Who gives a fuck about the Oscars?

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Do you give a fuck about the Oscars?

Yes. I was glued to the TV and I'd been looking forward to it all week.
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No. Nobody gives a shit about the Oscars.
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What the fuck are the Oscars? Just give me some beer and porn.
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Two words explain if I like the Oscars: Fuck no.
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Post by Nathan F »

Weren't the ratings for this on only something like 40% of what they used to be a couple years back?

I would say that this big boycott of them and the self-professed policy experts in hollywood had something to do with that.
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I gave up on the Oscars a few years ago, when there was some award for music or something, the Saving Private Ryan one came up, and had a guy tap-dancing.
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I didn't even know it was on until the next day when Moore was all over the news blabbing his brand of ass-porridge... no great loss.

Beer and "Asian Butt Slutts XII" for me.
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Coyote wrote:I didn't even know it was on until the next day when Moore was all over the news blabbing his brand of ass-porridge... no great loss.
In all seriousness, I woudn't have even known the Oscars were on if I didn't see the various threads posted on this and other boards.

On a related note, I just came across a cool acronym for Oscars on another board. Obnoxious and Silly Celebrities Acting Ridiculously Stupid
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I was watching Children of Dune. Didn't even know the Oscars were on until I went to the bathroom during a commercial.
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Darth Wong wrote:Seriously?
Was too busy watching shit blow up during the war.
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I dont care about the Oscars. Never been too interested in movie stars except too see some of them naked.
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Vympel wrote: These are the fucking people who thought 'Shakespeare in Love' was the best movie of an entire year.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

and it beat Saving Private Ryan.....
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Dalton wrote: Return of the King better sweep the fucking awards next year.
If SPR couldn't beat Shakespeare in Love.......
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Zaia wrote:
Crown wrote:Bah, my only interest is in seeing Nicole win! Come on admit it, she is soooooo much hotter now that she has ditched hubby!
I concur, so I changed my avatar. *points* What do you think? :D
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We should have an SD.net awards ceremony when the 1 year mark rolls around.
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I didn't realize they were on until about 9 and someone mentioned it.

I haven't given a shit about the Oscars since Titanic swept through it all those years ago (it even beat Men In Black for best visual effects. HUH?). It's all really just nothing, barring the occasional funny host. I'll read the winners the day later, though, because if something I like got an award, that means more prestige (which means more work) for the people that made it.
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Crown wrote:VERY NICE!!

She is one classy lady, and it appears that so are you! *hugs*
*curtseys* Why thank you, kind sir. :wink:
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Jon Stewart on The Daily Show had a great little bit on Michael Moore's speech. It went something like this ...

"Yay! Michael Moore won! Good for you for being vocally active! We applaud you for being vocally active and saying what you want! Good for you!"
[Cut to clip of Michael Moore's speech and subsequent booing]
"Woah! Wait! Why are you getting all vocally active on us?! What is this?!"

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Durandal wrote:Jon Stewart on The Daily Show had a great little bit on Michael Moore's speech. It went something like this ...

"Yay! Michael Moore won! Good for you for being vocally active! We applaud you for being vocally active and saying what you want! Good for you!"
[Cut to clip of Michael Moore's speech and subsequent booing]
"Woah! Wait! Why are you getting all vocally active on us?! What is this?!"

:D
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Zaia wrote:
Durandal wrote:Jon Stewart on The Daily Show had a great little bit on Michael Moore's speech. It went something like this ...

"Yay! Michael Moore won! Good for you for being vocally active! We applaud you for being vocally active and saying what you want! Good for you!"
[Cut to clip of Michael Moore's speech and subsequent booing]
"Woah! Wait! Why are you getting all vocally active on us?! What is this?!"

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That's one reason of many why I want to have 10,000 of that man's children. :D
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Durran Korr wrote:[Please tell me you were talking about Jon Stewart and not Michael Moore.
*stifled laugh* Um, yes, I was most definitely talking about Jon Stewart. Mmmmmmm. His vocabulary is so incredibly sexy. *purrs* Yum. Want to have thousands of his babies. :D
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Didn't even know it had been on until after the fact.

I find it very amusing that Moore accepted an award from an organization that caters to and is supported by the very media that he claimed in "Bowling for Columbine" is sowing fear into the public, and that he did not take the opportunity to lambast the media, instead attacking a man who will only be in office for 1.5, 4.5 more years tops.

Gee, maybe that same fear is why a lot of Americans are content to sit quietly at home and let Bush have his war? Maybe without that we'd be more opposed to war and he wouldn't have had to attack Bush?

Moore has shown himself, in my opinion, as a prime hypocrite.
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MKSheppard wrote:
Dalton wrote: Return of the King better sweep the fucking awards next year.
If SPR couldn't beat Shakespeare in Love.......
Shakespeare in Love?? What about George Lucas In Love?? Or - no pun intended - Lovecraft In Love? :twisted:
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I think the most entertaining aspect of the oscars was trying to figure out if Catherine Zeta Jones or Micheal Moore had the bigger rack.
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