Hollywood is trash ,too political ,and UNFAIR

POSTED BY: Windwalker
UPDATED: Saturday, January 21, 2006 07:38
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WINDWALKER

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:37 PM

I saw the Golden Globes the other night and i came to one conclusion
The gay/lesbian activism agenda has gone too far.
I'm all for respecting peoples lifestyles and such but enough is enough. i think we got the message,

Now let good movies like Serenity get some "GOLD"

Best Picture – Drama
Brokeback Mountain
Director: Ang Lee
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Best Actress – Drama
Felicity Huffman
Transamerica
Writer/Director: Duncan Tucker
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Best Actor – Drama
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote
Director: Bennett Miller
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Even my TV shows
Everyone has a gay reference. Please stop flaunting it I am tired of it.

Too much of one thing can be very boring.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

KSC

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:43 PM

I wouldnt let award shows bother you. How often do genre specific films get reconized for anything other than score and effects? Even LOTR:ROTK, a film that won multiple Oscars, didnt have any actors as winners.

Edit: And I just realized that not what youre talking about, sorry.

FLIPDOG

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:44 PM

And *ahem* didn't deserve it.

Just like Star Wars will win multiple awards because it's the "end" of an era.

It's also just all a scam. Do you really think that its about "good cinema" these days? I mean, has anyone seen 1963 Orcar winner Lawrence of Arabia. It won because of great-just-about-everything.

KSC

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:47 PM

I beg to differ on BOTH points. LOTR has steller acting performances and SW wont win anything! Lucasfilm, one of the biggest effects houses in the world still lost to The Matrix in '99 and The Two Towers in '02. As much as I love SW, they are just fanboy cannon fodder at this point. They try to revolutionize and end up getting beat down by fledgling artists. As far as acting, in a SW movie,dreadful at best.

KENT

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:56 PM

The gay agenda!
The widespread homosexual conspiracy!
The enormous pressure from society to make you fornicate with people of your own gender!
Hollywood constantly forcing you to watch movies with gay people in them!

It's madness! Madness!

Give me a break. It's a great movie, and getting the attention and credit it deserves... deal with it.

FLIPDOG

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:03 PM

I'm also not disputing the fact that SW is crap nowadays, but it's the principle of the thing, they will win because it's then end of the "epic saga."

LotR won for the same reason, it wasn't RotK that won specifically, it was all the films put together. My opinion on it, the acting was okay, the effects: not so great. The directing...well, don't get me started on PJ.

KSC

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FlipDog:
...well, don't get me started on PJ.

Well considering he's one of my favorite directors from Braindead to Kong, I wont.

EMPXENU

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:06 PM

LotR's effects "not so great"? What kind of standard do you go by?

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"I think, therefore I am... I think"

FLIPDOG

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:14 PM

By "not-so-great" I mean it looked fake at times. For example, my favorite piece of bad green-screening: Aragorn's speech to the troops. The backdrop had no depth and just so flat. The CG in FotR and TTT was mcuh better than RotK. It looked rushed and thrown together.

My standards are along the lines of not getting up and saying "It's a beautiful CG day outside." (As in PotC) My standards are about using models and techniques that don't 100% take place in a computer. Yes, there are some things that work, but it's like shooting on digital as compared to film. There's no personality to it, it's "too perfect." Oops, I screwed up...oh well, fix it in post.

CARTOON

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:21 PM

Well, what makes good cinema (or just about anything) is subjective, and what one person thinks is "great", another person can see as "poop" (I don't care how many art schools you went to, I wouldn't dirty dog vomit by putting a Picasso next to it.)

But, I agree with Windwalker in that there is certainly a political agenda in Hollywood -- and it's far left. Naturally, I'm a conservative who's so far to the right that next to me Ronald Reagan was commie.

But, in all seriousness, did anyone notice how "The Passion of the Christ" was ignored by the award-nominating powers that be last year? Granted, I saw the film, and I didn't think it was stellar, but the point is, if the film were something that degraded Christ, it probably would've been nominated for fifty thousand awards (and won most of them).

It's no secret that Hollywood is not only left of center, but left of left. Even though family oriented movies continue doing well at the box office, they prefer to throw their awards at liberal garbage. Go figure.

Then good taste never was one of Hollywood's strong points. Just look at Firefly's multi-seasoned run.

That's my opinion.

"You don't pay me to talk pretty."

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