It's amazing how in our lifetime the Oscars went from must-watch TV to, "eh, I'll catch up to it in the morning". And I work in this business. I just don't care anymore. No one I know cares anymore. Even friends who are also in this business are over it.
All I had to read was that they dragged out Kimmel, which immediately told more than half the country this show is not for you. Then you sprinkle in Javier Bardem, freeing Palestine before he goes to get shitfaced for the night, ending the evening at the Chateau Marmont.
It's tired. It's boring. I don't care to watch it. And I work in this industry.
They're in a death spiral right now. I keep hearing things how they are going to go back to the old model, where movies are released in theaters and it will take a year for them to make it to streaming. That's not going to fix it.
The town needs an enema. We need new stars. New storytellers who aren't faux-activists. We need people to put their phones down. You need to draw people in, instead of shoving them away and then calling them racists.
And none of that will happen. This is the death rattle. I should have gone to medical school.
They live in a bubble where logic is turned on its head and enables a woman to put on her Handmaid's Tale costume to parade in public one week and then wrap a keffiyeh around her face the next week.
Ultimately, it's the left's moral vanity that makes them so contemptible.
Brilliant analysis and so sad. Maybe that's why studios like Angel are going to faith based films. I am Jewish but would rather watch a film that touches my soul than more ugliness and hate. I live in LA and as a conservative I can walk out my door to see that. I want my breath taken away with glorious music, love, education about forgiveness and maybe even sneak in a happy ending.!
Have you seen "The Madison" released on Prime last weekend? It's Taylor Sheridan's most recent work. It has the feel of a Hallmark story and in a sense, is faith-based in that after terrible tragedy, a family learns to have faith in each other on unfamiliar ground. As always, his script is excellent and he captures the dynamic of how people actually talk to each other... not always pleasant. And the scenery is magnificent without being extreme. It's a loving place where one loves the land and the land loves one back.
But, if that were the story, it would be boring, so there is controversy. From the outset, Sheridan skewers the Woke/DEI cityfolk with its own inanity. I expect Hollyweird will hate it, but the fans will love it because Sheridan separates the wheat from the chaff and focuses on what's really important.
Buckley is phenomenal. I first saw her in Simon Godwin's video staging of "Romeo and Juliet" for the National Theatre with Buckley playing the part accent-neutral in full brogue.
I watched the mean old White guys on the USA baseball team beat the poor POC on the Dominican Republic team last night. It was much more entertaining and had a lot of patriotism with Dominican and US flags being waved proudly. Of course they were professional baseball players but it was way better than the Oscars
I can't wait until AI replaces all these TDS suffering, under educated, over inflatted, egotistical, self agrandizing, self rewarding fools who believe that because they have a stage we should give a damn about what they have to blather about.
Most people don't care in one sense. However, people tend to go with headlines and breathless exclamation of "best pictures and major stars rather than any informed critique of what they are watching. Awards often determine their choices. This is the way propaganda works. Hollywood has become a victim of its own dangerous combination of zero self-awareness and unwarranted self-importance. Their virtue signals are social credit cards with no actual balance.
Who is Cogler? Why should anyone care? I would rather hear the story about Mike Tobin climbing Mount Everest. He is an older journalist on Fox. A war correspondent.
Sorry--Ryan Coogler. I couldn't edit my own spelling. He directed "Sinners," and Sasha thinks he should have won for best director. Apples and oranges: this is about film prizes and not mountain climbing
I'd like to see that, too, but it's not what the discussion is about. I agree that it would be better than almost anything Hollywood thinks is Oscar-worthy.
J Bardem should stay in his native land that gave us the inquisition and dead indigenous people throughout the western hemisphere ( north and south). Conquistadors and colonization: spains primary contributions to el Mundo
Javier could move back to Espana and set up a new torture chamber to exact confessions of non-woke ideology. This time it won’t be Jews and moors, it will be common Americans .
Last night's political rally confirmed what anyone even slightly conversant with history already knew: when you insist on politicizing virtue and art, you get neither. Instead, you get hypocrisy, prejudice, and propaganda.
Selective perception is a neat trick. It allows the ideologically captured to see, with a perfectly clear conscience, hatred, division, exclusion, and threats to democracy and the moral order everywhere but when they look in a mirror.
I haven't watched the Oscars for I don't know how long. Whether it's in a neighbor's backyard or on the television, I cannot abide self-important narcissists spouting and spitting false outrage , name calling, having nothing of importance or intelligence to offer.
I have my son visiting from New York. He wanted to watch as he saw three of the films. My husband indulged him and I had to endure by walking into the den to get a drink in the kitchen nearby. I could barely control my moans , snarky remarks ( Gwyneth Paltrows face is Frozen!), and moan when I saw some dumb ass skit. I convinced them to tape it and go out to dinner so I could escape even hearing it from the other room. Upon returning home I dreamt of the Oscar's with Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant. Class, elegance, fantasy and damn good movies. I
It's amazing how in our lifetime the Oscars went from must-watch TV to, "eh, I'll catch up to it in the morning". And I work in this business. I just don't care anymore. No one I know cares anymore. Even friends who are also in this business are over it.
All I had to read was that they dragged out Kimmel, which immediately told more than half the country this show is not for you. Then you sprinkle in Javier Bardem, freeing Palestine before he goes to get shitfaced for the night, ending the evening at the Chateau Marmont.
It's tired. It's boring. I don't care to watch it. And I work in this industry.
They're in a death spiral right now. I keep hearing things how they are going to go back to the old model, where movies are released in theaters and it will take a year for them to make it to streaming. That's not going to fix it.
The town needs an enema. We need new stars. New storytellers who aren't faux-activists. We need people to put their phones down. You need to draw people in, instead of shoving them away and then calling them racists.
And none of that will happen. This is the death rattle. I should have gone to medical school.
They live in a bubble where logic is turned on its head and enables a woman to put on her Handmaid's Tale costume to parade in public one week and then wrap a keffiyeh around her face the next week.
Ultimately, it's the left's moral vanity that makes them so contemptible.
Brilliant analysis and so sad. Maybe that's why studios like Angel are going to faith based films. I am Jewish but would rather watch a film that touches my soul than more ugliness and hate. I live in LA and as a conservative I can walk out my door to see that. I want my breath taken away with glorious music, love, education about forgiveness and maybe even sneak in a happy ending.!
Have you seen "The Madison" released on Prime last weekend? It's Taylor Sheridan's most recent work. It has the feel of a Hallmark story and in a sense, is faith-based in that after terrible tragedy, a family learns to have faith in each other on unfamiliar ground. As always, his script is excellent and he captures the dynamic of how people actually talk to each other... not always pleasant. And the scenery is magnificent without being extreme. It's a loving place where one loves the land and the land loves one back.
But, if that were the story, it would be boring, so there is controversy. From the outset, Sheridan skewers the Woke/DEI cityfolk with its own inanity. I expect Hollyweird will hate it, but the fans will love it because Sheridan separates the wheat from the chaff and focuses on what's really important.
Thank you. I am going to watch this. I need something to heal my heart!
To be honest, i only really care which starlet fell out of their dress (while keeping their mouth shut), nothing about this interests me any more.
"It's amazing how in our lifetime the Oscars went from must-watch TV to, "eh, I'll catch up to it in the morning""...to was that on?
Jessie Buckley had a nice speech about motherhood. Otherwise it was all TDS slop. The decline of best picture winners after 2013 is staggering: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/oscars-best-picture-slop-2000-2025
Buckley is phenomenal. I first saw her in Simon Godwin's video staging of "Romeo and Juliet" for the National Theatre with Buckley playing the part accent-neutral in full brogue.
Who will they point to and blame when President Trump isn’t President anymore? Will they still use his name to blame everything wrong with the world?
Hopefully Rubio will be president and we can just watch documentaries about Cubans being free and their economy growing!
TDS is tough to beat baby!
Israel Derangement Syndrome is the next thing that needs psychological help
There are plenty of MAGA supporters they can go after - just like during the Biden years. They make no secret of it if / when they seize back power.
It doesn't matter. If there is no villian, they will just fabricate one. All of this is theatre as it is.
I watched the mean old White guys on the USA baseball team beat the poor POC on the Dominican Republic team last night. It was much more entertaining and had a lot of patriotism with Dominican and US flags being waved proudly. Of course they were professional baseball players but it was way better than the Oscars
Cleaning the litterbox last night was way better than the Oscars!
I would even have helped you and we would have had more fun!
😂
I can't wait until AI replaces all these TDS suffering, under educated, over inflatted, egotistical, self agrandizing, self rewarding fools who believe that because they have a stage we should give a damn about what they have to blather about.
Exactly. Good essay, but most people in this country could not care less about the Academy Awards.
Most people don't care in one sense. However, people tend to go with headlines and breathless exclamation of "best pictures and major stars rather than any informed critique of what they are watching. Awards often determine their choices. This is the way propaganda works. Hollywood has become a victim of its own dangerous combination of zero self-awareness and unwarranted self-importance. Their virtue signals are social credit cards with no actual balance.
Sasha--I think you omitted a term like "African American" about Cogler being the first in 98 years. You may wish to edit.
Who is Cogler? Why should anyone care? I would rather hear the story about Mike Tobin climbing Mount Everest. He is an older journalist on Fox. A war correspondent.
Agreed..and Mabe Abbie Phillips falling into a crevice
Sorry--Ryan Coogler. I couldn't edit my own spelling. He directed "Sinners," and Sasha thinks he should have won for best director. Apples and oranges: this is about film prizes and not mountain climbing
I'd like to see that, too, but it's not what the discussion is about. I agree that it would be better than almost anything Hollywood thinks is Oscar-worthy.
Watching paint dry would be interesting the the dreaded Oscar’s.
J Bardem should stay in his native land that gave us the inquisition and dead indigenous people throughout the western hemisphere ( north and south). Conquistadors and colonization: spains primary contributions to el Mundo
Javier could move back to Espana and set up a new torture chamber to exact confessions of non-woke ideology. This time it won’t be Jews and moors, it will be common Americans .
Some folks like to say. “Shut up and dance” 💃
Exactly what I thought it would be-- cringeworthy all around. Great essay.
Last night's political rally confirmed what anyone even slightly conversant with history already knew: when you insist on politicizing virtue and art, you get neither. Instead, you get hypocrisy, prejudice, and propaganda.
What they don’t understand is that they are what they think we are
They are the ones making movies.
They are the ones giving fiery hate-filled speeches.
They are the ones with quotas for their ‘art’
It’s all fake
But they can’t see it
Selective perception is a neat trick. It allows the ideologically captured to see, with a perfectly clear conscience, hatred, division, exclusion, and threats to democracy and the moral order everywhere but when they look in a mirror.
The idiots in hollywierd need to call the dark MAGA Waaaaaaaambulance 🚑
I haven't watched the Oscars for I don't know how long. Whether it's in a neighbor's backyard or on the television, I cannot abide self-important narcissists spouting and spitting false outrage , name calling, having nothing of importance or intelligence to offer.
It was all so predictable, hosted by two of the most unfunny Conan an Jimmy. So sad what the Oscars have become.
They are like goofy caricatures of movie makers.
You had a good run, Hollywood--about 100 years--but it's over.... All things must pass...
Like a tough number 2…
I don't believe it's the "other half"of the country these Hollywood elites look down upon it's more like 80%.
I have my son visiting from New York. He wanted to watch as he saw three of the films. My husband indulged him and I had to endure by walking into the den to get a drink in the kitchen nearby. I could barely control my moans , snarky remarks ( Gwyneth Paltrows face is Frozen!), and moan when I saw some dumb ass skit. I convinced them to tape it and go out to dinner so I could escape even hearing it from the other room. Upon returning home I dreamt of the Oscar's with Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant. Class, elegance, fantasy and damn good movies. I