These newsgroups are really thin skinned. Ebert was one of the few mainstream critics to give the Passion 4 stars. He just hapepned to see 10 other films he thought were better. Movies are like that. Different people have different taste.
You mean it's an unreasonable complaint, but you didn't wish to state it so reasonably? as it were. You have a problem with people expressing outrage at the media elites for failing to recognize one of the best produced and most influential motion pictures of the last however many years, in Gibson's The Passion of Christ? Just as a film, it's a cut above many of the other nominees. Clearly something else is at work, here. And the obvious suspicion is that there is a Catholophobic bias among these same media elites. They are BLACKLISTING this film, denying it any opportunity for recognition. They are shunning the film because of its content, not that it was bloody, but that it was a film reasonably faithful to the Passion story, and Jesus Christ.
It is something about which one OUGHT to be outraged. It's religious discrimination in its worst form, and imposed in conspiratorial fashion by not one, or two, but various individuals and supposedly professional organizations. Wake up. Take off the blinders. Exit the matrix.
The tragedy is that some of the biggest fans of these organizations, from the Oscars on down, are found even here on FR. They contribute to this system, to this blacklisting, by their own enthusiasm for the sham of awards. What is called for, instead, is that 'freepers' shun the Oscars, and the Golden Globes, and that others do, as well. They won't 'get the message'. These BLACKLISTERS will bankrupt their own industry before they confess their own bigotry or do anything positive to remove it; just like liberal newspapers would rather shut their doors than give a conservative columnist even a single inch of print to tell the other side of the story. But even if the media elite will refuse to learn, it's they who should be shunned. And too many on FR will not understand that.
I can't think of ten. I have a hard time thinking of one.
And IDIOTS have idiotic tastes.
I don't recall any generation or country in all of history destroying itself like we are.
What country in history has essentially coddled, aided, supported, abbetted their enemies like we have--whether it's Jihadis or whomever has it in for us . . . we have been idiots repeatedly.
And that doesn't even begin to touch our destroying our values, morals, social fabric, public integrity, the family etc.