Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars

~~Leo656~~ · 03-29-2022, 04:28 PM

I mean, I've been thoroughly unimpressed by everything in the MCU that I've bothered to see even clips of. But there's no debate that they're the only movies anyone cares about at all.

December 1, 2021: Everyone - "I'm so nervous about all these new Covid variants! I'm afraid to see my family for Christmas! I DEFINITELY don't think I'm ready to go back out and sit in a crowded movie theater, that just seems so irresponsible. PEOPLE ARE DYING, probably."

December 17, 2021: Same Everyone - "WHOOOOOOOO, SPIDER-MAN! PANDEMIC'S OVER, F*CKERS! TOBEY IS BACK (and andrew garfield showed up too i guess but anyways) YEAH WHOOOOOO SPIDER-MAN!"

Actual quality is irrelevant. I generally hate "blockbusters" because they're vapid, but they make money and there's no denying that. Conversely, not ten people saw whatever movie won Best Picture the other night. I bet nobody even knows what won. Because nobody watched the show, which makes the "the slap was staged for ratings" theory shoddy.

But the point remains, people have been sh*tting on the Oscars for decades because they only glorify the "gay cowboys eating pudding" stuff that NOBODY WATCHES, and they turn up their nose at anything people actually DO watch, because "those movies aren't art." And hey, I can actually totally agree that they aren't.

But we live in a society that doesn't care about "art", they want Fast Food. Cheap thrills, fast and easy. They don't want to think, they don't want to be challenged, they want to sit in the dark and the air conditioning and watch CGI explosions.

If you work in the movie industry and are obsessed with "regaining relevance", the ONLY way you do that is by giving in to the mainstream audience and acknowledging the things they like, even if they don't fit your criteria as "art". That's why most of the people in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame don't have any business being in there; because if they DIDN'T bend over and glorify rappers and pop musicians and kept it strictly to "real" rock n roll musicians, nobody would pay them any attention. It's not about what's "art", or what's "authentic", it's About What Sells.

What sells is Marvel Movies. Not even "blockbusters", because we've seen tons of them fail in recent years, and not even "super-heroes" because anything outside of the MCU remains a crapshoot. The MCU is what people want, it's all they care about, and it's what they want to see recognized on a grand stage. They want their likes to be validated; they don't want to be talked down to and told that some movie nobody ever heard of was "better", that's why they don't watch the Oscars.

So while I agree that most MCU movies "aren't cinema", and in fact that they're probably ruining movies altogether and dumbing down the entire culture, the fact remains that what I think doesn't matter. The only way any movie awards can be relevant is to celebrate the MCU. Otherwise you just look like a bunch of stubborn old farts.

I guess I can see them not wanting to go there because once they do, they may as well rename the entire thing The Annual MCU Awards since nothing else would be recognized. But still, it's the only way the Oscars can ever get the "attention and relevance" they're supposedly so desperate for. Literally nothing else will move the needle one bit. That's just the way it is.

03-29-2022, 04:28 PM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	I mean, I've been thoroughly unimpressed by everything in the MCU that I've bothered to see even clips of. But there's no debate that they're the only movies anyone cares about at all. December 1, 2021: Everyone - "I'm so nervous about all these new Covid variants! I'm afraid to see my family for Christmas! I DEFINITELY don't think I'm ready to go back out and sit in a crowded movie theater, that just seems so irresponsible. PEOPLE ARE DYING, probably." December 17, 2021: Same Everyone - "WHOOOOOOOO, SPIDER-MAN! PANDEMIC'S OVER, FCKERS! TOBEY IS BACK (and andrew garfield showed up too i guess but anyways) YEAH WHOOOOOO SPIDER-MAN!" Actual quality is irrelevant. I generally hate "blockbusters" because they're vapid, but they make money and there's no denying that. Conversely, not ten people saw whatever movie won Best Picture the other night. I bet nobody even knows what won. Because nobody watched the show, which makes the "the slap was staged for ratings" theory shoddy. But the point remains, people have been shtting on the Oscars for decades because they only glorify the "gay cowboys eating pudding" stuff that NOBODY WATCHES, and they turn up their nose at anything people actually DO watch, because "those movies aren't art." And hey, I can actually totally agree that they aren't. But we live in a society that doesn't care about "art", they want Fast Food. Cheap thrills, fast and easy. They don't want to think, they don't want to be challenged, they want to sit in the dark and the air conditioning and watch CGI explosions. If you work in the movie industry and are obsessed with "regaining relevance", the ONLY way you do that is by giving in to the mainstream audience and acknowledging the things they like, even if they don't fit your criteria as "art". That's why most of the people in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame don't have any business being in there; because if they DIDN'T bend over and glorify rappers and pop musicians and kept it strictly to "real" rock n roll musicians, nobody would pay them any attention. It's not about what's "art", or what's "authentic", it's About What Sells. What sells is Marvel Movies. Not even "blockbusters", because we've seen tons of them fail in recent years, and not even "super-heroes" because anything outside of the MCU remains a crapshoot. The MCU is what people want, it's all they care about, and it's what they want to see recognized on a grand stage. They want their likes to be validated; they don't want to be talked down to and told that some movie nobody ever heard of was "better", that's why they don't watch the Oscars. So while I agree that most MCU movies "aren't cinema", and in fact that they're probably ruining movies altogether and dumbing down the entire culture, the fact remains that what I think doesn't matter. The only way any movie awards can be relevant is to celebrate the MCU. Otherwise you just look like a bunch of stubborn old farts. I guess I can see them not wanting to go there because once they do, they may as well rename the entire thing The Annual MCU Awards since nothing else would be recognized. But still, it's the only way the Oscars can ever get the "attention and relevance" they're supposedly so desperate for. Literally nothing else will move the needle one bit. That's just the way it is.