^ One of the comments at that Rajeev2004 entry:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Online protest by HJS to send protest emails to Oscars committee to reject the movie for its Anti-Hindu prejudice, please sign if you agree:
http://www.hindujagruti.org/denigrations/protestslumdog
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(rest at link)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oscars always vote in garbage. No one here watches the Oscar shows anymore (a handful used to a decade ago, back when I think it started getting replayed or streamed in full). And probably the same disinterest is mirrored in other non-US countries.
The Academy Awards/Oscars is no more than glorified self-conceit on the part of American 'cinema' that they broadcast the private show the world over. US generally can't make films anymore - with a few notable exceptions, and they have no taste in films either. I remember catching one particular instance: that year when Sidney Poitier was honoured with some award and then Halle Berry won best actress and Denzel Washington won best actor, though IIRC Russell Crowe had the better movie that year and Denzel had had far better roles in many previous years. Of course it was all political: the Oscars are such a racist org, that they decided it was time to change their well-known public image in one go and finally award people with African origin a best actor/actress before the world at large started criticising the boring event as being racist. Well it IS racist. The way the academy chose to "get the entire racism thing out of the way" by indiscriminately choosing to give Best Actress and Actor to Berry and Washington in the same year AND when no African-origin person had ever yet received either award before, is highly offensive. African-origin Americans should have felt slighted. And Denzel should have asked himself why he hadn't won Oscars for better roles which he had undertaken before.
But then, AmeriKKKa extends to their Oscars. The academy awards don't merely have bad taste, they have always been motivated. <i>Of course</i> they will nominate slumdog. It is a very christian piece. And a christian piece on India must win, win, win if the christos can help it. How else will junk get any recognition?
But classless movies don't obtain class just because they get adorned with cheap oscars, you know.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Online protest by HJS to send protest emails to Oscars committee to reject the movie for its Anti-Hindu prejudice, please sign if you agree:
http://www.hindujagruti.org/denigrations/protestslumdog
[...]
(rest at link)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oscars always vote in garbage. No one here watches the Oscar shows anymore (a handful used to a decade ago, back when I think it started getting replayed or streamed in full). And probably the same disinterest is mirrored in other non-US countries.
The Academy Awards/Oscars is no more than glorified self-conceit on the part of American 'cinema' that they broadcast the private show the world over. US generally can't make films anymore - with a few notable exceptions, and they have no taste in films either. I remember catching one particular instance: that year when Sidney Poitier was honoured with some award and then Halle Berry won best actress and Denzel Washington won best actor, though IIRC Russell Crowe had the better movie that year and Denzel had had far better roles in many previous years. Of course it was all political: the Oscars are such a racist org, that they decided it was time to change their well-known public image in one go and finally award people with African origin a best actor/actress before the world at large started criticising the boring event as being racist. Well it IS racist. The way the academy chose to "get the entire racism thing out of the way" by indiscriminately choosing to give Best Actress and Actor to Berry and Washington in the same year AND when no African-origin person had ever yet received either award before, is highly offensive. African-origin Americans should have felt slighted. And Denzel should have asked himself why he hadn't won Oscars for better roles which he had undertaken before.
But then, AmeriKKKa extends to their Oscars. The academy awards don't merely have bad taste, they have always been motivated. <i>Of course</i> they will nominate slumdog. It is a very christian piece. And a christian piece on India must win, win, win if the christos can help it. How else will junk get any recognition?
But classless movies don't obtain class just because they get adorned with cheap oscars, you know.