion wins a People's Choice award or even an Oscar?
For a lot of these Hollywood types, receiving awards is a validation of their worldview. To them, having to give a movie like "the Passion" an award is a serious blow.
If I were Gibson, I would decline the award.
Who needs awards from the enemy when you are doing God's work?
nor does it matter what they think of Michael Moore--or
anything else they are so passionatly decieved about.
I would disagree. This is an important gauge of the struggle that is going on for the collective soul of our nation. It's not about a movie winning an award. It's about good winning out over evil in American hearts and minds.
There is a contest going on. It is the same contest that has gone on ever since man first woke up to the nature of God and the fact of sin in the world.
I'm glad to see that Mel Gibson is attending the ceremony. He's been kind of a recluse since "The Passion" came out.
But I'm also disguisted to see F 9/11 winnning "Best Picture." The people have spoken and they chose Dubya over Michael Moore. Usually, they have a Gallup-type poll but this year it was an online vote. We all know how good liberals are at flooding those online polls. When I saw the list of nominees for best picture "The Passion of the Christ" was not listed. What a bunch of crock.
Because we've got to start imposing our values on Hollywood. I'm sick of it being the other way around.
Also, the People's Choice awards are done by voting/surveying of the general public. Last year by Gallup survey, this year by online vote. What's helping Moore is that no one has really seen the films that the critics and other small groups are picking. While his film didn't do Passion numbers, it still did much better than the this year's batch of contenders, many of whom have barely been seen outside of LA and NYC.
I'll give the People's Choice organizers credit -- they know that plenty of Moore and Gibson will deliver controversy AND ratings. ABC can only hope that the Academy delivers both films for Best Picture nominations in a few weeks.
The People's Choice Awards are voted on by the people -- meaning us -- you and me and others. Therefore, it's the only one that has any relevance. It is NOT an industry award. All the other award shows are industry awards, where they pat themselves on the back endlessly -- Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, etc etc etc.
I feel the same as you do over this.
"The Passion of The Christ" is the biggest R-rated box-office hit of all time in North America, a global spectacular, its lifetime gross surpassing lesser films (including all the big budget bombs hyped in La-La Land).
Yet, b/c Christian-hating Academy voters are turned off by the movie's depiction on the last hours of Christ, and b/c Mel Gibson is a practicing Christian.....it may not get an Oscar.
Talk about hypocrisy.....Hollywarped's output is gratuitously violent, but it sees fit to criticize the reality of the violence of Christ's death.
Memo to Follywood: The Passion of the Christ is a true story.
Of course when Hollyweirdos load up their films with gratuitous sex and violence, the Academy voters get very thoughtful, and start talking about "artistic meaning."
Hollywarped can go fly a kite. Who needs the faux gilt-painted Oscar of atheists, Christian-haters, humanists, dividers and rumor-mongers?
We, the people, have had it with Hollywarped's endless proselytizing, the continuous brainwashing of audiences without their knowledge or consent. Hollyweirdos engage in Christian-hating, American-hating, and they chip away at Western civilzation, all under the guise of "artistic expression."
Hollywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture.
OTOH, they also believe----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.
They can't have it both ways.