Posted on 02/28/2005 7:43:50 AM PST by Borges
43.5 million viewers (approximately). Isn't that just about the "legal" amount of people who voted for Kerry?
Just a thought.
(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")
I hope this doesn't encourage them to ask Chris Rock back again. He positively stunk.
It doesn't mean they KEPT this audience for the duration. Many probably left after the "monologue".
I wonder what critics the author is talking about? Gangs of NY was a much better film than "Mean Streets". Danial Day Lewis' acting in Gangs was every bit a good as DiNiro's in Raging Bull, also. I thought Gangs was a very underrated picture.
Kinda like Rock's opening?
I agree about Chris Rock. I generally find him funny, but I thought he was pretty flat last night. The Bush jokes really didn't bother me since I've learned to expect them whenever Hollywood and politics intersect. I just think I've seen Rock funnier. Maybe I just think the efforts of other hosts pale beside the good work Billy Crystal did on the Oscars when he hosted.
"I thought Gangs was a very underrated picture."
I did too but was a litte rubbed at a couple of obvious PC inserted things.
1.)One of the dance hall "girls" was a guy with a 5 o'clock shadow. Homosexuality and gender ambiguity were openly accepted in the 1860's in the Five Points, evidently.
2.)A black guy was a member of the Dead Rabbits. Yeah, right.
The acting and overall portrayal was awesome, however.
I thought this would be a really low ratings night for Oscar. But looking back, the normal winner on Sunday nights, Fox, just showed "Independence Day" for the 100,000th time. No wonder people tuned in to the Academy Awards.
With all due respect, the "artists" you defend are the ones who started it.
They're the ones who take taxpayer money to put scrap metal piles in front of our public buildings and call it "sculpture." They're the ones who use taxpayer funds to show photos of crucifixes in jars of urine and pictures of the Virgin Mary made from elephant sh!t in the museums. They're the ones who took federal money given to schools for the "arts" and used it to encourage kids to send Christmas ornaments made out of sex toys to the White House so Hillary Clinton could display them on the Christmas tree.
And when we object to this abuse of taxpayer funds, they call us uncultured rubes, ignorant hicks, hayseeds, Bible bangers and Nazis.
They're the ones who turn out "music" that encourages drug use, violence toward women and the murder of police officers. Lest we forget, the music industry gave its highest honor this year to a gang of no-talent smack-heads (Green Day) whose "accomplishment" was nothing more than putting 45 minutes or so of non-stop Bush bashing and America bashing on a CD and selling it to their fellow pierced-scrotum losers nodding off in front of MTV.
And when we object to this coarsening of our culture and debasing of our incredibly rich, incredibly unique musical heritage, they call us uncultured rubes, ignorant hicks, hayseeds, Bible bangers and Nazis.
They're the ones who churn out movies made by scriptwriters who can't write, directed by directors who can't direct and played on screen by actors who can't act. The only thing they can do is relentlessly shove their far left agenda down our throats, promoting open public flaunting of homosexuality, abortion, euthanasia, pedophilia and complete centralized government control of every single aspect of our lives (not theirs, of course, they're above that) outside the bedroom.
Many of us can remember a time when Hollywood made truly great movies, some that we even disagreed with but still recognized as good films. Films that served a purpose other than openly mocking us and all our values. And when we lament the passing of that era and express our disgust at the communist sewage flowing out of Hollyweird these days, we're called uncultured rubes, ignorant hicks, hayseeds, Bible bangers and Nazis.
The "Arts" community has shown us all too often just how much contempt and scorn and hatred they have for us. So please spare me your sanctimonious hand-wringing over us giving back to them what they give to us.
Gee, that many. Wow.
(snicker)
I agree. I generally find Chris Rock funny, but this performance was a dud. And he was lame compared to David Letterman who had the best line on the Sarandon/Robbins duo. Letterman said, essentially, "Here they come and they're sure to be pissed off about something, so get ready." This was by far the best intro I ever heard at the Oscars.
Rock was pretty bad. I meant the movies themselves though.
I didn't watch it.
I saw the list of winners and my reaction was: "Yawn..."
And you can quote me on that. :>)
I'm not talking about goverment-funded 'art'. There are lots of good movies.
It appeared to me you were commenting on a post that was remarking upon the purported audience size.
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