Comments on: All Oscared out https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:39:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J. https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149161 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:39:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149161 Obloodyhell,
“But when was the last time you saw a picture which even operated from the same kind of place as your Mill quote? Five decades.”

The lasty one would be “The Green Berets” with John Wayne back in the 60s. (40+ years.) I quit going to movies war movies in the 70s because they all became anti-American as well as anti-war. I would not have watched “The Hurt locker’ except I was trapped on an airplane for 16 hours. It took me competely by surprise as I expected it to be another anti-American screed. It also tapped memories I had from Vietnam that I thought were buried in my past. Maybe my reaction to the movie was unusual, but the fact that the rather liberal people who make up the Academy voted it Best Picture may indicate that my reaction was not unusual. (Or am I just getting sentimental in my old age?)

Most people who saw the picture would not think it anti-American, but it was not in your face jingoistic pro-America either. That said, most people would, IMO, come away with a sense of appreciation for what our men and women are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan unless they were bitterly opposed to the wars. (Which you would think most Academy members are.) Is Hollywood tilting right? It’s somewhat of a mystery to me.

]]> By: Paul_In_Houston https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149100 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:16:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149100 # Gray Says:
March 9th, 2010 at 12:01 am
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That’s because the Scottish are the Na’vi of white people.

“The trouble with Scotland, is, it’s full of Scots!”
~The absolutely magnificent Patrick McGoohan as King Edward the first (“Longshanks”) in Braveheart.
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]]> By: Gray https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149094 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:20:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149094 And I wish they’d stop making those “Society” pictures of all those rich people dancing around fountains while we are standing in bread line and working for WPA digging holes!

]]> By: Gray https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149093 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:06:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149093 Ever see a John Wayne war flick? I was raised on them during WWII.

That’s what I thought. Nothing within my lifetime.

No, I have never seen a movie in a theater that ‘glorifies’ war in any way. They quit making those before I was born.

]]> By: Dan https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149080 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:39:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149080 I like that you are honest about your interest in an otherwise shallow and culturally empty event. I have parallel weird fascinations. it helps keep us sane. I haven’t watched the oscars in years. In an enterprise that already is shamelessly self-promoting, it’s one more excess of self-absorbed narcissism. “Let’s watch each other watch ourselves and then watch each other get awards for the same.” Yuck! How about awards for the real workers? George Clooney’s stand-in, for example. While George is sitting in his trailer making sure he still is the sexiest man alive, his stand-in holds his place so that the cameras will be sure to forgive whatever flaws are creeping into that grizzled face.
Or maybe an award called “Best Achievement in Gaffing.” Or gripping. And will someone please explain: who or what is a “Best boy” and what the hell does he do? And why isn’t Babs all pissed off that there isn’t a best girl?

]]> By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J. https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149051 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:43:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149051 Gray,
Ever see a John Wayne war flick? I was raised on them during WWII. Made war seem damned glorious. They were, of course, recruiting films to keep people’s morale up. A lot of us who were in Vietnam and were raised on those got a dose of reality. Just saying.

]]> By: Gray https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149035 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:01:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149035 OK, one recent, modern exception – Braveheart. But that’s it as far as I can recall.

That’s because the Scottish are the Na’vi of white people.

]]> By: Gray https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149033 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149033 One of the best damned pictures ever made, and the only two awards it gets are Best Costume Design and Best Writing. Yeesh.

I know how you feel. The last time I watched the Oscars was 1977. Star Wars lost to Annie Hall.

I was 9.

Then Woody Allen became a step-daughter porking old weirdo and George Lucas’ and his neck-fat raped the Star Wars legacy, the space program got cancelled, planes with lasers got cancelled and Jar Jar Binks got elected President.

]]> By: Obloodyhell https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149029 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:51:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149029 OK, one recent, modern exception — Braveheart. But that’s it as far as I can recall.

]]> By: Gray https://thenewneo.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149028 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:50:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/03/08/all-oscared-out/#comment-149028 It is anti-war in that it doesn’t glorify it or make it seem “cool,” which many war movies do.

Really? Like which ones?

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