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25. Two things

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue Feb 8, 2022, 04:53 PM

Feb 2022

1) These awards are really just a marketing tool for the movie industry. So let's not get too carried away about what is "Oscar worthy" or not. The more artsy movies likely benefit a lot more from this additional promotion than a movie that already raked in well over a billion dollars.

2) Like it or not, the film industry is largely associated with liberalism and the left in the public consciousness. This refusal to even nominate the movies that people actually watch helps reinforce this idea that the "left" is full of out of touch elites who don't understand the lives of common, working-class people. Which is really unfortunate.

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If the person who wrote the article is seriously arguing.... GreatShakes66 Feb 2022 #24

Two things The Revolution Feb 2022 #25