Posted on 03/02/2017 8:42:29 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
....Moonlight won the top prize at Sunday nights Oscars ceremonyafter some initial envelope confusion created a bizarre sceneand, despite the fact that the independent drama never made much of a splash at the box office. The movie, about a young, gay black man growing up in an impoverished Miami neighborhood, has only made a little more than $22.2 million in domestic movie ticket sales so far, according to Box Office Mojo. That made Moonlight the lowest-grossing Best Picture nominee at this years Academy Awardsand among the lowest ever for a Best Picture winnereven after generating months of Oscars buzz.
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And note, I say that as someone who is NOT anti-gay, and probably more "pro" gay than most here, but I still cant stand the moralizing and preaching.
Not surprising. I wouldn’t see this movie if you paid me to. Who wants to see some gross gay movie? And Hollywood could have made a strong choice like the exceptionally well-made Hacksaw Ridge for best picture but they had to go with the PC pro-homosexual movie. Reminds of 1985 or 1986 when the Oscar should have gone to the Harrison Ford drama the Witness but instead went to the gay-themed Kiss of the Spider Woman. That’s Hollywood for you.
It’s just my opinion but I’ve always found that, for the past forty years or so, the best movies don’t win Oscars.
I saw Dallas Buyers Club. I thought MM did a good job. He really looked like he had AIDS. Plus it was a pretty well documented true story.
Moonlight is supposedly true.... but who knows?
Race and gay pandering.
I haven't paid to see one of Hollyweirds crap-fests since somewhere around the year 2000...and I was shamed in to that by a daughter whom I love very much and would do anything for...except go see another minute of the Hollyweird crap-fest.
And I sure as hell ain't gonna go see a movie about a young black faggot.
Disgusting.
TV’s ‘CW’ network is trying to mainstream the homosexual agenda with their stable of super-hero shows. Then they can’t understand why the ratings are tanking. ‘Supergirl’ is the worst...their shows are constructed around the progressive cause of the week ad infinitum.
Wanna win an Oscar in 2018? Here’s the playbook - write/direct/star in a money-losing film about a young non-white person who happens to be gay/bi/trans/anything other than hetero, struggling to get by in a world filled with contrived and manufactured “hate” from every white person they encounter.
10 months later, you’re standing on the podium for your 15 seconds of fame with a list of people to thank, a platform for your cause du jour, and 98% of Americans watching something else that evening, but everyone on the Island of Misfit Toys applauds you. Congrats.
Failure
“GAY BLACK MUSLIM ..... WHO DOES THAT BRING TO MIND...???”
That’s a very difficult question to answer but I’m guessing that the person may have been born in an African country.
While coincidentally being the most gross film to have won Best Picture.
At least you didn’t say you were a Brony.
I see that you have not been tutored in the mysterious ways of Common Core Math, Grasshopper!
These days there are 57 Varieties of "Gay" whereas for "Black" you have a much narrower spectrum ranging from Idris Elba & Whoopi through Bill Cosby, OJ, Obama and Rachel Dolezal.
Since we aim for Diversity ("Ommmm", "PBUH") these days, the wider the spectrum, the more points!
Simple, really!
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While that is interesting unto itself it would be nice to also include the cost to produce the film with the gross receipts from moviegoers. It might be interesting to compare the ratio to other films like Marty or Casablanca.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
young, gay, black, Hispanic, transvestite, Muslim woman growing up in an impoverished Miami neighborhood where she got an abortion after being raped by a white conservative Christian KKK member who is running for the Republican party presidential nomination.
“Affirmative action” > merit
Exactly what I was thinking—a form of reparations.
That being said, I haven’t seen the movie. It might be quite good and worthy of the award.
It’s a male homo act like gerbiling.
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