The 2010 Academy Awards may not have marked the end of “liberal Hollywood” as we know it, but they certainly put a solid dent in it. With the pro-military “The Hurt Locker” winning over the enviro-pabulum of “Avatar” and Sandra Bullock garnering the Best Actress Oscar for a Christian movie, the times are a-changin’ at least somewhat, maybe even a lot.
But one thing is now certain. It is time for conservative, center-right and libertarian filmmakers to stop feeling sorry for themselves and go out and just do it. Their “victocrat” days are over. No more excuses. “The Hurt Locker” and “The Blind Side” have proven that it can be done. Get out of the closet, guys and gals. If you want to make a film with themes you believe in, quit whining about Industry prejudice and start writing that script and trying to get it made. That’s not an easy thing, no matter what your politics.
Right siders can take inspiration too from Sunday’s Oscar ceremonies themselves. They weren’t defamed for a moment. Missing in action was the usual libo-babble, no extended hymns to the cause du jour or ritual Bush-bashing. And Barack Obama wasn’t even mentioned. Not once. But the troops were – several times by Kathryn Bigelow.
And, yes, we can all take pleasure in her being the first woman to win Best Director, again no matter which side of the political spectrum we come from. She did a Helluva job.
And, oh yes, I thought Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin did a reasonable job of hosting too – a lot better than the likes of Letterman, etc. They kept things moving along (except for the unbelievably tedious “salute to horror” and the traditionally soporific dance numbers). And didn’t you like the look on Sean Penn’s face when Bullock won for “The Blind Side”?
More here on Poliwood with Lionel Chetwynd and me: Hollywood Makes a Right Turn at the Oscars.
It is just a feeling, but I think the actors were quiet politically because they know any mention of it will be on Twitter and the blogs in 2 seconds and discussed on every cable news show on Monday, and they don’t want to cause Obama any problems as he tries to force his policies on us.
I don’t believe anyone has had a change of heart, but the effect of the new media has finally sunk in, so they are cautious.
Kudoes to Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: they did a great job of MCing the show.
The dance thing was awful.
All the ladies’ gowns were magnificent.
And I bet on Sandra Bullock and won!
And everyone behaved well.
I liked the whole show.
The whole thing sucked. Terrible writers–they should all be flipping hamburgers.
Oh, is that unfair?
Best awards show in years. And The Hurt Locker won over Avatar. And no Obama. Wow. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin sharing a bed was pretty funny.
But isn’t that the first step anyway? The realization sinking in that their views are not automatically validated, approved and applauded?
I’m pretty sure that the one thing the glitteratti want (after money) is to be loved. They really, really want us to love them. And they thought (because of the echo chamber they live in) that spouting libro-eco-leftist nonsense would make people love them for being oh so smart and courageous.
Now they’re starting to understand that makes them despised and not loved. Maybe after a while they’ll learn that what makes them loved is…
making compelling movies?
MPCpiano, you may have a point. But Obama’s not such a popular guy anymore – not even in Hollywood.
The Hollywood folks know the economy is a train wreck. They know money is drying up. They know Obama is a bigger phony than all of them put together.
They know the Public is in no mood for any Lefty nonsense.
The smart thing to do is to lie low and hope the storm passes you by.
Good point Roger; time to get it done, the vic-crat thing on our part (including me) is becoming an embarrasing excuse. To quote a supposed oneliner from a 101st Airborne trooper from Bastogne, “..it appears we got them surrounded from the inside…”
On Obiwon not gittin da lovin, I think Hollywood traditionally ignores flops, right?
Is the old socialist hag, Barbraaaaa Streisand really the best they could come up with for the climax? Other than that, I agree it was a decent show. Mr. Penn was unintelligible but that was to be expected.
Yes, I was very satisfied that The Hurt Locker won for best picture. It was a great movie. I didn’t watch the oscars because of the usual lib, blame America, enviro babble that we usually hear, but I am glad to hear that there was none this year. Maybe they are growing up!
Yes, I was very satisfied that The Hurt Locker won for best picture. It was a great movie. I didn’t watch the oscars because of the usual lib, blame America, enviro babble that we usually hear, but I am glad to hear that there was none this year. Maybe they are growing up!
Yes, I was very satisfied that The Hurt Locker won for best picture. It was a great movie. I didn’t watch the oscars because of the usual lib, blame America, enviro babble that we usually hear, but I am glad to hear that there was none this year. Maybe they are growing up!
Hate to burst everyone’s bubble of enthusiasm for two (count ‘em..2!!) movies without a liberal bent, or unsubtle leftist bashing of all things corporate, pro-military, pro-life, or the free market and American values in general…but…
The VAST, and I mean 90-95% plus, of movies coming out of Hollywood today are FILLED with messages that go counter to most average middle-American’s way of thinking. One basically has to attend a viewing (if one wants to actually spend good MONEY on the “chance” in the first place) with your “propaganda” ears on and the filter in your head set
to “high” to enjoy a good story without the liberal garbage being force fed to you…besides what gets thrown in for gratuitous sex scenes and hyper-violence.
So two movies without the usual “message” made it through to some awards. Big whoop.
I will say I’m glad “Avatar” didn’t win best picture. And I was glad the show was free of any political barnstorming…but this is hardly a big change in the paradigm…just a glitch on the radar of business as usual.
Wake me when someone recognizes the success of Bush bringing FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY to Iraq…which voted successfully AGAIN today!!!
Excuse me, but some of the details of Hurt Locker are evidently not appreciated by the real men and women who do that real job in the real military in the real war zones. The psychotic excesses of the main character in Hurt Locker are not excused by the search for script drama. They are subtle put-downs, via the liberal concept of the consequences of a military life. This is no pro-military film.
So two movies without the usual “message” made it through to some awards. Big whoop.
The whoop is that the two movies who got awards were in the 0.5% of movies who didn’t carry a liberal message. Think in previous years. Do you think that Michael Moore’s movie on 9/11 or Al Gore’s inconvenient truth would have had a chance not only to win but to merely go in the selection on purely artistic reasons? Well the news is that this year’s “Inconvenient Truth” (that is Avatar), despite being an infinitely better movie than the those I mention above (not difficult) has been crushed by a (by Hollywood standards) conservative one.
Now I agree that it is too soon to declare victory. We have to see what happens in years coming.
Just glad Avatar didn’t win and that the excellent Hurt Locker did. I wouldn’t read too much into these awards though, academy voters realised that Avatar was too dumb to win, for crying out loud it is juvenile science fantasy. Sense prevailed. The HL is also not a conservative movie anymore than it is a liberal one, so what’s with the gaga celebration? HL is apolitical, that’s why it’s such a great movie. Repeat – HL is not a conservative movie (just ask Bigelow), it’s just thankfully not a liberal one.
I mysef am apolitical, and would no more welcome conservative movies than I care for the liberal palubum. What we need is more real movies that don’t lecture the audience and indulge in paint by the numbers political point scoring.
I didn’t see Hurt Locker, or any of the other nominated movies except Avatar. The special effects were great but the weak-as-water story surely was written by a teenage girl living in the Hamptons. Teenage girls shouldn’t be writing movie plots and screenplays, should they? I’m glad Avatar only got awards for techie stuff.
Most movies are extremely irritating but I really like the movie “Ghost Dog”.
Perhaps Hollywood thinks it’s OK to be on the side of the military now that their guy is CiC.
After all, now they’re begrudgingly admitting victory in Iraq and going along–being dragged along–with BHO’s undertaking in A-stan.
The behavior sure was different. Causes? Is a change of heart possible? Trend or pause?
I think the gowns may serve as a barometer predicting the tone of the event. They were glamorous, elegant, tasteful. No nipple revealing see-throughs. No attempts to be outrageous and stick a finger in the eye of the “ordinary” folks.
Not sure but I seem to recall in 2002, a pro-American, troop-supporting attitude. Was that the year Vanessa Regrave got boo’d off the stage for an anti-Israel rant?
Could be the O (or any Democrat in the W.H.), so Iraq and Afghan war are more acceptable and our own soldiers no longer evil killers. Or, lack of drumming of MSM is a main influence on their conformity-think?
However — was Bigelow trepedacious when thanking the soldiers? — As if not quite sure how it would be received? Did she repeat it a second time, because she realized her own weak tone. There was applause — but no hooting, standing ovation for the troops.
Reasons for the changes — so many possibilities. From Obama de-worship — to twitter and blogs — to the $$$ they might lose — to realizing that when they express disdain for a major portion of their audience, it ricochets.
Its all very curious and would bear lots of analysis.
“It is time for conservative, center-right and libertarian filmmakers to stop feeling sorry for themselves and go out and just do it. Their “victocrat” days are over. No more excuses.”
GREAT of you to provide this encouragement. MORE, MORE, MORE, please.
There are so many rich topics — so many good books — that could be — need to be — dramatized.
Like 20th-21st Century Leftist MSM pretending to be “neutral” – exaggerating, ignorning, and manipulating the public away from abundance and liberty. From the NY Times-Duranty story you presented up to Breitbart’s confrontation with politics of personal destruction, and reporters who attempt to use the label “racist” to wreck lives and careers.
Or “McCarthyists” denounced, yet — they were right about profound gov’t “infiltration” and Soviet-Hollywood plots, proven when archives opened after Soviet collapse — related to current fears of charges of “Islamophobia” — preventing honest handling of serious threats.
Or the “Anti-Gore Inconvenience” taking place in a starving, disease-ridden, windmilled and de-industrialized future — with perfect climate — and a look back to the good old days (of now?)
(I wonder what’s happening with the “Atlas Shrugged” movie that was in the works?)
Movie grossed less than the cost to process the film. It could be that the also very liberal distributors refused to attempt to sell it. I remember that the people at the local channel 11 sabotaged the Rush Limbaugh show just to be sure it got canceled. Movie must gross big or else, possible that country is so polarized that there are movies that must be “Red Stated” in order to find an audience.
Did the 2010 Academy Awards Mark the End of “Liberal Hollywood”? It’s too soon to say.
But awards are here today and gone tomorrow. What’s important is whether an idea gets traction in the culture (this applies to politics, science, literature as much as to movies). In terms of the current culture, Avatar trashed everything in sight. Whether it will still be important a few years from now is another question.
Personally, I think the Oscars got it right. Avatar was important technically but a cultural nullity.
End of Liberal Hollywood? Don’t bet on it. Two movies don’t a trend make.
The end of liberal Hollywood? Don’t bet on it. Two movies don’t a trend make.
One telling moment: When Ms. Bigelow accepted the Oscar for Best Picture (The Hurt Locker), she concluded her thank you to the U.S. military with “May they come home safe.”
Post Vietnam PC has demanded this from our public figures. She should have concluded with:
“May they come home – Victorious!”
to the list of “right-direction” signs we should definitely add the reception for “Precious” – clearly a non-PC drama on a potentially PC subject.
Yet I would hardly call The Hurt Locker “pro-war” – at best, not “antiwar”. And the tributes to the ten Best Performer were obsequious to the point of nauseating.
Barbra, that dinosaur display at Natural History Museum…
It took 10 years (since W was elected) for the airheads in Hollywood to understand their proclamations and hatred of things American effects their pay and lifestyle and, most important, the public slobbering over them. Don’t bet for a moment that Sean Penn, Baldwin, Striesand, and all the others don’t vastly outnumber conservatives. It just took them longer to realize a word from their mouth is a vote for conservatives and another $100 or so of lost money for them.
Funny thing, once you wean yourself off thier TV shows, movies and newspapers they’re just not attractive and seem really, really simple and stupid. Try it. You’ll like freedom from Hollywood. Oh, and if you are compelled to watch something from them, make sure you pick it up on ebay or at a flea market or Goodwill or such. Let the Left support them.
The academy awards show is nothing more than a big bore; a group of self centered vapid people gathering for the purpose of praising themselves. At one time the academy awards reflected the taste of the whole nation as to films. Nowadays the films are made for the rich yuppie kids in Manhatten and the laid back California rich kids.
Sorry, but I classify myself as a Conservative Libertarian. I get my daily dose from Neal, Rush, Glenn and when I can, celebrate over an episode of Michael Savage. But I find something terribly weird about The Hurt Locker winning this award over Avatar. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good movie, but not even in the same playing field as Avatar, which should have swept as far as movies & theatrics go. It has nothing to do with politics…. or shouldn’t.
all true, Roger.
but, George Clooney was still hailed as some kind of living saint, notwithstanding that shamefully dishonest coverup entitled “Good Night and Good Luck”.
The Hollywood folks haven’t changed a thing. They’re just laying low ’till the storm passes.
AQUA: She’ll be in much greater demand now, of course, but I’d love to see the current list of Atlas Shrugged producers talk to Bigelow. She did a couple of my all-time favorites – Point Break and Strange Days – and if anyone can distill Rand’s epic into 2 or 3 hours of good, solid entertainment accessible to the general public, I think she and Randall Wallace can.
I wish someone would finally made that film – now is its time.
Actually, there is a “project” that could be made on this subject. A science-fiction movie that would be about the conflict between Man’s natural urge to explore (in outer space) and a socialist government that is determined to stop any such exploration because the prospect of interstellar colonization threatens its absolute power over Earth’s populace. Complete with the use of stock phrases like “We have things we need to do HERE” and “People who do this are shirking their social responsibilities” on the part of the socialists.
All they need to do is adapt an existing novel, which by the way won a Hugo Award (written SF’s version of an Oscar) for its author.
The author’s name? Poul Anderson.
The novel’s name?
“The Avatar”.
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I haven’t watched the AA’s in years. A bunch of rich elitists patting themselves on the back. I have not seen Avatar either, and don’t particularly care to. But I did see Hurt Locker and loved it. I’m glad it won!
Did the 2010 Academy Awards Mark the End of “Liberal Hollywood”?
Nah, the tanking California economy reminded the movie makers that they need the people in flyover country to support their industry. When and if times improve, they’ll be back to viewing us as bitter clingers.
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The typical actor or actress is by definition a pretender, a role player. Right now the popular role is of snakes in the grass, lying low, knowing most Americans are standing near with spiked boots to stomp. Most of these buffoons on stage and in the audience last night are not to be trusted, for no other reason than most are shallow, vapid and venal.
I no more believe Hollywood has awoken to truth than I believe Obama is pragmatist and open to suggestion. As Obama has come under fire, Hollywood doesn’t have the guts to join him on the firing line, so the current act is adopting a strategy of moderation.
One election year, one overwhelming vote against their great pretender where they believe sympathy for the fool might prevail, is all it will take for these group think goons to be announcing their return to their leftydom loud and clear. The act last night was as phony as their flag waving shortly after 9/11.
Guaranteed…
Missed the whole thing… but glad to hear the feedback from everyone on PJ Media. I havent seen any of these movies either but will be on “radar.”
Also, I like Alec Baldwin inspite of his loose cannon antics and views.
Alas, I think you’re being overly optimistic (and I hope I’m wrong). Liberal Hollywood doesn’t need to mouth off at the Oscars now because their man is in office and most of them are smart enough to know that criticizing him might do him damage. And themselves, because they know how prickly Obama is when it comes to criticism.
I can’t imagine Hurt Locker or Sandra Bullock’s role winning awards two years ago, when Bush was in office. It’s ‘safe’ for Hollywood to reward more conservative themes now because they don’t perceive conservatism as a threat.
It doesn’t matter how and why, this is another brick OFF the wall, another sign that the regime building by the totalitarians will not and cannot go as the totalitarians expected:
they expected a bunch of sheep to herd,
and they met
WE THE PEOPLE.
Godspeed America !
Godspeed Freedom !
The Oscars were this weekend? Really?
You want to end Liberal Hollywood? Stop giving them your money.
21. cedarhill:
“It took 10 years (since W was elected) for the airheads in Hollywood to understand their proclamations and hatred of things American effects their pay and lifestyle and, most important, the public slobbering over them. Don’t bet for a moment that Sean Penn, Baldwin, Striesand, and all the others don’t vastly outnumber conservatives. It just took them longer to realize a word from their mouth is a vote for conservatives and another $100 or so of lost money for them.”
I certainly hope so, cedarhill. I’ve stopped going to movies made by liberal loudmouths, and stopped watching the Oscars.
This is encouraging. Perhaps there are a lot like me, and perhaps these idiots are starting to realize it.
I love movies and I’m a ardent fan of Turner Classic Movies. The Oscars past yrs have turned me off. I dont see a lot of great movies coming out of hollywood… I ditched the whole Oscar thing last nite, but glad to hear the feedback from everyone on PJ Media. I havent seen any of these movies, but will be on “radar.”
However, i do agree Hollywood is not drifting away from its leftist ting… but all good socialist like to make a buck too.
Also, I like Alec Baldwin inspite of his loose cannon antics and views.
Ms. Bullock gave a masterful performance. But she was working from a character, Lee Anne Tuohy, who is apparently a force of nature in her own right. I would no sooner cross the real life Ms. Tuohy than get in a cage with a hungry tiger.
So Bullock had a lot to work with–and she did. It’s a great movie and a great performance.
They still air that “show” on TV and give those awards? Really? Who knew?
Roger is correct. There are stories out there that can be written and filmed, that don’t have to conform to a liberal worldview to be worth telling. More time, creativity, money and manpower should be invested in films like “The Blind Side”. There are so many people who can make great films happen: it’s time to let them loose!
“And didn’t you like the look on Sean Penn’s face when Bullock won for “The Blind Side”?”
Oh, I would love to pay top dollar for that little bit of tape, and spread it on YouTube!
NY POST through DRUDGE:
“This really — there’s no other way to describe it — it’s the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said after getting the director award.
“We’d just like to dedicate this to the women and men who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Not exactly what the commie media and the commie filmmakers usually give us…
I’d love to see “Atlas Shrugged” made into a movie but the scene at the end where the food runs out and New Yorkers are trooping across the bridges to go search for food in the country just ain’t going to make the cut. The Hollywood types would probably do a re-write where Morgan Freeman arrives just in the nick of time with an endless supply of organic veggies. Free veggies.
Re the lack of normal political pablum offered up.
Could the overwhelming public backlash they got from all sides for defending a child-rapist director in the name of art have had an impact?
To misquote a previous winner, “You really don’t like me,you really don’t.”
cedarhill: You are correct. Once you pull away and from their stupid stories (Avatar), cardboard characters (nearly all), and forced in sex and/or violence (nearly all – I am still mad about the rude sex scene in Shakespeare in Love – it was totally unnecessary), and start to watch good things, going back is hard to do.
My wife rented the movie ‘2012’ last night. What a sick predictable stupid joke! Having the lying communist Danny Glover as President of the United States is the ultimate insult.
Charlton Heston was right, “Half of acting is keeping a straight face.”
Nah, not really.
a) They don’t have George Bush to kick around any longer
b) Politics is something the Hollywood Left would rather not draw attention to at the moment, since the Dear Leader is proving such an epic failure. Believe me, as soon as the GOP is back in office it will be open season again
Besides, this month we have the openings of The Ghostwriter and Green Zone, two different attempts to write the “Bush Lied People Died” crap into the Official Hollywood Narrative of History. Nothing’s changed.
Glenn: I’m with you on wishing Hollywood would do a three-parter on Atlas Shrugged (a la LOTR).
I think the potential success of that trilogy deeply conflicts movie liberals.
The 2010 Academy Awards may not have marked the end of “liberal Hollywood” as we know it, but they certainly put a solid dent in it.
Sadly, Roger, I think you are overestimating Hollywood.
What happened last night did not alter the fact of leftist Hollywood; what happened was that Hollywood put its petty personal vendettas ahead of its politics this time around. They slighted “The King of the World” James Cameron by handing the Best Picture and Best Director prizes to his first ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow.
In Hollywood, the one unpardonable sin is pride in one’s actual work. Even in the world capital of supposedly huge egos, actual egoism is not permitted. Pride in altruistic endeavors, however (particularly political activism, natch) is not only permitted, but expected. Such are the indulgences that they purchase in order to be who they are. The bigger the ego, the louder their “caring”. How many times have you heard “but he/she/they help people” as mitigation for bad conduct? (*cough* ACORN) Altruism is the ultimate whitewash.
I’m not familiar with whatever Cameron’s philanthropic efforts might be, but that might be the issue; Cameron has either been too light in that department, or insufficiently loud about it.
Sorry to rain on the parade, but Hurt Locker was a real disappointment to this former commander of three Army EOD Detachments (one in Vietnam). I you people think that EOD troops routinely act like the lead actor, I got news for you: If they did, there would be a lot more dead EOD troops! Too bad they didn’t spend some money on a technical advisor. But, then, maybe they did and didn’t listen. Hollywood takes fantasy over real-life any day.
Great comment on doing Atlas Shrugged, except they would do a rewrite like Tim Burton did to Alice in Wonderland. The reason they would have to go out for food would be because of…say…global warming. See, I ought to work in Hollywood. Anybody can do this.
Too bad they didn’t spend some money on a technical advisor.
Actualy the Hurt Locker had a small budget.
Nonsense. Since Obama is in office, the brave, Hollywood folks will keep relatively quiet. Put a Republican in office, and they’ll get right back to their old tricks.
“Did the 2010 Academy Awards Mark the End of “Liberal Hollywood”?
No.
Next question?
The fact that an extreme leftwinger lives in the White House explains the muted quality of the liberal assembly in Hollywood. To protest either war would have been disrespectful to HIM. Had Bush still been in power, the preening loud-mouths of the Hollywood community would have been much more vocal.
Keep in mind…Hollywood actors/actresses are prostitutes first, and liberals second. In fact, they are liberals because they are prostitutes. We all know in our heart of hearts that Hanks/Sarandon/Streisand/Clooney/Redford/Robbins/Penn/Whoopi/DeNiro/ad nauseum/on and on go left because Steven Spielberg/James Cameron/Oliver Stone etal goes left? Follow the money and will find the loyalty. It sure beats working for a living. Outside of the U.S….we are bitterly disliked…Hollywood simply takes the position that generates the sales over there. Here, they don’t care because we buy whatever they are selling. Yes, in this regard, Americans are still stuck on stupid. Stop paying them…I guarantee they will change their tune. Thats what prostitutes do.
Didn’t watch it. Watched The Thin Man on dvd. Kept the laptop on Micheal K’s Dlisted.com and Nikke Fine’s column for the snark. The ceremony almost KILLED them, and they are professionals. What chance would I have had?
I want to see a movie about Obama
I thought Avatar lost, not necessarily that Hurt Locker won. And I think Avatar lost because everyone hates hates hates James Cameron, and relished the opportunity to stick him in the eye by giving the statue to his ex-wife. So it was more of a personality contest than usual, and less of a vote for excellence in film-making.
Although the fact that there was not one single shout-out to Obama *is* rather significant, now that you mention it. Sean Penn wearing a coat and out-of-date skinny tie rather than a tux may be an indication of the respect with which an extreme leftist/Liberal/Marxist viewed this particular version of the awards show.
We are talking about people who spend their lives speaking other peoples words and pretending to be someone they aren’t. They are shallow, vain, and more then a few of them didn’t manage to make it through High School. Most of them don’t have the sense God gave a box of hammers. They are “leftists” because that’s perceived to be “stylish” at the moment. I would venture to guess that most of them don’t hold any strong beliefs about anything. Their actors folks! They’re not used to having any responsibility for what comes out of their mouths. It’s why they can’t understand why us ordinary folks, get so mad over some of the things they say. Or why they’re stupid enough to say them in the first place. With the slow death of the Lame Stream Media, Liberalism isn’t as “popular” as it used to be. And it may be nothing more, then it dawning on some of them, that they’ve been caught wearing “last year’s fashions”.
George Clooney acted and looked like someone had taken a dump under his chair.
And these war heroes with all the emotional destructive problems (Hurt Liberal) would have lasted 2 days in a combat zone.
World War 2 vets would have pushed him in front of a tank.
Korean vets would have shot him.
We would have fragged him.
And I hope Gulf vets would have pushed him into a fire pit.
Money talks. When less money flows into the Holly Weird crowd by those they despise, and for a sufficient period of time, it cannot be written off as just a fluke.
The Holly Weird crowd is starting to wake up to the fact that they are as despised by those they despise.
So, we see the Leninist gambit: Two steps forward, one step back.
Mind you, the Holly Weird crowd is as indispensable as an anchor to a drowning man or woman.
66. Richard Milhaus Scurvy Wilson III:
Oh Shite!
Everyone would Barf.
Wish I could believe it, Mr. S. Unfortunately, I think the next time a Republican hits the White House the libs in Hollywood will once again be predicting the rise of fascism and declaiming on behalf of their favorite wacky causes. I hope the future proves me wrong.
Not much boasting if you are a liberal and have Obama, an inept and total failure, as your President. I don’t think any of the liberal left want to be seen as fools. I was also thinking I wonder if Hollywood turned back to a conservative industry what the likes of snipers like Penn, Streep, Damon and Clooney and how they would handle themselves as being the ones on the outside looking in.
Democrats are in the majority. Hollywood liberals have ceased all criticism of the current party in power. No more anti-war demonstrations. No more anti-president rants. Just wait until the tide turns and then Hollywood Hate Speech will return with a vengeance.
Maybe it’s the revenge of the (true) feminists:
All the ex wives voted for Bigelow (not her slimy ex husband) and Sandra played us as a strong, happily married woman, not a victim or a man hater.
Say it isn’t true!
Its a bit premature to suggest a single politically muted event from hollywood signals the dawning of diversity of opinion out there.
They are probably sensing a bit of socialism fatigue and stunk by the mocking of global warming alarmism and want to trim their sails a bit. We ought to bear in mind that the narrow bush and obama victories were wrongly declared to be mandates rather than the simple throwing out of the bums that they were.
Also bear in mind that marxism requires grievance and victimology to thrive. Being in charge is depriving them of this, but once they lose power, they can return to the more comfortable role of criticism without responsiblity.
But, there is hope that the internet has broken the liberal media monopoly, that the mainstream media is hemmorhaging money, and that entertainment may yet be elevated above ideology. Hope but no certainty.
Andrew Breitbart’s website disagrees with your views on the “Hurt Locker.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/06/27/review-the-hurt-locker/
To Rex: “lying communist Danny Glover,” eh? I one time met Danny Glover at a charity thing and chatted with him for a bit. Between that and what I know of some of his work, I can safely say he’s probably a better, much better person than you are, clueless.
And for the rest of you: 1) commenting on things you never saw is inherently dumb; 2) creative people are inherently liberal by definition and by study; and 3) go back to #1 and start over.
You cannot bad mouth Bush unless you compare him to Obama and hollywood would just as soon not do that at the moment.
So I’m a little confused. Now that it won, The Hurt Locket is a PRO-Right wing Pro-military film?
Because when it came out I seem to recall most conservatives claiming just the opposite:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/06/26/review-the-hurt-locker/
Side note on Avatar’s loss, contributed by a relative who’s a Producer/Director in the business:
AVATAR suffered from having to depend on five thousand unemployed actors having to vote for CGI created images perceived as replacements. Very clear dynamic.
Heh. I’m sure Cameron blames Bush.
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@80. BC: … some of his work …
ROTFLMAO!! BC, did you REALLY mean to link to a JPG entitled “Dickhead Danny Glover”, showing him embracing Marxist Hugo Chavez?
Is someone impersonating BC? If so – good job!
Well, I multi-tasked through the awards but I must say that Michelle Pfeiffer stopped me from everything I was doing because she looks so gall-durned effing AMAZING! Whatever that gorgeous woman is doing, she be a doin’ it right! Sandra looked beautiful too as did most of the lovely ladies.
I missed most of the beginning of the Academy Awards because my curmudgeonly husband wanted to watch sports shows.
Oddly, I haven’t seen Hurt Locker or Blind Side but will put them in my Netflix Queue.
I didn’t see Sean Penn’s face when Sandra Bullock won a well deserved Best Actress Award. But then I didn’t know Sean Penn had been nominated for that award either(LOL).
I think the big clam up is primarily due to dismal DVD and Movie Ticket sales. Perhaps the word came down from on high to stop the bad Oscar night ratings trend by behaving like insufferable left wing loonies. Hollywood execs are feeling the sting of the bad economy like everyone else, not to mention the sting of consumer disgust with their politics, and perhaps movie stars don’t enjoy paying those high taxes as much as they claimed they would. In addition, I have a general sense that Hollywoodland is embarrassed by Obama; some are annoyed at Obama for not being a more hard core leftist generalissimo, and some are annoyed at him for being the incompetent human wrecking ball that he truly is. And let’s not forget how resentful they must feel toward Al Gore and pals for fooling them for so long. Finally, Conservative Hollywood is finally speaking out – and that may be the beginning of a much welcomed, long overdue ripple effect of common sense.
So… the Hollywoodites just congratulated each other with a new batch of awards. I can’t see why I should trust their judgment. If they actually knew what made for a good movies, wouldn’t they just make some in the first place?
Okay, so I have a misplaced plural. But at least I’m not trying to give anyone grammar awards.
“Finally, Conservative Hollywood is finally speaking out – and that may be the beginning of a much welcomed, long overdue ripple effect of common sense.”-87. Shiori
“Conservative Hollywood”? Isn’t that an oxymoron because ‘Hollyweird’ always strictly struck me as hard-left with a penchant towards the militant ‘group-think’ where a conservative is pretty much an outsider on their ‘own’ and best kept on the down-low. Maybe times are a changin’ though but I’m not going to bet my money on people who give themselves new faces as presents.
“Their actors folks!”
Differentiating between there, their, and they’re is 3rd grade level stuff, why do so many net goers fail at this task?
Eat your heart out James Cameron. Your cougar ex-wife has upstaged you with patriotism foiled against your left leaning progressive crap that might have been the cause of your split in the first place.
The Lil’ Texan Farrah Fawcett didn’t make the Memorial? I didn’t even notice that until my husband just mentioned hearing about Roger Ebert twittering it.
Hmmm, that wasn’t the link I included. Someone at PJM is being a little snarky, eh?
hatrick, as for the cause of the split between Cameron and Bigelow, no it certainly was not politics. If I remember right it was one Linda Hamilton, star of Terminator 2. At least that’s the word…
#91 lol — Differentiating between there, their, and they’re is 3rd grade level stuff, why do so many net goers fail at this task?
I’ll take “it’s the same reason you can’t seem to figure out what a semicolon is” for a thousand, Alex.
Roger Simon —
The posters who say that the over the top anti-war stuff translates to administration disrespect have it nailed. It really is that simple. This is reminiscent of the line during the Clinton inaugural where one guy complains about the military jets flying in formation and the other says “yeah, but those are OUR jets now.” Obama could be caught clubbing baby seals with the arms of dead nuns and there would be nary a word.
The worm is turning in America….
Hollywood got blind sided by the
Obama mess. Now they all look
like fools for supporting such
a charlatan…..wake up Hollywood,
you’re snoring,and we are bored
with you.
Apologies if someone already mentioned this, but what stood out like a sore thumb to me was that the presenters all said, “And the winner is…” as opposed to the politically correct BS “And the Oscar (or Grammy, Tony, Emmy, etc.) goes to…” which always frosted me to no end. These Hollywood libs detest competition and don’t want to harm anybody’s self esteem by pointing out winners and losers.
@94. BC: – that wasn’t the link I included. Someone at PJM is being a little snarky, eh?
Someone else’s money, someone else’s responsibility, someone else’s fault…
…it’s The Leftist Way.
But, BC (#94), that is a legitimate photograph of Danny Glover with the hero of the people, Hugo Chavez, no? Or is it the kind of pastiche studious liberals are wont to champion, fake but accurate?
100. Noesis Noeseos,
I’m apt to believe that picture was…
REAL
I didn’t watch the show, but saw a silent clip of Sandra Bullock accepting her award (a clip in the background of a Pollywood segment BTW) and was struck by the humility in her body language.
It seems the Academy made a correct choice this time in more than one area.
One small step for Man….
The Hurt Locker was a pro-military movie?
Interesting. Since the guy’s family was pretty much at rock bottom because of his military career. Maybe that scene where he is in the shower, with all his clothes on, looking depressed… he is actually celebrating?
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the movie. But saying that movie was “pro-military” is like saying band-aids are pro-bleeding.
103. Hason Bajo:
I concur.
While it’s good that our military have somewhat stopped being perpetually portrayed through the blind-eye-left-view, many leftists still view the military as voluntary idiots that just don’t ‘get’ their POV of peace through the path of least resistance.
Imma be back to see how ya’ll behavin’.
The Hurt Locker was an attack on our soldiers. The main point is that our troops aren’t brave, they’re drug addicts. The protagonist risks his life stupidly, risks the lives of his subordinates stupidly, and has no feelings for his wife and kid. He tells his son that he doesn’t love him. This is NOT a pro-military film.
I took myself out to Crazy Heart this afternoon. I have never seen a better performance-ever-than Jeff Bridges. He WAS Bad Blake. I happen to be 80 and remember seeing Clark Gable and his “Frankly lady, I don’t give a damn”, in Gone With the Wind. I’ve been around awhile–so I’m not just blowing smoke. I was impressed with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, and Colin Farrell (YES to be 60 years younger.) Nice to see a REAL movie again from Hollywood.
I don’t know, and frankly don’t care, which way Hollywood is turning. I stopped going to movies, with very rare exceptions, years ago. They lost me a long time ago.
I agree with all posters who say Hollywood types are lying low these days. They might be dumb, but they’re not $tupid.
What they don’t realize is there is no more “lying low” window open. Indeed, two movies out of a vast tide of anti-American sludge do not a trend make. In the old days, they could pay lip service till the window closed, then spew their filth anew, with abandon.
Not no mo’. We’ve got our eyes on you, fragile baubles. And we have long memories. And very little patience.
I wonder why everything, even movies have to be a vehicle for so much babble. It’s the end of the empire, start enjoying Asian movies, guys.
The HL is also not a conservative movie anymore than it is a liberal one, so what’s with the gaga celebration? HL is apolitical, that’s why it’s such a great movie. Repeat – HL is not a conservative movie (just ask Bigelow), it’s just thankfully not a liberal one.
Saw Blind Side recently mid-flight. Was surprised at how touched I was by it and astonished by Bullock’s performance. Glad to hear she got her due.