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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on February 23, 2009, 05:11:59 PM
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 05:58 PM
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Partisanship run amok: The Oscars put political agenda ahead of artistic merit...again
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5117438
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There are three points of contention with the results of last night's ceremony and, no, it doesn't have much to do with Sean Penn's acceptance speech or BillMaher's smug soapbox for his documentary Religulous. They used their time to express their opinions, which for the most part is healthy. What I have problem with is the blatant shunning of obviously better films for the betterment of their precious ideology and disrespect towards one of their own.
Not sure what I'm talking about? Here are some examples:
Waltz with Bashir, the heavy favorite from Israel, lost to the Japanese film, Departures, for best foreign language film.
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Even ardent liberals will tell you that Milk, though powerful onscreen, was a lightweight on paper. Dustin Lance Black's story, based on the rise of gay activist Harvey Milk, was good. No doubt about it. The movie was great too but here's the catch: it was the least qualified in the category. In Bruges meanwhile, written by playwright Martin McDonagh, was smart, literate and most of all, entertaining. Passing it over for Milk shows that the Academy cares a lot more about social issues than the actual films they are supposed to vote on. Hell, even if any other picture won, it would still ring more true than what transpired last night. I callbullplop.
Silence from the auditorium when Charlton Heston's image was shown during the video montage of those no longer with us.
The other two might be quibbles but this moment was downright shameful.
During the video of images from those within the movie industry that have died the previous year, the crowd clapped politely for each person. Some, who were more famous (i.e. Roy Schneider, Harold Pinter, Ricardo Montalbán, etc.) had an extended clip and drew more applause from the Kodak Theatre. Makes sense. But when Heston's image appeared, complete with clips from notable features like The Ten Commandments and Planet of the Apes, the entire auditorium was silent. You could hear a pin drop or Ben Lyons asking inane questions. Then when the next image appeared, applause magically reappeared.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2239-Denver-Movies-Examiner~y...
That is not going to go over well...
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 06:02 PM
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3. I figured people would whine about the lack of Charleton Heston's applause.
Hell yeah, I'm glad he's dead. And I hope he burns in hell.
Kind of like I'm going to feel about a certain Chief Justice?
Aristus (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 06:04 PM
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7. If Charleton Heston didn't want to provoke silence during a eulogy in his honor,
he shouldn't have been a crazy, loon-bat gun-nut. Bottom line.
He had some terrific progressive cred up through the Sixties, then pissed it all away for the approbation of idiots.
No pity...
You need to remember that when you shovel the dirt over their broken bodies.
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....and that's why I don't watch "Raving Moonbats on Parade".....I mean Oscars.
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Yet daily you can walk the island and find threads saying how it is Republicans that are hate spewing people. :whatever:
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I love the Oscars. A bunch of narcissistic high school drop outs telling me how they think I should live.
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If what the primitive said is true about how the audience reacted to Charlton Heston on the sceen, then their shallowness and inhumanity completely erases any type of good-will gesture they might do on behalf of needy organizations that are relevant.
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I hear that Milk has grossed 28 million as of today, and cost 20 million to produce.
Moonbats are a very bitter sort. My moonbat cousin removed me from her friends list on facebook today. I assume it was because she didn't like my snarky status message about the Obamulus.
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I hear that Milk has grossed 28 million as of today, and cost 20 million to produce.
Moonbats are a very bitter sort. My moonbat cousin removed me from her friends list on facebook today. I assume it was because she didn't like my snarky status message about the Obamulus.
Other than The Dark Knight I think the sum of all the Oscar winners this year have grossed less than $300M -- Hollywood's attempt at being "Oh So Better" once again crashes and burns.
And, Americans have no truck with Bollywood -- the most bizarre amalgam of slammed-together "art" ever put together. My prediction: Slumdog gets all of $15M "kick" from its win. Everyone else gets nothing.
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