Article

2020-02-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hollywood’s soapboxing drags Oscars to all-time low ratings

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2020-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 What's an "oscar"?
Hollywood's dead, right?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 00:59|| 2020-02-11 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 There are way too many "award shows" on TV, one kinda get burned out watching self important people rant and pat themselves on the back.

I quit watching them a long time ago.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-02-11 02:15|| 2020-02-11 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm waiting for the "stroke of the pen" and all of the tax breaks for the entertainment industry will evaporate . "Sorry, all our positions at McDonalds have been filled by robots ."

Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-02-11 04:27|| 2020-02-11 04:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Return copyright back to the original 28 years and all of the sudden the entertainment industry will shrink dramatically to its proper place in society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-11 07:09|| 2020-02-11 07:09|| Front Page Top

#5 They just can't help themselves.

Posted by gorb 2020-02-11 08:40|| 2020-02-11 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 And they gave the biggets award (Best Directory, Best Picture) to a South Korean movie (and Best Foreign Language Film which was expected).

I'm not sure about the makeup of the Academy voters but that seems pretty significant and makes me wonder if the majority are older and sick of the shit as much as the rest of us.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-11 10:07|| 2020-02-11 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 According to Wikipedia in 2018 "Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition."

It doesn't list the makeup of the remaining voters.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-11 10:10|| 2020-02-11 10:10|| Front Page Top

#8 I stopped caring about the Oscars when Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in Love. Don't get me wrong - Shakespeare in Love was a cute movie, but nowhere as good as Saving Private Ryan.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-02-11 10:44|| 2020-02-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course I have been forced to see some of it.

Jeff Dunham has a better delivery than the Martin/Rock bit.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-11 10:46|| 2020-02-11 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 (1) Saving Private Ryan was flawed in that the narrator they wrapped the story around (Ryan) was not there for most of the events of the movie. (2) Also a lot of people had trouble telling if the German they let go was the one who killed Adam Goldman at the end. You can't leave people confused. (3) Gwyneth showed her boobies.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-11 13:37|| 2020-02-11 13:37|| Front Page Top

#11 The actor are there for each other. They could care less if the public is invited in any form or fashion. The speeches are directed at each other and not the public. Really, the only ones who give a damn about the ratings is the network broadcasting it.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-02-11 13:56|| 2020-02-11 13:56|| Front Page Top

#12 (3) Gwyneth showed her boobies.

Rather small potatoes, that

Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 14:54|| 2020-02-11 14:54|| Front Page Top

#13 A lonely old farmer of China
Reports to his pals at the diner:
"I planted those eggs..."
"And what happened?" they begs.
"Not one veggie, much less a vagina!"

Posted by Guillibaldo and Tenille4557 2020-02-11 15:50|| 2020-02-11 15:50|| Front Page Top

23:51 Guillibaldo and Tenille4557
23:41 gorb
23:32 Woodrow
23:30 Woodrow
23:19 Woodrow
22:44 trailing wife
22:17 Frank G
21:55 Cesare
21:28 Skidmark
21:21 Lex
21:14 Lex
21:13 Lex
20:24 John Frum
20:07 magpie
20:03 jpal
19:52 Alaska Paul
19:48 Herb McCoy
19:45 Ho Chi Darling of the Giants5137
19:45 Frank G
19:44 Lex
19:42 Lex
19:40 Lex
19:25 Lex
19:16 Zhang Fei