Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep pose together backstage before "Montclair Film: An Evening with Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep" at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Dec. 1, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Posted on 12/11/2018 9:26:23 AM PST by Rummyfan
On Monday I received an email from the Motion Picture Academy informing me that if I didn't pay my dues, I wouldn't be able to vote in the Oscar nominations in a couple of weeks. I debated for a few minutes. Dues have inflated since I joined in the eighties and are now a hefty $450 per annum. Nevertheless, spendthrift that I am, I bit the proverbial bullet and went for it. Call it the inability to break a bad habit. Or an addiction to the non-stop influx of screeners that arrive at my door every December, not that I watch many of them. (I suspect I'm not alone in that.)
But it wasn't just the money that had made me hesitate. On one level, I wouldn't have re-upped up for $4.50, let alone $450. I mean -- what was the point of this? Does anybody care who wins the Oscar anymore? I certainly don't -- and I'm a voter.
Even the recent dust-up over the Oscars now having no host, since Kevin Hart ankled (as they used to say in Variety) over obscure homophobic tweets for which he had apologized years ago -- talk about tempest in a tea pot -- was of little interest to me. Drudge apparently felt otherwise, having put the "scandal" briefly at the top of his page, but I suspect not many feel similarly and that this year the Oscars will continue on their downward spiral toward life support.
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Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep pose together backstage before "Montclair Film: An Evening with Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep" at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Dec. 1, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
The only flick I'm interested in seeing is Clint Eastwood's The Mule.
I haven't seen any of the last three or four Best Picture winners.
Ping.
If I was in the movie business, this would be the most disturbing thing I had read in my career. LOL.
The most recent Best Picture Award winner I’ve seen was Argo (2012). I think I’ve only seen about a half-dozen of the winners since 1990 ... and none of them in a movie theater.
Scarier: Prospective customers care even less that this guy.
Every form of entertainment has a build up, a peak, a plateau, and a decline. Some will cease to be entirely. Others shrink down to suit present demand,or morph to suit the times. If Hollywood is to continue as a strong force in the entertainment industry, they need to change to suit the American public, or cater only to China. Let Georgia take over more filming projects.
It seems that many recent Oscar contenders have been arthouse type movies, which were not seen by many people.
This ties in with the Oscars TV ratings dropping. How many people want to watch an awards show, to see which movie they haven’t seen and know nothing about, wins awards?
From 1977 through to late 1980s....I probably averaged forty movies a year (military theater rates were a dollar in those days). Since 2010, I’ve seen a grand total of twelve movies for the 8 year period.
The popcorn and sodas run near $12. Half of the movies have a storyline that loses your attention around thirty minutes into movie. Some acting is so bad, that you have to wonder what the producers were thinking when they hired these idiots. I hate to suggest it, but these Marvel movies are the only proven winners that you can walk in and feel entertained for two hours.
When I fly overseas I always watch old movies. I almost never watch the new movies.
The rape of the 13 year old girl took place at Jack Niclolson’s house. And there he is applauding away.
She was gorgeous but from a poor Calif family. She got famous and her parents could buy a house in Big Bear, later in Lakeside.
The execs LOVED her, esp after Poltergeist. They dressed her up in a pedo bikini on a stage. With the floodlights on her, a bunch of them sitting in the dark of the theater went all Pee Wee Herman in the darkness --this was their secret hobby.
You know what I'm talking about.
Later the real big-wheels took her into a back room to do some stuff to her. Apparently they'd been doing that stuff to her for years.
They stuck something up her as$, causing intenstinal stenosis.
Her parents thought she was simply sick, but then her toes started turning blue.
They rushed her to the hospital, her pupils becoming fixed in the ambulance.
She died.
Hollywood f*cked the child to death.
Is Hollywood Dead?
Hope so.
(how about a few bucks to end this FReepathon???)
Frankly, I would rather watch what’s on TCM than see just about any new release.
Movies today have degenerated into action-oriented, characterless political statements that are somehow designed to offend me.
The "stars" typically show less talent than the feature actors, and the scripts are apparently written by third graders (in a hurry).
Someone in Hollywood decided that scenes were too long for actors to perform, so now each film is a staccato of scene cuts that should infuriate any voting member of the academy.
I could go on, but then it would be like an acceptance speech.
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“Is Hollywood dead?” No,, but it’s stinking pretty bad...
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