Award Shows are Bullshit

posted March 2nd, 2017 at 11:48 AM

I know that a lot of people are celebrating "Moonlight's" win at the Oscars as some sort of victory for diversity in film. This is in addition to the geek out over Adele paying homage to Beyonce while accepting her own award at the Grammys. I think "Moonlight" is boring and overrated, and Beyonce's music is as appealing as listening to nails being raked down a chalkboard. I actually think award shows for music are the worst as they tend to celebrate music that makes your ears bleed unless you're a teeny-bopper. I know I can't be the only one who feels this way. Are the opinions of the small group of dipshits who vote in these award shows really any more valid than ours? No. And even if you're a fan of the people who win awards, do the awards really mean anything? If they didn't win awards, would you respect them any less? The last time I watched the Oscars was back when "Shakespeare in Love" won over "Saving Private Ryan." Yeah...a forgettable romantic comedy was deemed more important than an anti-war film. That's when I learned how arbitrary and meaningless awards for artists are. Think about it. Awards that say one piece of art is better than another is like saying chocolate ice cream is tastier than strawberry ice cream and then passing it off as fact. Its ridiculous. Art is subjective. I mean, the movie "Die Hard" is my "Citizen Kane." Your "masterpiece" is probably a pretentious snooze-fest to me, and what I see as great cinema, is probably brainless fodder for the masses to you. Which of us is right? Both of us, and neither of us. That's the point.

12 Comments

Amen, Pal.

Mar 2, 2017 at 4:09pm

Starship Troopers, the best movie in the history of cinema, did not get nominated for best picture, nor for best supporting actress.

"Dizzy: Rico, I'm dying.
Johnny Rico: No Diz, you'll be fine.
Dizzy: But it's OK, because I got to have you."

I mean, the film has it all: romance, action, drama, political intrigue, it's a hip, smart film that is really quite anti-war. And let's not forget the absurdity of a society that shows reams of dead human bodies on the news but censors a bug eating a cow...

Agree

Mar 2, 2017 at 7:45pm

The Oscars used to be way better back in the day when there were so many good movies coming out and music had more musical value. The music of today's generation is absolute garbage because it sounds the same and there are hardly any good lead guitarists. With current movies, it seems that film companies keep running out of new ideas and just take a huge piss on the legacy of classics with shitty remakes.

Slow Clap

Mar 2, 2017 at 9:19pm

...for the ground breaking epiphany. What ever would we do without you reminding us of all these things most past puberty already knows.
You are such a credit to us all.

And the Oscar for most

Mar 2, 2017 at 9:32pm

Obvious rant goes to...

I

Mar 2, 2017 at 10:44pm

was waiting for a chocolate/vanilla comparison

The awards only mean something

Mar 4, 2017 at 11:40am

to the people who won them.

Meh.

Mar 4, 2017 at 3:02pm

I like Die Hard, but I also like movies with thought. I stopped watching the Oscars after the movie "Immortal Beloved" starring Gary Oldman was NOT nominated for an academy award. It was great. With an amazing soundtrack. It is about Beethoven. They refused to nominate it because it was not factual. All movies are not factual that is why it says "BASED on a true story".

It all comes down to

Mar 5, 2017 at 4:21pm

Record and box office sales. It has nothing to do with integrity, talent, or originality. Hollywood is an insestuous pit of meaningless drivel. Beyoncé yells sharp. It's bloody awful.

Hear hear!!

Mar 6, 2017 at 11:11am

I despise Beyonce, she is relentlessly autotuned and couldn't carry a note in a bucket! You're quite right, it's all subjective.

Starship Troopers FTW

Mar 6, 2017 at 12:32pm

Exactly. My favourite movie. Better than Saving Private Ryan, which came out the same year and had an equally harrowing beginning but went into sentimentality about the nobility of sacrifice.

Starship Troopers takes good looking people, cuts them into chunks, and throws them at the audience while hitting us with such evergreen truisms as "naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor" or "I'll do it until I get killed or you get someone better"