Actually I thought Seth McFarlane was a pretty good host.
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 had to give the cat a bath but from the clips I have seen the author was either watching something else or is Stalin’s long lost twin.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! If you're looking for investors, line me up! A winning formula indeed...:)
Hollywood-who cares?
Yes, the feminist dream world.
Even the Rock hasn’t been immune to bombs. See the bay watch remake. I don’t think his Hercules movie did that well either.
And MORE gay characters!
At least 50% of the characters in any dang movie MUST BE GAY!
If they don’t get this done then I won’t ever watch...oh, wait, never mind, this is the one thing they have successfully accomplished!
Actually I thought Seth McFarlane was a pretty good host.
Nobody is immune to them. Even John Wayne had a few. Baywatch was a terrible idea for a movie and deserved to bomb. Hercules was actually a pretty successful film.
Well with her germ phobia and her performance in Red Sparrow, we know she can’t make it as a hooker or stripper.
Too dumb to do anything else...
Guess a SJW is the only thing she is qualified to do as she loves to her herself talk.
Jennifer Lawrence is a germophobe but when she’s drinking, her alter ego ‘Gail’ comes out who is quite wild.
Must have been ‘Gail’ taking all those cellphone pics.
No, she’s not bat$hit crazy.
Lawrence is living proof, when you are a 14 year old drop out and are willing to spread your legs and lie on your back for old powerful men you can can be paid well.
She literally has 3 facial expressions, 3...
Her sixth grade education’s gotta be worth SOMETHING!.............
And that pretty much sums up her talent. Not the greatest actress really, and only moderately pretty IMHO.
Sorority house hard 8 or soft 9. Even if she never finished middle school.
Can't act though. Oscar or not.
So why is she paid so much? Hunger Games she was fine. I hated her as Mystique in the Xmen films.
“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.”
Hacksaw Ridge. Great film. Another Mel Gibson accomplishment.
Being a great filmmaker now means being an outcast in Hollyweird.
Same with patriot and expert filmmaker Clint Eastwood.
Too Stupid to drive and is totally clueless.
“This is reflected in [Leftists’ and Democrats’] hatred for:
Trump
Republicans
Christians
The South
Christians
Jews
The NRA
Gun Owners
Straight People”
Unfortunately, the majority of Jews in America vote Democrat and identify as liberal. And liberal Jews have a disproportionate amount of control in Hollywood. Think of men like Harvey Weinstein. Perhaps hatred for Israel is a little closer. Seems like liberal Jews side with the Palestinians over Israel.
Dingbat looks like he’s having a panic attack. Well, duh, yield to the right of way, stupid.
It will. They understand that if Black Panther doesn't sweep the Oscars, there will be trouble. And the Hollywood people DO NOT want trouble right now.
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