Quote: (02-27-2017 01:53 PM)8ball Wrote:
The oscars just a hit a 9 year rating low. Its consecutive lows for all award shows, emmy's, golden globes etc.
As the segmentation of the market continues and the oscars not reflecting the box office(best picture nominees represented some 2-3% of box office) they will only get more pathetic and more desperate.
I've mentioned the Death of the Monoculture in a few posts recently. I spend time yesterday around many different groups of people, read some online news sites and had dinner with a group of seven.
Not one person mentioned the Oscars was happening that day. I'd been thinking recently that the right should push for no walls between celebrities and the public, and ask for freedom for unvetted immigrants to sit amongst the celebrities within, with no scary armed men with guns to protect everyone, and, huh it already happened.
Hell, I was even thinking "You know, if ISIS shot up the Oscars, it would kill two birds with one stone."
... but it had come and gone with no fanfare or interest from the general public whatsover. There were no stories about it in the media, until the obvious fuckup happened. If anything, the stories are more mocking it as an example of how out of touch it is. I saw a bit of mainstream morning television (ugh) this morning waiting at the doctors, and even the morning hosts and live-via-sattelite colour commentators were yawning at how boring and pointless the whole thing was, and these people fawn with enthusiasm over people being offended over pointless crap on Twitter.
The Hollywood Creative class has no idea how irrelevant it has become after last year's election cycle. I honestly think you'd get more paid 'bums in seats' at Meryl Streep's public execution than whatever her latest movie is. I mean, bread and circuses, right? These people aren't consistently-entertaining, and can't reliably-even open movies any more, so why not charge people to watch George Clooney or Will Smith or Lena Dunham being thrown to the lions and clean up?
Except for Mel. Damn! Respect, brother.