{"id":14354,"date":"2021-04-26T23:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=14354"},"modified":"2021-04-26T23:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:46:05","slug":"i-come-to-bury-the-oscars-not-to-praise-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/26\/i-come-to-bury-the-oscars-not-to-praise-them\/","title":{"rendered":"I Come to Bury the Oscars Not to Praise Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read today that the Oscars took place last night and that the ratings had shrunk by 58% below the already lowest ratings of the year before.\u00a0 I laughed heartily for several minutes while I read the details of this farcical proceeding.\u00a0 I think the very best bit was the fact that the Best Actor award was saved for the end to highlight what they hoped would be the victory of the star of the Black Panther super hero movie who died of cancer.\u00a0 But then he surprisingly lost to Anthony Hopkins in a non-Hannibal Lecter part.\u00a0 And then just to add insult to injury Hopkins didn\u2019t bother to stay up to accept the award and it had to be accepted by the janitor at the laundromat where the ceremony took place.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just marvelous to watch as these creepy perverts who lecture us on morality fall into the dustheap of history.\u00a0 Even the shills who pretend to provide honest reviews of these awful movies admitted this year that even they had never heard of some of these movies and that there was little or no chance that anyone who wasn\u2019t forced at gunpoint would pay to see any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nomadland<\/li>\n<li>The Father<\/li>\n<li>Judas and the Black Messiah<\/li>\n<li>Mank<\/li>\n<li>Minari<\/li>\n<li>Promising Young Woman<\/li>\n<li>Sound of Metal<\/li>\n<li>The Trial of the Chicago 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only one that has at least a reason to be on a list of American motion pictures is Mank.\u00a0 It\u2019s about an American movie director during the Golden Age of Hollywood and stars Gary Oldman whom I really like.\u00a0 All the rest of the movies are either diversity projects or so awful that they\u2019re basically daring you to go see them, or both.\u00a0 Nomadland won the Oscar because the director is a Chinese woman.\u00a0 Reading the plot summary, I was struck by how awful it sounded.\u00a0 The Father was the movie that Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor award for.\u00a0 He plays an Alzheimer victim.\u00a0 The Sound of Metal is the story of a heavy metal drummer who is going deaf.\u00a0 Judas and the Black Messiah and The Trial of the Chicago 7 are the obligatory black struggle films.\u00a0 Minari is the obligatory Korean immigrant story.\u00a0 And finally Promising Young Woman is the female empowerment rape revenge movie.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Who wouldn\u2019t want to just run out and see all these movies over and over again?<\/p>\n<p>Well anyway, it\u2019s truly gratifying to see that they\u2019ve finally crashed and burned their whole tawdry industry and there\u2019s nothing left to do but dig a whole and bury the whole stupid enterprise underneath that broken down Hollywood sign on the hill.\u00a0 It should be interesting to see if some country that isn\u2019t completely infected with woke imbecility manages to start making movies that people want to see.\u00a0 I know it seems unlikely but honestly in the past it happened all the time.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019ll have to be stone age people in Papua New Guinea or the Amazon jungle.\u00a0 Places that have never heard of Hollywood.\u00a0 Or maybe space aliens might crash land and take up movie making as a way to earn money to buy repair parts for their warp drive.\u00a0 But however it happens, I\u2019d like to think that someday we\u2019ll do better than this crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read today that the Oscars took place last night and that the ratings had shrunk by 58% below the already lowest ratings of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,239,237],"tags":[335,1342,512],"class_list":["post-14354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-movie-reviews","category-reviews","tag-hollywood","tag-the-culture-war-is-forever","tag-the-oscars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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