Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars

[DarkFell]

Friends don't slap friends in front of the public eye. Smith broke Bro Code by doing just that.

[Leo656]

All I'm seeing are constant negatives. "He's an ass, so is He, the wife's a slut and a ball-breaker, the Oscars are a joke for letting this happen", and on and on. I doubt the Academy actually wants to be known as "The NEW Home of Trash TV" even if that gets people chatterboxing.

I am seeing SOME praise for Smith "defending her honor", but not anywhere near as much as people saying, "Dumbass shouldn't even still BE with her trifling cheating ass."

I get that "getting clicks" is the new social currency or whatever, but when Every Single Person (and entity) comes out of a situation looing worse than they went in - Smith may not have been setting box office records lately, but NOW we also know (or assume) that he's a thin-skinned crybaby who does what Wifey tells him to do, up to and including public displays of violence - then again, your plan has backfired.

Again, if they wanted attention and relevance then ALL they had to do was start giving attention to movies people actually watch. Until they do THAT, and only That, then nobody is ever gonna care what they do. They could have Alec Baldwin fake-shoot someone live onstage and unless a Marvel movie is up for Best Picture then NOTHING they do to try and "get some attention" will work.

The Oscars aren't only irrelevant because they're boring and masturbatory. It's that they give awards to movies about gay cowboys eating pudding that ten people have ever seen while ignoring anything people actually like. THAT is the issue and it's been the issue for decades. The ONE time they "went commercial", and gave the whole house to "Titanic", it backfired on them once people realized a few months later that "Yeah, that thing actually wasn't very good and it mostly coasted on the Celine Dion song." Ever since then, they don't like to acknowledge anything people pay to see and instead fawn over artsy-fartsy crap. I get it, but it's killing them.

So again, if they thought a fake slap-fight between two black guys, RIGHT in the middle of an ongoing cultural conversation about whether or not black people are inherently violent by nature or not, was going to get them some "good attention", their finger is not only NOT on the pulse, it's jammed so far up their collective asses that they can probably find a heartbeat.

Not saying it's "impossible". But if it's a work it's a really, really, really, really, REALLY bad one, and it backfired.

[Andrew NDB]

It doesn't matter how it comes off to me and you or people on Facebook and Twitter. It only matters to the woke left (who make and fund the big movies). Who cheer this stuff on. "YAY! SMITE the comedian telling jokes I feel are bad! This kind of comedy is the same as violence! I personally find [fill in the blank] unfunny anyway" and so on. This is stuff they've been saying loudly for at least a couple of years now.

[Leo656]

The View seems to carry the torch for the Woke Mob, and from what I was reading they were saying the same exact thing I am, that everyone involved looks like f*cking morons and children, the Academy included.

I've hardly seen anyone stick up for Rock, or Smith, and definitely not Jada. I've actually seen a little more praise for Rock, if anything, which kind of puts holes in your argument that this is all just about "silencing comedians". I've seen some people talk about how graceful he kept his composure, whereas 99% of people think Will was a big baby. So... pretty much the opposite of how your theory would hypothetically work.

Ratings were barely up a blip over last year. People are meme'ing but nobody actually watched the show. And they won't next year, either.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I've hardly seen anyone stick up for Rock, or Smith, and definitely not Jada. I've actually seen a little more praise for Rock, if anything, which kind of puts holes in your argument that this is all just about "silencing comedians". I've seen some people talk about how graceful he kept his composure, whereas 99% of people think Will was a big baby. So... pretty much the opposite of how your theory would hypothetically work.

Do any of these people make or fund the big (largely artsy, but risky financially, but we could even be talking about 200 million dollar budgeted blockbusters... these are the same like-minded people) movies? Then I see no holes.

[Leo656]

Spoiler Alert: Nobody's gonna watch the Oscars next year, either.

So again, "brainchild of a simpleton".

Giving Spider-Man "Best Picture" would get them ALL of the chatter and zero of the "Was this fake/What a bunch of assholes" controversy.

This is some "George Bush Did 9/11" level stuff, right here. In that the conspiracy only works if everyone involved in said conspiracy is a Literal Retard. And also, in either case, in the end nothing of value was gained and in fact much was lost.

I mean anything's possible. But I doubt a bunch of crusty old white dudes such as the Academy actually subscribe to the "No such thing as Bad Publicity as long as we get people talking" idea, when the simplest way to "get people talking" would simply be to acknowledge movies people have actually seen or heard of.

"We won't do THAT, but we'll have two black guys have a slap fight on live TV." Like, really?

I'm not saying they aren't stupid. I am saying, they'd have to be stupid to set such a thing up and even stupider to think they'd gain anything of value from doing so. And they might be. They definitely might be.

Either way, joke's on them, nobody's gonna watch next year either. So they can jump on the MCU gravy train like the rest of Hollywood or they can go extinct. Ball's in their court. Sh*t Like This, staged or not, isn't gonna get them what they want.

[Wildcat]

Are they really friends though or just know each other because they’re actors? I honestly don’t know. Chris Rock was on Fresh Prince once but that was a long time ago.

Those potential reasons don’t make any sense. Especially from Will’s and the Oscar’s standpoint.