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[Fred Sanders]

1. The cons are going to throw a childish tantrum and get real mad about something? Never heard of such a thing.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I hope Birdman blows it out in every category...

At least Birdman bills itself as fantasy, unlike the sniper movie...

[muntrv]

3. My response will be....

[Still Sensible]

52. +1 n/t

[JoePhilly]

4. They're always mad anyway.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

5. I kind of disagree

They aren't "into" the Oscars.

They are into profits, and laughing that this movie made so much money.

[titaniumsalute]

6. Of course

Like all things for the right wing...it will be a political conspiracy from Hollywood that would make it that AS didn't win an Oscar.

[hatrack]

7. And if it does, but doesn't win EVERY category it's nominated for, they'll be mad

And even if it does win in every category, they'll be mad about some stupid fucking thing.

So what else is new?

[paulbibeau]

8. First person to actually read the OP wins.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. I see what happened there.

There isn't a single person who likes it when some - let's admit this - some foreigner barges onto the scene, tears up their world, and starts acting like they own the place. People who do that are universally hated.

[paulbibeau]

16. Thanks. You are, and there is evidence for this, the smartest person on the internet today.

Is that a low bar?

Let's not answer that. But thank you.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. I suggest an original post to that effect.

[paulbibeau]

31. I updated this OP instead.

[Go Vols]

38. Isn't that what the US did to Iraq?

[paulbibeau]

47. Thanks.

[alarimer]

9. I will be upset if it wins anything.

It is propaganda, pure and simple. Rewarding it would be disgusting.

[paulbibeau]

10. Make one sly comment in this thread. Just something.

Just a subtle hint, maybe. A reference to the real subject matter. You and I will become best internet friends forever.

[appal_jack]

62. "Sing a simple song!"

(you asked for a "Sly" comment)

-app

[Lint Head]

11. I don't care what conservative cowards think or do.

[paulbibeau]

12. One reader. Just one.

[Iggo]

43. "There isn't a single person..."

[Calista241]

13. Who gives a shit.

It's just another war movie, among a pretty popular genre.

And I don't think the cons care too much about Hollywood.

[paulbibeau]

14. Nothing's stopping you from actually reading the OP.

You have to get past it to type in your comment, anyway. You might as well actually read it. It would literally take the same amount of time to read it. I posted it here to be read.

G'head! Just read it. Why not? What's stopping you?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

22. We get it, Hollywood is a bunch of rich elite snobby assholes and they vote on this....

....and we shouldn't care what they select.

I can't imagine only one bit of satire is baked into your cake....beyond the thing about foreigners.

[paulbibeau]

23. Nope, nope, nope, nope, wait.

[Beaverhausen]

17. The Theory of Everything or Whiplash should win

I know. Not what the OP is about.

I just wanted to say that.

[bigwillq]

57. I'm hoping for Boyhood or Birdman

Although I loved WHIPLASH.

I couldn't stand Theory of Everything. Barely got through it. I thought Eddie Redmayne's performance was annoying. I almost turned it off a few times (saw it at home).

[Beaverhausen]

65. I thought Boyhood was a big snooze

Not up to the level of the others nominated.

And Interstellar was robbed!!!

[TheKentuckian]

18. Conservatives are going to be mad if they wake up tomorrow and it is Wednesday

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. Conservatives will never wake up,

Wednesday or otherwise.

[liberal N proud]

19. Is that what FOX and the minor league proaganda networks are going to tell them to be mad about?

That is how it works, the right wing sheep only care about what they are told to care about and nothing more!

[paulbibeau]

21. There can be only One.

[Orrex]

25. I get it! It's an acrostic

APRLTWLTIWWCGAFGAEMTWTNTY

Very clever!

[paulbibeau]

27. One reader. Just one.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQyCkwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DftjEcrrf7r0&ei=W2njVO-GKomhNuHqghA&usg=AFQjCNFwPcRm3MhDWF84w5f7V8vMNl7mEw&sig2=qIkqpsh7WoRmW8xDuxgrgw&bvm=bv.85970519,d.eXY

[el_bryanto]

28. I think we should just base the oscars on box office performance

The best pictures would be nominated based on box office gross, and the winner would be determined by whoever won the most. I mean really that's what we are measuring right? If most Americans liked a movie that means it's the best movie. By definition.

Bryant

[Orsino]

29. On the contrary. They will enjoy their ragefest immensely...

...confirming as it does everything they love to chant about Hollywood.

[99Forever]

30. Horse feathers.

Just for starters, this nation is not center right. It's just had center right scum steal control of it. And conservatives are always fucking mad, because they are assholes.

[paulbibeau]

32. This is kind of awe-inspiring, in a way.

In another way it makes me long for the heat death of the universe.

[LanternWaste]

34. I also like to blame everyone else for not understanding me...

I also like to blame everyone else for not understanding me...

[paulbibeau]

36. I'm not blaming. I'm marveling at it.

[Capt. Obvious]

39. No you don't

No you don't

[Stallion]

33. American Sniper However is the Clear Frontrunner for the Leni Riefenstahl Award of Excellence

nm

[Romeo.lima333]

35. "Look, like it or not, this is a center-right nation" that's why we have a republican president

oh wait the candidate from the right lost silly me and i heard we were center right nation

[Yavin4]

37. As long as Black people, women, gays, the elderly, working people, and the poor exist....

Conservatives will be angry.

[bigwillq]

40. It's not going to win Best Picture. And it shouldn't.

I thought it was good, but not great. I think there are several other movies more deserving. I saw 7 of the 8 Best Picture nominees, and quite a few others deserving that weren't nominated for BP.

[NCTraveler]

41. I am feeling really dim.

I don't get it.

[paulbibeau]

42. I'll explain.

There is a hint as to what I'm really talking about in every paragraph after the first one. I am going to just put all of those hints right here now. I don't think it will do any good. I really don't. But I feel like I have to try. I am now going to destroy the piece in order to save it. That's where we are...

"They'll feel like their opinions don't count for anything. Like people from some completely alien culture just swept in and stole their voice. Took their autonomy away."

"...and if someone from a part of the world they've never visited just comes over and tell them those values are wrong... well, no one likes that. Everyone gets angry when that happens."

"But then these arrogant and rich jerks, folks who claimed they were from an advanced culture, even though you knew they were just entitled pricks... these insufferable people started ordering everyone around and trying to lecture you about right and wrong in your own home? God, just thinking about it ought to make you enraged. Who do they think they are, right?"

AND THE LAST THREE PARAGRAPHS OF THE PIECE ARE JUST NOTHING BUT A FLAT-OUT OBVIOUS INDICATOR OF WHAT I'M REALLY TALKING ABOUT.

There isn't a single person who likes it when some - let's admit this - some foreigner barges onto the scene, tears up their world, and starts acting like they own the place. People who do that are universally hated.

That's about the absolute stupidest, most jackass way to behave. Anyone who does it is asking to get hurt. Badly.

No one ought to understand this better than the kind of folks who go in for American Sniper.

BOOM. RE-READ THAT LAST LINE. NO, NO... REALLY READ IT.

[Phentex]

45. Do you like cats?

'cause you really haven't said one way or the other.

[paulbibeau]

46. Yes, I should throw that in.

I'm okay with cats. Depends on the cat, really.

But I wouldn't like cats if some foreign army patrolled my city, shot my neighbors, and told me they were doing it for my own good, because I didn't like cats ENOUGH. And then after they destroyed my culture, they made a war movie about some guy who'd shot more of my neighbors than anyone, and the movie was all about how shooting my neighbors made him feel, and then people in that country were mad because the movie didn't win an Oscar, like that was the greatest injustice that had ever happened.

No. I wouldn't like cats under those circumstances.

[appal_jack]

59. I'm late to the game, but I 'got' the OP on the first read.

Nice work there, Mr bibeau.



-app

[paulbibeau]

64. Solid. My thanks to you.

[Enrique]

44. does reading the headline count?

[paulbibeau]

48. Also...

The guy standing in the corner is an indicator that the murderer, or maybe the Blair Witch herself, is in the basement.

The white whale represents implacable nature.

The animals on the farm are all different members of Soviet society.

The bad guy is always the first person the Scooby gang sees at the haunted place. It's always just that guy. There are usually NO OTHER PEOPLE in the cartoon.

[appal_jack]

61. Zoiks Scoobs, I think Paul's trying to tell us something here! nt

[edhopper]

49. You mean the same ones

who laughed off no black actors getting nominated?

[former9thward]

50. Yes, conservatives will be mad

and liberals will be mad if Selma does not win. That's what happens when you try to apply politics to absolutely everything in life.

[Roland99]

51. Well played, sir. Well played

*this* is multi-level chess in the OP.

[paulbibeau]

53. Thank you very much.

[Dawson Leery]

54. Too bad, the Academy does not vote

based upon what the right wing wants.

[rgbecker]

55. 60 Minutes told me last Sunday that Bradley Cooper is the greatest since

can't remember when. Gains weight and works out just to look like a Marine. Doesn't need make up to appear grotesque. Thinks Clint Eastwood is the man. Rides subway incognito. What's not to like? In like Flint is the expression we used to use.

All kidding aside, I love the guy, really.

[MisterP]

56. isn't that the movie they were trying to light up in "Inglourious Basterds"

[one_voice]

58. A few things...

1. it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. Unless you're David Vitter, or Larry Craig, or Rush Limbaugh, whatever; it's one of them that enjoys it.

2. You pretty much summed up why we as a country were universally hated--for a while at least.

3. I'm going to check out your book.

[Vattel]

60. I got the point of your thread before reading your hints below. So I am smarter than Carcetti.

[Archae]

63. I'm still pissed off at the Academy.

First off, it was created as a union-busting scheme.

Second, they gave "Best Picture" award to "Rocky," over "Network."

"Rocky" was nothing but tired clichés.
"Network" was a quality movie with damn good actors.

[olddots]

66. pithy

Pithy