Posted on 03/08/2018 8:30:06 AM PST by EdnaMode
FLEMING: Why were the Oscar ratings down 19% to the smallest viewership level of all time? I found it a most satisfying show. Jimmy Kimmel and producers Mike De Luca and Jennifer Todd did a fine job all the way to the finish line this time, owning last year’s gaffe and ensuring it didn’t happen with foolproof 100-point type on each envelope. Kimmel was hilarious; the film montages and special presenters infused the 90th Oscars with a sense of film history. Compared to the men-are-bad funereal atmosphere of the Golden Globes, this show was fun but still managed graceful moments on race, sexism, and immigration in speeches by Frances McDormand, Jordan Peele and Guillermo del Toro.
So, what the hell happened to the ratings? One of my young staffers said his generation watches highlight clips on their iPhones; why sit through 3+ hours? Another theory is the roster of mostly specialty films limited audience appeal, a theory sure to be tested next year when the universally loved Black Panther competes for Best Picture. Then, I got a call from a left-leaning exec who posited another theory that rang the bell for me. “Just like the Jennifer Lawrence movie Red Sparrow, the Oscars suffered last weekend from the same problem. The Red State audiences were so polarized by Kimmel and Lawrence that they didn’t show up. Google Lawrence and Trump and you’ll see reams of stories where she just bashed the President, over and over. Kimmel didn’t do it Oscar night, but he does it five nights a week and so a certain part of the country would have expected it. It’s hard enough to get people to leave their houses to see anything but a superhero movie at a movie theater.
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I didn’t watch it because I was straightening out my socks drawer.
At least part of the problem is that Hollywood doesn’t make many good movies.
Waiting for Black Panther to win “Best Picture” and “Best Actor” next year. LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAwTy3Hp4g
America’s ‘conscience’ doing the ‘Juggy talent show’ on The Man Show.
Maybe the left leaning exec will start getting the word out that if you want to work in Hollyweird, you’d better keep you politics to yourself or even better yet, make it so the public has absolutely no idea what your politics are, or maybe that you support America, American vale’s, the President, the National Anthem, baseball, hot dogs, Apple pie, Chevrolet and everything else ,idle America holds dear.
Watched FOX News w/ the English guy and Mark Levin.
Nobody wants to see Jennifer Lawrence in anything except the unemployment line................
IT will or there will be hell to pay.......................
Partly. Hollywood's products are garbage. Rather than entertainment, they are nonstop insults to the intelligence of their customers' tastes and sensibilities. The Oscar awards program compounds that with direct insults from actors, actresses, directors, MCs, etc.
Who, in their right minds, would sit through a program dedicated to rewarding products they don't want while being insulted by those who live off those products?!
From what I've heard, "Red Sparrow" was sunk by the fact that it isn't a very good movie.
Of course politics has a lot to do with it. But there’s also the fact that no one wants to stay up to find out what movie they’ll never see wins Best Picture. Hollywood seems to have lost the ability to make films that are both artistically and financially successful. Or even just fun to watch (I can’t stand superhero movies). Not only can’t they make a Godfather anymore, they can’t even make a Titanic or a Gladiator.
People saw all they wanted to see of Jennifer Lawrence when her candid pics leaked on the internet.
Red Sparrow i missed because i have become bored watching 105 pound pixies kicking the ass of NFL linemen, mafia enforcers, and special forces types.
Roger that. I've enjoyed movies all my life but everything coming out is the same rehashed pablum (comic book movies, sequels) or preachy liberal art house films. For the last decade my preferred option has been to rent flicks, then I realized I wasn't finishing any of the movies I rented. I'd get bored and put it on pause after about a half hour, figuring I'd get back to it, but I never did. Even now the last movie I can recall that kept my interest from beginning to end was that movie about the conscientious objector in WWII who refused to carry a rifle but won the CMH for his bravery as a medic during the Pacific campaign.
Joaquin Phoenix said he doesn’t care if people come to his movies. I think part of the collapse is this attitude toward the people who PAY MONEY to see movies. The actors don’t care if we come to the movies? Ok with us; we won’t waste our money.
What is very funny - in the middle of the article, there is a rating grid from Neilson showing who didn’t watch (vs. last year) by demographics - income and education.
It clearly shows that lower income people and less educated people were most likely to NOT watch vs. 2017 - their demographics watched less than the higher paid and more educated audiences.
The numbers in the grid are not discussed in the article. The grid is just dropped in there without any comment or reference.
So, the article (interview) is about the concept that liberals (Kimmel and Lawrence) may have driven away Republicans / Conservatives from watching. OK, probably some truth to that.
But, then tie that premise with the grid: the Republican’s didn’t watch because of the Liberals, and the grid says it was the poor and uneducated that didn’t watch: conclusion - Republicans are poor and uneducated!
This is the exact type of subtle bias injected in so many articles. Why put the grid in there at all if you are not going to discuss it? This is an interview piece and didn’t mention the demographics. Answer: the inflammatory rating grid is what the editors really wanted the reader to leave with; not the light bashing of Kimmel and Lawrence.
Well, there you go, There’s nothing left to see................
got link?.................
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