If they do so, which I suspect they will, I predict they will lose a large number of viewers. America has voted and the majority do not support Gender Ideology. Who can take one more man stealing a women’s award or displacing them from competition?
By the same token, I couldn’t watch Elliot Page accept an award in the men’s category even though I think they’re a fine actor and deserving of a nomination. It’s one thing to suffer from lifelong gender dysphoria (for which we should feel compassion and understanding) and another to believe humans can change sex.
Go see A Complete Unknown. It got me back into listening to Dylan’s music again, which I hadn’t done since I was a teenager in the 70s. No one is nominated in the wrong category. Chalomet and Barbaro were nominated and I think Fanning should have been. Edit: forgot Edward Norton as Pete Seeger! He was wonderful.
I’ve seen A Complete Unknown twice now. I recommend it because it captured, through the story of BobDylan's early years in New York, the zeitgeist of the time. I was in college those years, and the film brought the tension and excitement and terror of the time into a relivable experience. I was mesmerized by the accuracy of how it felt to be alive then, and how much the film showed the detail of what the scene at the time not only looked like, but felt like. Timothee Chalomet not only learned to sing like Dylan, but learned to play guitar and harmonica, and for me, was more Dylan than Dylan! He captured the essence of a midwestern kid inventing himself before our eyes. But more importantly, 1961-1965 was a time of social change and unrest, exactly like now. I understand that astrological positions then are similar right now, bringing change and unsettling new ways of organizing the human experience. For someone so engaged in social justice now, I encourage you to see this movie and experience history with fresh eyes.
A few years ago the number of Best Picture nominees was increased to 10 so we could have more deversety. What really happened is some real weak pictures get a political nomination as best.
If you like Bob Dylan or ever did or his writing, definitely go see A Complete Unknown! A few of my friends were disappointed that the movie really didn't have a plot or much at all about his personal life. But as a true Dylan aficionado I loved hearing the music...or is it poetry?! Also, no DEI or PC or social justice stuff in this movie. Dylan unequivocally states that he isn't interested in being political.
But seriously, the Oscars, once upon a time, and in the self-serving, condescending words of "Bishop" Budde used to "unite us."
I recall really liking "The Crying Game." I even bought the soundtrack. That film seemed to be about character, while Emilia Perez is about 'being trans.'
This is the great damage identity politics has wrought on all art. It's not about character. It's about the representative of a group.
The lyrics to that song about vaginoplasty etc had me rolling around in my own shit laughing and laughing -- it's that absurd. Great fodder for lighting a spliff and treating the film like the 'good bad' absurdity that it is.
I do hope this marks the downward spiral from identity politics. Its death rattle so to speak.
The silver lining I see in this repellent musical about organized crime, is the likely audience reaction. As Will Thomas hitting the headlines peaked people, this ludicrous plot-line will annoy and shock. The idea that a quite blokey dude can come back to his ex-wife and pretend to be a cousin and she swallows that kool aid beggars belief. The clip I've seen where the lawyer character is singing the menu of surgeries will surely make even Brianna Wu (that is, I mean John Walker Flynt) rage with that tinny, artificial voice of his. What will the "Academy" do? I'm showing my age here, but I think Myra Breckenridge starring Raquel Welch as a man who gets all the surgeries was the first Hollywood trans whopper. Some Like it Hot was funny, with men crossdressing for a similar plot line, to hide from the law (or was it hide from the mobsters?) My favorite, genuine, authentic-feeling film with a significant female character, who is played by a couple of Vietnamese actresses as she goes from childhood through to adulthood, is The Scent of a Green Papaya. Of note for a popular series that had a "trans plot" is the episode of crime show, Vera with Brenda Blethwyn in the title role. The trans identified character was a prostitute (what else?) and they made him into the hooker-with-a-heart of gold. Interesting how men play male transsexuals and no hue and cry about outing that actor. Vera says about the jail time he's going to serve in this story, "But of course they'll have to put you in with the lassies, pet." Vera streams on Britbox. BTW, trans widows know the real connection between prostitution and crossdresser husbands. These men pay extra and bring their own cocaine, according to a couple of former prostitutes who contacted me as well as a couple of trans widows who walked in on such a scene involving her husband. The play acting of humiliation is usually the theme he's paying for. A few salient details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfb7bbz4YeM
Emilia Pérez is currently a box office bomb, which is yet another indication of the Academy’s disregard for the market and the audience. One can readily foresee record low ratings for this year’s Oscar broadcast.
Whitehouse.gov website has some entertaining reading. Ground-breaking - earthquake rumbling. But may not immediately effect independent groups like the Oscars movie awards.
Hi Jen. I think this will turn out to be the final nail in the Hollywood coffin. People are sick of this shit! Anyone who doesn't realize this should look at the reaction to Donald Trump's edicts which are immensely popular with a population that is sick of woke. Personally I rarely watch any movies and if I do they are all older movies. You know, the type that had some morality and humanity in them? What Hollywood now produces is pure unadulterated crap. One more thing. Do you think Disney's "accident" in referring kids to a porn site was really an accident? I for one don't!
Embarrassing for me as well as I simply didn't do my homework. Still it's irrelevant which one of these sick, woke organizations did it. In my opinion they're all the same and only worthy of boycotting. I am saddened by the loss of true talent and decency that was more prevalent when I was a youngster back in the '50's and 60's. There were still a few good ones coming out a few years ago like "A River Runs Through It" and "Fried Green Tomatoes" just to name a couple. For purity of soul and masterful story telling both of these are a true breath of fresh air.
I am on the same page with you. I used to love these awards, and now I just don't care. I am more of a TV person, so I used to love the Emmys. Haven't followed those awards in years. But here's a similar example to the ones you gave: In 2016 Louie Anderson played the 'mom' character in the wonderful comedy Baskets (in a loving homage to his own mother), and won best supporting actor. Because he was a man.
I read Nickel Boys too. It was BLEAK. (That's probably why you didn't finish it?) Not sure if I'd want to see the movie.
I wish the other actresses in the category with the man would have the guts to reject the nomination, and take a stand. Or that an actress who got passed over would speak up that a man stole one of the nominations. Or that someone who wins--anyone, in any category--would call out this bullshit in their acceptance speech. But none of this will happen, because Hollywood is filled with gutless, self-serving assholes. Instead, we'll get a 'joke' from whoever the lame comedian is hosting the show, and the target of the joke will be Trump and his 'hateful' executive order. And the audience will applaud.
I did watch one Oscar-nominated movie, because it's on Hulu. 'A Real Pain', which got a screenplay nomination (Jesse Eisenberg) and acting nomination (Kieran Culkin). I highly recommend it--it's woke-free! Plus, Jennifer Grey is in it! (Also, Will Sharpe from White Lotus, looking and sounding like a completely different person. He's a chameleon.)
One little correction: Wicked is not a Disney film! Universal owns it. (Disney wishes they did, LOL!)
Hi Jen. My wife and I went to The Brutalist yesterday. FYI, any movie that has a 15 minute bio-break intermission in the middle better be good. It’s a four hour investment that is far better spent reading your Substack, and making comments. In a nutshell, it’s a story about a Jewish immigrant to the US after the Holocaust and shows the challenges of integrating into a totally different culture. It presents itself as a “true story” of a famous architect. I assumed it was a biography, but googled the name of the hero when I left the theater and learned it was something of an amalgam of real people but nobody in particular. You’ll be glad to know (not) that it has the obligatory anal sex scene, (in the form of a rape of the Jewish immigrant by the privileged rich White guy). Given that this was a fiction that was presented as a true story, it is horrifying that they threw a gratuitous sodomy scene into the film, when there was no need to do so. Stay away!
It’s a long slog for almost zero payout. The directing and cinematography are very good though. If you hate capitalism, this is the film for you! Sadly I’ll never get those hours back.
You just know the Academy is going to give the prize to the movie, the actor, or both, as a big “FU” to the new administration’s “anti-trans” agenda.
Agreed.
If they do so, which I suspect they will, I predict they will lose a large number of viewers. America has voted and the majority do not support Gender Ideology. Who can take one more man stealing a women’s award or displacing them from competition?
By the same token, I couldn’t watch Elliot Page accept an award in the men’s category even though I think they’re a fine actor and deserving of a nomination. It’s one thing to suffer from lifelong gender dysphoria (for which we should feel compassion and understanding) and another to believe humans can change sex.
Go see A Complete Unknown. It got me back into listening to Dylan’s music again, which I hadn’t done since I was a teenager in the 70s. No one is nominated in the wrong category. Chalomet and Barbaro were nominated and I think Fanning should have been. Edit: forgot Edward Norton as Pete Seeger! He was wonderful.
Another recommend for A Complete Unknown.
I’ve seen A Complete Unknown twice now. I recommend it because it captured, through the story of BobDylan's early years in New York, the zeitgeist of the time. I was in college those years, and the film brought the tension and excitement and terror of the time into a relivable experience. I was mesmerized by the accuracy of how it felt to be alive then, and how much the film showed the detail of what the scene at the time not only looked like, but felt like. Timothee Chalomet not only learned to sing like Dylan, but learned to play guitar and harmonica, and for me, was more Dylan than Dylan! He captured the essence of a midwestern kid inventing himself before our eyes. But more importantly, 1961-1965 was a time of social change and unrest, exactly like now. I understand that astrological positions then are similar right now, bringing change and unsettling new ways of organizing the human experience. For someone so engaged in social justice now, I encourage you to see this movie and experience history with fresh eyes.
I'm gonna watch it! Sold!
It still amazes me the women just accept it!
A few years ago the number of Best Picture nominees was increased to 10 so we could have more deversety. What really happened is some real weak pictures get a political nomination as best.
If you like Bob Dylan or ever did or his writing, definitely go see A Complete Unknown! A few of my friends were disappointed that the movie really didn't have a plot or much at all about his personal life. But as a true Dylan aficionado I loved hearing the music...or is it poetry?! Also, no DEI or PC or social justice stuff in this movie. Dylan unequivocally states that he isn't interested in being political.
Perhaps he should win Best Autogynophile?
But seriously, the Oscars, once upon a time, and in the self-serving, condescending words of "Bishop" Budde used to "unite us."
I recall really liking "The Crying Game." I even bought the soundtrack. That film seemed to be about character, while Emilia Perez is about 'being trans.'
This is the great damage identity politics has wrought on all art. It's not about character. It's about the representative of a group.
The lyrics to that song about vaginoplasty etc had me rolling around in my own shit laughing and laughing -- it's that absurd. Great fodder for lighting a spliff and treating the film like the 'good bad' absurdity that it is.
I do hope this marks the downward spiral from identity politics. Its death rattle so to speak.
There's a song about vaginoplasty!? ok i might need to watch just for that.
Megyn Kelly played some of the vaginoplasty musical number. I know that I'll be watching for that.
The silver lining I see in this repellent musical about organized crime, is the likely audience reaction. As Will Thomas hitting the headlines peaked people, this ludicrous plot-line will annoy and shock. The idea that a quite blokey dude can come back to his ex-wife and pretend to be a cousin and she swallows that kool aid beggars belief. The clip I've seen where the lawyer character is singing the menu of surgeries will surely make even Brianna Wu (that is, I mean John Walker Flynt) rage with that tinny, artificial voice of his. What will the "Academy" do? I'm showing my age here, but I think Myra Breckenridge starring Raquel Welch as a man who gets all the surgeries was the first Hollywood trans whopper. Some Like it Hot was funny, with men crossdressing for a similar plot line, to hide from the law (or was it hide from the mobsters?) My favorite, genuine, authentic-feeling film with a significant female character, who is played by a couple of Vietnamese actresses as she goes from childhood through to adulthood, is The Scent of a Green Papaya. Of note for a popular series that had a "trans plot" is the episode of crime show, Vera with Brenda Blethwyn in the title role. The trans identified character was a prostitute (what else?) and they made him into the hooker-with-a-heart of gold. Interesting how men play male transsexuals and no hue and cry about outing that actor. Vera says about the jail time he's going to serve in this story, "But of course they'll have to put you in with the lassies, pet." Vera streams on Britbox. BTW, trans widows know the real connection between prostitution and crossdresser husbands. These men pay extra and bring their own cocaine, according to a couple of former prostitutes who contacted me as well as a couple of trans widows who walked in on such a scene involving her husband. The play acting of humiliation is usually the theme he's paying for. A few salient details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfb7bbz4YeM
Hopefully the audience reaction is to NOT GO SEE IT. And as far as you final comments, ew, I wish I didn't know this. But thank you for knowing.
No man should get the Oscar that is for a woman! Thats just cheating!
I do giggle at the premise of the movie. I've known and know real gangsters and he would be deleted there and then.
Tell it!
Emilia Pérez is currently a box office bomb, which is yet another indication of the Academy’s disregard for the market and the audience. One can readily foresee record low ratings for this year’s Oscar broadcast.
Whitehouse.gov website has some entertaining reading. Ground-breaking - earthquake rumbling. But may not immediately effect independent groups like the Oscars movie awards.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/
Hi Jen. I think this will turn out to be the final nail in the Hollywood coffin. People are sick of this shit! Anyone who doesn't realize this should look at the reaction to Donald Trump's edicts which are immensely popular with a population that is sick of woke. Personally I rarely watch any movies and if I do they are all older movies. You know, the type that had some morality and humanity in them? What Hollywood now produces is pure unadulterated crap. One more thing. Do you think Disney's "accident" in referring kids to a porn site was really an accident? I for one don't!
It might have been Selena's Gomez's crying video yesterday!
I made a mistake. It wasn't Disney. It was Universal. I kinda think it was. But what do i know. (PS i've corrected my mistake)
Embarrassing for me as well as I simply didn't do my homework. Still it's irrelevant which one of these sick, woke organizations did it. In my opinion they're all the same and only worthy of boycotting. I am saddened by the loss of true talent and decency that was more prevalent when I was a youngster back in the '50's and 60's. There were still a few good ones coming out a few years ago like "A River Runs Through It" and "Fried Green Tomatoes" just to name a couple. For purity of soul and masterful story telling both of these are a true breath of fresh air.
I am on the same page with you. I used to love these awards, and now I just don't care. I am more of a TV person, so I used to love the Emmys. Haven't followed those awards in years. But here's a similar example to the ones you gave: In 2016 Louie Anderson played the 'mom' character in the wonderful comedy Baskets (in a loving homage to his own mother), and won best supporting actor. Because he was a man.
I read Nickel Boys too. It was BLEAK. (That's probably why you didn't finish it?) Not sure if I'd want to see the movie.
I wish the other actresses in the category with the man would have the guts to reject the nomination, and take a stand. Or that an actress who got passed over would speak up that a man stole one of the nominations. Or that someone who wins--anyone, in any category--would call out this bullshit in their acceptance speech. But none of this will happen, because Hollywood is filled with gutless, self-serving assholes. Instead, we'll get a 'joke' from whoever the lame comedian is hosting the show, and the target of the joke will be Trump and his 'hateful' executive order. And the audience will applaud.
I did watch one Oscar-nominated movie, because it's on Hulu. 'A Real Pain', which got a screenplay nomination (Jesse Eisenberg) and acting nomination (Kieran Culkin). I highly recommend it--it's woke-free! Plus, Jennifer Grey is in it! (Also, Will Sharpe from White Lotus, looking and sounding like a completely different person. He's a chameleon.)
One little correction: Wicked is not a Disney film! Universal owns it. (Disney wishes they did, LOL!)
Yes you're right. Universal! I knew that! Changed! Thank you.
I want to see A Real Pain!
Hi Jen. My wife and I went to The Brutalist yesterday. FYI, any movie that has a 15 minute bio-break intermission in the middle better be good. It’s a four hour investment that is far better spent reading your Substack, and making comments. In a nutshell, it’s a story about a Jewish immigrant to the US after the Holocaust and shows the challenges of integrating into a totally different culture. It presents itself as a “true story” of a famous architect. I assumed it was a biography, but googled the name of the hero when I left the theater and learned it was something of an amalgam of real people but nobody in particular. You’ll be glad to know (not) that it has the obligatory anal sex scene, (in the form of a rape of the Jewish immigrant by the privileged rich White guy). Given that this was a fiction that was presented as a true story, it is horrifying that they threw a gratuitous sodomy scene into the film, when there was no need to do so. Stay away!
Ok you’ve convinced me to skip it. 4 hours is all I needed to hear
It’s a long slog for almost zero payout. The directing and cinematography are very good though. If you hate capitalism, this is the film for you! Sadly I’ll never get those hours back.
Great post!