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SUNDAY 3 PM Pacific Time: Above is a celebrity stand-in during Red Carpet rehearsals for the 80th Academy Awards telecast Sunday (photo by Jonathan Alcorn). Now the real Red Carpet arrivals are starting. I hear that ABC dramatically lowered expectations about tonight's TV ratings to advertisers. It will be interesting to see the Nielsen's, as the rain-postponed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series - Auto Club 550 race in Fontana is just about to restart at Lap 20 with a total of 300. After that there is another NASCAR race, the Nationwide series - Stater Bros 300, that is 200 laps. Will America tune out NASCAR to watch the Oscars? Meanwhile, a London source tells me that the BBC did a call in on the Oscars and no one phoned. Even Hollywood interest in the show is at its lowest point in recent memory. This may be the 80th Academy Awards, but they're really the 11th hour Oscars -- because not only were they almost picketed by the writers strike, and put together with only 13 days of major preparations instead of the usual months and months, but also the endless ceremony always seems like it lasts 11 hours.
PREDICTIONS: Two things I can forecast already about the show: George Clooney (who's on Time magazine's cover as "The Last Movie Star") will be fawned over and fussed over, just like he was to an embarrassing degree on the Red Carpet today. Regis Philbin Regis Philbin slobbered to George Clooney how everybody wants to be the actor and compared him to Cary Grant. Clooney replied that Grant is dead. Sure, George has no prayer of winning an Oscar tonight. But Clooneymania is such a cult now that it's giving Obamania a run for its fainting spells. And there'll be a lot of inside jokes about the writers strike and the possible actors strike that no one outside of Burbank and Broadway can comprehend. Meanwhile, the presenters and performers should come with their own personal chyron explanations of who they are, like Miley Cyrus. Yes, many this year are that obscure because the Big Names couldn't get it together in just two weeks to show up inside the Kodak Theatre instead of outside on a picket line. That's just one reason why the show needs a total facelift, not just Botox. But that's another article...
Handicapping this year's Best Motion Picture Of the Year or many other categories is about as tough as picking the Superbowl winner after the big game is already held. Of course, No Country For Old Men will get the Oscar. Of course, Daniel Day Lewis will be named Best Actor In A Leading Role. Of course, Javier Bardem will win Best Actor In A Supporting Role.
But it's probably a 50-50 toss-up between Julie Christie and Marion Cotillard for Best Actress In A Leading Role. The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences skew geriatric, so in this case the voters probably went for Julie whom many know from years past. They also like the way she's been hanging in there -- not just because she's still finding roles at her age, which is hard because of Hollywood's rampant ageism and sexism, or because she's doing films that actually say something, but also because she survived Warren Beatty.
As for Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role, always the wild card category, most believe Cate Blanchett will win for playing Bob Dylan since cross-gender stunt casting usually guarantees an Oscar. (Hilary Swank and Linda Hunt can vouch for that.) But Cate won this category fairly recently, and if sentimentality holds, then Ruby Dee can win just like she did at the SAG awards. But a lot of Academy voters like to encourage young actresses, and many liked Gone Baby Gone more than they thought they would so Amy Ryan (hey, 40ish is young to them) could win as well. Personally, I'd like Ruby Dee to grab the gold, but I suspect Cate will.
Finally, I'm going out on a limb and predicting that Paul Thomas Anderson will win Best Director instead of the Coen brothers. My reasoning is: no one in Hollywood actually likes the Coen brothers. (Two past examples: Lauren Bacall and Eddie Murphy.) Besides, Oscar voters like to spread the wealth around. 'Nuff said.
A chilly rain fell off and on so the Red Carpet has been tented. Nerves are still frayed from the writers strike just ended. 
Panic is setting in about an actors strike that may be on the way. Few in America or the world have seen the nominated pics and performances. There's no suspense because Hollywood has long ago guessed who and what will probably win. The vast majority of the presenters aren't big names. And not only has the host done it before to really poor ratings, but Jon Stewart couldn't even find anything funny to say about it while guesting on Larry King Live. So, all in all, I think everyone should expect the Worst Oscars Ever In The History Of Hollywood. Really, Sunday can't come fast enough to put this beleaguered 80th Academy Awards which almost was picketed into oblivion out of its misery. Nevertheless, I have some scoops to share about what to expect on the ABC show produced by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences which bestows the Oscars inside Hollywood's Kodak Theatre:
-- Despite speculation that somehow The Daily Show's Stewart will work in this year's presidential candidates into his opening, I'm told no politicians of any stripe are scheduled to appear even though John McCain did a cameo in the 2005 Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson laugher Wedding Crashers. ("But we do have Miley Cyrus and The Rock," one insider wisecracked.)
-- Thankfully there will be no shadow puppets, last year's worst Oscars idea!
-- Led by Gil Cates, the Hollywood team that puts on the Academy Awards show was trying to shoot another montage with Jon Stewart and various movie stars. "But it proved too hard to write, cast, shoot and edit in 16 days, what with the rest of the show to take care of," an insider confided to me, referring to the sudden and unexpected settlement of the writers strike which meant the Oscars could be held as planned. "The booking alone would have taken 15 days."
-- Jon Stewart will be showing some of the clip packages that purportedly were prepared in case the writers strike had remained in force, but fortunately did not make the cut.
-- If this year's Oscars suck, don't blame the writers. I'm told that arrangements were so last-minute because of the writers strike that some of the show's scribes began doing the Oscars by phone, fax and cyberspace. An insider tells me, "Every writer had been festering with ideas they were not allowed to put on paper, so the moment the strike ended it was like a starting gun went off and the Internet lit up. Everyone needed to clear their schedules so it could come off as envisioned. I don't know what they had to clear -- who was workin'? -- but that doesn't seem to change a thing."
-- Queen Latifah, one of the scheduled presenters, had a family emergency and had to drop out.
-- John Travolta, who played Edna Turnblad in last summer's hit musical Hairspray, will dance. As a man.
-- This year's unofficial Academy Awards Drinking Game will consist of counting the number of times the cameras cut to Sean Combs (aka P. Diddy) in the audience. His star turn in the ABC telemovie Raisin In The Sun airs the day after the Oscars, on Monday night.
The official ABC telecast kicks off Sunday at 5 PM Pacific time. Academy Award nominees, presenters and performers will be greeted on Oscar’s Red Carpet by film historian, television host and Hollywood Reporter columnist Robert Osborne. Red Carpet guest arrivals are expected to begin at approximately 3 PM PT.
ABC morning show co-host Regis Philbin also will be on the Red Carpet, and, no, he wasn't at the first ceremony 80 years ago. Actually, I'm told that venerable 97-year-old production designer Robert F. Boyle (who is receiving an honorary award for art direction from Nicole Kidman and her baby bump) was 17 when the first Oscars were given out, and remembers it.
Fashion reporters are predicting hot fall colors -- the blues, purples and greens seen in the recent European couture show -- and a burst of spring colors -- lavender, red rose, peach, pink, grass green, even sunny daffodil -- on Sunday's red carpet. But there'd better be heaters on the Red Carpet for all that exposed cleavage and bare shoulders because rain is likely with temps only in the 50s and winds at 10-15 mph.
The Oscar broadcast drew just 38.9 million viewers on Jon Stewart's watch in 2006. That number was smaller than the 39.9 million drawn by 2007's ceremony hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. (Compare both to the 55 million who tuned in for Billy Crystal back in 1998. Those were the good old days.) Most of the overseas audience for Oscars have never even heard of Jon Stewart. So he's been chosen twice to host after bombing first time out. At least he admitted last time he was a poor choice to host the Oscars, given that his film experience amounted to little more than "the fourth male lead from Death to Smoochy".
It's not exactly all Triple-A presenters and performers who will participate in the Oscar telecast this time. Because most of the big names needed more than just two weeks' notice to show up post-strike after Hollywood had been shut down for months. Those scheduled include all four of last year’s winners in the acting categories—Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker—as well as Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Cate Blanchett, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Cameron Diaz, Colin Farrell, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Garner, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Jonah Hill, Dwayne Johnson, Nicole Kidman, James McAvoy, Jack Nicholson, Seth Rogen, Keri Russell, Martin Scorsese, Hilary Swank, John Travolta, Denzel Washington (photo, Denzel onstage at the Oscars rehearsal inside the Kodak Theater) and Renee Zellweger.
Here are the performers of the nominated songs: Amy Adams will sing “Happy Working Song” from Enchanted (music by Alan Menken and lyric by Stephen Schwartz). Also from “Enchanted” (and written by Menken and Schwartz) will be “That’s How You Know,” sung by Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders, and “So Close,” to be performed by Jon McLaughlin. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova will perform their nominated song, “Falling Slowly,” from the motion picture Once. Jamia Simone Nash will perform “Raise It Up,” from August Rush, with the IMPACT Repertory Theatre of Harlem, headed by Jamal Joseph, who shares the song’s music and lyric credit with Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas.
The Oscar telecast team of writers include headliners Hal Kanter, Buz Kohan, Jon Macks and Bruce Vilanch. Second-time Oscar show host Jon Stewart also brought on several writers to work on the show and especially his monologue.
This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a branded Oscars channel on YouTube – www.YouTube.com/Oscars – featuring Academy Awards show highlights and exclusive video interviews with members from each of the Academy’s branches. Participants include Quincy Jones, Alfred Molina, Sidney Poitier and John Travolta.
As usual, following the Academy Awards presentation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host its annual Governors Ball in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center. The Ball’s decor this year is a color palette inspired by two of Hollywood’s most recognizable icons, the Red Carpet and the gold Oscar statuette. Chef Wolfgang Puck will be serving an organic menu but was asked to scale down the lavish menu from previous years because of the strike woes. But Wolf's idea of simple is a baked potato wrapped in gold leaf and topped with $89-an-ounce Tsar Nicoulai caviar, and mac 'n' cheese with black truffles. (photo, Puck holds a plate of mini kobe cheeseburgers with remoulade appetizers, next to a dessert tray of completely edible 24-carat gold solid chocolate Oscars) The Ball’s 1,500 guests will include Oscar winners and nominees, show presenters and performers.
I've put together an Oscar party schedule for Hollywood glitterati here.
The celebrities interviewed on ABC's Barbara Walters Special timed to the Oscars are Miley Cyrus, Ellen Page, Harrison Ford and Vanessa Williams.
(Keep refreshing for latest news. I will be live-blogging the Academy Awards on Sunday. Come for the cynicism. Stay for the subversion.)
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I’m glad to see you’re not overreacting or being an alarmist. Even tempered, cool headed reporting is all what this place is about.
most actors are just that- they are not scholars- they just entertain us–don’t really care about what they think– most are anti-american and cannot even understand why they are able to say and do what they want– Americans have died for them –most Dems are in la la land and want to be taken care of. God help us if one of them get in office!
They should fear considering their products and their attitudes.
For years Hollyweird has been relying on sequels & remakes.
Not much GOOD new stuff being produced,only ditzy teens,drunks,& bimbo flicks.
Where have all those good actors,scripts and plots gone?
Couple that with so called STARS using their celebrity to push their personal political agendas & bash the country,and our President…do you really expect anyone to watch this mutual admiration society go on stage to pat each other on the back?
If the Oscars are televised and nobody watches, do you care?
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, John Huston… and a best song that everyone knew the words to. Bob Hope, we miss you. Are Oscar’s finest moments “Gone With the Wind”? Thanks for the memories.
Viewing neighbors and families, lets Boycott the Oscars.
They get worse every year, and have become boring and dominated by P. Diddy nonsense.
ABC who is televising this has shown their disdain for family values during prime time with nude scenes, and is thinking the fines by the FCC are “cost of business”.
The whole bunch of them are tearing each other apart, ruining the lives of young talent, and trying to get us to buy in to their garbage. ENOUGH. Clean it up.
Nikki, the presenters are pretty much an “A” List of current Hollywood. Be thankful that Paris wasn’t included. The big problem with the year’s Oscars – aside from the WGA strike that derailed the PR process – is that the marvelous films haven’t been seen by many people. I purposely viewed “Blood” this afternoon…it was the only highly-nominated film I hadn’t seen (Hey, I’m a gay guy and take the Oscars seriously. Well, semi-seriously).
Going the way of “Miss America”… thankfully !
I couldn’t care less. Why would I want to see a bunch of people I don’t know or care about winning a bunch of crap for playing pretend in a bunch of movies? Isn’t it enough that I might have paid to watch a couple of their movies this year? Are they going to come to my job and cheer me on for getting an award or citation? Probably not. There’s no reason for this to be televised.
I haven’t watched the Oscars for about the past ten years. I could see the downward trend starting way back then and I’m not really surprised at this recent turn of events.
When Hollywood starts making more movies worth seeing, I’ll start caring about the Oscars again.
the death of the academy awards is extremely healthy.
it is now impossible for the ‘hollywood community’ to continue enforcing its false dedication to quality or craft or even the skill of creating a movie star’s mystique. there is something anachronistic about this parade of embalmed phonies insisting on their artistry when elections are rigged, brutal imperialist wars continue, and disneyfied child prostitutes like britney spears combust in public – which, history will prove, is the ultimate punk kamikaze attack on hollywood.
oddly enough, the movies nominated this year are very strong – not much glossy shit, like dreamgirls.
it’s the heart of the show that is rotten, not the films. nobody young cares, and it is embarrassing and degrading to go to oscar viewing parties.
i will be doing what i normally do during the oscars, driving around on beautiful empty streets, going out to eat in empty restaurants that don’t have tv, then later watching ’shampoo’ one more time with my honey, stoned out of our minds.
george clooney…if you need a date for the oscars, email me
Serves them right. Pump out some decent films and maybe your viewership will rise.
Can anyone remember any good movies that have come out of Hollywood in the past 10-15 years. When the animation movies are box office hits and the movies with actors are complete duds what does that tell you. Hollywood’s days are over. The greed, avarice and arrogance has finally caught up with them and the end of the track is in sight. Americans have finally had enough of the pompous, posturing airheads who believe because they made a few dollars playing someone else on screen, that they have the right to tell the rest of the country how to think. Game, set, match. Save some of those dollars cause you are going to need them. Redford and his merry band of Anti-American peers need look no further than themselves for killing their golden goose. They are no longer entertaining and no one cares.
The Oscars was put on life support with “Crash” and died a year ago with “The Departed” — I mean how could a remake deserve the Best Picture of the year…
& we’re virtually going to repeat the pattern this year, NCFOM is arguably not a Top 5 Coen Brothers picture, and the final act was a complete let down; Atonement despite being mis-marketed as a Titanic clone was far and away the best movie this year.
Who let the PTC out of their cage?
justin wrote:
Where have all those good actors,scripts and plots gone?
Scott answers:
I’m not sure where all the good scripts and plots have gone, but I hope they are in rehab with all the actors.
To be honest I’m so tired of Hollywood patting itself on the back I won’t be watching. It’s just one more annoying award show the world could live without.
Haven’t gone to see movie in years, what and who are the Oscars for?
Hey Hollywood when your up there on stage thanking every Tom Dick and Harry how about thanking our Troops.
I hope people get tired of the Oscars. Then maybe Hollywood would realize that they might be better off releasing quality films throughout the year as opposed to holding them to the December in hopes of being fresh in voters’ minds.
When almost all of the “Oscar-worthy” films are released in a six week period and a lot of them get only a limited release, I don’t think you can be surprised when America hasn’t heard of them and isn’t interested in seeing an awards show about them.
Who cares if the self promoting “Oscar” party is a failure? This crowd of spoiled millionaires are like Dennis Rodman and Michale Vick… sluts and pimps dressed in expensive clothes, driving pricey cars!
So what! They are just ACTORS ! ! ! !
As for me, I’ll watch the re-runs with actors that actually respected America and admired their audience.
Otherwise… it’s Food Network… they really do give a damn!
Howard Ino
If the Oscars are televised and nobody watches… do they really exist?
I am very excited about the award show and am looking forward to seeing fine films such as ‘Juno’ get the applause it deserves. This is an all American tradition! I love Hollywood!
Is George Clooney going to give us some political rant again? I never watch this crap. Funny how he never married considering how we always hear he such a “ladies” man. I find Jon Stewart annoying and fairly talentless.
Hollywood has thumbed it’s nose at middle America. Hopefully film piracy and apathy causes this sewer to implode. Even liberal Darryl Hannah recently said that Hollywood treats women like meat and prostitutes. I shudder to think what women and men have to do to get a movie part in these trash films.
no country for old men, my choice
Along with all the other people above, I detest all that is Hollywood and thus I did not come to a site called Deadline Hollywood Daily and spend the last 15 minutes of my life reading Nikki’s article or reading all the other comments here, then taking 15 more minutes to write, then fine-tune, my own clueless rantings about the depravity of liberal-minding showbiz people, because I have far better things to do with my time.
I join my brothers in this comments zone in finding absolutely nothing better to do with my Sunday night other than post angry comments on Hollywood-related Web sites while my wife watches the Oscars in the next room. I will also post angry comments on politically-themed messages boards, and perhaps I will briefly search for some nude photos of famous actresses, then study them for a few minutes.
Hey douchebags,
Have any of you actually watched the Best Picture nominees? They are all fantastic films.
I love “dadndaaield”… a person who “hasn’t gone to see movie in years” yet somehow reads and posts on this inside Hollywood website.
Oh, and Justin is hilarious also.
If Hollywood would put as much effort into making films as they do into their political activism, there would be more of a demand for theie efforts. Using your celebrity status to push a political agenda is more of a turn-off than actors may think…. that applies to either side of the aisle.
They don’t reflect our culture , values, etc. Get a grip Hollywood , we want Gary Cooper back not Michael Moore.
Does Gil Cates (or anyone in Hollywood) realize how OBSCURE Jon Stewart is? NO ONE outside of LA or NY knows who he is. Billy Crystal was a movie star. Steve Martin is a movie star. Jon Stewart is the host of a small-time cable show. He maybe has ONE MILLION viewers. Does anyone read or understand ratings anymore?
Is “Survivorman’s” Les Stroud up for any awards? That dude is rugged.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Have you even SEEN these movies. They’re all brilliant, and some of the best we’ve seen in decades.
Are you just against movies that actually require audiences to THINK?
Because if you have audiences THINKING, they’ll STOP WATCHING FOX NEWS.
Expect this comment to be deleted, because Fox News doesn’t believe in free speech.
NEVER HAS.
Good luck, COMMUNISTS!
Hollywood is mostly made up of selfish idiots that have more money then most of us will see in our life time. Does this mean they know how to solve our country’s problems? Hell no.
Self grandizing idiots.
Thanks guys, for the laughs! This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve read in a while. Maybe some of you could get jobs in Hollywood as writers! Nah, you’d hate it. And speaking of, why were all the actors supportive of the writers during the strike? I mean if they just gave up a fraction of a percent of their over-inflated income, the writers would have been back to work the next day. How shameless of them!
Looks like the Oscars are following in the footsteps of the Miss America Contest…and they won’t be missed!
Hollywood is full of dirty old men who want to strip stupid women of their clothes and decency…it’s all about the sex.
Jon Stewart was okay two years ago. The jokes were just a little too high brow for the actors in the audience (no one laughs at a crack about pulling down the giant Oscar statue and spreading democracy in Hollywood???) My guess is he’ll play a little better to the crowd gathered this second go-around.
And, Nikki, the Oscars are NEVER going to get 55 million again like it did in 1998 for Titanic’s coronation (the biggest movie of all time was, shockingly, ratings gold…) It wasn’t about Billy Crystal. In fact, in the last 30 years, the Oscars only broke 50 million domestic viewers ONE other time, and that was in 1983.
Maybe if Juno wasn’t the biggest box office draw nominated for Best Picture, this year’s telecast would rate higher. Which means either the Academy needs to learn to nominate movies that are more popular (and wouldn’t that have George Clooney in a tizzy), or the studios need to make better movies (that still manage to get some critical acclaim)… i.e. if the very deserving Ratatouille had gotten a Best Picture nomination.
Out of the films that are nominated… the general viewing public couldn’t give two shakes of a fist about There Will Be Blood or Atonement. No Country For Old Men, as a western, automatically is a hard sell today. Juno is niche. And Michael Clayton, well, I’d hazard a guess that even with its nominations, 99 of 100 people in America couldn’t tell you it was a movie.
Also going against this year’s telecast… the only major category with any real question mark about who is going to win is the Supporting Actress trophy, and that usually gets handed out first.
Bottom line, this year’s Oscars will be lucky to hit the numbers they did when Jon hosted last… but that won’t be his fault. Not by a mile.
Hollywood gave up on America. I’m glad to see America finally give up on Hollywood. These actors have done so much to denigrate this great country when they should be damn proud at all we’ve done to feed the world and protect it. If it weren’t for this great country, none of these chumps would be allowed to say what they do. Plus if these idiots don’t realize that if the Muslim Extremists have their way, every one of these women that appear naked on their backs in these movies would be stoned to death. How’s that for equality?
I stopped watching the Oscars when “American Beauty” won. I saw the film and figured that Hollywood was truly in the ozone with this “classic” on American life. The hero blackmails his employer and is a pedophile. The wife is a silly, brainless adultress. The daughter is totally negelected, with confused values. The next door neighbor is a nazi-loving military nut who is sexual repressed, with a son who is a druggie and very strange. Oh yes, a couple of wonderful gay professionals live on the other side of the house and are so into flowers. Into this typical American mess steps a cheerleader who needs counseling. I found the entire movie a peek into what Hollywood thinks of all of us. Not much respect for people who go to work, play by the rules and love their families.
Please tell me this is a joke and none of you are taking this that seriously!!
There are REAL things going on in the world and some are supposedly worring about what this star will wear?
More proof how unimportant Hollywood has become.
No wonder no one cares about your various strikes!
- Alex Wolf
As to the Oscars, no body cares. This is a feel good party for Hollywood. Movie views don’t watch because of the garbage Hollywood puts out, because of the insanity of the Brinty Spears crowd. And there is allot of them. I watched ABC coverage Friday morning and wondered if the comentator really believed the Oscars was important? Such waste of brain power I am ashamded I wasted any of my valuable time. Like putting this remark on the website. The only reason for this remark is the impact Hollywood has on the culture. And the real impact is the real hate the Islamic Terrorist have of America, all based on their real dislike for Hollywood.
Most of the real people have left the industry anyway.The whole biz has become way too corporate. Does anyone really care about Brittany or Paris? I prefer the anarchy of the internet. Hollywood is so 20th century.
Who wants to watch a bunch of wacko’s from the film actor’s guild blast off on the country that brought them prosperity? On a benevolent and generous land. And if they don’t politicize the show, enough of them have been out there deriding their country to make the masses puke and tune out.
For those of you that think that the Oscars are going the same way as the dodo bird and Miss America, think again. Miss America pretty much died due to factors related to reality TV and that most of the contestants are eliminated before the first commercial break. One other factor that clearly didn’t help was FOX’s decision to air the show “Who Want’s to Marry a Multi-Millionaire,” and turn it into a two-hour pageant that resulted in a marriage that was doomed from the start.
As for the Oscars, ABC’s decision to move the ceremony to February hurt more because it contracts the window for movies to be displayed. The problem is that the American people are more focused on the NFL Playoffs, Super Bowl, and Daytona 500 to attend movies. If so, they might check out some mindless crap like “Be Kind, Rewind” or rent something from netflix or elsewhere. What needs to be done is that the Oscars need to be held in the springtime. I am not saying that they should be pushed to the last Monday of the season, but the Oscars could be held in early May or late April and still be with-in a sweeps period. The studios can then use the NFL Playoffs and Super Bowl to promote likely Oscar contenders and the entire month of February would be used to release these Oscar contenders and create the word of mouth to generate good box office.
What can also be done is for the Academy to create an Comedy and Drama division for the ceremony. That way the editing awards can be banished to the other ceremony.
Regarding the actors and actresses, they should keep their mouth shut. While they can voice their opinions, the Oscars isn’t the place to do it. Besides, the last time Jon Stewart hosted, the South Park guys were able to take George Clooney’s speech and turn it into an South Park episode where San Francisco is destroyed.
With that in mind, remakes and sequels shouldn’t be allowed to be made and to the point that the SAG should force the studios to cut down on the remakes and sequels, while the A-listers get shafted at an incredible rate with a Salary Cap.
In the end, this year’s show will be low rated, but the SAG will force a move to the first Sunday in May as a result of their negotiations and the ceremony should be back about the 40 million range. Besides, Jon Stewart isn’t all bad. The alternative was to go for the easy waiver and that would have meant dropping Jon Stewart and going with David Letterman. In the end, for all of those naysayers, it is only 364 or 434 days until either Robin Williams or Steve Carell is the host.
Is this on tv? When? Sure hope it doesn’t interfere with the Simpsons. There’s a show! It has far more appeal than watching a bunch of dim-witted Marxist moonbats telling each other how good they are. American has had enough of the insane ranting from these useful idiots.
I have better things to do than to watch a bunch of overpaid, shallow, worthless people congratulate themselves by throwing expensive parties, handing out free goodie bags to each other with $100,000 worth of perfume and useless crap and talk about what the latest talentless starlets are wearing. Like picking my nose.
I wonder what the “stars” will be wearing. Yeah Right! … Tired of: Paparatzi – “What are you wearing?” Movie “star” – Well, I am wearing Fruit-of-the-loom with purple cotton socks designed by Johny Arrogant. Paparatzi- You look lovely!
I am so sick of Hollywood and these stupid awards shows. Are you kidding me? They make movies/tv shows and how many awards shows are dedicated to patting themselves on the back? They’re not saving the world, and in my opinion, some of these actors are actually making the world a worse place. I never watch these shows and I’d be really psyched if the rest of the American public did the same and ignored the Oscars entirely. Maybe that would make the point that although they may be impressed with themselves, nobody else is.
Well it’s good to see Hollywierd heading towards the same fate as the NYT and other left wing liberal institutions,… oblivion!
How sick we are of listening to these high school dropouts and ultra rich anti-American societal misfits tell us how to be more socialist while they give NONE of their big bucks away!
When the day comes that they all are living in boxes on the streets of Beverly Hills, I will stand up and cheer!
Come on, Nikki, i’m not an American and i say that Jon Stewart is the only reason to watch this show. The ratings numbers have nothing to do with the host. People just sick of the Oscars and the ridiculous choices the academy takes. I’ll stay up all night just to see Jon Stewart and with hope for an Israeli win in the foreign film category.
When they snubbed Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and another great movie, Facing the giants, I swore hollywood off for good! Most of them are in the alex jones willie nelson crowd anyway! (9/11 was an inside job) What a bunch of KOOKS. Seeing hollywood go down is almost as delicous as seeing the Clinton’s go down. HA HA HA HA hollywood!
Maybe this will be the last Oscar on TV. Good Riddance to a self aggrandizing gathering of untalented hangers-on. Oscar used to have meaning when true talent and skill appeared on the screen. Today’s cadre of strippers, must-hires, and pretty boys, “performing” the inevitible bed scene filler plus totally unacceptable profanity make for less than entertainment. On a ten scale, today’s movies are a “two-bag.” When the “leadership” (bums) in Hollywood finally realize that money is made with entertaining and not “graphic, artistic or reality” movies (G vs. R or X), then MAYBE Oscars will have meaning once again. I don’t know when the Oscar broadcast is being televised, but when I find out, I’ll be sure to tune in a re-run of Gilligan or The Big Valley.
I’ve watched the Oscarcast every year since 1972, when I was 13 and was rooting for the first film I’d ever seen more than once in a theater, “Fiddler on the Roof.”
It’s been compelling ever since. Not necessarily “entertaining,” but fascinating, from the clothing mores to the film montages to the inevitable spontaneous moments that belie all planning and preparation. I’ve settled back for the red-carpet coverage, ordered two pizzas and a bucket o’ wings for delivery, and had a good time.
This is the first year, though, that I’ve had no desire to watch it, after 36 times in a row. I’ve seen NONE of the films that were nominated, for anything, and have nothing to root for. No previews have been persuasive, and the Coen brothers have become boring. So what’s the point?
Well, there’s one exception. I saw “Enchanted.” But NO film deserves THREE nominations for Best Original Song. Not when the Music Branch is so parochial about the home-town boys, and excludes brilliant work from abroad — such as Take That’s song “Rule the World,” for “Stardust.”
For that matter, the criminally under-publicized, brilliant, evocative “Stardust” got no nominations at all … one less than even “Norbit” received, for makeup. That’s just too sad for words, as a commentary on the state of our civilization.
The short films on YouTube have more life than Hollywood does, in the aggregates, and perhaps that’s as it should be. Every art form needs a revolution now and then, as Jefferson once prescribed for nations as a whole.
So, for the first time in three dozen years, I really do have better things to do on this particular Sunday night. Hollywood should be worried. They really don’t want to lose middle-of-the-culture viewers like me, but they already have.
The market works; the stars have to hate it. The studios know it; they will survive.
WoW! They hate us-they really really hate us!
Are all the troll posters here from some right wing political rally or nutty church group?
Great that you hate us all and our jobs and stuff-even though you profess to never see any of it. It would really kill you to know how many truly talented, creative, highly intelligent people work here, they enjoy their lives and families and are involved in the community. Many of them live by beautiful philosophies of life and share, give and care more than is ever told.
not sayin’ everything is art and beauty all the time-but it does appear and it can inspiring and special. People feel free to speak about their political beliefs and they do-why not?
I can promise you shaking insecure souls that Hollywood doesn’t hate you or make fun of you, most of us don’t think about you at all-ever.. We cannot destroy America in any way as we are only a small group of people,some make up and costumes, and a giant mirror that we hold up to you and while you look at yourself- we tell you story. so-don’t hate us cause we really don’t care-there are amazing films made every year-you apparently don’t see them. oh, one other thing-I can tell by your tones-none of you would ever get laid here-so there really is no reason to even visit. sorry.
Most Oscar nominated movies consist of the worst aspects of the human condition. They are rarely uplifting, inspirational or hope-filled. Why would I want to see those movies and why would I care to see their creators be praised and rewarded? My favorite movie this year was Bella but it was too hopeful for the Hollywood crowd. If a movie doesn’t have extreme violence, elicit sex, foul language, or ground-breaking homosexuality it is no good in Hollywood’s eyes. You need to show women and children getting raped, beaten and killed in order to be celebrated. I hope people are really getting sick of this and will just turn off their tvs.
Just cancel the damn show.
It is way to long, the actors suck anyways and I am sick and tired about hearing them bitch and moan about the economy, the enviornment, the president and the US.
If everything is so bad (the baldwin family) move the hell out of the United States. The last time I looked, the US is the home of the free and the brave.
The Baldiwn family are a bunch of pussy whiners and you are free to move to any socialist country you like, also, take Hillary and Billy Clinton along with you.
When the said that Johnny Stewart will be hosting the poor attendened show, they lost me. He sucks more than the other losers.
I’ll watch it because I’ve always watched the Oscars and I just realized I haven’t seen ANY of the five nominated films. That’s a first for me. I just hope it’s a movie night and actors don’t start making political speeches about Hillary or Obama.
Juno??? What the hell’s Juno??? All the name means to me is that of my first “free” email service over a decade ago!
As they crawl from rehab to rehab, take money from tobacco companies to promote cigarettes in movies and complain about publicity yet hire pr agencies, who cares about Hollywood Hipocrites???
On balance, the entire Hollywood community, (and it’s not limited to only the shallow, narcissistic actors) are smug, arrogant, insular, and insulated, and they are not afraid to flaunt it. No wonder the ratings are continually plummeting. I’d rather watch paint dry.
Most thinking people don’t give a shit about the Oscars anyway.
Who cares about ANY of these spoiled brats that aren’t worth my time. Oscars are a non event except for these clowns who feel so self important. As long as Hollywood promotes trash I will continue to maintain my 16.5 year boycott of ALL television. I know, it does seem incredible but it’s true.
Joe
I have been watching TCM movies all week – previous Oscar winners and my thought is “Good grief”! These were wonderful movies – good acting, funny, witty and meaningful dialogue, and plots that we could understand. In other words they were entertaining and they did not rely on computerized special effects, nudity, foul language and bodily functions to make us laugh, cry, feel good, etc. Oh, for the gold old days!
The first leftist to start pimping for Obama and slamming Pres. Bush will make my channel turn.
Who cares what a bunch of leftest eletist morons do or say. The only good actors in this country are from “down under” anyway.If it were not for Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe I would not even watch anything.
Everyone going into the KODAK theatre should have to drive their own vehicle into a parking lot , pay for parking and then pay at least $10.00 per ticket and $20.00 for some watered down soft drinks and popcorn…. and if htey are wondering why no one watches , we are also tired of the America hating , pontificating BS… Just watched “Goodbye Girl” Last night .. It would beat any in every catagory today
Just so much self-congratulatory hokum. How about if we put out some interesting, socially responsible, artist work and see who watches. No, on second thought, let’s just pander to the lowest common denominator, juvenile instincts and see how much money we can make. Then, we’ll all get dressed up and tell each other how great we all are. can you imagine this happening in other industries? The greatest performance by a female barista in foaming the coffee goes to….
I just wanted to say “thank you” to everyone that posted a comment here. You really made me laugh and were more entertaining than anything I’ve seen on tv lately. Guess what? I used to be in the “business” in hollywood, but I got so sick and tired of the hypocrisy surrounding me. I grew up in the Midwest where most people still care about others. I’m so relieved to not have to deal with so many of the sleazy directors, producers, neurotic writers and narcissitic actors. It is ironic and I used to pray for this area of the country because I used to have a heart for them, but not sure if I do anymore. Most of the product they output to the world is what the Islamic extremists loathe and think that America represents, when it is so not true. Most of America represents what is good and what dreams are made of. Today’s “Hollywood” is what the Islamic extremists hate. And “Hollywood” has the audacity to bash this country and the President and the troops. Obama will probably get elected and then we’ll have another attack from the Islamic terrorists, but this time they’ll probably be more specific with their target….like “Hollywood”. Maybe then that would stop the wars because the terrorists will finally get what they want…..to get rid of all the “indecent” things American. And I can go back to watching my “Decorating for Cents” show and “Ninja Warrior” for my entertainment! P.S. I haven’t been to a movie in ages because there’s just nothing good out there. I will say though that I’m still fans of those actors that are talented, but don’t get political on me, such as Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey. One of them should be the host, not what’s his name?
I probably won’t watch the Oscars and haven’t for many years. Too many people making fools of themselves when they open their mouths. Just take your award and cut the politican talk – nobody wants to hear it. And no comments about your out of wedlock child with your latest honey, your latest abortion, your drug problem, or your suicidal inclinations.
What do washed up actors do? They become political activists. Where does most of Hollywood live? In LALA Land, and they have no clue about reality. What does most actors/actresses do to show their pride and gratitude for what they have received in the USA? Nothing, except complain, moan and groan how bad it is in the USA.
Will we watch the Oscars? Not a chance.
May GOD BLESS AMERICA! We are NOT Politically Correct, and we are proud of it!!
The Academy Awards need to be moved to cable..where they can air uncensored, acceptence speeches can last more than a minute, and some sense of general anarchy can rule..
Putting them back into a springtime time slot would solve the problem to some degree..but the Telvision audience is fractured into many different sub catagories now..and there is other stuff on cable and the internet for folks to stream..
Face it, the MTV Movie Awards draw pretty much the same faces as the Oscars..MTV focuses on films that the vast majority of the audience actually buys tickets for..instead of films that no one has seen yet, and likely won’t until they hit Netflix or OnDemand..
I won’t be watching the Oscars..better things to do tomorrow night..
Look, it’s an election year. So it’s right that the Oscars host’s only credentials are in whacky political analysis and that he is the leading source of news for the largest swath of actors. The point is that they get news, which allows them to be more informed than the great bulk of their many dozens of fans.
It is essential that a forum exist then which exposes tens and tens of television watchers to well really lovely role models with a professional ability to memorize Jon Stewart’s scripts and perform them even more movingly than he has. And it helps that these people are pretty so that people who are not watching Stewart will have here a better reason to learn what he believes through them.
As for the crap others have posted about marxist/commie/sluts/druggy/airheads – well, most of the people hurling those charges have no idea how hard it it to be Amy Winehouse, Britnny… um Brittanny…. er Brittiny… wuddever… or George Clooney. Until they strut a mile in their mascara they have no right to characterize them as glimmering empty containers for the vintners of anti-American swill. Whatever happened to actions have consequences…er… freedom of speech… anyway?
Since it is a Presidential election year, I for one am frizzed to learn if these glimmering opinion makers support Barak, Hillary,Will Truman, or Hugo Chavez.
Oh… Will the Oscars have a ten second delay button this year? Wonder why anyone thinks that’s necessary? After all TV owners have an editing device and will undoubtedly choose once again to edit out any exposure to ‘Oscar-Think’ by instead pushing their buttons to Animal Planet.
I can’t believe they asked Jon Stewart to host again. He was perhaps the worst host I’ve seen in last year’s show. Why would they ask him back? Would nobody else agree to do it? I am a huge admirer of Stewart’s on The Daily Show, and have seen him live here in Toronto, he’s amazing. But he’s not a Hollywood persona.
I just hope that the serious movies get their rewards tonight, like Away from Her and No Country for Old Men. Superb filmmaking from Sara Polley, and riveting performances by Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.
We will be watching reruns of “Chuck” and then the Simpsons. Who cares about hollywood anymore besides the clowns who work there. We haven’t been in a movie theater in years, and don’t plan on going anytime soon. We’ve been buying old movies and watching reruns of Perry Mason and Alfred Hitchcock. Just think of all the co2 coming out of these idiots mouths.
It’s no secret that the Oscars ratings are dependent on having movies people watched nominated. 2007 was a good year for movies overall, both mainstream and smaller films. This year’s best picture nominees are probably one of the better slates in recent years, all deserving.
There were some great studio films that were box office successes that weren’t nominated for best picture, namely Ratatouille and Bourne Ultimatum. Superbad and Knocked Up were successes too and they were produced by major studios.
if i didn’t have a life, how would watching the oscars make it any better? remember actors and actresses make their living in the world of make believe, which makes all their political rants ring hollow
Trash begets being trashed….Hollywood stars are
unpatriotic, nasty people, not worth the time of day.
There is nothing more overblown than the belief people really care about the Oscars. A self-serving mega back-slapping event for the intellectually juvenile Hollywood elite. It serves no purpose…not even entertainment.
Once upon a time, I believed the Oscars presentations were a group of industry insiders who got together once each year to pat themselves on the back. I believed that while the show’s general outline was probably scripted to some extent, that the bulk of the on stage air time was truly the free flow of thoughts and ideas from the participants. Since the writers’ strike I’ve learned how naive that belief was. The writers’ strike made it completely obvious that the Oscars are less of a public awards show and more of another way to sell expensive advertisments on television. There really is no difference between the movie on the other station and the Oscars, except the movie has a better plot. If the whole thing is written, and the show can’t go on without weeks of prepatory writing, then why not delay the show, and just post to an online blog and let us read about it. The hollywood reporters will tell us all about it the next day anyway. Why do I need to waste another Sunday evening listening to what the writers want me to know?
I’m going dancing Sunday night. Screw the oscars. When all the morons are looking at the TV wishing they were as cool as the people on it, I’ll be holding a real live woman in my arms and gazing into her eyes as we salsa and cha cha across the dance floor!
I loved the shadow puppets.
I love this. I am not alone. No one cares anymore or should I say most of us don’t, I hope.
These people are not worthy of Oscars as in days gone by.
When I read of all the special beauty treatments they are all running to get, it was quite disturbing.
They think more of themselves then we do.
I hope this year will be a very low turn out of viewers, to send them a message.
They are legends in their own minds and live in a strange world, I want know part of.
I hope America has grown up and avoids the show. I feel I have grown up. A part of me wants a peak but it’s almost like I’ll feel like I disgraced myself for watching.
nobody cares about hollywood anymore. they shouldn’t even televise it anymore as well.
Worst Oscars ever. Lowest viewership ever. So what, who cares?
The people in the entertainment industry, in partiularly those who make millions, have no loyalty nor anything in common with the average American. In fact many of them loath us as demonstrated by their anti-American comments overseas as they bask in the loving applause of those who hate us. They are in fact members of an international moneyed elite with no loyalty to anyone but their kind. We in America don’t need these people. Like the young starlets with cash are good examples for anyone but mindless young women who read the tabloid trash.
Somehow Hollywood forgot that the product they are selling is entertainment. People who are purchasing this product want to be entertained; not “enlightend” by some self-indulgent, egotisitical director; not preached to or told how ignorant and backward they are by some actor or actress who has just finished their fourth session of drug rehab. If you do not provide the product the customer wants, the customer will find that product somewhere else. People have found that everything from NASCAR to video games to bloging on the internet are far more entertaining and fun than paying an exorbitant price to sit in a movie theater and be insulted by the latest, self-proclaimed world savior from Hollywood. People are no longer paying attention to the Oscar Awards because they no longer care about the product that is being honored. It’s really that simple, although the egos of the Hollywood crowd will never allow themselves to admit it.
I know who Sgt.York is, Patton, McArthur, the Band of Brothers, and a lot of other War HEROES from the past because of reading and some wonderful movies and shows. Years and years of entertaining ,educational, and fairly accurate portrayals of heroics under fire. Fast forward to 2008…..Are there any HEROES in the current wars we are involved? Not to hollywood! Just evil companies and soldiers who should be on trial. Any movie with a terrorist is anyone but a Muslim. Gee, I wonder why nobody gives a rats ass about hollywood. Take your awards shows and your putrid America hating movies and stick them up there beside your heads.
As an actor myself, I have a suggestion for AMPAS. Instead of having this glorified circle jerk every year, why not change the format and only give awards for lifetime achievement? I’m a theatre guy, so I don’t go to the movies much, but I would much rather see some really good guys and gals get lifetime achievement awards than a bunch of nimrods (generally) get together and have a big party. To paraphrase George C. Scott, I’ll be home watching a hockey game.
Actors strike….who gives a rats ass about those bastards.
It would have taken little effort on your part to look up the correct term for the award to be given to Bob Boyle this year for his body of work.
Bob is a Production Designer, and the award will be for Art Direction, he is not an art designer (which is a title that does not exist). His creativity and point of view has had great influence on our industry since silent films and should be treated with respect.
I’d be more concerned if people did actually watch it. Who can be interested in a suckfest amongst a bunch of people who are ludicrously overpaid for pretending to be someone else for a living. Don’t worry too much, the trailer trash will tune in.
Please stop blaming the host for bad ratings! This is an entirely media created criticism. The ratings have always been dependent on the best picture film nominees and the mainstream public’s investment in them. Whenever a box office hit is nominated for Best Pic, a la “Titanic” and “Return of the King, the ratings go up. Can anyone remember who hosted those shows? I guess if you say Billy Crystal, you have a 50% chance of getting it right. If Hollywood made better mainstream films, it would have bigger Oscar ratings. If this year’s show sucks, it will be for one reason only: “Juno” wins Best Picture and Screenplay.
And to all the conservative wack jobs who post on this blog, I have a news flash for you: Ronald Reagan. Actor. Prez of SAG. Hollywood born and bred.
I’ll go along with everyone about the Hollywood efforts and Oscar presentations being very un-noteworthy these days. There hasn’t been much originality, high quality, or significance in motion pictures [non-animated] for decades. At this point, the powers-that-be should return the Oscars’ ceremonies to a restaurant to be broadcast on radio only. People would then have an easier way to NOT turn on the sound. Hollywood groups as ‘movie makers’ are no longer important. Their so-called, social efforts are usually radical and against common sense, so what’s the loss?
And they can change the Oscar emcee to someone who might actually be funny without a disgusting or radically political mien. Personally, I can’t think of an appropriate nominee.
One solution to everything is to cut salaries for the Hollywood ‘worthies’ by 90 percent, and reduce movie theater ticket costs accordingly. If a movie is only worth 50 cents to see, that’s all the public should have to pay. An actor or actress needs only a couple of hundred thousand dollars at most for their efforts. Put the extra money into better scripts, plots, accuracy and general movie making effort. As of now: The ‘talent’ is overpaid. The movie theater tickets are over-priced. And the social activities of ‘actors’ are usually over-regarded, radically left—and simply representative of the ‘pea-brain’ mentality and lack of significance of such individuals.
Let Hollywood return to the ‘Thrilling days of Yesteryear’ with new and innovative movies.
Here’s another winners speach: I’d like to thank Mike, Sheery, Joe, Sally, Saul, Meranda, Julie, Craig, Yolanda, Matt, Evelen, Rose, Annette, Molly, Brett, Shelby, Mindy, Green, Leandra, Dorothea, Sloan, Bill, John. Music now plays cut to next winner with same speach. How orignal are these people?
Thanks to many who have already expressed my disgust with Hollywood and why I don’t watch the Oscars, go to movies starring George Clooney, Michael Moore, and any other lefty loon who wants to spout off with their socialist politics.
our role models have been corrupted by the leftists and elitists and mental midgets of our society
Hey Mark…
communists? I think not…The Democrat party is dangerously close to becoming communist…one step over from Socialism comrade….Maybe that’s why Obama will call his senators if he gets elected…God forbid!
Why is it I dont get to see my garbage man or mail carrier get an award? He actually impacts my life unlike these clowns.
At least they didnt have time to do any BS interpretive dance of each of the best picture nominees. That was a winner of an idea. Whoever thought of that should be shot. Jon Stewart is the best host they have had in a long while. Degeneres was bad, Crystals shtick got old the second or third time he did it. My favorite part of last years broadcast was when they came back from commercial and Jon Stewart was making fun of Scientology and you could literally hear crickets because the tools in attendance were either too afraid or to stupid to understand. Thats why it kills me when blowhards like Sean Penn get up and go on about their political views. These people need people to dress them, like I care what they think or who they will vote for. Just shut up thank god, your mother and forget to thank your wife and sit the hell down.
Gore getting an oscar was the limit for me. I haven’t watched the oscars in years anyway. I like to be entertained by movies – not beat over the head with a liberal message.
The Oscars have become the emmys, with all the TV actors being nominated.
What happened to the Movie Stars. Hollywood is a low class pimp and they’re too dumb to even realize that the audience knows it.
This show use to be about class, what people want to acheive not a reflection of the gutter. Also why are TV dictacting when to have the show…if you know that is hampering the industry because of the early date…then change it back before it’s too late.
if juno wins ANYTHING … i may have to consider never watching another movie for as long as i live. dramatic? perhaps… but so is the juno suck-fest.
and if it wins best picture or ellen page wins best actress… i think i will puke.
For all of our sakes, turn off your computers, go outside and scream “I’m not going to take it anymore”.
The End
Oscar’s, oh yeah a friend had a really big one. Too bad the aquarium malfunctioned. We found it floating and smelling up the whole house, couldn’t fit it down the toilet so put it on a bus to hollywood.
When the Association offers the same Goodie Bags to viewers as they dangle before members, we might be coaxed to watch……just as the members find it worthwhile to attend. Otherwise, this will be another bust evening.
Hey Mark, Are you a shill for Hollywood, or the result of a botched lobotomy?????
Jessy S was only thoughtful comment on here –
truly wonder how many of these rants are from the same people – and if they all hate hollywood soooooo much – why log on to ‘dealine hollywood daily’? why not go to ‘drudge’ and rant with like minded folks there?
we live in transitional times – with philosopies, structures and institutions falling away in prep for that which will require better from ourselves – this and religion and old ideas that no longer work is all part of it – I say – Enjoy the ride folks – its the only one we got ! lets get forward to being ONE country again
hollyinside
American gangster was the best movie out this past year. I don’t even know if it is too late for it to be in this years oscars as i have not watched them since i was a kid in the early 90’s.
That is about the only movie i can think of over the past year that had any good acting in it.
Denzel crushed it and Crowe played extremely well.
I think the Oscars are like the Grammys which is just boring and not worthwhile. The MTV movie awards are more entertaining and exciting to watch.Even if the Oscars, like the Grammys, are more prestigious, it still doesn’t spark any interest.
I do not care at all…it has been decades since I watched these self-absorbed, elitist, anti-American, no talents!
Maybe is they produced some movies worth watching, cleaned up their acts, and were thankful for the USA, i’d consider watching.
The strike didn’t affect me at all, either!
BTW – why don’t all these bleeding heart liberals take the money they are spending into trying to “look good”, and donate it to world hinger, AIDS, etc? Are their Botox injections really more important than all their causes that they want the American tax payer to fund…?
I rather enjoyed the shadow puppets from last year, but you could put a shiny red ball in front of me to keep me entertained.
Nikki…uh…what the hell is going on here? I notice a definite pattern with the comments above. In short, here’s what I’ve learned so far:
People hate the Oscars, and they hate Hollywood, and they don’t like movies, and they’re sick and tired of actors with ploitical agendas (unless of course the agendas match their own). Did someone link your site with a neo-con website and didn’t tell you? Why do I feel like Sean Hanity mentioned your blog and told all his minions to spam it without mercy?
Oh the drama of it all. Writers on pins needles after their strike, rain possible, breast getting buffed, botox under the arms, gee, it’s a wonder those of us living in the real world could care less about another indulgentself promoting hollyweird experince.
The idea that people actually care about this crap is beyond understanding. One can only hope the writers go on strike again, eliminating the endless B S that passes for TV and movies.
I’d rather watch paint dry than turn on the Oscars. And yes, I HAVE seen every movie nominated because I get the DVDs from a neighbor who is an Academy member. I fast forwarded most of them and, after being sufficiently disgusted by the content, stopped the player. Each year seems to get worst and yet the brain dead politically uber-correct crowd that runs Hollywood doesn’t seem to care one iota.
This report was pretty pathetic. Just ranting opinion. Jon Stewart is a fantastic host and his shows are watched around the world. I am actually fed-up of this site and its blowhard bullshit. So long Nikki.
Well at least we have Rainn Wilson hosting the Spirit Awards today!
I’ve lost count of how many people don’t care about the Oscars so passionatly they left messages describing just how much they don’t care about the Oscars.
And what’s with all the accusations about Hollywood communists? Has DHD fallen into a time warp and appeared in the midst of the McCarthy era?
- Richard
Why should Americans watch the Oscars when most of Hollywood is anti-American? Many of these “entertainers” really do hate America so I’m not wasting my time watching celebrate each other.
I gradually quit watching movies over the last 20 years because, no matter how well the “stars” look or perform in a role, I can’t forget the garbage that they spew about my Country off-screen. It’s a good thing that those “bash-America first” creeps have a script to follow because few of them have an IQ that surpasses that of a gnat.
Jon Stewart. He would be a lot funnier if he had enough pride to use his own name and got over the chip on his shoulder against gentile America.
The ethnic humor and the relentless rage, insecurity, and contempt behind it just wears this old Christian down. Acid tongue just gets tiresome.
He might be an OK kid if he just dropped the bitterness and related as a for-real human being. Sadly, his Hollywood appeal would probably evaporate if he did.
Not watching…
I’ve actually seen three of the nominated films this year – which is more than usual. I do wish they’d either nominate films more people have seen, or have longer after the nominations for the films to be distributed a little more.
I saw Juno, There will be blood, and Atonement and have to say of the three I like Atonement best – though I agree, it wasn’t at all what I was expecting.
I was wondering which wacko religious group told their members to spam your blog. I don’t *know* it was PTC, though the rhetoric of these posts do sound like them and it will hurt my eyes too much to look through their site in enough detail to know for sure. It’s silly though and not at all subtle when a bunch of supposedly random and “unconnected” folks show up out of the blue spouting the same pat phrases (poor grammar and all).
I’m with all those who’ve been saying who cares if the Oscards don’t get watched or if they don’t ever air again. Hollywood really doesn’t produce that much value as it is and I would like to see the entire industry nationalized by Hugo Chavez and all of inflated salaries given away to the poor in the Venezuela – then it will be interesting to see how much these windbag stars (and others like MEshelle Obama) feel about America.
What is this, like the 20,000th awards show this year? Is anyone else sick and tired of a different awards show for the same people every 5 minutes? The Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, the People’s Choice Awards, the Oscars, the Golden Globes…ENOUGH!!! I don’t watch mainly because I am sick and tired of watching these people congratulate themselves over and over and over and over and…
hollywood makes all their money because they force theaters not to carry many of the incredible films being made around the world! If people really knew how many excellent movies they were missing there would be riots! I went to an amazing film festival in Canada last year (Fantasia Film Festival) and saw a lot of really stunning movies every day for 3 weeks! The plots were intriguing, there were many new and talented actors, and the special effects were as good as anything Hollywood is doing, but with more imagination! Seriously people. You are missing out on what would be some of your favorite movies because of these liberal pukes who taint every movie with their warped agenda. There are so many alternatives to their crap if you just look for them and read the reviews on independent foreign cinema websites. Some of the movies are even made in the U.S. but can’t get distribution here! Screw hollywood’s insulting drivel!
I will not watch the oscars beacuse all it ever is is a bunch of liberal actors promoting the democratic party while on stage. I can’t stand the movies that are nominated each year. All the oscars ever do is punish good clean successful movies by not nominating them for any awards. But the oscar will go to the movie that is the most politically correct and ,of course, a bomb at the box office. I can’t stand the oscar shows and I couldn’t care less what a bunch of bimbo’s and doppers have to say politicaly.
I quit going to movies and watching the oscars years ago.I like movies alot and used to go to the theater often but as a good American I cannot give them anymore of my money than absolutely nessassry. I buy used movies of ebay for a buck or two and build a collection of old good movies to watch. And since I no longer watch TV anyway I play them on my TV. 95% of Hollywood actors are communists and they must be stopped. The way to stop them is not to go to ANY movie houses, or spend any money on their products. Also start calling the democrat poiliticans and their voters what they are communists not democrats. I don’t give a rats ass about their opinions on anything. I may be missing a few good movies not being a consumer of their products but its worth it to my soul and there are many good old movies out there. And if there is a really really good movie you will hear about it anyway and buy it used on ebay for $3 six months or a year later.
My wife and I stopped going to movies years ago. You can’t rely on the reviews or the media driven hype that surrounds their initial release. I’ve walked out on more “Masterpieces” & “Cinematic Triumphs” than I can recall. We still watch movies, we just see them about 3 months later than everyone else does. When these “Stunning Achievements Of Modern Film”, are selling on DVD for $5.00 in the bargain rack at Walmart we grab a couple to watch on a rainy afternoon. If they prove to be garbage, which they usually are, our loss is minimal.
Hey Mark, 12:16 am. I know your type. You tend to idolize famous people and will stand in the rain for hours just to get an autograph. These people you criticize are your average citizen who are sick and tired of the pompous actor who thinks they are more important than you because their job requires that they have name recognition. They are mostly Democrats who think they know better and are vocal about it instead of just doing their job. And since you trash Fox News, may I suggest that YOU are the one that would be the first to deny an individual their right to an opposing opinion. Read the comments and learn. Hollywood is out of touch and overall makes a bad product. But then you, who are most likely a liberal democrat will defend the devil if you have to. Hollywood and you live in your own little world. Enjoy it. Sane Americans are recognizing what it really is and are rejecting it.
I used to enjoy the Oscars. But not since it became a political show.
“Few in America or the world have seen the nominated pics and performances.”
The problem there lies with the public, not the films or performances themselves. What, put “Transformers” in there because “more people have seen it”?
“There’s no suspense because Hollywood has long ago guessed who and what will probably win.”
Unlike 30 years ago, there are a bunch of other award venues where basically the same people have already voted for the same nominations. And we all know who and what won. But if it was that cut and dried, we would be talking about that Best Picture of 2005, “Brokeback Mountain”, right?
“The vast majority of the presenters aren’t big names.”
Who cares? Anyone who has a beef with that has no credible complaint with the Oscars.
It does my heart good to see others like myself who are disgusted with the agenda driven movies Hollywood has been feeding us over the past 10-20 years.
I believe Hollywood made a calculated decision to stop making movies for the average citizen and chose instead to make films that fit their political and social agendas. The disdain they show for our values is blatant. Now they’re reaping the fruit of that choice and it’s about time.
They want to be stars among their elite crowds and to hell with the rest of us. They know it’s not as profitable, but at least in “their” world they’re stars. There’s an audience out here for good and wholesome entertainment as the numbers prove when it’s offered.
Hopefully it doesn’t have to get worse before it gets better.
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In the past few years, songs from 8 Mile and Hustle & Flow took Oscar. I could sing (okay, rap) along with both of those, and I’m an old white dude.
Oh and Oscar’s “finest moments” included dissing Citizen Kane in favor of How Green Is My Valley.
The difference between actors then and now? Back then they did all the same stuff (Bob Hope was a well-known womanizer, he and his buddy Bing Crosby would trade the names and numbers of particularly skillful showgirls, if you get my drift); we just know more about what they do today because of an explosion of tabloid magazines and television shows and websites, none of which would flourish were it not for an insatiable appetite for such prurient trash.
So quit hatin’ and enjoy the show for what it is – one part fashion, one part celebrity ego gratification, one part legitimate recognition of artistic achievement, one part cheesy musical numbers, one part humor, all wrapped up in a giant 3-4 hour commercial for the movie industry.
The Academy Awards could definitely be better–but it sickens me to see such a blatant and unapologetic conservative bias in some of these posters. Trust me, as as someone stuck in the heart of the Midwest, I’ve heard my share of comments from people saying that clean movies never get released. I understand it, and I’ve seen these movies. Frankly, they’re terrible.
Box office success =/= artistic merit!
With regards to the comment about this being “like the 20,000th award show this year,” I wish this were the only award show. Its production values trump all others.
No, the Academy Awards don’t always award the best film, but the show provides an annual excuse to look at some of the best films that the industry has produced. Just because you feel disrespected or alienated doesn’t give you the grounds to unfairly denigrate a venerable institution like the Oscars.
What do I think about the Oscars? Yawn….
Maybe I would have seen the movies nominated if the price of ticket were cut by 75%. Then to watch a show of overpayed actors prop up notions of socialism and eco-friendliness while showing up in huge cars with expensive clothes on just turns my stomach. They’re hypocrites and I will never see a movie again in a theatre until the prices of tickets and these so called stars paychecks come in line with the rest of hard working America’s income.
Who cares. I will not be watching and have only seen afew of the movies that are up for awards. I enjoy movies and when they get good and entertaining I will probably watch some. As far as actors go there are few that have character on and off the screen. Denzel is good both on a off and I hope there will be more like him soon.
I have seen all of the nominated and many other movies. I enjoy escaping by going to the movies. For almost all of my adult life I looked forward to the Oscars, had oscar parties at home etc., enjoyed watching the “stars” go by on the red carpet etc. Usually we made bets on what and who would win. It was fun. Then all of the sudden when George Bush was elected President, I saw a completely different side of this show which revealed a bunch of self-centered arrogant mis-informed anti-American, Bush Bashing spoiled, morally bankrupt individuals who have NO clue as to what an ordinary person’s life is like. They couldn’t just take their MILLIONS of dollars for doing something they love to do and crave to do but they just had to force their ignorant political opinions on the viewers at home. Who do they think pays for their lifestyles and allows them to be in this business? Well its people like me. I am a Republican who is not some right wing racist nutjob but a person who truly enjoysmovies and appreciated real talent in actors, until they started making fun of anyone who doesn’t share their socialist anti-American anti-Bush fanaticism. Well guess what? Without people like me, you would not get to be rich and famous. Please please stop the political drivel spewing out of movies stars’ mouths. WHO ASKED YOU ABOUT YOUR POLITICS? Just make the movie, bank your millions and SHUT UP. There isn’t one place left without a loon waving signsabout War or Bush or Cheney and then on top of it all, we have to hear from these morons. If you don’t like the United States LEAVE.. They promised they would but they are all still here thinking we give a crap about what their politics are. Isn’t it enough that we pay 10.00 dollars to see your movies?? Please leave your opinions at home where you leave your brain. Whew I feel better. I might watch it anyway.
Hey A-Dub: When’s the last time you heard a conservative agenda coming out of Hollywood? Like never? And how far did you go in school? It’s political, not ploitical and Hannity, not Hanity. You are proof positive liberism causes brain damage.
Wow, interesting thread.
On one side you have the prime example of what the other side is saying. Hollywood is out of touch with its audience, meanwhile it is so much more intelligent (in its own mind) than its inferior audience, Hollywood’s minions cannot fathom the animosity directed toward them. Some of the liberal posters here consider the grammar of posters (being so flawless themselves, LOL) and disregard the comment based on that.
There will be no one watching the Oscars this year and it will be a vast right wing conspiracy. Hollywood is a bunch of kooks and losers! The only appeal they have is that of rubbernecking a wreck on the freeway. What awful piece of tripe will they toss out for public consumption this time? What gets promoted is a lottery from one of Dante’s rings of Hell.
The Oscars this year could be billed “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
If you own a restaurant and sell lousy food, you lose customers.
If you sell cars that are always breaking down, you lose customers.
If you sell movies that insult the viewer, trivialize his values, and offer this all from the benefits of and ivory tower, there is no wonder at what you read in the comments, there is no wonder no one watches your awards, there is no wonder, because no one stands in awe of the paltriness of Hollywood’s achievements.
Sadly, we’ve all moved on, Hollywood. Thanks for Bob Hope, and Jimmy Stewart, for Grace Kelly, and Ingrid Bergman, for Gary Cooper and Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck. They all had political views, some republican and some democrat. They had tragedies in life, but they had too much dignity to inflict their bathroom scenes on an unsuspecting audience.
When movies moved into the bathroom in the storylines, it was recognition that what they were producing was only fit for a flush.
But – go ahead and call this a right wing rant. I miss the Hollywood that mattered. I miss the Hollywood that had a brain and a heart, and understood that loyalty at the boxoffice requires loyalty behind the screen before it can ask for loyalty in front of it.
Who wants to see another display of extreme left wing sickness and political smears? Michael Moore is a liar and does not deserve an Oscar. I have been inside Cuban hospitals. They are disgusting.
This is too funny.
What we have here is REAL America giving the clear answer to why Hollywood’s influence, credibility and AUDIENCE has dwindled.
The funny part is reading clueless liberal “true believers” try to give account as to why the vast majority of these posts are disgusted with Hollywood and their agenda.
They trot out well-worn conspiracy theories, grasping for any reason to discount these posts because they cannot CONCEIVE this outrage is true.
Face it, this IS how the the average American feels. The posts here are reasoned and articulate. I’m sure Nikki could confirm that the numerous URL’s are unique and not duplicates.
This strikes a chord for people who are sick of the counter-culture agendas Hollywood is trying to shove down our throats. You don’t speak on our behalf or to our values. We passionately speak up here because our only voice is to turn off the TV’s and stop going to movies, which we are doing.
To those that have ears let them hear..
Either open your eyes and read the writing on the wall or stick your head back in the sand. The decision is still yours.
I went back and read the article again. Could someone advise me on where I can get a job as a breast buffer? My 30 years of engineering is losing it’s luster. Are there any particular dangers with regard to the silicone / saline bags exploding?
Basically an industry party to pat itself on the back for a job well done???
No thanks, I will be watching reruns of Law and Order on NBC!!!
die hollywood.
Hollywood just cannot make a decent picture these days and it’s sad. Transformers will never be another Terminator and Juno is just obnoxious. The only decent movies I have seen in the past 10 years were the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. In fact, Holyywood(or Toronto these days?)has gotten so bad that I have resorted to Bollywood and let me tell you folks, the quality is so much better than Hollywood you will not believe it! Judging by Saawariya, Kabhi Kushi Kahbi Gham, Devdas and Veer Zaara I would say that Bollywood is at the same level as Hollywood was in 1939.
Good riddance!
“If you’re 20 and not a liberal, you don’t have a heart. If you’re 30 and not a Conservative, you don’t have a brain.”
Lindsey Lohan should take a bow for the most “Razzies” ever…
Will Brittney make an appearance for no apparent reason…
Wonder if Wolfgang will have a food poisoning problem this year…
Does any one in America REALLLY care about another award ceremony?
Because Hollywood actors, singers, etc have become
such a poor example for kids to follow, I can’t in
anyway support or watch this. Why give credit to
traitors, Communists, Facists, Christian bigotry,
drug and alcohol adhicts, sick minds, etc.
The Oscars are history ! The liberal “I hate America “panty boys like C-Looney are only loved by the left wing media and a few fans , and that is all. America bashing metrosexuals(bisexuals) alienate normal working class America, really noone cares about Hollywood . And how about unfunny Liberal Jew John Stewart (liebowitz) these left wing Jews , Stewart, Streisand, and the other thousands are reminiscent of the jews at concentration camps who would assist in the the genocide against their own families, They should form a new liberal jew rap group called L.I.D.O. = Last In The Oven! They are all fools and noone cares! rename the Oscars the Hugo for Chavez. Its sad more Hollywood stars visit Chavez than our own sons and daughters.
The Oscars have been circling the drain for years. Micheal Moore winning and “educating” all us ignorants was like hearing a flush from a urinal . Al Gore getting his Oscar was like watching the water swirl faster and faster , and last year when the Oscar for Best Song went to “It’s hard out here for a PIMP” , it finally disappeared like the unwanted refuse it is. I can’t say it bothers me too much. I mean do I really need to have political opinions forced upon me on Oscar night too? No, I don’t . I am sick of biting my lip every time a Libtard gets up to accept an award and hear their opinions on politics today. Ever hear any Conservative viewpoints on that stage? Didn’t think so. Rambo and Die Hard were never nominated.
Just think of all the Carbon Credits the Libs can save by just canceling the show once and for all. Maybe there would be enough for all of Al’s posse to shut their traps for good. Ahhhh heaven.
All of you are close-minded and cruel, with 20th century mindsets. The 21st century is no place for a provincial mindset and love-it-or-leave-it platitudes with regards to the United States.
The AMERICAN actors who make your AMERICAN films have the right as an AMERICAN to express their views, whether you agree with them or not…that’s the freedom of expression guaranteed within the Constitution. Just because you disagree with a point of view doesn’t mean it is entirely invalid.
Seriously, I’ve been reading Nikki’s blog for a year, and I’ve never seen such a disgusting display of conservatism since last I overheard a conversation years ago in high school.
I am NOT defending Hollywood, and I would much rather prefer the BEST films being awarded, and I think this year’s nominations did justice to the work produced in 2007 (for the most part).
Part of being an American, as you all seem to hold, is to crush the spirit of those who oppose you. The true meaning of being an American, however, is to express one’s self freely and truly, even if it is in opposition with one’s country. May extreme nationalism perish under the love and understanding of peace.
I DARE some brave soul in the Hollywood community to try making movies or television that makes an HONEST attempt to stand up for conservative(i.e. Traditional American) values and see what happens.
I can tell you what will happen. You’ll be ostracized by your buddies in the Industry but a huge success at the Box office and with the public.
But hey! You’ll be rich and perhaps pleasantly surprised at all the people who will want to be your new friend.. so go for it! I dare you.
Hollywood is dead! They have nothing to offer. They are out of touch with what people want to see. They force their views on us to say this is good, yet its CRAP. Hollywood is anti-american. Hate Pres. Bush and anything that is good. Yet Pres. Bush is trying..When terrorists strike in California some day don’t blame Pres. Bush for trying to keep the war out of America. Call your future Pres. Clinton or Obama. And tell them they were wrong and Bush had the right idea to keep the war of American Soil. Jon Stewart, really what has he done. He is an arm chair quarterback making a living complaining about others that are trying to do something. Stewart is afraid to make a stand…
Who cares about any of this crap? The Oscars are rubbish, garbage, and basura. Nobody cares. A waste of time.
Don’t care one way or another, they glorify themselves and honor themselves ( what else is new) Oh and they spew anti stuff at or against there favorite gripes
Hollywood is so much better than all of us. Can’t you people understand that these are the greatest entertainers on earth? We should all be in awe of their presence. I say there are not enough award shows for Hollywood. There should be an award show for each day of the year, that way we would all have something to watch every night and fawn over Julia’s fashions and Beyonce’s lady lumps. Then again, I have some wet paint that needs to be watched. The bashing of our president and American democracy will have to be done without me, one of the great unwashed masses yearning to be free of Hollywood’s bull.
The trouble with the Academy is that they stop making movies for the public and just made them for each other.
Roger Ebert also is taking payola for some of the crap he gives four stars too.
Holy christ…now I remember why I usually don’t bother with the comments section. What is this? An evangelical, republican lovefest with bitterness up the wazoo? If you think the comments here represent the average person… Give me a break.
Who cares about the Oscars or any of the other award shows?!? It’s a lot like the NHL – when it’s cancelled NOBODY MISSES IT!
Frankly me dear….I don’t give a damn.
I have’t watched the Oscars or Grammy’s in years and have no intentions of doing so this year either. I used to watch these award shows EVERY year and wouldn’t dream of missing any of them. Now, I am so tired of these stars who HATE their country and their President & in truth also HATE the troops who are fighting for their right to say the hateful things they are saying. How many of these haters have been to Iraq or Afghanistan to support & entertain the troops?!! How many of these rich & spoiled would ever dream of joining the military?! Perhaps they should look back at Hollywood of the past and some of the true greats. Maybe they need to look at the history of the Hollywood Canteen and all those wonderful PATRIOTIC stars. And where is today’s Bob Hope?! Whether they like the war or not, it is in the tradition of this GREAT COUNTRY to support the men and women who are fighting and to support the COMMANDER IN CHIEF during war time.
Though I have not always been a huge fan of Country Music, I will always support their award shows. These are the people with principals who almost all LOVE THEIR COUNTRY! Perhaps the folks in Hollywood need to get out in the real world and see how the simple folks live. Until then, I will continue to avoid the movies and all the outspoken stars who are in them.
Never liked jon stewart as host. It just seems to attract a certain group of people. When I was younger the whole family couldn’t wait to watch them.
I think it has just become to political and not entertaining.Also I watch classic movie channel they really had to act back then and not depend on special effects and soundtacks.There are only a few actors today that I believe are any good,Johny Depp for example. Anyway I won’t be watching it.
Guess I’ll pop in a VIVID Video and watch it, instead of the Oscars. Randy Spears, now theirs an actor !!!
Plus his list of leading ladies changes all the time.
The AVM awards in Las Vegas in January are much more entertaining to view, and the categorys much more interesting to watch. Ciao Hollywood, hello San Fernando Valley.
God I hate it when Drudge links to a blog I read
All he has to do is point at something and his stupendously obnoxious audience leaps on it like he’s commanding them with “Hey all you generic idiot flyover-state conservatives! Time to unleash your tired-ass anti-Hollywood rants all over a blog you’ll never read again!”
Sorry for the interruption, back to RARGH LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD BLAAAGGGRRRHHHRGGGHHHHHH
I have not watched these things in 20 years. Actors are extremely liberal, Like children they have no idea the cost of freedom.
Their millions of dollars make it impossible for them to appreciate normal people and they show disdain for those who pay them to be actors
America provides them their millions and they hate the very foundation of the country the use
And you damn kids stay off my lawn!
I like pie. And movies that involve pie.
Hopefully no one will watch and this will mark the true beginning of the end of the crappy movie and television business. People like Michael Moors and Sean Penn dominate Hollywood and will likely be there spewing hatred of their country. John Stewart will be there egging them on. Who wants to watch that miserable pile of garbage. None of them deserve any awards.
I am disgusted by the type of smut they are playing at the local picture show lately. Since they introduced those fancy new colour films I’ve been seeing more and more vulgar scenes, like this one reel it showed a womans knee, now that is just too much.
If anything, this year’s Oscars is an unabashed celebration of conservative ideology. Just look at the best picture nominees:
Atonement — A film in which a servant boy (no doubt a Bolshevik) says dirty words, corrupts a proper lady and has unGodly premarital sex with her. As a result, he is jailed and then sent to war. Now that’s abstinence education.
Juno – Could there be a more pro-life movie? No one who has seen this movie will ever have an abortion. Just think of the fingernails!
Michael Clayton – If it wasn’t for lawyers, all of them perverts and criminals, the fictional U-North would be free to conduct its business in the blessed capitalist system. The movie is a call to arms for tort reform.
No Country for Old Men – An illegal border-crosser is hunted down and killed! Granted, he was an American who crossed into Mexico. But still, huzzah for border security!
There Will Be Blood – The hero of the movie is a brilliant businessman who isn’t afraid to sacrifice a few lives to get that sweet, sweet petroleum. I can practically hear President Bush telling Ahmadinejad: I DRINK YOUR DOOGH!
Lots of boooooooring people doing and saying lots of boring things. Also terrible marketing of films so as to make seeing the movies before the awards program practically impossible.
I must say that I am continually amazed that 98 percent of these people share the same political views. Would a room full of doctors, teachers, accountants all have the same political leanings? Seriously, someone should do study on that. Fascinating…..
There are still a few good movies being made, but when I turn on the TV to any classic movie channel and see the wonderful storylines, the great actors and actresses, the great directors, I am amazed how far Hollywood has fallen. So many movies are just mindless, others push an agenda, whether anti-U.S., anti-military, anti-religion, pro-gay, pro-sex with no consequences, etc. Still others are just ultra-violent, with gutter language, or use CGI to cover up lack of plot and story, and each new film has to push the envelope just “a little more”. Whatever happened to subtlety, drawing the viewer in to the plot and the characters lives, making them care about the story? Using special effects as augmentation and not to overwhelm? Maybe today’s film makers could take a lesson from the movies of yesteryear. Otherwise why are we paying so much for increasingly so little?
Hollywood hates America
The 5 best pic’s are all very good. The problem is 90% of
the people involved in this live in Wonderland. It’s really like watching a bunch of children!
Can you possibly come up with a better descriptive than the word, “suck”?
I could care less about watching no name movies, not to mention movies that feature foreignors..who the hell cares?
The Bible, II Timothy, chapter 3
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
All values cherished and promoted by Hollywood.
These actors sell you the products you buy you ignorant conservative.
The Oscars? I’d rather have a gasoline enema than watch them. Since it’s an election year, I’m sure that anyone bored enough to watch will be treated to the star’s predictable left wing political diatribes. As I said, I’d rather have a gasoline enema than watch.
Zac, you must be a really smart guy. Gee whiz, you really put down some of us knuckle draggers. Maybe you are queer, who knows? You sound like one.
Can we just nuke the heartland now and get rid of these racist, scumbag hillbillies?
It’s funny to read comments by “snobby” people who claim they hate Hollywood and the movies!
They’re probably the same people who claimed they were going to “read more books” during the Writers’ Guild Strike.
So..all you snobby people….DID you “read more books?” I seriously doubt it!
AS IF you needed a writers’ strike in order to pick up a book and read.
Ten years ago, I listened to my friend tell me how she and her 6 year old daughter used to sit up and watch The Oscars. I could never understand why she would allow this. My children have never shown any interest in the Hollywood scene, because their parents haven’t shown any either.
Celebrities are akin to the Ancient Romans, and look what happened to them in the end.
Jennifer Lopez and Madonna paid $10,000 dollars for their mink and mink/diamond eyelashes respectively. A must have accessory, I’m sure. Some other dopey female had hers made from fox fur.
PETA’s big mouth can’t be found anywhere.
These people are truly disgusting and just plain mean.
YAWN!!! a bunch of leftist morons who pretend for a lucrative living celebrating themselves. thats worth sitting through!
Yaaaawn. Who cares what becomes of the Hollywood Circus with its parade of second-rate shrills and freaks? They’ve made themselves irrelevant with mediocre, tasteless products and bizarre political distractions.
For me the moment when the Oscars jumped the shark was when they gave the best picture award to “Shakespeare in Love” — in a year when “Saving Private Ryan” was in the running. And since then, the awards have so transparently been about the politics rather than the merits. And Hollywood itself has been producing real ho-hum crap at best, and the actors are all a bunch of zombie liberal sycophants fawning to scummy, scuzzy, corrupt Democrat politicians. Who cares, indeed.
I used to watch the Oscars back in the day. it was entertaining, they gave awards to good movies, and the actors didn’t stand up on the stage and give long speeches that were full of their political views. Now for the past couple of years all that has changed. They still give awards to good movies (though if they had given the award to Brokeback Mountain in ‘06, i probably would’ve never watched it again, but they didn’t thank god). However now, all these celebs get up on stage, thank every Tom, Dick, and Harry, for 10 minutes, and some celebs start mouthing off their leftist views. NO ONE cares!
If the Oscars didn’t have these fools shout out their political opinions and also nominated some more widely-viewed films, I think more people will watch.
why do people trash the oscars? why not trash something worth nothing like “step it up 2″ or “every new release in blockbuster”…the oscars are a show of respect for the good guys in a world filled with hollywood bs.
Enjoy the Oscars then, Jesus, because the November elections will be a pretty strong repudiation of the “conservative ideology.”
Oh come on you Drudge visitors, Hollywood uses the Oscars to feel good about their liberal political views. They are 90% Democrats but they only want two things. Your money and your respect. If they can’t get your respect they’ll be happy with your money.
The studios make big crowd pleasing movies like Transformers to take your money and more importantly your kids’ money which is what keeps the studios afloat. They get the respect on Oscar night and the only reason it’s televised is to make money for the network that airs it and to promote the films that are nominated. It’s a trick you see, the films get exposure and increased ticket sales along with that always elusive respect.
Just because hundreds of millions of people watch it worldwide doesn’t make it important. It’s only important to the few thousand industry Academy members who actually vote on these awards. The rest of you are expected to watch and enjoy. You don’t have to watch it and the declining ratings indicate you are tuning out in ever-more larger numbers.
That’s fine with Hollywood. They don’t care about you because they know your kids will still go see the movies that are aimed at them. So they get your money that way. They know they aren’t going to get your money or your respect but your kids will still go see the movies that are expected to make money.
As for hating Bush and Cheney and the Iraq War, Hollywood is actually in tune with the rest of the country. Bush now has a 19% approval rating the lowest in history even lower than Nixon at the end of Watergate. Iraq War is opposed by 70% of the country. And Cheney has an approval rating of just 11%.
David says: “I haven’t watched the Oscars for about the past ten years. I could see the downward trend starting way back then and I’m not really surprised at this recent turn of events. When Hollywood starts making more movies worth seeing, I’ll start caring about the Oscars again.”
Another of the “oh, movies just aren’t what they used to be crowd.”
Translation: No life.
I am glad to see that there are many Great Americans
out there who agree with me that Hollywood is full
of socialist liberals.
As for the Oscars, lets see what this entails.
It has celebraties arriving in strecth limos telling
us common folks that we polute too much and we need
to stop driving our vehicles and walk or ride bikes
to our destinations.
It has celebraties that are (over) paid $20 million
per film who critize corporate CEO’s for their
huge salaries while wearing $20,000 dresses with
jewelery costing as much as $50,000.
And of course, it has celebraties who use the
podium to bash our president and not bother to
thank the brave service men and women who risk
their lives every day to protect their right to
act like idiots.
This is why I haven’t watched ANY award show since
1993…when the Clinton’s accelarated Hollywood’s
declining morals and socialist agenda.
May God Bless America and the brave servicemen and
women who do more for this country in one minute
than most of these celeberties do in a week.
Hahahaaaa… Like that old Milli Vanilli song: ‘Blame it on the Rain’ The degenerate scum of Hollywood just don’t get it. They blame everything but the fact that the viewing public has had it with their debasing of everything meaningful in life. These wretched fools continue to believe their PR while the rest of us are moving-on. A-Pox on them all!!!
T.V. came along, and movie theaters all around the country died and were shut down. Then came the mega theaters – which the average family of 4 can’t afford to attend…even if the movie is one you would consider taking the kids to in the first place. By the time you buy tickets, (inflated from 25 and 50 cents to $5 and $10); popcorn (inflated from a nickel to $2.50); drinks (inlfated from a quarter to $3) you’ve put a large dent in the monthly budget.
Add to this the lack of plots (relying on violence and sex); no imagination in the scripts (mega use of four letter words and reliance on juvenile bathroom humor); the constant bashing of Patriotism and Christianity; the promoting of homosexuality and the drug culture; the blatent slaming the family, white males, and the military…and you have an industry (Hollywood) that is on the path to self-destruction.
Oh, yes. About the theaters that TV shut down? They are being purchased and refurbished by community groups, and are becoming centers for live plays performed by little theater groups; live music performed by local talent; and are being discoverd all around the country by people who are tired of the drivel put out by Hollywood.
If I’m going to have to pay $10 for a ticket, I’ll pay it to attend my local, live theater – not to enrich an industry that is doing everything in it’s power to destroy my country!
This is the year that Hollywood finally gets it right.
Instead of sucking up to the clueless losers of the middle american ilk, they actually celebrate good film making. This oscars is about ground-breaking, limit-pushing and actual movie making. Not what people in the mid-west want to see at the theater in the Mall.
If the people in St. Louis and Witchita want to see Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, let them watch the People’s Choice awards.
Nice to see an Oscar ceremony that’s actually about good movies.
Kills me the way right-wingnuts always call liberals “America haters” for raising their voices in protest when our government strays from the principles which made America a great country in the first place. I guess your idea of loving your country is to stand by with a smile as your government breaks yet another paragraph of the Constitution, and hate anyone who dares to suggest we can do better.
Loving your country doesn’t mean loving your president. It means loving the principles your country stands for, and raising hell when your president starts taking the country in the opposite direction. But I’m kidding myself to think that logic will have any effect whatsoever on you lemmings.
Hasn’t the heyday of the Oscars past? When most of the movies they honor are only familiar to a few of telecast viewers? When I was watching and reading the discussions over what direction the Oscar Telecast would go if the Writer’s strike was still on, the attitude of those organzing the telecast seemed to be that no matter what, people will watch because it’s the great spectacular Oscars. I perosnally know many people who look forward to this every year, and more power to them. However, if I don’t watch, I don’t want to be made to feel like an oddball by the media for not doing so.
Otherwise… it’s Food Network… they really do give a damn!
Obviously, you don’t eat. Have you ever seen a show on the food network? It’s the same sort of crap as the rest of the entertainment industry produces, gimics, tricks, hammy actors, complete lack of knowledge of cooking, dog and pony tricks, etc. Best cook on TV is one who has been dead a while, Julia Childs something like our greatest actors being those of the WW II era. Only other one worth watch is Jacques Pepin. The rest of them are of the Big Macs, Banquet Frozen Fried Chicken, Lean Cuisine and Top Ramen Noodle variety.
As for the movies and actors, most of them have never heard of Katherine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope … would never be caught dead watching a black and white movie or even Gone With the Wind. They think anything without a car chase and crash, firey explosions, machine guns, and ray guns is a chick flick. Take a look at the list of all time great movies. The majority of reviewers have never seen a movie made before about 1985, maybe even 1995.
I’d rather watch mold form on the shower curtain.
You’re unbelievable. You make you career out of hype and the “awards” season. People like you are some of the first in line for a press credential and then the first to cry out, “Who needs the Oscars?!”. YOU DO. Without it you’d have even less to write about. You go to great lengths to get the “inside scoop” from production folk and then decry them for a half-hearted effort. For someone so fed up with the show you certainly dedicate a whole lot of your self-important life to it. Like so many, what you can’t do you feel obligated to criticize.
I WOULDN’T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD. I’m anxiously awaiting to hear some coked out, neurotic, phoney actor’s thoughts on how the country, economy and world should be run. They’re so worldly and intuitive…. don’t you know.
This, notwithstanding the fact, that most cannot manage their lives in respectable fashion.
What a farce.
I’m still so emotional over Heath’s death, that I can’t bear to watch. It won’t be the same without him.
He was such a legend.
Think I topped some of the speeches that will be made as the “artists” try and “out-sad” each other? It’ll be more of a circus than Barnum & Bailey.
WOW!
That Drudge link has brought all the wing-nuts that usually spend their time ranting on Little Green Footballs, Pajamas Media, Free Republic & all the other right-wing whackjob sites!
If you don’t like movies or Hollywood, then don’t bother wasting your time here at DHD!
And learn to spell!
But several of the earlier posters hit it correctly on why the Oscar cast has had lower & lower ratings.
1. It’s way too early, few people have seen the nominated films.
Move it to the first Sunday in May.
2. The rule requiring one week’s run [?] in LA &NYC is long overdue for a change. Make it a requirement that a movie has been wide for 21 days. Split the noms so that movies that open in the first ten months of the year have a chance by making it a two stage procedure. Jan. 15- Sep. 30 is group one & Oct. 1 – Jan. 14 is group two. Then have the ten highest vote gatherers from each group revoted on to get the final five.
3. Dump all the boring categories from the show & put them in the technical show.
4. But, make it a package deal that the network that broadcasts the main Oscars must also broadcast the technical one. If it’s on a Saturday a couple of weeks before the main show, the net won’t have any reason to complain, no one watches on Sat. anyway, but the nominees can be pacified with the fact that it’s being shown nationwide.
5. Fix the documentary category already!
6. The same for music & foreign language!
7. Don’t let any studio use the show to promote an upcoming movie. That means no more pairings of Owen Wilson & Ben Stiller!
8. No goddamn dance numbers! Or any other things that stop the show, but give us all an extended toilet break!
I love the Oscars and all my friends down here in Cape Town watch. The distributers here don’t help though as virtually none of the films featured have been shown yet!
As a former drug-addled drunk driver who punched my daddy and lied to the rest of you – I say “USA! USA!”
Ronald Reagan, Mr. Hollywood, considered me a moron. He was right. I hate movies, I hate books, I hate Hollywood. I hate Connecticut, even though I was born there.
USA! USA!
I haven’t watched the Academy Awards since Marlon Brando got off the reservation. And I don’t think I’ve ever watched any other awards show for the simple reason that I have never felt a social obligation to be bored out of my mind.
The sort of movies I like are not made any more and the movies that have won the bulk of the awards, especially Best Picture, have not been the type that would hold any interest for me for decades. My principal joy in watching movies now is finding little public domain films online that were forgotten almost immediately after their release.
The simple truth is that if you expect a significant portion of the populace to sit for hours you have to give them a reason to do it. The Oscars do not do that and have not done so for a long time.
I enjoyed the sardonic wit of the previous comment.
It’s time we started honoring honorable people.
These are some of the most insignificant people on the planet.
Forget them and get your own life.
It’s Simple. No one cares anymore.
Our lives are still often shallow, but not as oftern as when compared to Hollywood. Cheer up and go see that one movie a year that is worth your time. But you are wasting you valuable time if you go to be anything other than just entertained. They are no more special than that.
You want an inspiring movie? How about filming my beautiful wife Debbie breaking her heart thinking her genetic makeup has given our 18 year old son not one, but two life threatening diseases. They both have Crohn’s Disease and he also has had very invaisive neurosurgery for Arnold Chiari Malformation. He was an All State Jazz trumpeter, varsity golfer and baseball player in 10th grade, did Brazilian Jui Jitzu and has a heart of gold. Now all but the heart of gold is gone. But my wife can kick anybody’s ass who messes with him. (just kidding….sort of)
Everyone deals with devastating personal events in their lifetime. It is just when we have embiciles called actors trying to make social comment through their movie or be part of a script that is morally degrading to the characters and the viewers, there will be declines in attendance at this most superficial of events. I don’t watch them, I do have to sit through their advertisements between college hoops tume outs (where’s my TiVo?)
Peace to any one who read this,
Johnny Earles
Jo Blo -
Your impeccable logic misses a couple of very basic facts:
1. Being the good capitalists they are, the studios are in it for the filthy lucre. Michael Moore pointed out as much in a recent Creative Screenwriting interview (available in audio podcast form from them). They finance and distribute his movies because they make money off him, and because they’re not all that worried about people actually taking action after watching. IOW, if all that amazing stuff you saw at whatever film festival would make these guys a buck, they’d leave tire tracks on their grandmothers racing to get the movies first.
2. While the actors and writers tend to be liberal (sorry, Mr. Willis and Mr. Grammer), the moguls tend to be conservative. Now if the conservatives running the government were actually conserving the environment, conserving our nation’s treasure by promoting renewable energy so that the US wouldn’t have to spend $1 billion every day filling the tanks of our gas-guzzling SUVs, conserving tax dollars by not doling out tens of billions in flagrantly wasteful no-bid contracts, conserving our military for when we really need it by not engaging in idiotic wars of choice while leaving the real terrorists who killed thousands of real Americans and others freely roaming the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and promoting individual liberties by recognizing that informed citizens should have the right to make their own decisions as to what plant-based pharmaceuticals we put into our bodies and what we choose to have removed or aborted from our bodies, you might also see more “conservatives” accepting hardware.
How to piss of viewers more…
Put a watermark on the TV shows Saturday so big that you cannot see the shows. What a great way to piss your viewers off.
I agree in principle with co-conspirator, and would add that we need two sets of acting, writing, directing, and best picture awards – one set for drama, one for comedy/musical. Why in the name of Zeus should Juno be in the same category as No Country for Old Men? And why isn’t Knocked Up getting the Oscar love it deserves? or Control (the musical biopic about Ian Curtis of Joy Division)?
Say what you will about the Golden Globes, but at least they recognize it isn’t fair to compare a dramatic performance with a comedic one.
Nice to see all the right wing sickos are out in force. Best of luck to Oscar, hope it is a grand night.
One major reason for lack of Oscar interest missing from your analysis is that every awards show has become a soapbox for stars to preach their political beliefs at us, the great unwashed. They have become so far out of touch with the everyday American that we simply can’t hear them anymore. Kinda like those dog whistles that supposedly operate on a frequency not detectable by the human ear.
Hollywood liberal, You just made our point. You could care less about us. By the movies you make, we see how you look down on average Americans. I decided that any movie that was up for a oscar, was one I would not watch. I made the mistake of watching “Million Dollar Baby”, because it was made by Clint Eastwood. What a horrible mistake. A movie about a girl, who has had a horrible life, finally has something she can be proud of, and she breaks her neck, and Clint kills her?????? How about “Pay it Forward”. A boy gets people to start caring about each other, by doing nice things for each other, and then he helps someone and gets Killed???? Of course, they did light candles for him at the end. The movie “Breaking Away” which got best picture, is one I could watch over and over again. A movie that celebrates American life, instead of degrading it. Wake up “SorryWood”. We are sick of you sticking your finger in our eye………Mr.Obvious, I’m afraid you are wrong, because the liberal crap is bombing at the movies!!!
I would be pleased if these were the last Oscars. A bunch of overpaid Bozos that haven’t a clue what is going on in America and always vote for Democrats. Funny, this year the big ones are movies that have bombed at the box office. They just want to get their propaganda across to people that apparently aren’t listening. If is is Anti American, Anti Military or about Gays, it doesn’t have a chance
The real HOLLYWOOD actors are gone, dead…they were the real GREATS, what you have in so called Hollywood now is just wannabe so called stars, that are more like meteors! They are mostly political activists, hell bent on destroying the nation that over pays them and do nothing but destroy the image of our President.
I buy DVDS i dont go to the movies, neither do my children, Hollywood and the so called stars…laughable, its all a sham!
There’s a large number of conservatives out here who DO NOT have their views and values FAIRLY represented in film & television.
Would it kill ya to throw us a bone Hollywood?
These people are just actors. Not a very respectable profession
The Oscars is like a fart in the wind.
“Burn, Hollywood Burn!”
I stopped going to movies on a regular basis years ago. That was about 1990 something and there wasn’t anything like 9/11 to test the industries resolve. I don’t mean waiting until the Iraq war goes bad and make documentries about how it went bad and related items. Nor do I mean waiting a full ten minutes after 9/11 before somebody at Mirimax greenlights some low cost/high selling film that shows how cowardly they are in the industry that they won’t scream at some low-life terrorist like they do at the President or even us the people who actually go to see these things. It’s just not worth it anymore.
I won’t be watching. Pulled the TV plug back in 2000. Never felt better. Much to do about nothing.
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It’s a wonderful film, but it only won for screenplay. The best picture winner for that year (1979) was “Apocalypse Now.” (Sorry, EmmaLee. Hit imdb next time before you post.) I have to agree at how amazed I am at how many people here took time out of their saintly lives to post nasty comments. Ease up everybody! Why is it people who loudly proclaim their love of America and all she stands for are often so quick to single out the entertainment industry as the only people who have no right to voice an opinion in public? You know what’s great about America? We ALL get a say, no matter what our profession. Live with it.
Having said all that, I confess I’ll be TiVo-ing the awards as well. Like a lot of people I didn’t find the nominees all that engaging, and I think “A Mighty Heart” got dissed, big time. Pulling for Ruby Dee, Hal Holbrook and “Persepolis.”
I love watching the delicate right-wingers wring their little lace hankies when libruls threaten their 1950s view of Christofascist Amurka.
Is it true that Hillary is going to be a presenter for a lifetime achivement award, and give it to herself ?
You mean they still put the Oscars on television? Why?
It, along with the other “award shows” are nothing more than a platform for those over indulgent, self centered, anti-american, over paid and under talented people to present their insipid diatribe. Don’t they realize that “we the people” are sick and tired of seeing and hearing them? When and if you watch tonight, just see how many will praise Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and those “Middle East Insurgent Freedom Fighters.” Americans? I think not. The last few actors that deserved Oscars were Grant, Tracy, Lemon, and Hepburn. Acting has passed along with them.
Isn’t EVERY year the worst Oscars ever? I mean, who gives a shit? Really.
These comments are alarming. I’ve lurked here for weeks, following the progress of the writers’ strike (thank you, Ms. Finke). I know this is an industry blog, I haven’t wanted to presume in posting since I’m just a viewer. I think it’s very interesting that these posts reference very little of what’s in the actual article. I suspect they were prepared beforehand by someone with an IP scrambler of some kind, someone who was paid to do it. I’m tempted to put them through a writing identifier program to find out.
The fact that the post from “Hollywood Liberal” thinks that anyone with a negative view of Hollywood is a “troll” who is a right wing nut or goes to some “ratty” church is exactly the problem. How can the public have any desire to support a group that holds us in such contempt? And one that expresses such a depressing and negative view of the world by way of the films they celebrate. Nothing affirms life, nothing affirms hope, nothing affirms the creative, positive and resilient human condition. The crowd that has been fortunate enough to translate their talent – in many cases, very little talent – into substantial incomes and luxurious lifestyles looks down on the system that made such a career possible. And when we, the public, say we’re fed up, we are met with contempt – which only tells us that we should have gotten fed up a lot sooner. The Oscars, as an awarding of meritorious films does not reflect the interests of the general public who are the ticket buyers, and the Oscar ceremony, as a television show has become a bloated, overlong, self-congratulatory forum for bashing the country that has made the success of their industry possible.
LOL @ al the “anti-US Hollywood” comments.
It’s weird that so called rightwing freemarketeers are so closeminded. Neocons are not conservatives, and they’re not out to protect your lives, they are out to expand the US empire with their “think thank” PNAC and hero Leo Strauss, who believed the elite should fool the ignorant masses and really lead their lives. Perpetual warfare and religious beliefs are a good way to have obedient Americans. You are free to do as we tell you.
American military interventionism is the reason you have blowbacks, and once again some of you want to occupy Iran yet have no memory or probably even knowledge of the 1953 Iranian coup which then lead the the 1979 Iranian revolution. You’re still paying the price for that little coup. China didn’t have to occupy Iran to get to the oil.
Stop electing republicans and dems alike that benefit from terrorism. They need it. PNAC needed it, got it and benefitted. You will never be free from fear and warmongering politicians unless you really do educate yourselves. Today, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Oh well, you clearly ignored the fact that lots of critics and a LOT of people loved Jon Stewart.
Let me tell you, he is the ONLY reason to watch.
The Oscars is a show that’s so full of itself and big egos that the public is really really tired of.
Thank god for Jon Stewart to perhaps bring a little spice to something that’s incredibly bland…
So hollywood liberal says I can’t even get laid in hollywood? Good news, I’d be afraid of what I’d catch.
OMFG, is this some kind of right wing website hosted through an old folks home? The majority of you sound like the last movie you saw was “The Sound Of Music” and probably haven’t watched the Oscars® since 1966. And WTF does politics have to do with the show anyways? Get back to life and watch repeats of “The Honeymooners.”
These overpaid people will be eating potatoes wrapped in gold leaf and caviar that costs $89 an ounce. Makes me wonder what these spoiled, pampered folks ever do for others without getting paid. The fact that the writer’s strike has this year’s program tanking shows that the actors and actresses are helpless without someone to write their words for them. And yet people care what they think about global concerns.
It’s pretty tedious hearing spoiled, overpaid pretenders indulging in simplistic anti-American rantings. Imagine the hysterical response if someone had the stones to point out that the US was “trying” to do good in the world.
Who wants to watch a bunch of card carrying commies strut around showing off their money and their drug habits? Look who they want to be President: a woman with low IQ who believes in the global warming fraud, and Obama who talks a lot and says nothing useful. I hope no one watches this show.
Wow…. for a bunch of right wingers who could care less about the Oscars, you sure came out in full force to demonstrate how much you really do care about the Oscars, and I have no doubt you will be tuning in, praying that some actor makes a political statement.
I’m sure you won’t be disappointed either. The nominees include your favorite, Michael Moore, and his film “Sicko”, which shows how working families are going bankrupt from our health care system, and “No End In Sight” which interviews members of the Defense Department, and the Bush Administration who show how the top levels of the Bush Administration made the worst decisions of US foreign policy, in American history. I’m sure you’ll be referring to these war heroes, and career military servicemen and women as “Osama lovers”, and “Commies” soon enough.
I have no doubt that if President Bush came out tomorrow and proclaimed that he looted the national treasury for himself and his friends, and that he’ll be laughing all the way to the bank in Dubai, you Bushbots would still want to have a beer with him because, after all, that’s the most important quality in a President.
I love how some of you will be showing us your “anti-Hollywood” stance by watching other TV shows tonight. FYI, watching reruns of “Chuck” and then the Simpsons is supporting Hollywood too, so they thank you for your continued support.
And EmmaLee, it is you who are wrong. People are going to the movies more than ever. Paying ridiculous prices unfortunately, but that is due to people who would rather steal the film than go to the theater, but that’s a diatribe for another time. Liberal crap is doing quite well, and if you don’t think anyone is making any happy stories anymore then you didn’t see “Juno”, and you really should.
Does anyone TRULY care about the Academy Awards?
It doesn’t make me more likely to watch a particular movie or actor.
Besides, do we really need 19 or so award shows for these people to pat themselves on their backs and inflate their egos at the same time?
America has a message for you Hollywood:
Fuck You.
Nikki, I know you love getting the increased hit counts when Drudge links to your stories, but, personally, I think you’re doing yourself and your site a huge disservice when this is the type of response your blogs get.
Most of the commenters here are posting histrionic rants that have little to do with the actual Oscars themselves, and I wonder if most of these comments aren’t actually coming from only one or two people who get off on seeing their bizarre ravings onscreen.
The big elephant in the room is that the entertainers today, for the most part, are totally irrelevent. Of course there are some that swim against the leftist, progressive, liberal (or whatever other pseudonym for communism they are using today) tide and are really love America. We know whoi they are.
As for the rest, we all enjoy some of their work, but disagree with their hate America first attitudes. Penn, Sarandan, Sheen, Robbins, O’Donnell, Moore, Depp, etc. etc. etc. tiems too many to list…
Hey, Hollywood!!! SHUT UP AND ACT! SHUT UP and SING! SHUT UP and DANCE! That’s all most of you are good for, anyway. (If that)
Unidicted Co-conspiritor, you had it exactly right! I am a nut who got here from Drudge Report (dontcha luv em)
I thought your points and suggestions were right on the money. Read his post Hollywood mucketymucks.
I’m still excited for the awards and WILL BE WATCHING for the whole show, starting with the red carpet on E!
The rest of you – lighten up. Here’s a tip, if you hate the Hollywood opinions – IGNORE THEM! They have the right to be wrong just like you do.
Movies are about something else entirely, separate the two!
This is good stuff, very much enjoyed the comments. Yeah, people are pretty much sick of hollyweird and have very little respect for these people, not like the old days when some of these people actually had an ounce of class. No I will not watch as they use the Oscars to bad mouth America and the troops, it makes me sick. I would be happier if Chavez sponsored the event and they all went down there and glamourized Fidel together. If we were lucky the whole thing would not be brodcast in the free world. Don’t watch this crap, do something with family or friends.
Are you just against movies that actually require audiences to THINK?….by Mark
I am sorry but I do not go to the movies to be lectured. What good is a movie if you have to watch several itmes to understand it? I go to the movies to be entertained not given a message. To laugh or cry. To enjoy the banter if a comedy and to be excited to see what happens to the survivors of a disaster. Often to try and figure out the answer to the mystery before it unfolds.
I only get these simple pleasures when I watch my tapes and DVDs now. Therefore, it is sad for me I suppose, but I hardly know any of the actors that are famous now. Altho I do have to say how can so many young peope be so famous when they have only been around for such a short time? That does baffle me.
I have been a movie fan for over about 60 years and sure do miss the real movie stars and the magazines that used to be published about them. And they didn’t trash the stars like the several “rags” out there today.
I think there might be interest in an awards show if it were based on retired actors, supporting actors, character actors. The people that time has forgotten and that used to entertain us tremendously without any fanfare!!! Please someone let them know how much we enjoyed them and that we haven’t forgotten them!!!
I love watching jealous and impotent losers whining about “un-American” this and “family values” that. This is their night, not yours. That’s right, it’s their party so if you don’t like it then don’t watch. But you WILL watch. And just because someone is in the entertainment business doesn’t mean they suddenly put their citizenship into mothballs. They have as much right to proclaim their political beliefs as you, an ignorant preacher or a drug addled gas bag right-wing radio host. I’m starting to love Oscar season more and more and not because of the actors or the spectacle, I love it because it brings out all the losers and wannabes that never had the looks, the class, or the smarts to get to the top. You know, RepubliKKKans.
“Hollywood is full of dirty old men who want to strip stupid women of their clothes and decency…it’s all about the sex.”
Yes & there are actresses who are more than happy to oblige. Nicole Kidman comes first to my mind.
“I won’t be watching. Pulled the TV plug back in 2000. Never felt better. Much to do about nothing.”
I did the same in 01. Don’ miss it at all.
Haven’t watched the wretched excess of the show for years and have no plans to watch tonight. I don’t have any interest in these shallow people or their product. Good books are much better.
Turn the TV off.
It lowers IQ.
It wastes your time.
It propagandizes you into a managable steer in the herd.
The industry is insidious, its products calculated, and it is the front lines of the true enemy of these united states.
Right-wingers should not call liberals “haters.” We should call them by their correct name, IDIOTS!
Let us have a moment of silence to remember how broken up the nation is…there done.
Now lets have a party to laugh our asses off and watch films that contain real actors, when the actors loved the country and the soldiers that made it possible for their profession to even exist.
You folks are hilarious. Wow. Amazing that America has become a Wal-Mart $5 bin-watching populous. I suppose since most of you haven’t seen the Best Picture nominees, that you opted instead for the Hannah Montana movie. Yes, movie…not film. Unfortunately for you, you missed out on some of the best films that have been produced in the last 10 years. No Country, There Will Be Blood, Atonement, and unfortunately not nom’d Assassination of Jesse James. Daniel Day Lewis turned in one of the best performances ever committed to celluloid, but it doesn’t matter to you. You wouldn’t understand the plot anyway. There are no flashback explanations at the end, and no quick editing.
Go back to your reality shows. Go back to your steroid-infused sports. Just get the hell out of my theater with your cell phone, k?
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most actors are just that- they are not scholars- they just entertain us–don’t really care about what they think– most are anti-american and cannot even understand why they are able to say and do what they want– Americans have died for them –most Dems are in la la land and want to be taken care of. God help us if one of them get in office!
Comment by william — February 22, 2008 @ 6:02 pm”
Ronald Regan.
I love the movies. I love the Oscars…and I’m a libertarian leaning Republican.
I don’t care what the Hollywood types say about politics you know why? Because I don’t listen to them.
If you don’t enjoy great films and would rather wax nostalgic about things that never were go ahead.
There were some great movies made this year and just because you live in some backwater doesn’t give you an excuse to trash all of hollywood and the movies it produces.
Go Oscar!
Actress Candace Kita could star in a film called “The Dictionary” in which she did nothing but read the dictionary and I would vote to give her the Oscar. That girl can act! See her clips on Youtube.
Nobody really gives a rats fat fanny about all this back slapping hoopla anyway. The network could do themselves a favor, and limit the broadcast section to one hour to present the “Best” awards that the public has any interest in, and leave the other two hours to the la la crowd.
A year w/o an oscar cast would have been the best thing for this limp, hideous overproduction.
Some of the comments from Conservatives proves they do
not like to think. They just follow like the people in
Germany did with Hitler in the 30’s.
Movies that make you think are what this years Oscars
are about a threat to the conservative mind.
Who gives a rats a$$?????? I wouldn’t cross a street to see ANY of these so-called celebrities. They are all morons.
I’m going to be on the red carpet this evening. Give me some questions to ask of some of the “stars” and I’ll do it.
Nikki – How much could you pay Drudge to never link here again?
It’s amazing to me how many people who have no interest in the Oscars would click on a link to an article about, and then discuss … the Oscars.
Well, responding to this guy here …
“WoW! They hate us-they really really hate us!
Are all the troll posters here from some right wing political rally or nutty church group?…People feel free to speak about their political beliefs and they do-why not?
I can promise you shaking insecure souls that Hollywood doesn’t hate you or make fun of you, most of us don’t think about you at all-ever.. We cannot destroy America in any way as we are only a small group of people,some make up and costumes, and a giant mirror that we hold up to you and while you look at yourself- we tell you story. so-don’t hate us cause we really don’t care-there are amazing films made every year-you apparently don’t see them. oh, one other thing-I can tell by your tones-none of you would ever get laid here-so there really is no reason to even visit. sorry.”
…just about says it all. Okay, coming from someone who ISN’T a Republican, and someone who isn’t a part of some nutty church group (like say, Scientology or Kabbalah or whatnot) well, the sheer arrogance of this poster is quite illuminating.
The main ideas here that really, REALLY need to be rebutted are these: The “people feel free to speak about their political beliefS”. Hmm. Well, the problem with that is that the only real disagreement in political beliefs is who are they voting for, Obama or Hillary? Somehow, the Hollywood political groupthink seems to be so strong, no one there even realizes it, and THAT is what many outside the Hollywood elite system are referring to. For a bunch of overpaid parrots who complain that there isn’t enough diversity in america, there’s frighteningly little mental diversity inside Hollywood.
Also, the idea that Hollywood doesn’t think about the hoi polloi … ever. Well, perhaps if they did, they’d be making more money, huh? Kind of an odd thing to admit to when your entire business is based off of making movies that people will want to see.
Also, considering the sheer number of STD’s running about in Hollywood, I wouldn’t WANT to get laid there! You have keep Britney, Paris, and Lindsey, I’ll keep my g/f, thankyewverymuch!
Rather watch the election and see Hillary Clinton Winning!
Who the hell cares about Hollywood and their concerns? So these assholes have to get their $1000 shoes wet?? This is news..how sad. We got guys in the Middle East taking mortal shells and this whole country cares about if George Clooney is upset b/c of the weather.
What a bunch of whining losers!
You people really need to stop whining so much and get a LIFE!
No one cares what you think!
Did anyone watch the Grammy’s? My beef is that they handed out the Career Achievement Awards like discarded Kleenex tissues. The likes of Cab Calloway and Doris Day were given short-shrift and were presented in such a shoddy fashion as if to proclaim – “We have to do this but were not really in to it.” It was sad that the Grammy’s had so little respect for its past on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
As far as the Oscar go, 2007 marked the centennial of the birth of John Wayne – perhaps the most popular movie star of all time. Whether you like him or not, the guy has stood the test of time and when people like George Clooney don’t even rank, John Wayne is still consistently listed among the top-ten favorite movie stars by the annual Harris Poll.
The guy’s been dead since 1979 and he still ranks within the top ten – what legendary or current film star can boast that? If Oscar doesn’t tip his hat to the “Duke” in a significant manner I say all hope is lost for the Academy Awards as a once classy affair.
I never would have came here if it wasnt for the Drudge Report. For you regulars who frequent here you are seeing the true opinion of hollywood by everyday americans. I hope Hollywood sinks into the ocean.
Hollywood minds are much more worldly in their global thinking. We should be more tolerant and extend an olive branch of hope to the islamist friends whom are only trying to help lead us away from our terrible neocon ways. We should ask the UN if it’s OK with them for us to donate the land now used by hollywood to the palestinians or some other poor group we offend. Wouldn’t that be special? And let’s not forget free cheese for everyone. Oh hear comes my nurse see you at the Oscar’s.
Every time one of these airhead Actors — most of whom are Dumber than Dirt—pipes up and tries to force their political views on me — I scratch them off my list.
My list is now down to John Wayne and Stewy Griffin —and Stewy is on the fence right now!
let’s see, how can I put this,,,,WHO CARES!
2007 was a fantastic year for film. We really loved “There will be blood” and hope it gets several Oscar’s.
Film and the Oscar’s are just a form of entertainment and I think it is funny how people get so serious in knocking the industry. Film is part of our culture.
If everybody here hates movies and Hollywood so much then why do you even bother to post here…oh, you just followed the link from drudge and you’re bitter. Do us all a favor and go and watch your crappy reality shows or something: “You’re fired.”
All I know when Hollywood did a movie based on the 50’s sitcom “Car 54, where are you?”…I knew that there never a reason to see a movie again. Listening to the “actors”…who are told what to wear, where to stand and what to say…give us any of their views on the world issues…is, at best, insane. Now that the writers’ strike is over maybe they can start putting rational words into their vacant and void persona…
Hollywood used to be comprised of talented, original, interesting, beautiful, patriotic people filled with the American spirit. They worked hard for their money making films that entertained us, made us laugh, made us cry, made us feel proud to live in this country…and made us love them.
Stop for a moment and look around. Aside from a Bullock, a Ford, a Quaid, a Roberts, a Jude, a Law, a Washington, a Barrymore, a Grant, a young Sutherland, and a few other class acts I know I could list, what have you got in Hollywood today?
I would suggest you have overpaid, self indulgent, unintelligent, well made-up losers sucking life out of a grand tradition for their own gratification…and little else. Takers…riding on the talents, thoughts, and good will established by years of brilliant manufacture of the one thing that became legend…great films. Proof is in the films and people nominated this year. Aside from a humorous look at premature sex and pregnancy, what have you got? Do any make you proud to be free and living in America? Do they amaze you with their wit, their grand scope, their original plot, their sheer uplifting and blatant joy at simply being alive?
Somewhere out there tonight, I pray there is a man or a woman, or a child that slipped by the clinic and was born, who will see the potential gold mine that restoring Hollywood to it’s former position of originality and moral standing could be. Fresh faces, fresh stories, laughs and tears, chills and scares, big adventures, and true stories told. The pattern exists…it was called Hollywood.
Hope does nothing. Action gets things done. I am but one person expressing my views, my saddness, my wishes, my disgust. So, what can I do? First, I don’t have to watch tonight. Second, I can make sure my dollar doesn’t go to support losers.
Who wants to tune in to watch 4 hours of left wing political propaganda? I’m not interested in anything these loons have to say. If they would go back to entertaining and leave their political views at home, maybe people whould go to the movies more often. I get ill looking at the likes of Streisand and Clooney.
I think George C. Scott said it best when he referred to this event as “a meat parade”. As important as these people might be, they are not as important as they think they are.
The Oscars? Tonight? Sorry, busy. Sock drawer is a mess. I think Jon Stewart is funny, Colbert would be a better one, or even the trio of Colbert, Stewart and O’Brien that were wicked good during the glorious break from writers. The only way this show will make history is if one of the many pregnant celebrities go into labor mid-cast.
Too bad the strike didn’t last until the 25th.
Its time to quit beating a dead horse. Let the oscars rest in peace, because frankly dear I dont give a damn.
I love the way pro-Hollywood liberals on this blog can’t stand it that others disagree with them. We don’t like anti-American, Bush-bashing actors getting up and making politcal speeches at the Oscars. Is that so hard to understand? Somehow you think you own this blog spot and that the comments that YOU don’t agree with are surely mandated by someone other than the sender. This is how arrogant and elitist you are. Yes, this is America and you are free to speak your mind but in your estimation yu can only do that if it is left wing nonsense. Because if you actually go to the movies, study film, read about and enjoy film making and film theory and all aspects of film, you MUST be a Liberal. If you are a Republican and love your country, hate Fidel and Hugo and basically have a brain, all the Liberals tell you you are not supposed to be here on this Hollywood blog site because you are not cool enough. Well, I was cool and watching movies and getting an education long before most of you little pinkos were born. I have seen the whole deal go down in Hollywood and this bunch of lemmings are a sorry lot. As I said before to the actors PLEASE make a (good) movie, bank your cash and SHUT and UP about politics. We don’t want to hear it. No one wants to hear it. And Jon Stewart is really just so insecure that he cannot even use his own last name and doesn’t even respect HIS own people in Israel. Hypocrite!!! That’s what they all are. So show us how green and how left and how intellectual you all are tonight. Most people won’t watch after the Michael Moore and Gore awards last time. (Please gag me) Why on earth would you give Michael Moore an award for anything? Disgusting liar, who rides around in limos and sends his kids to the most exclusive schools and has the nerve to pretend to be everyman. He’s a rich loud mouth. That’s all. He doesn’t know anymore about health care or 911 than other people. He just craves attention and bashing America is the way to get it. Once again hatred for the country and the President have rendered the Hollywood lefts retarded. Just goes to show that they don’t have to work hard enough because if they did they wouldn’t have time to pal around with Hugo and Fidel. Jeez, I can’t stand it. Can just one of you stand up and say Thank God for America and all that we do for the rest of the world? Would it KILL you to be proud of all the aid and humanitarian works that America has done? I guess if it’s not all about YOU then you can’t acknowledge it. It would be so lovely to hear someone who is normal up there tonight saying something positive about our country.
I can no longer bring myself to watch the Oscars. Who wants to spend a nice Sunday evening watching a bunch of self-important industry people celebrate themselves with a boring awards ceremony? The arrogance is unbelievable… I cannot believe this farce is actually televised.
It doesn’t help that the Academy can’t even nominate the right movies.
Regardless, Bollywood has better product than Hollywood.
Who cares about the Academy Awards?
I’ll be watching the third installment of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” on PBS’ Masterpiece Theater.
The only award I care about is the documentaries. I hope “Taxi From the Dark Side” wins.
Hollywood is a giant scam. Overpaid actors, writers, directors and producers scamming money from the people who can least afford to pay for movie tickets. They have no shame. The actors live in a fantasy world, they have no concept of reality and they couldn’t conceive of having a normal life. Don’t even mention thinking for themselves.
What a relief as a Canadian it is to read the comments about Hollyweird (majority).
Honestly, we were getting worried that middle America was getting swallowed up whole!!
Wow, get a link from Drudge report and you can see that there are a lot of JEALOUS Americans who would trade their spouses to be living the Hollywood life.
However, in the meantime, they view us as American hating, troop bashing homosexuals. I love they take the time to voice their uneducated opinions that they formulated by watching Fox News.
Newflash – many of us in Hollywood work hard for a living – day in, day out – and enjoy it. Not all of us are million dollar players. And many of us enjoy it. God forbid we earn a living and have a good time doing it! We are SO UN-AMERICAN!
Also, have any of you actually seen some of the nominees this year? There are good films and good performances to be seen! Turn off Laura Ingram and get to the movie theaters. It’s not all the crap you’ve been told it is. Think for yourselves, you mindless zombies!
Please…
A bullshit show produced, written, etc., etc., by bullshit people doing bullshit movies, 99% of which are totally depraved with not much more than violence, brutality, exploding bloodpacks, heads and limbs flying off, ad nauseum.
No group of people could be less important but unfortunately have more PR impact that these Hollywood wanker clowns.
Between Sarandon, Moore, Robbins, Degenerate, and the entirely talentless Combs and West, we are served up a platefull of shit from every direction.
The hell with all of them. I’ll check out movies from the P2P net *first* and when I find one worthwhile, MAYBE then I’ll invest in the 7.50 stale popcorn to view it on screen.
Other than that, bite me.
Disrespectfully,
/E
If you “won’t be watching”, “pulled the plug on the TV in 2000″ or “haven’t gone to see a movie in ten years” why are you posting a comment or bothering to read a story about the Oscars? Nothing else to complain about today? Very strange.
So who cares if the Hollywood elite are ignored? Most of these misfits, many of whom seem to know just how to fix everything, just barely escaped from high school.
They spend their careers pretending to be someone else(like a lot of politicians) and then try to show us how intelligent they are. The Hollywood elite are just a small pimple on the posterior of our country. Wouldn’t care if they all just faded away.
the mutual admiration society has finally hit critical mass. there are so many awards and award shows now that it has all become pretty meaningless…
Hollywood’s day is coming to an end. Ridiculous movies, horrible actors, greedy and exploitive movie houses….stick a fork in it.
No one cares what hollywood has to say about themselves. What a bunch worthless characters who have nothing worthwhile to add to America.
Maybe if the Hollywood actors kept their noses out of politics things might go better for them.
I hear enogh about politis without getting the opinion of some dinbat actress shoved in my face.
Johnny Depp is only one reason to watch this years Oscars. He’s a fine actor who always gives a very memorable performance. He doesn’t take his good fortune for granted as he is very generous with his time and money by helping ill children. Fatherhood and family life have certainly given him purpose and direction. I enjoy seeing him with soul mate Vanessa but wish he’d bring his Dad along like he did with his Mom last time he was nominated for Best Actor as Captain Jack Sparrow. Please let us see the rest of the gene pool.
I won’t be watching , what with the hollywood moonbats and their America Bashing Pres Bush hating agenda,,, their linacy with Green limos, the Globalphobia and the elitist mentally challenged …..
This has been a very good year for films. Most of the nominees are excellent. I will watch the Awards because of this, & because there are no more dance numbers, & because Stewart is hosting. If you are a right wing conservative nut-job, don’t watch. If you think Hollywood and liberals are un-American, you really need to F-off. Oh, and There Will Be Blood is the best picture of the year.
Response to p3. I don’t watch Laura Ingram. I don’t take my words from anyone but my own conscience. I didn’t say ANYTHING about homosexuals and I resent your inference that because I don’t want to watch people bash our country and our President in front of the whole world that I don’t know anything about anything. No one told me to go to any website and I don’t form opinions because of what talk show hosts on the radio and the TV say. This is how “YOU” justify “MY” politics. Of course we are too stupid and uneducatedno to share your left wing elitist mentality. I DO LOVE MOVIES. I go to two or three films a week. I love to read about scripts and have been to several film festivals and attended forums with directors and screenplay writers and PAID a lot of money that I earned working hard to do this. That is why I don’t want or need someone in the entertainment business to get involved in my politics. You assume I am a homophobe and probably a racist. Well, sorry not so. I do have a lot of friends who work in Hollywood though, and they are ALL liberals. You say that we are jealous of Hollywood. PULEESE. That is exactly what makes you an elitist ignoramous. No one wants to be you or be like you or be an actor in Hollywood and if I did, I would have pursued that. You think your life in Hollywood as hard as you work, is what we all aspire to becaue we dare criticize the anti-American politics out there. It’s just not true. Sorry, do your thing and live out your politics but LET me alone to do it also. I have much respect for talent and hard work not so much for any American who denegrates his own country. I think Alex Baldwin is one of the best and funniest actors around. But he has the nerve to tell me how I should THINK.I used to LOVE Danny Glover. What the hell? Is he a person? What is he thinking? I paid a lot of money a few years ago to go see Sean Penn being honored for a Modern Master award. I wish I could get it back, because soon after he made an idiot out of himself by going over to Iraq and then of course he just had to go SAVE New Orleans and bash President Bush. I thought he was a really interesting and talented actor. I still think he’s talented but I won’t pay a dime to see him. Again what is so hard about understanding that MOST Americans don’t want to hear Hollywood stars tell them how much they hate America and the President and how we are so evil? I just do not understand this. you have no idea how I will vote or what position I take on issues but because I do not like left wing nonsense you assume I am just stupid. That is really the height of arrogance and denial. Not everyone agrees with all of you. Get over it. We have a right to our opinions and the majority of the posts here confirm that WE DON’T WANT POLITICS MIXED WITH SHOWBIZ. Hint-if we don’t PAY to go to the movies then none of you make money so stop insulting our intelligience and say Thank you for the 30 bucks I spend a week paying your salaries.
PJ is the typical liberal. Doesn’t like what is said by someone so he/she resorts to
a) bashing Fox News or
b) bashing Bush or
c) calling someone a racist
I see he/she chose (a) this time around. Well done. Now go back and get your marching orders from DailyKos for tomorrow’s posts.
The fact is that most Hollywood people do hate America, the troops, and want nothing more than to see us fail in Iraq.
You’ll never hear them thank a member of the military tonight, because that directly contradicts what those genius Hollywood actors would rather be doing and, not coincidentally, what they also happen to do best: which is spitting on military soldiers. (While their body guards are hovering nearby, of course!)
The Academy awards are no longer relevant. To many dummies saying dumb things and being applauded by an audience of even dumber people.
PS P Diddy is talentless and seems like a real A***Hole.
Who are the people that post the nonsense on this blog? If you don’t like the Oscars or don’t care, it’s fascinating that you’re reading this article in the first place. If you are complaining about the movies nominated, you’re hopeless. In the meantime, bring on the Oscars!
In terms of worldwide viewing figures in the last year, in the UK the show was moved from the BBC to the subscription-only, Murdoch-owned Sky network the same year Stewart presented for the first time. There are a lot of us who would love to watch the ceremony but no longer have the option. While it would not single handedly explain the drop in figures this kind of thing certainly has a significant impact.
To those of you asking why anyone would comment on the Oscars if they don’t care:
I haven’t watched the Oscars, or any awards show for that matter since somewhere around 1990. I go to movies. I buy music. I watch TV. I don’t however care about award shows.
And still I am interested in the goings on of the world around me. I will never fly a space shuttle but I am interested in what NASA does. I will never run for president but I am interested in who wins. I will never play in the NFL but I like to read the sports pages.
And I will probably never watch the Oscars again, but I am interested in news about the Oscars.
Can you self-absorbed morons follow that logic or do I need to spell it out even more for you?
Hollywood should BE AFRAID—very very AFRAID
the smug arrogance of the pro-Hollywood comments here astound me
YOUR PAYING AUDIENCE TELLS YO THEY ARE FED UP WITH YOUR PRODUCT–and what’s your response: “neo-con, hillbilly, knuckledraggers, etc”
I can’t think of any industry that intentionally spits in the face of HALF its paying customers and still demand $20 million for b-listers no one cares about…and guess what? people can watch your crappy product for free now
William Goldman (a lib) warned about this @ 10 years ago, he said something to the effect that Hollwyodd should be worried when less and less people care about the Oscars—because the next thing you know–it will become a pop culture relic and irrelevant…..and the people coming over from Drudge are just pointing out their views about the product Hollywood churns out—and what does one responder say “Let’s nuke the heartland” WAY to show off that fabled liberal “tolerance” dude
The Oscars–if it continues down this path of nominating movies that only film crtics in L.A. and Manhattan like will go the way of Miss America and The Tonys
MOVIES were initially an ESCAPIST FORM of entertainment…once they drunk the well of elitist snobbery—you flout it origin
anyway to the smug, yet CLUELESS pro-Hollywood defenders—keep referring to us disgruntled customers as “knuckle dragging drudge neo-cons, blah blah blah”
can you imagine GM making a crappy car–then half its customer base complains about the vehicles—then GM replies with: if you don’t like it then you’re just neo-con slime—WE DON’T CARE
well that’s what Hollywood is doing
keep going dudes….the day you have Hannah Montana as presenter to give yourself some cred: that’s the day your imminent demise has begun
enjoy the self congratulatory 4 hour circle jerk
Jon Stewart sucks! His idea of comedy is to SHOUT his punchline – everytime. He’s on the same level as that idiot C-lister Bill Mayer. His annoying act grows tired after two minutes. Billy Crystal and Steve Martin are wise to stay away from this boring old show.
this is not real life who cares
Hollywood is so over! And has been for the last few years. As someone who grew up in L.A. I welcome the decline. It’s about time people started rebuffing these self-congratulatory parades of vanities.
If you want to know part of what killed the Oscars, it’s the barrage of other awards shows we’ve been forced to suffer through. If it was JUST the Oscars–a once a year televised event, we might still be able to get a little excited. But a new awards show every month for a bunch of idiots who are hardly curing Cancer is insulting.
Looks like Hollywood has finally succeeded in alienating enough of the picture going population to the point where no one really gives a hoot who wins what out there in Lala land. These people are so far removed from those who used to pay to see their pictures that they may as well be from Jupiter.
This years motion pictures were about as good as I ever remember. Tommy Lee Jones gave a remarkable performance and the producer made an immense statement on the war in Iraq in “The Valley of Elah”, George Clooney was fabulous and the producer once again made a very relevant statement on corporate greed in America in “Michael Clayton, Ellen Page was nothing short of fabulous in “Juno”, Daniel Day Lewis’ performance in “Let There Be Blood” was legendary, “No Country for Old Men” kept me on the edge of my seat, and my wife made me see “Atonement” a second time it was so good. 2007 was a great year for movies!
And PJ expresses the problem very well – we are mindless and uneducated to him and yet they want us to spend $10-$15 for a ticket to their product. What industry can survive with such contempt for its clients. For the record, I love Hollywood movies – I just don’t love Hollywood and I don’t have the patience for the Oscars. And if you don’t want we, the dregs who come in from the Drudge link, take the link off Drudge if you want “insider” only comments – but a smart industry would listen very carefully to what the customer is saying – because none of those Oscar nominated movies made very much at the box office, and a gold statue isn’t going to boost the bottom line on them either. I only saw one of them, admittedly, and a lot of my favorites were short on nods – and that is everything from the very explicit “Eastern Promises” with V. Mortensen’s exceptional performance, to the underappreciated “Bella”. But the fact is, if I had seen the stars from those movies spouting politics on the circuit, I would have been a lot less likely to see their films – you can agree or not with it, you can characterize me however you want, but the fact is, I’ll be same place as Abbywood – watching the top notch “Pride and Prejudice” on PBS.
It is somewhat revealing, and to an extent disturbing,to absorb certain posts above which deride many counter point positions on the Oscars (the majority of which are from posters who are primarily frustrated with the endless remakes,sequels,comic book theme marketing to 13 year old boys genre,as opposed to the unsolicited parroting of personal views) as being “right-wing” “Fox news” “Drudge” “Church” motivated in nature.
Precisely the type of “into the box” thinking which has come to epitomize the presumptive,elitist,arrogant Hollywood which has usurped the kingdom of it’s former glory. People vote with their feet and a change of product theme,direction on behalf of the moguls and studios will ultimately come to fruition. Of course that probably won’t occur until after “Ocean’s 14″,
and those who choose not to waste an evening spending $60 for a family of four,in order to taste such a refried dish,will no doubt be labeled: “close minded” “enemies of the arts.” Hilarious!
For many many years, I thought I was the strange one for not watching award shoes, including the Oscars. I could never understand why anyone would waste some of the time they have on this earth watching overpaid people break into a sweat while they tell each other what great humanitarians they are and how privileged the world is to be able to bask in their glory.
PJ says
“Turn off Laura Ingram and get to the movie theaters. It’s not all the crap you’ve been told it is.”
I tried that last week. Result? Movies are still the crap they have been for the last few years. “America bad”, “Bush bashing”, “Military a bunch of crazy killers” “people who believe in God are stupid” “Big companies evil”, ETC, ETC, ETC! I for one am a proud American.
Oscars? What are the Oscars? does anyone really watch this stuff?
JEALOUS!!!
I can see people having a cynical view of movies the last decade or so, but the vitriol people have towards Hollywood these days is kinda laughable.
I do think the anti-American stuff from the likes of Micheal Moore is stale and gives the whole of Hollywood a bad image.
But I’d put up Vince Vaughn, Will Farrell, Steve Carrell, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson and many of the movies they’ve made up there with the best comedies ever.
That being said, I do think the push for Brokeback Mountain a couple years back was nauseating. A slap in the face to traditional family values and a reason why so many distaste the Hollywood mindset.
Nikki,
It may matter a bit who the Master of Ceremonies is at this show – but in order to get a decent audience, movies which average American’s like me watch is what will do the trick. Not some George Clooney loser movie or some dark art film. Sorry.
Most movies today will not be in “That’s Entertainment II”. The reason – they’re not entertainment, but a “statement” of some kind or other. I get enough politics and propaganda elsewhere – from people who actually graduated from high school.
Why does no one care? Why will the ratings be the lowest?
No one wants to hear George Clooney and his anti American goons go off about the President while REAL AMERICANS are fighting the enemy. REAL MEN are not at the Oscars. Hollywood is in a dream land, full of the Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears, Lohan tragic cases that blast us daily — why would be sit down with our precious time to watch you accept awards for movies that are not worth it while at the same time spew your rants against the government or turn it into a political rally for Hillary?
Enough is enough.
Give me a good season of Survivor or Project Runway with REAL people, I would much rather watch.
Pull your heads out of your ### Hollywood, no one CARES.
I have never seen so many so called ‘people’ so out of touch with reality than those who make up the so called Hollywood elite! Nothing but pure garbage has come from Hollywood in the last few decades, as for spending my hard earned money in a movie theater, you got to be kidding me! My dog has more talent coming out of his rear end than anything I’ve seen lately coming off of the ’silver screen’!!!!
I don’t get an award when I get my “TPS reports” done on time. Why should Hollywood stroke itself continuously for simply doing their job? Dear, get a clue.
For people who supposedly couldn’t care less about the entertainment industry, you’ve built up a LOT of hate. Maybe you should talk to a therapist. (Oh wait, they’re all liberal sissy pinkos. Scratch that.) Nobody’s forcing you to turn on a TV tonight. Chill.
It seems odd that Jon Stewart gets such a brush-off from some of yr commentators. He’s enjoyed here in the UK one of the most amusing pundits on TV…how come youse guys haven’t heard of him? Wake up…
Empty seats is what that place needs…No reason to even watch the trash coming out of Hollywood. No reason at all.
Hi. I’m jJ.
I’m the epitamy of the warm, loving and compassionate liberal left that dominates hollywood.
Yes, that’s right. We are warm, loving and tolerent all right.
As long as you agree with us that is.
Otherwise we’ll skewer you a new asshole like I did above and than blame it on Drudge.
You see, we have to blame it on someone because for the life of us, we are such incredible assholes it is beyond our grasp to contemplate that there are vast groups of people out who despise hollywood for what it has become – a Hate America First bastion of the moronic, pathetic and shit for brains.
Don’t ever expect us to get that. Instead just watch us blame blame blame.
We will never take a look inward. The closest we come to doing so is to pat ourselves on the back for being the purveyors of hate – hating everything that isn’t us. Just look at some of the greats we have produced:
1. Jane Fonda – all time greatest American hating c*nt.
2. Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins – all time greatest pathetic liberals to ever set foot in an eco car on the way to the Oscars then – like the hypocritical sacks of shit they are – fly home to their multimillion dollar mansion with the 30,000 ton carbon footprint.
We are the worlds biggest hypocrits.
In closing may we request you all bow your heads for the starving in Africa (then just go back to whatever you were doing – we don’t really give a f&ck either – it’s just to help us feel good about ourselves).
And don’t forget to support the troops yet oppose the war – only the truly f*cking ignorant like us could come up with something that stupid to begin with since we are the only idiots too stupid to see how moronic that really sounds!
Pathetically yours,
pJ (isn’t it also cool how I drop my first initial to lowercase – don’t you wish you could be as cool as me! Oh god I just love myself… )
What’s an Oscar? (That’s satire, folks.)
Seriously, who cares? These people have even less substance than politicians or “reporters”.
If you “won’t be watching”, “pulled the plug on the TV in 2000″ or “haven’t gone to see a movie in ten years” why are you posting a comment or bothering to read a story about the Oscars? Nothing else to complain about today? Very strange.
Comment by Say What — February 24, 2008 @ 10:58 am
It entirely possible that, by the simple act of unplugging the TV, we who no longer worship the gods of hollywood have far more to say about this subject and WAY more time to study, contemplate and construct complex thoughts than the average boob tuber, otherwise
known as a couch potato.
Oh, this is tragic. My reasons for not watching the Oscars are very simple. I’m a conservative. My values and beliefs have been consistently ridiculed by the self-apointed enlightened ones in Hollywood for years. Therefore, I have no interest in watching as they congratulate themselves at a party that I’m not invited to. How narcissistic and fragile these people are. Reject me and I reject you. It’s that simple, only my livelihood doesn’t depend on those I reject. Take care, and get used to saying, “You want fries with that?”
I’m disappointed with this year’s films (one of the main points in the article) because they are dark, dreary, pessimistic, and “intellectual” (which is a code word for depressing and not particularly well-plotted). The current industry climate is a kind of choking fog, with studio executives terrified to greenlight anything that isn’t a 2nd or 3rd sequel, a hedge-your-bets genre film, an 8MM or under indie, or a ham-fisted literary or comic book adaptation. What has happened to the exuberant, positive, original, emotionally and viscerally felt big-budget movie that Hollywood made so well for so long? Hollywood, you are shifting to European sensibilities and, in doing so, are losing your American audience. Yes, those yokels in the red fly-over states.
While I don’t think the majority of these comments are helpful (”Har Har! Hollyweird sux! Dems are Stupid!”), they speak to a general malaise out there. I would hope that much of the sentiment is tough love, and that those who shun Hollywood now would embrace it should it return to its “glory days.” For the unredeemable haters , I would suggest you go back to tinkering with the old Dodge in your garage, or hunting quail, or playing poker, and stop posting.
I stopped watching after a song “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” won an Oscar.
who cares, Holy wood does not represent what AMERICA thinks or likes …. what bunch of losers you are,!
The Oscars. A self-aggrandizing parade of no-talent, uneducated morons who work in an industry that continually produces a substandard product. These people (including obnoxious pinheads like Stewart) consider themselves experts on everything from the environment to politics. Low ratings??? What a shock.
Worst…Oscars…Ever.
Hollywood people have been expressing their views for years. This is an opportunity for the rest of the country to express their views about Hollywood’s views and Hollywood lovers can’t handle it. They think that free speech is only for them.
Warms my heart to see so many comments deservedly bashing Hollyweird. I’ve been turned off by elitist limosine liberals stupidly bragging that they are “carbon neutral” and such for many years. The millions wasted on this ego orgy should go toward helping others. I totally forgot Algore got one of these, shows ya!
I just learned that the Academy Awards show will be on TV tonight. Oops! Sorry but I haven’t got time to watch. Come to think of it I haven’t been to a moview theater in over two years. Have I missed anything?
Best
Wow. Everyone before me said it clearly enough.
Hollywood Sucks.
Movie Stars suck.
Political Agendas thinly disguised as movies suck.
The Oscars Suck.
‘Nuff said.
How many of these freaks are gonna comment on Obama or Hillary? Why do I need to hear these over paid, talentless, jerks tell me what “I” should be for politically. Get a real job!
It’s great how many true actors are shunned by these losers. Where’s a great actor and guy like Tom Selleck at these events? Maybe Chuck Norris could show up??
So,.. what’s to watch? Seemingly hours of mutual butt-smootching? Hollywood and presidential campaigns have reached an all time low. Expensive but not much substance. Naw, I’ll watch something else, if I watch anything at all. I may just spend some quality time in the kitchen. I’m working on a chicken wing sauce…
Most of us got here from Drudge. We were reading NEWS, and happened across this link. A lot of us actually like good movies, and appreciate talent.
What we don’t like is the sanctimonious, self-righteous, self-referential and baseless arrogance of most people involved in the “entertainment” industry…as demonstrated by the fellow above, who, involved in making movies for public consumption, is utterly disdainful of the tastes and preferences of said public.
Upon stumbling here, we find we have a small opportunity to voice our complaints. Being normal human beings, upon finding a such a venue we are pleased to exploit it.
That we took a few moments to type a post here does not imply that we spend more time than it took for a few key taps obsessing about Hollywood and its denizens…except insofar as we wish they would do what they are good at, and then, SHUT THE F**K UP!
To suggest that they “cannot change the world” may be the only time modesty, false as it is, has ever been in evidence from this herd of peacocks. The influence of pop culture as represented by Movies cannot be overstated. It is one leg of the three-legged stool that is literally ruining America: Big Media, Big Education and Big Entertainment.
The vapid stupidity of the Hollywood set is neither interesting nor significant. It is the unfortunate fact that they have become Missionaries of Stupidity making inroads into the heartland, particularly among the young, our future, that is so disturbing to those of us who actually think about such things.
And it is vaguely distasteful to watch these feather-brains gush, rhapsodize and wax lyrical about themselves and each other.
Who cares?
Maybe people will watch the Oscars when they start nominating films people have actually seen.
The golden age of movies to me were the late 70’s-80’s. Jaws, Star Wars, Close encounters, Raiders of the lost ark, Back to the future, Princess bride, ANY Mel Brooks film, Predator, Alien 1&2- I could go on and on!! Everybod has favorite films from that era. For a couple of hours you could be transported away from the daily concerns of your everyday life to another time, place, or world, and just forget it all! Escapist entertainment at it’s best! Something happened in the 90’s though, less and less GOOD movies were being made. It just gets worse. It is a rare thing for me these days to become excited about an upcoming release. You guys in hollywood just don’t make em’ like you used to!
TV sucks…read a book.
This pompous, orgy of self-congratulation is destined to evolve where is really belongs: first into cable (produced by the likes of Donald Trump). Then when that inevitably fails, it will simply fade away into a smoky industry dinner, which is where all such industry award events belong.
We are not interested.
I stopped paying any attention to the Oscars the year Cher won Best Actress.
when the “passion” barely got mentioned
i realized the oscars were bs.
pJ said…”Wow, get a link from Drudge report and you can see that there are a lot of JEALOUS Americans who would trade their spouses to be living the Hollywood life.
However, in the meantime, they view us as American hating, troop bashing homosexuals. I love they take the time to voice their uneducated opinions that they formulated by watching Fox News.
Newflash – many of us in Hollywood work hard for a living – day in, day out – and enjoy it. Not all of us are million dollar players. And many of us enjoy it. God forbid we earn a living and have a good time doing it! We are SO UN-AMERICAN!
Also, have any of you actually seen some of the nominees this year? There are good films and good performances to be seen! Turn off Laura Ingram and get to the movie theaters. It’s not all the crap you’ve been told it is. Think for yourselves, you mindless zombies!
Comment by pJ”
Whoa…pJ, take a breath. You mentioned trading spouses (not thanks…but keep looking, you might find a taker) and told us at least twice that you enjoy your work. Great! Unfortunately, the majority of the rest of us don’t. We don’t enjoy your work. Your work sucks. If you lump yourself in with all the Hollywood crowd… then you need to know that your work sucks too. Most of the nominees are crap no one wants to see. Juno is a cute B movie and you all think it rates up there with the ‘best’? Another’s about a guy who roams the country killing people…wow, now there’s an uplifting original theme. And, most of the inane political drivel that comes from ‘your industry’ is pap. Telling the world that America is bad IS un-American…get used to it…facts are tough for some.
Face it pJ…your industry stinks, most of it’s players are losers. Success in Hollywood is increasingly a situation of someone being a big fish in a small pond…because more and more of us aren’t interested in paying to see it any more. Jealous?…of what. More of your own reality pJ…just not valid.
It’s enjoyable to see the hypocrisy of the anti-military leftists worshipping a statuette holding a sword.
“If you’re 20 and not a liberal, you don’t have a heart. If you’re 30 and not a Conservative, you don’t have a brain.”
you drudge report people make me sick, get outta here with your old, tired “Hollywood is so out of touch with us” argument. It might have worked in the 90’s but not anymore.
Hey Hollywood, get over yourself. Gettin’ the message yet?
I’m at the NASCAR race and Tom Cruise just gave me a thumbs up… Here in Fontana is where all the stars are tonight!!!
Bone Lee
P.S. Red flag after major wreck and the field is frozen. 7:08pm
Comment by RoderiRoderick jaynes – “OMFG, is this some kind of right wing website hosted through an old folks home? The majority of you sound like the last movie you saw was “The Sound Of Music” and probably haven’t watched the Oscars® since 1966. And WTF does politics have to do with the show anyways? Get back to life and watch repeats of “The Honeymooners.”
Well, at least it would be entertaining ever after 50 years. Come to think of it, “The Sound of Music” is something I can watch with my kids without some sort of sexual innuendo that was “creatively” snuck into Shrek. What does politics have to do with it? Ummm gee, ask Michael Moore. Idiot.
Hillbillary @ 12:35 pm:
Who the hell is Bill Mayer?
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charlesmartel1 @ 1:43 pm:
That’s Entertainment Part 2 was made in 1976.
That’s Entertainment III was made in 1994.
So, no, none of the movies from 1977- forever will ever be in ‘That’s Entertainment Part 2′.
You’re an idiot, at best!
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And LT @ 9:30 am:
So one truly shitty movie is made [Car 54] & you decide to never see another movie?
So if you eat a bad meal. will you also decide to never eat again?
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I certainly don’t agree with the politics of numerous celebrities, but you Hollywood haters are pathetic, not beyond belief, but beyond all conception!
I agree with Ralph Price.
You won’t see me watching junk tonight.
Dodee
Response to Karen – I don’t mean to call anyone mindless in their own life – this is merely regarding the perception of Hollywood over the actual working class in Hollywood – you raise some very good points and I agree with many of them.
I was actually trying to keep politics OUT of my rant. I too don’t really care about the politics of actors and always hate when actors mention who they want to vote for or bash Bush – I was responding to many people’s comments that there are no good films and Hollywood sucks.
I was merely saying there are some very good movies this year – and whether or not you want to watch The Oscars or not – that was my point.
And let’s be honest, if you read MANY of the comments here, much of the anit-Hollywood sentiment falls into the “you are unamerican” category – so that’s where I was drawing that from – am i wrong? The perception of Hollywood is just that.
Hey, it’s cool to not watch The Oscars – I think the show is pretty much the most boring awards show of the season and plan on fast forwarding through most of it.
My issue comes when the films are bashed when the films are good, but many people just seem to not bother to see them to formulate a decent opinion.
So glad to see the Oscars a bust this year. Hope that it hurts EVERY stinking one of the once striking writers. I hope that actors are also “pinched” due to the strike……….Some of the darkest, saddest,
depressing films are most likely to get the “nod” for
“Best in show….” Wonder who’s fault this is….
Oh wait!!! I am sure Jon Stewart will be able to find someway to say Bush was to blame for a year that sucked!!
It’s amazing how many people are here saying they don’t/won’t/never ever watch the Oscars, yet they read an article about the Oscars and take time to comment on it.
Seeing as how the elite of Hollywood have made those who have the sembalnce of a brain look like all are just flaming laughable clowns, the idea that one would want to watch a group of preening, unamerican, ill mannered peacocks gather to enjoy their rewards of applause. Meanwhile they will most likely insult onstage, the country which protects the very freedoms they abuse. Strange how and why that works………
I just realized that all the right-wing wackos are here spreading their usual crap about how they’re victims of “Hollyweird” because Drudge linked to Nikki’s site. Folks, no one hates you or your “values”, which is of course red-neck code for homophobia, racism, sexism and the usual hatreds which run your lives. We just feel sorry for you. And occasionally laugh at you. But we don’t hate you. Now go back to watching the latest Larry The Cable Guy movie (which I’m sure y’all feel should win best picture next year.)
gunslinger — February 24, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
AMEN!!
Most of us got here from Drudge. We were reading NEWS, and happened across this link. A lot of us actually like good movies, and appreciate talent.
What we don’t like is the sanctimonious, self-righteous, self-referential and baseless arrogance of most people involved in the “entertainment” industry…as demonstrated by the fellow above, who, involved in making movies for public consumption, is utterly disdainful of the tastes and preferences of said public.
Upon stumbling here, we find we have a small opportunity to voice our complaints. Being normal human beings, upon finding a such a venue we are pleased to exploit it.
That we took a few moments to type a post here does not imply that we spend more time than it took for a few key taps obsessing about Hollywood and its denizens…except insofar as we wish they would do what they are good at, and then, SHUT THE F**K UP!
To suggest that they “cannot change the world” may be the only time modesty, false as it is, has ever been in evidence from this herd of peacocks. The influence of pop culture as represented by Movies cannot be overstated. It is one leg of the three-legged stool that is literally ruining America: Big Media, Big Education and Big Entertainment.
The vapid stupidity of the Hollywood set is neither interesting nor significant. It is the unfortunate fact that they have become Missionaries of Stupidity making inroads into the heartland, particularly among the young, our future, that is so disturbing to those of us who actually consider such things.
And, while I do enjoy some of product of Hollywood, it is vaguely distasteful to watch these feather-brains gush, rhapsodize and wax lyrical about themselves and each other at award shows.
Do you know the average Hollywood actor has very little education? The whole town combined probably has an IQ of about 102, so why do people depend on them to be educated about national and global politics? Do you mistakenly think Angelina Jolie has her PhD from Harvard? Is Brad Pitt a scholar in disguise? If you need a mentor, there are plenty of educated and bright people in the world who can help to mold your opinions. I’m not going to listen to someone just because he played a character role in some stupid movie.
Come on, people! The world is changing! It’s time to realize that this glittery, shallow ritual fraught with red carpets and million dollar necklaces really has no relevence to the real world. Materialism and shallowness have no place in a society where so much is at stake. Take the millions spent in ONE SINGLE NIGHT and do something useful with it.
A disgusted New Englander
You have all forgotten Hollywood’s greatest gift to us all (and I do mean this)…. Movie theater POPCORN!!! Yum.
I’ve watched this spectacle diminish conversely with its politicization. It has become more and more unpleasant when “actors” espouse societal mores’ upon the viewing public. Hence, more and more people tune out. American is divided by “red states and blue states.” Thus, at least 50% of the people will be offended by some actor or film that tries to make some political statement. What’s funnier and probably more accurate is that everyone will be offended in one way or another. Hollywood needs to return to the entertainment business and get out of the polling booth. Actors need to be quiet (e.g. Brad Pitt’s non-comments on China by stating “what did he know … he wears make-up for a living.”) Once upon a time they were too afraid to be controversial, and we liked them more for it.
Well, well, another haven for right-wing anti-culture nimbos! If you really want to see some good cinema, check out the nominated films – NCFOM, TWBB, and AG among the best films in recent years, I’m holding out for Juno, though, which was sweet and funny and YOU SHOULD SEE IT before you critique it, obviously…..God bless those liberals who can stand up to THE MAN (which in this case would be John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood and the rest of the right wing of the film party!
OMG!!! The Oscars Red Carpet Pre Show with Regis is ON RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
Yes, I came here through Drudge.
I enjoy the movies, but try to screen out left-wing preach movies. I therefore screen out many movies these days.
I loved Atonement.
I will not watch the biased political side-show tonight.
The Oscars suck and so does Hollywood.
Like everybody else, we’re just friggin’ tired of Hollywood’s pretentious baloney- whether it’s their politics, fashion, or $11 movies that’ll be for rent in a few weeks.
They can’t even make decent popcorn.
Watch the Oscars, and therein witness the extremes our culture has to offer: The unbelievably ignorant and the maddeningly arrogant come together to congratulate themselves for being so great. Watch them badmouth our country, and yet they will not leave it. Our society would easily be a better place without them. We have enough vanity without these idiots corrupting our young.
OMG! What is with John Travolta?!?!?! He looks like a vampire walking in daylight with SPF 1000 sunblock on!!!!
Oh yeah…john is right…movie popcorn TOTALLY SUKZZZ
Hey, Unindicted Co-conspirator, why don’tcha take one of those superfluous exclamation points and stick it up your flapping rectum!
I’ll tell you how insignificant the Oscars have become… to me. I couldn’t even get halfway through this article before I became bored and cut to comments section. Nothing illustrated to me the vacuous emptiness of Hollywood “stars” as September 11th, and liberal reaction to it, ever since. Hollywood has become rotten to the core. We have the likes of Michael Moore to thank for that. Have fun Clooney. Knock ‘em out Page. I won’t be watching.
What if they held the Oscars and No one Cared!!!!! Oh, no one does except for those in the business. Hollywood has given up on America, and now we’ve returned the favor. g’night gracie!!!
Will Tom Cruise be there in his COS Nazi uniform?
Keep talking Hollywood. The more you talk, the less I want to buy your products.
Goodbye to Hollywood
That screwy ballyhooey Hollywood
Where any office boy or young mechanic can be a panic
With just a good looking pan
And any barmaid can be a star maid
If she dances with or without a fan
Goodbye to Hollywood,
Where you’re terrific if you’re even good
Where anyone at all from Shirley Temple to Aimee Semple
Is equally understood
Go out and try your luck, you might be Donald Duck
Hooray for Hollywood
Goodbye to Hollywood
That phoney super-Coney Hollywood
They come from Chillicothes and Paducas with their bazookas
To get their names up in lights
All armed with photos from local rotos
With their hair in ribbon and legs in tights
Goodbye to Hollywood
You may be homely in your neighborhood
But if you think that you can be an actor, see Mr. Factor
He’ll make a monkey look good
Within a half an hour you’ll look like Tyrone Power
Hooray for Hollywood
Goodbye to Hollywood!
There is an old maxim: Never watch your favourite celebrity on a Talk Show.
There is a similar reason for not watching the Oscars. Even if you happen to find some of the movies nominated for awards stimulating or thought-provoking (without necessarily agreeing with the positions or world-view presented) your positive experience might well be tainted by seeing the shallow, posing, self-absorbed characters of the people involved in making those films.
Why not examine what is being argued or promoted by these very influential people? Should we be afraid that our views and beliefs won’t stand up to their foolishness? So the films themselves can be viewed with a critical eye and an open mind.
Our family watches many many films from all over the world and some we enjoy, some we don’t, some we agree with, and some we don’t. But we know why and we have fun discussing them.
BUT when the tall children are let off their leashes and have no one to fill their emptiness with a script and direction, it then becomes very hard to watch the artistic product with an unbiased view.
So best not to read about them, watch them on TV, or listen to them on award shows. The less you know about these folks, probably the better.
And it’s also probably not a good idea to criticize other people’s spelling and grammar. Things are written hastily and (having some experience in grading the stuff)I have noticed that often those who remark on errors of this kind are guilty of mistakes themselves.
Also, some people may not be native English speakers and are doing the best they can.
Why is Miles Davis wearing that sign?
I don’t know ANYONE in middle America that gives a rats ass about Hollyweird. The Internet has opened up a whole new window on just how despicable, anti-American and self-centered these losers, yes losers are.
Now, finally, simple (flyovers) people such as I, can vent their frustrations and the Left Coast had better take head. Crazy nut jobs like Tom Cruise, John Travolta et al, and their Fascist Church of Scientology will recognize that Americans will not watch their films in order to line the pockets of of a brainwashing and murdourous cult like the COS!
No more of your BS or you will be standing in the un-employment line waiting for a handout that real Americans pay for.
Keep making fun of us. Keep ignoring our opinions. Keep shoving your UNWANTED opinions down our throats. Keep it up Hollywood, and we will send you to the unemployment line.
So keep talking like you are superior beings. You will deserve the incredible misfourtune that is headed your way.
HOLLYWOOD IS DEAD. GONE GOOD MOVIES WILL NEVER RETURN BECAUSE CELEBS ARE NO TALENT DOUCHEBAGS. THEY ARE GOOD AT DUI’S AND HAVING BASTARD BABIES BUT CANNOT MAKE MOVIES FOR SHIT. GET IT OVER WITH NO MOVIES NO TV NO OSCAR NO GOLDEN GLOBE NO HOLLYWOOD. GIVE THE STARS OF THE GOLDEN ERA SOME RESPECT. THOSE WERE REAL MOVIES. ANGELINEA, LOHAN,PARIS,SPEARS, DEPP, TRAVOLTA ARE ALL SORRY ASSED DOUCHE BAGS. GO AWAY FOREVER PLESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
FOLKS PLEASE REALIZE THE REAL HOLLYWOOD IS DEAD. OUR GREAT STARS, WRITERS, PRODUCERS ETC HAVE DIED BUT NOT THEIR LEGEND. BUY DVD’S IF YOU WANT GREAT ACTING AND GREAT STORIES. THEY WILL NEVER BE OLD. WE HAVE NOTING TODAY THAT COMES CLOSE TO THE CLASSICS. HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF STUPID, OVERPAID, BORING, SELFISH SLUTS. TO EVEN WATCH THEM AND GIVE THEM ANY MONEY AT ALL IS A DISGRACE. THERE IS HOLLWOOD THEN THERE IS THE POP CULTURE THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT ELEMENTS. I GET SICK OF READING IN THE ENTERTAINMENT SECTION OF THE SLUTS WITH ALL THEIR BABAIES AND DUIS AND DISRESPECT FOR THEMSELVES, TALENT IN WRITING, DIRECTING, PRODUCING IS OVER AND GONE FOR GOOD EXCEPT FOR THE WONDERFUL DVDS OF THE GOLDEN YEARS. LET THESE POP CULTURE SLUT AND WHORE AND NO TALENT CREEPS GO. CALL THE POP CULTURE TOWN DON’T DEGRADE THE REAL HOLLYWOOD ANYMORE. ACADEMY AWARDS WHO CARES EMMY AWARDS WHO CARES GRAMMY AWARDS WHO CARES. IT OVER FOLKS. IT’S ALL BEEN TRASHED AND MISUSED AND I SEE NO WAY OUT BUT TO IGNORE THEM.
just realized that all the right-wing wackos are here spreading their usual crap about how they’re victims of “Hollyweird” because Drudge linked to Nikki’s site. Folks, no one hates you or your “values”, which is of course red-neck code for homophobia, racism, sexism and the usual hatreds which run your lives. We just feel sorry for you. And occasionally laugh at you.
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