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Posted
9 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Another spectacular red carpet look from Billy Porter #OscarsOscars_2019.png

 

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Can you imagine Sydney Poitier or Gary Cooper or Cary Grant in this get up?

 

I honestly thought you photoshopped that.

 

What an attention-starved idiot.

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Posted
42 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Another spectacular red carpet look from Billy Porter #OscarsOscars_2019.png

 

D0NKjZfWwAM2BPb.jpg

 

 

 

 

Can you imagine Sydney Poitier or Gary Cooper or Cary Grant in this get up?

Cam Newton found his week 1 outfit 

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Posted
1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:

I would definitely vote for Rami Malek as best actor in bohemian rhapsody 

 

He's almost a shoe-in.  He's got two of the three criteria the Academy look for in a best actor: he plays a gay character, and he plays a real person.  If he'd cried, he'd be a lock.  Plus...not that the Academy cares, but it was a legitimately great performance.

 

Since Roma won best foreign language film...there's a good chance Black Panther wins Best Picture.  Which would be inexplicable to me - it was pedestrian, at best.

Posted
2 hours ago, Steptide said:

I have it on, but crap is it boring 

 

Yup.  Doesn't help that I've never heard of 90% of the people either presenting or winning the awards.  

Posted
2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

I would definitely vote for Rami Malek as best actor in bohemian rhapsody 

He was great.  That performance and the Wayne's World reference were great.  The rest of the movie was your typical cliched band biopic.

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Wouldn't have watched it, but I had no choice. . Our power was out here from 4 untiL 11. 

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I skipped it, and I have been watching the Oscars for years.

 

I'm just sick of the pretentious speeches and the pompous attitude some of these people in the industry bring with them.

 

Some speeches are actually good and there are people who are deserving of some of the awards.

 

What really bothers me is the nominations. Political & Cultural messaging is now more important than artistic expression & talent. Why else did a movie like "Get Out" receive so many top nominations last year? Because it was a brilliant movie? :death:

 

Even though I have heard great things about "Green Book", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "The Favourite" & "A Star Is Born", I just can't bring myself to really care.

 

Maybe next year.

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Just once, I’d like to see the network actually pull the plug on all these clowns right at the allotted time.  Shut them down, take them off the air precisely at 11 o’clock, finished our not.

 

Just once.  They’d never again have to worry about that ridiculous, narcissistic, self-serving spectacle running over.?

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Posted
4 hours ago, Teddy KGB said:

I’m being attacked for being white on twitter because I enjoyed the green book ?

 

Lot of people are angry at Green Book > Black Panther for some reason.  

 

 

Green Book is the only one I’ve seen. Wife and I saw it a week ago. I was ver entertained. Made me recall a lot of bigotry and bias in the north.

Posted
4 hours ago, The Senator said:

 

Just once, I’d like to see the network actually pull the plug on all these clowns right at the allotted time.  Shut them down, take them off the air precisely at 11 o’clock, finished our not.

 

Just once.  They’d never again have to worry about that ridiculous, narcissistic, self-serving spectacle running over.?

NBC = Universal

ABC = Disney

CBS = Viacom

Fox = Fox

 

Do you really expect the Corporate Media to pull the plug in themselves?

 

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No I didn't watch it and haven't done so in years. it seems to have turned into the Olympics of Political Correctness. Hollywood looks to be an artifact of an outdated monoculture. It appears to have lost touch with its audience.

 

That said,  I still watch some currently produced movies and TV. I cannot say the same for the music industry which produces nothing but immediately disposable techno-fizz.

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Posted

The Oscars were always a bit bland in their winners anyway.  Alfred Hitchcock never win best director.  Martin Scorsese lost 5 times before winning for The Departed.  Imo, that was one of his weakest movies.

 

Directors like Ron Howard typically fared well.  People who make more sort of mainstream friendly pictures 

Posted
1 hour ago, /dev/null said:

NBC = Universal

ABC = Disney

CBS = Viacom

Fox = Fox

 

Do you really expect the Corporate Media to pull the plug in themselves?

 

 

I guess not, unless Neilson ratings show that no one was watching.

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