Oscars 2024

I grew up watching the Oscars as a kid in the '70s and '80s, and looking forward to the program. It was a big deal. In the '80s and '90s and 2000s, I'd usually seen most of the films, had some opinion, looked forward to watching the Oscars, again to see if my opinion of the films I'd seen that year matched up with the awards.

This year, 2024: I can't remember the last year that I was excited about the Oscars. 2008, maybe, the last time there were only 5 nominees for Best Picture instead of "participation trophies" given out.

Seriously: Go to the Wikipedia page for the list of Best Picture nominees... They are ridiculous. How many of these films have you watched and been inspired by? How many will be considered "classics" 50 or 100 years from now?

We're living in a very poor artistic age.

p.s. TCM showed "Gone With the Wind" tonight and, thankfully, did not mention any of the bullshit "racialism" now so current in academia (other than pointing out the historical fact that Hattie McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress, a first for a black actress). I watched "Bonnie and Clyde" and "GWTW" this afternoon and evening on TCM for 6 hours---both so well-done and emotionally honest and heartbreaking...

Human feeling/thought has nothing to do with Marxist "how you are SUPPOSED to feel." Which is what the US has been living under, according to academics and the media, for the past 10 years or so. ENOUGH with this intellectual horror, this absolute crushing of any independent thought.