on the movies, i haven’t seen one oscar nominated film, not because i hate causes, just that if i am going to leave my house to fight traffic to put up with a bunch of punks at a movie i need to come out happy. i don’t need a discussion of the latest trials and tribulations of the underclass, forgotten, and abused. furthermore hollywood has proven that it is incapable of putting out a consistent product, as such, my ten dolla is better spent elsewhere.

yeah, and there is nothing worst then well paid people, who feel the need to honor themselves for public viewing. it is like a 3 hour commercial remind you of movies you didn’t see, should see, and maybe even rent if not buy.

call me when they start saluting the workingman. please!

Yes, we all know finding a conservative at the Academy Awards is harder than playing Where’s Waldo, but hey, it’s the Oscars…
In honor of the annual craptacular fiasco, I’m posting a never-ending Oscar thread that will simulat…

There is nothing even remotely amoral or “relativist” about the Sermon on the Mount.

The Sermon on the Mount is not moral relativism, nor is it liberalism, unless you happen to subscribe to the Castro fan club that refers to itself as Christian, represented by so-called “mainline” protestants, such as Methodists, Episcopalians, etc., all of whom abandoned Christianity and any kind of Christian theology decades ago.

There is nothing Christian about moral relativism — which is, by definition, amoral. ”

There is nothing even remotely amoral or “relativist” about the Sermon on the Mount. Don’t presume to comment about other people’s religions - you are obviously ignorant of Christianity - unless you bother to do at least some minimal study and make an attempt at understanding.

So, today, barely a week before the telecast of the Oscars, I will make public my prediction that the Oscar audience will decline this year…

Nice prediction. Do a graph for the ratings for the Oscars over the last 15 years or so and post it. I would almost be willing to bet that the ratings have been on a downslide for a number of years. Why? Because they have usually been pretentious, over-produced and boring, regardless of who has been nominated. They apparently have reined in the excesses that used to make the Oscar program go well into overtime, but that’s about it.

And because there are other opportunities, particularly over the computer. I would suspect that the Oscars chose Jon Stewart to host the program this year because he–as a comedian–does have something of a following among younger people, and they hope that he will be able to get some to watch. His selection probably has nothing to do with whether he likes movies, or his politics. It has everything to do with ratings and money.

We won’t be watching the Oscars. We didn’t watch the Stupor Bowl. We didn’t watch any of the Torino Winter Olympics. And we won’t watch the Oscars. We will be watching a movie that we will have rented from Blockbuster. And maybe Desperate Housewives.

“I’ll take your Peart, and counter with either Stu Copeland, Jeff Porcaro or pre-solo career Phil Collins…”

And I’ll counter with Tool’s Danny Carey, and ANY DRUMMER who has marched with a Top 12 Drum Corps International drumline.

But to get back to the topic at hand, kudos to Jack for pointing out his mistake (and my lack of attention to detail) regarding domestic grosses and their relation to Oscar noms. With that in mind, I would reiterate something I’ve stated regarding this issue: That AMPAS has never nominated a film based exlcusively on either it’s message or it’s box office returns. You may say I’m smoking the company dope here, but I respect the Academy’s decisions, especially when considering the fact that the Oscar’s were NOT originally intended to become a PR event for the industry. The fact that they have become just that notwithstanding, I admire both the Academy’s and AFI’s record of honoring well made (NOT necessarily popular, mind you) films.

Yes, Virginia, I am a queer AND a corporate whore, but I’m glad to say I have the courage of my convictions, for whatever they’re worth.

Eric in Hollywood

I’ll take your Peart, and counter with either Stu Copeland, Jeff Porcaro or pre-solo career Phil Collins (not that I don’t like his solo work, but his best drumming was prior to that period).

That is about as bluntly Christian a theme as you can get.

There is nothing Christian about moral relativism — which is, by definition, amoral.

There WAS one film in 2005 that topped the “Passion’s” domestic box office in ‘04. It was “Star Wars III” which had a domestic gross of $380,270,577. But “Star Wars III”, the number one box office hit in ‘05, fell short of the top 2004 film, “Shrek 2″ which had a domestic gross of $441,226,247.

Yeah that’s true, but Neil Peart is the best drummer ever.

As pointed out by Gay Patriot (Oscar Audience to Decline) there will most certainly be fewer folks watching this year’s Academy Awards broadcast. I know for a fact there will be at least one person not watching. . . I’m

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/24/oscar/main545821.shtml

I think that the ratings for the year Terms of Endearment won were also not the greatest.

Should the Oscars only award big box office films? I don’t know if I want to see Big Momma’s House 2 or Pink Panther winning Best Picture next year.

And there haven’t been too many overtly Christian themed movies that get nominated-The Passion being a good example of a good film that was ignored in recent years.

The most recent one, with overt Christian themes that I remember I believe was The Mission, and that was from the early 90’s.

But I saw Finding Neverland and while it was a good film (I didn’t care much for it, but then I tend to like happy endings, which also in general don’t fit the Academy’s idea of what makes good film, since they tend to nominate films where at least one of the main characters dies), I don’t think it was a better movie than The Passion. But then I will admit film and what is good is in the eye of the beholder, and apparantly the Academy and I are in total disagreement, which is why I in general don’t watch.