If this event alone doesn't prove that Hollywood is in the toilet, nothing does.
Posted on 03/07/2006 9:22:24 PM PST by george76
The divide between conservative and liberal America was on full display at the Oscars, with both the winners and losers championing social and political topics heralded by the left.
Across the United States, in blogs and on call-in radio talk shows, conservatives seethed that their point of view was not represented in the choice films honored with nominations -- let alone among those given awards.
"This year's Oscar nominees include stories of homosexual sheep herders, a transvestite and Japanese prostitutes," ...
American conservatives are accustomed to frowning at liberal Hollywood, but they were more disaffected than ever by the left-of-center themes of this year's Oscar nominees.
the conservative Concerned Women for America (CWA)...complained that the few Hollywood films it approved of had loads of popular appeal and impressive box office, but "got the cold shoulder from Hollywood elitists."
Conservative America long has been at odds with liberal Tinseltown, championing films with religious overtones like the blockbuster "Passion of the Christ," which was snubbed at the 2004 Oscars.
This year another hit with Christian overtones was the film "The Chronicles of Narnia...which has raked in more than 637 million dollars in ticket receipts around the world...
Narnia's ticket sales nearly equaled those of the five best picture Oscar nominees combined.
"This year's anticipated Oscar-winning movies, reviewed in light of their box office appeal, reveal Hollywood's true motives.
They are far less concerned about entertaining people than they are with trying to shape the culture and advance a political agenda."
"If you want to be truly courageous and take actual risks then make a movie that gives conservatives a fair shake or, God forbid, make a movie where a Liberal is the bad guy."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Holly wierd is in the tank.
Oscars don't matter.
Citizens voted with their feet.
And with their money.
We voted with our wallets, actually. : ) Or rather, refused to vote with our wallets.
If this event alone doesn't prove that Hollywood is in the toilet, nothing does.
Compared with Narnia and The Passion of the Christ, Brokeback Mountain was an utter flop, except in the bathouses of San Francisco and New York.
That's right. Remember this line from the article:
"They are far less concerned about entertaining people than they are with trying to shape the culture and advance a political agenda."
Evidently they are also less concerned about making money than they are about putting forth their point of view.
Minor movies watched by a very few.
If MMoore is your symbol for Hollywood...well, I hate to break it to you but that won't FIT in the toilet!
Same thing.
Not walking in.
The blues?
Over the Oscars?
That was on?
And...this moron Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 911 had no impact whatsoever. The impact film (political ad) which cost a measely $100K put forth by the Swift Boat Vets helped destroy "traitor" John Kerry!!! Moore's $119M film did zilch to hurt GW Bush's chances for re-election. So much for Michael Mooore!!! And...Hollywood too!!! 2006 is going to be a bad year for the left-wing idiots from Hollywood.
Who decided for me that I have the "blues" over a bunch of lousy movies?
I just don't care. Why doesn't Yahoo and Hollow-wood understand this?
My girlfriend watched parts of it and thought I was wierd for not watching it.
Then again she didn't understand why I threatened to dump her if she insisted on having me take her to the butt rammers movie.
Brokeback broke Hollywood. Details at 11....
The title was written by an idiot try to make a bad pun over blue vs red America.
It failed like their stupid show that no one watched.
"conservatives seethed that their point of view was not represented in the choice films honored with nominations -- let alone among those given awards."
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I didn't get the feeling that we were "seething;" pretty much it seemed everyone just ignored the Oscars. As we should, for anything that isn't worth our time.
I didn't get the "blues" over the Oscars. I simply don't give a crap about the cult of celebrity. I...just...don't...care. It's really that simple.
I'm not blue about the Oscars - in fact, I'm pretty happy. I love to see these people continue to ram their philosophy/lifestyle on everyone. It is losing them BIG TIME and they haven't figured it out yet.
So keep it coming lefties. :)
I get DVD videos of John Wayne movies and play 'em at home, along with Clint Eastwood, and Arnold the Governator movies, with the odd Sean Connery movie.
Who wants to watch a couple of shite packin cowboys cheat on their wifes and horses?
And Japanese prostitutes? Been there done that.
Sooner or later Hollywood is gonna tank, just like the MSM!!!
I would sooner watch DVD Brollywood movies from India than that shite they are turning out in California.
I don't really care what Hollywood does as long as The Sopranos airs on the 12th.
"Yahoo and Hollow-wood understand this?..."
No, they do not get it.
They will never get it.
They are not part of the real world. They do not work real jobs.
The artsy fartsy crowd are never going to vote for a blockbuster film which the "serfs" liked. And we hate the crap they say they like.
If every conservative in this country spent the amount of money we spent on movies last year, all those phony so-called "stars" would be on welfare.
Or back waiting tables where they started.
Agreed.
I forgot it was on until I flipped through the channels and saw stars primping. Even then it took a minute to remember it was Oscar Night. I just don't care anymore. Three years ago I passionately hated them. Now I find them irrelevant and do not even pay attention. Hollywood ought to make note. When passion, even hate, turns to apathy they are in trouble. That usually signals a permanent downturn if they can't even incite reaction anymore.
And you're dating this wench because..???
: )
LOL
The business reality is, Hollywood cannot long continue to spend $100 million to make a movie that only grosses $60 million or less.
They were hoping that we were seething...
I would rather watch paint dry.
Good.
Let them spend $100 million to gross $60 million.
That means less political money for the DUmmies. George Soros will be on his own, soon.
Note to Yahoo: I'm not seething, I'm really very calm. I'm not playing your game, I'm giving you no satisfaction whatsoever. I'm also not spending my $ on trash. The wife and I went to see Harrison Ford in Firewall the other night in East Peoria. It's so similar to a dozen other films (Clear and Present Danger, Gibson in the one where his son gets kidnapped, etc) but it was decent enntertainment. The screen with rump ranger sheep herders was empty. Rump ranger sheep herders evidently don't play in East Peoria.
The Academy showed tremendous disrespect to conservative actors of earlier eras with a montage of clips of old westerns to show "evidence" of gay cowboys in earlier works.
Well, actually it was Sunnyland, not East Peoria. But close.
"talking sense to the crazies"
...and think they're doing all of us other benighted FReepers some kind of favor by peddling leftist horsecrap talking points over and over and over and...
Blue? Over these pompous fools? Hardly.
Maybe it gives George cLooney and the rest of his pals some jollies to thumb their noses at their potential audience.
I just keep thinking that the stars of the past would never have treated people this way. Clark Gable, Cary Grant, you name it, they were gentlemen.
Oh well, that was the past, and we don't live there anymore.
I wonder if he breaks toilets. Just heard a blurb on the radio about overweight Aussies breaking toilets.
"If hollyweird has a few more years like the last one, it will dry up and blow away."
I think they really hurt themselves this year and they know it. They went way too heavy on shoveling their sh*t on the public who wasn't basically buying any of it. Hollywood isn't going to change but the movies will head more to left of center.
The Academy is toast.
They approve of movies that are not being watched and they are loosing lots of money.
Napolean once said (similar to)... When you see your enemy making mistakes, do not be impolite and correct him.
Brokeback was very successful; a $14 million production cost with a worldwide box office gross well over $100 million. Not a blockbuster like Passion or Narnia, but certainly not an utter flop.
Moore's laughing all the way to the bank - or the buffet. His 9/11 movie cost less than $5 million and grossed over $100 million. But you're certainly right that it didn't get Francois in the Maison Blanche.
I totally agree. It turned my stomach to see classics debased that way. Makes me want to tie Chuck Workman spread-eagled over a wagon wheel.
The same actors who laughed at the montage prank would gasp to see some corporation editing clips of some movie they were in for use as a cola commercial 20-40 years after they died.
Perhaps something that could be hosted by IMDB or such.. where nominations for various awards could be gathered and put into place... then these could be given over to an American Idol sort of TV show that plays clips of the nominees and takes votes.. Then the next week there is an award show..
This is not like creating a conservative version of the Oscars.. just one that is more representative.. and drags good movies out into the open.. like "Passion of the Christ" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" and gives them a chance to Shine along side of the other favorites like Harry Potter and Spiderman and such. Let the Academy sink into irrelevance with their Art House flicks..
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