[AnotherUnixGeek]

As they have for the last 30 yrs or so, the Oscars celebrated a bunch of movies that were seen by very few people - either they're political propaganda aimed at the US or they're niche films. No one will remember the name of the Best Picture winner a week from now, just as no one remembers the 2013 or 2012 winners.

Hollywood's money makers in 2014 - the films that allow the studios to indulge in money-losing vanity pictures prattling about the evils of America - will once again be escapist fare based on comic books: the '300' sequel or the summer X-Men flick. It says a great deal about Hollywood creativity that the only ideas to be found involve recycling either cliche-ridden political tracts or comic books.

[N. Theknow]

Mickey Rooney in 1939, "Hey kids, let's put on a show."

Hollywood in 2013-14, "Hey Libs, Let's make a slavery movie and an AIDS movie."