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Oscars Were a Trainwreck of the Woke Culture!
by Piers Morgan
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd

If there was an Oscar for Worst Horror Story, it would go to whoever decided it would be a good idea to hold this year's event in a train station. Though ironically, that turned out to be the most perfectly appropriate venue for a grim, soulless three-hour ordeal that was the complete opposite of what Hollywood's biggest night is supposed to be about.

The Oscars had one job after the whole world had endured a year of hell with the coronavirus pandemic: make us feel better. Everything about it stank. But nothing quite prepared me for the opening of the show itself, or rather lack of opening. Regina King tripped as she reached the podium and then announced: 'I know a lot of you people at home want to reach for your remote when you feel like Hollywood is preaching to you.' Yes, we do, which is why Oscars' ratings have collapsed in recent years as the woke lectures have increased in both volume and scale of sanctimony. The Best Picture winner “Nomadland” grossed just $2.5 million, meaning pretty much nobody watched it. It's a beautifully made film, and Frances McDormand gives a typically superb performance. But the scene where she literally dumps into a bucket could have been a metaphor for its box office popularity. To complete a host of crazy decisions, producers decided to ditch Best Picture from its usual place as the thrilling finale and replace it with Best Actor.

Cynics believed they did this to exploit feverish anticipation that the late Chadwick Boseman had posthumously won the coveted Best Actor gong which would provide a highly emotional denouncement to the show. But in the eventuality, it went to Sir Anthony Hopkins. The problem was that Hopkins wasn't there and didn't appear by video-link either. It was a comically unexciting conclusion to a mind-numbingly tedious night.

Conclusion by Pastor Gary Boyd

As usual I neither watched nor cared about these meaningless awards as the Oscars have collapsed in recent years to a dog and pony show preachathon about how woke they are and your not. There are no Gone With the Wind or From Here to Eternity or Kings Row being produced anymore. Just the same mindless drival like Baytown Outlaws, Executor, Lancaster Skies, Dangerous Game, Honest Thief, and the endless Bruce Willis slam bam Die Hard etc. flicks that hardly pass as entertainment, but vast shoot em ups with a devastating body count at the end with a dash of sex to keep the perverts interested.

These goons in La la land preach to us about guns, but use guns and violence in their trashy concoctions to try and gain viewership, when in fact all they are doing is Zombietizing their audience and putting most to sleep here lately. Viewership is down across the board as it is in the music industry that can no more put anything new together besides the endless base drums of the latest foul mouthed hip hop with stolen lyrics, stolen melodies, stolen well you get the idea.

Creativity died with the latest shipment of coke. The rage against the machine in music is so boring, now there woke cancel culture should do the same to this noise dull boring and downright repetitive concoctions that pass for entertainment.

As a pastor I have long since moved on to praise & worship songs and to movies in the Christian realm that make a difference, everything else is just the devils noise.

kemmer

Well, that should appeal to the advanced geriatric set.

microphor Loc: Home is TN

or people with a brain@

maryla

I agree. Creativity has died. Hopefully its not forever but you know what they say, creativity is in the mind of the beholder.....which puts an awful onus on you and me.

nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert

The Oscars still mean something to the actors . And I applauded them for turning in award worthy performances especially in B rated movies. But lately reality is more entertaining for me. There is stuff going on today that wouldn't be believable in a movie. Like what Mark Twain said. It's harder to write fiction because it has to make sense. Today's world makes very little sense but it sure is entertaining