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You should actually watch some of those Oscar nominated films, from this year as well as years past. If you did, you wouldn't be compelled to call them trash.
No. All I have said is that some of these people are racist here. I do not know for sure who.
However, while I would not rule out the possibility of racism as at least a partial motivation for the lack of black representation in the Oscar nominations at some point in the process of either making the movies or nominating people for the awards, what seems more likely to me is that these charges are probably baseless and that the racists here are the people playing the race card and insisting that black people should be cast in these movies and then nominated and awarded Oscars whether that is really appropriate given the merits or not.
I'm with you. Part of the reason Creed wasn't included in Best Picture was due to it being a sequel something only a handful like The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, The Lord of the Rings movies, Toy Story 3 and Mad Max: Fury Road (from this year) have been. Mind you, out of a maximum of 10 movies, eight were nominated. It is bit weird that it wasn't included. I'd say Dope could have been but it was released at a weird time.
I will add that I don't think that the academy is racist per se, but I do think that it just doesn't look too much at films that are not majority white.
In regards to a previous poster stating that they feel that "black people" should be cast in movies and automatically nominated, that is ridiculous. The issue with many black actors if the fact that there are many, great black actors and many movies that they star in and there is always at least one that is Oscar worthy.
As stated earlier, I didn't particularly like "Straigt Outta Compton." It was entertaining but not an Oscar worthy film IMO, which makes it surprising that two white writers of the movie did get a nomination and none of the black actors did lol. That is pretty odd IMO.
I did think Creed was good enough. Concussion was an excellent movie IMO and Will Smith is a very popular actor who has been nominated before.
In regards to previous years, I don't think "Selma" had any Oscar worthy acting performances either last year. I especially didn't like "The Butler" I though both of those movies were pretty blase'. But as stated, there are a lot of great not only black but Asian and Latino actors that could have been nominated.
Like another poster posted in a youtube clip, many times Asian males especially never get the opportunity to play a role due to their appearance. The same can be said of Latinos and blacks. Yet, in many movies white actors play black or Asian or Hispanic characters. So there is some hypocritical aspects to Hollywood in this regard.
You mean you're really gonna say that the Hollywood liberal elite is racist?? The liberal elite bend over backwards for minorities they are the ones that tend to over-compensate out of some misplaced white guilt, I mean this is just commonly understood stuff I'm talking about here. Are there some racist in that crowd, yeah, maybe, but as a whole I would tend to not put them into the racist camp.
Just because one yr only white people were nominated for an Oscar does not make for a racist group, overall speaking of course.
I see the "Political Correctness" culture that has been embraced and rabidly promoted by the Democrat left across our country and in the socialist democracies of Europe as well. I see their intolerance of opposing opinions and voices, and their routine hostility towards those who disagree or hold a different perspective.
I see the proud and coordinated efforts of these people to vilify, to harass, to insult, to bully, to marginalize and to ruin the lives of those they mark as their opponents. I see these people working together to intimidate and to terrorize people into submission where possible who do not embrace their views, such as happened in the Memories Pizza incident in Indiana last year.
I see a group of people that is largely defined by this idea of political correctness, which is clearly a form of mandatory group think, to which people in this group have voluntarily associated themselves. I see these people routinely defend lies and corruption in our government and by our current president, literally no matter what Obama or the other leaders of their tribe say or do. No matter what.
I see a "Political Correctness" agenda that is such a high priority to the Democrats who are our leaders that we see this agenda being treated as a higher priority than our national security. And we see this happening in Europe too, sadly to say. And I see their supporters supporting that virtually without dissent.
So the individualism of people in this group is not nearly so clear as you would like to present it as.
Wow just saw Straight Outta Compton. It was overhyped!! It played like a bad VH1 movie. I don't think it should be recognized by the academy as one of the best pictures. That is just pure PC BS.
There were so many corny moments it made my skin crawl. For example when Dre asks Easy E what he'd call his label and the camera zooms in on his face and he says, "ruthless". The same thing happened at the end when Suge Night asks Dre what he's gonna call his new label, the camera zooms onto Dres face and he says "Aftermath." And that was the cue for the audience to go YEAHHHH!!!!
I don't know why the Academy has to recognize such a blatantly bad movie. I will admit the direction and the cinematography were great. But that's it. I didn't even think it should've been nominated for best screenplay.
100 years ago the NAACP also committed illegal acts tho the reasons were honorable like as in trying to make things "even" for Black people in the US.
You either didn't read my response, or you didn't think about what I said. So here goes again:
"The KKK, or any other organization that commits illegal acts does have to answer to the law, or perhaps you don't think so."
I didn't leave out any organization(s).
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