Awards Shows

[NDak 0]

Well? Which one?

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

I honestly can't stand to watch the award shows anymore. It's gotten to a point that it seems Hollywood is spending 1/4 of the year patting itself on the back for doing a wonderful job when half the movies really don't deserve anything. :/

[John_Anderson 0]

Gotta love the Oscars. My predictions for the Golden Globes were pretty right on expcept for two and it was for that British show that won, everyone else I predicted won. So onward to the Oscars....

 

And give that golden man to my Lord of the Rings :P.

[Seiben 0]

Definately have to go with the OScars. It's what the movie industries revolve around.. looking forward to a big haul from ROTK. :P

[Nemesis 0]

I've only ever watched the MTV Movie awards like twice and the rest never so I don't know they don't really concern me.

[Dumbass 0]

I honestly can't stand to watch the award shows anymore. It's gotten to a point that it seems Hollywood is spending 1/4 of the year patting itself on the back for doing a wonderful job when half the movies really don't deserve anything. :/

My thoughts exactly.

 

The only true measure of a movie or actor's worth is how much money is made at the box office. But this shows how leftist the entertainment industry is. They CLAIM to not believe in the profit motive so they give each other these "feel good" awards. What is wrong with letting the box office decide?

 

The last award show I saw was MTV's Video Music Awards a couple years ago. Eminem pretty much took everything he was nominated for. :)

Edited January 26, 2004 by Dumbass

[John_Anderson 0]

My thoughts exactly.

 

The only true measure of a movie or actor's worth is how much money is made at the box office.  But this shows how leftist the entertainment industry is.  They CLAIM to not believe in the profit motive so they give each other these "feel good" awards.  What is wrong with letting the box office decide?

 

The last award show I saw was MTV's Video Music Awards a couple years ago.  Eminem pretty much took everything he was nominated for.   :)

Actually when you think about it. A lot of actors that have won Oscars and other awards over the past couple of years were for roles that they had in little Indie movies that very few people saw. Most of them didn't make much money at the Box Office, but they still won for them.

 

Some good examples. Halle Berry for Monster's Ball, Adrian Brody for The Pianist, Jim Broadbent for Iris (Who beat out heavy favorite Ian McKellen for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars in 2001). And so on and so forth.

 

I have seen some of the most brilliant movies just tank at the box office, and some of the most horrible movies gain Blockbuster status. So I'd say the box office is not an efficent measure of a film.

 

But then again I've seen every film that has been winning all these awards and gaining to nomations so my barometer for films I like is, normally, pretty acurate. (Look at my top ten list, on it the only films not on it that has been getting a lot of nomations has been Cold Moutain and that was because I thought it was okay. And Mystic River, but I always felt the performances were better than the movie it's self) :P

Edited January 26, 2004 by John_Anderson

[AndrewLyon 0]

I do not watch award show, mainly since I find them boring. Listening to Speach from person ABC "I'd like to thank my mother, my father yadd-yadda,yadda" is the same speach from person XYZ. I have better things to do in that time, like tinkering with my computer:-)

[Dumbass 0]

I do not watch award show, mainly since I find them boring. Listening to Speach from person ABC "I'd like to thank my mother, my father yadd-yadda,yadda" is the same speach from person XYZ. I have better things to do in that time, like tinkering with my computer:-)

"I'd like to thank the Academy, my agent, my High School drama coach, my fans, and everyone except my parents who said I would never make it as an actor and sent me to accounting school!"