Did the Oscars Get It All Right?
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On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) talked about the Oscars. Sonny is shockingly happy. Peter is down on the whole thing. Alyssa, meanwhile, wonders how we’ll look back on this show’s snub of Tár in years to come. Then the gang reviews 65, the movie about Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs that has too little hot Driver-on-Dino action. Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ for our members-only bonus episode on Friday. And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!
Did the Oscars Get It All Right?
Sorry, guys, but I watched Tar on your recommendation. It’s going to be forgotten as quickly as it was praised. Had it been 45 minutes shorter it would be the movie you guys think it is. As is, it’s so bloated that it is more or less a feature-length meme of all the worst habits of editors/directors in the 70s wherein a wide shot would show a person simply walking to a building and entering it for 44 secs-a min.
The Oscars got it ALL right - if you think it's ok for Hollywood to shit-can its own industry. The only movie up for an award that actually paid for jobs in Hollywood was snubbed - Top Gun. The movie that won was produced by people who have never done anything other than rock n'roll videos + commercials - and it showed. Is America ready to give up its standing as the world's top producer of great films? Because I think we took a GREAT LEAP FORWARD in that direction this year. What does it mean when a culture fires its geniuses (ie: Spielberg) and allows idiots to take over? Will Hollywood become like American television where the VOICE OF NEWS AND REASON has been hijacked by a bunch of un-educated and evil minded Australians: Fox News! Well - that certainly worked out well for us. After all - Fox News and its 24 hour/day rumble of fake news and propaganda gave us - TADA!!!! --- The January 6th Insurrection! Art/ Movies/ Television - These may seem innocuous to most Americans. But in the wrong hands they can give us nightmares - like ADOLF HITLER - or Donald J. Trump. Misinformed and Brainwashed Americans who never read books are ready to embrace all manner of monstrosities these days. And Now we're handing over the keys to one of our largest industries that affects how Americans view the world: Hollywood. Congratulations America! When we fail just remember - it's all your own doing - including the enabling of morons like Senator John Kennedy - an Oxford educated man who pretends to be an uneducated country bumpkin so he can stuff $millions of American dollars into his panties. The same Government that gave us - Lauren Boebert! A graduate of being a street-walking PAID ESCORT! And Marjorie Taylor Greene - a real Country Bumpkin who left her husband and kids for a life living In a GYM - where she slept with all her Gym Mates - an uneducated sociopath who has stalked many of our most worthy Government Leaders - including Nancy Pelosi, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and David Hogg - a fabulous person who is bright and articulate and a survivor of one of contemporary America's worst nightmares - a mass shooting at Parkland high school. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sociopath who can barely pronounce words, who is sleeping her way up the food chain. Somehow I think The elevation of these lesser minds is being allowed to overtake American governance. Maybe I'm just 'Old Fashioned'. I mean - what do I know? I never abandoned my family to sleep my way to power and I've read a ton of books. I guess all those things make me ineligible to understand the pressing issues in contemporary America/ and unfit to ever serve in the US Congress, or in any form of Government, at all.