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Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy
Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?

See? Not even alt.obituaries cares about the Oscars!
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In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?

I think I'm a pretty typical movie fan -- where by "movie fan" I mean
I see movies in actual theaters more than once a week on average.

Until maybe 2005, I watched the Oscars, recording them if I was going
to be doing something. I cared a lot about the necrology and
participated in predictive and dissective threads about it here every
single year.

2005-2015 I recorded it, zipped through to the montage des morts,
watched that, maybe made comments here.k

Since 2015 I don't even care about that. And I am the guy who
rewatches about all of the TCM death montages roughly yearly. (Most or
all of them are on YouTube.)

The Oscars have always been easy to mock -- The Greatest Show on Earth
as the Best Picture of 1952?!? -- but they have evolved into such
self-parodic dogshit over the last few years that even the idea of
glancing at five minutes of it is repellent to me. I would rather
watch 2 Broke Girls. I would rather watch the new Star Trek. Okay, not
that last thing, but I hate the Academy, is what I am saying.
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J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

The Oscars have always been easy to mock -- The Greatest Show on Earth
as the Best Picture of 1952?!? -- but they have evolved into such self-parodic dogshit over the last few years that even the idea of
glancing at five minutes of it is repellent to me. I would rather
watch 2 Broke Girls. I would rather watch the new Star Trek. Okay, not
that last thing, but I hate the Academy, is what I am saying.

Per the "diversity inclusion" quota:

https://x.com/tedcruz/status/2033615772036067721

Utter insanity. None of these prior winners would qualify:

The Godfather (I & II)
No Country for Old Men
The Departed
Chicago
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Braveheart
Titanic
Forrest Gump
Schindler's List
Unforgiven
Amadeus
Patton
The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
Casablanca
Ben-Hur
Gone with the Wind

I note that "Shakespeare In Love," which robbed "Saving Private Ryan,"
likely would have.

F the Oscars.
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J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy
Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?

I think I'm a pretty typical movie fan -- where by "movie fan" I mean
I see movies in actual theaters more than once a week on average.

Until maybe 2005, I watched the Oscars, recording them if I was going
to be doing something. I cared a lot about the necrology and
participated in predictive and dissective threads about it here every
single year.

2005-2015 I recorded it, zipped through to the montage des morts,
watched that, maybe made comments here.k

Since 2015 I don't even care about that. And I am the guy who
rewatches about all of the TCM death montages roughly yearly. (Most or
all of them are on YouTube.)

The Oscars have always been easy to mock -- The Greatest Show on Earth
as the Best Picture of 1952?!? -- but they have evolved into such self-parodic dogshit over the last few years that even the idea of
glancing at five minutes of it is repellent to me. I would rather
watch 2 Broke Girls. I would rather watch the new Star Trek. Okay, not
that last thing, but I hate the Academy, is what I am saying.

I'm not sure when I last watched it...but for me the necrology
became unwatchable when they muted the live audience soundtrack
to make viewers listen to a musical guest performance.
They didn't like the way that the audience reacted as they pleased
as each decedent appeared on screen,and to me that's what made the
event real.

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