Defiance!

I actually enjoyed 'em, to my own surprise. I like the new format, with previous winners giving a little address about current nominees.

My interest in the Academy Awards approaches absolute zero Obama.

re: #1 Timbre

Defiance!

That movie was so Hollywoodized. It looked like the actor who plays James Bond walked off the James Bond set to do a scene here and there in this movie. The casting was terrible.

Has Al Gore or President Obama won anything yet?

I watched the last 10 minutes of it and I wish I could get them back

It's too long. That's the big problem.

I got an Oscar once. Put it into a tank and fed it earthworms. Got pretty big. A lot more interesting to watch than them Holliwoodie elites stroken themselves on TV.

Do I have the go-ahead to repeat my comment here?

Sean Penn won for best actor..

100% agree Charles.

re: #9 TheMatrix31

Do I have the go-ahead to repeat my comment here?

Go ahead.

re: #10 Jr ewing

Sean Penn won for best actor..

Puke.

I only look at red carpet pictures on the internet to see the gowns.

Gran Torino was the best movie I have seen this year. Slumdog is a good movie though.

re: #5 Dar ul Harb

Has Al Gore or President Obama won anything yet?

They've won over the hearts of the crowd in attendance at the awards.

re: #2 Cognito

I actually enjoyed 'em, to my own surprise. I like the new format, with previous winners giving a little address about current nominees.

But how can you stand to watch all those shallow fawning people fawning over all of those shallow fawning people?

re: #17 pink freud

But how can you stand to watch all those shallow fawning people fawning over all of those shallow fawning people?

Sounds like the MSM on a daily basis.

Yay Slumdog!

re: #17 pink freud

But how can you stand to watch all those shallow fawning people fawning over all of those shallow fawning people?

I can't. It's annoying. But among them, there are scattered a handful of wonderfully talented people.

A handful, as I say.

re: #6 Shug

I watched the last 10 minutes of it and I wish I could get them back

Don't sit on the toilet seat so long next time, that's should help you recoup your 10 minutes.

re: #17 pink freud

But how can you stand to watch all those shallow fawning people fawning over all of those shallow fawning people?

Don't forget the self-important, puffed up and pretentious people too

re: #10 Jr ewing

Sean Penn won for best actor..

Yeeeuck.

The only reason I ever watch the Oscars is so I know which movies NOT to watch.

My oscar looked like this:

Max's Oscar

Oscar ain't wearin' no pants.

/check it out

I thought the long introductions with multiple presenters for the main awards were terrible. Totally unnecessary.

Jackman was a good host, but I like him and find Australian accents amusing, so I might be biased.

re: #12 Dar ul Harb

Go ahead.

...Fuck Sean Penn.

I celebrate the fact that I have not seen a single movie nominated for an Oscar. W00t!

re: #10 Jr ewing

Sean Penn won for best actor..

Wasn't he supposed to leave the United States if Bush got elected? I'm still waiting for the big move. LOL Bet Chavez would roll out the carpet for him.

re: #17 pink freud

But how can you stand to watch all those shallow fawning people fawning over all of those shallow fawning people?

I don't know about Cognito, but I'm a people watcher. Shallow, fawning, whatever. It's just an awards show. C'mon.

The thread is about the Oscars, not Sean Penn. Once is enough.

I couldn't watch Sean Penn. did he say something about Obama? Universal Health care? His love for communists? Our new brave world?

re: #27 KingKenrod

I thought the long introductions with multiple presenters for the main awards were terrible. Totally unnecessary.

Jackman was a good host, but I like him and find Australian accents amusing, so I might be biased.

He should have worn the Wolverine Outfit and threatened to slice up anyone that went on too long.

re: #30 Pvt Bin Jammin

Wasn't he supposed to leave the United States if Bush got elected? I'm still waiting for the big move. LOL Bet Chavez would roll out the carpet for him.

Typical hollywood, all talk, fake action.

I gotta be honest. My interest in the Academy Awards approaches absolute zero. But I know I’m in the minority, so here’s an open thread for the lizard army to dish...

I watched it only to bash it.

re: #11 CynicalConservative

100% agree Charles.

Forgot all about it.

Except I am wondering what won the best "foreign language" film. Did the Israel-bashing Israeli film (which I understand is very good) make the cut?

re: #2 Cognito

I actually enjoyed 'em, to my own surprise. I like the new format, with previous winners giving a little address about current nominees.

So did I. It gave more reasons to watch and it said more about acting in general.

re: #26 Killian Bundy

Oscar ain't wearin' no pants.

/check it out

Well heck, that alone is why I watch.

Hollywood continues to show it's complete and utter contempt for its public. I may get hammered for this comment but I believe that had Keith Ledger not died he would not have won.

re: #28 TheMatrix31

Maybe I should have searched the comments first...

(I'd like to re-order those remarks.)

I loved Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood deserves so much recognition for his body of work.
Sean Penn, please. "Puke" is just too kind. Fuck Sean Penn is much better indeed.

Intercourse Spicoli!

The Oscars: the largest gathering of self congratulatory materialists patronizing each other with pandering rhetoric while pretending to be altruistic non-materialist demigods working for the greater good of mankind.

To that which the Americans respond with idol worship.

Sorry, can't watch.

I agree with Charles. Snooze-fest. Just a bunch of idealogs patting themselves on the back for three hours.

Remeber way back when these people would simply be court jesters?

re: #37 Lynn B.

Forgot all about it.

Except I am wondering what won the best "foreign language" film. Did the Israel-bashing Israeli film (which I understand is very good) make the cut?

I only know about it due to discussions here. No clue about specific details at that level.

Hollywood is boring. They preach only to the choir nowadays. They aren't a force for good anymore, like back in the days of "To Kill A Mockingbird" or "Gentleman's Agreement"... heck, they can't even make good movies about anti-heroes like they did back in the seventies. Preachy PC enviro flapdoodle.

Favorite Oscar® moment - The Streaker

Speaking of movies, I watched 'Flight 93' on youtube tonight, powerful stuff.

re: #40 USBeast

Hollywood continues to show it's complete and utter contempt for its public. I may get hammered for this comment but I believe that had Keith Ledger not died he would not have won.

He gave a really good performance in Dark Knight. That was the creepiest bad guy since Hannibal Lector

Was the annual Hollywood whine-and-cheese fest tonight?

Hollywood sucks.

re: #43 Ward Cleaver

Intercourse Spicoli!

Milk it for all it's worth.

Did Sean Penn go to Venezuala to do background research on politically motivated murders?

re: #31 Silvergirl

I don't know about Cognito, but I'm a people watcher. Shallow, fawning, whatever. It's just an awards show. C'mon.

I'm a people watcher also. That's just one population that didn't make the cut.

re: #37 Lynn B.

Forgot all about it.

Except I am wondering what won the best "foreign language" film. Did the Israel-bashing Israeli film (which I understand is very good) make the cut?

Foreign language film
WINNER: "Departures," Japan

Open Oscar Thread

Whats next, an open Big Bird Thread?

//

re: #44 Gus 802

The Oscars: the largest gathering of self congratulatory materialists patronizing each other with pandering rhetoric while pretending to be altruistic non-materialist demigods working for the greater good of mankind.

To that which the Americans respond with idol worship.

Sorry, can't watch.

I think the media, especially the gossip shows, fuel the whole celebrity worship thing.

re: #58 sattv4u2

Open Oscar Thread

Whats next, an open Big Bird Thread?

//

copulate Big Bird!

Now I forgot what I wrote about Sean Penn that was deleted.

I think it had the word fuck in it.

Sorry about that Charles.

Hollywood. Filled with people that think they matter. I'll pass, thanks.

Was Fitna nominated?

/

re: #38 Dark_Falcon

So did I. It gave more reasons to watch and it said more about acting in general.

Exactly. I don't care a whit for some actor's thoughts on health care.

But hey. I'm interested in what Philip Seymour Hoffman might have to say about acting.

re: #51 Desert Dog

He gave a really good performance in Dark Knight. That was the creepiest bad guy since Hannibal Lector

Agreed, but would he have won had he not achieved martyr status?

Louis B. Mayor's Hollywood...RIP

re: #58 sattv4u2

Open Oscar Thread

Whats next, an open Big Bird Thread?

//

Hey Fred, get a look at the drum sticks on this one...:)

/S

another year of not contributing to HollyWad...feeling pretty good here..Josey Wales was on TV last night...I was glued

re: #56 ploome hineni

lol

it's called the movies

/fiction

Too bad some of them forget the line between their jobs and the real world.

re: #47 ploome hineni

cause most of them look really good

Looking good didn't make the cut either.

Good evening, ploome! Nice to see you. :-)

re: #63 Shug

Was Fitna nominated?

/

Yeah... for "Best Heavy Metal Act".

/whoops. wrong waste of time award show.

re: #44 Gus 802

The Oscars: the largest gathering of self congratulatory materialists patronizing each other with pandering rhetoric while pretending to be altruistic non-materialist demigods working for the greater good of mankind.

To that which the Americans respond with idol worship.

Sorry, can't watch.

It's like any other awards show given by any industry, advertising, magazines, architecture, horsehoe makers/ Ask anyone who HAS to attend those wonderful ceremonies and you'll get the same "puke" reaction. It's just self -masturbatory promotion and it goes on everywhere. Just Hollywood puts out movies that millions go watch. So they tune in.

re: #51 Desert Dog

He gave a really good performance in Dark Knight. That was the creepiest bad guy since Hannibal Lector

Indeed. For my money The Dark Knight got jipped. It was better than most of the Best Picture Nominees.

Back in my theatre days, right about now we'd be readying the snipes to add to the movie posters. We, of course, also made outtake snipes.

/winner of . . . awards for . . . best . . . [use your imagination]

Did Pineapple Express win for anything?

Best stoner movie?

re: #46 CynicalConservative

I only know about it due to discussions here. No clue about specific details at that level.

Well, I see that it didn't win. Tough choice for the academy. On the one hand, it was anti-war and (from what I understand) blamed Israel for the Sabra and Shatilla massacres. OTOH, it was an Israeli film.

Not surprised that they just ducked.

re: #65 USBeast

Agreed, but would he have won had he not achieved martyr status?

I did not see the other movies, so I cannot tell. I know he was great in that role though...

dyin aint much of a livin boy...

re: #68 albusteve

another year of not contributing to HollyWad...feeling pretty good here..Josey Wales was on TV last night...I was glued

Hollywad!

Finally after years - it's spreading. ;-)

re: #63 Shug

In the Hollywood of the Star Trek Mirror Universe maybe.

re: #2 Cognito

I actually enjoyed 'em, to my own surprise. I like the new format, with previous winners giving a little address about current nominees.

I will agree. I watched the whole thing for the first time in years. Saw a couple of buds in the orchestra, too. As an aside, my house is visible in "Milk". I remember posting about the shoot when it was happening last year. Caught a nice rash about it from some flamers, too.

re: #73 Dark_Falcon

Indeed. For my money The Dark Knight got jipped. It was better than most of the Best Picture Nominees.

Which is why I didn't care about the Oscars except for Ledger, and Rourke.

re: #68 albusteve

another year of not contributing to HollyWad...feeling pretty good here..Josey Wales was on TV last night...I was glued

Now THAT is a movie...and, if I recall, it was nominated and won exactly ZERO academy awards...

The only thing I like about the Oscars lately is the snarky reviews of what the women wore to the event.

I make a point of not watching the awards telecast. I have also not seen any of the films mentioned in any category this year -- the last movie I saw in an actual theater was Starship Troopers (yuk). The last one before that was The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when they still did the midnight show in Riverside. I have the Audience Participation DVD. I'm happy.

Hollywood has not done anything I want to watch in a very long time.

They need a reminder that what plays in Peoria is more important than they realize.

Highlights of the night:

Pineapple Express clip
Ben Stiller acting like Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman
Boob popping out during musical performance
Sean Penn ranting about people who voted against Prop 8
Sean Penn not thanking his super hot wife

re: #57 Silvergirl

Foreign language film
WINNER: "Departures," Japan

Thanks, SG.

re: #68 albusteve

another year of not contributing to HollyWad...feeling pretty good here..Josey Wales was on TV last night...I was glued

I saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua in the theater last year, and that was it.

re: #79 FrogMarch

Hollywad!

Finally after years - it's spreading. ;-)

typically, I'm leading from behind!

re: #68 albusteve

another year of not contributing to HollyWad...feeling pretty good here..Josey Wales was on TV last night...I was glued

Sorry, but if it was on cable/ satellite/ you DID contribute to Hollywood. The distributors (owners of the films rights) are mostly studios or the compant that owns them ( i.e. Paramount Distributors, owned by Paramount Pictures)

re: #85 cowbellallen

Highlights of the night:

Pineapple Express clip
Ben Stiller acting like Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman
Boob popping out during musical performance
Sean Penn ranting about people who voted against Prop 8
Sean Penn not thanking his super hot wife

See? Not aren't you naysayers all sorry?

Gran Torino was snubbed. Mo-F-Kars

re: #89 sattv4u2

Sorry, but if it was on cable/ satellite/ you DID contribute to Hollywood. The distributors (owners of the films rights) are mostly studios or the compant that owns them ( i.e. Paramount Distributors, owned by Paramount Pictures)

well I guess you missed the point...thanks for the tech skinny tho

re: #82 TheMatrix31

Which is why I didn't care about the Oscars except for Ledger, and Rourke.

I cared a little about Best Picture. I did so because for the first time since LotR the award actually went to a movie with public appeal. Slumdog Millionaire is a movie that may actually end up remembered.

I foolishly said on a previous thread that Milk was going to rack up the Oscars, because "gayness" has the highest priority rating among PC Oscar-magnet themes, surpassing "prostitute with a heart of gold" and "Nazis."

Well, someone just told me that "Slumdog Millionaire" has Muslim characters -- and it beat Milk for Best Picture!

So we now have a new champion in the PC sweepstakes!

The new hierarchical ranking of themes-that-guarantee-Oscars are:

Muslims
gayness
Nazis/Holocaust
prostitutes-with-a-heart-of-gold
anti-war
"gimps" and "the disabled"
actors that died the previous year or are on their death beds...

...help me out here. Any other PC categories for winning Academy Awards?

re: #87 Ward Cleaver

I saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua in the theater last year, and that was it.

I have a 9 year old, I see every kiddie movie that comes...Oh well, some of them turn out to be pretty good. And, some are unbearable.

re: #30 Pvt Bin Jammin

Wasn't he supposed to leave the United States if Bush got elected? I'm still waiting for the big move. LOL Bet Chavez would roll out the carpet for him.

That was Alec Baldwin. He wimped out, as usual.

You'd think at least one of those wusses would have the courage of their convictions.

We can dream, right?

re: #87 Ward Cleaver

I saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua in the theater last year, and that was it.

how much did you drop on that?

Plus, tonight I found out that Queen Latifa can really sing. I mean like a real standard ballad. She did a fine job.

re: #81 rawmuse

I will agree. I watched the whole thing for the first time in years. Saw a couple of buds in the orchestra, too. As an aside, my house is visible in "Milk". I remember posting about the shoot when it was happening last year. Caught a nice rash about it from some flamers, too.

That's cool. Sorry about the "rash." I can imagine how tough those MIT grads were.

A FUNNY MOMENT WITH ROBIN WILLIAMS AT THE OSCARS

re: #81 rawmuse

I will agree. I watched the whole thing for the first time in years. Saw a couple of buds in the orchestra, too. As an aside, my house is visible in "Milk". I remember posting about the shoot when it was happening last year. Caught a nice rash about it from some flamers, too.

I thought they were pretty good this year myself. Hope my background singer buddy got the gig again. He always has. You never see him, he has to wear a tux but sit in a little closet studio type thing offstage or underground somewhere.

i agree - who cares - spent the evening reading Power Faith & Fantasy by Michael Oren - much better use of time IMHO

I really don't care to watch Hollywood praise Hollywood. One movie I thought was surprisingly good and historically accurate was Valkyrie. Didn't even get a nomination.

re: #82 TheMatrix31

Which is why I didn't care about the Oscars except for Ledger, and Rourke.

I think Ledger and Rourke sucked. Too cliché for me. Rourke sounded like Rocky Balboa. Ledger's act got tiresome after 10 minutes. Don't see what all the fuss was about. Seems death raises your Karma points a few notches. Reminds me of Jim Croce, the singer. Never heard of him, never knew anybody who liked his music. But after hus death he was #1 in the charts. Sheeeple.

re: #94 zombie

I foolishly said on a previous thread that Milk was going to rack up the Oscars, because "gayness" has the highest priority rating among PC Oscar-magnet themes, surpassing "prostitute with a heart of gold" and "Nazis."

Well, someone just told me that "Slumdog Millionaire" has Muslim characters -- and it beat Milk for Best Picture!

So we now have a new champion in the PC sweepstakes!

The new hierarchical ranking of themes-that-guarantee-Oscars are:

Muslims
gayness
Nazis/Holocaust
prostitutes-with-a-heart-of-gold
anti-war
"gimps" and "the disabled"
actors that died the previous year or are on their death beds...

...help me out here. Any other PC categories for winning Academy Awards?

dead people

re: #92 albusteve

well I guess you missed the point...thanks for the tech skinny tho

I got the point. But by thinking that NOT going to a movie theater and seeing a first run Hollywood film means you are somehow boycotting Hollywood is incorrect

re: #91 FrogMarch

Gran Torino was snubbed. Mo-F-Kars

No surprise. Clint Eastwood told truths in that movie that most of Hollywood does not want to hear. The idea that evil must be met with armed force is anathema to them.

I'm out'a here. Gotta go vehicle shopping in the morning. Wish me luck.

re: #105 Shug

oops. never mind, missed it

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

re: #4 So?

That movie was so Hollywoodized. It looked like the actor who plays James Bond walked off the James Bond set to do a scene here and there in this movie. The casting was terrible.

That movie was excellent in one respect - it showed (for once) that the people living in the territories occupied by Germany were more than happy to capture and hunt Jews for the Nazis.

re: #103 Yankee Division Son

I really don't care to watch Hollywood praise Hollywood. One movie I thought was surprisingly good and historically accurate was Valkyrie. Didn't even get a nomination.

I think cause its a Canadian movie. America likes to stroke its own.

This year, I managed to not see a SINGLE film that was nominated in any category. So I have absolutely no opinion about any of them.

re: #40 USBeast

Hollywood continues to show it's complete and utter contempt for its public. I may get hammered for this comment but I believe that had Heath Ledger not died he would not have won.

Well, his Joker went to a whole different place than Nicholson's. Would the performance have gotten the same attention if he hadn't died? I don't know, but in watching the movie I wasn't thinking about Heath Ledger. (Of course, I think the last role I saw him in before was in The Patriot.)

re: #85 cowbellallen

Boob popping out during musical performance

Right in the middle of the song, Alec Baldwin suddenly appeared...

re: #94 zombie

Kate Winslet won best actress for being a naked Nazi. She did double duty to hedge her bets.

re: #94 zombie

...help me out here. Any other PC categories for winning Academy Awards?

America bashers.

re: #84 Steffan

The only thing I like about the Oscars lately is the snarky reviews of what the women wore to the event.

The only thing I care about from the AAs really is which moonbats said what asinine remarks about Republicans, American Foreign Policy, or Corporations acting all "Corporationy". So I can point and laugh and make smart-ass comments about it here and elsewhere.

The last movie I watched in the theater was at least 3 years ago. I'm not too keen on giving those Blame-America-First commies any of my money. (They will figure out some way to steal it from me anyway)

re: #98 rawmuse

Plus, tonight I found out that Queen Latifa can really sing. I mean like a real standard ballad. She did a fine job.

OMG I have had her jazz standards CD for a couple of years. She's great. My husband didn't want to listen to it because he thought she was a rapper. I just turned it on one night in the car and he had to ask who the great singer was. LOL

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

I just watched Randy's video moments ago. In awhile I'm going to read the thread for entertainment. To save me some time at around what post # do the meltdowns start?

re: #94 zombie

I foolishly said on a previous thread that Milk was going to rack up the Oscars, because "gayness" has the highest priority rating among PC Oscar-magnet themes, surpassing "prostitute with a heart of gold" and "Nazis."

Well, someone just told me that "Slumdog Millionaire" has Muslim characters -- and it beat Milk for Best Picture!

So we now have a new champion in the PC sweepstakes!

The new hierarchical ranking of themes-that-guarantee-Oscars are:

Muslims
gayness
Nazis/Holocaust
prostitutes-with-a-heart-of-gold
anti-war
"gimps" and "the disabled"
actors that died the previous year or are on their death beds...

...help me out here. Any other PC categories for winning Academy Awards?

I have a new blockbuster.
Sure to make us BILLIONS.

It's the story of a holocaust denying gay muslim prostitute with a heart of gold, who has a club foot and is slated for execution .

re: #37 Lynn B.

Departures (Japan) won. It is about an unemployed classical musician who goes to work at the morgue.

I watched "Dark Knight" at my home theater and the soundtrack blew out my sub woofer. Just got the new one. I was pissed about that. But, I upped the arms race to a nice Polk Audio sub woof. Try blowing THAT one out, Hollywood.

re: #106 sattv4u2

I got the point. But by thinking that NOT going to a movie theater and seeing a first run Hollywood film means you are somehow boycotting Hollywood is incorrect

I saw Josey at the theater...I go to a movie once in a while...not often tho..it's a passive boycott...I do what I want and don't make excuses for it

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

Over/Under for the oscar meltdown?

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

Probably because it kind of attached to farming fables and "practices" across the American landscape.

re: #116 Scion9

Kate Winslet won best actress for being a naked Nazi. She did double duty to hedge her bets.

Naked Nazi? Damn, no wonder she won.

So: The Reader was a remake of Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS?

The Dallas Morning News did a puff piece article on Kwame Kilpatrick's wife today. The commenters weren't buying it, especially the ones in Detroit.

ZZZzzz *Snort* Wa? What? The Oscars were tonight? Oh darn I missed them.

ZZzzz

re: #113 zombie

This year, I managed to not see a SINGLE film that was nominated in any category. So I have absolutely no opinion about any of them.

This year I managed to not work on any of them. First time in about 12 years.

No! I'm not watching, period.

re: #125 CynicalConservative

Over/Under for the oscar meltdown?

around post 250 this will turn into either a Beck/ ID/ Jindal rant!

Bob Hope, best movie line:

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

Just don't touch my Faith Healing hobby...that'll be fightin' words...I may have to cast out some demons

re: #85 cowbellallen

Highlights of the night:

Pineapple Express clip
Ben Stiller acting like Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman
Boob popping out during musical performance
Sean Penn ranting about people who voted against Prop 8
Sean Penn not thanking his super hot wife

The boob shot will be on YouTube before midnight tonight, if it isn't there now.

The rest I can live without, especially Spicoli ranting about Prop 8.

Which boyfriend do you think he wanted to marry?

re: #134 Desert Dog

Just don't touch my Faith Healing hobby...that'll be fightin' words...I may have to cast out some demons

Matt Damons?

re: #10 Jr ewing

Sean Penn won for best actor..

Milk: It does a body good.

re: #132 sattv4u2

around post 250 this will turn into either a Beck/ ID/ Jindal rant!

Hope not to be awake that long.

re: #125 CynicalConservative

;) Yawn, this is sooo boring, blah blah yadda yadda. You really should be posting X instead of Y. The Oscars are only a theory!

/ Do I really need to?

I used to live in the Hollywierd Hills, just north of this "extravaganza". It was always marked on the callendar as a "get out of town" weekend. You wouldn't BELIEVE what the city goes through for this BS. Gridlock, is putting it mildly.

re: #107 Dark_Falcon

No surprise. Clint Eastwood told truths in that movie that most of Hollywood does not want to hear. The idea that evil must be met with armed force is anathema to them.

not to mention the entire film is non-PC. Equal opportunity non-PC. I loved it.
Plus - Clint Eastwood isn't a bleeding heart proggie.

re: #121 Shug

I have a new blockbuster.
Sure to make us BILLIONS.

It's the story of a holocaust denying gay muslim prostitute with a heart of gold, who has a club foot and is slated for execution .

Damn, I want to invest in the production of that movie. Where do I sign up?

re: #139 Dan G.

;) Yawn, this is sooo boring, blah blah yadda yadda. You really should be posting X instead of Y. The Oscars are only a theory!

/ Do I really need to?

Woot! +1

re: #136 sattv4u2

Matt Damons?

Sure, I can cast him out too, If you'd like

re: #111 traderjoe9

That movie was excellent in one respect - it showed (for once) that the people living in the territories occupied by Germany were more than happy to capture and hunt Jews for the Nazis.

The extras were all realistic, but the main actors ruined the whole movie for me. One brother wore a tailored brown leather jacket, the other was an action superhero who was a perfect shot. Be nice if someone redid the movie with no-name actors. Even James Bond's (can't remember his real name) girlfriend looked like a supermodel. Pathetic casting. It can and does ruin a good movie.

re: #98 rawmuse

Plus, tonight I found out that Queen Latifa can really sing. I mean like a real standard ballad. She did a fine job.

Oh, I thought she was wonderful! I got a bit teary over Paul Scofield and Paul Newman, though.

Charles! Stop! This blog has nothing but Academy Award posts! You're obsessed! I hate you hate you hate you! Burn in hell! I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille!

Waiting for Pandora to play a song I don't like so I can check out and sleep. I will probably be here for a while.

re: #145 Desert Dog

Sure, I can cast him out too, If you'd like

great,, take ben AFLAC with him

re: #94 zombie

I foolishly said on a previous thread that Milk was going to rack up the Oscars, because "gayness" has the highest priority rating among PC Oscar-magnet themes, surpassing "prostitute with a heart of gold" and "Nazis."

Well, someone just told me that "Slumdog Millionaire" has Muslim characters -- and it beat Milk for Best Picture!

So we now have a new champion in the PC sweepstakes!

The new hierarchical ranking of themes-that-guarantee-Oscars are:

Muslims
gayness
Nazis/Holocaust
prostitutes-with-a-heart-of-gold
anti-war
"gimps" and "the disabled"
actors that died the previous year or are on their death beds...

...help me out here. Any other PC categories for winning Academy Awards?

Depends on the category. If you're talking about Best Picture, I think race, murder and suburban ennui head the pack.

If you're looking at the list for Best Documentary, the Holocaust pretty well dominates.

Cinematography? It's typically a movie set in some far-flung place or time.

My take, anyway.

I think they should teach The Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.

let the kids decide

re: #148 Charles

Charles! Stop! This blog has nothing but Academy Award posts! You're obsessed! I hate you hate you hate you! Burn in hell! I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

re: #148 Charles

Charles! Stop! This blog has nothing but Academy Award posts! You're obsessed! I hate you hate you hate you! Burn in hell! I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille!

LOL! What fun mail you get!

re: #98 rawmuse

She's always been a talented singer. Hand her a good song, and she can sing it. Unfortunately, a lot of the music she chooses to sing, the stuff she became famous for, doesn't float my boat. In spite of that, I really like her as a performer. (That, and she usually dresses well for big events.)

re: #133 pink freud

Bob Hope, best movie line:

Without watching...

"You mean Democrats?"

re: #150 sattv4u2

great,, take ben AFLAC with him

I am good, but not that good...I think you will need an old priest and a young priest and a 50 gallon drum of holy water to get rid of that one...

re: #26 Killian Bundy

Oscar ain't wearin' no pants.

/check it out

Like Donald Duck?

re: #145 Desert Dog

Sure, I can cast him out too, If you'd like

moonbat actors are castable

re: #152 Shug

I think they should teach The Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.

let the kids decide

What are you?! Some sort of SAG Award denialist?!

re: #158 ErnieG

Like Donald Duck?

And Porky Pig?

'Night, all.

G'night, y'all.

re: #146 So?

The extras were all realistic, but the main actors ruined the whole movie for me. One brother wore a tailored brown leather jacket, the other was an action superhero who was a perfect shot. Be nice if someone redid the movie with no-name actors. Even James Bond's (can't remember his real name) girlfriend looked like a supermodel. Pathetic casting. It can and does ruin a good movie.

The book is phenomenal. 50 times better than the movie and I enjoyed the movie. The book is Anne Frank on steroids.

re: #148 Charles

Charles! Stop! This blog has nothing but Academy Award posts! You're obsessed! I hate you hate you hate you! Burn in hell! I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille!

thats just funny,,,maybe it's me

I used to be a BIG fan of this blog, but now you're just catering to the Islamohollywooddarwinnazi's. What about improtatn things lik Zerobama's nirf certifictk

/ I'm having too much fun with this... I'm done ;)

re: #130 rawmuse

I saw all but Milk--even the animated films! My 11-year old and I love to see all the new kids' movies, too.
I refused to see Milk, though. Most depressing of these was Revolutionary Road. The Reader was good--but I didn't like the book, so I was surprised. Benjamin Button was good--and most especially the woman who played Benjamin's mother--she should have had that Oscar instead of Penelope.

I'm just mad that they had Aniston skip the red carpet, so that we missed our red-carpet slap down.

Really, panning on Brad & Angelina during her talk was too much.

re: #155 theheat

I can't chew the hip hop stuff, but I loved her in "Chicago".

nightie.

re: #121 Shug

I have a new blockbuster.
Sure to make us BILLIONS.

It's the story of a holocaust denying gay muslim prostitute with a heart of gold, who has a club foot and is slated for execution .

Was this person ever homeless?

re: #161 Dustyvet

And Porky Pig?

re: #148 Charles

Charles! Stop! This blog has nothing but Academy Award posts! You're obsessed! I hate you hate you hate you! Burn in hell! I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille!

Are you having a meltdown? Hmmm?

re: #94 zombie

I've noticed lately that films that make out like bandits at the box office aren't even considered for the Academy Awards.

Oscar nominees tend to be films that don't even make enough to cover their production costs. That they are PC seems to be more important than if they made money.

Studios being businesses, after all, you'd think that they'd want to reward the films that allow them to remain in business...

re: #112 So?

I think cause its a Canadian movie. America likes to stroke its own.

United Artists/MGM is Canadian?

re: #171 capitalist piglet

Was this person ever homeless?

...and Meryl Streep can play this part perfectly--the goddess.

I liked "the Wrestler". and "Tropic Thunder" was too damn funny.

re: #173 katemaclaren

Are you having a meltdown? Hmmm?

Newsflash! Charles bans himself for posting oscar thread.

//

re: #148 Charles

Charles! Stop! This blog has nothing but Academy Award posts! You're obsessed! I hate you hate you hate you! Burn in hell! I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille!

LMAO!

re: #156 Noam Sayin'

Without watching...

"You mean Democrats?"

Oooh. You're good, Noam. ;P

re: #118 ArchangelMichael

"And the corporations sit there, in their corporation buildings, and they're all corporation-y, and they make money. Mmmhmm."

re: #121 Shug

I have a new blockbuster.
Sure to make us BILLIONS.

It's the story of a holocaust denying gay muslim prostitute with a heart of gold, who has a club foot and is slated for execution .

This is probably already an episode of South Park.

re: #169 rawmuse

I can't chew the hip hop stuff, but I loved her in "Chicago".

I loved her in Kansas City...she gets around eh?

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

Like the man said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

re: #146 So?

The extras were all realistic, but the main actors ruined the whole movie for me. One brother wore a tailored brown leather jacket, the other was an action superhero who was a perfect shot. Be nice if someone redid the movie with no-name actors. Even James Bond's (can't remember his real name) girlfriend looked like a supermodel. Pathetic casting. It can and does ruin a good movie.

The most recently-made movie I saw was the remake of "The Mist" from a couple years ago, and it had the same actress -- Alexa Davalos. When I saw an ad for "Defiance," I said -- Hey, it's the checkout girl from "The Mist"! But you're right -- she was way too attractive for either role. It actually does undermine the performance and hence the film. "Decent-looking" is OK for a movie, but "supermodel" is just ridiculous.

re: #174 Steffan

I've noticed lately that films that make out like bandits at the box office aren't even considered for the Academy Awards.

Oscar nominees tend to be films that don't even make enough to cover their production costs. That they are PC seems to be more important than if they made money.

Studios being businesses, after all, you'd think that they'd want to reward the films that allow them to remain in business...

Actually the opposite is typically true. The Oscars overlook many fine works in favor of money-makers.

More popularity contest, too often, than commendation for actual merit.

re: #181 pink freud

Oooh. You're good, Noam. ;P

And when I'm bad, I'm even better.

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

"You don't believe me? Truth is stranger than fiction.
We drive through there every day."

Jagger-Richards -Too Much Blood

re: #172 Dustyvet

[Video]

re: #115 Gearhead

Right in the middle of the song, Alec Baldwin suddenly appeared...

"Radies an genremen, Mistah Arec Baaahwin!"

The Oscars have long been taken over and politicized by the left. Same as the Nobel Peace Prize. Even if someone who actually deserves to win, actually wins, it is cheapened by the entire process...

re: #152 Shug

I think they should teach The Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.

let the kids decide

F*ck you! What PROOF do you have that the Golden Globes exist? Have anybody ever seen a Golden Globe broadcast! Of course not! It's just a theory!

I haven't seen any of the nominated movies but I loved the musical score from "Defiance". Sorry it didn't win.

I understand viewership had been down for previous Oscar shows. Did this one have a stimulus package?

re: #116 Scion9

Kate Winslet won best actress for being a naked Nazi. She did double duty to hedge her bets.

OK, I'll grant you that: Kate Winslet naked is worth paying to see.

Kate Winslet was more attractive when she was chunkier. There was an authenticity to her figure that really appealed to me.

Now she's just another gaunt, emaciated Hollywood scarecrow.

Not watching - or watched - is is over?

re: #189 Noam Sayin'

And when I'm bad, I'm even better.

That's what they all say.

re: #199 Cattt

Not watching - or watched - is is over?

We can only hope.

re: #202 ploome hineni

I think he has references

I think you're right.

re: #199 Cattt

Not watching - or watched - is is over?

The main event is over but the Barbara WaWa post oscar show is still on I believe...changed the channel.

re: #133 pink freud

Bob Hope, best movie line:

Definitely a keeper.

#104 OK those are fightin' words...I loved Jim Croce...still do...
Glad SlumDog won..wonderful film...hated that the Red Diaper Baby won...knew he would have to snark into Mr. Scold...I was rooting for Mickey...he is a very talented guy and stood up for President Bush recently..Altho, I cannot stand BWalters, I did watch her show tonite..because I wanted to see Hugh Jackman and Mickey...Mickey was actually quite touching...and anyone that loves animals that much is ok with me..his little dog, Loki.(18yrs old) just died this week...

Steffan,

OK, I'll grant you that: Kate Winslet naked is worth paying to see.

Why pay? Just Google images for the movie Jude.

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

That gives me a sinking feeling. In fact, it's all wet. /

Hollywood reminds me of today's GOP, replete with tunnel vision and endless preaching to the choir.

re: #194 zombie

F*ck you! What PROOF do you have that the Golden Globes exist? Have anybody ever seen a Golden Globe broadcast! Of course not! It's just a theory!

I'm a young globe creationist. I admit it.

my kids were here for a visit...they dragged me to see 'Wild Pigs" or some such movie because it was made in NM and I should support the economy here...it was a movie about a bunch of over the hill suburban bikers...I dropped like a ton of money on that awful piece of shit...I still resent that day...just an awful movie

re: #164 DistantThunder

The book is phenomenal. 50 times better than the movie and I enjoyed the movie. The book is Anne Frank on steroids.

One the one hand, I view stories like Defiance as true inspirational stories about fighting evil. However, my love of said stories is tempered by the fact that, given my German ethnic background and personality, had I lived in those places in those days I would have likely been one of the SS sent to murder the Jews. Hitler would have lied and ranted, and I would have believed him and followed him all the way to hell. Thus my cardinal reaction to such stories is to thank God for sending my soul to a place and time where I have been able to be a better man.

re: #104 So?

I think Ledger and Rourke sucked. Too cliché for me. Rourke sounded like Rocky Balboa. Ledger's act got tiresome after 10 minutes. Don't see what all the fuss was about. Seems death raises your Karma points a few notches. Reminds me of Jim Croce, the singer. Never heard of him, never knew anybody who liked his music. But after hus death he was #1 in the charts. Sheeeple.

I thought Rourke should have won. He was really that good.

By the way, everyone O/T: My MSM newspaper has just made the late news: The Philadelphia Inquirer has declared bankruptcy.

...but have they given the award for the
"Film With the Smallest Carbon Footprint"?

Was the reader based on a true story? It has a very unappealing theme of child rape.

You come up with all the theories you like about why Obama beat McCain...the base didn't turn out, moderates were alienated by the Christian Right, whatever.
I'm firmly convinced McCain lost because Trey and Matt didn't do a sequel to "Team America" for this election year..."Team America 2: Dirka Dirka Ahamdinejad" or "Team America 2: Rise of the Obamination".

re: #148 Charles

Somebody in desperate need of a life, maybe?

re: #178 CynicalConservative

Oh, funny! Charles, where are you...Charles? Come back! Curtain call, please.

re: #188 Cognito

Yes. There are apparently a lot of politics involved as well, and films actually have to be put up for consideration in the first place. There are 'lobbyists' for studios trying to win the awards for their films. I'm sure money changes hands as well.

re: #215 DistantThunder

The Reader is a novel.

re: #218 katemaclaren

Oh, funny! Charles, where are you...Charles? Come back! Curtain call, please.

I'm telling ya, he's gone. This blog will self destruct in 5..4..3...

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

One the one hand, I view stories like Defiance as true inspirational stories about fighting evil. However, my love of said stories is tempered by the fact that, given my German ethnic background and personality, had I lived in those places in those days I would have likely been one of the SS sent to murder the Jews. Hitler would have lied and ranted, and I would have believed him and followed him all the way to hell. Thus my cardinal reaction to such stories is to thank God for sending my soul to a place and time where I have been able to be a better man.

You would have been one of the young ones that surrendered to the allied forces. I just know it.

re: #218 katemaclaren

Oh, funny! Charles, where are you...Charles? Come back! Curtain call, please.

you're begging...

re: #214 IslandLibertarian

...but have they given the award for the
"Film With the Smallest Carbon Footprint"?

(sshhh. wouldn't be union)

re: #221 CynicalConservative

Well, in that case, I'm running for cover--
my bed. Goodnight all!

re: #223 albusteve

you're begging...

What's wrong with begging!?

re: #220 katemaclaren

The Reader is a novel.

I know that, but since it uses a real event of the war, I wondered if it was based on a true story.

re: #110 Charles

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we had a dowsing meltdown today.

Really? Practicing dowsers? Guess I'll go downstairs and check it out.

Next thing you know, Charles will be dissing the Raelians.

re: #152 Shug

I think they should teach The Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.

let the kids decide

Oh, right. Teach the popular awards - totally ignore the Tonys.

re: #226 pink freud

What's wrong with begging!?

it's small...

re: #227 DistantThunder

I don't know for sure, but I read the book and don't remember reading any blurb that said "based on a true story..." but I could have missed it.

Capo column of the month:

What Iran’s Jews Say

What a fucking tool this Cohen is.
Like the Jews of Iran are free to speak their minds without fear of reprisals.
I hate the fucking NYT!

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

re: #190 IslandLibertarian

"You don't believe me? Truth is stranger than fiction.
We drive through there every day."

Jagger-Richards -Too Much Blood

AKA "You can't make this shit up."

re: #215 DistantThunder

Was the reader based on a true story? It has a very unappealing theme of child rape.

No it is not based on a true story. The author is from the generation of the main character; the young boy. The story is an allegory for that generations upbringing under the Nazis, and dealing with the aftermath as adults. The inappropriate relationship between the simpleton Nazi and the bright young man was metaphorical.

re: #229 Cattt

Oh, right. Teach the popular awards - totally ignore the Tonys.

If you allow the Tonys in your Childs classroom, the next thing you know they will be teaching your child about the Espys.

Will you be OK with that?

Okay, I really mean it this time.
Night Night, everyone.

re: #230 albusteve

it's small...

Waaay TMI, steve :-)

re: #121 Shug

I have a new blockbuster.
Sure to make us BILLIONS.

It's the story of a holocaust denying gay muslim prostitute with a heart of gold, who has a club foot and is slated for execution .

And she's being hunted by an evil [pick one][ oil corporation, pharmaceutical corporation, Zionist cabal, rogue Army squad, Christian fundamentalist group, American intelligence organization] but she's saved by oppressed militant youths who are really the good guys.

Did I say pick one? Go ahead and pick two or three.

re: #232 MJ

Capo column of the month:

What Iran’s Jews Say

What a fucking tool this Cohen is.
Like the Jews of Iran are free to speak their minds without fear of reprisals.
I hate the fucking NYT!

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

The NYT is run by a bunch of kapos who helped hide what was going on in the concentration camps.
I will not mourn the paper's loss.

re: #235 Shug

If you allow the Tonys in your Childs classroom, the next thing you know they will be teaching your child about the Espys.

Will you be OK with that?

Some of my best friends won Espys.

re: #228 freetoken

Really? Practicing dowsers? Guess I'll go downstairs and check it out.

Next thing you know, Charles will be dissing the Raelians.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

LOL

re: #237 pink freud

Waaay TMI, steve :-)

what's TMI?

re: #207 Dirk Diggler

Steffan,

Why pay? Just Google images for the movie Jude.

Well, we do want her to get the royalties, right?

If she's gonna show her all for the cause, she should at least see some of the money from it.

re: #242 albusteve

what's TMI?

too much information

re: #242 albusteve

what's TMI?

Let me! Let me! Let me!

Too much information.

re: #222 DistantThunder

You would have been one of the young ones that surrendered to the allied forces. I just know it.

Maybe. But I would have been made into a monster before that or at least someone who worshiped monsters. It just something I think about at times. What would do in such-and-such a place and time, knowing what was known then. Sometimes I don't like what the answers say about me, but that just makes thinking about what drives me all the more important. I work to know myself and not fall prey to the snares that have trapped others. Because I can and have learned from the mistakes in the past. And that is why I am the anti-totalitarian I am today.

re: #243 ploome hineni

104 So?

you think Ledger was acting?

I found him very disturbing..too real

"It's called acting, dear boy."

re: #218 katemaclaren

Oh, funny! Charles, where are you...Charles? Come back! Curtain call, please.

Shane...Shane...Come back Shane!

/S

I read "The Reader" a few years ago. I didn't like the main character -- which I believe to be the whole point of the book.

re: #246 Cattt

Let me! Let me! Let me!

Too much information.

well beat me with a noodle...no offense...hey I like Charles too!

re: #135 Steffan

The rest I can live without, especially Spicoli ranting about Prop 8.

Oh, puke. A pretend homosexual lecturing America about the terminology that Californians should use for real homosexual couples. (Mind you, even after Prop 8, same-sex couples in California continue to have the same state-level rights as married heterosexual couples, only under a different name; while in most other states, same-sex couples get zip, zilch, nada, under any name.)

I'll bet the Obligatory Applause was deafening; no one wanted to be caught "not clapping for gay marriage rights" on camera.

re: #249 Dustyvet

Shane...Shane...Come back Shane!

/S

[Video]

nice snag...

re: #251 albusteve

Just yanking your chain, ALBUsteve! I hope you have forgiven me for the Phelps thread.

OT:

The classiness continues:

[Link: www.courier-journal.com...]

No matter which side of the fence you're on, this is just plain uncouth.

Judging by the amount of posts, academy awards are not important.

re: #257 ploome hineni

like I said, I don;t think he was acting

and his death shortly after may explain his disturbing 'acting'

I'm on the same page with you on this, ploome. I've read several articles speculating the same ...

Two young play writes are walking down Broadway when they see a window-washer accidentally fall from his scaffold, fall 15 stories until miraculously glancing off a large American flag on the building front. land on the entry awning and bounce harmlessly to the ground.
One play-write says, "Boy, was that guy lucky."
The other replies, "No, Andrew Lloyd Weber was lucky."

re: #256 Lib Wingnut

OT:

The classiness continues:

[Link: www.courier-journal.com...]

No matter which side of the fence you're on, this is just plain uncouth.

Good grief. Way to go, Bunning.

re: #255 pink freud

Just yanking your chain, ALBUsteve! I hope you have forgiven me for the Phelps thread.

I hold no grudges ever...not with anyone

Steffan,

Well, we do want her to get the royalties, right?

If she's gonna show her all for the cause, she should at least see some of the money from it.

Hey I'm just trying to help a brother out. These are hard economic times. For all I know $7.50 might be too much for you to to pony up right now.

Wow, had to go back and check out the dowsing thread. Too funny.
Speaking of water, we are really getting it right now, coming down in torrents, which is a real blessing.