I’m a part of a shrinking breed of Americans who love movies and watch the Oscars. There are fewer movies every year to love, and the Oscars haven’t been insufferable crap since I finished puberty, but I still watch just in case they accidentally don’t suck. They never do.
That being said, it does bother me that an industry that has such potential to entertain and inspire now spends its time preaching and harassing. I haven’t seen a Best Picture winner since 2015, and only 6 winners since 2001. From the previous 20 years I’ve seen all but 5, almost a complete reversal. And I’m not talking about “at the time,” but since they’ve been out.
I have zero interest in seeing most of the winners recently, or even the nominees. The percentage of nominees I’ve seen is even lower than the winners.
Why? Because these movies are boring. I can’t say they suck because I haven’t seen them, but the subject matter is boring. I couldn’t care less about the latest “trans” movie or “victim of color” movie a bunch of blowhard critics have deemed to be “important” or a bunch of millionaires demand I care about. I’m not a “transphobe,” as the suffix “phobe” means fear, I’m “trans-I-Couldn’t-Care-Less.”
I’m sick of being preached to, by anyone. When cable news gets preachy, I turn it off. When movies get preachy, I don’t go. I honestly don’t give a damn if I agree with what’s being said or not, enough with the demanding people act a certain way garbage.
This year’s Oscars were pretty boring, to be honest. Host Jimmy Kimmel tried, but he’s just not funny anymore. The opening 15 minutes were tough to watch, not because the rich leftist host was a hypocrite about politics or he was bashing anything, but because it wasn’t even interesting. I don’t like Kimmel and I was embarrassed for him.
It was downhill from there. But it was also downhill before then too.
On the red carpet, one of the “big” stories from the event was Hugh Grant being called rude for not suffering no-talent, chunky model Ashley Graham’s vapid questions. “Um, so tell me,” Graham started her final question in the most valley girl way possible, “what does it feel like to be in Glass Onion? It was such an amazing film, I really loved it, I love a thriller. How fun is it to shoot something like that?”
At this point I’d forgotten Hugh Grant was in Glass Onion, since he only appeared for less than a minute in a cameo and the movie sucked (it had no point and an absurd plot, a complete waste of talent seemingly only made because the first one was hit so they thought they’d capitalize on the brand). Grant likely spent less than half a day on set and never interacted with much of the cast. If Graham had actually seen the movie (and you have to suspect she hadn’t since she called it a “thriller” and it’s not), she would have known Grant wasn’t really in the movie and the question producers whispered into her ear was stupid. Instead, she belched it up and woke leftists got upset that Grant, a leftist himself, didn’t suffer this fool with a smile.
What have we become?
Then there was best costume winner Ruth Carter, who did the costumes for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. At her press conference backstage she attempted to wrap herself in victimhood. “I studied. I scraped. I dealt with adversity in the industry that sometimes didn’t look like me,” she told reporters. Well, she’s not a gay man, so yeah, the fashion and costume industry don’t “look like her.” Who cares? She’s black, who cares?
This wasn’t Carter’s first rodeo, however. She won her second Oscar Sunday night, her first came for the first “Black Panther.” The costumes in both movies were fine, I guess, but the ones in the sequel weren’t that different from the ones in the original movie – so it’s not like she did some groundbreaking work or anything. Yet, she played the victim card because victimhood is currency on the left – it’s what they aspire to, and they’re willing to make it up to get it.
Counterfeit victimhood spends as easily as the real thing, sometimes more.
That’s my real problem with most of the movies they nominate, and the people they reward. I’ll still watch – and I know you probably don’t, but exponentially more people do than watch Fox, so you should at least be aware of what’s happening in the culture or we’ll continue to lose – if mostly to keep up with what the enemy is going. But also because they might actually, if only accidentally, do something good too.
It was nice to see seemingly nice guys, once discarded by Hollywood, Brendan Frasier and Ke Huy Quan (Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) win. Redemption stories are always nice. The rest of it…well, maybe Will Smith was the smart one for getting banned last year.
I here from Babylon Bee that Zelensky won best actor.
Hear. Not here, still too short?
When the msm feels it’s necessary to fact check a parody side they’re basically telling on themselves, and admitting that they’ve become a joke.
You watched the Oscars Derek! That makes you a hero in my eyes, although please don’t be a hero next time. Do you want all that inside your brain?
Clearly not enough diversity among the Oscar statuettes. Where are the female ones? Where are the black ones? Where are the transgender ones? Where are the smaller ones for differently-sized actors? Down with silver supremacy!
Please don’t give those drama-queen idiots any ideas.
When cosseted fools have too much time on their hands, they get dangerous.
As those fools lack imagination, they haven’t had your idea pop in their skulls yet.
We both know they’d make sexually explicit award figures, if they go there, so mum’s the word.
Wow. I’d say its very risky watching the Oscars and the movies they make in this age. Defilement spiritually speaking. Keep yourselves pure and clean.
Damn, did I miss the Oscars ………………………………….again?
I”m going to have to pick some nits about your use of the phrase “exponentially more people {watch the Oscars} than watch Fox”. I suppose that literally true, provided you keep your exponent to less than THREE. I know that the phrase is used in the vernacular to mean “a lot more”, but it’s vague enough to covey that it could be vastly higher. The Oscars were watched by a more than 18 million; Fox’s highest rated show pulls in a bit more than 3 million. That’s SIX times more…so say THAT. But if you’re talking about exponents, that 18 million is significantly less than 3 cubed of the Fox numbers. So again, you ARE literally correct…but that use is misleading.
Just wait until someone says, “orders of magnitude greater.”
Have you ever noticed how many movies that win Best Picture Oscar are almost never seen again/ Thats because movies like Krammer vs Krammer and Annie Hall totally bombed noting that those who voted for 12 Years a Slave never watched the movie
Kramer v Kramer box office was 173 million on a 8 million budget.
That’s a bomb?
I last watched the Oscars when Billy Crystal hosted! Now I love movies – especially the OLD movies – or just stupid comedy but I’ve gotten very PICKY about what I watch. Any movie available that was made in the last four years is an autoskip!! Now I will – and have – watched the video of the rhinoceros slinging poo! Now THAT was entertainment! They should show it on a loop on cnn – would improve their ratings!
how did willy smith and chris rock not win any awards for their spectacular performance of that fake slap skit at last year’s oscars? c’mon man, that was “acting” (playing pretend) at its finest!
I don’t pay much attention to movies anymore and don’t watch the Academy Awards ever. But I am very glad Bendan Frasier won. He’s a terrific actor who was badly mistreated by the film industry. FWIW, I’ve tried three times to watch Everywhere All at Once or whatever it is called on a subscription movie channel and thought it awful, unwatchable. I never lasted more than twenty minutes watching it.
I thought “Blast From The Past,” was pretty cute and entertaining, though Alicia Silverstone’s character had the obligatory flamboyantly gay roommate..
By choice, I watch very few movies these days. “Actors” acting??? The noise these “actors” produce comes from throats that are but open graves in which to bury our language and culture.