Comments on: Toxic Shock: Delayed Reaction to the Oscars

By: Like yah!

Like yah! — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:35:18 +0000

Hey people: keep your minds sane. Stop watching TV already. You know it’s worse than Crystal Meth…

Haven’t seen an Oscar awards ceremony since maybe the late eighties; i give credit to that decision to my not being more of a zombie.

Who the fuck cares about the recognition the $ gives the $? May Spielberg find many more Madoff’s he can trust.

By: bex

bex — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:16:31 +0000

@10 – Zhlobko Yebic:

THANK you! I couldn’t even finish The Hurt Locker because of all the boo-hoo “this job is so tough” BS.

By: fazzaz

fazzaz — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:44:40 +0000

I have to go with Karl (#32) on his choice of the sickly pale blond.

One (1) thumb up.

By: klauposius

klauposius — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:57:26 +0000

I was in a bar watching the oscars many years ago. Ghandi got best picture. I was disgusted. So was half the bar. I have not watched it since. Its an award the industry gives to itself. Its not actually for us.

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:19:29 +0000

@12, I have given it thought and I would sooner take the right one. The left one looks better what with the right ones thighs but then the right one has the annoyingly luminous face that on hand you just got to slap out of hatred for it but on the other hand you want it to rip into you and bite off large chunks of meat from your chest. The left one would work better as a longer term trophy wife since the right ones thighs are going to deteriorate soon but for pure one time bonking pleasure it would have to be the more exotic sickly pale broad.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:56 +0000

I have not seen the Hurt Locker and thought Avatar was a visually stunning film but what may have wrankled the academy, and why Avatar did not have a real chance to win, was it’s anti-imperialist message that can be applied to Israel and the United States (China/Tibet Russia/Chechnia also). Palestinians noted the message and protested Israel’s ‘wall’….Mr. Netanyau tear down this wall…..in blue Navi garb replete with ears. So for a Hollywood Avatar was not all bad….

By: Stanley Gardiner

Stanley Gardiner — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:47:46 +0000

I like television.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:39:23 +0000

Hurt Locker sucked. It was dull, trite, insipid, boring, stupid and luckily I walked out in the middle when he started whining about his girlfriend.. so I only wasted 45min.

IB was a fun movie. can’t be taken seriously.

Avatar was spectacular. However, it made too much money to win an Oscar.

By: Serge

Serge — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:31 +0000

the hurt locker was like cricket: entertainingly dull. Generation Kill already gave us that type of insight, and did it OH SO MUCH better. District 9, now THAT was a decent film (far from what I would award as “best film of the year”, but, considering the options….)

By: gary

gary — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:51:10 +0000

hurt locker was ok..americans came off looking pretty bad with all that “i love war so much” bull..at least basterds was laughing at itself

By: Not important

Not important — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:49:42 +0000

What are “Oscars”?

By: Christo

Christo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:28:39 +0000

Eileen, don’t you mean Alec Baldwin in “Miami Blues”? Great film.

Yeah, Steve Martin has a sold-out (it pays the bills, I suppose) but he does have his moments, few and far between as they are these days.

Mudhead, it’s called a chronic cocaine habit: guaranteed to add the pudginess after 40.

By: Pádraig Ó Buth Chanain

Pádraig Ó Buth Chanain — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:34:17 +0000

@22. “Weren’t the NeoCons birthed from Trotskyites?”

Quite so. For this reason among others, we Marxist-Leninists prefer to call the latter by the full name, “Trotsky-fascists”. By the way, May Day has been celebrated in Europe for thousands of years.

By: Bob Dobalina

Bob Dobalina — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:33:16 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks Inglorious Basterds sucked? Actually, I’ve only watched it up until where they beat the nazi to death with a baseball bat. Nothing wrong with that or anything. It’s just that you can feel the egomania oozing through every frame in Tarantino’s films. I don’t see how anyone can watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and not see how blantantly Tarantino rips it off. And yes, I’m dissing a movie that I’ve only seen a quarter of, but I subjected myself to Kill Bill so I’ve already seen it. The dialogue or rather dual monologues in Quentin’s films remind me of all the profoundly earthshattering writings I’ve made while on cocaine. In all fairness Pulp Fiction deserves it’s place as a classic.

By: Necronomic.JustIce

Necronomic.JustIce — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:20:04 +0000

@21 Weren’t the NeoCons birthed from Trotskyites?

Anywho, How many of these European far-leftist, ( Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyites and Maoists, etc) hold state power? Because, really, we probably have the same university reading circle jerks and book clubs over here – probably selling the same news papers. *yawn*

I guess I will give you the labor movements – France, and Greece come to mind. Someday we North American’s will remember Mayday was born in Haymarket Square, Chicago, Il. USA.

By: BlottoBonVismarck

BlottoBonVismarck — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:07:52 +0000

NEOCON ‘POLITICAL PEDOPHILE GROOMING’

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> I know the official hard left (who I usually agree with) has now come out against The Hurt Locker (see Robert Scheer today)

C – Robert Scheer is about as ‘left’ as Diane Feinstein. Somebody (on the far right) has been giving you sweets and telling you porkies.

LEFT, RIGHT, FURTHER RIGHT AND BONKERS RIGHT – THE US

Outside the US the terms left and right have generally agreed meanings. Inside the US that meaning has been deliberately skewed.

Europe has Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyites and Maoists on the (far) left. It has Socialists on the left. It has Labour just left of the middle. It has Social-Democrats in the middle. Then Christian Democrats on the right. It has Conservatives on the (far) right. Then there are the (US) Democrats and Republicans on the (very far) right. And Margaret Thatcher. Mussolini is just beside her with ‘her greatest achievement’ – Tony Blair’s New Labour.

Adolf Hitler is lined up right beside (HA!) the Neocons. Just east of Mussolini and Margaret Thatcher. The (ultra-far) right.

Notice where the Democrats and Republicans are. Six inches apart and off the scale for any hope of governing, were they in Europe. They would be right beside Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Jorg Haider in Austria; would be fascists.

Why would I care? Imagine that you grew up and were ‘educated’ to believe that between the Democrats and Republicans is the ‘middle ground.’ You would have no clue that you had been steered to regard the far right as ‘moderate’ and ‘normal.’ Consider that ‘education’ the Neocon political pedophile grooming of children – namely YOU.

To a European, this is self-evident. As obvious as night and day. But in the US – as rare as hen’s teeth.

(*) – Europe – A progressive land of milk and honey, where the crazy right wing is ‘Norwegian conservative guy@ 1.20. From Michael Moore’s Sicko. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svSUCbClg8E

By: dogbane

dogbane — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:40:47 +0000

Wait…what? The Oscars were on?

By: Mudhead

Mudhead — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:58:13 +0000

A Serious Man was the best film of 2009.

By: Connors

Connors — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:49 +0000

I know the official hard left (who I usually agree with) has now come out against The Hurt Locker (see Robert Scheer today) claiming it’s a a celebration of American hubris. Or whatever. I just think that’s total bullshit. I saw it when it first came out and thought it was very much an ant-war movie. Sure, it doesn’t hit you over the head with anti-war slogans, but in some ways that’s what’s so effective about it. The Oscars generally suck, I agree, but they did the right thing to award The Hurt Locker Best Picture.

Basterds was pretty good, but not nearly as well-written as Pulp or Reservoir. It’s more on the Kill Bill level, if that.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:34:55 +0000

“Yes but so was fascism in general.”

Good one.