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Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
Symmetry wrote:strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
A white guy movie about jazz? It's almost trolling after last year's oscar boycott.
mrswdk wrote:White people aren't allowed to play jazz? Are they allowed to get on black buses at least?
riskllama wrote:symmetry : simple music snob or heinous jazz racist???
mrswdk wrote:Last week Sym went to Ippudo for a bowl of ramen. After he finished eating he was about to rate it a 4.5 on Trip Advisor, but then he looked behind the counter and saw the two chefs on duty were white guys. So he rated it 4.0 and left the tag 'not authentic'.
Symmetry wrote:strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
A white guy movie about jazz? It's almost trolling after last year's oscar boycott.
Dukasaur wrote:Symmetry wrote:strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
A white guy movie about jazz? It's almost trolling after last year's oscar boycott.
Who boycotted the Oscars?
Symmetry wrote:Dukasaur wrote:Symmetry wrote:strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
A white guy movie about jazz? It's almost trolling after last year's oscar boycott.
Who boycotted the Oscars?
You really could have googled this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscars-2016-everyone-boycotting-the-academy-awards-and-why-from-jada-pinkett-smith-to-spike-lee-a6902121.html
Dukasaur wrote:Symmetry wrote:Dukasaur wrote:Symmetry wrote:strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
A white guy movie about jazz? It's almost trolling after last year's oscar boycott.
Who boycotted the Oscars?
You really could have googled this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscars-2016-everyone-boycotting-the-academy-awards-and-why-from-jada-pinkett-smith-to-spike-lee-a6902121.html
Interesting.
mrswdk wrote:Last week Sym went to Ippudo for a bowl of ramen. After he finished eating he was about to rate it a 4.5 on Trip Advisor, but then he looked behind the counter and saw the two chefs on duty were white guys. So he rated it 4.0 and left the tag 'not authentic'.
Symmetry wrote:riskllama wrote:symmetry : simple music snob or heinous jazz racist???
I prefer heinous jazz over simple music. Does that make me a racist, or does it make you a moron?
Dukasaur wrote:Symmetry wrote:strike wolf wrote:Lala Land was an okay movie with good music. That's about it.
A white guy movie about jazz? It's almost trolling after last year's oscar boycott.
Who boycotted the Oscars?
riskllama wrote:Symmetry wrote:riskllama wrote:symmetry : simple music snob or heinous jazz racist???
I prefer heinous jazz over simple music. Does that make me a racist, or does it make you a moron?
Symmetry wrote:I never know what will set you off on a rant, Ta1.
Symmetry wrote:riskllama wrote:Symmetry wrote:riskllama wrote:symmetry : simple music snob or heinous jazz racist???
I prefer heinous jazz over simple music. Does that make me a racist, or does it make you a moron?
Apology accepted.
TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Symmetry wrote:I never know what will set you off on a rant, Ta1.
Me either.
No, jk, what gets my goat is people saying one thing but then doing another. So if you're ever unsure, just ask:
"is this person preaching something?"
Fine if they are.
"Does this person practice what they preach? Do they walk the walk?"
If no, then you can probably expect me to bitch about it.
Pretty simple. I like consistency in ideology. They could be a hardcore whatever, they could have views that counter everything about me, and I'll respect them if they're at least consistent.
In this case, the Smiths and Lee are complaining about inequality, yet want over-represenation.
Besides, the awards theoretically should be based on merit, no? Arbitrarily setting some minimum number of minority nominees defeats the purpose. It's not like minorities have never won an academy award.
-TG
TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Never saw How Green Was My Valley, although i think Citizen Kane is overrated. I didn't really enjoy it. I think the lighting was excellent, but otherwise meh.
I'm sure favoritism plays a large part in the social circles of whatever goes in to determining who receives an award. But is it attributable to racism? In Hollywood? C'mon, these are the type who love to impress everyone with how progressive they are.
Your original article mentioned how the Idris Elba movie got passed over. I didn't watch it, but i do think he's a pretty good actor. Did the movie do well? According to Wikipedia, Netflix bought rights to it, and thus the big movie theatres boycotted it. I think i heard someone that academy awards or some other awards show traditionally snubbed Netflix stuff. My point being, it seems like a stretch to immediately cry "racism!" when only white actors (the majority in Hollywood) get nominations when it could be more attributable to who knows who, and who's popular at the moment. My impression of Hollywood is it's high school politics.
-TG
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