Posted on 09/29/2015 2:44:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Get ready. This is going to be an interesting year at the Oscars.
The movies that are getting into position for Best Picture nominations are not “Driving Miss Daisy” material.
One of the leading candidates is “Spotlight,” Tom McCarthy’s exciting telling of how Boston Globe reporters unmasked 90 pedophile priests. The film has an all star cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Liev Schreiber. They will all be contenders in the Best Supporting Acto race.
“Carol” is a love story about two lesbians in 1952 New York. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are the lovers, and their work is exceptional. Director Todd Haynes, the actresses, and cinematographer Ed Lachman will all be up for awards.
“Grandma” stars Lily Tomlin as a hippie grandmother, pot smoking lesbian who’s trying to help her granddaughter raise enough money for an abortion. Tomlin is absolutely sterling, and leads my list of potential Best Actress nominees.
Then there’s the transgender section: Eddie Redmayne plays a man who becomes a woman in “The Danish Girl.” Redmayne is absolutely spot on as he makes the transition with his loyal– and unusually understanding– wife (Alicia Vikander) by his side. Tom Hooper’s movie is exquisite.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if five of the eight or nine Best Picture nominees include “Spotlight,” “The Danish Girl,” “Carol,” “Grandma,” and “Spotlight.” Whoever hosts the Academy Awards is going to have a lot of fun summarizing these films. Really, only Billy Crystal could pull off a proper parody of “The Danish Girl.”
Other potential Best Picture nominees will be less cutting edge sexually: “Bridge of Spies” from Steven Spielberg, “Steve Jobs” from Danny Boyle, Robert Zemeckis’s “The Walk,” Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Hateful Eight” don’t involve gender issues.
Actually Robert Downey played a superb ‘Sherlock Holmes’ in the two movies he made....I was pleasantly surprised. Here’s a link where you can watch it for free....
.....”For better or worse homosexuality has dominated our culture and it seems to have reached a zenith this year, with the Supreme Court ruling”.....
Many of the refugee men going into European countries now are homosexuals. They know they can practice this behavior without fear of death as would be in their country.
makes you wonder if this push is because some of those “women” would not pass the Crocodile Dundee test...
these movies are so unwanted, Hollywood can’t even get people to pirate them.
Then the Antichrist and the False Prophet will offer eternal torment via the Mark of the Beast and force the remaining to choose eternal life by refusing the Mark or eternal death by accepting the Mark.
Sounds like a 1950’s Vincent Price movie...
Unfortunately the younger generations are so programmed by our educational systems they eat up ‘anything’ they’re fed without blinking an eye.
They have no sense of right and wrong because they are so indoctrinated by the nonsense they’re taught at home as well.....there is nos such thing as “shame” today....rather everything is a “learning experience”......
its time to burn the damn box then...: )
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Indeed. Revelation chapter 14 details what happens to those who chose to buy and sell and accept the Mark of the Beast:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+14&version=KJV
People say they hate to hear fire and brimstone sermons. This angel is preaching fire and brimstone. The world will be presented with two choices (as detailed in previous post) and most won’t even bother to read this:
Revelation 14:9-11 King James Version (KJV)
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
its time to burn the damn box then...: )
I like your solution.
Good Christmas fare to take the family to. And to think I always liked “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “The Homecoming.”
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