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80th Oscars a Dud, Preliminary Ratings Show 14 Percent Lower Than Least-Watched Ceremony
Fox News ^ | February 25, 2008

Posted on 02/25/2008 11:19:09 AM PST by Zakeet

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To: netmilsmom

Actually, I thought Enchanted was one that SUCKED bricks. My kids were even more bored than I was.


41 posted on 02/25/2008 11:40:55 AM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative (The RINOs think that they have won but we shall see who has the last laugh in '08...)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Not only Who cares? but I don’t know about any of them.....Broke Butt Mountain sealed the deal.


42 posted on 02/25/2008 11:41:31 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Zakeet
I stopped watching years ago - when they started wearing all those red ribbons and the whole show was like an infomercial for AIDS cures.
43 posted on 02/25/2008 11:41:41 AM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: colorado tanker
Don’t rent movies and feed into their $$$$.

Go onto the internet and watch them free. No illegal downloads to my house. Just pick a movie and it streams right to your computer.

I’m in the middle of “Vantage Point”. Opened in theaters on Friday.

Before Lent started, we were addicted to the Bennie and the Jets sequence of “27 Dresses” (file #3, at 13:00). If it’s a good movie (like that one) I will pay to see it in a theater. In fact, I did pay to see it. I would actually pay again to see it. And I’ll buy the DVD, but for right now, the internet will do for me.

44 posted on 02/25/2008 11:42:40 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: ladtx

Well that was when it was more of a private affair for the hollywood community. Now it is a platform for kooks.


45 posted on 02/25/2008 11:42:45 AM PST by Bruinator (It's the Media.............Stupid)
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To: netmilsmom
Hmmm. I don’t see how an Internet streaming video of a movie still in the theaters could be “free” and “legal.”
46 posted on 02/25/2008 11:46:33 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: wideawake

LOL


47 posted on 02/25/2008 11:46:54 AM PST by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: Zakeet

Of the top 5, the only I went out to see, or saw at home for that mater, was the Rat movie.


48 posted on 02/25/2008 11:47:46 AM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: Santa Fe_Conservative

Enchanted was not really for kids. Although, we were in a theater on opening day, first showing and it was filled with little 3 to 5 year old princesses.

Not a single one was bored and I heard more requests for runs to the Disney Store because, “I want to be Giselle!” sounded all around us as we walked out. Same thing the second time we saw it. Even the last time, about two weeks ago.

The rat movie was deep discounted at Walmart for 16.00 on release. I own all the Pixars and they are NEVER that cheap. I should have known something was up. Just what we need. A Pixar about the Elitist French.


49 posted on 02/25/2008 11:48:44 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: colorado tanker

It’s not illegal to watch, just illegal to upload.


50 posted on 02/25/2008 11:49:45 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: Zakeet

Acting awards? I thought it was a fashion show.


51 posted on 02/25/2008 11:51:21 AM PST by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: Zakeet

I noticed that Transformers was up for sound and visuals.
I laughed since Transformers was pro military and the other runner up was Golden Compass, the anti Christian movie.
The anti Christian movie won best visuals, big shock.
It was a dud too.

The kicker is the movies like Transformers or Spiderman 3 keep hollywood alive, these duds that win oscars don’t.
What’s the point?
The best picture is the one that made over 300 million.
Isn’t that considered great?
I guess I don’t understand the oscars.


52 posted on 02/25/2008 11:51:40 AM PST by Larebil (My name is liberal backwards, since they backwards thinking)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
I agree and Peter O’toole should have won an Oscar (if he didn’t for the critic voice). Burton and O’toole have never won. It would be nice to give him that, even though it may spell out his end. He certainly didn’t deserve anything for last year's movie Venus — more an old fart porno flick than anything.
53 posted on 02/25/2008 11:52:06 AM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: CollegeRepublican

Transformers should have won!!!!!!

And Hairspray for make-up.


54 posted on 02/25/2008 11:52:06 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: Zakeet

I’ve never heard of last years “Best Picture!” How cool is that?

Die Hollywood. When you start making patriotic, family friendly pictures again, maybe people notice you again . . .


55 posted on 02/25/2008 11:54:48 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: Zakeet

The best thing about the Oscars was Daniel Day Lewis’s victory and the fact that none of those stupid Hobbit movies were nominated.


56 posted on 02/25/2008 11:56:24 AM PST by Clemenza (I live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Wrecks)
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To: Dr.Deth

Oscars? When was that?

Seriously I had no idea it was even happening... LOL!
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I’ve got you beat, I think. I have never even heard of the film that won best picture last year! : )


57 posted on 02/25/2008 11:57:27 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: Zakeet

They were claiming “a billion viewers in 200 countries”. Turns out they had 28.3 million in the US, and of course it was the middle of the night in Europe, Asia and Australia. Ya think they were all glued to the TV at 3.00 AM to watch John Stewart?

I doubt if the total audience was even double the US audience so you could figure around 57 million actually watched. Thats less than 6% of what they claimed.

Al Gore did the same thing with Live Earth - claimed TWO BILLION participated when less than 40 Million did.

The Super Bowl claimed that 900 Million would watch this year -98 Million actually did.

The Rose Bowl Parade claims an attendance of 1 million every year- you can’t fit that many people along the parade route, and if you did they would be shoulder to shoulder 30 rows deep along both sides of the entire route. Real attendance figures are I don’t know the real figure but I bet it is south of 100,000.

The Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix claims 400,000 attendees, the actual attendance last year was between 10,000 - 15,000

These organisations all make their outlandish claims because they think they can’t be challenged. They are just a bunch of liars, and verifying the attendance is a lot easier than they might think, especially when the claims are so absurd.


58 posted on 02/25/2008 11:58:06 AM PST by Wil H
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To: Zakeet
I have to laugh. I usually like to tune in and follow the FR thread just so I can have a good chuckle, but I even forgot they were going on this year. I don’t know all the reasons that the numbers are down, but I’m sure that Hollywood and their political mouthiness has played a part. Also, I didn’t know one single movie from this year—other than Juno and I haven’t even seen that one. It seems like big movies are out and it’s all these little quirky movies that most of us have never seen—not that I see most of the big ones anyway.
59 posted on 02/25/2008 12:03:58 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Blind Eye Jones

It would have been funny if Peter O’Toole and Julie Christie won Oscars the same year.


60 posted on 02/25/2008 12:04:03 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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