And as I said, they’re much more knowledgable than movie fans are yet less numerous and less verbose.
I have less than zero interest in the Oscars. If you wanted me to watch the entire thing you’d have to at least pay me a few dollars.
I like movies, I think quite often the movies and actors that receive awards are deserving, but I just don’t need to sit around watching the film industry graciously patting each other on the back for hours.
Interesting. In all my life, I don’t ever remember anyone giving a shit about the NBA All-Star team or, even less so, the NFL Pro Bowl. I mean, nobody gave a rat’s ass about that. MLB was talked about a bit, though. Perhaps I travel with atypical sports fans.
More All-NBA voting than All-Star, but tons of Hawks fans last year were mocking Trae Young not being included on the All-Star team as we were making our run to the ECFs.
Do the Oscars have zero appeal for you?
I have zero interest in any and all entertainment awards, including the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. I have never watched any of those shows.
Yep. Like many have said before, I have no more interest in them. My friends and I used to get together to watch, see what movies we liked win awards, and comment on the celebrities.
Now, I usually have seen maybe one of the movies nominated. They’ve all turned into art-for-art’s-sake films, and I’m told that I should watch them Because They Are Art. Nope. I go to moves for escapism. I go to see superheroes, or space battles, or interesting people in unique situations. I don’t go to the movies to be told I’m a bad person, and I should feel bad for being myself.
comedies, you forgot comedies.
Why is it the best movies (in terms of box office income, which means people actually going to see them) are never (okay, maybe rarely) up for the major categories? It’s only certain types of movies that are really Oscar-eligible, which makes it all BS to me.
Yep. But if only there was some other place celebrities could state their every opinion and blather on…
Do you really think that Spiderman: No Way Home or Bad Boys for Life should have been up for Best Picture in the last two years? (edit: I just saw your username, so maybe Spiderman wasn’t the best example lol)
Because I’d think that’d make it far more BS.
Huh. I don’t watch the Oscars because the nominees are decidedly not art-for-arts sake films. shrug
The “jumped the shark” moment was when they stopped televising the technical awards and went full-on celebrity.
Someone should tell the Academy, there’s this thing called the in-ter-net and you can arrange to post the winners’ list of thank-you’s on it after the ceremony. Just ask them to thank the Academy for the award and get off of the stage.
That’d be a terrible decision for them. One of the big reasons that Oscar watchers tune in is to hear the speeches of the winners.
Royal Wedding? The movie where Fred Astaire shows he can make a hatrack into a great dance partner? The one where he dances on the walls and ceiling of his room (pre-CGI).
That’s a great picture! 
And one of the reasons that people used to get up before sunrise was to milk the cows. But it ain’t 1920 anymore. On the Internet, you can give a 20-minute speech and thank everyone who’s ever lived.
You are admittedly someone who has never gotten the reason for the Oscars. So pissing off the people who do enjoy the Oscars is a great way to have absolutely no ratings.
From Wikipedia: * The Academy Awards , popularly known as the Oscars ,[1] are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry*
Nowhere does that say just certain parts of the film industry.
I believe I saw a whopping one movie last year (& it wasn’t the most recent Spiderman; every time we considered going, the theater was pretty packed & it was out during the height of Omicron) but when you basically exclude multiple whole categories, then the award are BS.
I have watched every Oscar telecast except one since 1972. That one year was 1989, when I had not seen any of the nominated movies, and figured it didn’t make sense to watch. But I missed it, and regretted it, and so I’ve never missed it again, even in a year like this one when once again I have seen none of the nominees (I saw only two theatrical movies in 2021). For me the Oscars are all about the spectacle. Along with the previously mentioned royal weddings, it’s one of the few times when people get seriously dressed up and glamorous and the public is invited to watch.
Billy Crystal once said that the job of the Oscars host is to make the enormous television audience feel like they are at the party with all of the celebrities. That’s how I feel watching the Oscars - at least for some moments. I thought this year’s ceremony amped up the glamour after several lackluster years. Everyone looked beautiful, some of them made beautiful, thoughtful speeches, some are old friends that I’ve been watching forever, some of them behaved shamefully, but it was a party, and once again I was there.
Well, yes. I can tell you that Avengers Endgame had more of an emotional reaction, and cathartic experience for me, and it fulfilled a decades-long story arc. Personally, I couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes of “Green Book”. That’s not why I go to movies, as explained before.
Spider Man-No Way Home - I cried manly tears when you-know-who died. I cheered at seeing the heroes from the other universes showed themselves. It made me happy, it made me introspective, and it was worth the $20 I spent for the movie.
LOTS of people LIKED those movies. They enjoyed the action, the adventure, and the stories. And for the awards to not recognize them because they were lowbrow for the common masses? Yeah, that’s why I’m not watching the award-winning flicks. It doesn’t matter if you have an amazing artistic commentary on some societal issue IF NOBODY WATCHES IT.
What ‘certain parts’ do you think is off limits if they are deemed to have “artistic and technical merit”? Superhero movies and comedies have been nominated (and indeed even won) in the past.
Most Oscar years have multiple films that made over $100mil domestic. That’s a far cry from nobody watches it. You can watch whatever you want, but the entire point of Academy Awards are, to quote earlier to award the best in artistic and technical merit for the year. I don’t think that either No Way Home or Bad Boys make the mark (and neither I do believe it for Endgame, which I though was a far worse film than it’s Avengers predecessor Infinity War).
Hehehe, yeah, my first thought when I think of the Oscars.